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And I won't say Ed is even good at this point...
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Wrong...lol. You're referring to the intro to Little Guitars....had to school ya.Originally posted by DR CHIP
It's without question not the most difficult of the Van Halen compositions...AND it is a Carlos Montoya rip off..Ed himself said he saw this cat Montoya play and couldn't do it himself so he half-assed it and recorded Spanish Fly...
I don't think Dave would say he was even a good guitar player...Comment
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LOL....of course not, that would make sense! Cant break your streak yet.Originally posted by DR CHIP
And I won't say Ed is even good at this point...Comment
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Spanish Fly actually is a rippin' piece. Ted Templeman saw Ed playing on an acoustic and asked if he could do an Eruption-like piece on that guitar. It was on New Year's Eve when he asked him this, right before they were done recording VH 2.Originally posted by DR CHIP
It's without question not the most difficult of the Van Halen compositions...AND it is a Carlos Montoya rip off..Ed himself said he saw this cat Montoya play and couldn't do it himself so he half-assed it and recorded Spanish Fly...
I don't think Dave would say he was even a good guitar player...Comment
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Another thing....the thing that Montoya was doing that Ed was referring to (when talking about the intro to Little Guitars) is called Flailing. It's what many Flamenco guitarists do....very tough. I've yet to see ANY rock player do it, not even Steve Morse.....he's one who's tried many picking styles, too.Originally posted by DR CHIP
It's without question not the most difficult of the Van Halen compositions...AND it is a Carlos Montoya rip off..Ed himself said he saw this cat Montoya play and couldn't do it himself so he half-assed it and recorded Spanish Fly...
I don't think Dave would say he was even a good guitar player...Comment
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I think that Spanish Fly IS the Montoya rip off...I could be wrong...have been many times...Originally posted by EddieFan4Eva
Wrong...lol. You're referring to the intro to Little Guitars....had to school ya.
I like it don't get me wrong but it is NOT the most difficult VH piece by any stretch...IMHO....
The intro tapping isn't difficult and the tapping in general on the piece is fairly straight forward...the runs could be difficult depending upon one's ability, but still straight forward....
the 2-4-1 pull off though in the middle is my favorite part...used to be a bitch to get back to the 1....Comment
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Originally posted by DR CHIP
I think that Spanish Fly IS the Montoya rip off...I could be wrong...have been many times...
I like it don't get me wrong but it is NOT the most difficult VH piece by any stretch...IMHO....
The intro tapping isn't difficult and the tapping in general on the piece is fairly straight forward...the runs could be difficult depending upon one's ability, but still straight forward....
the 2-4-1 pull off though in the middle is my favorite part...used to be a bitch to get back to the 1....
I can play it, too....i think it's one of his coolest things. He played it to perfection in Hartford recently. Thing is...on a shitty acoustic, that can be a bitch to execute, which was the case on that recording. And that fast ascending run, it was ripped off by sooooo many players. George Lynch cloned it for the solo to Into The Fire by Dokken.Comment
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Anyway, the Little Guitars Intro was the Montoya thing.Comment
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Here is an excerpt from a guitar interview....
Did you use a pick for "Spanish Fly"?
Yeah, except for the part near the end that sounds like Montoya or something
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I believe the article was written before Little guitars was ever recorded...
Who got schooled?
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BURN!"I've been rich and I've been poor....rich is better, totally better"Comment
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Didn't Ed use the nylon stringed classical guitar for that piece?Originally posted by EddieFan4Eva
I can play it, too....i think it's one of his coolest things. He played it to perfection in Hartford recently. Thing is...on a shitty acoustic, that can be a bitch to execute, which was the case on that recording. And that fast ascending run, it was ripped off by sooooo many players. George Lynch cloned it for the solo to Into The Fire by Dokken.
It would be so much easier witht he wider neck and more forgiving strings as far as action goes.
It is a total bitch on steel with stiffer action, not impossible though.
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I think it was a nylon string.....but he has strong hands, so i hear....so it's hard to tell.Originally posted by Cathedral
Didn't Ed use the nylon stringed classical guitar for that piece?
It would be so much easier witht he wider neck and more forgiving strings as far as action goes.
It is a total bitch on steel with stiffer action, not impossible though.Comment
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You're wrong bud.....sorry. That was after 1982 that he discussed the Montoya thing.Originally posted by DR CHIP
I believe the article was written before Little guitars was ever recorded...
Who got schooled?
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Then he's quoted talking about Montoya on different occasions....'cause he went on about that concerning the tremelo-picked part of the intro to Little Guiitars.Originally posted by DR CHIP
Here is an excerpt from a guitar interview....
Did you use a pick for "Spanish Fly"?
Yeah, except for the part near the end that sounds like Montoya or something
http://archive.guitarplayer.com/arch...nhalen80.shtmlComment
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