How Well Does Dave Play His Axe?

[Matt White]

DAVE can play folk guitar and Delta Blues style guitar well enough to accompany himself. I remember EVH, trying once again to slag DAVE, refereing to his style of playing as "jive guitar". Classy guy that EVH.......

[Dave IS VH]

Dave is a pretty good guitar player, I wouldn't consider him the best, but he could keep his own up on stage. He just likes to sing and give a kick ass performance on stage, rather then play guitar.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Kelly
True, Sammy's playing didn't particularly add anything to the Van Halen sound to my ear. If anything, it turned it into a bit of a dirge, like they had to play down so he could keep up!

It is true. I wouldn't mind a guitar accompaniment to EVH onstage. The problem is that, by his own admission in an interview, Sammy could never play rhythm guitar and sing at the same time (which is why he always had one or two backing guitarists in his solo acts). So he ended up playing a sloppy second lead along with Eddie and Ed would often take the rhythm parts, which is a pedestrian waste of Ed's talent.

EVH also said once in an interview that he cut out playing two guitar tracks, one rhythm & one lead, on studio recordings around the F.U.C.K. album I think, since he was the only one playing live and it sounded awkward.

[BrownSound1]

The best I've ever heard Dave play is from a radio show where he played "79th and Sunset." His guitar is always tuned to an open chord, so that helps him a bit too.

[DlocRoth]

Originally posted by Roguesgirl
Ed was most definitely full of shit with a lot of that. Dave had a ton of respect for Ed, and ed knew it. Dave just never kissed his ass. And dave made him work hard. Dave was always a tease when it came to Ed. He would joke and say things like "we named the band after Alex". And then he would smile real big into the camera or wink or something.

Dave sure did have an ego; he knew he was the best frontman ever. But, he also knew what he had in EVH and he sold that at every show and in every interview.

By saying "how the fuck do you play this thing", he was pointing out that Ed was the "The Guitar God", while he was "The Frontman" just fucking around with a guitar.

Thats all there is to it!

Well said.

A 5 star post.

[Figs]

Re: How Well Does Dave Play His Axe?

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
How Well Does Dave Play His Axe?

not very

[Carmine]

Originally posted by academic punk
I have an ex-girlfriend who I considered the queen of the G-string and five fingers...

how I miss her...

lol...is she workin at Scores now???

[h3yl0]

He doesnt play it as much as Hagar with VH cause he realizes he'd look like shit next to eddie.