Why would anyone want to listen to a guitar that sounds like a police siren?

Can this band ever put out new music again. Ed just said that after his honeymoon it was back in the studio. I love VH to death but just hang it up already. You keep hearing Eddie say he has tons of music pooring out of him. I know the surgery could not be helped but I grow tired of hearing about plans for a new record. I’m a huge fan but for once tell the fans whats really going on instead of pushing it back again and again. Just retire already. It so lame

Have a full recovery, Eddie! Then kick ass with a new VH record and tour!!

To “Oh Great”-

Why would anyone want to post to a story like this if they think what EVH does is simply “making a guitar sound like a police siren”? Pretty damn stupid man…

Because The Clash’s “Police on My Back” is awesome, but that’s neither here nor there. Van Halen rocks.

Sweet Guitar

Sweet Guitar

Jay, put down the ice cream, turn off the movie Beaches and wipe away those tears little guy.

Would you rather hear Ed record a new album that sounds like he has a broken hand or LIKE HE’S 18 YEARS OLD AGAIN??????

YOU SISSY!!!!!!

Damn, they were supposed to be recording the new album! =(

that is a left hand that is pricless. get well and do a record.

these old rock stars take an eternity to come up w/ a new lp of material, come on eddie, it’s been since 1998. i still love him but geeeezzz

Stupid motherf*cker is a sh*t sellout to Guitar Hero. Dumbass

This is a poser to Guitar Hero.

Eddie. Edddddie!!! Your so 1980. We don’t give a shit anymore. Grab a bottle of vodka and go watch so porn…. signed Tony…

Get well Ed, then MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

Eddie’s still alive? I thought he had settled in for a dirt nap. No wait, its his band who died. A loooooooong time ago. Never mind.

It’s karma for dumping on Valerie and for dropping Michael. These things always find a way to come back and bite you on your ass, Edward.

oh great what a dumbass

who cares, check out chickenfoot. Idt really rocks they bring it check it out

Why does it matter? He isn’t making any new albums! Chickenfoot sucks, Ed, get back to 1984!

Hey, wasn’t that the guitar supposed to be have been buried with the dude from Pantera? Dirtbag or Dimebag someone

You guys are nuts. Wait till VH comes back with Dave at the wheel…

You’ll all be lining up to get in.

Here’s to a speedy recovery and god bless you Eddie!!! Don’t care if you ever release any new music again, your music has given me the ultimate soundtrack in my life. Anything new from Van Halen is just a bonus!!!!

KING EDWARD VAN HALEN…I salute you!!!!!

Ray your comments are a little virulent, are you ok? Didn’t your dad and mom love you? Maybe I should ease up and not take the ” internet thing” too seriously…after all, after reading dumbass comments like yours, it stands to reason your probably in middle school anyway…

Jay I agree to a degree… but from Ed and Alex’s perspective they CANNOT ever have another VHIII or it would kill VH. If that isn’t enough, there is the huge gap of no new music and lots of fan anticipation and the standard they created to live up to… I am sure Ed does have a mountain of ideas since 1997, but I can guess after his cancer, he developed arthritis and gradually played worse…confidence and ability is very important for timeless VH recordings…..

“Hey, wasn’t that the guitar supposed to be have been buried with the dude from Pantera? Dirtbag or Dimebag someone”

Ten bucks says that’s one of his $25000.00 replicas. Besides the one that is burried with Dimebag is the yellow and black mutt he made between VH and VHII…

“Hey, wasn’t that the guitar supposed to be have been buried with the dude from Pantera? Dirtbag or Dimebag someone”

Ten bucks says that’s one of his $25000.00 replicas. Besides the one that is burried with Dimebag is the yellow and black mutt he made between VH and VHII…

While Eddie is without a doubt a god among guitarists, does anyone really think that their brand of music would go over well today? Example, if Hot for Teacher came out today people would probably just laugh at it.

Get Well, Ed !

Just as a lot of people I’m sure would laugh at “I wanna Hold Your Hand” or “Teddy Bear”

Maybe it doesn’t seem to translate to the sexually desensitized bump and grind that passes as pop music today, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t a great song.

No matter what site you go to there are always gonna be some heartless asshole fans. Unbelievable. Have a little heart jerkoff’s. Eddie doesnt owe anyone shit….
He’s done more than enough musically then any of you with your pathetic little lives…
Losers.

I agree Jay, for the love of god please put a new cd out with roth and go on tour. We have waited long enough for new VH tracks with Roth. All I hear is about Ed’s mountain of new stuff………lets go !

I agree Jay, for the love of god please put a new cd out with roth and go on tour. We have waited long enough for new VH tracks with Roth. All I hear is about Ed’s mountain of new stuff………lets go !

nothing personal against VH at all, but many here are correct. Without a complete, wholesale change in the band’s sound, they have absolutely zero chance of any real success now.

Great for the fans though, I guess?

The real tragedy is Ed may not be able to play the keyboards ever again. Oh to never here the opening to Jump, or that song off of VH3 where Eddie sings. Oh God the humanity.

sh!+ or get off the pot. swallow your vanity and put a band together already.

Chickenfoot is playing where Van Halen should be now.

Sammy brought legitimacy to the group. Dave was comic relief.

Wondered why they sounded so TERRIBLE the last time I saw them. Or was that because Wolfgang played so bad?? Eddies solo was boring and uninspired. Does going through the motions mean anything to anyone?? No offense but at least a lot of the ‘old timers’ still touring out there go out of their way to really play/sound good for their fans. Aerosmith sounds 100 times better now than they did in their stoner days. I don’t think Ed is staying on the wagon.

I would have figured that he has had surgery on his hand in the past. a lot of guitarists do. surprised this was his first.

Hes “they” been sounding terible because eddies talent was derived from alcoholism. im not spreading crap by this, he started drinking when he was real young 10-12 when he started getting serious with the rifts, and the booze. he would sit and down 3 colt 45 tall boys that his brother would bring him and pratice everyday. all thru the 80’s and 90’s he was wasted on stage, didnt look it but he was. no pro alky ever does look drunk. but thats all behind him now.

What’s with the retards putting Eddie and VH down,if you don’t like them go listen to the Jonas Brothers and go to hell.

I saw VH in the early ’80s and then 3 shows in 2007-08. I thought they sounded *fantastic* in 2 of the 3 recent shows and pretty damn good in the other one. There is still plenty of Guitar God left in EVH and stage presence left in DLR. I can wait an extra few months for whatever is their next project.

I had hand surgery myself and know the long road in front of EVH. I wish him the patience and determination to recover 100%.

Eddie, Hope you have a speedy recovery and we can he you play again soon.

Eddie, Hope you have a speedy recovery and we can here you play again soon.

Eddie, Hope you have a speedy recovery and we can here you play again soon.

“Sammy brought legitimacy to the band.” HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!! What an idiot. You must have been born after 1983…

Glaqd to hear that EVH is doing well.

Let me clear something up.The axe in the picture is the REAL Frankenstrat. It was black and white (pictured on VH 1 cover) before Eddie painted it in ‘79 or ‘80. The black and yellow one featured on VH 2 is a different guitar entirely, and is actually buried with Dimebag.

I heard that eddie didnt really play that guitar (original frankenstrat) in the last 20 years or so and had it in a case for so long that the pots had all froze up, the bridge was locked up as well. he had to do a lot of work to it just to get it to play again. this was around the time fender got interested in doing an exact copy, but ed didnt like the idea at first. took a lot of convincing by his friends and guitar techs to go thru with it.

Ed, I assure you my mother and father loved me a lot but I am touched by your concern. And no, I am not in Middle School. I grew up in the sixties. That was the era when, you know, music was music and bands couldn’t hold their fans with an album every decade or so. They actually created new music on a regular basis or they were left behind…Well, all of the bands with the exception of The Who or the Stones. Those two have taken irrelvancy to a higher level. Van Halen never sounded different after their first album but what should I expect from a generation of fans who made stars out of cookie-cutter “talent” like Britney Spears and her ilk.

I heard he hurt his hand from flipping off singers…

Diamond Dave and Sammy are old and washed up. I wish VH would stop the BS and get Gary Cherone back for their greatest lineup yet.

Glad to hear he is recovering well.

EDDIE!!! EDDIE!!! EDDIE!!!

The KING will return!!!

kool

kool

HOW MANY OF YOU CAN PLAY A MUSICAL INTRUMENT AT ALL LET ALONE WRITE A DECENT MUSICALLY STRUCTURED SONG.
BE HONEST.

WITHOUT ELECTRONIC STUDIO HELP WOULD YOU SOUND COMPETENT?

i THOUGHT SO NOW SHUT UP/

You know I just love when this younger youth generation tells this guitar legend to hang it up when I swear there hasn’t been no more than a small handful of great rock bands in over 20 freaking years!! Ask yourself why VH kicked the CRAP out of current bands in concert income profits last year.. How is that possible!?!?! I’ll tell you why….cause other than possibly Disturbed & Nickleback, they all SUK!! And you know why?!?….NO GREAT GUITAR INTROS ANYMORE!!!, The last good ones were Enter Sandman or Welcome to the Jungle!!! And HOW long ago were they?!?!

You NEED Eddie to come back, cause you young music pukes aren’t getting it! Your $hitty music is KILLING rock right now….You need to learn how to play, so these icons don’t need to keep coming back out of retirement and save your sorry a$$es.

Good post by Eric G. Some other moron in an earlier post said something like “if Hot For Teacher” came out today people would laugh at it.
WHAT?!?!?!?
First of all, that song shows a band just mastering their instruments all the way through, with a dynamic frontman at the peak of his powers to boot. That song AND video by the way are still relevant today. I hear it on the NY airwaves probably a dozen times a week -easy!
Now for argument’s sake if you want to say the lyrics are a bit too “fun” for today’s rock, well then i guess other rock classics like “Rock and Roll,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Gimme Some Lovin’” would all also be “laughed” at today. If that’s true, that says more about the sad state of music today and the idiots writing about it than it does about “Teacher” and countless other classics.
So, so sad. Eddie VH and his band could play circles around most current “artists.”

@Eric G.: Nickleback sucks. Worst band of this century.

Well, I’m not that into Van Halen (I suppose I’ll get into them eventually), but hopefully he has a full recovery.

hope it heals up fast,then back to rockin.

just to borrow something i think Clapton said not long ago when asked if anything new has grabbed his attention the past 20 yrs or so,and he said no not really.I mean who has the balls to say that.nonetheless VH and Eddie you guys rocked and were original,unlike so much dreck that people call good and new nowadays,Daugherty,Coldplay etc God give me a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I mean a kit kat.

Well now, we finally see that Eddie is not immortal, or bullet-proof! I am not surprised, as everyone must deal with the problems of aging. Too bad that Eddie didn’t teach his son Wolfgang to play the electric guitar, instead of a boring bass! Now Eddie must realize that Sammy Hagar is better at looking into the future, and planning ahead for the next best thing. So sad, right Eddie? Good luck with the future!

I was saddened to read the story but glad Mr Van Halen came through it well as he always does. He is easily by far the best guitarists there has ever been.
“Rock On Eddie……”

I’ll take Old School over that New School Crap anytime! If them young punks sit back and learn from the Real Pros. Maybe the get the big picture what rock and roll is all about. I guess it’s summer and class is out.

Hope everything heals right the music world needs its guitar hero back!

Thank god those plane windows are strong, or he would not have had a hand attached to a body to be fixed.

Thank God for Rolling Stone.
No, really.

Great!!
I wish you heal soon, Eddie…

Waiting for new real Van Halen (I mean, w/ David Lee Roth) album. Miss Mike, but if that’s the only choice, it’s ok.

When I heard about the surgery i had to immediatly had to research to make sure that eddie wasnt permatly disabled. Cant wait to year ya rockin again!

I’d rather hear new music than have them tour again. Hope his hand heals well!

I had screws surgically screwed into my finger last year. I thought I’d never be able to play guitar again, but I’m back to playing and writing. I feel pretty fortunate to be given this chance.