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dazzlindino wrote:Nice demo.....
... it illustrates Edwardo's composition skills...

Thanks...I think "Girl Gone Bad" is one of, if not the best song in the band's entire catalog on all levels from Dave's vocal and lyrics, Mike's background vocal, the bass parts (even though I think that Eddie may have actually played bass on the recording) Al's drums, the structure, everything!!...this song represents the closest that Van Halen ever got to Led Zeppelin at their peak.

garbeaj wrote:

dazzlindino wrote:Nice demo.....
... it illustrates Edwardo's composition skills...

Thanks...I think "Girl Gone Bad" is one of, if not the best song in the band's entire catalog on all levels from Dave's vocal and lyrics, Mike's background vocal, the bass parts (even though I think that Eddie may have actually played bass on the recording) Al's drums, the structure, everything!!...this song represents the closest that Van Halen ever got to Led Zeppelin at their peak.

That's what I thought when I first heard that song.

JiMB wrote:

garbeaj wrote:

dazzlindino wrote:Nice demo.....
... it illustrates Edwardo's composition skills...

Thanks...I think "Girl Gone Bad" is one of, if not the best song in the band's entire catalog on all levels from Dave's vocal and lyrics, Mike's background vocal, the bass parts (even though I think that Eddie may have actually played bass on the recording) Al's drums, the structure, everything!!...this song represents the closest that Van Halen ever got to Led Zeppelin at their peak.

That's what I thought when I first heard that song.

I know I'm not the first one to make that comparison, but I mean it as the highest compliment as I am also a huge Led Zeppelin fan.

garbeaj wrote:

dazzlindino wrote:Nice demo.....
... it illustrates Edwardo's composition skills...

Thanks...I think "Girl Gone Bad" is one of, if not the best song in the band's entire catalog on all levels from Dave's vocal and lyrics, Mike's background vocal, the bass parts (even though I think that Eddie may have actually played bass on the recording) Al's drums, the structure, everything!!...this song represents the closest that Van Halen ever got to Led Zeppelin at their peak.

The mind boggles.

Strat78 wrote:

garbeaj wrote:

dazzlindino wrote:Nice demo.....
... it illustrates Edwardo's composition skills...

Thanks...I think "Girl Gone Bad" is one of, if not the best song in the band's entire catalog on all levels from Dave's vocal and lyrics, Mike's background vocal, the bass parts (even though I think that Eddie may have actually played bass on the recording) Al's drums, the structure, everything!!...this song represents the closest that Van Halen ever got to Led Zeppelin at their peak.

The mind boggles.

Not a fan of "Girl Gone Bad" Phil?

Don't listen to me, as far as I'm concerned the band was circling the bowl by 1982!

Strat78 wrote:Don't listen to me, as far as I'm concerned the band was circling the bowl by 1982!

Hah! I gotcha:) Hey I respect your opinion...I certainly have zero understanding or appreciation of anything after 0U812 and I can't understand anyone who plays EBMM or the Peavey or EVH/Fender signature models...yet there are legions of fans that never cared for anything before 0U812...these people are clearly lunatics!

bman5150 wrote:Dumb question that makes me feel old...how do you guys play the song and slow it down? That sure seems like it would be pretty handy!

I use Transcribe. It has speed controls by 1% and it loops. I paid for it. VLC media player also has speed controls for free.
Girl Gone Bad is at the top of my list too. Strat78, you strongly resemble the man but I don't see how you wipe off 1984. I hate everything about Sammy Hagar, just my stinking opinion, but dadbIammit I love 5150 in spite of that corny idiot. I freaking love that plastic guitar tone. After that, it's a different band that I really, really don't like until ADKOT. Every few years I try to find one single riff, lick, tone, or song between 5150 and III and I cannot. I like the live version of Year to the Day.

And flam and Garbeaj, thanks for the work. Hero shit.

Didn't Ed incorporate the GGB riffs into the live jam portion of SGMAD around 82? I guess I just connected more with the band from 78 to 81, Diver Down just ended it for me, so I moved on. Lost interest in guitar too and did not pick it up again until the 90's.

Strat78 wrote:Didn't Ed incorporate the GGB riffs into the live jam portion of SGMAD around 82? I guess I just connected more with the band from 78 to 81, Diver Down just ended it for me, so I moved on. Lost interest in guitar too and did not pick it up again until the 90's.

I feel ya man. Eddie didn't like DD either but I wouldn't trade those songs for Aerosmith's whole catalog. I quit guitar from '93 - when I found this forum.

Yes, GGB's riff was at the US Festival segueing into I'm So Glad in the jam section of SGMAD.

Strat78 wrote:Didn't Ed incorporate the GGB riffs into the live jam portion of SGMAD around 82? I guess I just connected more with the band from 78 to 81, Diver Down just ended it for me, so I moved on. Lost interest in guitar too and did not pick it up again until the 90's.

As far as I know, the "Girl Gone Bad" riffs appeared in the jam of Cream's "I'm So Glad" (surprise, surprise...) during the "Somebody Get Me A Doctor" breakdown at the '83 U.S. Festival which was roughly at the time of the 1984 sessions. They may have played those "Alex-Battles-Eddie" bits in concert before, but the first I heard the "GGB" riffs was at the U.S. Festival just as Rich says...

Rich_D wrote:And flam and Garbeaj, thanks for the work. Hero shit.

Thanks! But Bill did the heavy lifting...I would have still been in the dark on the "hard" parts if it wasn't for him!

Holy crap Strat78, you hate Push Comes to Shove too? that's it, back to the goat-like dwelling with you! We'll throw you bread crusts and puddle water until you come out of your resentful funk.

Rich_D wrote:Holy crap Strat78, you hate Push Comes to Shove too? that's it, back to the goat-like dwelling with you! We'll throw you bread crusts and puddle water until you come out of your resentful funk.

Last time I checked, Fair Warning came out in 1981, a year in which Strat78 says he still enjoyed the band.



Not that it should matter what era of the band people dig.

You either like it, or you don't.

Rich_D wrote:Holy crap Strat78, you hate Push Comes to Shove too? that's it, back to the goat-like dwelling with you! We'll throw you bread crusts and puddle water until you come out of your resentful funk.

LOL The funk is what makes him so endearing...