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For music historians and fans of EVH and Rock. https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/08/how-eddie-van-halen-changed-the-world-of-music-forever/2020 just plain sucks.
For music historians and fans of EVH and Rock. https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/08/how-eddie-van-halen-changed-the-world-of-music-forever/2020 just plain sucks.
Nickelback has 1or 2 good song. But you’ve gone to far with the One Eye Blind comment. They had their good moments.If you are serious...
That’s the 90’s sound that all sounded the same with One Eye Blind et al and started started the downward slide. Better than today, but had that generic blahness. Just my opinion.
Nickelback has 1or 2 good song. But you’ve gone to far with the One Eye Blind comment. They had their good moments.
Lol. I just realized he called them the wrong name but I still got it and quoted the name incorrectly back.One Eye Blind wasn’t even a band and they were still better than Nickelback.
I teach 8th grade, and I asked the kids if they knew who he was. Of the 6 kids in the room, NONE of them knew him. I asked if they ever heard of the band Van Halen. NONE OF THEM KNEW.
Their parents have failed them in so many ways.
Not surprising at all. Van Halen hasn't had a relevant album in 25 years, that's 11 years before 8th graders were born, much less into music. If you could ask today's 50-year olds if they knew who Chuck Berry was when they were 14 you'd probably get all no's too. Isn't that kind of the same thing?
I mean, Van Halen was big in their heyday, but their legacy is nothing like some other bands.
I mean, Van Halen was big in their heyday, but their legacy is nothing like some other bands.
One Eye Blind wasn’t even a band and they were still better than Nickelback.
Name a band or a musician who is more influential than EVH. There may be a few equals, but the list is very short. The Beatles changed music in a huge way. So did Elvis. The British Invasion with bands like The Stones, the Who, and the Beatles were huge. Jimi Hendrix changed the way the guitar was viewed as an instrument. EVH came along and built upon what others had started but revolutionized the instrument and influenced all other rock guitarists who would follow in the next 3-4 decades. To minimize his impact on music as we know it today is to admit a lack of basic understanding of rock and roll music for the past 40 years. I do not think it is hyperbole to state that he has has been the single biggest influencer of rock guitarists in the past 4 decades. Those who did not lift ideas from him or imitate him most certainly respected his innovation and abilities.I mean, Van Halen was big in their heyday, but their legacy is nothing like some other bands.
Name a band or a musician who is more influential than EVH. There may be a few equals, but the list is very short. The Beatles changed music in a huge way. So did Elvis. The British Invasion with bands like The Stones, the Who, and the Beatles were huge. Jimi Hendrix changed the way the guitar was viewed as an instrument. EVH came along and built upon what others had started but revolutionized the instrument and influenced all other rock guitarists who would follow in the next 3-4 decades. To minimize his impact on music as we know it today is to admit a lack of basic understanding of rock and roll music for the past 40 years. I do not think it is hyperbole to state that he has has been the single biggest influencer of rock guitarists in the past 4 decades. Those who did not lift ideas from him or imitate him most certainly respected his innovation and abilities.
EVH was why VH was so popular (He essentially WAS the band in most people’s minds), so i treat them the same. Just like I would Mick Jagger and the Stones.You're bouncing back and forth between individual musicians and the band. No argument on EVH being a very influential guitarist, but that doesn't make someone a household name for generations like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stone, etc. Van Halen wasn't even remotely close to those bands.
Not surprising at all. Van Halen hasn't had a relevant album in 25 years, that's 11 years before 8th graders were born, much less into music. If you could ask today's 50-year olds if they knew who Chuck Berry was when they were 14 you'd probably get all no's too. Isn't that kind of the same thing?
I mean, Van Halen was big in their heyday, but their legacy is nothing like some other bands.
When a guitar great like Steve Wariner pays tribut to EVH's influence, shows the weight he carried.Name a band or a musician who is more influential than EVH. There may be a few equals, but the list is very short. The Beatles changed music in a huge way. So did Elvis. The British Invasion with bands like The Stones, the Who, and the Beatles were huge. Jimi Hendrix changed the way the guitar was viewed as an instrument. EVH came along and built upon what others had started but revolutionized the instrument and influenced all other rock guitarists who would follow in the next 3-4 decades. To minimize his impact on music as we know it today is to admit a lack of basic understanding of rock and roll music for the past 40 years. I do not think it is hyperbole to state that he has has been the single biggest influencer of rock guitarists in the past 4 decades. Those who did not lift ideas from him or imitate him most certainly respected his innovation and abilities.
I will take this as you focusing your statement and in no way underselling the impact of Keith Richards' head outliving 3 bodies.EVH was why VH was so popular (He essentially WAS the band in most people’s minds), so i treat them the same. Just like I would Mick Jagger and the Stones.
I honestly have no idea how he even plays anymore. Have you seen a closeup of his fingers? He looks like he has walnuts for knuckles.I will take this as you focusing your statement and in no way underselling the impact of Keith Richards' head outliving 3 bodies.
EVH was why VH was so popular (He essentially WAS the band in most people’s minds), so i treat them the same. Just like I would Mick Jagger and the Stones.
No harm intended on my part. I agree with you about the 8th grader issue. They would not likely know the names John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, or Jimmy Page either. The only reason they would know who Elton John is would be because of the Lion King or the recent movie about his life.Well, ok, but David Lee Roth says hi. I think he had a least some part in their popularity. In fact, it's almost universal opinion that the band wasn't anything like they were before once he left. Nothing to get all worked up over, EVH is great and influential, I said that. Somehow not calling him the greatest guitarist and biggest bad ass in the history of rock and roll translates to I think he sucked or something.
I still don't think it's shocking or an affront to society that today's 8th graders don't know who he is.