Alex Winter on How Eddie Van Halen Was the Guiding Light of 'Bill & Ted'

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The actor and filmmaker talks discovering Van Halen as a teenager and the guitarist’s impact on the Bill and Ted series

and fantasize that one day he’ll join the band. In real life, the film’s writers hoped to cast the guitar god as a major role in the movie.as a teenager and the impact he had on the film series.

For me, it was the beginning of this sort of rivalry between one style of music and another that would then creep into rap through the back end of the Eighties and the Nineties — West Coast versus East Coast. But I’d never heard a virtuosic rock guitar player playing anthemic pop songs before. Ever. I grew up in the Seventies largely in the Midwest. Hard rock was really. I liked it a lot, but it was very hard.

in Van Halen’s playing! It wasn’t just noodling. It wasn’t like some guy who could play the guitar really fast. There was a really beautiful quality to what he would play that I think really impacted people profoundly. I hate to keep it to this California thing, but, to me, it’s connected a lot to the Beach Boys and what made Brian Wilson so great. There was depth and intelligence and craft within these accessible pop songs.

 

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RIP

I cant. Say. Anything except RIP. Eddie I start my battle with Throat Cancer. On. 23rd. The Hatter. Mam you were the Best. Amen.

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