Any time I read an article with Ed, I read it with his voice and mannerisms in my head. I can do that with any article I read, really. But Ed had that voice where you can’t help but hear it that way
Then Peavey! And then on! The cancer thing? It's so evil! Takes away good and bad people. Some people think he was an asshole? there are two sides to each story! Spending his money to try to help other people, Besides himself with cancer! Judge for yourselves what kind of human being, What he was in real life! I never met him. You get glimpses here and there from media. My vote he was genuine! had his drug and alcohol issues. but deep down, A really nice guy with no ego!
@@DVincentW 🙄 Shut. Up. He drank for 53 years and smoked for the same amount. He quit going to Europe for treatments because the cancer was too advanced.
People need to realize that at this point, Ed was really on his way to being gone for good. If he hadnt gotten help in '07, we probably wouldve lost him before 2010. Only Wolfgang could get thru to Ed. He loved Wolf more than his own addictions, thank God. On another note, when Ed was talking about how great Wolfie was in this interview, I remember thinking at that time "yea, right. Just another father who's bragging about his kid." Years later, in 2021, I started seeing that Ed wasnt just bragging. He was absolutely serious!
Eddie was so proud of Wolfgang, but rightly so. He can play all the instruments, sing and write catchy hooks and riffs - the dude is a natural. The Van Halen name is sure to live on with WVH and EVH will live on in our hearts forever.
Yes he was it was so cool how great a father Eddie was! Valerie and Eddie really brought up their son very well obviously we have no clue what they did but obviously it was a pretty normal upbringing but Eddie was closer to his son then most fathers get he brought him everywhere, he had his so join his band. I remember some comedian was talking about how Eddie came bowling one night and the one guy the comedian was with said do u care if Eddie brings his son? And he said dude it’s bowling of of course he can bring his son but what I’m getting at is when a bunch of 40 something year old guys go out together they always want to be alone just the guys but Eddie brought his son with him because he absolutely loved his son so much they were best friends. I know it might not sound like a big deal Eddie bringing his son bowling with Eddie’s friends but that little stuff is what makes kids have a much better childhood all the little things like that not just leaving the kids home. I got a ton of friends that will go out so much you will forget they even have kids, guys that have no money they spend what little money they have going to the bar then when u go to their houses their kids have no toys and the ones they have are junk, their kids ask for a go cart or something like that and they don’t have the money to buy a go cart but they have the money to buy parts for their race cars or whatever hobbies they have. My daughter was born 3 years ago, I’ve wanted to buy a project car to build because I now have a shop at my house with a lift and everything I need to build a project car but If I bought a project car I would be dumping a ton of money into the car and I would feel guilty if my daughter wanted or needed something and couldn’t do it for her because I spent my money on a car. I remember I was at a friend of mines house working on his project car and his son asked to join little league and he told his son he couldn’t afford it so maybe next year. It was only 300 bucks and in just the past month he spent a few grand on that car I felt so bad for that kid if I were him I would have sold or returned the stuff I just bought for the car so he could go to little league screw the car u can always buy a car you can’t go back in time and let ur kid go to little league. When I was a kid I didn’t ask for much I really didn’t and I didn’t have much all I wanted was a dirt bike and I never got one and to this day I think back about how I never got one and all the fun I missed out on. I didn’t want anything to do with sports, toys, video games none of that all I wanted was a dirt bike I would have spent all my time doing that. My daughter is 3 and when we go shopping she picks stuff up and puts it back down she doesn’t try to make me buy everything but every couple weeks she will pick something out that she really REALLY wants and i will get it for her because I want to make her happy and I tell her if ur a good girl I don’t have a problem buying it, you can’t let ur kids think they can get whatever they want they need to know they are getting something because they have been a good girl/boy. I just wanted to say a few things about kids and hopefully some people will read this and treat their kids better and not be selfish and realize the day their kids were born was the day life is not about u anymore it’s about ur kids!
Let me know when wolf is capable of a decent piece of music. There are 10 year olds in Japan that can play every instrument well. Creativity is much more challenging.
This was the era where he starting to come out of his 10 year binge......the dark years. He was very ingracious in this era. Idk - probably feeling some sense in protecting his own legacy plus guitar based music had just died a very unceremonious and quick death. A tense era for a lot of legacy bands. If you read his interview in guitar world magazine 1981 he was incredibly complimentary of the same people he's sort of indifferent to here. And he couldn't speak enough about Alan Holdsworth back then. A HUGE fan of him. But 1960's Clapton was his #1 guitar inspiration and he didn't hide it back then. The 2000's era EVH would have you believe he came to the guitar with zero inspiration like he was guitar mana from heaven. I do not like the 97 - 07 EVH. He started coming out of it when he met and was involved with his 2nd wife, who must be a Saint doing what she did for him. And she never used her husband's fame to spur any kind of publicity for herself. To my knowledge, she put out one tweet after his death and that is all. In the end, EVH got it all back together again and had 10 pretty good years even while fighting cancer again. And somewhere in there he had a motorcycle crash. Living life. Very awful he is gone. The world is a better.place because of him.
I agree -the 97-07 era he changed so much. Going from that healthy, happy, short-haired 90s guy in bright colored t-shirts & ripped jeans to skinny, shirtless, disheveled, strung-out. I wondered what caused one to start heavy drugs so late in life & their career but you answered that question. ☹️
Love that EVH did an interview with Howard Stern!!!! No holds barred,that’s the best part that he’s saying whatever is on his mind. Made me tear up when he said Van Halen will be here long after he’s gone because of Wolfie. I have such respect for Eddie that he started a research lab for cancer cures. May you play for /with the angels throughout eternity. I’m very sad that he is no longer on this earth with us.
This wasn’t his only interview with Howard. He was in studio and on video acting like a nitwit for the release of VH III album along with singer #3, Alex and the former bass player too. Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was? May he Rest In Peace!
Diem Golightly it’s doubtful Eddie would agree, in fact he said something to the effect; “I’m just a regular person,” during the Stern interview. You can deify him all you’d like, but just so you know, the real and only God is jealous and vengeful of idol worship, even if you’re just pretending to be joking. Be well!
@@nobodyspecial9035 "Not necessarily the best human"...Take one look at Wolfgang's new song/video, & that's all you need to see about what kind of a human Ed Van Halen really was. Every IV I've read/listened to with those who knew him best, & esp from "every day people" who knew him & interacted w/ him regularly...they ALL say, Ed was a down to earth, super kind & generous person. He's made mistakes in his life, absolutely, as we ALL have. But to reference him as "not the best human"...is WAY out of line.
@@coldwinter5710 That’s like asking Don jr. what his daddy was like after inheriting a fortune. Give it a rest. “Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was?” I stand by my whole comment that you chose to modify and get angry about. I’m sorry to see you enjoy kicking rocks.
@@nobodyspecial9035 WOW...So then, based on your most recent comments...You won't mind if "I stand by MY comments" & say, I think you're a short sighted ass! And PLEASE, for the love of God, leave Trump & Co out of a discussion about anyone elses character! People, who actually knew Ed personally, & are now positively reflecting on the man they knew, loved & respected...has nothing to do with your ill Don Jr. comparison...which is completely idiodic.
Hendrix was playing one of the thinnest sounding guitars at the time and it was hard to push the front of the amp hard enuf to break up and distort. the single coil pickup in the bridge was only in the 5k range witch is a low amount of resistance compared to a Gibson paf humbucker at 7.5- 8.0. so Hendrix used a big muff or a fuzz face to push the amps, along with a vox whaawhaa pedal. Eddie simply took the Gibson paf from the bridge of his old 335 and routed a space for mounting it in the bridge of his strat body and made history...and wen i was about 14-15 years old wen i made my own franken caster with my dads parts collection..lol it followed the same basic blue prints..lol
@@RamonesFan201 And he never will be. He's unfortunately on the same road Lisa Marie Presley ended up on. Always hidden in the shadow of the hugely successful father.
Edward was such a great guy and an absolute legend and he is sorely missed. I could never thank Ed enough for all of the inspiration he has given me as a guitarist and the massive catalog of music he left behind.
This was a sad era in the life of EVH, yet he pulled himself out of it and recorded a Different Kind of Truth. I loved the guitar work on it, although Dave could barely sing. RIP EVH !!!!
I thought Dave was great on that album and he put a ton of work into the lyrics on it. Yeah his voice was definitely aged a lot but he, along with Wolf were the main reasons that record even exists. Al and Ed just filled in the gaps on that one.
Yeah pretty obvious he was either free basing or smoking meth starting around 98 ish up until 2006 or so considering how he deteriorated. He looks like Lou Reed in the 97 interviews, scary skinny during the Cherone period, and then teeth start falling out early 2000s..and he's a goblin by 2006. If he wasn't Eddie Van Halen he'd have died in the street 15 years earlier.
In this interview, I can hear his strong Dutch accent. I believe when he arrived in THE UNITED STATES (not America) He kept speaking his mother tongue to his parents and his brother. He's sorely missed.
He pretty much said they don't want to cure cancer because it's a billion dollar industry so he experimented on curing himself ! The world lost a genius guitarist when eddy past away! Rip
Just ran across this and for the folks who say someone is better than another is sort of silly. From the 60’s to today, electronics have improved dramatically. Different styles of playing and then there’s the creative part. So many people think speed of a player makes them the greatest. Well it doesn’t in my opinion. So for the folks who compare, put all that together. It’s a lot to do with your personal taste in music.
Loved, and still love, Eddie's playing. I met him briefly once decades ago, and he was kind to me. Thus having heard interviews with Michael Anthony and his respect and love for Ed (unless its fake), and complete lack of resentment for taking away a source of his income decades ago, the only thing I can figure is that EVH valued loyalty to the VH cause above everything else and believed MA transgressed by touring with Sammy Hagar. But who knows? Ed's gone, and MA and AVH aren't revealing anything...yet.
Eddie was the Mozart of our generation. In 100 years from now people will be talking about his playing like we talk about Mozart. There is a lot of videos with Eddie but I wish Eddie did some instructional videos.
The problem is people thinking that you can learn what is the result of pure talent. There are plenty of videos analyzing Eddie's style that you can watch but they'll never make you an innovator like he was.
@@junodonatus4906 100% man! People like to think they need to become a super technical player that can play anything, they waste years and years to become an amazing player, they learn how to play every every Van Halen, megadeth, Metallica, pantera solo but they can’t write any good music to save their lives and the stuff they write sounds like their favorite guitarist. Then they talk about how all these bands suck because the music is so easy to play because they still don’t understand the most important thing is writing good music no matter how simple or complex a song is.
Wolfgang said his Dad was a terrible guitar teacher. He showed him some “simple stuff” and he then proceeded to turn into EVH and Wolf said f you I can’t do that.
What Van Halen was has nothing to do with Mozart Beethoven classical music or jazz for that matter. Eddie wrote music for the lions. Mozart wrote music for the brain. It’s like comparing a poet with a novelist or a science fiction writer to prose. Different capacities of literature. Different capacities of music. Neither is “better” than the other just different. Eddie and the stones and things like that is dance music, folk music. Mozart and miles Davis is intellectual music. What Eddie did was creative in his field but it’s still simple three chord bluesin’ Jamin’ and flashy hot licks confined to three minutes. His solos were 30 seconds. Mozart wrote 25 minute “songs”.
This is a really interesting time for Eddie. It was right before he finally got clean, he had just started dating Janie, the band was at a standstill - Roth wasn’t back yet and Wolfgang wasn’t in, but you can tell Eddie was thinking about it here. This is Ed right before starting the final chapter of his life.
Eddie Van Halen on WolfGang Van Halen : 12:50 “His main instrument is drums, number two is guitar, and 3 weeks ago he started playing bass. This kid is fucking dangerous. If I excel at the speed of sound, this kid excels at the speed of light.”
How in the world did Howard Stern get away with being so fake? He would talk smack about celebrities then kiss their behinds when they came on the show 😂
Ngl when he throws shade at Hagar at 2:30 by saying he instead used his money to start a lab in Long Island, like Eddie ur no saint urself u started a lab to try and cure ur cancer not cuz u wanted to save the world.
Yea , you're correct. We have some very stupid people on the planet who don't understand this. Automatically, people equate smoking to cancer & that's that. People are so limited in their thinking......
Totally, but unfortunately he continued to smoke which made him more prone to cancer close to the area affected the first time. He’s right about cancer it’s a cockroach that hides and grows stronger. RIP Eddie. 🖤
I know a lot was negatively said in this interview about Sammy and especially Michael Anthony so just to let the fans know again (a refresh) he was the Backbone of the band and at 68 is still rocking with Sammy (74) who is still singing 100X better than Vince Neil
How is Sobelewski the backbone of VH? Ed wrote most of the basslines and all of the music. By the end of his tenure in Van Halen, Mike was just a hired hand to play live. He was never an integral part of the writing process. And he was looked after good and proper in the early days getting his 25% cut. You can say all you want about Sammy singing 100x better than anybody, but he can't write for shit! He's always been a lyrical hack! That's why the Hagar-lovers always focus on the voice and never the lyrics.
He was probably in denial about it all. You rarely saw Ed without a cigarette in his hand, mouth, or guitar. Those things have caused a lot of misery. There should be a special place in hell for all the tobacco industry stiffs who lied about their health effects. 😒
As I listen to this, I noticed that Stern was "prodding" Eddie to divulge his life, ...how many women he has banged, the erotic film, pushing Eddie to badmouth DLR and Mike.... NOTHING. The only thing Eddie did was defend himself over all the gossip...as Stern pushed the money situation and that Val got a huge settlement, Eddie said NOTHING. EVH a real class act that will be very difficult for anyone to follow.
Funny thing is I think he really was using meth to "cure" cancer. If you saw him around 2004 he was missing teeth, played crappy and never wore a shirt even in the snow, Sammy said most of this, but whatever works..
There is a clinic in Black Forrest Germany that is known around the world for doing miraculous things. I suffer from a horrific condition and know of other people with my condition who went there and within months were back to full health. Insurance companies and the American healthcare system in general prevent innovation and we are the ones who pay the price
@@user-wv5gv3dw5u yea, it's true. I was just stating a fact on an Interview with his son Wolfgang , who said that Eddie was travelling back & forth from America to Germany to get treatments, but eventually it just got so bad...... Wolfgang said if it wasn't for the medical help Eddie received in Germany, he would have lost his dad 3 years earlier . Eddie mentioned in interviews this same subject too.
. If Eddie's saying he couldn't afford pedals as a kid, OK but guaranteed jimi didn't have any when he was learning either. Not sure what he was getting at, but eddie used 3 or more pedals on his very first album.
Eddie and Alex saw the band as a family business and he resented Mike for being friends with Sammy and playing with him. There was no need as Mikey never to this day has bad mouted anyone. But Eddie basically wanted it to be a family business which when Wolf was old enough he could do so Mikey was sacrificed. Then they got Roth back who probably needed the money more than Sammy with his successful tequila business and the rest is history
It angers me that til the day he died , Eddie told the truth about Sam quitting . Sam wasn't fired . He even said so himself . In the VH3 album promo issue of THE INSIDE MAGAZINE , Alex Eddie AND Mike said he quit . In the individual interview with Mike , Mike was told by the reporter that Sam told the reporter he didn't want to do the greatest hits album .
It's crazy the difference 3 more years of smoking will make in regards to your voice. This was 2006. Look up Eddie Van Halen Two & A Half Men and compare his voice here, to that video shot 3 years later.
Eddie ended up using more effects than Hendrix ever did. Maybe that's because Hendrix died so young but still all the great rock and roll guitar players have used effects.
Even in the early days, Ed used the MXR phase 90 and MXR flanger, along with the Echoplex, a harmonizer (which is more a tool than an effect). He was pretty effects heavy in the early days. In fact, not much more than he was in modern days. It’s just that mixing, mastering, and the house main board have since went digital, thus, making everything and everyone else sound digital… which I then can be mistaken with being effects heavy
It was a cheap shot to mention Cabo Wabo like all Sammy does is blow money on bars and stupid stuff. Sam donates to food banks in every city he plays, and he does benefit shows for Children's Cancer. He's extremely generous and he does a lot of charity work and Ed acts like only he uses his money for good.
Sam was and is a great guy who happens to be a great musician. Eddie and Alex are more the frustrated artistic genius types and eventually there was a clash
Never liked Stern. If your remove the sexual inappropriate comments Stern is infamous for ( not famous, infamous, big difference ) Stern would be as dry as a sand sandwich and nothing special at all. If his name was Smith he would be the guy valeting your car at the local mall in Kansas City.
A direct quote from Sammy Hagar's book "Eddie also told Hagar how he cured his tongue cancer. “He told me he cured himself by having pieces of his tongue liquified and injected into his body,” Hagar wrote. “He also told me when he had his hip replacement, he stayed awake through the operation and helped the doctors drill a hole." Is this true?? Who knows! I loved Eddie...
its not true at all. the doctor simply mentioned the concept of stem cell research. Eddie was always full of shit and wasnt smart enough to think people would see that he's a compulsive fibber when he was drunk.
@@geet77777 you're right I've seen an interview where Eddie gets caught in lies and then he tried to backpedal off of them..a really, really bad look he was compulsive liar.
Meanwhile, 14 years later... In 2019, when I moved into my current apartment, I inadvertently hung my mini frankestrat over my bedroom window, and next to it a religious cross. On October 6, 2020, I'm in tears and looked up...realizing then just why I had done that. Back on July 16th, 1981, I saw VH in New Haven promoting Fair Warning. During one of Dave's onstage blathering, Ed was at his rack of equipment having a smoke. I'm right at that side of the stage, I yell, "EDWARD VAAN HEYYLAAN!!"...he whirls around, gave me that famous grin, and threw the cigarette at me. Awesome! (sadly, that was the day Harry Chapin died in his VW on the Long Island Expressway; we heard it on the radio on the way to the show)
Eddies spun out here, he went into rehab in 2007, I mean to claim you beat cancer with your own designed treatment is straight up nuts, your a musician bro not a doctor, talk about delusional, he even mentions meth in the interview 5 mins in, RIP
Chemo only claims to increase your life expectancy by 1, 2, 5 , 10, 15 years depending on the type and stage of the cancer , and comes with the risk of not surviving the treatment itself. He did pretty well to survive 15 years after this interview.
@@mancuniancandidatem not to mention 99/2000 ish he was at deaths door with chemo. And the word on the message boards were that he didn’t have much time. I think he cut the chemo and looked at other treatments. He made it 20 years or so which is amazing, and didn’t have to be sick on Chemo. Great job Ed! RIP
T HIS DRIVES ME NUTS , iVE HEARD THIS SO MANY TIMES EVEN . MY DADS LUNG CANCER WENT AWAY, AND LIKE THEM AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, THEY WERE CANCER FREE, AND THEN IT COMES BACK DEADLIER. STERNS ACTING LIKE A DUMB ASS. IM GLAD YOU GOT MORE TIME WITH YOUR SON EDDY. RIP LUV YA!
Eddie sounds pretty delusional here. I mean, he was always very insecure and unsure of who he was. You have to know thyself. "Smoking didn't cause my cancer," "people call me a drug addict but they do drugs and I don't anymore." Ok. He went back into rehab about a year after this. Ed was one of the greatest musicians, not just guitarists, but musicians to ever live. But he was a drunk, and trouble follows drunks wherever they go.
Eddie was at least 10x better than Hendrix. It must have drove Eddie mad to have to hear that Hendrix was the best. Ed was being restraint in his response.
His 2nd wife wasn't good for him in this area as far as what he's involved in outside of music....Janie was a publicist for a porn thing for awhile before they married
You can never mistake THAT voice. Just so glad WE LIVED IN THE TIME OF EDWARD VAN HALEN xx we are blessed xx
Any time I read an article with Ed, I read it with his voice and mannerisms in my head. I can do that with any article I read, really. But Ed had that voice where you can’t help but hear it that way
At 19:44 it's not evh anymore
So sad when Howard congratulates him on beating cancer. Rest in Power Eddie, the nicest guy of Rock n Roll, and THE BEST to ever plug into a Marshall
absolutely,,best guitar god ever,,best band ever
Edward died because of the lockdown. He was not allowed to travel to Germany for his treatment. Get on a plane to save his life.
Then Peavey! And then on! The cancer thing? It's so evil! Takes away good and bad people. Some people think he was an asshole? there are two sides to each story! Spending his money to try to help other people, Besides himself with cancer! Judge for yourselves what kind of human being, What he was in real life! I never met him. You get glimpses here and there from media. My vote he was genuine! had his drug and alcohol issues. but deep down, A really nice guy with no ego!
Nicest guy in rock n roll? Ed was an asshole. You hear it in this very video lol. Talking shit about Anthony and Hagar.
@@DVincentW 🙄 Shut. Up.
He drank for 53 years and smoked for the same amount.
He quit going to Europe for treatments because the cancer was too advanced.
You can tell he was really really stoned when they recorded this , he hardly ever moves in this video
Stone in love
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That was funnier than hell ha ha !
Jesus, Dude. Thank you!! I needed a laugh. One thumb's up is not enough.
You serious Clark?
Eddie always lights up when someone mentions his son.
People need to realize that at this point, Ed was really on his way to being gone for good. If he hadnt gotten help in '07, we probably wouldve lost him before 2010. Only Wolfgang could get thru to Ed. He loved Wolf more than his own addictions, thank God.
On another note, when Ed was talking about how great Wolfie was in this interview, I remember thinking at that time "yea, right. Just another father who's bragging about his kid." Years later, in 2021, I started seeing that Ed wasnt just bragging. He was absolutely serious!
Edward is the best ever.
There is no best. Shut up
@@dezertfox3130 why the hostility?
Best d bag.
Eddie Van Halen always did things his way. Even trying to cure his own cancer.
Ed was a genius
Eddie was just a normal dude! With incredible talent!! RIP!!!
Indeeeed!
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I just had my lifetime-Sirius for a few months when Eddie called in.
Great interview. I'm glad I heard this live.
I miss you EVH. Peace, brother.
Eddie was so proud of Wolfgang, but rightly so. He can play all the instruments, sing and write catchy hooks and riffs - the dude is a natural. The Van Halen name is sure to live on with WVH and EVH will live on in our hearts forever.
Yes he was it was so cool how great a father Eddie was! Valerie and Eddie really brought up their son very well obviously we have no clue what they did but obviously it was a pretty normal upbringing but Eddie was closer to his son then most fathers get he brought him everywhere, he had his so join his band. I remember some comedian was talking about how Eddie came bowling one night and the one guy the comedian was with said do u care if Eddie brings his son? And he said dude it’s bowling of of course he can bring his son but what I’m getting at is when a bunch of 40 something year old guys go out together they always want to be alone just the guys but Eddie brought his son with him because he absolutely loved his son so much they were best friends. I know it might not sound like a big deal Eddie bringing his son bowling with Eddie’s friends but that little stuff is what makes kids have a much better childhood all the little things like that not just leaving the kids home. I got a ton of friends that will go out so much you will forget they even have kids, guys that have no money they spend what little money they have going to the bar then when u go to their houses their kids have no toys and the ones they have are junk, their kids ask for a go cart or something like that and they don’t have the money to buy a go cart but they have the money to buy parts for their race cars or whatever hobbies they have. My daughter was born 3 years ago, I’ve wanted to buy a project car to build because I now have a shop at my house with a lift and everything I need to build a project car but If I bought a project car I would be dumping a ton of money into the car and I would feel guilty if my daughter wanted or needed something and couldn’t do it for her because I spent my money on a car. I remember I was at a friend of mines house working on his project car and his son asked to join little league and he told his son he couldn’t afford it so maybe next year. It was only 300 bucks and in just the past month he spent a few grand on that car I felt so bad for that kid if I were him I would have sold or returned the stuff I just bought for the car so he could go to little league screw the car u can always buy a car you can’t go back in time and let ur kid go to little league. When I was a kid I didn’t ask for much I really didn’t and I didn’t have much all I wanted was a dirt bike and I never got one and to this day I think back about how I never got one and all the fun I missed out on. I didn’t want anything to do with sports, toys, video games none of that all I wanted was a dirt bike I would have spent all my time doing that. My daughter is 3 and when we go shopping she picks stuff up and puts it back down she doesn’t try to make me buy everything but every couple weeks she will pick something out that she really REALLY wants and i will get it for her because I want to make her happy and I tell her if ur a good girl I don’t have a problem buying it, you can’t let ur kids think they can get whatever they want they need to know they are getting something because they have been a good girl/boy. I just wanted to say a few things about kids and hopefully some people will read this and treat their kids better and not be selfish and realize the day their kids were born was the day life is not about u anymore it’s about ur kids!
@@peanutbutterisfu Agreed, if people put more time and effort into their kids lives, the world would be a less F'ed up place for sure.
@Bpjames - Agreed. It’s cool to watch this years later and see that Eddie wasn’t exaggerating. Wolfie is the real deal.
Let me know when wolf is capable of a decent piece of music. There are 10 year olds in Japan that can play every instrument well. Creativity is much more challenging.
This was the era where he starting to come out of his 10 year binge......the dark years. He was very ingracious in this era. Idk - probably feeling some sense in protecting his own legacy plus guitar based music had just died a very unceremonious and quick death. A tense era for a lot of legacy bands. If you read his interview in guitar world magazine 1981 he was incredibly complimentary of the same people he's sort of indifferent to here. And he couldn't speak enough about Alan Holdsworth back then. A HUGE fan of him. But 1960's Clapton was his #1 guitar inspiration and he didn't hide it back then. The 2000's era EVH would have you believe he came to the guitar with zero inspiration like he was guitar mana from heaven. I do not like the 97 - 07 EVH. He started coming out of it when he met and was involved with his 2nd wife, who must be a Saint doing what she did for him. And she never used her husband's fame to spur any kind of publicity for herself. To my knowledge, she put out one tweet after his death and that is all. In the end, EVH got it all back together again and had 10 pretty good years even while fighting cancer again. And somewhere in there he had a motorcycle crash. Living life. Very awful he is gone. The world is a better.place because of him.
Well said. Dark years indeed. He was like a different person during this period.
The world is a better place because of him .. That said it all
I agree -the 97-07 era he changed so much. Going from that healthy, happy, short-haired 90s guy in bright colored t-shirts & ripped jeans to skinny, shirtless, disheveled, strung-out. I wondered what caused one to start heavy drugs so late in life & their career but you answered that question. ☹️
GREAT to hear EVH. I loved hearing this. RIP ❤️
its so cool to hear his voice
Love that EVH did an interview with Howard Stern!!!! No holds barred,that’s the best part that he’s saying whatever is on his mind. Made me tear up when he said Van Halen will be here long after he’s gone because of Wolfie. I have such respect for Eddie that he started a research lab for cancer cures. May you play for /with the angels throughout eternity. I’m very sad that he is no longer on this earth with us.
This wasn’t his only interview with Howard. He was in studio and on video acting like a nitwit for the release of VH III album along with singer #3, Alex and the former bass player too. Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was?
May he Rest In Peace!
Diem Golightly it’s doubtful Eddie would agree, in fact he said something to the effect; “I’m just a regular person,” during the Stern interview. You can deify him all you’d like, but just so you know, the real and only God is jealous and vengeful of idol worship, even if you’re just pretending to be joking. Be well!
@@nobodyspecial9035 "Not necessarily the best human"...Take one look at Wolfgang's new song/video, & that's all you need to see about what kind of a human Ed Van Halen really was. Every IV I've read/listened to with those who knew him best, & esp from "every day people" who knew him & interacted w/ him regularly...they ALL say, Ed was a down to earth, super kind & generous person. He's made mistakes in his life, absolutely, as we ALL have. But to reference him as "not the best human"...is WAY out of line.
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That’s like asking Don jr. what his daddy was like after inheriting a fortune.
Give it a rest.
“Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was?”
I stand by my whole comment that you chose to modify and get angry about.
I’m sorry to see you enjoy kicking rocks.
@@nobodyspecial9035 WOW...So then, based on your most recent comments...You won't mind if "I stand by MY comments" & say, I think you're a short sighted ass!
And PLEASE, for the love of God, leave Trump & Co out of a discussion about anyone elses character! People, who actually knew Ed personally, & are now positively reflecting on the man they knew, loved & respected...has nothing to do with your ill Don Jr. comparison...which is completely idiodic.
Hendrix was playing one of the thinnest sounding guitars at the time and it was hard to push the front of the amp hard enuf to break up and distort. the single coil pickup in the bridge was only in the 5k range witch is a low amount of resistance compared to a Gibson paf humbucker at 7.5- 8.0. so Hendrix used a big muff or a fuzz face to push the amps, along with a vox whaawhaa pedal. Eddie simply took the Gibson paf from the bridge of his old 335 and routed a space for mounting it in the bridge of his strat body and made history...and wen i was about 14-15 years old wen i made my own franken caster with my dads parts collection..lol it followed the same basic blue prints..lol
He called Diamond Dave "cubic zirconia" 😂
When Eddie talks about Wolfgang: “This kid is dangerous” ❤️
Never be a nother one like that guy never. Ever .never. Rip eddie man.
Truth teller
Eddie is just a great guy on stage and at home.
Wolf IS dangerous!! So multitalented!!!!
he ain't his daddy though.
Life makes you who you are. Different Animals
@@RamonesFan201 And he never will be. He's unfortunately on the same road Lisa Marie Presley ended up on. Always hidden in the shadow of the hugely successful father.
Overrated
Edward was such a great guy and an absolute legend and he is sorely missed. I could never thank Ed enough for all of the inspiration he has given me as a guitarist and the massive catalog of music he left behind.
RIP Eddie we love you.
Great View Of The Older Edward !!!! AWESOME !!!!
I love Eddie. An era gone
Miss you goat, Long Live the King. Need you now more than ever.
Funny to think that Wolfgang is gonna be on the show on Monday.
I hope they release that trio instrumental record. That would have been amazing to see them live. They would have been a big hit.
Wait what trio instrumental record ?
Wow , great interview!!!
This was a sad era in the life of EVH, yet he pulled himself out of it and recorded a Different Kind of Truth. I loved the guitar work on it, although Dave could barely sing. RIP EVH !!!!
Eddie's playing on that album was SICK. I'm glad he left on a high note.
I thought Dave was great on that album and he put a ton of work into the lyrics on it. Yeah his voice was definitely aged a lot but he, along with Wolf were the main reasons that record even exists. Al and Ed just filled in the gaps on that one.
Smithtown, Long Island. I wonder exactly where!!!
4:03 the way he casually added that to his question 😂
Yeah pretty obvious he was either free basing or smoking meth starting around 98 ish up until 2006 or so considering how he deteriorated. He looks like Lou Reed in the 97 interviews, scary skinny during the Cherone period, and then teeth start falling out early 2000s..and he's a goblin by 2006. If he wasn't Eddie Van Halen he'd have died in the street 15 years earlier.
@@TheDmonet "and he's a goblin by 2006" LOL
"Fuck me running, if you can catch me!"
In this interview, I can hear his strong Dutch accent. I believe when he arrived in THE UNITED STATES (not America) He kept speaking his mother tongue to his parents and his brother. He's sorely missed.
His mother is Javanese , Indonesian and both brothers show as much Indonesian as they do Dutch perhaps even more of the former ..
Ain't nobody got anything on Eddie Van Halen. He changed the way of playing the guitar across the world. So fuck the haters
Ya okay whatever.... he was an asshole.
That was great to listen to
Steve Vai said it best 🤔. There's some really good guitarist / songwriters & there was EVH 🎼🎸🫡 🤘
He pretty much said they don't want to cure cancer because it's a billion dollar industry so he experimented on curing himself ! The world lost a genius guitarist when eddy past away! Rip
Just ran across this and for the folks who say someone is better than another is sort of silly. From the 60’s to today, electronics have improved dramatically. Different styles of playing and then there’s the creative part.
So many people think speed of a player makes them the greatest. Well it doesn’t in my opinion. So for the folks who compare, put all that together. It’s a lot to do with your personal taste in music.
Loved, and still love, Eddie's playing. I met him briefly once decades ago, and he was kind to me. Thus having heard interviews with Michael Anthony and his respect and love for Ed (unless its fake), and complete lack of resentment for taking away a source of his income decades ago, the only thing I can figure is that EVH valued loyalty to the VH cause above everything else and believed MA transgressed by touring with Sammy Hagar. But who knows? Ed's gone, and MA and AVH aren't revealing anything...yet.
Eddie was the Mozart of our generation. In 100 years from now people will be talking about his playing like we talk about Mozart. There is a lot of videos with Eddie but I wish Eddie did some instructional videos.
The problem is people thinking that you can learn what is the result of pure talent. There are plenty of videos analyzing Eddie's style that you can watch but they'll never make you an innovator like he was.
@@junodonatus4906 100% man! People like to think they need to become a super technical player that can play anything, they waste years and years to become an amazing player, they learn how to play every every Van Halen, megadeth, Metallica, pantera solo but they can’t write any good music to save their lives and the stuff they write sounds like their favorite guitarist. Then they talk about how all these bands suck because the music is so easy to play because they still don’t understand the most important thing is writing good music no matter how simple or complex a song is.
Wolfgang said his Dad was a terrible guitar teacher. He showed him some “simple stuff” and he then proceeded to turn into EVH and Wolf said f you I can’t do that.
What Van Halen was has nothing to do with Mozart Beethoven classical music or jazz for that matter. Eddie wrote music for the lions. Mozart wrote music for the brain.
It’s like comparing a poet with a novelist or a science fiction writer to prose. Different capacities of literature. Different capacities of music.
Neither is “better” than the other just different. Eddie and the stones and things like that is dance music, folk music. Mozart and miles Davis is intellectual music. What Eddie did was creative in his field but it’s still simple three chord bluesin’ Jamin’ and flashy hot licks confined to three minutes. His solos were 30 seconds. Mozart wrote 25 minute “songs”.
This is a really interesting time for Eddie. It was right before he finally got clean, he had just started dating Janie, the band was at a standstill - Roth wasn’t back yet and Wolfgang wasn’t in, but you can tell Eddie was thinking about it here. This is Ed right before starting the final chapter of his life.
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) and Brian May (Queen) have been using metal picks for 50 years, they didn't get cancer.
Everyones genes are different. People can live a clean lifestyle and still get cancer.
smoking gave him cancer
Did they put it in their mouth all the time?
Hard to find a pic of Ed without a cigarette and even harder to find one with a metal pick.
He used them in the studio until he got cancer.
Absolutely correct!
Just search him in 1998 during the III tour. That's when he was using the metal pick.
Eddie was in denial. It was the smoking. The pick could have accelerated things but it was that damn nicotine.
Wow! Very interesting thanks a bunch for this fucking nugget! Amazing
Wolf is dangerous... he is EXTREMELY talented!!
YES
Like Ed said way back in 2006 'FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT' .......ED knew.....He was way ahead on that. He knew.
Very frank responses. Ed kept it 100
Eddie Van Halen on WolfGang Van Halen : 12:50
“His main instrument is drums, number two is guitar, and 3 weeks ago he started playing bass. This kid is fucking dangerous. If I excel at the speed of sound, this kid excels at the speed of light.”
How in the world did Howard Stern get away with being so fake? He would talk smack about celebrities then kiss their behinds when they came on the show 😂
That's what maker him unique & fuckin hilarious. DUH 🙄.
It's not like he's trying to keep it a secret that he's on purpose being two faced. Dummy
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He is asked about it by Eddie
celebs would eagerly come onto Howard's show because they'd get million of listeners for whatever they were promoting.
@@erichaynes7502guys bought and sold
So weird to hear that piano lick somewhere. I have a recording of Ed on the piano at 5150 playing that, except it is much longer.
Rip Eddie a one off and and one of the greatest guitarist/musician ever. must say he does sound a bit bitter about things with Sammy and Michael
Ngl when he throws shade at Hagar at 2:30 by saying he instead used his money to start a lab in Long Island, like Eddie ur no saint urself u started a lab to try and cure ur cancer not cuz u wanted to save the world.
Don't smoke ciggys... live long life!!
Exactly why I play guitar with nylon picks
I agreed fully with Eddie about the cancer cause in his tongue.
Most women don't know that the metal wires in their bras cause breast cancer ....
Yea , you're correct. We have some very stupid people on the planet who don't understand this. Automatically, people equate smoking to cancer & that's that. People are so limited in their thinking......
Metal wires in bras causing cancer, but wearing metal earrings/ jewelry, piercings, etc ... don't? Seems as though your theory has a few holes in it.
Totally, but unfortunately he continued to smoke which made him more prone to cancer close to the area affected the first time. He’s right about cancer it’s a cockroach that hides and grows stronger. RIP Eddie. 🖤
Cigarettes are the hardest to quit especially when you start so young
Most of the truth that is out there like the pic causing Eddies cancer AMAZING that it comes from the Stern show
I know a lot was negatively said in this interview about Sammy and especially Michael Anthony so just to let the fans know again (a refresh) he was the Backbone of the band and at 68 is still rocking with Sammy (74) who is still singing 100X better than Vince Neil
I like your comments here, but in all fairness even Britney Spears sings better than Vince Neil these days.
How is Sobelewski the backbone of VH? Ed wrote most of the basslines and all of the music. By the end of his tenure in Van Halen, Mike was just a hired hand to play live. He was never an integral part of the writing process. And he was looked after good and proper in the early days getting his 25% cut. You can say all you want about Sammy singing 100x better than anybody, but he can't write for shit! He's always been a lyrical hack! That's why the Hagar-lovers always focus on the voice and never the lyrics.
Eddie was so Right about everything in this interview!!
Man this interview is wrong in alot of ways. The bottom line is cigarettes killed the greatest guitarist of all time.
He was probably in denial about it all. You rarely saw Ed without a cigarette in his hand, mouth, or guitar. Those things have caused a lot of misery. There should be a special place in hell for all the tobacco industry stiffs who lied about their health effects. 😒
As I listen to this, I noticed that Stern was "prodding" Eddie to divulge his life, ...how many women he has banged, the erotic film, pushing Eddie to badmouth DLR and Mike.... NOTHING. The only thing Eddie did was defend himself over all the gossip...as Stern pushed the money situation and that Val got a huge settlement, Eddie said NOTHING. EVH a real class act that will be very difficult for anyone to follow.
He called Mike and Sammy fat and called DLR fake. What interview are you listening to?
Bless you Eddie. Howard you're an instigator
Funny thing is I think he really was using meth to "cure" cancer. If you saw him around 2004 he was missing teeth, played crappy and never wore a shirt even in the snow, Sammy said most of this, but whatever works..
Never understood why he went shirtless on stage. He did not have a great body.
@@judithryle2113 typical comment from a girl.
I would bet Ed was doing some form of stem cell therapy, which was not legal in the US at this time.
There is a clinic in Black Forrest Germany that is known around the world for doing miraculous things.
I suffer from a horrific condition and know of other people with my condition who went there and within months were back to full health.
Insurance companies and the American healthcare system in general prevent innovation and we are the ones who pay the price
@@user-wv5gv3dw5u that's where Eddie was traveling to for about 3 years, to Germany, for his cancer treatments.....
@@kaleendavis8427 I believe so
@@user-wv5gv3dw5u yea, it's true. I was just stating a fact on an Interview with his son Wolfgang , who said that Eddie was travelling back & forth from America to Germany to get treatments, but eventually it just got so bad......
Wolfgang said if it wasn't for the medical help Eddie received in Germany, he would have lost his dad 3 years earlier .
Eddie mentioned in interviews this same subject too.
That’s all Edwards buisness
. If Eddie's saying he couldn't afford pedals as a kid, OK but guaranteed jimi didn't have any when he was learning either. Not sure what he was getting at, but eddie used 3 or more pedals on his very first album.
So sad to hear him bad mouth Mikey... I wish we knew the real truth behind the bad blood
Eddie and Alex saw the band as a family business and he resented Mike for being friends with Sammy and playing with him. There was no need as Mikey never to this day has bad mouted anyone. But Eddie basically wanted it to be a family business which when Wolf was old enough he could do so Mikey was sacrificed. Then they got Roth back who probably needed the money more than Sammy with his successful tequila business and the rest is history
I was thinkin"Eddie sounds fucked up" before he told the story about his tongue.lol
It angers me that til the day he died , Eddie told the truth about Sam quitting . Sam wasn't fired . He even said so himself . In the VH3 album promo issue of THE INSIDE MAGAZINE , Alex Eddie AND Mike said he quit . In the individual interview with Mike , Mike was told by the reporter that Sam told the reporter he didn't want to do the greatest hits album .
Amazing i use evh in my life daily And that’s why I’m a fucking genius to this day
It's crazy the difference 3 more years of smoking will make in regards to your voice. This was 2006. Look up Eddie Van Halen Two & A Half Men and compare his voice here, to that video shot 3 years later.
Too bad he couldn't cure the cancer in his last few years. Rest in peace Eddie Van Halen.
I would've thought he'd quit smoking cigarettes.
@@fastpony8127 why should he?smoking is fun. Why don't you stop being stupid?
Eddie was a genius MAMMOTH WVH is gonna save rock
If Wolfe can keep his mouth shut
Eddie ended up using more effects than Hendrix ever did. Maybe that's because Hendrix died so young but still all the great rock and roll guitar players have used effects.
Even in the early days, Ed used the MXR phase 90 and MXR flanger, along with the Echoplex, a harmonizer (which is more a tool than an effect).
He was pretty effects heavy in the early days. In fact, not much more than he was in modern days. It’s just that mixing, mastering, and the house main board have since went digital, thus, making everything and everyone else sound digital… which I then can be mistaken with being effects heavy
Love Eddy but it was smoking .. not the pick , still I bow to his genius 🙏🏼
This is crap. This is Edward at a low point. We all have them. I love the man, but I'm sure he would be embarrassed by this interview.
It was a cheap shot to mention Cabo Wabo like all Sammy does is blow money on bars and stupid stuff. Sam donates to food banks in every city he plays, and he does benefit shows for Children's Cancer. He's extremely generous and he does a lot of charity work and Ed acts like only he uses his money for good.
Sam was and is a great guy who happens to be a great musician. Eddie and Alex are more the frustrated artistic genius types and eventually there was a clash
EVH did his own thing "GOAT"
Eddie was so dumb here saying cigs didn’t cause cancer
Never liked Stern. If your remove the sexual inappropriate comments Stern is infamous for ( not famous, infamous, big difference ) Stern would be as dry as a sand sandwich and nothing special at all. If his name was Smith he would be the guy valeting your car at the local mall in Kansas City.
A direct quote from Sammy Hagar's book "Eddie also told Hagar how he cured his tongue cancer. “He told me he cured himself by having pieces of his tongue liquified and injected into his body,” Hagar wrote. “He also told me when he had his hip replacement, he stayed awake through the operation and helped the doctors drill a hole." Is this true?? Who knows! I loved Eddie...
its not true at all. the doctor simply mentioned the concept of stem cell research. Eddie was always full of shit and wasnt smart enough to think people would see that he's a compulsive fibber when he was drunk.
@@geet77777 you're right I've seen an interview where Eddie gets caught in lies and then he tried to backpedal off of them..a really, really bad look he was compulsive liar.
Sammy's bought eddie isnt
@@erichaynes7502bs troll
Meanwhile, 14 years later... In 2019, when I moved into my current apartment, I inadvertently hung my mini frankestrat over my bedroom window, and next to it a religious cross. On October 6, 2020, I'm in tears and looked up...realizing then just why I had done that. Back on July 16th, 1981, I saw VH in New Haven promoting Fair Warning. During one of Dave's onstage blathering, Ed was at his rack of equipment having a smoke. I'm right at that side of the stage, I yell, "EDWARD VAAN HEYYLAAN!!"...he whirls around, gave me that famous grin, and threw the cigarette at me. Awesome! (sadly, that was the day Harry Chapin died in his VW on the Long Island Expressway; we heard it on the radio on the way to the show)
Eddies spun out here, he went into rehab in 2007, I mean to claim you beat cancer with your own designed treatment is straight up nuts, your a musician bro not a doctor, talk about delusional, he even mentions meth in the interview 5 mins in, RIP
Eddie predicting the future in 2006 at 16:00
This is sad ... Eddie was great but this smacks of bitterness.
Is he talking about stem cell? The beginning when he talked about cancer
He was a really great technical player, but he did not touch my soul with his playing like Jimi did.
I agree
You ever listen to Little Guitars, Cathedral/Secrets or Hear about it later?
@ 16:02 - Ed called it.
It’s pretty sad he claimed to have cured his own cancer but still ended up dying of it.
Chemo only claims to increase your life expectancy by 1, 2, 5 , 10, 15 years depending on the type and stage of the cancer , and comes with the risk of not surviving the treatment itself.
He did pretty well to survive 15 years after this interview.
@@mancuniancandidatem - Absolutely.
No cure for cancer it only goes into remission unfortunately
@@mancuniancandidatem not to mention 99/2000 ish he was at deaths door with chemo. And the word on the message boards were that he didn’t have much time. I think he cut the chemo and looked at other treatments. He made it 20 years or so which is amazing, and didn’t have to be sick on Chemo. Great job Ed! RIP
T HIS DRIVES ME NUTS , iVE HEARD THIS SO MANY TIMES EVEN . MY DADS LUNG CANCER WENT AWAY, AND LIKE THEM AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, THEY WERE CANCER FREE, AND THEN IT COMES BACK DEADLIER. STERNS ACTING LIKE A DUMB ASS. IM GLAD YOU GOT MORE TIME WITH YOUR SON EDDY. RIP LUV YA!
Eddie sounds pretty delusional here. I mean, he was always very insecure and unsure of who he was. You have to know thyself. "Smoking didn't cause my cancer," "people call me a drug addict but they do drugs and I don't anymore." Ok. He went back into rehab about a year after this. Ed was one of the greatest musicians, not just guitarists, but musicians to ever live. But he was a drunk, and trouble follows drunks wherever they go.
VH4life
Eddie was at least 10x better than Hendrix. It must have drove Eddie mad to have to hear that Hendrix was the best. Ed was being restraint in his response.
Crystal Meth.... 4:13
I just pulled off my braces!
This aged well huh :(
Sure wish Eddies "cure" would have worked... Maybe he should have done the radiation or chemotherapy... Still can't believe he's gone...
Its sad that Ed was at a point in his life were he was able to be taken advantage of like he was in this interview.
His 2nd wife wasn't good for him in this area as far as what he's involved in outside of music....Janie was a publicist for a porn thing for awhile before they married
Watch Johnny b Goode by Hendrix at Berkeley best guitar performance ever
respect to his music legacy...but he believed in crazy stuff....
Damn. The thumb's up number is at 666 and I like this interview but I don't wanna change the number.
EVH is my God
Might be the saddest EVH interview ever