Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist and namesake for the iconic hard rock band Van Halen and among the most influential musicians of his generation, suffered almost as many personal tragedies as he created classic riffs and songs. Van Halen's innovative two hand tapping guitar technique made heavier rock faster and more melodic, and he weathered the controversy of his band navigating one of the most successful band member replacements ever, as well as one of the most unfortunate musician replacements in music history. Van Halen the man behind the band, still went on to help sell millions of albums, chart plenty of hit singles, and get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As a matter of course for more than 40 years, Van Halen demonstrated superhuman level guitar prowess on tracks like Eruption, Panama, Jump, and Runnin with the Devil, but the musician was subject to the same human problems and complications of living as everyone else. this is tragic life eddie van halen. With sales of 80 million copies of its albums, Van Halen is one of the most successful American bands of all time and that triumph is an American dream story brothers Alex and Eddie Van Halen are immigrants, born in the Netherlands in the 1950s and settling in Pasadena California with their Dutch father and Indonesian mother when they were in elementary school. The Van Halen kids experienced racism both in the Netherlands and in the United States. Because of their mixed racial background, the Van Halens were cruelly and crudely labeled half breeds by their peers in Dutch schools, Van Halen singer David Lee Roth told WTF with Marc Maron, Those homeboys grew up in a horrifying racist environment to where they actually had to leave the country. Arriving in the US in the 1960s, neither Eddie nor Alex Van Halen knew the language, which encouraged more racially motivated bullying. eddie said, I wasn't able to speak English and used to get my ass kicked because I was a minority. Attending a segregated school, Van Halen was ordered to study with Black students. Eddie Van Halen's decades-long alcohol issues turned problematic when he was a teenager. Imbibing booze to curb performance anxiety during early gigs, Van Halen developed a dependency. he told I was an alcoholic, and I needed alcohol to function. I got drunk before I'd show up to high school, My ninth grade science teacher, he could smell the alcohol and he told me, Don't drink anything you can't see through. And I was like So vodka?, And he said yeah. Which was great because that was my drink, Van Halen added. In the 1970s and 1980s the band Van Halen kept up a routine of playing evening concerts and then partying into the night. Eddie Van Halen would head back to his hotel room to work on songs while also drinking vodka and taking cocaine. The death of his father in 1986 prompted the guitarist to quit drinking, but the sobriety wouldn't last. The heavy consumption continued and affected Van Halen's personality. Van Halen checked into a rehabilitation facility, and it was enough of an emergency that he missed his band's induction ceremony into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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