Did you know Frank Sinatra made music videos? He did! Ted [the producer] put it on tape, slowed it down, and then we came in with the bass. In , Van Halen accompanied his son, Wolfgang, to a Tool concert, as one does.
While there, an excited-looking Tool fan asked the elder Van Halen to take a photo of him in front of the stage, apparently having no idea whom he had just handed his iPhone to.
Thankfully, Wolfgang captured the amusing moment:. Bill S. Preston, Esq. As it turns out, Van Halen himself was offered the role of Rufus — the wizened time-traveling guide, played by George Carlin — but turned it down. At one point, Van Halen entered his hotel room and realized that bandmate David Lee Roth had thrown his table and chairs out the window, into the snow.
In , Eddie Van Halen was present in the Saturday Night Live studio because his then-wife, actress Valerie Bertinelli , happened to be hosting that evening. David Bertinelli had stayed close to Van Halen over the decades and knew his former brother-in-law was ill, but he didn't expect the death.
It hit me so hard," Bertinelli said. He was part of our family. Even after he and Val divorced — they went through some ups and downs — but they always remained close and they raised a wonderful son.
Van Halen's namesake band had a string of hits starting in the late s through the s such as "Running with the Devil," "Panama," "Unchained," and the band's only U. Bertinelli, who manages parks and trails for Charlevoix County, is a photographer in his free time. He has taken hundreds of photos of his sister Valerie and her first husband, Van Halen, along with the band, on road tours in the s and s.
David had hoped to publish a book of photos with Van Halen contributing memories to each picture. More: Greta Van Fleet is the pride of Frankenmuth at album-release party. The Bertinelli family declined to discuss the funeral arrangements for Van Halen because they want to keep it private. David, 59, and his siblings, Patrick, 56, Drew, 65, and Valerie, 60, were all born in Delaware.
Their father, Andy, worked at a GM factory there. They had another brother, Mark, who died when he was 17 months old after he accidentally drank poison at a family friend's farm, Valerie told People magazine in May. Because of Andy's job with GM, the family moved around the country. Former next-door neighbor Joe Fabrizio, 75, remembers the family well.
They grew to be close friends, with Valerie often babysitting his kids. It wouldn't be the first time the Bertinellis would astonish Fabrizio. The neighbors kept in touch after Andy got transferred to Van Nuys, California, in In fact, Andy's wife, Nancy Bertinelli, painted as a hobby and sent the Fabrizio family her painting of the Santa Barbara Mission, a piece of artwork Fabrizio hopes to give to David.
Years after moving to California, Andy returned to Michigan and paid an unexpected visit to Fabrizio's backyard.
With him was his young son-in-law — decked out in striped, tight-fitting pants, Fabrizio said. Eddie was very polite, a gentleman. Fabrizio said his Italian family liked to perform music at parties. But Van Halen had to get to his show and didn't stay long, he said.
They presumed it was just another old, square friend of Daddy's. Valerie, then 15, played Barbara Cooper in it. The show, produced by Norman Lear, was a success, ending production in Fabrizio remains amazed at how Valerie was the kid next door one minute and then "there she is on TV" the next.
He lived with his sister while he finished his senior year at Hollywood High School. She was into Elton John's music at the time, he said.
But David was a rocker and had discovered a new metal band. Van Halen is considered one of the greatest guitarists to ever perform. A self-taught prodigy, Van Halen reinvented the way a guitar could be played by using a tapping technique on the neck that changed how it sounded. He even changed how it was made, often building his own instruments. Rolling Stone magazine wrote in its Oct. By the summer of , David moved to Louisiana with his parents when Valerie learned Van Halen was set to play a concert in Shreveport.
Their brother, Patrick, knew a local radio DJ who got them all tickets and backstage passes to the show. Valerie was on the first flight there. The Bertinellis made it backstage and Valerie met Eddie. David, who stood nearby with his camera, said the chemistry was instant. He snapped two pictures of them, which Valerie declined to share for this story.
You know, it just goes to show that some things never change. Like many people at that time, Hagar was fascinated by the skills of the future guitar legend. So, they were definitely Montrose freaks. What did they say? Who did what? But Ted brought that up in a meeting. I never got the call. It would have been interesting if I would have.
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