It's become an all-too familiar activity in the last few years, mourning the loss of a great artist. And it happened again this week with the death of Eddie Van Halen at the age of 65 to cancer. As old as that may seem for rock n' roll, he was still young in the grand scheme of things. And he'll forever be that youthful speed demon, leaping through the air as he fired off another ridiculously awesome guitar solo.
I paid tribute to EVH today on Stuck In Thee Garage in hour 2, playing a mix of Van Halen favorites you don't often hear and guest appearances he made on other artists' albums. Let remember him as he was, grinning as he blew our minds. (Or showing up in the occasional SNL skit.)
This playlist (and the cradle) will rock:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pixies - Hear Me Out/Hear Me Out
Hoodoo Gurus - Get Out of Dodge/Get Out of Dodge
Midnight Oil - Gadigal Land/The Makarrata Project
METZ - Blind Youth Industrial Park/Atlas Vending
PUP - Edmonton/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Guided By Voices - Game of Prices (Live at the Teragram Ballroom, 12/31/19)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Wolf Parade - ATA/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Sloan - Silence Trumps Lies/Silence Trumps Lies
Smokescreens - I Love Only You/A Strange Dream
Jeff Rosenstock - DONE DONE DONE/2020 Dump
Gord Downie - Useless Nights/Away Is Mine
Kurt Vile - Gone Girl/Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
Hallelujah the Hills - Lemonade Pop Rocks Candy Bar Ibogaine/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I am One of Its Best Ghosts
Disheveled Cuss - She Don't Want/Disheveled Cuss
Sad13 - Good Grief/Haunted Painting
IDLES - Carcinogenic/Ultra Mono
Bob Mould - Next Generation/Blue Hearts
Osees - Red Study/Protean Threat
Hour 2: EVH
Van Halen - Atomic Punk/Van Halen
Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II
Brian May and Friends - Star Fleet/The Star Fleet Project
Van Halen - Women In Love/Van Halen II
Nicolette Larson - Can't Get Away From You/Nicolette
Van Halen - Secrets/Diver Down
Van Halen - Romeo Delight/Women and Children First
Brian May and Friends - Let Me Out/The Star Fleet Project
Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar/Astronauts & Heretics
Thomas Dolby - Eastern Bloc/Astronauts & Heretics
Van Halen - House of Pain/1984
LL Cool J - We're the Greatest/Authentic
Van Halen - Bullethead/A Different Kind of Truth
Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning
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