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Eddie van Halen: Rock star and guitar legend dies of throat cancer aged 65 '


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12 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

He had part of his tongue removed due to cancer many years ago, but didn't stop smoking.

Also thoughts about holding a metal plectrum in his mouth a lot of the time...

https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/experts-refute-eddie-van-halens-claim-guitar-pick-caused-throat-cancer

Eruption and MJ's Beat It...😃😎

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Sad news.  It is hard to overstate the impact he made on guitar playing, just that one track 'Eruption' caused a paradigm shift in the possibilities.  It is imo also hard to look back and appreciate it as it is impossible to 'unhear' all those who followed - Vai, Satch, Malmsteen et al, but at the time what he did was just a quantum leap different to anything else.  Total gamechanger.  And he did it all so effortlessly with a huge smile on his face.  

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Oh no, that is very sad to read. Not a fan of the Van Hagar stuff but I was one of many who was turned onto his guitar playing in the Roth years. Definitely not overstating it to say he was the most influential and significant electric guitar player since Hendrix to this day. And he and his band made rock fun, something which has largely been absent from rock ever since. 

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