>>130514720>euroscum jealous of the American godTale as old as time.
He may be right about scales, but EVH probably effected the best look for an ageing rockstar. That grey-haired crewcut and goatee suited him wonderfully. lmao, look at that poofter on the left.
>>130514757>music? Yuck! I wanna talk fashion!!Did you tell your parents yet
>>130514757depends, sometimes he looks too much like a dad with it. think it's the goatee
>>130514732wasn't van halen a nordcuck?
>>130514776Of course he looks like a dad, he's in his 60s ffs, and literally a father. That's the point.
>>130514783yeah but you want to look like you can still kind of rock out and aren't bound by marriage and kids
>>130514788When your own son is on stage, playing in your band? What, is he supposed to be picking up groupies?
>>130514781no, he was Dutch
>>130515124and? dutch is south of ?
I'm smarter than this guy simply because I accept the fact people may have different tastes and like different genresFeels good
I could care less what someone from a college rock band thinks about guitar
>>130514720I can get behind "EVH is overrated" but I will not be gaslit into thinking Peter Hook is a good bassist. He was a first week player his whole career. Not even keeping it simple in any interesting way he just sucked.
>>130514720>DUDE BEING TECHNICAL BADi fucking hate this meme
>>130514776Every member of Van Halen looked like a dad.
>>130514720Jesus and Mary Chain were always style over substance.
>>130514720That whole genre of music that the Jesus & Mary Chain are part of is just bitter loser nerds angry at normal guys.It's such an extremely masturbatory genre "here look at my willful ignorance as I noodle the same bullshit without any thought behind it or knowledge of what I'm doing but I'm still arrogant enough to get on stage and make you listen to me fumbling around on a guitar".
>>130515131Netherlands (or as you put it "dutch") is south of the Nordic countries. Welcome to geography class.Also the Van Halen brothers were 1/4 Indonesian.
>>130514720This is what everyone who doesn't actually listen to Van Halen says. Eddy's playing is very rhythmic, it's very rarely speed wanking. There's flourishes tossed in to give it character, but none of the music hangs on those flourishes. But of course when you say "Van Halen," everyone immediately thinks of the Eruption solo and nothing else.If you don't like Van Halen, fair enough. But Eddy is easily one of the greatest rhythm guitarists in modern music history. People also seem to forget their most successful songs were written for keys. But realistically, most people like this are just bitter they were born into a world where Van Halen was on top and they didn't have the showmanship to compete, not the musical skills. A lot of bands Van Halen toured with would play VH songs because they're not terribly complex. A "see, I can do it too!!!" move, but they lacked the energy and style. Crazy how they got under so many musicians' skin.
>>130514720I don't think that EVH cared much about the scales. I don't find much of any rule following in his solos.
>>130514720this a bitter memetake. There is so much more to EVH's playing than playing "fast". The rhythm, the tone, the construction of the solo itself- not to mention the songs that he wrote. This is a literal tone-deaf take by an aging tranny.
>>130517723>songs that he wroteLike Van Halen 3? Eddie always needed a tard wrangler, he's a shit songwriter by himself.
at the end of the day regardless of how many notes are played: evh wrote better music than whoever this guy is
eddie had groove and swing and chops this other fuck isn't even a one trick pony imagine dragging the great evh just for some attention lmao
>>130514720>I'm can't play as well as him so he's bad! Pure sour grapes
In the world of Indie vs Super mainstream, I side with the former. But by the same token, no slander of EVH will stand in this home. The most I can concede is that a lot of those following him were pretty shit, which wasn't his problem
>>130517752>copeHe wrote all the music, all the iconic riffs that changed the face of rock music. Dave and Sam wrote the lyrics and the vocal melodies.
"Believe you, me, I didn't know what I was doing. I still don't. The thing is that it was a lucky accident. As my mother used to say to me, you couldn't hold a tune in a bucket".I couldn’t tune at all when I started playing as a young punk, the guitarist would tune it for me. This worked in a punk band, but as it went on it became very embarrassing. But I must admit, that when the first tuner pedal came out, I rushed out and bought 4. So, my problem was solved in 1979 when they came out with this foot pedal. It could be laziness. I’m not sure Barney (Bernard Sumner) ever found it funny, but The Light find it funny."“They tried telling me once, asking if I could just follow the root... Berny had a really loud amp right from the word go. I couldn’t hear myself at practice if I played low, so I went high – and that’s when Ian would be shouting, ‘Sounds great, do that, go high Hooky, go high!’”“I’m tone-deaf, right? If Mick Jagger put a gun to my head and said, ‘Play Satisfaction,’ I couldn’t play it. I’m tone-deaf. I can’t pick up other people’s music. I have enough trouble picking up my own when I’ve written it...”He frequently summarizes his journey from a working-class kid in Broughton to a rock icon with the humble phrase: "At the end of the day, I'm just a Salford lad who got lucky."
>>130514732>>euroscumShalom>Born: Edward Lodewijk Van Halen>January 26, 1955>Amsterdam, Netherlands
>>130514720>indie rocker hates funIn other news: water is wet
>>130517897this is true but you also can't deny eddie's creative relationship with dave is what made those first 6 albums so good. dave's penchant for the dramatic is what kept eddie writing at his energy level. once hagar joined, the band only got worse and worse with eddie's sappy love ballads and shitty keyboards inserted into every other song.
>>130518256DLR was easily the worst thing about VH
>>130518256>can't deny eddie's creative relationship with dave is what made those first 6 albums so goodFor sure. I do not deny it in the least. The oil/water chemistry of DLR/EVH was like lightening in the bottle. Without Dave there would be no Van Halen.
>>130518286get off /mu/ Sammy
>>130514732You either know that's not what it's about or you're a real soppy cunt.
>>130514775Kek
>>130515850>Peter Hook is a good bassistNo. He's a fantastic bassist, especially for a band that played a lot of their bass lines on synth, so Hooky played higher than that, like a deeper guitar. Maybe you got filtered and NO/JD is just not for you. It happens to the best of us.
>>130518406>mp4cheerleaders used to be exclusively male in amerifaggotia btw
>>130517913Kek. Top man. Zero attitude or hubris and sounds fucking great.
>>130518307>Without Dave there would be no Van Halen.lol
>>130518618he's correct. without dave it'd be called mammoth (yuck!)
>>130518618>came up with the name of the band>provided the PA system>was de facto manager booking gigs, creating posters, renting venues>encouraged the rest of the band to dress up for stage and be more theatrical>brought the pop sensibility that crossed over and made them mega-starslol yourself.
>>130518144There are Jews in Europe, ya know. They had a whole thing about it in the 40s. Van Halen, despite being a mutt and born outside the US, is All-American, baby. Hell, he fought Hagar over his obsession with Cabo Wabo. Why? Because that shits Mexican, not American. USA! USA! USA!
>>130514720Just comes off as pure cope honestly. Retarded boomer can't accept that different niches exist within the broader landscape of rock music.
>NOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU PLAY THE GUITAR LIKE THAT!!!!!!kek this guy has been seething at eddie since the late 70's
Psychocandy [Reprise, 1986]Pistols comparisons are Anglocentrism--from fuzzy vocals to minimalist tunes, from hard-and-fast surface to sweet-and-chewy center, the formal coups that have made this such a sensation are pure Ramones. My favorite parts are the cheapest; when the feedback wells up over the chords in perfect pseudomelodic formation I feel as if I've been waiting to hear this music all my life. And when the fuzzy lyrics hint half-decipherably at a luxuriant doom impervious to democratic device, I worry that maybe Ian Curtis knew more than I gave him credit for. A-
>>130518706>no mention of musical ability>just (((business)))the lols write themselves
>>130519775>no argument outside of seething about some vague jew boogeymanthe lols write themselves
>>130514720Literally who?
>>130520033>vaguelol x 6000000
>>130519775>too stupid to understandthe lols just write themselves
>>130520033>>130520423>seething double replywe get it, you belong to his tribe
>>130520468We get it. You got BTFO and now you having nothing left but derping out cope. School out for summer already?
>>130514720eddie who?
don't give a fuck what will thinks. love me jesus and mary chain, don't care for van halen
>>130514732Eddie was dutch
>>130520517thanks for desperately confirming your samefaggingthere was never a doubt
>>130520855you cant even make sense of your own cope. You really are a fucking retard lol
This might hold more weight if Jesus and the Mary Chain wasn't one of the most boring bands ever.
>>130520997You think anyone buys this shit in 2026 >>130520517
>>130521137>doubling down on desperate copecool story bro
>>130520145>>130520468>still no argument>seething beyond belieflmao
>lowest common denominator boomer slop vs the founders of shoegazeYeah this sure is a competition
>>130520468Bingo
>>130521770I don't see A.R. Kane anywhere in OP's post?
>>130522631>A.R. KaneThe correct spelling is Cocteau Twins.
>>130514720velvet underground/punk retards are all the same. this shtick is so goddamn old
Will isn't bitter about Van Halen, he was just talking shit. Now Oasis on the other hand...
