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"Eruption" starts with a short accompanied intro with Alex Van Halen on drums and Michael Anthony on bass.The highlight of the solo is the use of two-handed tapping. "Eruption" was played on the Frankenstrat, with an MXR Phase 90, an Echoplex, a Univox echo unit and a 1968 Marshall 1959 Super Lead tube amp.
Van Halen modified the Frankenstrat several times. This photo shows the guitar in its final state, with red-over-white-over-black paint job. The top two pickups have been replaced with company electronics: the center one with a selector switch and the upper one with a red single-coil made in 1931, pickup.
For the opening track, "Mr. Ed", Wolfgang used the original Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synthesizer that his father, Eddie Van Halen, used for the 1981 Van Halen track "Sunday Afternoon in the Park". [5] Wolfgang used his father's original Frankenstrat guitar for the solos on "Mammoth" and "Feel". [6]
The song has it all, but Alex Van Halen’s memorable and innovative drumming deserves a special shout-out (Anthony also gets points for his hilarious attempt to grab the hot teacher in the music ...
Since the late 1970s, when Van Halen regularly performed on the Pasadena club scene, and with the release of Van Halen's self-titled debut album, Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone—nicknamed the "Brown Sound" for being full yet distinctively aggressive and articulate—had been widely acclaimed. It immediately set a standard for guitarists all ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [3]Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com named it the second-best Van Halen song, writing that it "merely feels like insatiable straight-ahead rock, but the lick is freaky, obliquely hovering above the foundation while the drums oscillate between two unrelated performance philosophies."
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