Sunday, June 22, 2008

Guitar World: If You Close Your Eyes It's Believable


The hilarious thing here would be if Eddie Van Halen really looked like this. He'd be walking on the beach and people would be taking pictures of him to send to this blog. Guitar World: we expect and deserve a sincere apology.

Thanks to Chris E!

63 comments:

Laura said...

Oh my god!!

Anonymous said...

oh my god

Hebi said...

oh god XD

Anna said...

Planet of the Apes anyone?
lol!

Anonymous said...

it's him. google him. he just looks like that. no Fake!

Maria said...

Eddie Van Halen performs with his shirt of; Sept. 27, 2007. He is pretty damn fit for his age.
http://blog.cleveland.com/photos/b0471cec07cc30500cffba0328a3e51e.jpg

The cover looks photoshopped as hell though.
But he could go on the beach without being ashame

Donal óg said...

Hahahaha!!
Oh wow... How?

Turk said...

FRANKENSTEIN!!!

How many body parts (inc. hair) does it take to build an 'Eddie Van Halen' these days?

Congrats on making a mention on BBCs 'Click'.

Thanks for making me the 'that odd bloke in the flat below who laughs out loud just before midnight' guy :)
Ah whatever, its well worth the coming few days odd looks... then again not nearly as many as Van Helsing.... Halen would receive.....

10 lbs of awesome in a 5 lb bag said...

I don't know whether there was photoshopping done here, but I can tell you, the guy is unbelievably fit (for someone his age or not). I saw him in concert a couple of years ago, and he had his shirt off the entire time. There was not an ounce of fat on him. It was crazy.

Turk said...

btw it would take a few 100 to build the guy in my icon, Will Burroughs has been dead for nearly 10 years, it ain't me.

Turk said...

Burroughs... oddly relevant to this blog being 1 of the co founders of 'Cut ups'....

Chris said...

How weird.

I think his guitars usually have "Kramer" on the headstock, but I could be wrong.

Anonymous said...

Guess I'm not a fan....

So here's a pic...

and guess what?
he looks a little different.
no?

http://eppsnet.com/images/capt.ny10703090648.people_van_halen_ny107.jpg

Anonymous said...

or

http://www.serialcereal.com/fark/EddieVanHalenBlingBling.jpg

or

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/eddie_van_halen1.jpg

suck it up, gummy

Anonymous said...

Sorry those URL's got cropped, somehow :))

1st etc

http://eppsnet.com/index.php?s=halen

http://www.serialcereal.com/fark/EddieVanHalenBlingBling.jpg

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/eddie_van_halen1.jpg

They are the same pic (about a year old or less) and 1 HAS been touched up!!

Pesto Bong said...

HELPFUL HINT
============
People posting links here need to learn how to use html to make them work like this.

At the moment no-one else can click your text URLs, and most of them are wider than the comments column, so we can't even copy and paste them into our address bars.

Anonymous said...

My apologise to PC / Firefox users who can't do whatever i can, drag n drop the partial URL's which honestly do open...

So i'll make the effort n get a href= ing :)

1st
Van Halen image + story"

2nd

Full Image un-touched


3rd
Gran Van touched up

chad;wick said...

i dont think he looks that good in real life.
photoshopped. :)
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Anonymous said...

In Firefox, cutting and pasting the URLS works just fine, even when they're cut off.

Anonymous said...

I'm mainly looking at his neck and thinking "man, that'd look strange in real life if he really had a neck like that" ;). It looks kinda long, and in a somewhat strange shape.(Obviously because of the photoshop, but still, thinking of it as if it wasn't. Outside of the body itself, that tells me alot about it being photoshopped.)

Anonymous said...

Partial URL's do not open by some kind of voodoo magic.
That's not how the internet or firefox works.

You are either pasting the entire link in, or the page is cached already since you have previously visited it and is auto-completing or something.

Captin Shmit said...

Even Young Buckethead knows this sucks!

Cynthia and Lauren's Blog said...

WOW. That is amazing....his head is a completely different color. Obviously they neglected it in the editing process.

I really enjoy this blog.

Patrice said...

Yeah ahah his heads a different color!

Anonymous said...

Despite the likely photoshopping, the disappointing thing is that Ed has been sporting a short haircut since about May of '07, so either this is a really old cover, or an old photo on a recent cover. I'm also really surprised that none of the people posting links have suggested checking out images from van-halen.com, the band's official web site.

Simon said...

Ed isn't "fit". He just doesn't have any body fat. Being a chainsmoking alcoholic with a meth habit will do that to you.

Looks to me like they 'shopped face, hair, chest, and hand/guitar together from different photos... hell, different decades.

This is what Ed looks like now:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_jgyugzLdbng/RfGvM7jILlI/AAAAAAAAAPE/UI9TzQuN_q0/s400/Eddie+VH.jpg

Eindoodle said...

I saw him in concert... THATS HIM!

Anonymous said...

Pretty sure its him

http://flickr.com/photos/14267811@N08/2437318901/

photo dated april 22 2008

Anonymous said...

Honestly, this one isn't a Photoshop disaster beyond the usual combination of cover-of-magazine stuff and too much face makeup.

He actually does look like this now.

Anonymous said...

To the person that said Eddie's now sporting a short haircut -- yes, this is an old cover.

Look here for the cover from February of this year.

Stacia said...

This is a picture from March and while Eddie looks pretty good -- new teeth, haircut, tanned -- his figure in that pic doesn't look quite the same as it does on the Guitar World magazine cover. Besides, it's clear that his magazine used an old photo of his face and shopped it onto a body. Could be his real body, actually, but the head definitely doesn't match.

Anonymous said...

Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the barrel.

What am I missing here?

Anonymous said...

Might very well be his body, but it's shopped as hell. Look at the shadow under his head, lol.

Anonymous said...

this is hilarious

Anonymous said...

Dude is seriously fit!

Anonymous said...

so you guys ran out of material again?

GarColga said...

Long links that appear to be cropped in Blogger's comment sections are really all there! Just continue dragging into the white until the mouse pointer returns, right click and copy.

Allie said...

It's like Mickey Dolenz and Gene Simmons defeated the restraints of their reproductive systems and had a lovechild.

Anonymous said...

hahahahahahaha c'mon

Guitarman5150 said...

Yeah that's him. That photo shop dosen't do him any good. That Guitar World came in my mail and I said "WTF!" The pictures inside and the CD-ROM that came with it he looks much better in.

bad said...

ctrl+c, ctrl+p

Man its been a long day! See ya!

lol, horrible

Anonymous said...

Why is the shadow under his nose so deep it's almost black, yet that on his neck/shoulder is not as dark? Also, the shadow on his neck/shoulder seems to indicate a light source above him, but the shadows on his body don't bear that out.

artistpavel said...

@Pesto Bong:

Just get Linkification Firefox Add-on, and all links become clickable automatically:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190

djracerx said...

wow

Jon said...

http://www.beverlyhillspeople.com/pages/Eddie_Van_Halen.html]

Apparently it is his body... and that's alright, but what is scary, are his toes... scroll down this link!

Anonymous said...

He does, however, still look better than David Lee Roth.

aballard23 said...

.. I thought it was about the '5 songs' and then.. there's only four.

Top left corner. Wtf?

Anonymous said...

Guys, look at his sides! Has he been taken to with an angle grinder, or what? If that's what he looks like in reality, instead of music he should be famous for warping light around his midsection.

Rafael said...

funny thing, he actually looks fitter in that picture with the short hair!

Murderface said...

Maybe they just botoxed his torso?

ChicChickory said...

Was this another Geico ad? hahaha

THE SANDY DOG BAKERY said...

Geez...that's just hard to look at!

designerdisasters.com said...

i reckon thats him. but they phoned in some long hair because its more 'rock!'

Zen Wizard said...

D'oh!

Chicchickory stole my Geico funny...

Charlene said...

I love how the crepey old-guy skin stops exactly at his necklace.

Maybe he should turn the necklace around?

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unico said...

2006
Eddie Van Halen Performs Live



sorry if i didnt url correctly.
these pictures show him with long hair and topless.

so the cover is all him
the lightly is just screwed up

unico said...

Lighty = "Lighting"

sorry for the typo, i am a bit dyslexic a times

Anonymous said...

Honestly, I don't see it as that bad. It could be his body, when comparing it to recent photos. Hell, he even has the tattoo in the right place (on his arm, the guitar covers most of it though).

Imogen said...

That's actually what he looks like. It's not a photoshop disaster.

Anonymous said...

Eddie Van Halen is one of the best guitarist, ever. God Bless him. He still rocks.

monsterpop said...

Eddie Mong Halen!

Meechree said...

um, thats him.