Joe Trohman It’s weird when someone you love passes away. Yes, it’s also sad, traumatic, devastating, grief-laden, painful, agonizing, mind-numbing, and just all-around horrible.
But when someone who has taken up a particular space in your life — your entire life — just POOF, disappears virtually overnight… Well, the world suddenly feels incredibly strange.
It’s a little like waking from a nightmare — everything is slightly off.The death of Eddie Van Halen has set everything askew for me.
At a time when things seem generally terrible, the world feels just that much more out of sorts now that he’s gone.As a kid, you grow up with these heroes and assume they’ll be around forever.
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