Paul Gilbert Reveals Eddie Van Halen’s Masterpiece For The First Time

The American heavy metal/hard rock guitarist Paul Gilbert made his latest interview with UG and talked about Van Halen singer Eddie Van Halen‘s little-known side.

While he was talking about the issue, Paul took fans back to Sammy Hagar‘s departing from Van Halen and revealed the rare-known moments he lived with Eddie Van Halen. He also said that, as a Van Halen fan, he’d like to hear new effort from them.

โ€œLet’s see – it was right at the time when Sammy was out of the band. My guess is that Eddie was wondering what to do because his band didn’t have a singer. One thing that was really cool was he played me an unreleased Van Halen song that had Sammy on it and I thought it was great.

โ€œBut then Eddie said, ‘Check this out,’ and he played me the same song with Sammy’s vocal muted and Eddie playing the vocal line on guitar… and it was killer. I had never heard Eddie do anything like that because usually, he gives the role of a singer to a singer.

โ€œHe never does that Satriani or Jeff Beck sort of thing where they play the vocal melodies and take on the role of a vocalist. To hear Eddie do that, it was really cool.

โ€œI wish I knew him better because I would have told him to do that more and do a whole album of that stuff. It was really great. It didn’t strike me as something he even spent a lot of time on.

โ€œIt was more like something where he was like, ‘Let me throw this on there,’ but it was masterful. It was really great. So, as a Van Halen fan, I’d love to hear anything [new from them] but that would be really cool to get him out of whatever he’s doing and make some music.โ€

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