Posted on 04/08/2023 8:09:46 AM PDT by Libloather
yep..i saw that 1978 tour also..in Detroit...Van Halen literally wiped the floor with Sabbath. You could def see it was a changing of the guard. VH were spectacular...crystal clear, all energy. Sabbath were so loud and muddled, you could barely breathe. Had to wait 30 seconds before you could even figure out what song they were playing.
Oh, yes. He had many such guitars. And he was always tinkering with them, swapping out necks, pickups, and even paint jobs.
His famous Frankenstrat began life with a plain ash body and a rosewood fingerboard. Over time, it would be painted black, then black and white stripes, necks swapped out, different pickups swapped in and out, red paint added, pick guard, no pick guard, broken pick guard, Floyd Rose, and on and on.
Never been a fan so it didn’t matter
In the early 80’s some buddied=s of mine became friends with Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope of Kansas. Whenever they came to Detroit one of them would call my friends and ask how many tickets they needed. I only got to go once. Row 7 with backstage passes.
The guitar room was incredible with a couple dozen guitars and basses stacked against the wall. I’d guess with iconic guitars, the player would have multiple ones.
Eddie Van Halen put Kramer guitars on the map. That and two hand tapping.
I was thinking the same thing.
That's really not much more than you'd pay for vintage Marshall cabinets that were owned by a nobody. No surprise they sold for much higher.
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Just like my eldest cousin - who passed at 63.
The last time I saw him was at a family Thanksgiving dinner.
He sounded awful - coughing, gravelly voice.
I took him aside a little later and told him -
"You sound terrible! If you don't quit the cigarettes, they are
going to KILL you!"
He kept smoking, he never quit.
And three years later, they did. (Kill him, that is.)
I myself smoked for 21 years (age 21 to 42).
I quit 16 years ago. I will NEVER touch tobacco again.
One round of horrible nicotine withdrawal was WAY more than enough for me.
The smokeless can kill too. A couple of my ‘dipping’ classmates died from colon cancer relatively young. One 48, the other 56. A truck driver I knew had his cancerous tongue removed, but the disease came back and got him.
(As to the article, I guess I sometimes have to look at comments by people that helped create ‘rock gods’. I used to listen to a lot of popular music, but just never was much interested in admiring the musicians. They’re just flawed people like me.)
Awesome story.
Sucker born every minute.
Saw VH on the 1984 tour at the Cow Palace in May 1984. The Hot for Teacher video wasn’t out yet, but Eddie was playing this guitar (or one with the same graphics). Eddie was amazing. RIP.
I've done the nicotine one.
Not going to do the heroin one - don't need to, thank God.
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