I went to school with Kurt (Tad). He played at more than one back yard party of mine, and I have to say he’s one of the most under rated immensely talented guitarists ever. I miss those days, but I’m glad to hear him doing good and offering up all this great info! Keep rocking brother! 🤘
Even now, Kurt is the ONLY guy who nails Yngwie's solos from the Alcatrazz album. The tone, everything!. Even better than Yngwie himself could nowadays. Amazing!
I saw Kurt with Steeler a couple of times. He nailed Yngwie's solos. Amazing. I think Kurt James knew Joey Tafolla at one time; I seem to remember Joey telling me that. The first Dr. Mastermind shows how great Kurt is. There are so many killer guitarists from that era that no one got to hear or see.
Great interview! I just wanted to chime in and say how fortunate I was to meet Tad aka Kurt James in 7th grade at South Pasadena Jr High. He was already miles ahead of us on the electric guitar. I was at Tad's house every day in middle school and I can't express how dedicated he was to improving has playing. I am consistently referred to in this interview as "My Buddy". When Van Halen showed up at my beach on 4th of July the first thing I did was call Tad. We both spent the whole day with Eddie and Alex. Tad, Eddie and I sat together and Eddie played Spanish Fly and Tad had the nerve to play for Eddie and killed it!. Dave "Hawk" Lopez did go on a beer run with Alex. The Van Halen's could not have been nicer to us. They invited us into their hotel room that was full of beautiful women and made sure we always had a beer. A teenage fantasy came to life. I was also at Padrini's Music store the day we both met Nick Panicci. Nick took us under his wing and showed us the ropes of the Rock and Roll lifestyle. I also called Tad when I was a student at GIT when Allan Holdsworth gave his first seminar. Eddie played with through a Roland cube and sounded fantastic. And it was NOT my Peavey amp that Tad used at one of the many parties I would invite Tad to come and play with us in Laguna. It was my buddy's amp. Tad made it sound great. When we were kids I often wondered why he included me and he said "you make the band sound better". That bit of wisdom defined my roll in music. I knew if I could make the band sound better I would always play with better musicians. Tad has always been a secret weapon of mine. I grew up in his shadow and always there to support him. But the Mojo that rubbed off on me always made me stand out in all the other music projects I have worked on. We are still great friends to this day. A few weeks ago we played a beach party on 4th of July. Tad stole the show!
Van Halen hit the world like a freight train. I remember listening to the first VH album at a party with a bunch of surfers and rockers in Santa Monica when the vinyl was still warm off the press. Nobody had ever heard anything like this. Eruption melted faces all over the place. Eddie changed the sound and the dynamics of guitar forever. VH as a band changed our expectations of what to expect of a band. They had it all down. They didn't phone it in like so many bands at the time. They delivered. Eddie also changed the way we players thought of guitars as well. He perfected a kind of minimalism. All you needed was a good humbucker in a strat and a whammy. But he also perfected that simple esthetic as well, working closely with Floyd Rose as he developed the first functional locking trem system and pickup designers like Seymour Duncan raced to keep up with Eddie's demands. Eddie knew what he wanted, unlike most players, and he drove the guitar industry into giving players a higher standard of instrument with more dynamics.
I remember seeing Cats & Dogs. They used all of the speaker cabs from a previous Van Halen tour. Mike's brother had that same great background vocal. good band.
@@frankrichards3089 Randy named his son Tal after Tal Farlow. Tal Bachman is a singer-songwriter guitar player who had a #1 hit with the 1999 single “She’s So High” that you might remember.
Jammed with Tad at his dad's in the early 80s in Costa Mesa and I remember he saved the strings off his acoustic that Eddie had played Spanish Fly on in Laguna Beach. He had the strings hanging off a picture on the wall. Love Tad's work -- just a monster player -- he was playing with Steeler at the time.
I. Learned a LOT From a guy working at the "millwheel" in Toronto in 82' elm street i believe. But that guitar store empoyee changed my life! Even though i ended up being a vocalist. Lol
I met Kurt back in 88(if memory serves) at the LA music expo at the Chandler booth, when I was going to GIT. I met one of my favorite guitar players. It was very cool
Omg! This is a great interview and the photos are amazing!!! I've sent my friend John Billings a message to see if it was him. lol. And, Roth's 2 note scream is called "Whistle tone," just fyi. I might edit this later because I'm not done watching. But thanks for another killer interview Jeff and Kurt!
That’s cool, I didn’t know there was a term for that. Some people have that in their speaking voice, makes them very interesting to listen to. Like Badger, in Breaking Bad. Can hear at least two different notes in his voice when he is speaking. Raspy, like Gregg Bissonette, too. 🤘🏻😝🎸❤️🔥🇺🇸
I absolutely love Randy Bachman and Al Di Meola. I know VH is the subject here. Which is why I’m here. However, knowbody picked with such clarity and speed like Al Di Meola during the 70’s Now musically he’s a aquired taste. But his speed and technique, SICK.
I did meet Bruce at Saddleback High School and he does a good D.L.R. yelp, but I was referring to an incident that occurred much earlier at South Pasadena Junior High School. The name of the yelping guy was Todd Munson!
Shout out to Viktor Dewar (Vik Voltage) The blond haired conga player he mentioned that was on stage with Terry Kilgore opening for Van Halen at The Pasadena Civic. RIP
Van Halen hell yeah!!! Although that Kurt James is a fucking beast himself I know I play bass & have done a few bar gigs with Mr James & he is quite the bass player...I was also at that Pasadena civic gig & I have a great story about van Halen smoking a tie stick with diamond Dave...John Bosco Padres..thank you
Great interview with Kurt (aka Tad). I wish I could've heard this live so I could ask some questions. I first met Kurt at the Reseda Country Club, when I was hanging out with Paul Gilbert. The 2nd time was at NAMM. Paul Gilbert's car was in the shop, so I drove Paul to NAMM. We saw Kurt and hung together for awhile, but then we had to head over to Ibanez to talk with Tom Tanaka and they sealed Paul's endorsement deal with Ibanez. Paul tried to help me get an endorsement deal with Ibanez too, as my band "Redline" was doing well in the L.A. scene, and we usually opened for Racer-X. I've got alot of great stories from back then, but too much to write here. Kurt, I hope you're doing well. Great interview!
The Hunting brothers. Jamie is a great bass player who ended up playing in Dave's band with Terry Kilgore. I've played with him a few times. Fantastic bass player.
I'm from Queens NYC and I'm jealous. All these cool stories. I went to see Black Sabbath in Madison Square Garden NYC 1978. And some opening band comes on...I thought it was a joke...but then boom..boom.boom. beginning of Runjing with the Devil...holy shit. By the time he broke into Eruption..the crowd was in shock! I think I had an orgasm from that sound! The crowd was chanting for Eddie during black sabbath! Lol I felt bad for Ozzie. It was over for them.
@@FinalResonanceTV yea man. I have few good Van halen stories. In 1982, Eddie Breaks his wrist before playing NYC. So they cxled the Nassau Coliseum and Brenden Byrne Arena in Jersey shows . So all of us fans were bummed, no this can't be happening. We are in shock...Nooo! Eddie goes and finds the NY media and vows to come back to NYC on the Diver Down "Hide Your Sheep Tour" lol They came back a Month later...Eddie has the cast on..and blew the roof off the place! Dave yells in the opening "We're baaaaaack!!" OMG the place went Bananas! Fireworks flying around. weed and Smoke in the air, Rock n Roll Man! If this happened today the US army would have had to have gone in there and arrest everybody! lol
I saw them three times around the Pasadena City Hall, and three times inside the civic A. went to school with them in the first, second, 6th, 7th, grades, and was roadie for many many back yard pasadena parties.....
@@therealkurtjames554 I used to play captain beyond every morning into the police parking lot from my YMCA room window from the top floor, and this saturday late morning I was just about shaken out of my bed with Eddy tuning n testing his equipment, one of their first times to the side of City Hall next to the gas building, I bet the cops had a good laugh then...........
I was a huge BTO fan myself. I had all their stuff. The songs were all so rocking an fun kinda songs that were great for jamming in the car while cruising. Kinda like VH. Rarely do you hear much about BTO. It's ashame.
your the first I’ve heard acknolwedge that… DLR invented a new way of singing. always felt the same, he didn’t just have a diff voice, he used it in a diff way, almost peppering songs with sounds effects in many ways, in addition to spoken and sung versus. And he had that deep jewish nasal baritone, but with a unique dual-note squelch he developed somehow.
though i agree with kurt about there being no JBL’s on vh1 because of the straight/slant cab thing, eddie was not using the radioshack speakers in that live straight cab. though having the aluminum caps, they were 3” instead of JBL’s 4”. radioshack’s speakers also had the rippled cones as opposed to JBL’s smooth cones that you can see clear as day in the photo from 78 of dave sitting on top of ed’s cabinets. 100% JbL’s, but he still didnt record with them..
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 thanks for the reply. I made a video about this subject on my channel, but since then I have had a few extra pieces of evidence come in. At this point it's extremely unlikely that JBL's were ever in the studio for any of the albums. If we had some convincing audio tests, it may be different. But even the best attempt I've heard still falls flat, and the uploader even agreed with that. I'm hoping to make an addendum video to my original to detail some more evidence against the JBL's
@@tanneryordan Yeah i am in the Two mic's at different positions camp.👍 I also do not believe Ed ever used a JBL in the studio. Not sure if this can ever be 100% confirmed but i am also to the point where i think the pickup that was in the first B/W strat is just a 60's PAF that Ed potted. No seymour rewind or anything done to the PAF just potting. I am almost positive that was what used for in the B/W for the VH I tracks with a trem. I think all that p'u rewinding came later after VH I, VH II and WACF.
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 I think so too. I actually think ed’s frankenstein pickup might have been a little bit microphonic. You can hear alex’s tom drum fill in the beginning through the guitar in the isolated track…
I agree with Kurt and EVH just used his live rig on the VH I Record. Now that Sunset released those Mic only recording you can hear That it is just a really good 68 Marshall plexi cranked with some minimal outboard stuff like his Mxr EQ. It is the post production that sounds like a "Magical Marshall" so it was Don Landee that was responsible for the end result of that tone. There is nothing special on the Mic only recordings.
The only magic thing in the dry tracks is the splatty-ness of the clipping that I still find missing in a lot of tests. I think that had to do with the amp running slightly out of it's ideal state, but not impossible to recreate. All of that high end that people have attributed to the JBL's in the past is not even there on the dry tracks... which means that it was all post processing. Totally shoots a hole in that argument because it's one of the only things that supported it...
@@tanneryordan When eddie finally retired the SLP 12301 he had said the amp just did not have what it used to? Now was that Ed's taste just changing over the years(he did wind up using very high gain amps) or did the Marshall really lose what it once had? Dave friedman said it sounded great as is back in the 90's even Before he started to restore it to original.
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 i wouldnt necessarily trust ed’s ears EVER honestly. he spent 40 years crafting tone and ended up with exactly what he avoided in the beginning. GAIN. the original sound was not as much preamp gain. the amp may have sounded worse to his ears, but wolf used it on a solo for the new album and it sounded great
The Destroyers were made from Asian SEN ASH. Not like the Northern ASH the franky body was made from so i can see why EVH said the Ash destroyers were 🦃 while liking Northern Ash for his strat body.
Alex VH used to hang with us heavies at Victory Park 1969-1970 in East Pasadena. Little Edward was still going to Marshall Junior High and couldn't hang with us at night. Crazy times; Red Mountain Wine. We hung at the Mound at Victory Park near the Tennis courts. We owned the park at night in 1970 and PHS. My girlfriend broke up with me to start dating "Edward la fox." Irritated me deeply at the time. We all have come a long way from those days.
Amazing! Victory Park still there? I’ll be in town to volg cool VH locations again soon. Did most of the majors, schools. Civic, home, home when came over
To clarify: Ed was doing a hammer on/pull off on the "A" string at the 3rd fret with his right hand while hammering on the 5th and 7th, then the 5th and 9th frets with his left hand. This occurs right before the super fast flurry of notes in Spanish Fly.
I don't understand the concept of what "the bomb" thing guitarists had on stage in the middle of the live show in the 70's was. Carlos from Quite Riot had a manikin as his version of the bomb? What?
@@bobowrathsovine. I suppose so. It's just a stage prop. According to Eddie, in his interviews, he found the bomb. It was an empty dummy shell used for military practice.
I saw lizzy borden with motorhead at the palladium and mixing the two different crowds resulted in a really violent show. people getting beat down and stabbed everywhere you looked.
Of course Ed had no idea that the Destroyers were not actually “Korina” or White Limba, and he definitely had no idea that they were actually Japanese Sen Ash with a very few early prototype mahogany versions made in 1975. I think Ed didn’t have a clue about what wood sounded better versus another. Maybe he learned more later in life, but then, he didn’t really know.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun quick question...with your knowledge & attention to detail, do you know any specific dates when Ed: 1) bought the Destroyer, 2) painted it white, 3) took the chunk out of the back? Online I've found 1) he bought it sometime in '75, 2) there are some flyers & pix of a painted white between '75 & '78, 3) looks like the "Shark" shows up publicly in the "Runnin w the Devil" video but haven't been able to find any specific date when that video was shot other the broad '77/78 dates.
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I went to school with Kurt (Tad). He played at more than one back yard party of mine, and I have to say he’s one of the most under rated immensely talented guitarists ever. I miss those days, but I’m glad to hear him doing good and offering up all this great info! Keep rocking brother! 🤘
Great to hear from you, Paul!
@@therealkurtjames554 great stories, takes me back. I gotta get out to one of your gigs. Al Di Meola, showing your class man 😄
Even now, Kurt is the ONLY guy who nails Yngwie's solos from the Alcatrazz album. The tone, everything!. Even better than Yngwie himself could nowadays. Amazing!
I saw Kurt with Steeler a couple of times. He nailed Yngwie's solos. Amazing. I think Kurt James knew Joey Tafolla at one time; I seem to remember Joey telling me that. The first Dr. Mastermind shows how great Kurt is. There are so many killer guitarists from that era that no one got to hear or see.
Great interview! I just wanted to chime in and say how fortunate I was to meet Tad aka Kurt James in 7th grade at South Pasadena Jr High. He was already miles ahead of us on the electric guitar. I was at Tad's house every day in middle school and I can't express how dedicated he was to improving has playing. I am consistently referred to in this interview as "My Buddy". When Van Halen showed up at my beach on 4th of July the first thing I did was call Tad. We both spent the whole day with Eddie and Alex. Tad, Eddie and I sat together and Eddie played Spanish Fly and Tad had the nerve to play for Eddie and killed it!. Dave "Hawk" Lopez did go on a beer run with Alex. The Van Halen's could not have been nicer to us. They invited us into their hotel room that was full of beautiful women and made sure we always had a beer. A teenage fantasy came to life. I was also at Padrini's Music store the day we both met Nick Panicci. Nick took us under his wing and showed us the ropes of the Rock and Roll lifestyle. I also called Tad when I was a student at GIT when Allan Holdsworth gave his first seminar. Eddie played with through a Roland cube and sounded fantastic. And it was NOT my Peavey amp that Tad used at one of the many parties I would invite Tad to come and play with us in Laguna. It was my buddy's amp. Tad made it sound great.
When we were kids I often wondered why he included me and he said "you make the band sound better". That bit of wisdom defined my roll in music. I knew if I could make the band sound better I would always play with better musicians. Tad has always been a secret weapon of mine. I grew up in his shadow and always there to support him. But the Mojo that rubbed off on me always made me stand out in all the other music projects I have worked on. We are still great friends to this day. A few weeks ago we played a beach party on 4th of July. Tad stole the show!
@@TikiKing90036 Wow! Thanks for sharing! Love Tad too! Great, Funny Guy!!
No better way to start the weekend but with more stories about Ed.💪
Van Halen hit the world like a freight train. I remember listening to the first VH album at a party with a bunch of surfers and rockers in Santa Monica when the vinyl was still warm off the press. Nobody had ever heard anything like this. Eruption melted faces all over the place. Eddie changed the sound and the dynamics of guitar forever. VH as a band changed our expectations of what to expect of a band. They had it all down. They didn't phone it in like so many bands at the time. They delivered. Eddie also changed the way we players thought of guitars as well. He perfected a kind of minimalism. All you needed was a good humbucker in a strat and a whammy. But he also perfected that simple esthetic as well, working closely with Floyd Rose as he developed the first functional locking trem system and pickup designers like Seymour Duncan raced to keep up with Eddie's demands. Eddie knew what he wanted, unlike most players, and he drove the guitar industry into giving players a higher standard of instrument with more dynamics.
I saw Kurt back in the early 80's. He is a great guitarist!
I remember seeing Cats & Dogs. They used all of the speaker cabs from a previous Van Halen tour. Mike's brother had that same great background vocal. good band.
Loved your playing with Dr. Mastermind, Kurt - glad to hear you're still about and active :)
I went to college in Pasadena in the 80s and 90s, and the impact VH had on that town and the whole LA area, was still strong...
Love that intro to "dirty movies" so you contributed that man? Thats fu#$%^ cool!
Randy Bachman was taught by Lenny Breau. There is a lot of jazz stuff in BTO music. He’s a great guitar player.
And he got into Tal Farlow and Barney Kessel as well…
Really?? Wow
@@frankrichards3089 Randy named his son Tal after Tal Farlow. Tal Bachman is a singer-songwriter guitar player who had a #1 hit with the 1999 single “She’s So High” that you might remember.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun No really cool gotta check out ty!
@@frankrichards3089 You’ll recognize this: ruclips.net/video/_ElORM9O-0U/видео.html
Jammed with Tad at his dad's in the early 80s in Costa Mesa and I remember he saved the strings off his acoustic that Eddie had played Spanish Fly on in Laguna Beach. He had the strings hanging off a picture on the wall. Love Tad's work -- just a monster player -- he was playing with Steeler at the time.
I. Learned a LOT From a guy working at the "millwheel" in Toronto in 82' elm street i believe. But that guitar store empoyee changed my life! Even though i ended up being a vocalist. Lol
I met Kurt back in 88(if memory serves) at the LA music expo at the Chandler booth, when I was going to GIT. I met one of my favorite guitar players. It was very cool
Omg! This is a great interview and the photos are amazing!!! I've sent my friend John Billings a message to see if it was him. lol. And, Roth's 2 note scream is called "Whistle tone," just fyi. I might edit this later because I'm not done watching. But thanks for another killer interview Jeff and Kurt!
That’s cool, I didn’t know there was a term for that. Some people have that in their speaking voice, makes them very interesting to listen to.
Like Badger, in Breaking Bad. Can hear at least two different notes in his voice when he is speaking. Raspy, like Gregg Bissonette, too. 🤘🏻😝🎸❤️🔥🇺🇸
I built my first p,a, cabs using those radio shack speakers,using 15s 12s and piesos,I have a red Ibanez V from that era that I played,
I absolutely love Randy Bachman and Al Di Meola. I know VH is the subject here. Which is why I’m here. However, knowbody picked with such clarity and speed like Al Di Meola during the 70’s Now musically he’s a aquired taste. But his speed and technique, SICK.
That was at Saddleback High in Santa Ana, and that dude yelping was Bruce Chavez.
I did meet Bruce at Saddleback High School and he does a good D.L.R. yelp, but I was referring to an incident that occurred much earlier at South Pasadena Junior High School. The name of the yelping guy was Todd Munson!
Another great talk. Sounds like a good guy. Alex stealing lunch money ... mean street, so funny.
Shout out to Viktor Dewar (Vik Voltage) The blond haired conga player he mentioned that was on stage with Terry Kilgore opening for Van Halen at The Pasadena Civic. RIP
Van Halen hell yeah!!! Although that Kurt James is a fucking beast himself I know I play bass & have done a few bar gigs with Mr James & he is quite the bass player...I was also at that Pasadena civic gig & I have a great story about van Halen smoking a tie stick with diamond Dave...John Bosco Padres..thank you
Listened to a lot of B.T.O. 1of my favorite classic rock groups. Underrated
Great interview with Kurt (aka Tad). I wish I could've heard this live so I could ask some questions. I first met Kurt at the Reseda Country Club, when I was hanging out with Paul Gilbert. The 2nd time was at NAMM. Paul Gilbert's car was in the shop, so I drove Paul to NAMM. We saw Kurt and hung together for awhile, but then we had to head over to Ibanez to talk with Tom Tanaka and they sealed Paul's endorsement deal with Ibanez. Paul tried to help me get an endorsement deal with Ibanez too, as my band "Redline" was doing well in the L.A. scene, and we usually opened for Racer-X.
I've got alot of great stories from back then, but too much to write here. Kurt, I hope you're doing well. Great interview!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!
kings and queens- that redline?
Awesome interview! Great stories! Thank You Both for putting it out there.
Great lesson sound..and memories master.
Great show Jeff - though I could have enjoyed more of Kurts Van Halen stories for at least another two hours .
😂right?
The high scream two-note octave that Roth did came from Edgar Winter. Dave was a big Edgar Winter fan. Edgar played on Dave's EP, Crazy From the Heat.
The Hunting brothers. Jamie is a great bass player who ended up playing in Dave's band with Terry Kilgore. I've played with him a few times. Fantastic bass player.
Great stuff, love those stories
I'm from Queens NYC and I'm jealous.
All these cool stories.
I went to see Black Sabbath in Madison Square Garden NYC 1978.
And some opening band comes on...I thought it was a joke...but then boom..boom.boom. beginning of Runjing with the Devil...holy shit.
By the time he broke into Eruption..the crowd was in shock!
I think I had an orgasm from that sound! The crowd was chanting for Eddie during black sabbath! Lol
I felt bad for Ozzie. It was over for them.
Wow amazing lol! Chanting for Eddie during BS! Wow! Thanks for sharing!
@@FinalResonanceTV yea man. I have few good Van halen stories. In 1982, Eddie Breaks his wrist before playing NYC. So they cxled the Nassau Coliseum and Brenden Byrne Arena in Jersey shows .
So all of us fans were bummed, no this can't be happening. We are in shock...Nooo!
Eddie goes and finds the NY media and vows to come back to NYC on the Diver Down "Hide Your Sheep Tour" lol They came back a Month later...Eddie has the cast on..and blew the roof off the place! Dave yells in the opening "We're baaaaaack!!" OMG the place went Bananas! Fireworks flying around. weed and Smoke in the air, Rock n Roll Man!
If this happened today the US army would have had to have gone in there and arrest everybody! lol
Whoa Dude! I listened to the whole thing!
I saw them three times around the Pasadena City Hall, and three times inside the civic A. went to school with them in the first, second, 6th, 7th, grades, and was roadie for many many back yard pasadena parties.....
@@haroldmoore2563 I think Alex still owes you some lunch money!
@@haroldmoore2563I sent you a friend request on FB! Let’s talk love to have you on to tell these stories!
@@therealkurtjames554 I used to play captain beyond every morning into the police parking lot from my YMCA room window from the top floor, and this saturday late morning I was just about shaken out of my bed with Eddy tuning n testing his equipment, one of their first times to the side of City Hall next to the gas building, I bet the cops had a good laugh then...........
I was a huge BTO fan myself. I had all their stuff. The songs were all so rocking an fun kinda songs that were great for jamming in the car while cruising. Kinda like VH. Rarely do you hear much about BTO. It's ashame.
Any chance of a part 2? Needs to at least touch on the Yngwie/Steeler period...they recorded together for fun on Yngwie's 4 track back then.
Great interview of my buddy, Kurt (Tadshimoy)! Jeff, are you going to NAMM next month?
I had never heard those were Radio Shack speakers. Always heard they were JBLs. My mind is blown
Watch Dweezil Zappa play Vanhalen. You see Eds influence
17:46 love these little details, hail 🙇🏻♂️🫡
your the first I’ve heard acknolwedge that… DLR invented a new way of singing. always felt the same, he didn’t just have a diff voice, he used it in a diff way, almost peppering songs with sounds effects in many ways, in addition to spoken and sung versus. And he had that deep jewish nasal baritone, but with a unique dual-note squelch he developed somehow.
though i agree with kurt about there being no JBL’s on vh1 because of the straight/slant cab thing, eddie was not using the radioshack speakers in that live straight cab. though having the aluminum caps, they were 3” instead of JBL’s 4”. radioshack’s speakers also had the rippled cones as opposed to JBL’s smooth cones that you can see clear as day in the photo from 78 of dave sitting on top of ed’s cabinets. 100% JbL’s, but he still didnt record with them..
plus there is a painfully obvious seam in the cone in the radioshack speakers. eddies did not have that
You are absolutely right about the appearance of the JBL vs RS speakers so from photographic evidence you are correct and cannot be disputed.. 👍
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 thanks for the reply. I made a video about this subject on my channel, but since then I have had a few extra pieces of evidence come in. At this point it's extremely unlikely that JBL's were ever in the studio for any of the albums. If we had some convincing audio tests, it may be different. But even the best attempt I've heard still falls flat, and the uploader even agreed with that. I'm hoping to make an addendum video to my original to detail some more evidence against the JBL's
@@tanneryordan Yeah i am in the Two mic's at different positions camp.👍 I also do not believe Ed ever used
a JBL in the studio. Not sure if this can ever be 100% confirmed but i am also to the point where i think the pickup
that was in the first B/W strat is just a 60's PAF that Ed potted. No seymour rewind or anything done to the PAF just potting.
I am almost positive that was what used for in the B/W for the VH I tracks with a trem. I think all that p'u rewinding came later after VH I, VH II and WACF.
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 I think so too. I actually think ed’s frankenstein pickup might have been a little bit microphonic. You can hear alex’s tom drum fill in the beginning through the guitar in the isolated track…
I saw another one of Michael Anthony's brothers play guitar one night at the Ice House and I thought he sounded a lot like Michael Schenker.
Are you sure that the guy you're talking to isn't Buckethead?
Nuno played his rig, And he said he sounded like Nuno lol......
I agree with Kurt and EVH just used his live rig on the VH I Record. Now that Sunset released those Mic only recording you can hear
That it is just a really good 68 Marshall plexi cranked with some minimal outboard stuff like his Mxr EQ. It is the post production that sounds like a "Magical Marshall" so it was Don Landee that was responsible for the end result of that tone.
There is nothing special on the Mic only recordings.
The only magic thing in the dry tracks is the splatty-ness of the clipping that I still find missing in a lot of tests. I think that had to do with the amp running slightly out of it's ideal state, but not impossible to recreate.
All of that high end that people have attributed to the JBL's in the past is not even there on the dry tracks... which means that it was all post processing. Totally shoots a hole in that argument because it's one of the only things that supported it...
@@tanneryordan When eddie finally retired
the SLP 12301 he had said the amp just did not have what it used to? Now was that Ed's taste just changing over the years(he did wind up using very high gain amps) or did the Marshall really lose what it once had?
Dave friedman said it sounded great as is back in the 90's even Before he started to restore it to original.
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 i wouldnt necessarily trust ed’s ears EVER honestly. he spent 40 years crafting tone and ended up with exactly what he avoided in the beginning. GAIN. the original sound was not as much preamp gain.
the amp may have sounded worse to his ears, but wolf used it on a solo for the new album and it sounded great
The Destroyers were made from Asian SEN ASH. Not like the Northern ASH the franky body was made from so i can see why
EVH said the Ash destroyers were 🦃 while liking Northern Ash for his strat body.
Alex VH used to hang with us heavies at Victory Park 1969-1970 in East Pasadena. Little Edward was still going to Marshall Junior High and couldn't hang with us at night.
Crazy times; Red Mountain Wine. We hung at the Mound at Victory Park near the Tennis courts. We owned the park at night in 1970 and PHS. My girlfriend broke up with me to start dating "Edward la fox." Irritated me deeply at the time.
We all have come a long way from those days.
Amazing! Victory Park still there? I’ll be in town to volg cool VH locations again soon. Did most of the majors, schools. Civic, home, home when came over
best tones Ed got was pre 1st album.
Great interview! Question: at 32:06 is Kurt saying Eddie was doing sort of a right hand capo thing or something else?
To clarify: Ed was doing a hammer on/pull off on the "A" string at the 3rd fret with his right hand while hammering on the 5th and 7th, then the 5th and 9th frets with his left hand. This occurs right before the super fast flurry of notes in Spanish Fly.
Thanks for the detailed description Mr. James!
I don't understand the concept of what "the bomb" thing guitarists had on stage in the middle of the live show in the 70's was. Carlos from Quite Riot had a manikin as his version of the bomb? What?
In the 70's people feared the threat of nuclear war, and complete devastation. It was the cold war era with the USSR.
@@qua7771 so it was just a collection of a guitarist's pedalboard ect and sarcastically you would say oh look at that bomb?
@@bobowrathsovine. I suppose so. It's just a stage prop. According to Eddie, in his interviews, he found the bomb. It was an empty dummy shell used for military practice.
The Hammers are on
I saw lizzy borden with motorhead at the palladium and mixing the two different crowds resulted in a really violent show. people getting beat down and stabbed everywhere you looked.
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Please stop clicking that pen...
Kurt seems a little salty,, like, maybe Dave wouldn’t sign an autograph for him or something
17:00 anyone know which Obrecht interview he's referring to?
34:00 must of been before spell check?
That might have been Steve Rosen’s interview where he mentions Korina
'79 Obrecht I believe
'79 and '80 Obrecht interviews he gets deep into his equipment with Jas and talks about pickups, wood, frets, amps etcetc
Of course Ed had no idea that the Destroyers were not actually “Korina” or White Limba, and he definitely had no idea that they were actually Japanese Sen Ash with a very few early prototype mahogany versions made in 1975. I think Ed didn’t have a clue about what wood sounded better versus another. Maybe he learned more later in life, but then, he didn’t really know.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun quick question...with your knowledge & attention to detail, do you know any specific dates when Ed: 1) bought the Destroyer, 2) painted it white, 3) took the chunk out of the back? Online I've found 1) he bought it sometime in '75, 2) there are some flyers & pix of a painted white between '75 & '78, 3) looks like the "Shark" shows up publicly in the "Runnin w the Devil" video but haven't been able to find any specific date when that video was shot other the broad '77/78 dates.
He basically stole eruption, tapping, the logo, the singer, the stripes. Look it up.
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The lightening bolt was the hand of God (lucifer) telling Ed , time to stand apart from the crowd pal!
Even the bible tells of Lucifers musical standing ( God said I gave you the Timbrels and pipes) ..why do you think people say " he's got great pipes"?