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This is what made me love VH's music and EVH's playing @ the start: wild, reckless, tongue-in-cheek rock n roll. However, when the Van Hagr era came, I could also appreciate the more subdued aspects of Ed's playing, thought I think underneath the keyboards it still kicked all kinds of a$$.

Actually, I'm a calm, conservative kind of guy. But the mention of Van Halen makes turns me into a raging teenage girl:

i thought you were the indian. Look @ me in my avatar. I think I look more like the cowboy.

I want to be the Indian!

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. You took the cum right out of my cock with that one

I'm not going to argue that the pastor doesn't own the other stuff pictured....but if he says he owns this, he ain't preachin' for the Lawd. :poke: This is THE exact pic from a Marshall book of EVH's rig in the late '80s! Google a bit and you can find it. I really hope he's not passing that off as his on the 'Net, and this just an innocent error. No, I think he's trying to compare Ed's to the one he owns...they're exactly alike. I caught that also. His caption on the EVH plexi is "THE 68 plexi"... in homage of VH, I guess. Don't think he's trying to pass it off as his, just a comparison. Check the first, second, and third pics. That's his '68. As for the guitars, he claims the two Strats are custom shops. He's a pastor, don't know why he'd lie

Maybe he meant Variaxe, which is pictured with the other guitars. Ha ha, good call out. He does have the variaxe, but he also mentions in the 68 plexi description that he has the variac ala EVH also. Just not pictured. I wondered the same thing.

A pastor who seems to have a real love for EVH and (perhaps) Ratt. Odd. Ha ha... I don't think it's THAT odd considering I'm also a pastor with a love for all things EVH.... However, in his case it IS rather odd because he's of the hyper- fundamentalist point of view. Pretty much everything's a sin to him... except owning that sinfully sinister rig

Found this amazing rig on the social networking page of a local pastor friend's. It's apparent he's an EVH fan, huh? I knew he played in a fairly popular regional band during the 80's before going into the ministry, but I NEVER thought he kept his instruments of Satan. Look at all those goodies: a 68 Marshall plexi w/ a Variac(!), EVH Frankenstrat, Wolfgang, LP, two Custom Shop Stratocasters, snakeskin Strat, several Martin acoustics I didn't share ... and so much more godly gear. This is one righteous rig!

Just makes me like him more. Pretty typical 'rock star' attitude to me. At least he's not playing pc and really saying what he means. I can respect that.

There is a valuable lesson, however, to be learned here, as much as anyone might hate poison... you have to hand it to the other three for their professionalism. I would have beat his ass right there and walked off. Ha ha...I remember this, they were going to play "I Want Action". Even coked up, CC made the right call. Ahhh...the 80's Wall of Crate sound.

disagree - if dave is your idea of a chick you need therapy or a life partner - and I don't have a problem with that I have to agree. I don't think i've ever seen a woman with razor stubble and hairy, muscular forearms.

The only album of theirs I had was their third with Heaven on it. I first heard it on college radio before the song broke big. I instantly loved it. The basic song, the harmony, the lead playing. Far from the greatest song ever, but it certainly got my attention. Sort of like a blues player that had spent a lot of time listening to metal, but only took it as an slight influence rather than major one. I've got nothing but love for Henry. Same story here. They're so unamazing that it's amazing, if that makes sense. They just play everything right w/ no frills.

My relationship w/ God and family is the #1 thing. But if we're talking hobbies/interests I guess: 1. Hiking 2. reading/studying Theology 3. Music

try turning the pick sideways in your hand so that you actually hit the string with the side/shoulder of the pick. it makes it a lot easier to do the glancing thumb thing That's how I do it also. When I first started playing, I didn't know which way to hold the pick(!) and holding it sideways w/ my index and thumb close to the edge was most comfortable to me. But I kept getting frustrated b/c I'd be shredding along and there'd be all these dang squeals. I didn't realize until years later that this was something to be desired Example #1 Example #2

I dunno, I kind of liked "Mirror, Mirror" off DD's first solo album. But yes, his soft, feathery voice never quite fit Lynch's heavy riffs.

Unlike many bands, Bon Jovi sounds better in the studio than live.

- White collar Caucasian males playing "blues" on ultra-expensive guitar and amp reissues. - The lack of adventure and experimentalism in modern music (there are few exceptions) - Stale old codgers who refuse to acknowledge there's great music outside of the Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin. - Top Ten Greatest Guitarists Lists.... how many more times and by how many more "experts" can Jimi Hendrix be voted as "the greatest"... when he clearly isn't? - Vampires

Wanna trade a practically new Sunburst Squier 51 for an OLP MM1/MM1F. Mods to the '51: GFS bridge, Tusq nut. The pup selector knob won't stay on, which is easily remedied. PM me if you're interested in trade only or want pics.

has time told if he's stood the test of time? "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time; All I know, you've got to run to win and I'll be damned if I get hung up on the line"

I actually think the guy is a genius. To me he completely reinvented the instrument and didn't let anything get in his way. If he wanted a sound he figured out a way to get it, either by inventing techniques, modifying techiniques, inventing gear etc. I was just switching form acoustic guitar to electric guitar when my friend got VH1 and brought it over and said I had to hear something. When I heard Eruption we were just looking at each other like, "What the Hell could this guy possibly be doing to this instrument?" I love that! The only thing is, there is no way you can keep that up. You can't keep topping yourself forever especially when you ushered in a paradigm shift in the first place. Add to that that he had the look and the image and the moves etc. and the guy was an absolute definition of guitar hero, more so than really anyone else I can think of. And I think a lot of the criticism is unfair, you can't take someone like EVH who obviously thinks farther outside the box than most of us can dream of and make him a house guitarist in celebrity jams. John Petrucci would excel at that but that's exactly why John Petrucci will never be EVH. And also, everyone talks about the first four albums but even if he continued spinning that stuff out, then he would be getting the Yngwie treatment i.e. "Yeah its the same thing over and over.' To me, the Eddie I remember is the one in the poster I had in my room, red overalls with the red white and black Frankenstrat doing his little jump with a big smile on his face. All the photoshops in the world won't change that. This is the greatest damn thing I've ever read on this forum. Summed up my thinking exactly

I love EVH because he pulled me from a burning car. Edit: And because everything he does, he does for love.

My charvel So-Cal is my #1. I bring it to every show and it by far gets the most stage time. pic of my guitar: Your guitar makes me:

I bought a s/s Crate MXR65 brand new of eBay two years ago for $110. It was USA made and had the Celestion 12" speaker in it. I don't know why I sold it. I think b/c it was too friggin' loud. The FlexWave 5 put out a really nice clean tone, but I bought it for heavy, heavy playing and it fit the bill. Great scooped mids sound. Great harmonics and great sustain. WHY did I sell it ??