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Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (born January 26, 1955)[1], is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer most famous for being the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen.
Edward Van Halen (born on 26th of January 1955, Amsterdam Netherlands) is a Dutch-American guitarist, known as founder and guitarist of the hard rock band Van Halen. Van Halen was a son of saxophonist Jan Van Halen, his mother Eugenia was from Java. On early age he moved with his family to the city of Nijmegen (Netherlands). In 1962 they moved to the Pasadena (California). Eddie learned to play the piano as a child, and has won many different talentshows. His older brother Alex also played the piano.

However, playing the piano did not prove sufficiently engaging - he once said in an interview, "Who wants to sit in front of the piano? That's boring." Consequently, whilst Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit and began practicing drumming. After Eddie heard Alex's performance of the The Surfaris' drum solo in the song "Wipe Out", he grew annoyed that his brother had overtaken his ability and decided to switch and begin learning how to play the electric guitar.

He has stated that he would often walk around at home with his guitar strapped on and unplugged, practicing. It's said that he would sit in his room for hours with the door locked, as a teen practicing the guitar. He once claimed that he had learned almost all of Eric Clapton's solos in the band Cream "note for note" by age 14; in later interviews he stated he could never play the solos precisely, instead he would modify them slightly to suit his style.

In April 1996, in an interview with Guitar World, when asked about how he went from playing his first open A chord to playing "Eruption", Eddie replied:

" Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years — I still do that.[2] "

Eddie has many influences, most notably Eric Clapton. He has also acknowledged the influence of Queen guitarist Brian May and fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth, as well as the likes of Montrose guitarist Ronnie Montrose.

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[seanpsmyth1970]

His father played the clairinet, not the sax.

[guitarhero41192]

hey man i got it from wikipedia ask them i just want people to know a litte bit about who there watching

[foxheadspeed]

eddie is such a god

[stratdem]

the one and only true guitar god!

[drinkspecials]

@TruthSurge Good comeback. Stanley Jordan can get in line behind Joe Blow who had a one-hit wonder in '87 as far as I'm concerned.

[lolinstad]

het beste komt uit holland

[JmJJmmmmm]

@youngj1800 born in holland, raised in america, therefore dutch-american.

herp derp.

[myhideaway08]

In the start of video, What show was this?

[myhideaway08]

What show is this?

[danielspringnodlan]

is it not mean street he starts playing?

[ACEDIMEMUSTAINE]

Your momma plays my sax thats right. okay lets get one thing straight EDDIE VAN HALEN IS A PRESIDENT OF GUITARISTS EVERYWHERE! AND WILL BE A GOD TO REMEMBER FOR ALL OF MUSIC CAREER AND MANY CENTURIES TO COME. VERY GOOD COMPILATION SIR/OR MADAM.

[TruthSurge]

HAHAHA man, Stanley Jordan? The world won't remember him in 100 years. I know who he is but the world won't. Eddie will live on a LONG damn time because he took electric guitar to a new level. Sure there were cats outplaying him in other fields like jazz and classical but not in rock. His ideas (the tapping octave harmonics, detuning the B string, etc) were just not done back in the late 70s. Did I mention the total mind-blowing brown sound? Name something Jordan did besides tap.

[TheUltraworld]

I believe this was the Fair Warning tour. It was a great show