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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Tales of Eddie Van Halen

I was a huge Van Halen fan as a kid. And I stand by the quality of his music until the later Hagar albums. But, man, the guy's fallen on some hard times. Cancer left him looking rough and may have impaired his judgment.

First I find out he wants to play with David Lee Roth again. Yikes.

Then I learn that he scored a soft-core porn movie. Double yikes. Below are the YouTube clips for the porn songs. All safe for work.

Eddie Van Halen "Rise"


Eddie Van Halen "Catherine"


The tracks have moments of guitar virtuosity. But what's up with all the melodramatic imagery? Alas, Ed, we thought we knew ye ...

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