DAVE wrote "Intruder"? Who woulda thunk?

[Brett]

Originally posted by MAX
Ok Norton!!!

I gotcha and I'll even send you the mag!!! lol.

It's a "Best Of Guitar Player" Mag and I would assume circa 1992 or '93 judging by all of the EBMM ads and the latest interviews were about LRHRN.

The cover has Ed on the VHII tour cos he's got the Yellow Striped Charvel.

It's entitled : VAN HALEN: UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEWS!

It reads:

"In 1978, Young Eddie Van Halen used to call us at 3 A.M. to talk guitars, song, ideas and life on the road.

We kept the tape running..."

Anyway, in an interview with Jas Obrecht entitled "THE VAN HALEN TAPES" on page 24, here it is:

Q: Does Dave play the acoustic on "The Full Bug"?

A: Edward: Yeah, he plays the intro.

Dude wait a second, that interview is from 1978, why would he be talking about "The Full Bug?" Are you sure that it doesn't say "Ice Cream Man," because I recall reading it that way.

[fatmanwalking]

Originally posted by Matt White
Yeah...thanks for sharin'...

the van hagar recordings sure reflected the guitar genius of EVH.....

THe guy has SUCKED for the past 20 years....

I'm startin' to think DAVE played ERUPTION...and taught it to EVH

IMO Hagar era and Dave's solo albums outside of ETAS are about the same. I am a guitar player so vocalists don't do as much for me as other people. I dig Eddie a lot regardless of who is singing.

However Dave's solo stuff does not compare to anything outside of Diver Down.

I know its Dave site but if Eddie had a site I would say that anything after 1984 was subpar.

Dave's best work was with VH>

[Matt White]

I'll Take ANY DAVE solo over van hagar.....

van hagar is music for housewives & Mullet-farmers

[DlocRoth]

Originally posted by Brett
Dude wait a second, that interview is from 1978, why would he be talking about "The Full Bug?" Are you sure that it doesn't say "Ice Cream Man," because I recall reading it that way.

I think that shit about '78 and leaving the tape rollin is just the intro to the whole "lost interviews" deal. The quote about Full Bug is from a later interview.

[Brett]

Ah ok.

I recall that interview, pretty sure I have it in that Guitar World book that came out a few years ago, I'll take a look.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by fatmanwalking

BTW, Eddie also played the acoustic guitar on Big Bad Bill. He said it was a blast sitting next to his dad while reading the charts for the song.

BTW, that's not an acoustic guitar, It's electric...

[MAX]

Originally posted by Brett
Ah ok.

I recall that interview, pretty sure I have it in that Guitar World book that came out a few years ago, I'll take a look.

I should have explained it better.

It is a series of interviews that began in 1978 and go all the way through 1982. That part that I quoted, Ed is doing nothing but talking about the recording of "Diver Down."

[Terry]

Far as Intruder goes, maybe Dave wrote the main riff, which isn't all that complex, but far as that track goes I tend to remember what Ed did on it more than anything else.

Dave has played guitar for a long time. Not in the same league as Edward, but the man is able to play. Matter of fact, when I first saw the Bar-B-Que, was kinda taken aback by the fact that he was purty good. No Segovia, but the man knows how to make that catgut meow. He has ability beyond the open-tuning Ice Cream Man acoustic parts.

Agreed that the Take Your Whiskey Home intro is Ed. I could see Dave playing the Full Bug intro; well within his capabilities.

Think as far as CVH went, Dave was probably more of an ear for Ed to bounce ideas off of than anything else. Never bought into the whole "Dave and/or Eddie is/was CVH" nonsense to begin with. Took all four of 'em to make it happen. But I could see Dave saying to Ed something like "Let's use that part you came up with in the chorus instead of the bridge," or something along those lines.

[Matt White]

I bet DAVE played some guitar on "Could This Be Magic" too.....


Kinda like ROBERT PLANT playing acoustic on LED ZEPPELIN III and not getting credit......

[MAX]

Originally posted by Matt White
I bet DAVE played some guitar on "Could This Be Magic" too.....

He did.

He played the rhythm part. It was just Dave, Ed and Ted Templeman in the studio when they first cut it with Ed playing slide.

When they did the vocals Nicolette Larson also sang backup.

I've got it in some fuckin' interview somewhere.

They also toyed with ending the song with a cow's "moo" but decided against it. The water you hear in the song is real too cos it was raining heavily when they put down the basic track.

[Matt White]

Originally posted by MAX
He did.

He played the rhythm part. It was just Dave, Ed and Ted Templeman in the studio when they first cut it with Ed playing slide.

When they did the vocals Nicolette Larson also sang backup.

I've got it in some fuckin' interview somewhere.

They also toyed with ending the song with a cow's "moo" but decided against it. The water you hear in the song is real too cos it was raining heavily when they put down the basic track.

EXACTLY 'Millian!

DAVE was responsible for WAY more of the CLASSIC VAN HALEN sound then he's ever given credit for......

[MAX]

Originally posted by Matt White
EXACTLY 'Millian!

DAVE was responsible for WAY more of the CLASSIC VAN HALEN sound then he's ever given credit for......

That's beyond evident Taeo cos listen to the shit they put out without his imput.

I mean they even brought Ted Templeman back for that "FUCK" album to do with Sammy what he'd always done with Dave and Andy Johns played the Donn Landee role. They recorded it much like "1984" and the songs STILL sucked.

Even Alexia said it himself in 1996:

"There's no denying the chemistry that happens when the four of us play together. Something magical always happens in the music."

[Matt White]

TRUE 'DAT!!!

[Diamondjimi]

The Full Bug intro. has got to be Ed. It sounds like it's played with a pick. Dave always picked with his fingers , generally in open tunings (Ice cream Man).

Could this be Magic & Big Bad Bill were recorded with all of them tracking live. CTBM outdoors during a California rain storm &
B.B.B was recorded live while they played in a circle joined by Jan VH on clarinet.

[MAX]

Originally posted by diamondjimi
The Full Bug intro. has got to be Ed.

IT ISN'T!!!

It's DAVE!!!

Fuck, even Ed said so and Dave played it live on The Hide Your Sheep Tour!!!