Eddie Van Halen, Guitar World, Feb 2014

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He never recorded with these, but they both look great.

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He is starting to have a bit of a jimmy page look about him

Uncanny - isn't it? He really looks like Page in that cover shot.

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Last one for now ...

[vandeleur]

Damn it scraps ... Am gonna have to open the vaults and get this now

[VHscraps]

I got this Guitar Aficianado on the iPad - those are screenshots. I dunno if you have an iPad or a tablet device, but the issue cost like £0.69 - pence, that is - when I first downloaded the app. The issues have since went up to £5.49 - but I bought a bunch of them at 69 pence - maybe an intro offer when you first download the app.

There's also a lot of shots of his Kramer / 5150 type of things - axes you've seen, but also Tele's and 335s, Coral Sitar Guitar, etc etc.

[VHscraps]

Well, since this thread is about the '1984' article I'll post this here as well - I found an audio documentary about the album just now. Sounds like recent interview with Mike Anthony in there (and old audio of Ed speaking). Mike says some interesting stuff ...

VAN HALEN: '1984' 30th Anniversary Celebrated On 'In The Studio' (Audio)

North American syndicated rock radio show and web site "In The Studio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands" celebrates the 30th anniversary of VAN HALEN's "1984" with a captivating account of life in the band from Eddie Van Halen, drumming brother Alex and former VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony.

VAN HALEN's "1984" was the band's biggest selling album, with over 12 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, spawning VAN HALEN's first and only No. 1 pop single, "Jump", Top 15 hits "Panama" and "I'll Wait", plus the MTV classic "Hot For Teacher", and launching the band on its most ambitious tour, after being the highest-paid band ever for their 1983 US Festival performance. Creatively, the album was a major leap forward, with the band taking charge of all the music and dictating terms of the recording.

Eddie Van Halen candidly points out to "In The Studio" host Redbeard the guitarist's M.O. when it came to picking music for "1984".

"'Diver Down', our fifth record, had half cover tunes, and I had it, personally, up to here. That's why I built the (5150 home) studio. I'd rather bomb with my own music than make it doing someone else's music."

Yet, eighteen months later after breaking all album sales and attendance records, popular VAN HALEN frontman David Lee Roth would bolt without warning, leaving Eddie, Alex, and Michael reeling and the band's future in doubt. While the facts in these interviews remain true and accurate, the opinions are a snapshot of just one of the many chapters in this three-decade saga, at a time before David Lee Roth was invited back into the band and before Michael Anthony was dismissed.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/van...e-stuio-audio/

[vandeleur]

Shit just realised they are different issues , I remember seeing the aficionado one somewhere else , moral of the story don't drink and post :D

[mh5150]

Ed stole the "Best of Both Worlds" riff lock, stock and barrel from Kool & The Gang's "Celebrate." And the "5150" walk that goes along with it was taken from The Breakfast Club.

I thought I read somewhere that BOBW was a tribute to Yes " roundabout".

[Terry]

I noticed one mention of Dave, in passing - it's where Ed talks about having a lot of tapes of riffs etc from the tour bus. I think he says, "for the first six tours we all travelled on the same bus, which Dave called the Disco Sub. All I did was write. You can hear the bus generator on all the demo tapes I recorded".

So, Disco Submarine is what Dave called the tour bus - a crucial contribution to tour ambience, no doubt ....

I suppose it was a guitar mag interview. I wouldn't read a lot into the lack of talk about Dave - the interviewer never asked anything that led that way. Plus, I get the feeling that interviewers these days probably tread more carefully 'cos EVH has shown he can get along without the press.

Yeah, I suppose one shouldn't read too much into it re: the current state of affairs with Roth in the band.

From what I've read, 1984 was along the lines of Ed and Al cooking up the music and recording the tracks which were then given to Roth on a cassette which he then played in his car as he drove around town and would think of lyrics, and [Roth] later added vocals to the tracks, rather than the tracks resulting from the entire band rehearsing together.

Maybe Ed didn't say much about working with Roth on 1984 because at that point they were fairly disconnected re: the creative process (certainly more than in the earlier days of the band).

[Zing!]

They could have subtitled this issue "Boring stuff you already know."

[indeedido]

At least the article wasn't an infomercial for EVH brand gear.

And that blurb from Aficionado from Les Paul about only him , Ed and Leo being the only ones that know how to build guitars. Did he see the Frankenstrat? Ed made it sound good but hardly a quality build.

[DLR Bridge]

Sound is everything. I think Les Paul admired Ed's ability to constantly tinker until he got the sound he wanted.

[ThrillsNSpills]

dance motherfuckers.
if ya don't ya get hemmeroidsssssss Ah Say.

[ThrillsNSpills]

It's a great listen, you have to admit.
Even Ed shows up on Youtube to confirm he's doing the background vocals.
I also believe I can flap my arms and fly to the grocery store

[ace diamond]

But it's not a crime to plagiarize yourself. (Unless Saul Zaentz stole the publishing rights to your old songs)

Tell that to John Fogerty