He was definitely a bad a s s - I say that with the utmost respect. RIP EVH..As a musician, long before I was a physician, how could we as youth not be impacted by his musicianship? I am still in awe listening to his guitar virtuosity, and he belongs in the pantheon of Guitar Gods. How many guitar players who followed were impacted heavily by his style? I'm not sure there is a single other guitar player who can say that, with all due respect to Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Berry, King, Beck and others. Another terrible loss...
throat/head/neck cancerLegend - in an era where the word is tossed around too easily. Legit and crazy young. Assume it was lung cancer as he always seemed to have a cigarette in his hand in the glory years.
1983 or so Diver Down tour in Dome still the loudest show I've ever been to. RIP
I read he blamed the cancer on a metal pick he used to put in his mouth. However, he was a heavy smoker.throat/head/neck cancer
Legends lost this year.
1982. I had tickets on the floor row 17. It was a great showVan Halen Setlist at Carrier Dome, Syracuse
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1982. I had tickets on the floor row 17. It was a great show
Oh, but to be a fly on the wall in that heavenly jam session2 goats ... Neil and eddy. 2020 just fn KEEPS ON GIVING!
Hah, yes you have me beat. Great story.I think I had you beat.
I was tending bar that Summer, so my peeps and I didn't show up at the Dome until after 2 AM the day tickets went on sale. We got our names on a waiting list, and there must have been a hundred people ahead of me. Maybe more.
When it got close to the time the Dome was going to open, it became pretty obvious that the wait list was out the window and it would be every man for himself. Sure enough, they made it through the first 10-20 names, and then abandoned all hope.
There was a mad scramble to get through Gate A and line up in the concourse to the box office at Gate B. It became a mob, and any barriers they had set up to keep the lines orderly were knocked over.
Dome management began pushing people back into one single file line along the outer wall of the concourse. As luck would have it, we just happened to be standing in front of the Men's room.
We hid out for maybe 20 minutes until the noise outside died down, and simply got in line in front of the Men's room entrance.
I think we ended up in Row 15.
Kids today have no clue how much trouble you could get into while camping out for tickets.