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I saw on Twitter he has a patent for a guitar... "support device" that includes the greatest patent image I've ever seen: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917A/en
What strikes me: the one who draw the guitarist could have done it adding a neutral facial expression (e.g. a jazz musician) but, hell no!, the choice was for a shredding-guitar-solo rock expression. Nice.
why should eddie van halen be discussed and memorialized here when kobe bryant’s death was relentlessly flagged and censored from discussion?
I saw on Twitter he has a patent for a guitar... "support device" that includes the greatest patent image I've ever seen: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917A/en
What strikes me: the one who draw the guitarist could have done it adding a neutral facial expression (e.g. a jazz musician) but, hell no!, the choice was for a shredding-guitar-solo rock expression. Nice.
I saw on Twitter he has a patent for a guitar... "support device" that includes the greatest patent image I've ever seen: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917A/en
Does anyone else find it strange that Van is actually a middle name, thus rendering his name as HALEN EDWARD VAN
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It isn't the moderators, it's the users. More people here care about Eddie Van Halen than did Kobe Bryant. I won't theorize about the rationale behind that but the decision about which celebrity obituaries stay up and which don't seems to be entirely up to the zeitgeist. If people have nostalgia for the work of someone who died, they won't flag the thread. If they don't care about the person, or other biases are at w…
it's hypocritical and worth calling out for discussion, not justifying with a shrug. if a particular user doesn't care about kobe, why then care enough to flag? just let it go and move on to items of greater interest. it's not a political issue rife for flamebait, certainly no moreso than van halen.
I'm not saying you should stop calling it out either, but the only result will be that eventually you will annoy the mods - not because of what you're saying but because you're being repetitive and "repetition is the enemy of curiosity" - and they'll either ask you to stop and you will, or you won't and they'll ban you.
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Van Halen was a musical pioneer, an inventor, and as you can see from other comments, part of HN constituents' culture.
somehow that makes it all ok to censor rather than just leave it be and focus on other threads? jimi hendrix was a pioneer. van halen was another rock-n-roller.
Millions of guitarists around the world say otherwise -- including many well respected professional guitarists. That includes a guy you might have heard of: Les Paul.
Sure, he wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But he was very much an artist who spent thousands of hours crafting his own sound and his own technique.
I think saying he was "another rock-n-roller" is inaccurate and extremely unfair.
why should eddie van halen be discussed and memorialized here when kobe bryant’s death was relentlessly flagged and censored from discussion?
The answer to a lot of these questions, btw, is randomness. Even when it's not the whole answer, it's usually part of the answer, and another part of the answer is judgment calls which may not look so different from randomness. If you're expecting consistency in moderation, that's your problem right there!
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Van Halen was a musical pioneer, an inventor, and as you can see from other comments, part of HN constituents' culture.
somehow that makes it all ok to censor rather than just leave it be and focus on other threads? jimi hendrix was a pioneer. van halen was another rock-n-roller.
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That’s like comparing a turn table used for DJ’ing to a record player used to just listen to records. Completely different application, accessories, and technique.
The analogy does not hold up. There are quite a lot of differences between a "pedal steel" guitar, and an electric guitar. First, electric guitars do not have pedals. Pedal steel guitars do not have a resonating wood body. They produce very different sounds in very different ways.
As my comment said I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the patent itself (and really the claims are the thing) just saying that that part of the description is probably wrong. And that the patent system doesn't care.
FWIW all the pedal steel guitars I've ever seen are in fact electric guitars... but I know what you meant.
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Wikipedia disputes this story, although it does not cite any sources on the "real" story: > Right before Van Halen's guitar solo begins, a noise is heard that sounds like somebody knocking at a door. It is reported that the knock was a person walking into Eddie's recording studio. Another story has claimed that the sound was simply the musician knocking on his own guitar.[25] The sound, however, is that of Jackson kn…
The source is supposed to be the album's liner notes, which list MJ as "drum case beater" (see below). So if anyone have the physical copy, they should be able to confirm. But I'm not sure if it's sufficient to say that noise id done by MJ beating drum case, though.
