Alex Van Halen Is selling his gear....and stuff

[Turner Coates]

https://www.backstageauctions.com/catal ... ac/0/2246/

[HottKarl777]

I hope he sells his piss bucket. That thing got used every show every tour.

[Zabooka]

He’s also selling a nephew for free.

[Black Stuff]

Buncha crap

[Rocker4Real]

Does he own all the tapes in the studio?

[Ozzy Stradlin]

The drums would be worth having - particularly the 1940s Slingerland kit.

Screw the rest of it.

[Mister Freeze]

Does he own all the tapes in the studio?

Some descendent will sell off the demos "as is" long after most Van Halen nerds who'd care about 'em are dead.

[Mister Freeze]

The drums would be worth having - particularly the 1940s Slingerland kit.

Screw the rest of it.

The drum stool isn't a bad deal at $100.

[BernieTaupson]

That’s a starting bid. It won’t be anywhere like $100.

Anyone else see the setlist photocopies? Why are they even selling those? They’re photocopies!

[cowpins]

He’s also selling a nephew for free.

And he's already supersized.

[Ozzy Stradlin]

The drums would be worth having - particularly the 1940s Slingerland kit.

Screw the rest of it.

The drum stool isn't a bad deal at $100.

That will likely be bid up to an unreasonable price.

[AJL]

That's a really weird auction, with a lot of worthless crap that has nothing to do with music or the Van Halen band, but because it was Alexs', it cost 150 bucks

I don't get it... like at all. Is it some sort of egomania induced thing? Is he that desperate for cash? Or is somebody actually gonna buy the non-drum related crap at absurd prices???

[El Vampiro Blanco]

He’s also selling a nephew for free.

And he's already supersized.

But the postage and packing will be steep.....

[jens]

Still not as bad as the old pairs of jeans of the fat Pantera dude.

[Love_Industry]

Does he own all the tapes in the studio?

Some descendent will sell off the demos "as is" long after most Van Halen nerds who'd care about 'em are dead.

Just wait for Wolf to pilfer them for songs that can be credited "Van Halen - Van Halen - Van Halen" because he will change some words in them.

[Love_Industry]

Still not as bad as the old pairs of jeans of the fat Pantera dude.

Old Dutch bibles and children's books? Used copies of Britannica?
If not as bad then at least not much better.

[BernieTaupson]

Does he own all the tapes in the studio?

Some descendent will sell off the demos "as is" long after most Van Halen nerds who'd care about 'em are dead.

Just wait for Wolf to pilfer them for songs that can be credited "Van Halen - Van Halen - Van Halen" because he will change some words in them.

Change a word, get a third.

He doesn’t even need to, he would get away with saying they were his.

[Love_Industry]

Some descendent will sell off the demos "as is" long after most Van Halen nerds who'd care about 'em are dead.

Just wait for Wolf to pilfer them for songs that can be credited "Van Halen - Van Halen - Van Halen" because he will change some words in them.

Change a word, get a third.

He doesn’t even need to, he would get away with saying they were his.

Having songs written by Pops and Uncle Al would generate more sales than 1981 VH originals passed off as new Wolfie compositions. It's not like he has to pay Dad.

[AlexVonHaig]

Alex doesn't get enough credit for being the biggest douche in VH

[Bono Nettencourt]

Still not as bad as the old pairs of jeans of the fat Pantera dude.

Old Dutch bibles and children's books? Used copies of Britannica?
If not as bad then at least not much better.

Hey, he probably used those encyclopedias to learn to drum on. He sure wasn't reading them.

[Love_Industry]

Alex doesn't get enough credit for being the biggest douche in VH

True. Roth gets all the douche credit but both brothers were probably worse at least over time.

Only Mikey saves OG VH from being another "all asshole band" (think Kiss, Mötley...).

[Bono Nettencourt]

Yeah the bros were both alkies. Ed was the melancholy brooding drunk and Al was the silent angry drunk.

[Rocker4Real]

Yeah the bros were both alkies. Ed was the melancholy brooding drunk and Al was the silent angry drunk.

Sammy said Alex quit in the 80s.

[Anthrax442]

Yeah the bros were both alkies. Ed was the melancholy brooding drunk and Al was the silent angry drunk.

Sammy said Alex quit in the 80s.

Counterpoint: I wouldn't trust Sammy as far as I can throw him.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Yeah I also find that hard to believe. He was still running thru wives in the 90s and 00s.

[BernieTaupson]

Alex did quit in the 80s, they did an intervention and he went to rehab after OU812. But he got fucked up again later, Mike Post said he was too wasted to play when they were doing VH3.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Alex did quit in the 80s, they did an intervention and he went to rehab after OU812.

Aha. Now that you mention it, I remember Eddie saying that he was "sober" in the guitar mags around that time. Ozzy too.

[BernieTaupson]

Yeah Ed said he was sober for Balance and Sam later said it was bullshit he was just secretly drinking.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Right. I remember Ozzy getting drunk and wandering the neighborhood on the Osbournes when he was supposedly "sober".

[Tommy2Tone84]

Yeah I also find that hard to believe. He was still running thru wives in the 90s and 00s.

You have to be an alcoholic to run through wives?