In The Loving Memory of Gina Farts

Beat It

*Eddie Van Halen rightly gets much respect for his screaming guitar solo in Beat It,Quincy Jones’ attempt to coerce Michael Jackson into including a “rock ‘n’ roll song” on Thriller.

*But this isn’t a search for the best guitar solo of all time.Oh no.Here we’re all about the riff,and that was played by Toto guitarist and sessioneer extraordinaire Steve Lukather.

*Lukather recalls: “Initially,we rocked it out as Eddie had played a good solo,but Quincy thought it was too tough.So I had to reduce the distorted guitar sound and that is what was released.”

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-top-50-guitar-riffs-of-all-time-25-1-226933/6#!6

wanna-have-sexbutt:

Can well all just take a moment to appreciate how adorable David Lee Roth is?

behindthegrooves:

On this day in music history: February 10, 1978 - The self-titled debut album by Van Halen is released. Produced by Ted Templeman (The Doobie Brothers, Montrose), it is recorded during September-October 1977 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, CA. Anchored by Eddie Van Halen’s outstanding lead guitar work and charismatic front man David Lee Roth’s vocals, it will go on to become one of the most popular and influential rock albums of all time selling more than 10 million copies in the US alone. It will spin off three singles including “Runnin’ With The Devil”. “Van Halen” will peak at #19 on the Billboard Top 200.

ice-cream-girl:

34 years since the release of the album Van Halen (1978)

caliking40:

Pinky got ass…