One reason Eddie stopped using his Marshall was the supply of Sylvania 6CA7 tubes

[Nitro Express]

I think Sammy also managed to hit those high notes because Eddie shoved hot Syvania 6CA7 tubes up his ass.

[Roy Munson]

Hey, Elvis you dumbfuck.

My "friend" is Doug Roccaforte of Roccaforte Amps. Yes, Doug services Ed's vintage gear and yes, Doug has been to 5150. And, of course, Doug has been a friend of mine for a few years now.

Fucking jackass motherfucker.

[ELVIS]

All incidents, situations, and people referred to as "friend" are fictional and any similarity, without satiric intent, of characters or persons living or dead, is strictly coincidental...


:D

[Nitro Express]

You still have to love the mystery that surrounds Eddie Van Halen. Palats of rare tubes, vintage amps, people have been debating how he got those guitar sounds for decades now and still get in fist fights over it.

[ELVIS]

People like to make it more complicated than it really is...

[BrownSound1]

I don't hear so much buzziness on WACF as I do a darker tone. I know on WACF he went back to using a dummy load and re-amp set up, which he had dropped on VHII. I think they didn't EQ the tone with as much high end, but I definitely wouldn't call that buzzy. Of course part of it could be a change of using a different guitar...perhaps going from the Destroyer to the Frankie...or a change in the bridge from a stock Fender to the prototype Floyd. Many unknowns that will never be answered.

[ELVIS]

The intro to "Fools" doesn't sound buzzy to you ??

[jhale667]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
I had some spare time in LA a few years ago and checked out Roth's house and drove up Coldwater Canyon and checked out Ed's nieghborhood. All you can see is a gate and a driveway going up a hill.

..Ya beat me to it. I live about a mile or two from Ed's place, and yes, all you can see from the main road is a driveway going up the hill....

[BrownSound1]

Originally posted by ELVIS
The intro to "Fools" doesn't sound buzzy to you ??

Not 5150 buzzy. :D

[Nitro Express]

Originally posted by jhale667
..Ya beat me to it. I live about a mile or two from Ed's place, and yes, all you can see from the main road is a driveway going up the hill....

There's a lot of houses up there and Ed's is easy to miss because the road gets real windy up there. I heard Alex crashed his Porsche up there. Probably drunk.