Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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“I love 'Girl Gone Bad'. One of my favourite songs of ours is 'Drop Dead Legs',” Van Halen threw out as well. “Whether it's a hit or not, I love that song.
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Read More »Picking the most essential songs in the Van Halen catalogue is no easy task. For starters, they’re a band that continuously put out recorded music for 30 years. In that time, they’ve had massive hits, beloved albums, and underrated gems that fans could list in the hundreds. There’s no easy place to start with Van Halen because there are so many paths you could take. Secondly, there are three different singers to account for. Do you start chronologically with David Lee Roth or visit Van Halen at the peak of their popularity with Sammy Hagar (or maybe even get the worst out of the way with the Gary Cherone era)? Van Halen’s history is a robust pick your own adventure kind of tale, but when Eddie Van Halen sat down with spinner.com in 2009, he gave his own set of recommendations on where to start with the band’s music. Since this is Eddie talking, it’s no surprise that some of the first songs he picks are two of his most legendary guitar solos. Van Halen immediately established himself as a guitar god with ‘Eruption’ from the band’s debut and went on to play off the same form, this time with a nylon string acoustic, on Van Halen II‘s ‘Spanish Fly’. “I think ‘Eruption’ is one. ‘Spanish Fly’, just because it’s the same thing except it sounds like Segovia doing something, it’s on a Flamenco guitar,” Van Halen explained.” I wish somebody would take that technique and do something with it. I had no idea it would trip people out to the point that it did.” From there, Eddie has a harder time narrowing things down. Being the major entertainer that he was, Eddie fed off the crowd’s energy at every single Van Halen show. The cheers, the shouts, and the sing-alongs were infectious, so that’s what Eddie highlighted next. “To pick songs, I can only go by what the audience response is, like say ‘Runnin’ with the Devil’,” Van Halen observed. “To the day I die, we’ll have to play that because that’s what people want to hear, and ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’, ‘Unchained’, and ‘Jump’. There’s all kinds of stuff.” It wasn’t just the hits that Eddie gravitated towards, however. There were a few deeper cuts that held a special place in his heart as well. Although there were a handful of songs that will continue to outlive the late Van Halen because of the chart success and mainstream appeal, these days it’s often more fun to remember Eddie’s hidden gems. “I love ‘Girl Gone Bad’. One of my favourite songs of ours is ‘Drop Dead Legs’,” Van Halen threw out as well. “Whether it’s a hit or not, I love that song. Probably the more obscure stuff, like Wolfie [Van Halen, Eddie’s son] loves ‘Romeo Delight’. I do too.” Check out a playlist of Eddie Van Halen’s top recommendations on where to start with his music down below.
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Read More »Eddie Van Halen-owned Frankenstrat, gifted to Leslie West, sells at auction for $50,000 | Guitar World.
An Eddie Van Halen-owned Kramer Striker/Ripley Frankenstrat, which was gifted to Mountain guitarist and electric guitar god Leslie West, has been sold for $50,000 by Heritage Auctions. The guitar spent the first years of its life in good hands after it was made for EVH by Steve Ripley in 1984, and the axe was purportedly Van Halen’s backup Frankenstrat on the 1984 and 5150 tours in the ‘80s. Ripley is renowned for his stereo guitars that EVH utilized on tracks like Top Jimmy, and built the Frankenstrat in question from the foundations of a Kramer Striker. Sometime before 1990, the guitar was gifted to West, who then gave it to “the consignor” – an individual who acted as his private bodyguard between 1989 and 2001, and who “has worked with some of the biggest names in the music and film industries”. As well as the instantly recognizable, subtly aged hand-sprayed stripes, the guitar sports a Floyd Rose tremolo, single humbucker pickup, locking nut and angled headstock embossed by “Ripley” decal. The most notable feature is the guitar’s dark rosewood fretboard, which contrasts with the maple fretboards found on most of Van Halen’s Frankenstrats. The Ripley model is one of only a handful of models to sport such a feature. For more information, head over to the Frankenstrat's listing page at Heritage Auctions (opens in new tab). The same sale saw the ESP guitar Kirk Hammett used in Metallica's One music video sell for $112,500.
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