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Eddie Van Halen has Died

Breaking Now

:(:sadangel::(

RIP.... A legend is gone.

[keith Richards]He's eleven years younger than me...lol[/Keith Richards]

This entire year just straight up sucks.

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Originally Posted by Barn Babe (Post 1811663)

This entire year just straight up sucks.

Sure does. :sadangel:

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Originally Posted by Shrike6 (Post 1811659)

RIP.... A legend is gone.

:iagree: :sadangel:

R.I.P. E.V.H.

65 is pretty young these days. :sadangel:

Boy that sucks! I hope they release some of his vault shit. He's supposed to have a TON of it.

More info here: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/...ad-1234794641/

Died due to heavy smoking and drinking.

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Eddie Van Halen was dogged by personal and health issues that would intermittently interfere with his work in music over the course of the next decade. A chronic joint problem, exacerbated by his reckless onstage style, forced him to undergo hip replacement surgery in 1999. The onset of cancer — likely the result of heavy smoking — led to the surgical removal of part of his tongue in 2000.

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Eddie Van Halen’s escalating drug abuse and alcoholism hastened his 2007 divorce from TV actress Valerie Bertinelli, his wife of 16 years, after a protracted separation. He entered rehab in 2007, and was reportedly sober from 2008.

“I was an alcoholic, and I needed alcohol to function,” he said in a 2015 interview with Chuck Klosterman. “I didn’t drink to party. Alcohol and cocaine were private things to me. I would use them for work. The blow keeps you awake and the alcohol lowers your inhibitions. I’m sure there were musical things I would not have attempted were I not in that mental state.”

List of 2020's rock in roll deaths - EVH will be added at the end of this list. The year 2020 is going down as the shittiest year that I can think of at the moment and during my lifetime on earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2020s_deaths_in_rock_and_roll

COVID takes yet another life.

RIP Eddie. :sadangel:

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Originally Posted by dvarapala (Post 1811675)

COVID takes yet another life.

RIP Eddie. :sadangel:

He'd be alive if only he would have worn a mask.

And stayed in lock down.

I was never a big Van Halen fan but Eddie was a hell of a guitarist. May he rest in peace and be blessed by God.:sadangel:

An ICON...:sadangel:

Man, I am crushed. I saw VH twice in their heyday. Absolutely amazing. The world has lost one of the greatest guitarists that has ever been...:sadangel: