Eddie Van Halen: "My First Interview" (Excerpt)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Notice: The full-length version of this interview has been posted here: • Eddie Van Halen: "My F... . Here's the back story of how the interview happened: I was shooting basketball backstage at the July 1978 Day on the Green concert in Oakland, California, when a young guy came over asked if he could join me. After a spirited game of one-on-one, we sat down to cool off. He asked me what band I was in. When I told him I was an editor for Guitar Player magazine, he said, "Why don't you interview me? Nobody ever wants to interview me." I asked him who he was. "My name is Edward Van Halen." Whoa! I turned on my tape recorder and Eddie gave me what he'd call "my first interview." This excerpt is the beginning of that conversation. For more interview podcasts, interviews, and articles, check out "Talking Guitar" magazine at jasobrecht.sub.... #vanhalen #eddievanhalen #vanhalenhistory
The Greatest debut album of all time. The entire guitar world was in shock
A lifetime after its release some of us are STILL trying to do what Eddie was doing in his early 20's. We're blessed to have had him for as long as we did.
Without a doubt. It is the greatest debut of all time. That album, completely, changed the game.
Absolutely! And it sounds amazing on vinyl on a great stereo!
Well said Brian!
I had been playing for a year and it totally melted my brain and even at the time of his passing with social media youtube etc you get to see/hear what the old and new guitar gurus all said pretty much the same thing. I love what Zakk Wylde said when he heard the beginning of Mean Streets, "wtf is that a piano"? He totally changed the game and his first 5 albums were a bag of guitar tricks.
I really wish I could go BACK to the f'ing 70's and this.
More than a great guitar player, an icon, just plain cool dude !
The world had no idea that this plucky kid’s band had just recorded the greatest debut album of all time and was about to take over! What a piece of history this recording is!
We knew, the first time we heard You Really Got Me on the radio. Ed's music was from another planet.
You’re absolutely right, it was the golden hour before the world was graced by VH. To hear how Jas met Ed, and this candid interview, full goosebumps. Amazing & rare moment capture in history, truly.
i read this interview many times but hearing Eds voice is a giftl!!! RIP King Edward =VH= U R Missed!
Oh. My. Gosh… That voice! So young!! This is a gem. Thank you ❤️
that first album, man....incredible, even now.
Yeh, I’m about to buy it again off eBay.
I’m much older than I look.
*VAN HALEN*
@@michaelmichaels138 , i bought this first album in vinyl 7 times between 78 and and 83, worn them all out, no longer have it in vinyl. just CD'S.
@@owlperchedsilo3745 - I was 13 living in Edmond, Oklahoma when that first album came out.
Me and my buds would jam the crap out of that and just stare at the photos of the band thinking they were the coolest looking dudes on the face of the planet.
DLR bending backwards with all that chest hair, I had been praying for body hair and he was my new hero.
Good times.
@@michaelmichaels138 , i was 21 and lived a couple miles away from where the Van Halen brothers lived. same here about the photos of them on the album. Eddie holding the guitar up with one hand thing...just badass. i had been playing guitar about 10 years up to that point and i knew i had to start practicing A LOT more after hearing that album, i was on a mission. i wanted a guitar with a Floyd Rose tremolo system on it (like his) which took a long time to figure out because they did not make guitars equipped with it yet. it was like those guys were from another planet or something...especially Eddie. nothing beats that first album.
A brief glimpse into the world of a musical genius.
It is unmistakable voice. The King! Guitar God of gods.
Try and match the energy that comes off that first album....even today.....you can't. GOAT debut album.
Man, thank you so much for sharing this! Like many, I read that interview probably hundreds of times when I first discovered Ed and was teaching myself to play. You painted such a picture of the day with this piece. It was very "Almost Famous" in its way. Your descriptions and style put me right in the moment, and I always pictured this as a video interview as I read. It was so vivid to me that I'd almost swear I watched this conversation. It's wonderful to finally be able to hear a bit of it. Thank you, again.
Loved hearing this Jas!!! I grew up on that interview! Must have read it a million times lol! Will talk about this on my VH show tonight.
Hearing young Ed is truly a thrill. Thanks so much for posting.
Jesus H , only Jamie's crying , Running with the devil and Ice cream man were overdubbed . That is absolutely mind boggling . What a talent .
Thanks Pat Travers
Thanks for sharing this audio interview. I've read it from when it came out & since I still have all my old magazines, it's around somewhere. It's cool to hear it & what a show that day on the green was. Wish I was there.
This is taking me back and now I can hear it !! Thanks Jas 😊
Great find,.....his voice sounds the same when he was 21 as in later years,....love Eddie
Eddie the king of the "ya know"
He’s unbelievable!🙏
Dig it...Ed so alive so young...keepem' coming , thank u
Who are you LOL. Just a punk from Pasadena who likes to play guitar that's all . THE KING
This is incredible!
Love hearing him talk
Very cool of you to post this!
Talk about the right place at the right time. Talking to a 23 year old Edward Van Halen. Good for you...
I used to read you all the time in my formative years. You played a role in my guitar education for sure.
Thank you very much Mr Obrecht.
Hi from Italy
He had the world by the balls. 🤘
🤟 thank you 🤟
Jas Obrecht, what a champ
Jas I really love your interviews ..this is awesome. Also that interview with Eddie in 82 from the road about Diver Down. Playing that clip of a very raw version of Jump
That’s a great interview.
Wow great stuff
The fact that We owe this jem to Pat Travers libido makes it even more awesome..everything happens for a reason !
There are no coincidences in life. You must be very special. 🙏
Amazing...thnx...
Now everything is drum tracked, time aligned, autotuned, and simmed by a computer. Artist don't even bother going to a studio to record, they literally phone it in. They record at home, email the file to the engineer who creates the song on a laptop.
Van Halen stuck a microphone in front of an amp and hit "record", and made the greatest rock album of all time....
Hey mate- were you the guy who interviewed Jimmy Page for guitar world (I think?) Back in the 90's?
The one when he ordered burger king and left the hotel without eating it?
Jas, Who is occasionally bouncing the basketball?? Heard it a couple of times :)
Who won the basketball game? 😏
Eddie. He had an amazing hook shot.
I love how he says "we were just dickin' around".