I like dat piece Eruption
N Tru diz alzo a highly entrrtainin podazt
I like dat piece Eruption
N Tru diz alzo a highly entrrtainin podazt
I switched to 1978, and this pretty much sums up my thoughts. The music really isn’t much to speak about, in my opinion either - it’s the guitar playing you remember. Funny actually, it’s usually the vocals which has center stage with these bands but Roth almost has a supporting role here.
He knew where the talent was. He was a very good judge of guitarist (also had Steve Vai and Jason Becker play for him).
I just went back and listened to this classic:
It sucks what happened to him, but at least he’s still able to write music.
Hehe, this does what Van Halen never dared - simply stop pretending the vocals or the music has any meaning and just give the guitar the space it needs.
Really, I like this better. It’s maybe in poor taste, but what you only got in drops with Van Halen is done in full spades here. Also a suspicious amount of both Bach and Czerny/Hanon in this. From what I’ve heard tonight both Becker and Van Halen really must have studied classical music - at least tangentially - and went to the bottom with the technical aspects of their instrument in the same systematic way Czerny did with the piano.
Van Halen was apparently a very good classical pianist as a child/teen. He even won some local competitions in Pasadena. Becker also had an interest in classical music, which you can definitely hear in that album.
Hey Bing! This is very important, please mention that the sdc community has diverse interests besides piano like tractors and gender identity !