Runnin’ with the Details (Analysis): Everything about the penultimate Van Halen album felt off. Might as well jump in and see where your favorite Van Halen album wound up. No matter how you might reshuffle our ranking, his legacy is set and will outlive us all. These 12 albums represent the life work of Eddie Van Halen, the immigrant from the Netherlands who arrived in the States not knowing a lick of English and, starting in the bars and backyards of Pasadena, California, became a guitar god. He remained constant even as his band refused to do the same. He was a fleet-fingered dynamo who loved to play around with tone and dynamics, and to pair chunky rhythm work with squealing, flickering solos. As important as bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Alex Van Halen, and the trio of singers who moved in and out of the group - David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, and Gary Cherone - were to Van Halen’s 12 studio albums, the core of their sound was Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing. That’s not a “my dad can beat up your dad” rose-colored view. As Wolfgang, Eddie’s son and the band’s latter-day bassist, put it to Howard Stern a month after his dad’s passing, “You can’t have Van Halen without Eddie Van Halen.” Van Halen seemed destined to limp forward like a rusting muscle car for eternity.īut on October 6th, 2020, the linchpin of the band’s sound, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, passed away and closed the book on one of the greatest rock groups of all time. A constant clashing of egos and personalities. The births of heavier styles of rock that overtook the hearts and t-shirt collections of fans worldwide. The arrival and departure of multiple lead singers. For four decades, the band seemed like it could adapt to and survive anything. It took the death of their iconic guitarist to finally stop Van Halen.
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