Eddie Van Halen Forum

Been a fan since your beginning.

Shocked and gutted. 

I am going to crank up some VH and look at cards.  

RIP Eddie Van Helen. 

Good bye to a musical legend!  Thanks for all the music Eddie, you were a great!

My Dog's name is Halen. I jammed to Van Halen all the way home from work.

Best rock guitarist ever. So sad that he is now gone.

One of rock music's most innovative and inspirational musicians. He'll be greatly missed and forever remembered.

When I was in middle/high school and college throughout the 80s, I didn't appreciate how great the band Van Halen was. I tolerated 80s rock, enjoyed some of the more pop side of stuff and less the metal side of stuff (and not at all the heaviest metal...still).  But in the late 90s or so I started listening to more of that era's music--really listening, perhaps--and I realized much too late how truly great that band was.  Legendary.  

But even not being a fan of VH, I could recognize the incredible guitarist that Eddie Van Halen was.  Definitely in the discussion for the Rock Guitarist Mt. Rushmore.  I wish his family and fans only the fondest of memories.

I can't say that I was ever the biggest Van Halen fan -- leaned more towards Aerosmith -- but Eddie Van Halen is probably a top three rock guitarist of all time. Rest in rock. 

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