Greg Renoff
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PhD historian. | Multi-decade victim of @nyjets. | Author of Van Halen Rising & authorized autobiography of Grammy-winning superproducer Ted Templeman.
Joined November 2012
Wolf Van Halen blazes 🔥 Randy Rhoads’ solo on @OzzyOsbourne’s Crazy Train last night @rockhall . Randy & EVH were the two most influential players to come out of LA in the late 70s; brings it full circle to have Wolf on 🎸 here!. 🎥 @PaulVar1419430.
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It’s summer 1990. What’s the first tape you’re popping in the cassette deck?
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I’m not quitting. I don’t know where that came from. I’ll die with sticks in my hand.” - Alex Van Halen to @billboard
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Phoebe Cates sitting poolside on the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Floating in pool, Alex Van Halen. 😉
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His first name is🐺, but never forget, especially when he solos, his last name is VAN HALEN. 🎸🔥 @MammothWVH live at the Wiltern. 📽️: @Kewllkub
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“Layla,” Jimmy Page/Eric Clapton/Jeff Beck .ARMS concert - London 9/20/1983.Royal Albert Hall, London, 🇬🇧 . RIP @jeffbeckmusic
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Today’s July 16, 2022. OTD in 1978, Van Halen played a scorching set at the Mississippi River Jam at Credit Island in Davenport, Iowa
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When watching guitarists play, the eyes invariably focus on the neck hand. In Jeff Beck’s case, always look at his other hand. WATCH how deftly he manipulated controls and bar as he shows what a Strat is capable of sonically.
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What I most appreciated about Taylor Hawkins was that he seemed utterly unaffected by his own stardom: he remained a FAN of the bands he loved. Watch this clip from 3/08 when he played with Geddy and Alex of @rushtheband and how he reacts at end of YYZ😢 RIP. 😔
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What TV show did you love but the current generation won’t have any ideas what it was?
What TV show did you love but the current generation won’t have any ideas what it was?
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I'll never love a band more than I loved Van Halen in 1984
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Summer’s in full swing so it’s that time again . Phoebe Cates sitting poolside 💦 on the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Floating in pool, Alex Van Halen.
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Brothers by Alex Van Halen. Out 10/22. …Alex’s narration paired with these photos 🥹
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This SHINY MACHINE was spotted, today, in Kennebunkport, Maine!
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A small memorial has appeared in Pasadena near Allen and Villa, right where VAN HALEN is carved into the curb, courtesy of Ed and Al, way before they were famous. RIP EVH.
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The cover for Alex Van Halen’s autobiography was just unveiled.
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Remembering Edward Van Halen on his birthday, pictured here with his bandmates, circa summer 1976. He was twenty-one years old.
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Another angle of @WolfVanHalen &.@MammothWVH in Boston last night paying tribute to Taylor Hawkins. 🎥 Matt Antetomaso
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I never in my life have felt more alive than I did during this electrifying opening moment of Van Halen’s 1984 tour, as the riff for Unchained exploded out of Van Halen’s wall of speakers. Thank you EVH. RIP.
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One of the best video concepts ever: . RAM JAM rocks out in somebody’s yard while hot babes on motorcycles cheer them on .
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There NEVER will be another band like Van Halen. Here they electrify the crowd on a scorching day at the Mississippi River Jam, July 16, ‘78 at Credit Island, Iowa. 📸: Jon Baum.thx @dkguenther
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“I realize this is the last moments of Ed playing guitar in public. It seems a bittersweet moment now, I think he knew to just cherish the moment. So I kept the camera shutter going” . 📸: Tony Molina
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Me: reading book on Led Zeppelin on ✈️ . Guy next to me: “Hey, isn’t Led Zeppelin the band with the drummer with one arm?”. Me:
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David Lee Roth of Van Halen attains escape velocity at Newcastle City Hall, 26 June 1979 . 📸Bobby Castine
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Wanted to share an great @eddievanhalen 🎸story told to me by Ted Templeman about his visit with EVH back in the fall of 2019. RIP EVH.
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Sammy just announced that he will be touring next year with Joe Satriani on guitar, Michael Anthony on bass and Jason Bonham on drums. It sounds like the plan is play a lot of Van Halen. Thoughts?.
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Absolutely love this: @wolfvanhalen joined.@MrBungle at Graspop yesterday to cover VAN HALEN’s Loss of Control. 🎥 Hellsmoremedia
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OTD back in 1978, Van Halen opened for Black Sabbath in Fresno, CA. Listen to 🔥 EVH and DLR 🔥 trading off here in Fresno that night: Sabbath is an all time great band (obviously) but VH was a VERY tough act to follow .
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Today’s visual reminder of the importance of the background vocals of Eddie Van Halen and Michael Anthony for creating Van Halen’s signature sound, one that would be imitated by a million bands that followed in VH’s wake.
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Today is June 18, 2024. At the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. Jimi Hendrix did all this:.
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Few musicians waved the Van Halen flag more vigorously than Taylor Hawkins . RIP.
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Happy 70th Birthday to the undisputed 👑 of heavy artillery, Alex Van Halen! .
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Enjoyed this clip of Sam, Ed & Al talking about VH fans. Also gotta say I have my doubts that any rock drummer had or ever will have more magnificent facial hair than Alex Van Halen has in this vid. Wait for it.
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Pasadena High School pays proud tribute to their graduate, EVH. 🎸.
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Van Halen - Bottoms Up live in Brazil 🇧🇷 pure 🔥 and energy.
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This is Edward Van Halen in ‘78. He’s 23. He’d already written most of the riffs & solos & music for the first 6 VAN HALEN LPs, songs that’ll be admired 100 yrs from now. He’d rewritten rules for 🎸 playing & created most imitated 🎸 sound in history. By age 23.
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the moment you realized a player was legit?.
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Imagine being a Van Halen fan and not owning Diver Down smh
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Van Halen “fans” spewing negativity at Wolf Van Halen is sad, pathetic & inexplicable for a whole host of reasons, but No. 1 on that list is IMO *He is the person most responsible for the 2006-07 reconciliation between David Lee Roth & the Van Halen bros.* . Think about that.
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Back in 1997-98, Rush's Neil Peart lost both his wife and daughter within a year, but fought his way through his grief and found reasons to keep on living life. Farewell to a KING. Rest In Peace, in limelight forever.
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99.99% percent of rock bands that have existed on this planet couldn’t come close to generating this kind of energy from a crowd.
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The line for the Alex Van Halen book signing in NYC RIGHT NOW.
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When power trios ruled the world: The late Jeff Beck, @carmineappice1, and the late Tim Bogert (BBA) performing “Superstition,” circa 1973. Absolutely thunderous rhythm section backing Beck. RIP @jeffbeckmusic
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Thirty-nine years ago, at this exact moment, I was sitting inside Brendan Byrne Arena in E. Rutherford, NJ, (April 2, 1984) experiencing a Van Halen concert for the first time. Needless to say that night changed my life. 4/2/84 show 📸: DG
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Happy birthday to the undisputed 👑 of heavy artillery 💥 Mr. Alex Van Halen!.
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Happy Birthday to @DavidLeeRoth - today especially, we salute you for bringing the best out of EDWARD VAN HALEN and giving us so much timeless Van Halen music.
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Condolences to the family & friends of @Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington. I was born to late to see the original Skynyrd, but spent many a teenage night cranking Skynyrd’s greatest hits package, Gold & Platinum. Every song on it tells a story and every riff is a classic. RIP 💐
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Hard to believe it’s been a year. Rest easy, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen. 1955-2020. ♥️
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Tremendously vivid upscale of Van Halen performing “Jump” in Fresno, May 1992. If some dude in Japan with a 💻 can improve the RHRN footage to this degree not sure why an official re-release couldn’t look this good if not better …
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In 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣8️⃣, Rolling Stone critic Charles M. Young predicted, "In 3️⃣ YEARS, @VanHalen is going to be fat and self-indulgent and disgusting.”. VAN HALEN, 3️⃣ YEARS LATER:
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Great Van Halen II deep cut from @sebastianbach & Mike Anthony as performed last night @EddieTrunk’s 40th 📻 celebration . 🎥 @ChadGervich
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This vid makes me so sad for everyone in the Foo Fighters camp. I can’t imagine the pain they are experiencing. RIP Taylor.
Hearts broken all over the world. Taylor Hawkins was a kind soul & a monster musician. Drummer for the Foos, Alanis Morrisette & Sass Jordon (who I managed for a time). Taylor and his band were to play our Kiss Kruize in Oct…Prayers and condolences to the Hawkins family. 😞
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If you have a dream, an idea, a drive to do something artistic that comes from deep within you, live that impulse & pursue the dream, but most of all, commit to it - go all in. Edward Van Halen PLAYED music, but he WORKED at his craft to become the greatest. RIP.
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Before the new VAN HALEN 🏰 Donington footage surfaced, this clip of HFT filmed by the Beeb and broadcast in 1984 was thought to be the only professional film of VH shot that day. It offers a different angle of their high energy show! And lots of close ups of Mike A 😀
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Congratulations to @WolfVanHalen & @MammothWVH for the @RecordingAcad Grammy Nomination for Best Rock Song for.“DISTANCE”
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The unthinkable has happened. I'm stunned. My deepest condolences to @eddievanhalen's loved ones.
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Birthday message from AVH posted at the official VH website….❤️
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And to think there are ppl who’d prefer David Lee Roth hang it up. My lord, he puts on a more compelling performance than most entertainers while WALKING TO THE STAGE . 🎥: @divinity83 .
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TWISTERS 🍿 🎥 is out now. TWISTER 🌪️ came out in 1996 … will always love this Van Halen song.
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Last night in Spokane, @MylesKennedy joined @WolfVanHalen & @mammothwvh onstage to rip through some @AliceInChains 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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