Originally Posted by: Kevin TaylorMust be a cultural thing or something. Certain kinds of music give me a 'homesick' kind of feeling, like Pink Floyd, Supertramp... even old British theme songs like Dr. Who or The Persuaders give me that butterfly feeling.

(and I've got positive proof from the studio recordings, that Van Halen's solos in Eruption and Beat it were done in small sections and spliced together from the best takes.)

Anyways...Rambling on...

i get nauseatingly happy when i listen to bands of my early teens (i'm only 20 so this is all i can truly draw from). i got into playing guitar because of punk rock so bands like the misfits and the circle jerks really take a part of me when i listen to them. too many good memories. pink floyd in particular will make me cry and i can't listen to certain bach fugues or mozart melodies without smiling like a madman and pretending i'm conducting them. embarassing **** you do with the privacy of a lock on your door.


and about EVH on "beat it", i KNEW IT!!!! that **** was almost too meticulously clean and wiped free of bull****. are you sure about eruption though? i read in an interview that the recording we hear is take #2. eddie says he messes up on this ascending riff and it eats at him when he hears the recording.