I'm joined by guest Brian Salvatore as we remember the greatness of Eddie Van Halen.

Show notes:

• Recorded via Skype

• Last spoke in late March but feels a lot longer ago

• We've been fascinated by Van Halen's career, the good and the bad

• Eddie had dealt with cancer before

• Death still came as a shock

• Plenty of musician deaths this year: Neil Peart, Andy Gill, David Roback, Kenny Rogers, Bill Rieflin, Bill Withers, Adam Schlesinger, John Prine, Florian Schneider, Pete Way, Peter Green

• Eddie was iconic and eternally youthful

• Brian: First video I remember seeing was "Jump"

• Played on Letterman a few times

• Jay: Stopped listening to VH in '91 and didn't again for almost a decade

• The "Right Now" video was surprising

• Dropoff in quality after Roth left

• 2012's A Different Kind of Truth was a decent way to go out

• Hopefully there will finally be some archival VH releases

• Who buys greatest hits albums?

• Eddie's guest appearances

• Jay: First became aware of VH in 1980 when Women and Children First came out

• Eddie had been quiet for several years

• Roth was doing a Vegas residency and opening for KISS just before the pandemic shutdown

• Missing live music

• Plenty of livestreams to check out

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.