{"id":23852,"date":"2020-10-07T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23852"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:29:47","slug":"rip-eddie-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-eddie-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Eddie Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eddie Van Halen   Solo Eruption   Live without a Net\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIpHZo7BsT8?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a young punk, when they emerged on the scene, I was never a fan of <strong>Van Halen<\/strong>. I thought Eddie Van Halen was a particularly evil force in terms of the downward spiral of popular aesthetics. Over time, however, I came to appreciate the band Van Halen, for their craftsmanship, for David Lee Roth&#8217;s comic swagger, and for the song &#8220;Jump,&#8221; the one Van Halen hit that barely features Eddie&#8217;s guitar wankery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, I was sadder than I could have imagined when I saw the news that Eddie Van Halen died last night, at 65. He was a fierce adversary in my imagination. To be the best, we&#8217;ve got to beat the best. He was among the best in his field of practice, and I respect &#8211; and now miss &#8211; that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young punk, when they emerged on the scene, I was never a fan of Van Halen. I thought Eddie Van Halen was a particularly evil force in terms of the downward spiral of popular aesthetics. Over time, however, I came to appreciate the band Van Halen, for their craftsmanship, for David Lee Roth&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-eddie-van-halen\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}