"Tonechaser" : The Lost Interview With Eddie Van Halen's Tech Zeke Clark (5/10/86) - Part One

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • "Tonechaser" author Steve Rosen interviews Eddie Van Halen's guitar tech Zeke Clark on May 10th, 1986-Clark recently replacing long-time tech Rudy Lieren and opening up at the 5150 studio to talk about Edward's tone, style and guitars.
    For more, check out Steve's book "Tonechaser"
    TonechaserBook.com

Комментарии • 34

  • @technicalitems731
    @technicalitems731 9 месяцев назад +2

    This is the kind of stuff I like! I'm a drummer. 48. Been playing since I was a little kid. I used to read every guitar magazine. Every page. I was always fascinated but edwards gear and ideas. I could always notice edwards insane unique sound on the albums. It made my arm hair stand up. I'm a guitar player deep inside but I just happened to have started on the drums. Edward has always been my number 1 hero. My idol. He is the MacGuyver and Leonardo Davinci of guitar! And Alex. The legend. Such a smooth natural sound. The ears on these VH brothers. They hear things differently and the sounds and tones they create please me. I always hated cookie cutter bands with a processed, generic store bought studio sound. RIP EVH

  • @Nightjar726
    @Nightjar726 10 месяцев назад +2

    Steve Rosen needs to interview Zeke again and ask him some questions about his guitars now. Maybe Zeke will tell us some stuff that Ed was trying to conceal before.
    Would be pretty cool.

    • @guskalogeros9021
      @guskalogeros9021 Месяц назад

      💯 agree. I totally appreciate these interviews but I feel like Zeke was under a gag order to perpetuate the myths.
      There’s SOME truth in there but there was a lot of double talk to confuse people.

  • @adamroach3061
    @adamroach3061 9 месяцев назад +1

    0:00 Intro
    01:25 Zeke interview
    03:31 The wood
    03:45 Pick ups
    04:58 The neck
    05:56 Pick up in 5150
    06:24 Tremolo
    08:00 Strings
    11:00 Picks
    12:00 Strap Locks
    13:24 Steinberger
    14:14 First time meeting Ed
    21:29 1984 guitars
    23:07 pickups on 1984 guitar
    24:06 Steinberger

  • @mikeshelogowski434
    @mikeshelogowski434 10 месяцев назад +2

    May 10th 1986!? First time of many I saw Vh in Detroit!
    I met zeke a couple of times in 92 and he took my pick guard back to be signed.
    Thanks for posting!

  • @JohnnyBeane
    @JohnnyBeane 10 месяцев назад +2

    So awesome Steve!

  • @hollylewis5302
    @hollylewis5302 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks so much Mr. Steve and Adam Roach for letting us hear Freakin' Zeke Clark, you know! 😁 Fascinating stuff! ❤🤍🖤

  • @bobc.5698
    @bobc.5698 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wow, I saw Van Halen in Chicago April 22nd 1986....right before this....cool.

  • @RichardFriendartist
    @RichardFriendartist 10 месяцев назад

    this is soooooooooooooooooooo fascinating. Zeke seems like a great guy and knows his stuff!! Thank you Steve!! I am really blown away hearing this!!

  • @HANGINWITHTHEDREAMER
    @HANGINWITHTHEDREAMER 10 месяцев назад

    Great interview thank you Steve Rosen

  • @richb6291
    @richb6291 10 месяцев назад

    Brilliant Steve !! just brilliant - thank you for all of these episodes.

  • @mwelsh5150
    @mwelsh5150 10 месяцев назад

    Wow man that was really fascinating! Thanks Steve!

  • @DeputyVanHalen5150
    @DeputyVanHalen5150 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent video, Excellent channel. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. 😁🎸👍🏻 God bless✝️

  • @cherylb2008
    @cherylb2008 10 месяцев назад +1

    I like these memories

  • @TimE_5150
    @TimE_5150 10 месяцев назад

    Great stuff as usual Steve, thank you! I hope all is well. Keep it coming, can't get enough of everything EVH!

  • @Jedizen07
    @Jedizen07 10 месяцев назад

    FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!! Great drop today, Steven!!!

  • @brianrenhard7661
    @brianrenhard7661 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you Steve, love it!

  • @Arthur-ke9vz
    @Arthur-ke9vz 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love these

  • @superchefno1
    @superchefno1 10 месяцев назад

    I am enjoying the Hell out of this!! Thanks Steve! Most excellent!

  • @uutooyu
    @uutooyu 5 месяцев назад

    Basically the man, the myth, the legend, known as edward van halen and is edward van halen took every last secret he had how he approached guitar or tinkered with things with him to the upper room . God Bless my friend !

  • @walterevans2118
    @walterevans2118 10 месяцев назад

    WOW, I didn't know on the Get Up/Summer Nights STEINBERGER ED was changing the position of the pickup to be nearer the bridge & constantly changing it along the string length & slanting it. EMGs he didn't usually work with. I have them on some of my Mansons & people like them & they don't. Some say EMGs give 'clarity' . others describe that same tone as 'glassiness'. ...Superb interviews. Thanks.

  • @RGZ112
    @RGZ112 10 месяцев назад

    This is a great interview. It clears up a lot of misconceptions from Van Halen Fanatics that think that Edward used a Seymour Duncan JB in the Kramer.

    • @stevemineer2857
      @stevemineer2857 10 месяцев назад

      Steve Blucher at Dimarzio is the one that said it was a JB when Ed told him he wanted a copy of that pickup. Was that the original or was it an Ed modified JB? Who knows? Zeke is being quite vague here so I wouldn’t put much into what he’s saying either.

    • @RGZ112
      @RGZ112 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@stevemineer2857 yes, you are correct on that. But we all know that Edward was kind of lying or intentionally spreading misinformation about his gear in the early years. Personally, I think he changed pickups in his guitars so many times that he probably forgot was in there anyway

  • @owlman1365
    @owlman1365 10 месяцев назад

    Keeping the legacy alive Mr Rosen ♥️🤘

  • @carterherrman1905
    @carterherrman1905 6 месяцев назад

    “It is definitely a light wood” certainly backs up the basswood theory… but what about the wood grain on the arm contour?

  • @dspencer1201
    @dspencer1201 10 месяцев назад

    What Ed did made me laugh a few times. He was a visionary perfectionist.

  • @johnmarshall3903
    @johnmarshall3903 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wish you wouldn't have interrupted him right as he was about to talk about the Marshalls.

  • @asnark7115
    @asnark7115 10 месяцев назад +2

    @13:00 "Carabiner".

    • @KeenanNeighbors
      @KeenanNeighbors 10 месяцев назад

      yep I was a stagehand/Roadie and I worked with many of them and still have the one on my climbing harness here at home. I did it 31 years and I wished I was still working. btw Zeke was my neighbor in Sherman Oaks

  • @troyyeager5089
    @troyyeager5089 8 месяцев назад

    👍

  • @pb12661
    @pb12661 9 месяцев назад

    3:34 Basswood.

  • @Nightjar726
    @Nightjar726 10 месяцев назад

    Lots of ‘ embellishment’ in this interview. Lol
    I’m sure he was protecting Edwards ‘ secrets’ at the time.

  • @WAYUPDUDE1382
    @WAYUPDUDE1382 10 месяцев назад +2

    First!