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.
Thank you Dweezil, episode 16 was great. I really like the 'DVD commentary' style of you talking over the solos and song snippets, it worked out really well.
The song analysis is brilliant! such clear guidelines that are so helpful to my music research, thank you so much Dweezil and the mighty Van Halen, just inspiring and energizing stuff! Fuck Yeah !!!
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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.
Thank you Dweezil, episode 16 was great. I really like the 'DVD commentary' style of you talking over the solos and song snippets, it worked out really well.
Thanks Joe! I hadn't planned on doing that but Joe had another interview to do so I ended up doing that out of necessity. Glad you enjoyed it.
The song analysis is brilliant! such clear guidelines that are so helpful to my music research, thank you so much Dweezil and the mighty Van Halen, just inspiring and energizing stuff! Fuck Yeah !!!
"Pat Boone, Debby Boone, Johnny Winter" LOL
Loving this episode. Pleasure Dome has always been my favourite song from this album, great to hear you dissect it Dweezil!
Thank you so much for this dweezil!!!