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Post by MartinT on Sept 30, 2020 19:17:02 GMT
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Post by John on Oct 6, 2020 20:00:11 GMT
RIP Eddie Van Halen
I always remember hearing eruption for the first time and knowing that we found a new guitar hero
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Post by Slinger on Oct 6, 2020 20:01:03 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 6, 2020 20:14:00 GMT
He pretty much invented the 80's metal guitar sound.
What a talent.
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Post by John on Oct 7, 2020 5:01:17 GMT
This sums up a lot of my thoughts
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 7, 2020 9:16:39 GMT
A name I know but who I don't think I have ever sampled
Will correct that
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Post by Slinger on Oct 7, 2020 12:49:54 GMT
Johnny Nash: I Can See Clearly Now singer dies aged 80 OBIT |
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 7, 2020 17:16:44 GMT
What a dude EVH!
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Post by John on Oct 7, 2020 17:43:58 GMT
He was a big Holdsworth fan and pretty sure some of it came from trying to figure how Alan got his legato style
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Post by Slinger on Oct 7, 2020 19:07:01 GMT
Eddie inventing tapping is one of those "alternative truths," I'm afraid.  George Lynch (Dokken) says he heard a guy named George van Epps tapping, back in the fifties, and there's actually film of Vittorio Camardess tapping, from 1965. Harvey Mandell (Canned Heat) was doing it - according to Richie Blackmore - in 1968, and Steve Hackett reckons he actually invented the technique on his Les Paul, in the seventies. No, seriously, he's actually claims that. " I'm the inventor of tapping on record," he says. " We haven't found anyone who tapped earlier than me, unless somebody did it in the 1930s, and I doubt that." How about the 1830s, Steve? Because the daddy of all tappers was actually Niccolò Paganini, on a violin, in the 18th & 19th century.  Eddie was the guy who really popularised it though. |
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 7, 2020 19:31:03 GMT
Eddie never claimed to have invented it, as he says in the video ... Anyway, there was much more to him than just 'tapping'!
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Post by John on Oct 7, 2020 20:26:00 GMT
A few players taped before Eddie However it was that Brown sound he got when he played with it that no one else was getting before him
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Post by Slinger on Oct 8, 2020 15:07:50 GMT
Grantham musician Brian Locking, who played bass guitar with The Shadows in the sixties, has died. Brian, who was 82, died in north Wales this week, but had lived most of his life in Grantham, moving there as a small boy with his family. He was born in Bedworth. Friend and fellow Grantham musician Trevor Leeson said Brian had been ill for some time and, after a period in intensive care, he died in a hospice in Wales. OBIT |
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 16, 2020 13:50:55 GMT
'Eruption' played on the bass - amazing!
Am sure EVH would approve.
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Post by John on Oct 19, 2020 15:39:53 GMT
King Crimson singer and bassist Gordon Haskell has died at the age of 74
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Post by Slinger on Oct 19, 2020 16:12:15 GMT
King Crimson singer and bassist Gordon Haskell has died at the age of 74 I've got several of his solo albums. He had a great voice. |
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Post by Slinger on Oct 20, 2020 18:02:19 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 20, 2020 19:34:35 GMT
RIP Spencer
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 21, 2020 5:38:39 GMT
I heard an obituary piece on Radio 4 last night and chuckled when I heard that The Spencer Davis Group was only so-called because he was the only one in the band who enjoyed doing interviews.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 22, 2020 16:00:39 GMT
Reading Ry Cooder's Prodical Son notes I was saddened to see Terry Evans passed away in 2018 Great singer Terry EvansThis staggeringly wonderful song sums up our times well |
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