As far as concerts go, one of my favorite all time was when I got to see these two together. It was an utterly amazing show for the guitar freaks among us. I came away with a huge amount of respect for Joe Satriani that he would have such a phenom as Eric Johnson open for him. What a show! Just a wild night of incredible guitar solos and who the hell needs vocals anyway? I think there were like three songs the whole evening that had any vocals in them.
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I knew Eddie and his brother and David when they were playing at parties as Mammoth in the Pasadena area. The first big gig they had as Van Halen was at the Starwood On Santa Monica Blvb in Hollywood and I went to see them. I knew right then that they would be famous one day.Didn't know where to post this recently gained information, so I am posting it here.
When Michael Jackson was recording his hit song "Beat It" and they needed a guitar solo for the song and Eddie Van Halen was chosen to do it. The crew had taken a break (lunch?) when Van Halen arrived. When he was alone studying the arrangement, he decided to change the song so that he could rock harder in his solo. Jackson came back and ddie told him about the changes and he liked it better. Van Halen recorded his part within 30 minutes and all he asked or was a case of beer and some food. He also asked that he be given no credit at all on the album.
Eddie talked about it later before he died, but yesterday was the first time I'd heard of it
Time to show his boy some love. Wolfgang is an absolute song writing monster and has chops to make his father super proud.I knew Eddie and his brother and David when they were playing at parties as Mammoth in the Pasadena area. The first big gig they had as Van Halen was at the Starwood On Santa Monica Blvb in Hollywood and I went to see them. I knew right then that they would be famous one day.
Michael Anthony's always been my favorite member of that band.I knew Eddie and his brother and David when they were playing at parties as Mammoth in the Pasadena area. The first big gig they had as Van Halen was at the Starwood On Santa Monica Blvb in Hollywood and I went to see them. I knew right then that they would be famous one day.
How does this dude get over looked SOOO much…?
Must be his pop success… But make no mistake, Prince is an absolute shredder.
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Yeah when I was a kid there weren't many pop types I liked but Prince was always top of the list. So many great songs.
Nowadays I'm partial to songs with leads that have a lot of melody in them. This is one of my all time favorites:
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nothing can touch his solo @ the super bowl. solo/performance just exceptional AND in the rain.He gets overlooked, EVEN THOUGH he's a great guitar player because he doesn't really apply it to his actual SONGS. Little Red Corvette, Let's Get Crazy, nice little pop songs without guitar featured.
Prince is to me a Baseball player who has Sandy Koufax' stuff, but plays Second Base.
Are you talking about the 1976 gig with UFO, the first-time they played mostly originals? That was one historic event.I knew Eddie and his brother and David when they were playing at parties as Mammoth in the Pasadena area. The first big gig they had as Van Halen was at the Starwood On Santa Monica Blvb in Hollywood and I went to see them. I knew right then that they would be famous one day.
I liked Depp's band P with Gibby Haynes, Flea, and Steve Jones amongst others played on that project. Depp lived with Jeff Beck for a while they were buddies, can't hurt to be around BeckSomething strange popped up on my YouTube algorithms;
Johnny Depp doing an amazing job on a solo with some nylon strings on a song by Paul McCartney called My Valentine.
I knew he was in some funky band but I didn't know he could play like that.
Natalie Portman is looking pretty good in the video too.
No this night they played behind a band called sorcerer... they were also very good as they played rock and did magic tricks at the same time. I actually liked them as much as Van Halen. I do think it was 1976 though. I did see UFO at another time at the Troubadour or the whisky can't remember which.Are you talking about the 1976 gig with UFO, the first-time they played mostly originals? That was one historic event.
What a gig that would have been with two of the greatest rock guitarists tearing it up, Eddie and Schenker are the same age Schenker just broke before Eddy due to circumstance. Both are metal/hard rock Mount Rushmore.