Brent  S.

I’m sure you’re tired of hearing this, but thank you so much for doing this. Us Van Halen geeks are incredibly grateful for this podcast. You bring such a unique perspective describing each song.

I was wondering- will you eventually be discussing the tracks that were on the greatest hits records?

Thanks, man!

Tunegeek

Loved episode 16. The commentary format worked great.

the riff from Top of the World was also used on the live version of Dance the Night Away on the Diver Down tour, in the same key as Top of the World, and with the open E string going!

Obviously it was transposed to C in Jump, but was back to E 

Stephen O.

Dweezil, I have a question.  I’ve noticed that you, Steve Vai and your father have all consistently used the name “Edward” instead of “Eddie” when referring to the man, when everyone else uses “Eddie”. I’ve always used his formal name, too, out of respect for him as a composer. I’m just curious if that the reason you three have as well, or is there another reason besides ‘because that is his name’? Thanks!

Stephen O.

Thanks, Deeezil, this was well worth the wait! Fantastic analysis. I particularly like when you notice passages in Ed’s solos that were similarly used before in CVH.  I’ve heard these songs a hundred times and never even noticed, myself.  

Allen G.

I don’t have a bass six guitar yet, but my best guess is that Eddie used yet another one of his tuning offsets for the overdubbed bass six guitar sound both live AND on-record. This is why he sounded in-tune across the fingerboard. Tuning to straight chromatic pitch will guarantee problems. It wasn’t that Eddie was from outer-space and did things that we can’t do…he just used tuning offsets which are available for all of us to use!

Dweez makes a great observation on the “Runaround”/“Would I Lie To You” similarity…I hear it! 

To the best of my understanding, it was Jerry Cantrell that got Eddie back into the wah-wah and it certainly is possible chronologically.