When Vaughan’s brother Jimmie dropped by to play a rhythm guitar part on “Couldn’t Stand the Weather,” he suggested putting in a longer pause between statements of the opening riff. Stevie liked the idea. While the tape was rolling, he simply put his finger to his lips after they’d played the riff for the third time, waited two-and-a-half extra beats, and then cued the band to come back in. This take—cut with no prior rehearsal of the break—was the keeper. “It took us a little by surprise,” Layton says, “but we were so tight at that time that he could have made [the pause] five and six one-hundredths of a beat and we’d have been right there.”

When Stevie comes ripping  in with the clean tone after that tight intro, that is the type of thing that makes you realize why this man is so important to what has happened in the guitar community.

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Linkage:

Guitar World write up.

SRV Official

Van Halen | Tattoo

There has been a lot of anticipation of what the new/old Van Halen will sound like. The time is here as Van Halen released the new video for the single Tattoo. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what people expected with the updated version of Van Halen with David Lee Roth returning to vocals, Eddie Van Halen on guitar, Alex  Van Halen on drums, and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass. The slow groove sounds like something that could have been on one of the later Van Halen albums. First thought was that it reminded one of the David Lee Roth solo era, when people wondered why they didn’t do songs like that in Van Halen.

To give it a fair shake, I would recommend not trying to watch the video when first listening to the song as they have trouble syncing up the audio to the video at times.

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Van Halen Live 2012

There has been a bit stirring as of late about the upcoming Van Halen record. Consider it a full on shake with the band releasing three trailer videos with the scrolling message at the bottom that reads, “Van Halen on tour 2012, First tickets on sale January 10′th.”  There are four videos featuring classics like “Jump”, “Hot for Teacher”, and “Panama”. There is a fourth that splices the previous three together. The black and white footage shows the band, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, and Wolfgang Van Halen working the stage, possibly rehearsing.

Get these Van Halen tunes on 1984
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Unfortunately, in the mess of starting over, I have lost my previous posts. I’ll be putting some of them back up that I had written and saved outside of MLI. I would appreciate the subscribers hanging in there while these posts show up in the feed as we get started again.

Let’s get ready to rock!