David McCain

Thanks for the latest episode! 

One of the reasons I love this one as well as the previous episode is hearing Joe's experience with Sammy and Michael ( and Andy Johns ), in terms of recording. The previous shows have wonderful people who knew/knew about Edward and the band but from more of outsider perspectives. Joe worked exclusively with Sam/Michael which gets us closer to one aspect of the Van " Hagar " recording experiences. In some ways, Chickenfoot's " Dubai Blues " is like a newer version of VH's " In and Out " ( funny enough, both of these songs deal with the subject of money! ).  

To me, the F.U.C.K album is still the best recorded/sounding version of Van Halen. As much as I enjoy the previous albums with Sammy and Roth, F.U.C.K sounds like the album that Edward ( probably ) wanted VH to sound like from the band's beginning. 

If I'm not mistaken, I want to say Edward used a bass Danelectro on " Spanked " plugged through a Soldano and not an exclusive baritone guitar. Of course, I'm writing this from memory but I think there was a '91 Guitar World Magazine interview where his tech, Matt Bruck, confirmed the Danelectro bass guitar for both " Spanked " and " Runaround. " 

Factoid: Steve Lukather of Toto contributed some background vocals for some tunes ( he did a podcast last year stating his contributions to the disc ).

Great conclusion to this album!

 Rich.B

Hi Dave , great comments , and I'm certain you are correct about the Danelectro bass , as I am reading Eruption ( Conversations with EVH ...) for the second time and in the last few pages ,Ed mentioned this. 

Jay P.-P.

When I first heard In and Out, I immediately thought “Eddie’s been listening to Satriani”!

Dr. Pooper

Yea! thanks! it is here!

David C.

Ahh, it's up there now.  Cheers, D.

David C.

Ep. 16 still not there?

Dweezil

It’s definitely on there right now. Somehow it was getting stuck while uploading. I see it there now.