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Van Halen is a work in progress.
I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.
Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.
Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.
I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
As far as people saying, 'Do you miss Van Halen?' or any of that kind of stuff, I've totally moved on.
I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.
The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.
If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Well, everybody used to joke that I saved the first dollar that I ever made in Van Halen. I probably did somewhere.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
I think all my albums have concentrated on songs, I've never taken the typical Van Halen route to try and become a guitar hero.
People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen. What's his name again?'
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
Alex Van Halen... I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else that went with him.
In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought he was just a guitar player.
I think if there's any one band that every member of Sons of Apollo has been influenced by, I think Van Halen is the common ground for all five of us.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd Skynyrd or Yes or Van Halen.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.
I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.