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EVH MySpace: October 29, 2009

October 30, 2009 82 Comments

From: Eddie Van Halen’s Myspace page:

October 29, 2009
Took a short break and went to Vegas with Janie, Wolfie and Olivia.

Hung out and relaxed, saw three Cirque shows, shopped, checked out the town
and had a good time all around.

Back home now and busy planning Janie’s birthday and working on some stuff
in the studio.

Life is good and I am happy and healthy!

Note that in this picture of Ed and Criss Angel, Eddie’s wearing the original Van Halen silver necklace… we haven’t seen  pictures of him wearing that in a long time. Cool!

Also, a recent post from Eddie’s Twitter (Oct 1st):

Went to see Alice in Chains last night. They kicked ass and it was great to hang with Jerry and the guys again!

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  • bosox

    Layne Staley rose from the grave and put out an Alice and Chains album before Eddie.

  • Rich

    “Back home now and busy planning Janie’s birthday and working on some stuff in the studio.
    Life is good and I am happy and healthy!”

    Thats what everyone wants to hear!

    STUFF. IN. THE. STUDIO.

    Yes. I hope that Ed pulls something special out of that sack he’s been hiding.

  • Rich

    And hopefully “stuff” isn’t painting a guitar or putting up blinds.

  • crazygoji

    I didn’t know Ed liked Alice in Chains…

  • Ronald

    Come on. What’s new. I am a long time fan of VH but now it’s time make some new music together with Dave. The only way off bringing back the vibe of 25 years ago is to compose and write the new stuff with Dave.

  • Karl

    Ed’s been good friends with Jerry Cantrell for a long time.

  • RA 8 1 2

    Alice in Chains opened up for VH for parts of the F.U.C.K. tour. Shit…I was just in Vegas too! WHY DIDNT I KNOW!!!! oh well. Maybe he was going to check on the new Cabo Wabo! LOL!

    By the way RICH…Love the line about putting up blinds! LOLOLOL! Lets hope he is doing some recording and not just rehearsing.

  • http://abedri@freeway.net danoosh

    just listened to girl gone bad. cmon ed give us a rough idea of what going on..your rocking chair is creaking.

  • Bluesbro

    He should have caught a Chickenfoot show :-P

  • bosox

    Ed, looks like he had bo-tox. By looking at that picture he is starting to look little like the Governator.

  • Jim

    I still can’t believe that Ed is on Twitter.
    It must be somebody else (wolfy or janie) who is actually doing it.
    I will maintain that Ed does not use a computer to surf, blog, check stuff, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc… and probably doesn’t use a computer at all.

    Either way, cool stuff.

  • Rodney

    Working on best of Volume 4 and Guitar Hero Best of Volume 2

  • Mink

    Man is it good to see Eddie in good spirits.

  • Scottso

    “Took a short break and went to Vegas with Janie, Wolfie and Olivia.”

    A break from doing what???

    How do you take a break from doing nothing?!

  • DLR

    Where is the new music? All we get is excuses. Can anyone call up Dave and check in with him?????

  • http://vhnd.com wilfredvh

    Hey…Ed is wearing the old “vh’logo necklace…..it looks that he wants to go back to his roots…maybe Wolf made him do it!!

  • Fab

    I was lucky enough to see AIC open for VH back in ’91. A dream come true would be to see these two band tour TOGETHER!

    BTW, for those of you that don’t have the new AIC disc, “Black Gives Way To Blue”, GET IT. IT IS GREAT.

  • TheTruthHurts

    It’s great to hear from EVH…

    …if that really is EVH. Listen, I’m all for a new album from Eddie and whoever, but honestly, it sounded like PR damage control. “And…um…I’m healthy! Really healthy! And happy, too! I am healty *and* happy. Life is good. Did I mention I’m healthy? Oh, and…um…in the studio working on some stuff. Definitely not sick…nope. I’m healthy. And happy.”

  • Karl

    Scottso, that’s funny! :-)

  • John

    What would a new VH album sound like?

  • http://www.vhnd.com Pat G

    Now that Ed is sober and happily married, or so it seems, maybe Mrs.EVH can get him motivated to releasea DVD, a new album, box set, a gurguling sound, or some sort of music with Dave. For fucks sake, we’ve waited 25 years. The fans may not wait much longer. Lets hope he doesnt pull an Axl rose and tease us for another decade with an album that sucked ass!!!!! Hurry up, Ed.

  • bosox

    On a side note: Pat the new GNR album is actually decent but the 10 + years no excuse. The only thing I wish was that it was sold as an Axl solo project instead a GNR album.
    I hope Eddie is still happy and sober….phew.

  • Atomic Pete

    Can’t help but think there is more going on in the
    VH camp than we know.Where is Dave? No quotes from him?
    Not one picture of him out to dinner or out on the town?
    Used to be you couldn’t shut the guy up,now he’s
    disappeared?If they new what they were doing they would let us know, ie “were doing a new album”, or “doing another tour”.
    But nothing. My guess is Dave is gone and they are trying to figure out what to do. Cheers!

  • pirate1821

    Good question, John. And, therein lies the dilemma. While I liked “Me Wise Magic” and “Respect the Wind”, it was followed up with VHIII. So, where EVH was going to take the band seems to be sketchy. Hopefully EVH doesn’t think it’s 1999 now and think that he should follow up their last record (11 years ago and counting) with a sequel. Hoping that EVH is hungry to put out some good stuff. ‘Cause we know what a hungry and determined EVH sounds like.

  • DanR1984

    SOMEBODY GIVE ME A SHOT!!!!!!!!

  • DanR1984

    I think Dave may have left us…………..

  • Top Jimmy

    Van Halen and AIC have something in common, both bands are trying to pass themselves off as the real deal when they are most definitely not. Both are missing key members who make the band a mere imitation of its former self. At least Alice in Chains has an excuse because Layne Staley is dead. Van Halen has no excuse.

  • http://VHND John R

    OH, this hurts! WHY WHY WHY? I just dont understand what’s going on here!
    Most bands that have made the decision to go back in the studio and record, do just that! They go in and dedicate themselves to the art of making an album. Taking everything they want to say and recording it. Most musicians dont take a break until they are done at least when you get to that level they do not!
    He just does not seem serious or hungry like he once was. Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt it! I comare him to what Rocky was in the beginning of RockyIII. Rich, and had lost the fire in his belly!
    Dont get me wrong I am sure he still loves playing guitar but the Ed we all once knew I think is gone! I will never attack anyone who spends time with their family, but come on. Please someone tell me????
    I dont like comparing people but Sammy is just as rich or maybe even more than Ed but he just finished playing clubs for gods sake! Then on top of it partied at the cabo and played 4 days in a row for his B-day. There has to be more than this! I want Van Halen Back!! I want the Southern California Party starters back!
    Please, Please Please Ed, come back!

  • mjc

    the foot gave us sound bites,ed will not.

  • sob

    Doesn’t exactly scream we are recording and putting out new material soon!

    does this mean he is retired until the next tour when he needs some money to “pay the rent”?

  • diamond doug

    Last Friday: 10/23, A Ct radio station had its weekly concert update program, with Live Nation concert promoter “Jim Koplik”. He stated that Halen had put a hold on an “early spring” date they were holding at Mohegan Sun Arena. Reason being, to finish recording an album and we would see a tour later in 2010…for sure.

  • BTD

    “busy planning Janie’s Birthday” WTF? WOW Ed it must take an army of folks days, weeks, wait months to plan a birthday. I mean there’s cigarettes and ummmm and cigarettes, maybe some ballons and a non-alcoholic punch.

    Ed just say “hey i have no intentions of creating anything anytime soon, so there you jack asses posting on VHND”. His smiling face is kinda making me cringe these days…what happened to our beloved Edward? Damn it!!

  • BTD

    And he posing with Chriss Angel….iiickkkkkk!!!!!!!!!

  • ROGER

    im tellin everyone they are getting back together with sam and mike this break for cf and rhcp wasnt just a quincident it was planned so they could get that dave shit out of the way. vanhagar is and will be back this spring!you think sam ,mike eddie were in vegas at the same time ,this would be colosal the true rock hall tour finally hell yes!!!!!!

  • frattz5150

    any one notice the old vh chain on eds neck

  • rogerz13

    I just don’t get it…You have a band like Chickenfoot out there playing and touring and having a blast (and they’re shit), and we get thrown another crumb…Where is the drive and the Rock n’ Roll spirit??? If this doesn’t pan out with Dave I’m hangin it up with these guys…And we’ll also have to rename this The Chickenfoot News Desk…Ah fuck it, sorry for the rant but these guys are frustrating…

  • ben

    Good to see Ed happy hope to hear new music soon

  • Top Jimmy

    Ed looks like Mr. Miyagi in that picture.

  • Rick Pride

    Calm down. You all, give Ed a break. He had hand surgery and it takes 4 – 6 months to properly heal. Give the world’s greatest guitarist EVER a freaking break!! I’m all for Ed taking ample time to heal and be our Guitar God forever!! Ed looks better than ever and I think Dave is just being polite staying back letting Ed get the spotlight as it’s still probably a tender situation and he wants to prove this will work this time. Dave needs Van Halen as much as Van Halen needs him! And between Eddie and Dave they will bring hard rock back to the forefront again. No more Pansy bands and Rap and hip hop blows. They will shatter that shit!!! Their screaming guitars and Dave’s vocals will make the youth wear clothes that fit and the Rock scene will rise again!!!!

  • mjc

    johnr,great post.ed fired the guy who relates to the fans on a human level-MIKE.i’m glad for the bootlegs that remind me of the eddie that cared.

  • chris.omeara

    Ed has probably warned DLR to save it all until his new boss (Ed) says “Go”, and DLR is not stupid.

    I’m sure a new album will be in the works before another tour, but it will be on Ed’s timeline, not ours or any record companies’ (remember the Warner Bros timeline demands that brought us Diver Down?). As much as I hate to wait, I’d rather wait than get a crap album (or another Sammy album).

    Face it- Ed and Alex control the band, much like the Gene Simmons/Paul Stanley takeover of KISS back in the day. But that being said, the next album could be GREAT. Bring back Donn Landee and Eddie’s old Marshall Plexi. Treat us to some new music done the old-style VH way. C’mon Ed! You can do it, Bro’!

  • mjc

    i have the same vh chain,i gotta polish it.

  • mjc

    rick pride if that takes place,and we all want it to,the beers are on me!

  • Keith

    “working on some stuff” ? WTF is that shiet? Damn it VHND, can’t you or someone with some clout call up the VH mgmnt (wife & wolfie) and call DLR’S too an get us all a more definitive answer ? How hard could that be ?

  • Rich

    Rick, fair play man but you gotta understand that people are fed up of hearing Ed talking about taking holidays and planning shit. First it was the wedding, then Wolfies graduation…now what? A birthday? A christening? If 20 years ago Eddie said this same stuff to the papers I’m sure he’d be a laughing stock.

    I just hope what Doug says is true and that there is an album to come out, surely this place would be alive with news if anything got leaked to the press about a new album. It is now the time for Dave to take his spot once again in Van Halen. I just really want to see it. I suppose this news is good news, unlike the dark, dark days of 1999-2003. Wow, nothing happened there.

  • ringostore

    Hey maybe Chris Angel can levitate a new VH album? Magically delicious

    Or as Doug Henning said “its all an optical illusion!”

  • VH Dude

    Chris Angel makes me cringe every time I see him. I can take only a few minutes of his show, but once he starts with the drama queen dramatic this-is-so-dangerous-it-could-be-the-end-of-my-life shit I HAVE to change the channel. Biggest poser wannabe rocker but I’m a magician ever (and trying to be prettier than the ladies around you? not cool). Now he has a new look…what a surprise.

    I don’t fault Ed for posing with him in a picture. I’m just damn glad he was himself and gave a thumbs up. Not a sideways peace sign like the douchebag next to him.

  • Corey D

    It’s spelled Criss not Chris, get it right people.

  • Tommy Boy

    I’d like to petition all douchebags that itch for music from this man and his rock n roll band to sit down, write 25 songs, pick the best twelve and release your own delightfully, delicious highly anticipated recording. And stop bitching….fuckin’ pussies…

  • CHRIS

    I can’t understand how people are so negative on everything that Eddie does. ‘It takes 2 to tangle’, remember that phrase?
    I hear forever how much of a prick Eddie was and how badly Mikey was treated, how Sammy keeps on telling us how grumpy and mad Eddie is!! Well if he’s that bad then why should he be alive? Everyones against him, there’s so much hatred for the man that made them what they are today. Yet these are the same people that have made millions and a rich lifestyle for themselves!! Lets face it if it wasn’t for Van Halen there would be no Cabo Wabo, Sammy’s a smart business man he used Van Halen to benefit his own empire. If people dont’s get that then they have got blinders on!!
    But here is Eddie getting his life back together, he’s in a better frame of mind, surrounded by people that actually care about him, yet people still find it a negative thing?!! I was shocked when I heard that Eddie has got a Myspace, twitter or whatever, got to admit I never thought he would go there, he’s old school Rock n Roll!!! But I doubt it is really him doing the blogging LOL!! And there’s nothing wrong with that!! If it is his new wife doing all the PR for him then that’s cool!! Why people find a negative in that is mindblowing!! The guy has given us fans the greatest soundtrack to our lives, he’s got nothing to prove to anybody, he owes us nothing, everything he gives us now is just a bonus. Even if it’s a porn soundtrack or a blog, or twitter then that’s good for me!! At least he’s survived, happy and is alive to grace us with his amazing gifts. Please people chill out and show the man that this site bears his name some respect.

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