We are enormously saddened to hear about the untimely passing of Eddie Van Halen. We considered him an inspiration, an idol, and after spending a summer together on the road in '88, a friend. Sending love to Alex, @wolfvanhalen & everyone in the greater VH family.
I’m just devastated to hear the news of the passing of my dear friend Eddie Van Halen. He fought a long and hard battle with his cancer right to the very end. Eddie was one of a very special kind of person, a really great friend. Rest In Peace my dear friend till we meet again. pic.twitter.com/Qs8tsLPANJ
RIP Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen were a tremendous influence on both Vinnie & Dime & Pantera. Hopefully they are all rocking out together now! pic.twitter.com/XtnL33aGsd
On June 5th of this year Reelz docuseries, “Autopsy: The Last Hours Of…” did a episode about Eddie. His son, Wolfgang Van Halen, tweeted that the episode is “disgusting trying to glamorize someone’s death from cancer. Pathetic and heartless.”
The late rocker’s former wife, actress and cookbook author Valerie Bertinelli, also weighed in on Twitter.
“Good Christ this is disgusting,” she tweeted.
On September 27th of this year his son Wolfgang performed at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert playing Hot for Teacher and Panama with Justin Hawkins, Josh Freese and Dave Grohl.
About talk of a tribute concert for his late father Wolfgang explains “I think I already did it with the Taylor Hawkins tributes. I feel a lot of closure because my part of the show was a tribute to my father,”
Wolfgang performed as the bassist for Van Halen for 14 years between 2006 to 2020, but insists the band is “very dysfunctional” – making a tribute gig featuring the rest of the band unlikely.
(Photo by Andy Keilen)
So far only a mural of the late guitarist has been done. It was unveiled on the anniversary of his birthday on January 26th of last year.
Hopefully Sammy Hagar, David Lee Roth, Wolfgang and Alex Van Halen can put together something in the future.
Today and everyday we will never forget Eddie Van Halen.
