sickman: Yup Pete, that was one of mine. 3rd Row at Mohegan Sun, May 20, 2008. Pete also reminded me of this shot I took. One of my favorites. It should be poster size.
This is a KILLER shot! Well done!
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Interesting Ed’s comments here from VHND February 17, 2009…….
Eddie reflects on the 2007-2008 tour in new interview
Is there going to be a CD/DVD from the tour ?
We did film and record 7 shows, but we kind of thought, why give people what they just saw? We have it. Maybe later. We just didn’t feel like the timing was right. Why give them exactly what they just saw? Somewhere in the future I’m sure it’ll surface. Maybe, if and when we decide to put everything we have out. Including things like me playing guitar at the 6th grade talent show. There’s all kinds of cool and funny shit we could put out. Who knows, really, when there are so many other things to do first. Like put out some new tunes.
guitard: Al gets copies of all of the DVDs (at least, copies of the ones that I’ve authored); presumably he has at least mentioned something to Ed about them.
Trivia tidbit:Al prefers DVD9s – and doesn’t want blu-rays because he doesn’t have a blu-ray player (yet).
You would think the boys would have the state of the art cracking Audio-Visual set ups…… Al no Blu-Ray…..
EDDIE’S fingers aren’t fingers they are muscle-powered pistons that hammer guitar strings to the fretboard with the force of a rivet gun”.
Dave “we are working on a special VH project” Ed at sound engineers studio. Old VH demos taken down from Youtube… Talk of 08 show coming out.
And this quote from Ed in 2009.
Maybe, if and when we decide to put everything we have out. Including things like me playing guitar at the 6th grade talent show. There’s all kinds of cool and funny shit we could put out.
Am I getting too excited thinking they might be putting out a VH retrospective history type DVD with old VH footage-old demos-archive footage & live stuff from the 2008–2012–2013 Tours…..??
EDDIE’S fingers aren’t fingers they are muscle-powered pistons that hammer guitar strings to the fretboard with the force of a rivet gun”.
voodoo: Eddie hasn’t made much money off of anything written after 1998, really. I mean, according to Dave, all of ADOKT was written over two decades ago and Ed isn’t making much off of endorsements and royalties. He has his own line of guitars and guitar accessories as well as clothing. I think that was his dig at Sam and Mike when he says Sam made his money off Van Halen by buying out on the Cabo Wabo, which was named after a Van Halen song and was owned by the band to begin with, then selling tequila and rum to make his fortune. Mikey was selling hot sauce and then got an endorsement for his own bass. I’m not knocking either of them, since I’d do the same thing if I could. I’m just saying, I think this was Ed’s rub against them. They were making money by selling booze and food. He has been selling his guitar line since the early 90′s and was endorsing guitars as far back as the mid 80s. Point being, it seems Eddie’s focus seems to have shifted from writing and trying to appeal to the public to marketing and selling guitars and musical instruments while capitalizing on the Eddie Van Halen trademark stripes. Everyone loves the stripes. Not everyone loves his new appproach to writing. “III” was a perfect example of that. He got used to everything he did turing to platinum and the massive rejection turned him off to exposing himself to criticism. Just my .02….
That’s a good point. Plus he probably sees how much the music landscape has changed and that an album like ADKOT did good numbers for 2012, she he is used to numbers like that being a failure. Case in point, VH III outsold it and was considered a failure at the time it was released because they were used to multiplatinum. They’ve become one of those bands where rock radio will play the new stuff until they come into town for that tour and then it is back to Jump, Panama, etc.
It’s interesting to think about for sure… here’s another ‘what if’ –
It’s 1996, VH moves forward with releasing VH III in 1998 with Dave at the helm. It goes multi-platinum within a few weeks of release. VH tours the world with the reunion tour everyone wants to see. They instantly would as huge as a U2 and be able to do things on a VH level. Eddie has the cancer thing in 2001 and comes out of it with a new appreciation for life & music. They record a killer ‘comeback’ album in 2004 and it starts again.. And that’s how we keep Ed from striping flip flops for beer money.
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VAiN:And that’s how we keep Ed from striping flip flops for beer money.
LOL! I hear you there, but you have to give him credit. He has produced some great guitars and amps as well. He’s not just selling flip flops and Chucks to make a living. Everyone was making their own guitars and striping up all kinds of stuff and he simply decided, “Hey. I might as well invest in it as well.” I’ve always assumed that, in the condition he was in back then with the cancer, the boozing and drugging and his declining mental state, that someone talked him into patenting the stripes and releasing things with the patterns to establish something to leave behind for Wolfie. He was still too young to play when the divorce was happening and Ed was melting down, so they had to have something, other than the reels and reels of tape at 5150, to leave for Wolfie if Ed was gone. I think the flip flops, shoes, lighters, shirts, hoodies, phone cases, etc are just cool little novelties. It’s not like he’s selling striped coffins or something.
voodoo: LOL! I hear you there, but you have to give him credit. He has produced some great guitars and amps as well. He’s not just selling flip flops and Chucks to make a living. Everyone was making their own guitars and striping up all kinds of stuff and he simply decided, “Hey. I might as well invest in it as well.” I’ve always assumed that, in the condition he was in back then with the cancer, the boozing and drugging and his declining mental state, that someone talked him into patenting the stripes and releasing things with the patterns to establish something to leave behind for Wolfie. He was still too young to play when the divorce was happening and Ed was melting down, so they had to have something, other than the reels and reels of tape at 5150, to leave for Wolfie if Ed was gone. I think the flip flops, shoes, lighters, shirts, hoodies, phone cases, etc are just cool little novelties. It’s not like he’s selling striped coffins or something.
I hear ya… I was mostly being funny.. his guitars and amps are without a doubt top-notch. I don’t so much feel that way about the ones made overseas, but the NA stuff is pretty great. A little on the spendy side, but great stuff. I can understand Ed wanting to capitalize on his stripe thing.. it’s very original and it’s 100% his. You can’t see that and not think VH. I think people tend to give him a hard time over it because it’s seen as time & effort spent not making music. But on the flip side, I also understand that it’s been almost 40 years and the fire of the 80′s is long gone.
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VAiN: I can understand Ed wanting to capitalize on his stripe thing.. it’s very original and it’s 100% his. You can’t see that and not think VH.
Boris Karloff, (who famously played Frankenstein’s monster in the 1931 classic film), hosted a television show in the early 1960′s called “Thriller” which used the famous striped pattern as a background for the opening titles and closing credits. You can see many of the title cards here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Boris+Karloff%27s+Thriller
ron: Boris Karloff, (who famously played Frankenstein’s monster in the 1931 classic film), hosted a television show in the early 1960′s called “Thriller” which used the famous striped pattern as a background for the opening titles and closing credits.You can see many of the title cards here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Boris+Karloff%27s+Thriller
Wow, I’ve never seen that – very cool! Ed didn’t invent lines, but that red, white & black pattern is undeniable.
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ron: Boris Karloff, (who famously played Frankenstein’s monster in the 1931 classic film), hosted a television show in the early 1960′s called “Thriller” which used the famous striped pattern as a background for the opening titles and closing credits.You can see many of the title cards here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Boris+Karloff%27s+Thriller
And now we have another piece of “Useless Trivia” to store in our brains. What do Boris Karloff, Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson have in common? Boris played Frankenstein, Eddie created a Frankenstein, Boris had a program called Thriller, Michael had the album Thriller which Eddie also played on and now we see Boris stole Eddie’s stripes! His show should be pulled off the air! Where is the legal team at ELVH when you need them?!
voodoo: And now we have another piece of “Useless Trivia” to store in our brains. What do Boris Karloff, Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson have in common? Boris played Frankenstein, Eddie created a Frankenstein, Boris had a program called Thriller, Michael had the album Thriller which Eddie also played on and now we see Boris stole Eddie’s stripes! His show should be pulled off the air! Where is the legal team at ELVH when you need them?!
It’s alive !!!
When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor?
Hmmm, is that one “setup” that he might use at a live gig, or is it four different things that they are going to be selling? I can’t tell if he’s hinting at an upcoming tour or hinting that they’ve got some new products to sell. Or both?!
