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He was also a contest winning pianist as a youth, often forgotten.
> often forgotten Is it though? https://youtu.be/SwYN7mTi6HM?t=154
Has anyone else mentioned it here or on the news? Maybe once.
Eddie Van Halen has died
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Re: Eddie Van Halen has died
#212He's the most famous alumnus from my high school. RIP Eddie.
We were cross-town rivals, then. David Lee Roth attended my high school (John Muir, also in Pasadena) three years ahead of me. Here's my Van Halen story. In my last year of high school, one of my friends was a budding rock guitarist. He often talked about the local band Van Halen and what a great guitarist Eddie was. Van Halen was scheduled to play a show in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on January 25, 1975—thank you…
Yup. And Eddie was, at least back then, surprisingly shy in a one-on-one setting.
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#213I don't fully understand hacker news I think, I am curious as to why this is still on the front page but the Nobel prize that was announced today has been on page 2 all day (unless I missed its original front page landing) also, RIP Eddie!
EVH was a classically trained, incredibly talented and highly creative musician. He was also a founding member of an amazingly successful band that was very popular right around the time many of your average HN readers were growing up. His death is impactful to a lot of these people -- events like this just seem to have resonance. Sorry, that's the best explanation I can come up with.
Thank you, I have only recently been on HN and I love it. Its amazing, I have been on reddit forever and was just curious as to how it was on the front page for awhile. This is a pretty good explanation, I don't know why I got down voted, honestly curious about the Hacker news process of what makes it to the front page vs other things. I was stoked to hear about Penrose winning the Nobel and shocked it was on the second page vs this story. And now an article Penrose has co-authored is on the top spot! Thanks for the solid response! And RIP to EVH too, I saw VH with my pops years ago, he saw VH open for Black Sabbath back in the day and said they destroyed Black Sabbath! Madness!
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finding new (to me) bands that sound like the old bands I like is much easier given tools like everynoise.com, which I highly recommend (though it works best if you also have a Spotify account because of the playlists). my current heavy rotation playlist of EVH-style guitar shredding is here, if anyone is interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iCImsdr0rrYHStbFpOi2h?si=... vastly different sound but the techni…
Allow me to chip in my guitar riff playlist as well https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5q2zcb4xCWviTlAPfk0M8z?si=...
great playlist, it was largely Satriani/Vai/Johnson who were responsible for my love of guitar wankery :)