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Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Re: Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Postby nimnarb » October 7th, 2020, 4:34 am

The Mozart of Rock. RIP. Jump and “Shred” it in heaven. Also to play with your son, special. He also played lead guitar to Michael Jackson’s “Beat it.”

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Re: Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Postby servodude » October 7th, 2020, 6:01 am

nimnarb wrote: He also played lead guitar to Michael Jackson’s “Beat it.”


well he played a pretty awesome solo for about 20 secs in it
- everything else (the cracking lead riff etc) was Steve Lukather who, according to interviews with Eddie, used to rib him about
A] the fact that Eddie was only paid in beer for his contribution to one of the biggest songs of the decade
and
B] Eddie took quite a bit of stick from people once the "secret" broke that it was in fact him and not just someone pretending to be him

No question that EVH defined his own genre, style and (brown) sound
- true legend

- sd

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Re: Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Postby TheMotorcycleBoy » October 7th, 2020, 6:02 am

Sad. Maybe he continue to play Eruption somewhere.

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Re: Eddie Van Halen. RIP

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Postby AleisterCrowley » October 7th, 2020, 5:58 pm

The focus there is on solos but one of the best things about EVH was that he 'played for the song', with some great riffs and fills, and never used a song to showcase his technique in a long solo (Eruption from the first LP is the exception but he used this as a warm up and the producer got him to tape it)

Good article here on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54446564

On record, he even kept his solos short, structuring them like mini-movements within songs, with a defined beginning, middle and end.

"I haven't heard anyone do a long interesting guitar solo outside of early Clapton," he observed.

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Postby TheMotorcycleBoy » October 8th, 2020, 4:20 am

AleisterCrowley wrote:The focus there is on solos but one of the best things about EVH was that he 'played for the song', with some great riffs and fills, and never used a song to showcase his technique in a long solo (Eruption from the first LP is the exception but he used this as a warm up and the producer got him to tape it)

Agree.

Other big VH faves of mine being "Panama" and "Hot for teacher".

:D

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Postby servodude » October 8th, 2020, 5:15 am

TheMotorcycleBoy wrote:
AleisterCrowley wrote:The focus there is on solos but one of the best things about EVH was that he 'played for the song', with some great riffs and fills, and never used a song to showcase his technique in a long solo (Eruption from the first LP is the exception but he used this as a warm up and the producer got him to tape it)

Agree.

Other big VH faves of mine being "Panama" and "Hot for teacher".

:D


Good picks!

I managed to get everyone to listen to VH2 in the car yesterday, classic!


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