Eddie Van Halen interview with Molly Meldrum 1985

This interview aired during ABC TV Australia's tribute to Eddie Van Halen on Rage on 9 October, 2020. It was shot in late 1985, before the release of 5150.

[@Lempersbram]

The golden days. RIP Edward, you will be sorely missed. But grateful for the music and legacy you left us.

[@matthalo89]

Eddie’s sense of humor was always unique and my opinion entertaining. It’s like you never knew what he was going to do next.

[@tyryztoll]

He had a thing about Cowboy hats hiding baldness.....evidenced here and in Sammy's book when he told the story about Toby Keith meeting Eddie at one of their shows.

[@hazor777]

This is a funny one , if you haven't seen it yet kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2Sknahuo7-orM0

[@Fearzero]

@@tyryztoll Ya he was being a dick in this video as he was to Toby Keith.

[@user-kp1ry3so2s]

He was drunk

[@powermedal3578]

Imagine being Eddie Van Halen? And then to top it off, during the 80s, in his prime ... the stories, the money, fame, the parties. EVH lived the life of 25 men 🤘

[@realguitarshredder]

To be honest the 80s were there because of van halen.. i mean they started it, the sound, the act, the presence, the care free rockstar attitude.

[@debrasalinas2831]

I agree he came to accomplish a mission on earth 🌍 and he did change rock metal and invented new amps & guitars 🎸

[@williamroark]

Hangin’ with America’s SWEETHEART!!😉

[@MyKittyPercy]

Wild times, but fun times. Ladies and gentlemen, the 80s!

[@switchbladeactiondance]

Felt this❤

[@hazor777]

So true, what a great time to be alive .... stark contrast in regards to today.

[@SilentKnight43]

The interviewer was a great sport. Loved seeing Ed and Sammy just lettin' it loose. Fun interview.

[@Dutchy5150]

Thanks for posting this Grant. This is gold.

[@grantfisher]

No worries, mate. Glad ABC dug it out for us all to enjoy!

[@JohnnyBeane]

@@grantfisher :)

[@joshuaross4644]

Sammy is hammered too !!! Love the boy George remark

[@aus80srockradio94]

Yeah that was hilarious. The only person that didn't was Molly. 😄

[@Fearzero]

Ya bigotry is funny oi?

[@user-kp1ry3so2s]

@@Fearzero yeah it’s pretty funny

[@KittyKittyBoomBoom]

Notice he started saying “ People like Dave…” first. Lol

[@zodiac6968]

@@aus80srockradio94 Cause he's a shirt lifter too.

[@joshuaross4644]

Eddie is hammered 🤣

[@indigodiva8206]

They are all hammered!

[@meganrose5415]

@@indigodiva8206 Yup lol

[@jjpopnfresh6822]

"I'm never straight" 😂

[@Kamy.GG.Official]

*Damn this is gold*

[@CollinAbbott1997]

I love these guys I love watching old videos of them. My dad talks about the 80s and how cool it was. The boy George comment would have Sammy on world news now a days.... that’s how soft this generation has become. And I was born in 1997 😬

[@Theo-hc5ob]

Yeah; "What more do you want?!!?" He is THE KING! Get over yourself. He is the King!

[@ritarollins6664]

I miss this man so much. Thankful for his music ❤️

[@AmyNix]

I miss those day's, and now I have to miss Eddie and Van Halen....Love you Eddie💝

[@fuadmartapura-yx4ly]

Golden boy .. the smiling guitarist .. LEGEND ..👍👍👍👍👍

[@stevielough3933]

3:25 omg that look on Eddie's face

[@michaeltammaro482]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Eddie was a f'ing riot. I was peeing my pants. God Bless you Edward. You were the GREATEST!

[@shaynarose4254]

Those were the days!!!!!❤️ Valerie was so beautiful!!! On top of the world!

[@richardremick1639]

Van Halen having so much fun as usual. That guy was so lucky Eddie chatter with him and he looked so happy afterwards. Priceless Van Halen memories. Eddie was so wasted. Hey , he did it his way and was happy what can you say? He had fun. It was worth it. Love you and miss you Eddie ❤️ 😢😇🎸

[@stevemann3080]

SPOT ON BRO 🎸🔊🤘

[@richardremick1639]

@@stevemann3080 thanks man I speak from the heart ♥️ I figure if someone is happy let them party 🎈 🥳 better than them living super long and being miserable. He lived life as he wanted to and was happy. He was hilarious wasted anyway. I’ll take him like that instead. He was # 1 and so loved. Thanks man hang in there! 🤘🏼

[@stevemann3080]

@@richardremick1639 I have the same Birthday as Eddie. I also live like that. I'm hearing ya Mate 🤘🤘

[@richardremick1639]

@@stevemann3080 That’s perfect man. Mines is the day before I’m January 25th. I always felt a great connection of creativity because he was born the day after me. Aquarius ♒️is a creative sign I believe but that’s rockin you have the sane birthday. That’s super cool man. I’m happy everyone is sharing and venting their Van Halen memories on here. Great way to share the good times and vent our pain. Great chatting with you mate. 👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻

[@stevemann3080]

@@richardremick1639 AWESOME. KEEP ROCKIN' 😎🎸🔊

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Eddie covered in evil eye's and making the sign of the cross to drive the vampires away. That's my contribution here, repeating what you just saw for yourself, as per standard youtube etiquette.

[@barbaramatheny9654]

Breaks my heart to see these videos of Ed. Miss you Ed! RIP!

[@eileenheaney6396]

They were having a blast here!!

[@702gwlv6]

I never tour straight!! Great guitarist and funny too...

[@tyryztoll]

Somehow I think it's gotta be worth not quite making it to the average life expectancy to live a life as incredible and fun as the one Eddie did. Maybe that's just me.

[@fanofspooks]

🎸💃😺lol i love this! 🎸💃 Will forever love vanhalen with Dave and Sammy. R. I. P. Eddie, you have your wings in my book ! Rock on💋! 🎸 XOXO

[@freddylive4181]

Good Times .. real Happiness.

[@Haterzarefans]

Saw his ex wife Valerie Bertinelli in the background....what a hot couple they were...! Damn...i.was 10...i would have been on cloud nine if i could have met him.or his wife.im a fan of both.

[@williamroark]

I’ve always thought “TWINEY TWINS”…… (I mean THEY “LOOK ALIKE”…… not just SOULMATES,….a little MORE!!!)

[@dasse1588]

Buy our records and then we'll come tour Australia lol

[@buckbumbleboomstein4375]

Damn! Eddie was either off his head or pissed as a fart! HAHAHAHA Mollys got fun stories to tell

[@bhutchin1996]

1985. I'd seen Sammy a year earlier. And you think he had big hair here?! I just wonder how Dave would've responded. "You're live... on Dave TV!!!" RIP, Eddie.

[@michaeltammaro482]

I was peeing my pants with Eddie. " Until I'm straight? " " I'm never straight. " " Oh I'm kidding goddamnit. " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@penelopemyers7873]

Lol did he say hes never straight? Lol

[@9ZenMedia]

I think it refers to sobriety……. Maybe..

[@robintaylor4249]

The jacket that Eddie has on makes this 1986

[@grantfisher]

Thanks for commenting but a video posted by DJ Will D'Beats has solved the mystery! Eddie had cut his hair short by the last date of the 1986 tour in November so the caption is correct - 1985. Here's DJ Will's video of Ed with short hair: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4Dbcmqspaqbe5Y

[@cherrypieguy]

This is the funniest shit. Eddie's true sense of humor. Great Guy1

[@goodquestion1105]

This sums up Van Hagar. Even the attempts at humour were juvenile and it took 13 more years for them to tour straya

[@DFVH5150]

Definitely Christmas of '85 based off of Sammy's 'do.

[@tonymontana-uw1bq]

Molly Meldrum..thank you sir!

[@OcelotDAD]

60 FPS in the 80's feels weird.

[@DVincentW]

Edward is clocked. 😅

[@tyryztoll]

When wasn't he?

[@wanderdworld]

Hahahahaah I LOve ED HE was Fascinating to me and the million guitars and gear I went through to get that sound. I had a dear dear friend named Timmy who used to say Forward, NEVER STRAIGHT LOL. RIP ED AND TIM

[@JohnnyBeane]

Man great times!

[@KeithCanisius]

EVH is bloody high-:)

[@massapower]

Luv it... The fun they had with reporters 😜

[@carolgladfelder272]

Eddie & Sammy couldn't possibly be more wasted. 😂

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

Haha... Molly Meldrum Interviewing Van Halen in 1978 vs This interview....

[@vhuassie]

1978 was way better

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

@@vhuassie Agree!

[@bmentlow]

Cool Illuminati jacket Ed had on...😆😆

[@katjay3125]

Freemason

[@bonnerscott5374]

2nd tuesday of the month, not week Eddie boy

[@williamroark]

How cool…. “The VALERIE DAYS” 💜💜💜 😉

[@97warlock]

sammys hair though. even back then it was odd.

[@InsanityMediaProductions]

ed always kissed me on the lips

[@marksc1929]

....it's never good to lose a hero ...but when Gregg Allman and Edward Van Halen left us ...it hurt ....and it keeps on hurting ...

[@classicrockforever6355]

Same with Neil Peart 😓

[@marksc1929]

@@classicrockforever6355 .. absolutely ...I've followed Rush since 2112 .....also read Neils book " Ghost Rider " ....

[@classicrockforever6355]

@@marksc1929 cool!

[@classicrockforever6355]

@@marksc1929 what is you favorite rush song? Or songs lol because it's impossible to pick just one song 🤗🤘

[@classicrockforever6355]

I like Subdivisions, Red Barchetta,La Villa Strangiato and spirit of radio. But it changes and depends on the day I like others also 🙂😅

[@StarDustMountains]

Omg hilarious! XD

[@jovansucevic912]

Edie was the best he said I never straight hahahaha the king!

[@buddywilliams5650]

Late 1985.

[@realguitarshredder]

Man eddie was intimidating.

[@xPayBakx]

He's from Europe makes sense

[@Fearzero]

He was tiny. Far from intimidating.

[@kennethgambone6127]

Eddie fucking with em lollol

[@gregoryvanhalen]

He looks like his dad there

[@BeFearless_.1]

And to think, this all started with Piano lessons!

[@robgen06]

high as fuck rip ed

[@Luke-er6pg]

Didn’t get to Australia not for another 13 years! And by then it was with Gary Cherone!

[@allisonlovescats8314]

Wow lol

[@AllenGarberGuitarFun]

The whole band was drunk as hell for this. It was a party to celebrate the ‘5150’ album going gold or something of that sort.

[@markn3936]

I thought they would still be on the road for the 1984 album.

[@AllenGarberGuitarFun]

As I said, this was 1986 after the release of the ‘5150’ album.

[@aus80srockradio94]

@@AllenGarberGuitarFun December 1985. 5150 wasn't released yet, hence the intro of their "new singer" Hagar. By Christmas '86 - the whole world knew who Sammy was after their best ever LP made it big time.

[@AllenGarberGuitarFun]

@@aus80srockradio94 Wow. They were still recording the album then. What were they doing Down Under at that time?!

[@aus80srockradio94]

@@AllenGarberGuitarFun I don't believe they are in Oz here. Molly Meldrum travelled the world to do interviews.

[@pocoyina]

Y nunca dijeron si iban a ir a Australia o no XD

[@stevielough3933]

0:43 lol Sammy

[@KD-nb3mp]

"Will van halen ever tour australia?" "Tour straight?" "Im never straight so what do you mean?" Lol!

[@LoyalOpposition]

That drinking led to an early demise...

[@ciadella1971]

More the cigarettes.

[@NicholasNorway]

NO NO NO NO NO NO!

[@sinistershredder]

1:58

[@jakecook716]

Good thing Molly has a sense of humour, Molly is actually gay. In today's world people would be mad at those jokes

[@pdloder]

What's also funny is that Eddy & Sammy would greet each other with a kiss - they talked about it regularly.

[@jakecook716]

@@pdloder Eddie did it to everyone he was close to. Maybe it's a Dutch thing

[@pdloder]

@@jakecook716 I had wondered the same thing.

[@jacsig]

@@jakecook716 I saw a video of him at the Les Paul tribute in 1988. He kisses Les Paul too.

[@sinistershredder]

1:40

[@pashon4percushon]

I thought Prince's interviews were hilarious

[@switchbladeactiondance]

O cmon. Dont b so surban bout sword fights sammy.

[@user-qc7vy7wb2q]

moneyhager.actin' like this. dave just natural reaction

[@tylerbooth9592]

cocaine all day...

[@regaltip8A]

Off his face......what a waste.

[@gkgkjghiguggg527]

Wow cowboy hat was annoying af! Are u gonna tour Australia Eddie, huh huh are ya are ya, huh??? I wish Eddie would've slapped him! Rip EVH

[@diamondd2778]

Its a reporter trying to get an answer.....

[@MsHazza73]

Molly Meldrum is a bloody amazing Australian TV personality that put countless musicians on the charts from all over the world thanks to Countdown in the 70’s and 80’s. All you saw was him for a few minutes with a very drunk Eddie. We wanted them to tour Australia with Sammy (which they never did) but had promised earlier. And ‘the hat’ is an Akubra.

[@gkgkjghiguggg527]

@@MsHazza73 I said that jokingly so calm down bruh

[@denisrad4339]

Van Halen didn't tour Australia till 1998 with Gary Cherone singing

[@katjay3125]

Not that funny as this is why he's dead

[@bucksfan8344]

aussie ...will van halen tour Australia eddie.... im never straight..lol these interviewers have the worse timing . Always trying to get a legit interview from the shite faced ones. Your better off just thanking them for doing what they do and move on or you might end up wearing lipstick lmao

[@somerville_official8120]

Thanks for posting! If you have a minute, we uploaded an Eddie Van Halen tribute video. As fellow music fans, we'd love if you would take a listen. It's on our page. Don't be too tough on us :)