EDDIE & ALEX VAN HALEN INTERVIEW 1997 

Haven't seen it. But I will now!

Worthy comment, That's why I'm here

That is absolutely why I am here. Hilarious! And the other RU-vid video of them by ampdesign

Yes.

100%

Yep

Got me through Jr. High. High school it was MJ and Prince. College it was 5150! You didn't mention Sammy in your thank you. Did you not like that era? No judgement, just asking.

Amen to that

@@trendywipp3715 are there dutch interview

Well spoken. He's pretty chill naturally but if and when you add certain ingredients, for example, ALCOHOL AND COCAIN.....one might (unfortunately I know)find themselves in a different place mentally, emotionally, and physically. Some of the best have succumbed to various combinations of stimulants in their lives and careers and paid the price to one degree or another. All Eddie knew was music and so a number of people who he had contact with were probably not the best choice for him. Such is life on the big stage. He certainly doesn't appear to have a big head regarding their success though. Gene Simmons once said that you play what the boss tells you to play. That when you're up on stage (whatever stage you're on in life)and you think you're in control, you need to learn how to say...would you like fries with that! Pretty profound statement coming from the tongue! 😝

I guess that are you critique people out there are now doctors,right ? How the F do you know what the person is all about? You are just basing it on your own opinion. Unless you are a md,his doctor and know he records,keep assuming what you think you know but Don t know at all. Even if you base the chronic of diseases on here. Don t come on the end after bashing him and say oh rest in peace. The main thing that u post is respect and that's the most important thing ,not facts that you think are true but not. King Ed is a great guitarist that made other musicians the path because if it was not for him, I don t think music would survive because he opened it up for all in 1977/78.

Excellent post 🙏

Well written Cheryl batten ! Awesome!

So true everyone has to do what they need to do to get through life, Eddie did it,Elvis did it, everyone does it right or wrong, RIP BROTHER 🙏

No matter what issues they have had dealing with everyone else, I respect their loyalty to each other. RIP Eddie.

Logical

Of course they are brother's

@@diningroomfish5470 Yeah. but look at Creedance Clearwater Revival, The Kinks, and Oasis. Most the time brothers in bands end up hating each other.

@@EvilEyeGypsy true but in this case alex does not butt heads with Eddie, because Alex is cool just being apart of the band, so that's why Eddie and Alex never had a problem with each other,

hmmm read noel monks book then il ask you again!!

@@catherinethompson547 while Alex had some bad qualities(I read the book) I think he always had his brothers back. when push came to shove he was the older brother and was always protective of eddie...Im sure they fought like all siblings, and I'm also sure the substances both used didn't help.

@@catherinethompson547 i havent read it, what were some of alexs bad qualities?

@@catherinethompson547 i read it and sure, Alex did some bad stuff but he was always good to Ed

@@f4lc0n15 .........they all screwed Mikey..........??

It was daves idea

@@gregnason4427it was? But the focus is the Van Halen brothers period and their talent but I love DLR

Nope dave had the personality to drive them on and they knew it,

They are lucky Dave chose them

Humble? Are you kidding?!! EVH was almost anything but humble. He puts down everybody from former bandmates (Roth, Hagar, Anthony) to contemporary rivals (Randy Rhodes), to his major influences (jimmy Page). And look at pictures of him circa 2005-07, I think Alex stopped grounding him by then

my guess is the electrician was drunk

Same I grew up around them and remember hearing the stories of them, and my aunt ex boyfriend new david lee Roth in high school, and my same aunt went blind and her doctor was david lee Roth father back in the 70s

beautiful story / comment

do you know John ?

You are. Hope life is good for you. ♫

I think I once owned Frank Sinatras bicycle! Lol!!!

SICKLY underrated-agreed.

A Guitar Lovers Dream Come True! One Foot Out The Door Those solos floor me every time to this very day!

Very true!!! A album made by men for men!!

Yup

@@jacobmccarthy1171 "Sunday Afternoon in the Park" was made for Valerie. And she said her favorite Van Halen song was "Romeo Delight."

Well spoken my friend

@@robtolley1647 thanks bro

I love You ed

Baby come on

Sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know a way to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost my account password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me.

Ray Danniels destroyed VH

lol "sober" in '95

You are on point about Ed L. Sammy alluded that in his book the band unwisely had no back up plan in that respect and combine that w Sammy having to do 1 more album to fulfill his contract w Geffen yeah it was a recipe for disaster

@@goodquestion1105 Nope. sorry to say...

MY KITTY PERCY Eddie wasn't sober in 1995.

Shit. Eddie is the creator.

What Hagar's fans don't understand is the worst what Ed did was to himself . Ed had no-one to blame for his habits of chemicals or alcohol but himself . If what he allegedly did with Mike was so bad , then Mike should have left if he didn't like getting any royalties since the 1984 album . Ed did write all the instruments himself since 1984 . That's when he had to live with becoming a sessions player . And there's too many lies from Sam . And Sam said it himself that he quit . He wasn't tricked to quit , he has his big mouth and himself to blame for that . Whatever happened Al and Ed kept out of the public because it's personal . Wether you're for or against the Halen Bros it's NOT YOUR BUSINESS . I'll say that again wether you're for or against the Halen Bros ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS . THATS WHAT REALLY TAKING THE HIGH ROAD MEANS . THEY WERE BIG BOYS BY NOT WRITING A BOOK OF LIES AND BITCH ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY .

@@akfreed6949Sammy helped the band go 4x platinum and was a real musician and not a lounge singer. A guy like that can say what he wants. The Van Halen brothers never recovered from Sammy’s exit, and I take no joy in saying that. They’re phenomenal musicians and changed rock music forever.

@@eugenehavens yeah? Gee they went platinum BUT their sales petered out quickly too . If you add all the Van Hagar albums COMBINED , they still don't outsell Van Halen 1 and 1984 combined . Oh yeah ex-wife #2 STILL says he outsold the DLR era albums . Here's an interesting fact . Hagar LOWERED the Roth/Halen era . Dave would never let Van Halen OPEN for a younger band like Bon Jovi . Roth himself he had standards and wouldn't open for Motley Crue again NEVER open for a younger band . Ex-wife #2 would . Oh yeah , even though Al Mike AND til the day Eddie died all said Captain Candyass quit , Captain Candyass STILL LIES and says he was fired because of Ray Danniels .

@@akfreed6949No 2nd version of a mega band will ever outdo the years of grassroots touring and selling (and even if they do, the purist fans will still prefer the original). So saying Van Halen Hagar version wasn’t as successful is not really the point. Ed and Al lost DLR and needed someone. There wasn’t an option to go back. If you want to compare history 1 to history 2, go right ahead. It isn’t the point. Ed and Al ran off Hagar. They put out their worst album after that and a memory lane record with DLR who they clearly hated. If you have a problem with Hagar, no worries here. But the facts of the situation clearly show the Van Halen brothers ruined their best chance to keep VH going. They always got their way in their band. They wanted Hagar gone and they got it.

Yeah he does....Skinny as a rail, pail, sick looking, old looking.....Alcohol and nicotine IS A KILLER, NTM whatever "go fast addititives" added to that at times....

yes the coke hurt him bad

He enabled Eddie a lot in his addictions well past the point he should have been permanently sober.

Listen to Noel Monk's audio book on RU-vid. He was VH's manager from 1978-84. You might feel differently.

@@xdreampcs8554 Hmmm🤔.. Interesting.. Now, are you referring to the 1st commenter about Alex?....Orrrr?

My friend & I went to see Van Halen in 1979 we both dropped a hit of California Sunshine acid .. They put on a great show guitar solos & Alex drum solo it was great ... I'm so glad I got to see them .. RIP Eddie 💔🎸

Definitely one of the greatest guitar players of all time, but also a truly great songwriter. Eddie wrote so many iconic badass guitar riffs.

Carlos Mencia????

I know the comedians your talking about. It’s no one worth mentioning as it’s not a huge name to most but I remember the era you spoke of. If people look hard enough they can hear the comedian speak of that era. Unless it was literally just a couple of years ago and not a decade ago, but all of eddies interview are great. I do believe the family are believers, Valerie raised Wolf and I think Alex and Eddie were raised with a certain faith. Personal demons aside, we all have them, it’s great to see the humanity of the two brothers and you can tell in this era Eddie was in a place of heavy substance use and decades of habits and thankfully was sober in the final ten plus years or more or so of his life before he passed, but you can tell areas where Eddie begins to get defensive when he says “it’s not just me, it was all of us” and Alex comforts him and the interview moves on. But I just will always love the memories and the music and all of it. Oddly enough, or not, it’s kind of crazy, the last live concert I saw before everything got cancelled from the pandemic was seeing DLR perform Van Halen music LIVE. I count that as a blessing and an interesting weird synchronicity that one of my musical heroes EVH passing that brought light to my life and the music they all creative saved my spirit. RIP Eddie Van Halen, peace and love to you all, the family the bands the fans alike!

@@ENigma-um8zw it was almost 4 years ago.

@@jlobiafra no

@@ENigma-um8zw DLR and Kiss was my last concert before lockdown as well!!! We locked down the very next day😥

I agree considering they don't do much press , usually very tight lipped and private.

I am 73 and it is my ring tone. Loved david lee roth as their frontman. Jump was such a fun, cool video

@@judithryle2113 Keep on a Rockin Girl!!!

Kevin Smith: I vividly remember the "world radio premiere" of Jump in late '83 when I was a kid. My sister was driving the car, I was riding shotgun. It came on and my metalhead (at the time) sister said, "THIS is Van Halen?" It was a shock to me also, as I had already been exposed to Fair Warning and their debut album. But once the initial shock wore off and I got used to it, I saw Jump for what it is: a GREAT song!

I dunno.. Their debut album is best in my humble opinion

@@robink.9966 Sure, that's a great one as well. There's a reason that that one has been certified "Diamond Status" by the RIAA.

@@JokersWild70 Didn't know that. That must make diamond Dave proud.

I agree mate.. its a classic

Debut has the classics of course, but Fair Warning is the vicious guitar. That opening of Unchained is the rippinest lick I've ever heard.

Not really, he was actually pretty sharp here compared to his Howard Stern meltdown. He was in waaaayyyyyyy worse places than this interview and time.

Had to be tough being sober. For a decade. While your brother is still burning both ends. Al still standing.

He looks sick, face sunken in.

I'm tired of morons blaming Ed's drug or alleged drug problems for what happened between him and Captain Candyass quitting . Whatever really happened Ed never said exactly BUT Sam said something to really really piss off Ed .

@@danielduplantier3741 And I've been tired of SNITCHES AND RATS . Whatever problem or alleged problem Eddie had was Eddie's problem , NOT YOURS . AND ITS NONE OF YOUR FUKKIN BIZNESS . BUT CRYBABY HAGAR MADE IT YOUR BUSINESS . THAT MAKES HIM A RAT AND A SNITCH . REAL MEN DONT RAT ON THEIR FRIENDS .

I thought it was about a race car that Dave saw on TV called Panama??

"Satisfying ..." Heh heh heh ... you just brought the Beavis out of me ...

@@leonskum.5682Dave wrote a song about the Statue of Liberty, so that would make sense.

As heavy hitters, it was too pop.

@@5DNRG there's not a VH/Roth song I don't like! I love black sabbath too and a lot of heavier stuff. I like variety of music from motown to rock. Probably why I love all the Roth stuff. Although EVH is the main reason I love Van Halen!!

@@5DNRG I love you ❤😊

Nah it was a filler

It was a bit of a let down from the debut album, but we still bought copies and listened and appreciated didn’t we does sound better now as Ive slowed down

I know you know that one of those is a Led Zepplin song but I guess you wouldn't want to say "He is now Runnin' With The Devil".

I agree. He should have resolved his troubles but he had his reasons. In his latter years, he appeared very happy. It was good to see.

@Bruce S Life is short. Unfortunately Eddie learned that the hard way. RIP.

Cherone tour with Van Halen was the best

@@checkmate2861 🔥

2020...EVH death ....fuck year

I would love to read that chain text of the Van Halen brothers

More like he probably rolled tape whenever he stepped into 5150. I'm sure the tapes have tons of silence and the occasional sounds of a crack pipe being lit or heavy snorting of lines..

The only difference is that Prince's vault is filled with complete albums.

@@violetgolden3380 you cant be sure that Eddie doesnt have complete music

@emmanuel de la cruz who said it a sport competition except you

@@desertmoonlight2880 true, but not much. He said himself it was mostly recordings of him noodling around. Said that for years.

I think he looks like DLR here

Too thin! Drugs!

@@bearloverforever ...seams so dam fidgety

@4 ever throat cancer

@@devyntillman4188 drugs too. This right here is definitely drugs. You know smoking dope can give you throat cancer, right? N I dont mean weed.

I'd love to hear some of the recordings of when they were a club band in good quality. They were just ridiculously good as a club band in the '70's doing Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The James Gang, etc. Listening to that old '70's stuff, it boggles my mind that it took them so long to get signed to a record deal.

If you've ever seen the movie THE WILD LIFE from the early 80's, EVH did the soundtrack to it, and you can hear songs that didn't come out for almost a decade in there and in the raw form. That'll give you a sense of the scope of the tape room.

I would bet its a lot of tapping and hammer ons

Normally songs from “the vault” aren’t released for a reason.

I can say alot of the tapes were concert recordings . They recorded their only concert in Anchorage Alaska and had microphones around the inside of the arena . He also had alot of demos made since the 5150 studio was finished . Ed played all the instruments on the 1984 demo for the rest of the band . Scammy Hagar said there isn't much left . How the fuk would he know ? He hasn't been in Ed's studio that much in the past 26 years .

Alex much better health wise very obi it's. Neither brother were good looking, but Alex had better looks. Eddie's teeth shape in his mouth was unattractive, while Alex had a nice mouth

Windy City Dueling Pianos - wasn’t Eddie clean and sober for quite some time before he died? that’s what’s important, and through it all, he was a good dad

@@MarylandLawGirl He wasn't here. After the poor reception and sales of VH III, he had relapsed and was back drinking heavy and using drugs. He was a mess. Check out the video "Edward Van Halen Behaving Badly".

@@judithryle2113 Many gals thought Eddie was good looking.

@@ronnie_5150 Since his death, I've been watching some videos and yeah he looks terrible here. I don't know what drugs he took but in my opinion he looks like someone who abused meth for long time.

Yeah, I thought this was interesting, too!

When you're up 4 days straight what does 4am really matter?

he did the same thing with 1984. Him and the engineer up for days working on it at 5150. Ted Templeman talks about it in his book

That was a favorite album to him . No cover tunes . He was the boss on that album . He argued with the overrated Ted Templeman . Ted wanted some cover tunes and Eddie didn't . I think FAIR WARNING is the best Van Halen album still

@@akfreed6949 I agree. Ted is a square his book is boring

mitch sounds horrible with them

Eddie was too thin.

Lou Reed

I like to think he's still the GOAT.

EVH looks so much better and more humble and just all around different man in an interview he held for the Smithsonian in 2016. Everybody has the right to improve and to change for the better.

Absolutely!

No, this video is Eddie and Alex - u must be thinking bout someone else

meth

Eddie Van Halen RIP

Cigs

@@JimA-pp2nu Coke

Idk about that

ha! one of my all time faves as well! love it,in fact apart from the first album thats my next fave album too.

It is genius: simple, light, not too serious... BUT THOSE HARMONIES!

I seen Van Halen in 84. My first show. That spoiled me. I have seen them with Dave three times and Sam twice.

That is correct. His wife(Sammy’s) was 8-9 months pregnant. They were in Hawaii to have the baby I think?

Eddie's was always allowed to do his own little side projects but not anybody else... so Dave recorded Crazy From The Heat ha