Wow, everybody, how are you doing? It's been about five weeks now since Mr. Eddie Van Halen left the planet,

but his incredible music remains, and I want to dive deep into it and show you some of the things

that I've noticed about it since I've been messing around with his incredible playing for 35 years,

and I've got a guitar on my knee, a red, red white and black Frankenstein. The first thing we're

going to dive into is the first lick I ever heard by Van Halen. Let me give this the old college try. I've got some crazy theories about where that came from.

Also, I've got great Van Halen encounter stories that you won't forget.

We're going to hear from the great bassist Robbie Crane

and also the great guitarist Jay Gore.

And then at the end, I've got something I want to read to you

that I put a lot of work into for Guitar Player magazine.

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Did you guys hear how lucky I got with the flanger on that unchained bit? Let's hear that

again.

Especially that first one when I kicked it on because you never quite know where the flanger's going to be.

So juicy. I've been in love with that sound since the seventh grade.

Got lucky there just now.

Although, interestingly, George Trips will tell you that Eddie could probably hear it sometimes because he had that shit cranked up so loud when he was tracking that he could hear

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