When the inspector noticed the thickness of the walls for soundproofing purposes, he said to Van Halen, "Man, you must really worry about your neighbors. Van Halen also showed Connelly a wall of shelves filled with tapes of everything he had recorded in the studio. He and longtime engineer Donn Landee sorted through all the boxes, creating a numbering system and entering the details into a RadioShack computer so he'd know what was on each tape.
But at some point, as he put it, "the computer took a dump on us. Even though he lost the ability to call up the information on the tapes with just a few keystrokes, the mishap resulted in a moment on inspiration. I made that one myself long ago. Not done so well. For many years it was lying somewhere with a broken neck. Just a month ago I put it back together. The Wolfgang is a far better guitar. I will show you guys the Frankenstein later. A couple of times, I fucked around.
I sold one and bought a Studer 48 Digital. I still got another 24 track analog. So now we have the best of both worlds. So we record analog and save it to digital… to Erwin You explain. You know what I mean? An old speaker sounds better than a new one. An old pair of jeans fits better than a new one. So if that is your goal, you record analog and save it to digital so it stays good. Analog gets worse every month. Digital not. When will the availability get better?
It took extra time because so many guitar companies forget the most important part… Look a guitar is just a piece of wood with strings on it. And he will buy the one that plays good. So I wanted to be sure that every guitar is okay. They send them all to me. The first hundred or two hundred came in here first and I send them out. Now, every once in a while I let them send me one, just to spot check, you know?
The newer ones are better than the first ones because now they know what I want. You got guys at the end of the line who actually do the set up. I want it to play like I want it to be! So now they get it. If you make your own guitar you can do whatever you want. But as long as my name is on it, I want it to be done the way I want it. In my opinion this is a much better guitar than the Music Man. The neck is slightly angled.
It sounds better. Feels better. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. I wanted to add something else. Accidents happen, you know. I saw some Music Mans… the editor of Guitar World of one of those guitar magazines. He brought one to an interview I did with him and he asked me to sign it. So I wanted to be sure that this time the Wolfgang is exactly what I use. No bull shit about it! Like last week there was one with a cold solder joint.
It might work and an hour later not anymore. So the solder was not done right. They did it too quick. The songs that you are recording now, did you write those from the start when Gary joined or is there also older material?
A whole wall full with tapes. I wrote that in But the whole song I had already written. He went so mad! I just left. See you later, fuck you! But it works! Just as normal as Alex, Mike and I. In an interview for a guitar magazine he says that everything I say is a lie. Call Jan de Bont.
I only found out when I stopped drinking. At some point during our visit Wolfie comes running in and his dad asks him to greet us in Dutch but the little one gets scared when he sees us. He was less than two weeks away from turning six years old. He leaves the room as quick as he entered. If someone would have said that less than ten years later he would be the bass player in Van Halen we would have died laughing.
How is that possible? Japan is different. They always want a bonus track. In Japan everything is different. So someone did something. You digitally remaster something, you get highs and lows, you get more punch. Of course that sounds better. But anyone can do that.
Just add bass and treble. So we turn to Scotty who still is behind the computer. He never forgets a detail. Scotty has always been very good to me when on tour.
November 5th was our last show. All the time the Jacksons video is still playing. It was not in the beginning that I played. It was one of the highlight songs of the show. We did three or four nights at the Reunion July 14 to 16, — Michel … is that Dallas? Everyone is looking at the big screen in the room. Maybe it was. But they were really nice to me. When I came out, the crowd went nuts. Finally we come to the point were we all have been waiting for. I rearranged the whole fucking song.
Make a copy of this part, put it in here. But the thing is they forgot that you can not cut master tape with SMPTE a time code to keep two machines synchronized. They cut the master tape right there in front of me. They could at least used a safety. In my head they did. But I had no fucking idea that it would work or not.
Thank God they did! It took me half an hour to have them edit the song the way I wanted it. And it took them six months to put it back together. Over that, just that. If it was just in A, it sounds like shit. That chord movement underneath makes the solo interesting.
I heard it thirteen years later. Steve Lukather just told me when we did the Jason Becker benefit [October 5, ]. Somehow we came talking about Quincy. No one told me. They just went straight to the master tape, just like I had it all planned out! I just came up with the idea right then and there. I thought it was hilarious actually. Having this conversation on tape feels like having gold in my hands.
Edward and Erik are smoking all the way through and everytime Erik grabs a cigarette, Eddie lights him up for Erik. Did you ever give them one of your guitars? Updated on Aug 04, Edit Like Comment Share. Remodeling and beyond present Between February after the OU Tour ended and March before starting work on For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge , Eddie remodeled the studio, doubling its size, replacing the main mixing board, and at the end of the recording floor, adding an isolated drum room for his brother Alex.
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