Eddie Van Halen Entered Rehab

[TruckDriver]

Maybe to be with Britney spears?

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070309/482/ny10703090648

In a statement addressed to fans Thursday March 8, 2007 on Van Halen's Web site, the guitarist said he decided to seek treatment because 'at the moment I do not feel that I can give you my best.' 'That's why I have decided to enter a rehabilitation facility to work on myself, so that in the future I can deliver the 110 percent that I feel I owe you and want to give you,' the statement said.

[Drache]

Government Proof That Zombies DO Exist! 

[Charger_Fan]

Government Proof That Zombies DO Exist! 

NO SH@T!!!

Man, he's not aging well at all.

[Ponch ®]

Government Proof That Zombies DO Exist! 

NO SH@T!!!

Man, he's not aging well at all.

He looks like that now because he used crystal meth to treat his tongue cancer (not a joke).

[Ghoste]

You know, he has pretty much become a non-event or a parody of himself or some other stupid pointless celebrity flame out.  If he had died in a car accident after 1984 was released, he'd have gone down in history as the greatest guitarist ever, but this is just sad.

[bill440rt]

Wow, that is sad. He looks like he's 80 years old. What a shame.

[bull]

Wow, that is sad. He looks like he's 80 years old. What a shame.

And that's not a recent picture either.

[Ponch ®]

Not With Eddie

By TED E. GRAU
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 6:00 pm
On a recent morning, as I was driving my beloved to work in Century City from North Hollywood, we stopped at a gas station on the corner of Coldwater and Ventura to load up on supplies (coffee, smokes, Bratz press-on tattoos, etc.) before heading up the canyon to parts better known and vastly overpriced.

Tapping my toe to the hottest of Hindi hits lilting softly through the burnt-coffee-scented air, I noticed a small commotion at the front of the line. What I saw was a frail, hunched man, with longish, stringy hair and gnarled, shaky, "hard work" hands, wearing a loose-fitting long-john shirt, faded jeans and expensive track shoes. While the cashier waited, the man muttered to himself as he arranged six packs of smokes into a stack on the countertop — three packs of American Spirit heavies, three packs of Marlboro Light 100s (the chica smoke of choice). He was too well dressed to be a bum, but also too unkempt and "lived in" to be anything other than a burned-out roadie or an out-of-work roofer. He'd obviously seen too many late nights, but he also seemed like a scrappy sort who could mix it up, work with his hands, create... Hmmm... What's this Hessian dude's deal? And what's with the smoke stacking, you goddamn smoke stacker?

As I watched him futz around with the cigs and thought to myself, "This is one chain-smoking mother [Edited by Moparts - Keep it clean]," he turned his head to the side, giving me a brief glimpse of his profile. All at once, I realized that he looked very familiar, like an old friend who didn't look the way I remembered but was still very recognizable based on a strong memory deeply rooted in the lizard brain of my youth. Then it hit me, like the first strains of "Runnin' With the Devil," the midpoint of "Eruption," the last note of "Ice Cream Man."

This was Eddie Van Halen.

Muttering to himself. Stuffing change into his wallet with shaky, gnarled, hard-work hands. Stacking six packs of smokes on a countertop. Two brands. Three a piece.

This was Eddie Van Halen, my first guitar hero, the blistering virtuoso with the striped guitar, the fuel behind the first great American arena-rock supergroup.

Eddie Van Halen, the musical whiz who was described as "coming from a planet where everyone plays guitar." The guy who taught us about the "hammer on" move and the tremolo, and who took fretwork to a whole new stratosphere — or maybe just back to the planet he came from. The icon who invented the tennis-racket air guitarist. The effortless genius who grinned that laconic, dopey grin while blowing the doors off of guitar convention when not blowing the embryonic matter off of MTV. The man who married childhood boner queen Valerie Bertinelli.

The guy we all once knew as just "Eddie."

And now here he was, at 9 a.m. in the Valley, gathering up his smokes and shuffling past me, eyes down, smelling of three-day-old liquor, and out the door to the dirty Toyota Land Cruiser, and the young, moderately pretty woman (certainly no boner queen) who waited for him behind the wheel, smoking her long, chica Marlboro Light 100 and yammering into her cell phone. Didn't she know who this was? He's a Guitar God, you jabbering skank! Pay some respect and at least open the door for this faded titan.

But she didn't pay respect, nor did she even notice as my boyhood hero walked to the front of the Land Cruiser, banged his head a few times on the thin metal hood, and then mock collapsed, before slogging wearily to the passenger door, as if it was all too much effort. Like he was exhausted from the smoke stacking, from the journey, from the memories of what he once was and what he will never get to be again.

By this time, I stopped looking, for maybe the same reason that Eddie's female friend stopped looking, as we all want to remember our Gods and Monsters the way we did as children, when all seemed possible, and men could be made giants, and giants into the infinite.

I didn't even look to see where he went, or in which direction, because I already knew, and didn't need to know the truth. At least not this time.

Not with Eddie.

[HITMAN 149]

yea he looks like $hit!!! man & he was hooked up with valerie bertinelli!! DAMN!!!!
BUT.. IO BET HE CAN STILL PLAY ONE HELL OF A RIFF!!!!

[RT DAVE]

They always blamed the DLR split on DLR.   I'm beginning to think it was EVH all along after the Sammy fiasco.   Maybe he'll straighten up and fly right.  Doubt it.

[The70RT]

It's a shame with all that money and a lot of them turn out to be friggin freaks in the end.

[daytonalo]

SHOULD BE A LESSON TO ALL YOU YOUNGSTERS OUT THERE , CRACK KILLS!!!!!!! WELL MOST OF THE TIME

[Charger1973]

Jeez even Ozzy looks better than he does...

[mikepmcs]

That is because Ozzy is a God and God's do not age!

[Charger1973]

That is because Ozzy is a God and God's do not age!

Ozzy is the man, but he is gettin old...  Ive seen him a couple times already, hope to see him at least once more!   Im going to go see Eric Clapton later this month. 

[The70RT]

Isn't Van Halen getting back together? Thought I heard Eddies son is going to be the drummer since he's all whacked out?

[TruckDriver]

Isn't Van Halen getting back together? Thought I heard Eddies son is going to be the drummer since he's all whacked out?

That whole thing was defused about 3 weeks ago already.

[skip68]

Why is it that when Ozzy speaks,,,nobody knows WTF he's saying, but when he sings, his words are perfectly clear? I know about digital recording and editing, ( My hubby,Skip 68 is a musician) ...but come, on,......it's just weird! How can a person sing perfect words, but cannot speak in any recognizable form?  Anyone?? I do like alot of his work though!
Mrs.Skip68

[Charger1973]

Doesnt have anything to do with editing, he sings just as good live!

[Orange_Crush]

Why is it that when Ozzy speaks,,,nobody knows WTF he's saying, but when he sings, his words are perfectly clear? I know about digital recording and editing, ( My hubby,Skip 68 is a musician) ...but come, on,......it's just weird! How can a person sing perfect words, but cannot speak in any recognizable form?  Anyone?? I do like alot of his work though!
Mrs.Skip68

You use a different area of your brain to sing than you do to speak hence Ozzys ability to still sing.

[skip68]

Doesn't have anything to do with editing, he sings just as good live!

And I have seen that as well, MY POINT IS, isn't it weird that he can't speak coherently? Mrs.Skip68


Sorry Orangecrush, you got in there before I could hit, "send!"

[TruckDriver]

Ozzy is not the only artist that can sing perfectly, but when they talk, they stutter. Mel Tillis is another person that does it. There is another, but I can't remember right now who it is.

[bull]

When I was a kid I remember being baffled at the fact some people I heard singing had an accent (British, southern, etc.) when they just talked. For some reason singing seems to smooth it all out.

[ChargerSG]

Eddie do looks like shit. And yes Ozzy is the king

[Lowprofile]

Eddie do looks like shit. And yes Ozzy is the king

Yes he is the King......but the king has a little help. Whenever Ozzy performs live, There is another singer backstage in a mini-sound booth singing the song. Ozzy still sings, they just turn his mic down low at the mix board out front. I've worked on 2 Ozzfests. He loves to perform, but the years of partying, drugs, booze, etc have taken its toll, and the man needs a little help.

[Charger_Fan]

Yes he is the King......but the king has a little help. Whenever Ozzy performs live, There is another singer backstage in a mini-sound booth singing the song. Ozzy still sings, they just turn his mic down low at the mix board out front. I've worked on 2 Ozzfests. He loves to perform, but the years of partying, drugs, booze, etc have taken its toll, and the man needs a little help.

Now THAT's funny!
There aren't too many people who still sound halfway good when they get to that age, so it's not surprising.

[73dodge]

He looks like that now because he used crystal meth to treat his tongue cancer (not a joke).

Your kidding right? That's like treating a toothache by sticking a shot gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger...

[Ghoste]

He may be a great guitar player but doesn't necessarily mean NASA or MENSA are banging on his door.

[Ponch ®]

He looks like that now because he used crystal meth to treat his tongue cancer (not a joke).

Your kidding right? That's like treating a toothache by sticking a shot gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger...

It's a rumor. When he called in to Stern's show last year he kept avoiding the question on what treatment he used to beat cancer...kept saying that it was "unconventional" and illegal.