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After asking Dolby for help with his studio equipment, Eddie Van Halen agreed to play guitar on two songs on the album: "Eastern Bloc" and "Close But No Cigar", including a Van Halen-style solo on the former. The music video for "Silk Pyjamas" was filmed on location in Cuba.
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- “Beat It” – Michael Jackson, Thriller (1982) Sure, it’s the guest solo appearance that everybody knows, but this track has to be number one simply because it distills the essence of Eddie Van Halen’s genius in 16 bars of sonic nirvana.
- “Blues Breaker” – Brian May, Star Fleet Project (1983) This mini album has just three songs and lasts about 20 minutes, but roughly 12 of those minutes are taken up by “Blues Breaker,” a jam that’s clearly named in tribute to Eddie’s primary influence, Eric Clapton, a former member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
- “Lost Boys Calling” – Roger Waters, The Legend of 1900 Soundtrack (1999) On an otherwise mainly orchestral album, this song provides a great entry into the Van Halen solo collection, starting with a slowly rising note from the dipped whammy bar and exploding into long sustained notes mixed with pinched and tapped harmonics.
- “Respect the Wind” – Alex Van Halen, Twister Soundtrack (1996) Created for the film Twister, which also featured the Van Halen track “Humans Being,” this keyboard-heavy piece features Eddie playing atmospheric runs, with a huge delay.
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- Kiss / Gene Simmons Demos (1977) One of Van Halen's earliest supporters was Gene Simmons of Kiss, who saw them perform in 1976, signed the band to his production company and financed their 15-song demo.
- Nicolette Larson, "Can't Get Away From You" (1978) Nicolette Larson’s 1978 debut solo album, Nicolette, is best remembered for her chart-topping rendition of Neil Young's “Lotta Love.”
- Brian May, 'Star Fleet Project' (1983) In 1983, after being introduced to the TV show Star Fleet by his son, Queen guitarist Brian May assembled a collection of his rock-star friends to create the Star Fleet Project EP.
- Sammy Hagar, 'I Never Said Goodbye' (1987) In order to receive his record label’s blessing to join Van Halen, Sammy Hagar had to release one last solo album after the band finished its first tour together.
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KISS and Van Halen are inextricably linked. Not only did the latter cover “Rock and Roll All Nite” during their early days, but KISS frontman Gene Simmons famously producedan early Van Halen demo at the height of the band’s club days. Believe it or not, however, Simmons also separately once cut a trio of songs with Eddie and Alex during an imprompt...
The late Nicolette Larson rose to prominence for her vocal work on two seminal 1977 albums, Emmylou Harris’ Luxury Liner and Neil Young’s American Stars ‘n Bars. The following year, she debuted as a solo artist with the stellar LP Nicolette, which featured (among others) Linda Ronstadt, Albert Lee, and members of Little Feat. Curiously, however, th...
As a PhD-holding astrophysicist, Brian May is known for his love of all things space. Appropriately enough, back in 1983, he gathered a motley crew of musicians — including REO Speedwagon drummer Alan Gratzer and a pair of respected players, keyboardist Fred Mandel and bassist Phil Chen — to record a synth-driven, hard rock take on the theme song o...
By 1984, nearly every musician finally saw the benefits of having a video to play on MTV — even Frank Sinatra, who was in his late 60s at the time. For the clip promoting the title track of his Quincy Jones-produced album L.A. Is My Lady, the Rat Pack member enlisted a galaxy of stars. Appropriately enough, the video begins with David Lee Roth and ...
Back in 1984, the guitarist and music producer Donn Landee worked on the score for a little-remembered film called The Wild Life, which featured a Cameron Crowe-written script. “Donn and I saw the script for [the movie] and said we’d do something for it,” Van Halen told Guitar World. “We ended up doing just about the whole film. It was fun, but we ...
Thomas Dolby’s 2016 memoir, The Speed Of Sound: Breaking The Barriers Between Music And Technology, boasted an abundance of illuminating stories — none more so than the one about the 1991 weekend Dolby spent at Eddie Van Halen’s studio. (The guitarist wasn’t a Spinal Tap fan, among other things.) The studio time did yield two songs that appeared on...
In 1996, Eddie and his brother Alex appeared twice on Twister: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack— opening the album with a Van Halen song (“Humans Being”) and closing the album with an elegiac instrumental, “Respect the Wind,” that gives the duo a chance to show off their evocative, vulnerable side.
Roger Waters is no stranger to performing with powerful soloists, and so when he contributed a song to the 1998 Italian movie The Legend Of 1900, he called on Eddie Van Halen to add melancholic, keening shading to his moving, dramatic “Lost Boys Calling.”
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The year after Van Halen released their final studio album, 2012’s A Different Kind Of Truth, Eddie Van Halen appeared on two songs on LL Cool J’s album Authentic. “I just really wanted to work with the best, work with people that I respect, people that I look up to, people that impress me, people that I believe are truly super talented,” the rappe...
Musical artist. Edward Lodewijk Van Halen ( / væn ˈheɪlən / van HAY-lən, Dutch: [ˈɛtʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn ˈɦaːlə (n)]; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician. He was the guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex in 1972.
After asking Thomas Dolby for help with his studio equipment, Eddie Van Halen agreed to play guitar on two of Dolby’s songs, “Eastern Bloc” and “Close but no Cigar” on Astronauts & Heretics including a Van Halen style solo on “Eastern Bloc”. Tracks. 1 I Love You Goodbye (Thomas Dolby) 05:58. 2 Cruel (Thomas Dolby) 03:09.
Jul 17, 2023 · Four of the 10 songs that have leaked from the sessions wound up on the band's first six studio albums: "On Fire," "Runnin' With the Devil," "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" and "House of Pain"; "She's...
