Members blingdogg Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I never bothered to take a listen to any of his songs. So I don't love or hate him, I just have no interest in his material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Top 3 on a list that would be really hard to complete in my book. I frickin love everything he has done except for the VHIII abortion with Cherone.I don't know him personally and won't ever meet him and the only thing that I need from him is his music and he's delivered for me over the years as well as anyone that I can think of. I could care less about the crap that gets out to the media because at the end of the day I am sure that he's done 10 times as much good {censored} for others that just isn't newsworthy enough to be reported (just like everything in life these days). Judging someone based on what the press reports is just silly. He's a frickin person and for some reason people seem to forget that.He's done nothing but bring good times to my life. I frickin love him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members prodrigu Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 He is an amazing guitar player and I don't hate him. I just hate his music ! Seriously ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 You will be too if you're lucky.Oh I was around before that kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DonK Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I love him. He's a technically gifted player who creates incredible melodies and interesting, intricate rhythm parts. Most of the guitarists from the 80's that sought to emulate him do little more than mindlessly than run up and down scales. The "best" of that bunch merely pick more obscure scales to abuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notcool Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I like to listen to Van Halen once in a while, but I don't want to play guitar like him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cylon Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I HATE HIM FOR HIRING SAMMY HAGAR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members squinty Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Love his playing!!!!I wanted to play like him when I started playing. He's an awesome and innovative player.The guitar was played differently for a decade because of him.Hendrix = 60's Page= 70'sVan Halen= 80's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I don't love him or hate him. He's just not very relevant to any of my musical interests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Great guitarist that helped produce some godawful cheesy music - seriosly, how can folks here rip on TOTO when later VH is just as cheese infested. The first album is plain awesome RnR though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Smokin' Joe Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 While I don't like Rolling Stone magazine nor "lists" of any kind, I did find it funny they put EVH at #75 or something of the greatest guitarists of all time. Just thought that was cute. Same list that doesn't even include David Gilmour..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 211dave112 Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I don't love him or hate him. He's just not very relevant to any of my musical interests.same here.he's certainly not made himself easy to love over the years from what i can tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Engl Kramer Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 oops sorry see new thread!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian May Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Just a very exciting rhythm and lead player - recognisable. Flashy but melodic and as he played in the context of song it for me anyway never became tedious wanking like many after him were/are. Many followed but weren't musical like Ed was. Simplez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blazingblake Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I love his playing rhythm and lead from what i've read he can be a douche he will be remembered forever. It's easy to bash people he seems like he has it together now hopefully he will keep it together sometimes that can be hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BIGD Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 From 1978-1984 he was the most influential guitarist around, bar none, and deserved all the credit he got. It's not his fault that so many lemmings followed him, and that other much more technical guitarists tried to sound like him (Vai) to cash in on his style. I idolized the guy in my teens. Some point after 1984, he started to sound like a clone of himself. He basically lost me after I saw some Cheryl Crow benefit thing in the 90's where he was supposed to be the "house" guitarist...he showed 0 versatility and did the same licks, harmonics and dive bombs for almost every solo. No nuance, nothing new. Basically he became a personification of what all of his critics claimed he was, where as in his younger years he was always a step ahead. It's like he stopped growing after DLR left. It would have been nice if he could have gone in some other direction, but he just kept up with pretty much the same thing for the last 20 years.Then, I saw the DLR reunion tour a few years back (a friend had an extra ticket), and he was flat out terrible. So, I loved him in his younger 10 years, started to hate him from then on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 i dug eddi.. it seemed he was always having fun and playing well,, he put fun in the 80's thing,, before all thats cheese that came along. with poison and all those others came along.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I love him because he's great. I hate him because he had hip replacement surgery which makes me feel old. As the brilliant philosopher David Lee Roth put it, "No one wants to hear about your hip, man" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chrisebrooks06 Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I don't love him. I don't hate him.this, i dont hate him, i dont love him, he is an amazing guitarist though and i have full respect for what he has achieved, but i guess i like other music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coralkong Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I don't care much one way or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toneforhire Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I am a HUGE EVH fan...I liked Van Halen throughout ALL their phases (except Cherone)...but EVH is an egotistical drama queen...he killed what could have been with two great singers/frontmen...NOW, they are just a really good Van Halen cover band...zzzBut, again, I am in awe of his playing and he is one of my favorites... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floortom Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 You can count the number of electric guitarists who revolutionized the way the instrument was played on one hand and he's one of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoJo68 Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 LOVE Eddie HATE the clones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members craig4fsu Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 I'm curious who here actually knows him enough to "love" him or "hate" him?Strange poll.Like or dislike might be a little more realistic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Definitely love him more than hate him. He seems pretty slow on the uptake for certain areas of his life and he has a tremendous ego even by rockstar standards but how any open-minded guitarist can listen to anything from VHI through OU812 and not respect the hell out of the guy as a played is beyond me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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