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blackrams
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OCT 06, 07:33 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Boondawg:
Actually, it could be said that he basically killed himself.
Chain-smoked, got throat cancer, kept Chain-smoking, divorced because he wouldn't stop even then, had a third of his tongue removed, & finally switched to vaping in 2015.
He believed his cancer came from holding the brass & copper guitar picks in his mouth and all the recording studios filled with electromagnetic energy.
He burned as brightly as the cigarettes that killed him. 
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Don't know much about him or really who this is/was but, he obviously had a warped sense of reality. Maybe now he's found some peace.
Rams
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Boondawg
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OCT 06, 07:35 PM
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Raydar
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OCT 06, 08:47 PM
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Yeah... One of the most amazing, innovative, guitar players ever.
I was a fair weather fan. Liked "Van Hagar" much more than the original lineup.
And one of my guilty pleasures is Chickenfoot. Still sounds like Van Hagar. (I won't say too much about Satriani, since this is an "Eddie" thread. That is all.)
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IMSA GT
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OCT 06, 09:15 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
Yeah... One of the most amazing, innovative, guitar players ever.
I was a fair weather fan. Liked "Van Hagar" much more than the original lineup.
And one of my guilty pleasures is Chickenfoot. Still sounds like Van Hagar. (I won't say too much about Satriani, since this is an "Eddie" thread. That is all.) |
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I'll have to agree. Some of their best music, most fun concerts, and just general life was pushed into the band when Sammy joined. When that stiff fossil Roth came back, I was hoping they would shitcan him and re-sign Hagar but now that will never happen.
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sourmash
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OCT 06, 09:20 PM
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He stretched and innovated the instrument itself with the "jape" he instituted and by driving the amps at high power saturation but lower volume and with the locking tremolo system he helped create. When VH hit I wasn't such a big fan because it was a guy playing every note he could jam in somewhere, IOWs not playing for the song. 'Too much unbridled energy' is what a manager told him, which was correct. It took a while but it final fully took with me. Atomic Punk played all the way through to the outro feedback is such a primal scream it's just lke a motorcycle at full acceleration pulling so hard that the rear wheel is barely holding on to the pavement beneath it, flirting with swapping ends as it does so and only luck is keeping you from a total wipe out.
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Boondawg
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OCT 06, 09:41 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
He stretched and innovated the instrument itself with the "jape" he instituted and by driving the amps at high power saturation but lower volume and with the locking tremolo system he helped create. When VH hit I wasn't such a big fan because it was a guy playing every note he could jam in somewhere, IOWs not playing for the song. 'Too much unbridled energy' is what a manager told him, which was correct. It took a while but it final fully took with me. Atomic Punk played all the way through to the outro feedback is such a primal scream it's just lke a motorcycle at full acceleration pulling so hard that the rear wheel is barely holding on to the pavement beneath it, flirting with swapping ends as it does so and only luck is keeping you from a total wipe out. |
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I think i'm in love!
Do it again, but.....slower. 
P.S. I'm a word man.[This message has been edited by Boondawg (edited 10-06-2020).]
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sourmash
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OCT 06, 09:57 PM
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Boondawg
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OCT 06, 10:08 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
I'm spent. lol |
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Me too!  [This message has been edited by Boondawg (edited 10-06-2020).]
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Wichita
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OCT 06, 11:03 PM
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Was lucky to see him in concert back in the day. Great show, great guitarist and he brought Peavey out in front from the low end dump stack of instruments and amps and made a name for them.
I have to like that. I had a Peavey Bass for a bit, and it wasn't a bad guitar.
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Cliff Pennock
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OCT 07, 11:19 AM
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Little known fact: the guy was Dutch.
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