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Van Halen - Me Wise Magic | TransTrem ❗ [Definitive FULL Cover]
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- For 'Me Wise Magic', Eddie Van Halen used a Trans Trem and Sustainer. To save a few (several thousand ;-) bucks, I built my own custom "Chineberger" or "Chandberg" headless guitar, and equipped it with a modified S-Trem*.
*Disclaimer: The S-Trem bridge does not have locking positions, so I could not nail that "F# Stop" exactly like King Edward. However, to stay as true to the original as possible, I transposed applicable sections in my DAW in advance, so that I could continue playing in the proper "open" positions. For all intensive purposes, it should appear exactly the same as if I were using a TransTrem instead of an S-Trem.
Depending on which of his half-baked stories you believe, Eddie used a Les Paul Custom Frankie striped guitar, or a custom Peavey Wolfgang Signature, equipped with a TransTrem built by Ned Steinberger himself in 1984.
You also gotta love Eddie's visionary (at the time) use of an active Sustainer kit. I picked up a second hand Fernandes single coil driver kit, jammed it into my 3in1 Frankie, and Voila!
A HUGE thanks and high five goes out to Mike Conway for collaborating with me on this one. Having earned the well-deserved moniker of, "The Best Van Halen Drummer on RUclips", he laid down his usual, spot-on "Alex-esque" drumming. This was no small feat, especially considering all the complicated patterns and odd time signature changes Alex instilled into this percussive master class. Just Google "Me Wise Magic Drum Cover" to see how FEW drummers ever even attempt to cover this beast.
Guitars, Bass and Vocals by Sean McCabe
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“Me Wise Magic” is one of two new songs recorded with original frontman David Lee Roth for the band’s compilation Best of - Volume 1.
In interviews, Eddie said that Dave's vocal parts were pieced together line by line in the studio, and that he could never pull them off live (never did!). Dave's voice has more special effects on this track than the Matrix! Take it for what it is... a piece of master engineering as much as a most curious, yet impressive vocal.
Soon after VH had parted ways with second frontman Sammy Hagar, Roth called Eddie Van Halen about the band’s upcoming Greatest Hits compilation. Realizing the only new track for it was “Humans Being”, EVH asked Roth if he’d like to sing on a couple new tracks for the release and he accepted the offer. EVH, at that time, made it clear it wasn’t a reunion: "I was very clear that he was not in the band - that it was just a project. What I wanted to do was write five new songs and pick two out of those five."
Musically, EVH nicknamed this song “The Three Faces of Shamus” due its three distinctly different parts. Lyrics were originally co-written by Eddie Van Halen with producer Glen Ballard, but Roth reportedly did not like the opening line “I know what you’re thinkin'”, feeling it was “so angry; it’s just not me”. But after reviewing the other four songs EVH had come up with, Roth eventually reconsidered doing “Me Wise Magic” and embraced it after making some changes to the lyrics.
There are two interpretations to the lyrics. One is that the song is about spirituality, self-awareness and superstition (as mentioned in the book, "Crazy From The Heat"). Another is that it’s about seduction (“I feel you breathin', don’t you trust me?”). Since they were started by Ballard and EVH and finished by Roth, it’s very possible both meanings are in there.
“Me Wise Magic” became VH’s thirteenth and final #1 on the US Rock Chart in October 1996.
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Awesome, awesome work Sean! I love the intro explanations and demos... very informative and cool. And of course your performances are absolutely spot on too. The drums to this track were tricky enough, but all that crazy guitar work had to be a massive challenge to decode, much less play! Wow, it's really impressive! And thank you for the shout out and for the collaboration. Bravo Sean! 👏👏👍👍🤘🤘💥💥
I can't thank you enough for collaborating with me on this one Mike! Same goes for you decoding and nailing the 9/8 intro & outro, along with the rest of Alex's wizardry. 'Me Wise Magic' is no 'walk in the park' (on Sunday afternoon! Haha) to play. Keep on rockin' my bro! 🙏🙏 🤟 🤟🤘🤘
Wow! Do you give lessons?
Very impressive! Thanks for sharing!! 🤘🎸
Thx so much! It was my pleasure (dome?) 🤗🤘
Great job!
Hard work pays off!
Very entertaining and accurate!
Thanks for the nice nod! "Accurate" is always nice to hear when covering EVH. "There can be only one". Long live King Edward! 👑🤘
Great job!! This is a hard song to pull off as well as this.
Thanks for recognizing my "painstaking" efforts! 😅 Yeah, ain't gonna lie, this one took some time to complete. But it was well worth it in the end. EVH Rocks! I remain his humble servant. 🎸
I’m dying! At the end! Dying I tell you! 🤣 Excellent work, guys! Makes me want to shove my other projects aside and do my own version. 🤘🤘
Hey Deyan... Yeah, I took your advice and made that funny Chinese bridge "malfunction" into a blooper! Bruce Lee helped drive it home. 🤣 I would LOVE to see you bang out your own version of MWM. At some point, you MUST show us that beautiful, white Newburgh Era GL2T of yours in action. Maybe even knock out 'Pleasure Dome'? I know you have lots of other great stuff in the works. First things first! 👍🤘
NEIL SCHON iS The First One Who Brought My Attention To The Sustainer Pickups. Really Cool Capabilities, Possibility & Sounds One Can Get From Them, interesting Stuff. 🎸🎵☮️🌏🌍🌎
Neal Schon is one of my all time fav guitarists! Sustainer drivers are cool indeed... I just wish they didn't eat up the batteries so darn fast! 😅🤘
@@seanmccaberocks :-) Me Too, I Should Learn How To Spell His Name.
phil collen of def lepard is where i heard of one first
This is the COOLEST video of ANY kind I've seen for a very very LONG TIME! Great Job!!
Oh Wow! Such a COOL compliment! 😎 You made my day! 😊 Thx so much, and keep on rockin'! 🤘
Not only impressive playing, but the custom made guitars you have are a joy to behold. I LOVE the idea to do the yellow/black bumblebee, white/black and red, white and black Frankensteins combined into one! The matching headstock with Sammy-era logo is a nice touch to boot. Then, making your own steinberger transtrem as well?! Awesome all around!
Might I ask what kind of bridge, where you got it and if it required any changes on the nut side? May have to replicate this somehow with one of the cheap Steinbergers, a knockoff Strandberg or possibly even a real one.
Thanks so much... especially for taking the time to notice and compliment my guitars. They all have a story, with great memories of sourcing, swapping parts, pickups, pots, necks, painting (OK, not so much on painting!!! Haha), etc. Us old dudes must have healthy hobbies in our retirement to keep busy! ;-) As for the bridge, I just finished replying to another question about it, so I will paste it below for your convenience (BTW, only swapped out the grub screws on the nut side):
"Thank you! Ah, my "Chineberger" S-Trem! Now that's a wonky thing... I did the work myself. It's actually a "hybrid" between a 2nd hand S-Trem I bought cheap for parts, and the infamous Chinese "Overlord Of Music" headless guitar bridge (I actually bought 2 of those to have extra parts for perceived inevitable breakdowns, which of course did occur.) I combined parts to make it work to my liking, including but not limited to swapping out springs (original was far too stiff) adding thrust bearing washers (original teflon washers were sticky, cheap and prone to cracking), and finally some gun oil to get things slippin' and slidin' smoothly. Would I recommend doing something like this? Well, only if you like to tinker, have plenty of patience and want to save a few bucks ('cause ya gotta dig DEEP if you want a real TransTrem!) 🤘"
Cool! Always dug this song, I always thought Dave was doing a kind of Billy Gibbons thing with the low part of the vocals.
Right?! I never thought of that, until you just mentioned it... but I also covered 'La Grange', and come to think of it, did that same kind of "Billy Gibbons thing" here with my voice on Dave's low part. Great observation and comment! 👍🤘
Awesome job! Can you talk a bit more about that modified tremolo? Like who did it and how?
Thank you! Ah, my "Chineberger" S-Trem! Now that's a wonky thing... I did the work myself. It's actually a "hybrid" between a 2nd hand S-Trem I bought cheap for parts, and the infamous Chinese "Overlord Of Music" headless guitar bridge (I actually bought 2 of those to have extra parts for perceived inevitable breakdowns, which of course did occur.) I combined parts to make it work to my liking, including but not limited to swapping out springs (original was far too stiff) adding thrust bearing washers (original teflon washers were sticky, cheap and prone to cracking), and finally some gun oil to get things slippin' and slidin' smoothly. Would I recommend doing something like this? Well, only if you like to tinker, have plenty of patience and want to save a few bucks ('cause ya gotta dig DEEP if you want a real TransTrem!) 🤘
@@seanmccaberocks thanks for the reply! I do have the patience but after viewing the video, I can’t work out how you were able to get it to lock like the real transtrem. You really knocked it out of the park!
Well, totally understandable... because it's an optical illusion. I was not able to get it to lock like a real TransTrem, but if it looked that way, then "Mission Accomplished". My intentions were not to fool anyone, as you can see from this pasted excerpt at the top of my video description (I understand most just watch RUclips videos without reading the description, so again, it would be most difficult to figure out how I pulled this off without first reading the Description):
"*Disclaimer: The S-Trem bridge does not have locking positions, so I could not nail that "F# Stop" exactly like King Edward. However, to stay as true to the original as possible, I transposed applicable sections in my DAW in advance, so that I could continue playing in the proper "open" positions. For all intensive purposes, it should appear exactly the same as if I were using a TransTrem instead of an S-Trem."
Hope this clarifies, as what I did took quite a bit of analyzing and transposing in advance, prior to actually playing the part for video. It's kind of like all those guitarists who play "Summer Nights" using a capo, only in this case, my capo was a "virtual" one, in the form of pre-transposed sections. The great lengths we go to in order to emulate our idols! 😅
Chine-berger? GOLD! That was a great treack, if DLR would've sung it all in lower voice. Great job!
😜 Thx! There was def some experimenting going on, with plenty of studio tricks utilized when they recorded this obscure track. Those were some of DLR's highest (and lowest) vocals ever! I agree, that lower thing he did with his voice is way cool! 😎
@@seanmccaberocks DLR proved he could get back with that band and still rock it! Are your EVH style guitars Chinese as well? Those Floyds look similar to AliExpress version. Any good?
The EVH Tour Relic (used in solo) and Wolfgang Special Bumblebee (hanging on the wall) are both Chinese knockoffs. The 3-in-1 Frankie is a Partscaster I painted and built myself (and added a Fernandes Sustainer Kit). With some (OK, A LOT! Haha) of work and parts-swapping (Prob more trouble and expense than it was worth, but I like to tinker), they are all playable, but out-of-the-box, OMG! 😱 Still, they look the part just fine on RUclips! 🤣 When it comes to laying down tracks in the DAW, I mostly go with my "baby", a 100% REAL 1980 Fender Strat (used on MWM intro and outro) equipped with a much-preferred Kahler, along with a meaty Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound'er in the bridge position (or select from a number of my other real, non-Chinese axes) 🤗 The AliExpress Floyds... Yeah, they are total JUNK! 😜 If trying to save a few $, at least upgrade to a genuine Korean "Licensed Under Floyd Rose Pats." bridge. MUCH better! 👍
Missing Wah pedal eddie use on me wise magic
🤔 Please jump ahead to 5:27 in video to see EVH 95 Wah Pedal. Maybe my foot was a bit slower than my fingers though? 🤣 Thanks for watching! 😉
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