There are a lot of things in the press and also circulating the web about Eddie V. Van Halen has just canceled more shows and Eddie is currently under “doctors care” and “undergoing tests”.
As a society we take great pleasure in watching our icons take the plunge into the morass of alcohol and substance abuse. A lot of what I’m reading about Eddie right now has a “wink, wink-nudge, nudge, we all know he’s back on the sauce” tone to it. A lot of the articles are using the phrase “mystery illness” in quotes like that-nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Now, I’ve seen the videos of Ed playing not up to his par, and the one where he throws the guitar down in frustration and knocks over the amps. And, I know his ex has been to see Oprah and the guy in suspenders in order to pimp a tell-all book (the thinly veiled references to this in the press are more nudge wink-i.e. Is this why he’s back on the bottle?).
I just have to wonder if the “mystery illness” is something neurological. Neurological disorders often require extensive testing in order to reach a diagnosis. And, they can indeed be very mysterious throughout the diagnosis process.
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Tags: alcohol and substance abuse, eddie van halen, mystery illness, Neurological, Van Halen
Guiglio-parfucci wrote,
‘Scuse please, what again is oprah?
Link | March 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Jayne d'Arcy wrote,
Oprah - the end all, be all answer to all your questions. Wondering if some rumor is true or not, if it’s on Oprah, you can bet it is… ok, so that was a load of sarcasm.
Link | March 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Pat wrote,
Jd’A: I have not kept up with the oprah, even though I was in Chicago when the first episode aired. What year? I dunno. and then well it has been like the other talkies… mostless harmless.
However, since retiring, I have had some desire to sort out some of the confusion that has followed me around all my life. So when the doctor finally got my health picture in perspective, I kind of woke up to a revised reality. Know where I’m going here?
All the standout performers around are actually my age or younger. The Pres, Dubya, for instance coulda’ been a classmate of mine. I played football against Patrick Swayze,,, I was grammar school buddies with Conrad Hilton the fifth, and other non-essential coin-ikki-dinks. I partied with John Tower and his daughter Pooh, John Connelly, jr, what’s his name Hightower, and so what?
Like brother Jack alludes, as time goes by, paths are crossed, and generational information is lost.. Gone.. Squandered… Eatup…. if one or two of us don’t take a moment with mustered humility and tell that or this story…
If oprah is too eatup to tell the truth, or put her self on the throne where she belongs, or even get on elemental level, she is no better than the Kennedy’s, Bush’s, and other crowned puffery’s–
then I have only one question to ask:
What is the point? More is less, more or less?
I await with pleasant calm your tacit reply [cursor blink blink]
Pat’s last blog post..Whoa, hold on a New York Minit! Prosecutors Might want to persue a heftier pedophilia charge on resigned Gov!!
Link | March 13th, 2008 at 5:15 pm