Now the second track on the record is my obvious Van Halen tribute song!

It’s a Van Halen tribute to the 73 -84 David Lee Roth fronted era. Van Halen, the band, was born in California, around 73, playing all the backyard parties and getting together, becoming a real band!

Those 4 guys together were just legendary. A lot of today’s younger crowd doesn’t understand the impact that all 4 of them had on music in general. And you know there have been a lot of Eddie Van Halen tributes, and I’m not the only one who holds him as their favorite guitar player in history, but this song is about the 4 of them, together; as an unstoppable team.

It was cool having my stepdaughter, Ruby, singing some backup vocals on this one too! I wanted a kind of “Brick in the Wall/Pink Floyd” thing going on… so you will hear that type of UK-accented singing in the back! I really had fun setting up my guitar sound on this one, and a few others, in the EVH-style of old but with some Hagar-era doubling of the rhythm guitar with delays, chorus, and mic technique. I used a pair of Wizard amps through EVH cabs, to get most of this record’s sounds on rhythm guitar. It’s me doing my best Eddie rhythm and lead vibe, with a bit of my own style in there!

But this song is my “Thank You” for what those original 4 Van Halen guys did for music!