Check out
www.melodicrock.com and you can see a picture of Eddie Van Halen at Elton John's Oscar Party.
He looks shockingly old and emaciated. David Lee Roth said Eddie was addicted to meth on his radio show. This picture would suggest that Eddie's health is deteriorating and it MIGHT be the result of addiction - just as Dave suggested.
Not counting the 2004 Greatest Hits tour, Eddie hasn't done anything original since '98 - and that effort sounded as if he was trying to imitate Nuno Bettencourt. How the mighty have fallen.