Rock School; Van Halen; Part 1

Oh It's time for school Rock school with your hosts, Dr. Joe birds Plucking right Kind of thing and Chad Pete. I'm a drummer. Yeah, okay. We have very simple mind Class is in Rock school good afternoon. My name is Joe Burns. I am a professor in the communication department right here southeast during Louisiana university sitting to my immediate right is I'm just gonna start right with a chat. I'm gonna right into it here are the overriding statistics 11 studio albums the most number one songs on the billboard rock chart ever Okay, the number nine highest selling rock act in history. I'm getting there number 15 Highest selling music act in history every single album went gold ten of the albums went platinum two of them

went Diamond did you know what group we happen to be speaking of I believe I have a clear picture of who we're talking about this is van Hale and ladies and gentlemen. It's the van Hale in show. It's gonna go over two hours So this week and next week I have been putting this show together in my head and finally Oh, yeah, finally sat down and said I just have to do it. Let's do it the question is What do you do? Do you just do a straight forward? History of the band? Well, we're gonna do a little bit of that and I've studied this guy's guitar playing so much Well, we'll do a little bit of that But we've got to tap into what you know because you followed these guys for literally years I saw all of them studied them. I if I could write academic papers on them I would do it. So the generic history on van Hale and I can go to Wikipedia and look it up Tell me something that I can't find anywhere, but your brain. Let's find that out Let's do it when they got started they were first called the Trojan rubber company didn't have like a bunch of names Tons of names they called themselves

Genesis, right? They found out there was this Genesis over there in Europe So they decided to call themselves manath and when they became manath they began getting known because they began doing Those backyard parties where they would ask a dollar at the door and play until the cops came Mm -hmm. The lead singer was Ed They were a threesome with this guy named Mark Stone who was this bass player genius Yeah, this bass player Mark Stone who was a genius got all a's at school the van Hale and logo That's the VH with the wings coming off of it. Yeah, Mark Stone Created that logo. Okay, the problem was there's an old statement that says don't leave before the magic happens He left before the magic that's right and it was own thing I mean, they're still friends with Mark Stone. They still know him. He split so they found this guy named Michael Anthony Who was the lead singer of a group called snake? Okay Michael Anthony left snake they were playing and they kept Getting this PA system from another group called the Red Ball Jets Yeah, who happened to have a lead singer by the name of David Lee Roth they got tired of giving money to David Lee Roth They said well, you know

what we might as well just bring him over and make him the lead singer So they brought David Lee Roth then they were still called mammoth until Dave said, you know what? We might as well just use your last name think about all the bands that called themselves by last name Yeah, that's where van Hale and was born. They played for the first time in Pasadena as van Hale and but they got a terrible review Okay, because they didn't like the lead singer. Let me stop you right there Yes, sir. I was under the impression. They were from Pasadena. They are they just I'm just saying their first time as van Hale And okay, they played in Pasadena and people said can't stand it. Don't like the front singer Why because he's copying Jim Dandy from black oak Arkansas perfectly big floppy hat huge cane all of that Took him a while to lose all of that But after after a short while David Lee Roth found his own pace Mm -hmm and van Hale and was born and after a while they became the house band at Gazaris Gazaris now were to the point where they were a house band and they began to make a name for themselves

now Were they any good? Did they sound good as a as a house band? Do we have anything? Yeah, they might now Please let me understand that Bootleg tapes are illegal. So what I have is a legal bootleg tape a legal bootleg This is from 1976 recorded at Gazaris. This is the eyes of the night. It's van Hale and on rock school the oxymoron song That's the guys of the night van Hale and on rock school from 1976. That was recorded at Gazaris Quiet legally. It really was. I'm not kidding you that was a Japanese import And it ends a little abruptly because obviously it was recorded horribly I just wanted you to hear what they sounded like back in 1976 and you can

hear the beginnings of a brand new Style of guitar playing you can you really can normally there is or at that point in time There were normally two guitarists. There was the the rhythm guitarist and the lead guitarist and the lead would simply break off and play his or her leads Well, Eddie was a single player He would rhythm and then lead and you would hear this series of Major chords and then he would play Minor chords over top of it, but getting into a music theory standpoint Eddie would play these chords that were what are known as inverted So there really wasn't a third inside of the chords and I know that's really starting into a goofy a goofy way of Getting into music theory and some people are going okay. I don't know what you're talking about It allowed him to play Minor blues leads over top of this happy Major chord and somebody says well, how does van Hale and get the sound? Why does everything I listen to sound like van Hale and At its most basic that's it Major chords

played in inversions So they're really these little tiny three note chords is it'll try ads with minor leads played over top of them That's about as basic a description of the van Hale and sound and you began to hear it in there You could hear just the pieces of it. Let's go a year forward. Okay. The first person to hear van Hale and and say They're good. A demo should be made was not Ted Templeman. It was of all people Gene Simmons Wow, yes in 1977 Gene Simmons gets a hold of van Hale and takes him out to the electric lady land studios in New York City And they cut one of five thousand printed believe it or not Demos I own one. Okay. I have it framed. It's hanging on my wall in my office. You can come up and see it It's got the looney tunes characters on it It doesn't sound very much like van Hale and any van Hale was not allowed to bring his own equipment Why he they just weren't going to pay the money. Oh, okay, and on top of that

Gene Simmons attempted to get the band to change their name He wanted to change the name of the band from van Hale and to daddy long legs As if they had already under win enough name changes We wanted to change him again actually you can go online and see it the the name change would have gone along with a brand new logo that had actually been Created it was a daddy long legs spider holding a top hat and tipping it out This is a song that van Hale and had and you'll find it on a lot of bootlegs From early demo tapes that they themselves paid for not that I have any of these illegal bootleg tapes, but this is from the 1977 Gene Simmons demo nothing happened He shopped it around nothing happened gave it back to van Hale and said here you go gentlemen good luck to you I've never got signed off it. This is called big trouble. It's van Hale and on rock school Oh

Too polished yeah Too polished that's big trouble. That's from the 1977 Gene Simmons demo You know when that thing failed do you know that Gene Simmons actually asked Eddie van Hale if he wanted to be the new guitarist for kiss Really that's the truth there was a good chance that that he would have been able to go what what animal would they have painted The face of Eddie van Hale now Eddie van Hale and it's good. Yeah, don't get me wrong And I'm not you're not getting have you noticed you haven't heard yet to this point You haven't heard the whammy bar and you haven't heard a lot of that two -hand Right -hand hammer on stuff that you haven't you haven't heard any of that stuff yet because we haven't gotten to van Hale and won Yet you haven't heard any of that stuff yet. Well, I'm basically asking is like you know I mean Eddie van Hale and I'm not taking anything away from him. He's good But there were a million guitarist out there. Why why is Eddie Eddie? What you know what what why him specific? I've I've actually put brain cell to this okay, and I think there's two reasons why number one Well other than the fact that

he he has talent, you know, you have to have you have to be born into talent number one He was poor, okay, and so there was no such thing as well I need to create a sound. I'll just go spend $20 or $50 and buy the effect. Uh -huh He had no choice. He had to use the equipment that he had thus He had no choice but to create the sound himself. He had to better his playing. Okay. He had to do it with his hands All right, and he was poor and because of that He had to become a better player. He had no choice and number two He was born into a family of musicians his father Yon was a saxophonist and his mother her name was eugenia Was you know a woman who supported a musician so when he sat on the edge of the bed and played for six hours straight It wasn't seen as a waste of time. Okay. I you know my father sold spark plugs I was to be a doctor or a lawyer so when I sat in the bed and played the guitar for how many hours My parents looked at it and went don't you have anything better to do You know go

outside play do that kind of thing not Eddie Van Halen he would play for six hours and they would say good for you Okay, I really believe those are one of the two reasons nice welcome to 1978 ladies and gentlemen Mo Austin and Ted Templeman of Warner Brothers Waltz into the Star Ward Look at van Halen Hear them play a set walk backstage Contract in hand Sign here boys. You are gonna be huge They take them over to sunset sound recorders look at Ted Templeman dead in the face and say we hated the way you recorded or the way We were recorded at the electric lady land studios can't we just record live at 10 Templeman says you bet Let's just turn on the tape and you can go you want to hear the first song they recorded for the 1978 Van Halen album I'm the one I'm the one the one you love every guitar trick in the world rolled up into three and a half minutes It's Van Halen on rock school

I'm gonna need a minute All right the blood pressure is up Boom now wait a minute listen to this for one second listen you heard the first two songs right yeah Now the jump from big trouble and eyes of the night you heard in that song the inverted chords did you heard the minor guitar playing But you also heard the dive bomb because he was playing with the frank and strad the guitar I put together right He took the that little little that little rocker arm that's at the back of the guitar He took it farther than it should the whammy bar and he created that dive bomb You heard the right

hand coming up on the neck and tapping the strings and by the way, it's not called tapping What do people that call a tapping what he was doing in that song is called right hand hammer on Okay, you're in just a little bit. I'm gonna show you tapping, but he called it right hand it's it's called right hand hammer on all right You heard speed picking out of him tremolo picking if you were listening last week. Yeah, you heard Minor playing over top of inverted chords. You also heard Playing to open strings. He was playing about the 12th or 13th fret and out of the middle while he was playing at the top speed He would just open his hands and let the strings wide open huh The stuff that he did inside of that first album was Mesmerizing who's um who's singing harmony there with him all the guys all the guys mainly It's it's Ed and and Michael Anthony and the high vocals are always Michael Anthony I have made a decision during this during this two hours that we're gonna do Van Halen I'm not gonna play the hits off the albums all right now. This may be the downfall of the show But I'm not gonna play the hits off the albums. I'm gonna play secondary

tunes So if you're a Van Halen buff you'll hear secondary tunes if you're not a Van Halen buff I'm gonna introduce you to some new music. So we're going to be stuff. We have finished 1978 cool. We have finished the Van Halen album. We're gonna come back. We're gonna talk about Van Halen too Yeah, we're gonna talk about tapping all right right now. We have to take a moment We got to pay the light bills. We got to do something for our sponsor. We'll be back in just a minute on rock school You Programming on KSLU is under written in part by home theater etc With football season and full swing home theater etc offers a variety of big and flat -screen televisions for you to enjoy watching your favorite team on Brands such as Elite by Pioneer, Katachi, Sharp, Toshiba, JVC, Mitsubishi and many others They also come in different sizes such as 50 inch, 62 and even 72 inch screens home theater etc Is located on the corner

of Morris and Muni across from Florida parishes bank the telephone number is area code 985 340 -7777 Guess what I got a fever and the only prescription is more cabin Right Hey, I saw you It's rock school here. It's an hour of Van Halen today. It's an hour of Van Halen next week We are done with 1978 and we're going into 1979 Van Halen 2 Van Halen had a hit off of off of the first album they put out in 1978 They had a remake called you really got me of the kinks and they had a menza menza hit with running with the devil It kind of went to number 38 and fell off their first real big honest to goodness play it at the club hit Was called dance the night away and that's the one we're going to play not because I want to play a hit But because I want to talk to you about something new that Van Halen was doing called tapping Now everybody listens to the end of eruption and they hear those little triplacus And they consider that tapping okay, it's not tapping but this is going to be

right We're gonna do tapping the thing you hear at the end of eruption is called right hand Hammer on all right. They're not new. They've been being done since classical guitarists The basic concept is you run out of fingers on the left hand You bring up a finger on the right and you play okay. What you're about to hear is something called tapping Here's the concept guitar next have little markers on them Yeah, not because it helps the guitars figure out where their fingers are but because those are where their harmonics Are located right if you take the 12th fret hold your finger on the note And and just don't push it down, but just lay your finger on the string and pluck it it will ring a harmonic Well the thing about it is if you hold down the third fret that means 12 frets up is 15 And Eddie found out that if he takes his finger and he wax it real hard It rings a harmonic So he started putting his hands into chord progressions putting his right hand into the same position of the court and whacking the whole chord So the entire chord would ring as a harmonic a harmonic chord because he's a maniac

He started ringing them at the 12th fret and at the 5th fret at the 7th fret the guys are nut bar That's tapping This entire song is done with tapping when you hear the guitar sounding like it's playing sort of ethereal and octave above where it should yeah The reason you're hearing it is because his right hand is on top of the fretboard and he's whacking the heck out of it And it's ringing as full chord harmonics. I want to hear it. That's tapping dance the night away Van Halen on rock school You Listen

for the octave for the octave listen That's all tapped, that's all tapped. I can't even do air guitar to the guys anymore, it just looks like I'm playing it. Yeah, it just like you were watching it, you're just watching it, you're like, good. Good grief, it's Van Halen for this hour and next week right here on Rock School, we're at Half Pass and we are just so happy that everyone has come and joined us for goodness sakes, ladies and gentlemen, come and learn Chad's here, I'm here, Chad is one who must learn and learn and learn and you know this is our 30th show. Can you believe that? 30 shows. I never thought that you'd be able to stand me for more than five or ten shows, so there's a lot of stuff I don't talk to you about. I'd like to write us an email. Please do. Yeah, ask me what. Alright, kslurockschoolatgmail .com, kslurockschoolatgmail .com one big word or there's a backdoor that you can go through and that's through the kslu home page which is kslu .org. There's a rock

school logo on the right hand side, click it and you'll be in our official site, click contact us and it'll come straight to us. Very good. Thank you. Hi, I liked how you were doing all the big boister stuff there. How about that? How about that? Come to Barry Caesar, not to praise him. By the way, I understand there was a guy out there who was angry at me last week when we did the fastest guitarist, he said that somebody that you didn't know, somebody that I missed, well, shoot me an email. Let us know. Tell me how wrong I am. Got a stump for me on Van Halen. I actually had two of them because I knew that you are like the Van Halen expert of these parts. Go ahead. So I had two of them, one of these parts. Yeah, these parts I know. Okay, he said cross over the Mason Dixon and there's another guy up there. You'd already talked about Van Halen's Diamond albums and obviously you know what a Diamond album is. That's 10 million copies. That's exactly right. And you could probably name both of them. I can. The original Van Halen LP and 1984. That's correct. Right. That's not the stump. Well, thanks. Because you knew it. Of course. Yeah. Eddie has a son named Wolfgang. Yeah. Wolfgang Lodjevic. Okay.

Do you know his birthday? I do. As a matter of fact, March 16th. That's correct. And the reason I know it is because on the album for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the Acoustic Guitar piece is called 316. That's right. Because that's when the young man was born. See, it's dumping you on Van Halen and it's impossible. It's impossible. Absolutely impossible. I even know Alex Van Halen's middle name. But you have to go away. You have to go and look that one up. It's jump. Jump. Is jump the first time Van Halen used a keyboard? I'm guessing no. Couldn't be. Couldn't be. It's off of the 1980 album Women and Children First and the cradle will rock. Everybody thinks this is a guitar that's being played with the pick scraping along the bass guitar string. It's not. This is a Whirlitzer electric piano being played through Van Halen's 1960s Marshall Plexi Amplifier. And it's getting that little... In fact, because he's running it also through a phase

90 phaser electron pedal. It's really sad that I know all of this, but that's where he gets the sound. You want to hear the first time Van Halen recorded with a keyboard? Please do. This is it, on Rock School. It's a killer sound. For the hour. It's the first time that they recorded with keyboards from the

On the Women and Children First. There you go. It's Van Halen and the cradle will rock. I was pondering something earlier that you had said right before the intro of this song. Ponder. I'm a drummer. Okay. We have very simple minds. What kind of drum do you bang on? Well, I bang on a bucket. Oh, okay. When I don't have it. But there's these guys that I play music with, the guitarists, and they sit here and go like, yeah, I got the 100 -amp digital pedal with the FX delay and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Whatever. You had said that Van Halen played on a 100 -watt Marshall Plexi, Plexi, and Plexi, Plexi head. Plexi head. Yeah. The amplifier head. What the blanket is a Plexi head? Oh, you'd think it's going to be something very, very important, wouldn't you? Plexi simply means that the yellow section across the front where the knobs are is Plexi glass. What? Rather than being anodized aluminum. See, why do you throw in three extra adjectives on this? Because... Because... Because when you

state that it's a Plexi, you're putting it in a certain year. And the reason Marshall amplifiers are so popular with guitarists is because they're not machine -made. Every one of the amplifier systems inside of a Marshall is hand or r, hand wired and hand soldered. So every amplifier has its own unique sound. There are many people that will go through 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Marshall amplifiers until they find the exact one that they like. Yeah. So his is the fact that I say Plexi to another guitarist means something to a drummer, it probably means nothing. Yeah. This backs up my theory while all guitars were probably straight A students in English. Look at all the adjectives you got to remember. We know the words. Where are we going? 1981. I was a year old. There you go. 1981. This is called Fair Warning. The album is called Fair Warning. This is the guitarist's album. If you are a guitarist, this is the darkest album. This is the album that has the most anger on it. This is the album that has the songs that have the most

dark side to them. You can pretty much see and hear Ed's drug and alcohol use in it. He was a cocaine addict, dark minor keys. The guitar is almost completely in something called Drop D Tuning, which is you take the bottom string, the E string, and you tune it down a full step. So it's a D chord, very, very deep. We're going to play the opening song called Mean Street off of this. I want you to listen to the beginning of it. The beginning is this little tiny, oh minute, minute, a few seconds piece. It's kind of the eruption from this. You ever seen a bass guitarist when he plays, take his thumb and whack the string with his thumb. And then when the thumb pulls off, he takes his index finger and then yanks one of the top strings. He's like plucking up. Right. It goes back. Back. Back. That kind of thing. This thing opens up with Ed playing on the two mains thing, the lowest string in the top string. Back. Back. He's playing it like a bass guitar when he finishes all of that tapping or

finishes all of that bass slapping, then you're going to hear tapping, then you're going to hear right -ham hammer -ons and then you're going to hear both hands over top of the neck, letting into a complete dive bomb and into the song. Every trick the man knows on the guitar is inside of this. This is also around the first time that Ed went over to Frank Zappas house. He walked in the front door, Zappa handed him a guitar and said, play the intro to Mean Street. Oh wow. How about that? Here it is. It's Van Halen from the Fair Warning Abum. Mean Street on Rock School. It almost talks. It almost talks the growl

that he gets out of it. I've been doing this show with you for over six months and I've known you for about five years and I have never seen you this giddy. Oh, I love this stuff. I've got to tell you, I have heard these songs so much. I've even had my wife look at me and just, I have a mistress and it's a guy missing half of his tongue. It's Eddie Van Halen lost it because of cancer. It's, I mean, I just love these guys to death, but there came a time in 1982, I felt let down. I was let down by Van Halen. What now? I rushed out. I rushed out to buy the album. I popped it on and I got to tell you, yeah, I was, I was upset. Really? Very, very upset. I kind of shook my, I kind of shook my head because I had seen it many times before that, you know, you listen to Chicago and they're unbelievable and then all of a sudden, I don't know what happened. I think it was Peter Seterra that happened to them, but then you listen to another band and what happened? I want to hear about your break. I want to hear about your big let down right after we got to take a break, but I'll come back. I'll tell you. I hate to see you like this. It's, it's killing me. It's hurting me right here in the

soul. We'll be back in just a minute on rock school. Programming on KSLU is under written in part by home theater, etc. With football season and full swing, home theater, etc. offers a variety of big and flat screen televisions for you to enjoy watching your favorite team on. Brands such as Elite by Pioneer, Katachi, Sharp, Toshiba, JVC, Mitsubishi, and many others. They also come in different sizes such as 50 inch, 62 and even 72 inch screens. Home theater, etc. is located on the corner of Morrison, Muni across from Florida, Parish is bank. The telephone number is area code 985 -340 -777 -77. We're up to 1982 with the show all about Van Halen and next week, of course, we'll be about Van Halen as well because they just keep going. They keep changing lead singers and changing bass players now. But you're upset. I am. I really am because 1982 came around and Van Halen shot into the studio and

all they had, because you get to remember, they were a band for years and years and years and were able to put out all of these albums because they had tons of material. They had it all written before they got signed. Well now they're getting into the point where they got to start writing on the road and they have to start writing new stuff. Well, in order to get some new music out, they went into the studio and covered Roy Orbison's pretty woman. Now everybody knows how big of a hit that was. And Warner Brothers said, okay, this is going to be a monster hit. So get in the studio and record none of the band really wanted to do it. They were burnt. And they went in and they put the thing together and then David Leroth said, how about you just let me be in charge of this? And David Leroth believed that if you remake a song, you are already halfway to a hit. So this piece of not so good music came out. I just don't think Roy Orbison's song, Pretty Woman by Van Halen's all that good. And then they did another song by The Kinks. And then they did

Dancing in the Streets by Martha and the Vandels. Are you kidding me? There are three guitar pieces on this album. And if you sit down and take all of the songs and you add them up, it's less than a half an hour of music total on the album. The album's called Diver Down. I kind of felt let down by Van Halen. And it's one of those things that, you know, guys, you get one more shot at me. I love you to death, but I'm not so happy. They did have two or three songs on there. I liked one was called The Full Bug and kind of liked it. But then there was this one, The One Shining Star. They decided to do an old blues tune and they did it the way it should have been done. Slow, instead of drumsticks, the brushes, and they brought in Eddie Van Halen's father. Jan Van Halen and they gave him a clarinet and they did it just like Louis Prima would have done it. If there was a shining moment on The Diver Down LP, this is it.

Okay. Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now on Rock School. Yeah. Wait a minute. Yeah. God. I love that. That's Jan Van Halen from Big Bad Bill. Sweet William Now. You sure didn't look to just appoint it just now. Oh, come on. Every album's got to have one or two. You know what else happened at this point in time for a short while? Van Halen held the record for the highest paid single appearance of any band. One million dollars. What? For 90 minutes at the 1983 Us Festival. I have it on tape. I

actually have it. And what's really bad about it, the guy Steve Jobs, who actually put together the Us Festival, had to think it was terrible because David Lee Roth came out on stage and was so stinking drunk. He couldn't even put together a decent show. I don't even watch it. He's so drunk that for like 20 minutes, they stop the music and all he does is stand up there and go, we love your people. That's all he does. And it's really, it really drives me nuts. Now you think to yourself, who would they want to kick out of the band first? Well, David Lee Roth's a jerk, you know, he wanted to kick up. No. They tried to kick Michael Anthony out first. Why? I don't know. I really wish I did. Billy Sheehan is a guy's a bassist. He plays for a group called Talus. Well Talus broke up and Eddie Van Halen approached him and said, hey, we'll get rid of Michael Anthony. If you'll come into the band, the problem is Billy Sheehan said, no, I don't want to come into Van Halen. We learned later why he didn't want to come into Van Halen. Why

is that? He was already practicing in the basement of David Lee Roth's house with former Frank Zappig guitarist Steve Vi and former Maynard Ferguson drummer Greg Bissonette, which would after the next album become the David Lee Roth band. That's right. But they did put out one more album, They Van Halen, and it was an absolute crowning achievement. It was the first album recorded at 5150 Studios, which was a renovated racquetball court in the back of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Burton, Nellie's backyard. She had two racquetball courts in the back yard. She left one of them to play racquetball. He took the other one, put all this new equipment in it and called it 5150. Most people probably know 5150 is the police code for an escape lunatic. Was this the album that one of the tracks he revved up his car? Right. Panama. Yeah. A lot of people believe Panama is a stripper. It's not. A lot of people believe Panama is about the country. It's not. Panama is the name of a race car. Okay. So it's the song's about a race car and such, but we're not going to play Panama. One more pregunta. Hmm. Michael. Michael Anthony. Did he know that they were

conspiring to get rid of him? I would believe he did. I would believe he did. I don't understand that. This is like the nicest guy I ever... You wonder. You wonder because... I know. From what I've read. You wonder. You wonder. You know, I'd love to tell you. I'd love to tell you that he is. But you wonder. You wonder. I'm going to play something called Girl Gone Bad off of this. The 1984 album is their second album to go diamond. It's the first album to have a number one song jump off of it. Many hits. And for a while there Van Hill and just became the predominant hard rock video making band. Jump was a huge hit. Panama was a huge hit. Hot for teacher was a huge hit. They were just putting them out. Yeah. I believe I've heard you say a couple of times that this was the album and Panama was the time when Rock n' Roll was perfected. Right. Rock n' Roll was perfected in 1984 when Van Hill and released Panama. Everything previous to it was leading up to it. Everything passed. It was simply a pale imitation. That's the

quote. I've been around you that a couple nasty things happened. What? Eddie Van Halen played with Michael Jackson without the group's permission. Okay. David Lee Roth started playing with a brass band and started putting out this little tiny EP which had a hit that he recovered. He covered California girls. The band's starting to fall apart. Their biggest album is starting to fall apart. We're going to finish today with Girl Gone Bad. I don't want to leave on such a start starting next week. It all falls apart and the group goes it's separate way, but don't worry. It all gets together at the end. This is without a doubt Eddie Van Halen's best one take ever. One take. No overdubs. No retakes. They rolled tape. One shot from the 1984 album Girl Gone Bad. My name is Joe Burns. You are at P. Thank you folks. We'll be back with the final section of the Van Halen show next week. This is Rock School. Class is dismissed.