# Eddie Van Halen - does he look even more distinguished today than 30 years ago? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990 "2015-06-20T01:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/21 "2015-06-23T22:15:58Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Geez, I made a bet to myself that this pick would be posted in the first 10 replies to the thread. I wasn’t disappointed. Yeah he looks like shit in that picture, but that’s not what he really looked like back then either. It’s a notoriously bad photo freezing him in time to that one moment. Much like getting a picture of someone in the middle of blinking while they’re talking. It makes them like a slack jawed yokel; but it doesn’t really look like what they look like on regular basis. In 2007 it did! Don’t click if you’re eating: > **[Eddie Van Halen Enters Rehab](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-van-halen-enters-rehab/)** > > Band Had Planned Summer Tour With David Lee Roth ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/22 "2015-06-23T22:20:41Z")
That fellow having relations with Valerie Bertinelli is all the proof I need that there is no God. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/23 "2015-06-23T22:29:13Z")
I’ve given food to the people who stand with the cardboard signs on the road medians who have better teeth than the ones he has in that picture. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/24 "2015-06-24T03:02:37Z")
Eddie’s endorsed guitars and amplifiers for a whole spectrum of manufacturers at different times. At least one of them was on the record as saying that nobody seems to be able to stay in Eddie’s good graces for very long; but if he keeps it up, he’ll have to start recycling some of the old partnerships. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’ve given food to the people who stand with the cardboard signs on the road medians who have better teeth than the ones he has in that picture. So if their teeth look worse than Eddie’s, you let them starve? You may have a future in Libertarian politics. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/25 "2015-06-24T13:58:08Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > So if their teeth look worse than Eddie’s, you let them starve? You may have a future in Libertarian politics. 😃 Sure I do. But sometimes I run out of the special bags of soft food for the toothless and homeless. I always feels kinda bad giving toothless people the bags that have beef jerky and corn chips in them. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990/26 "2015-06-24T18:19:17Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’ve given food to the people who stand with the cardboard signs on the road medians who have better teeth than the ones he has in that picture. > > > [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > > > So if their teeth look worse than Eddie’s, you let them starve? You may have a future in Libertarian politics. 😃 > > > > > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > > > > Sure I do. But sometimes I run out of the special bags of soft food for the toothless and homeless. I always feels kinda bad giving toothless people the bags that have beef jerky and corn chips in them. Duh. I mean, sure I do give food to anyone, teeth or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-van-halen-does-he-look-even-more-distinguished-today-than-30-years-ago/722990.md?page=1)