Blue Angels / Van Halen

[Dan K]

EVH was EVERYTHING to me as a kid. I still have my first electric guitar, a red and white striped Kramer copy by Memphis Guitars that I got for my 15th birthday. They eventually got sued for producing it. When I got it, I sat for hours and learned Eruption note for note. Twenty four years later, I can't remember all of it, but I can still hit the highlights. And for the record I prefer DLR to Sammy.

I'm laughing too! I didn't learn Eruption until I was 19 though! A sober EVH was about as good as 80's radio ever got.

I picked up a crappy Strat copy with humbuckers a couple months ago, just to prove to my "Guitar Hero" addicted kids how I paid my way through college! Nothing quite like bending strings to blow off a day's worth of stress.

[Rick65]

I've never had the chanct to see the Blue Angels fly but I've loved the Skyhawk since I was at a Garden Island Naval Base (the Perth Western Australian one) on an open day when the RNZAF Skyhawks did simulated attacks on the facility.
The same year that the Kiwis put one of them in the ocean north of Perth and only just before they were retired.
Such a neat and compact plane, is it the only example of a true lightweight plane succeeding in US service?

I would have thought that VH was more Su 27, F15 or Tomcat music than Skyhawk.

[warbird1]

Such a neat and compact plane, is it the only example of a true lightweight plane succeeding in US service?

Nope, there are others - T-38, F-5, F-104, T-45, etc.

[airnutz]

It's still great!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGcxN2D1E34

Ah yes 5150, the first Van Hagar album. More Eddie keyboard...just peachy. Sorry to see the Scooter leave the BA's!