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Re: Eddie Van Halen's marshall ques.

8/23/1999 6:09 PM
ChrisM	Re: Eddie Van Halen's marshall ques. It's definitely certain that Eddy used to use Plexi Superleads to get his tone, but he's said lots of conflicting things about whether or not they've had mods, if he used a variac, or used tubes other than EL-34's. He says something different in every interview, and always said he was lying before. This sort of makes me wary about trusting anything he's said in an interview. He was pretty pissed off about people copying his technique or trying to sound like him, so that may have made him lie for so long. In addition he was a complete alchoholic, getting hammered every day until he quit drinking around the time of the last Hagar album or so. He may have just been loaded and screwing around with the interviewers back then, making up crazy stuff and agreeing to whatever they said just for the heck of it. As far as his equipment setup goes, I don't think I'll ever be certain, no matter what the man says. He's may be one of the best guitarist I've ever heard, but the man is a complete nutbar. He fired Diamond David Lee Roth for the I-Can't-Drive-55 guy! How much credibility can Eddy have after that. -ChrisM

8/23/1999 6:09 PM

ChrisM

Re: Eddie Van Halen's marshall ques.

It's definitely certain that Eddy used to use Plexi Superleads to get his tone, but he's said lots of conflicting things about whether or not they've had mods, if he used a variac, or used tubes other than EL-34's. He says something different in every interview, and always said he was lying before. This sort of makes me wary about trusting anything he's said in an interview. He was pretty pissed off about people copying his technique or trying to sound like him, so that may have made him lie for so long. In addition he was a complete alchoholic, getting hammered every day until he quit drinking around the time of the last Hagar album or so. He may have just been loaded and screwing around with the interviewers back then, making up crazy stuff and agreeing to whatever they said just for the heck of it. As far as his equipment setup goes, I don't think I'll ever be certain, no matter what the man says. He's may be one of the best guitarist I've ever heard, but the man is a complete nutbar. He fired Diamond David Lee Roth for the I-Can't-Drive-55 guy! How much credibility can Eddy have after that. ;-)

-ChrisM

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