Van Halen: Fair Warning

Remember those days of headbanging to the savage guitar riffs of Van Halen's Fair Warning? We're cranking it up and revisiting those thrashing tunes in this episode. We're getting nostalgic and personal, reminiscing about our prom days and how Van Halen's distinct guitar shredding shaped our musical tastes. We're giving a resounding shout out to our neighbors who put up with our loud music and we're also throwing the spotlight on other guitar legends like Steve Vai and Zach Wilde. 

Have you ever thought about ranking your favorite songs from a Van Halen album? That's exactly what we're doing—we're dissecting the powerhouse hits and hidden gems of Fair Warning, appreciating the incredible drumming skills of Alex Van Halen, and admiring the manic energy that makes this album a classic. From the sultry "Dirty Movies" to the intense "Push Comes to Shove," we're celebrating the diverse styles and influences that make this album a rollercoaster of rockabilly and heavy metal. 

Are you ready for a little music theory? We're going beyond headbanging and appreciating the craftsmanship that goes into creating hard rock and metal anthems, using "Cheap Sunglasses" by ZZ Top as an example. We’re talking about tempo changes, transitioning between subject matters, and the clever yet simple brilliance that makes a song unforgettable. And for our fans who love a good twist, we're hinting at a potential detour from our rock roots to explore a Brian Eno ambient album in the future. Prepare to have a blast as we take you on an auditory journey through classic rock anthems, full of nostalgia, appreciation, and a dash of music theory.

Transcript

Speaker 2 0:12

It seems Luke Warmey heard you. Oh man, what's there to do tonight? Amy, give me another vape pen.

Speaker 3 0:18

Is there anything left in that bottle? Yeah, give it here, man. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. Give it here. All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I am Chris and playing Push Comes to Shovel from Van Halen's Fair Warning Album is my co-host here. We appreciate you listening to us. Today we're going to go over the non-hits of Van Halen's Fair Warning, their fourth studio album. This is the album 1981 released April of 81. The fourth album it's. There was Van Halen 1, 78, van Halen 2 and 79. Women and Children First in 80, and then this one. In fact, I think our second podcast was Women and Children First, the one that came just right before this. So we're excited to do this one because it's probably my favorite Van Halen album. It came out when I was probably in middle school, but I didn't really discover it until late into high school.

Speaker 3 1:34

But it's dark, it's fierce, it's considered maybe their heaviest album and be loved by a lot of Van Halen bands as one of their favorites, or not their favorite, but it's definitely deep into the well because it's not the most commercially successful, but you know, for Van Halen fans, it has some really, really great songs on it. There are four singles actually from it. There is Unchained Mead Street, I believe. So this is Love. And what is the fourth one? Anyway?

Speaker 2 2:17

Let's see.

Speaker 3 2:25

I'll get to it, but nevertheless, great album. We're going to go over all the non hits and then rank them at the very end, so it's going to be four of these that we're going to exclude from our rankings and then the top four. We're really excited because there are some really good deep cuts in this one, that's for sure, and we're going to have a lot of fun along the way. We've got tons of sound clips and other tricks up our sleeves, so you'll hang in there with us. And again, wherever you get your podcasts, continue to download us. Wherever you get your podcasts Spotify, google, apple, amazon, anywhere you get those podcasts you can find us. We're getting towards the end of our second season and we're seeing a steady increase in downloads, so we really really appreciate all the support that our listeners have been providing to us since we started this.

Speaker 3 3:28

I can even hear the quality of Tim's playing Slowly, you know, episode by episode. You can hear, you know his progression, and this was a difficult album, I think, for him to do an intro with, because Eddie Van Halen just shreds like nobody else. I mean, he was just, you know, commenting before the show about how, like what song should I do? Push Comes To Show is a good one because it starts off with, you know, just a basic melody, but at the end of it I don't want to foreshadow what we're going to talk about later on, but at the end of this one, eddie Van Halen has, like, some guitar solos and some things that he does that are really under the radar relative to his more recognizable accomplishments, like, I mean, eruption Okay, yeah, the very that opening solo from the first album.

Speaker 3 4:35

It isn't eruption, but it's like a little nugget there that is so tasty. You know that is. It, does it's? Is it's that much separated from at least a part of the eruption? I don't think so. It does really fantastic work on that song and a bunch of these. So before we start to, I mean a couple of shout outs. I told you that this is a big one in high school for me towards the end, and I've got to do a shout out to grandma like high school swim team. This was always a favorite of ours. We even did our. We walked out into the pool area to to that song and broke through the banner and we did all of that.

Speaker 3 5:20

Shout out to Murph from the U2 war episode. He was a bud in high school as well. I feel bad. I feel like I excluded him from this. It was just kind of tough. He's in a different location, it is kind of tough to patch it in, but you're here in spirit. We love you, brother, and one of these days we'll, we'll, we'll reconnect on one of these podcasts. But I know that this is this is one that's near and dear to your heart. I don't know if this is your favorite. I think it's like your second favorite. I think you've told me before what your favorite is. I'm not going to. I'm not going to guess because I don't want to. Well, I, I have a guess. I'll. I'll talk to you about it Off Off air, so to speak. So anyway, we've got a good show.

Speaker 3 6:15

I don't know how much what else there is to say about this one other than yeah, like it's commercially not as popular. I think it did go double platinum, but after a while, I think over time, it became more and more popular. When it was originally released it kind of didn't hit. It's marked by it's stylistically it's more serious and with a heavier sound. Less. You know less of a party album, let's put it that way. He used Eddie Van Halen used something we call Brown Sound and it's a tone he achieved through a combination of his homey guitar, high game, marshall, amp and like a unique playing style. It's interesting Tim commented earlier that when he was practicing some of the songs before he came up with this one, that in listening to it it's tuned at a lower tone so that and I think he does that intentionally so that he could play faster without the risk of a string popping. Also, with those higher frequencies sometimes the sound isn't quite as good.

Speaker 3 7:36

There is like, if you hit like a high note and you're you know you're going at like a feverish pace. It doesn't, you know, strike the the ear in a in that negative way. So anyway, tim's going to wrap up momentarily again. Continue to listen to us wherever you can podcast. What else can I say? The albums that came after this diver down, came after they this is where they did the cover pretty woman and then after that jump, which had the sense, and then after that was when David Lee Roth left. So the out the the lineup here David Lee Roth on vocals, eddie Van Halen guitar, michael Anthony bass, alex Van Halen on the drums. Same lineup as women and children. First. The lineup changes three albums later, with replacing Dave with Sammy Hagar, but a lot of Dave, a lot of Dave clips today and a lot of Tim, my co-host. How you doing bud?

Speaker 6 8:38

Good, good. I just want to clear up to the, the public listening, that Chris is not a vapor. But shout out to the vapor, shout out to the tea drinkers, that's right.

Speaker 3 8:47

Yeah.

Speaker 6 8:48

You know a little period to wash this down here.

Speaker 3 8:52

Well, thanks, tim. I appreciate you setting the record straight. Be cool.

Speaker 6 8:57

Be cooler if you did.

Speaker 3 8:58

But no, I mean it's like you know we've got some church lady quotes here too.

Speaker 6 9:03

Yeah, yeah, I don't want to be a follower of Satan. Yeah, don't, don't be Satan.

Speaker 3 9:08

No.

Speaker 2 9:09

Satan.

Speaker 3 9:10

Exactly there you go.

Speaker 6 9:13

No, we're going to expel the demons here and get into this album. And I think you're right. It's not a party album, it's something deeper, even the cover art. Should we go into the cover art?

Speaker 3 9:27

Yeah, I haven't covered that yet.

Speaker 6 9:28

What do you? It's deeper. You were saying that it's the French painter. Well, canadian, actually.

Speaker 3 9:35

William Keurileck. Okay yeah, the album cover is zero for one. No, no, no. Yeah, it's the cover artwork. It's from the painting of William Keurileck called the maze. That's the name of the painting.

Speaker 6 9:50

You'll never get out.

Speaker 3 9:51

Yeah.

Speaker 6 9:52

Yeah, once you start looking in the painting, you'll never get out of that maze.

Speaker 3 9:56

I guess it's just a photograph of a part of it, though that kind of thing which is cool.

Speaker 6 10:00

I mean, I love zooming into like little bits of art because some of it is so intricate. You know a little snippet that's your favorite part.

Speaker 3 10:09

Yeah, I mean, I've been looking at the album cover for years, but then when I look at the maze as on its own it's a lot bigger and it's there's all kinds of stuff going on it's actually kind of cool. Maybe I'll post this to the Instagram page and put it in on as one of the things. Anyway, let her rip.

Speaker 4 10:27

So I say this is a miracle lips letter rip.

Speaker 3 10:31

All right With that. Said man any last words before we let this rip?

Speaker 6 10:42

So you know this, the mean, what does it mean? What does the album mean?

Speaker 2 10:48

The whole album.

Speaker 1 10:50

Yeah.

Speaker 6 10:51

I mean, it's a warning, maybe, that we're not doing enough for the youth. It's, you know, they're sort of troubled and we need to pay attention to what they're trying. Maybe we need to do the math.

Speaker 1 11:09

Oh well, no, no, no, I mean, they're talking about mean streets.

Speaker 3 11:13

You know like the streets are mean meaning. You know there's like all kinds of like yeah, they're not out. You know they don't have your best interest in mind. You know they're not. Hey, that's what it is. It's just. You know, being in the fair warning, it's a rough world out there.

Speaker 6 11:31

Right, exactly.

Speaker 3 11:33

This you know for some people that you go to those streets and they're all mean it's home.

Speaker 1 11:36

Right.

Speaker 3 11:37

For some people, you know, and so it's like I don't know why. I mean, I don't know what the point of listening to it is, other than just getting you in a really like tough mood, you know on that note.

Speaker 1 11:50

Shut up and say anything.

Speaker 6 11:55

Fair enough, mean girls. We're gonna ask for the mean girls. I didn't mean to cut you off. Let's do this, that's all right. Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 3 12:03

You know I mean there's the, there's also the mean of you know an average. Yes, there is that there's the mean median and mode. But you know, I think they mean the other, mean mean streets, so you know, but that's where mean median and mode can really help us out.

Speaker 6 12:16

It's gonna help us here.

Speaker 3 12:18

So I would say okay, so this is mean street. It's gonna be coming up in a second here. It's got this really clever little staccato.

Speaker 6 12:28

Harmonic type yeah.

Speaker 3 12:31

No, I yeah. Hold on a second, let's hear we can't do that.

Speaker 6 12:36

I can't do that how.

Speaker 3 12:40

See, do you hear that coming up?

Speaker 6 12:43

This is like you had a hard time doing this. There's no way I shout out to cousin Adam who might be able to do this. Cousin, adam, love you, buddy, sick guitar player.

Speaker 3 12:56

Yeah, this isn't you. Don't try this at home. You might pull a finger.

Speaker 6 13:03

This is erotica to the, to the metal, metal heads out there right here. Yeah, that intro is crazy.

Speaker 3 13:15

I'm scared already.

Speaker 2 13:18

So bad. What is that so bad? What is that?

Speaker 3 13:32

We're off.

Speaker 2 13:41

This routine.

Speaker 3 13:44

Kids, you ain't never seen shoes, right? Yeah, get a little barbershop rocker there for harmony.

Speaker 2 13:57

Yeah.

Speaker 6 14:00

Bass is crushing it. It is good Wraps it up so hard.

Speaker 3 14:11

It's just tight. It's saying I'll play in the pocket. Shout out to the dancers oh yeah.

Speaker 6 14:40

Shout out to the shouters.

Speaker 1 14:45

So fetch Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.

Speaker 5 14:54

Those data sets will contain a lot of different, so bad.

Speaker 3 15:05

You should buy new on nobody else A little Robert De Niro there for it. A little palette cleanser from the data meme sets and the mean girls clips.

Speaker 6 15:16

Data mean mean girl sets. What's the data on the mean girl, the average mean girl. How average is the mean girl nowadays?

Speaker 2 15:27

Yeah, that's off the charts.

Speaker 3 15:29

What is what the mode mean girl is?

Speaker 2 15:34

You're so mode.

Speaker 6 15:37

Your shoes are ugly Betch.

Speaker 3 15:49

Shout out to Alex Hit the, hit the symbol. I mean, he's practically just like hitting the symbol over and over, like a regular crash.

Speaker 2 15:59

you know Of this.

Speaker 3 16:06

Yeah, they're lowering the tone down a little bit. You're on the streets, turn you from haunted in the hunter. Yeah, that's a good line.

Speaker 1 16:23

I do love Dave's voice yeah.

Speaker 3 16:27

I love how it just gets louder and louder and goes into this this is goosebumps.

Speaker 6 16:32

This song is phenomenal.

Speaker 3 16:34

The Ted Temple, the two, the producer. They were all like on the same page. You can just tell they were. I think 1981 was a great year for music. Underrave it.

Speaker 6 16:50

Yeah, he's insane.

Speaker 3 17:03

So, cool, so Good. I want to pause to Gretchen.

Speaker 6 17:13

Damn it, gretchen.

Speaker 1 17:14

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Speaker 6 17:18

It's not going to happen. All right, go fetch me my guitar. I'm going to practice to like and get mean streets down.

Speaker 3 17:29

Seriously, though, that's probably one of my favorite. Oh my God, I can't believe I'm out. Songs.

Speaker 6 17:35

Doing this turned me on to this song, and I'm forever grateful to doing this podcast.

Speaker 3 17:41

Well, hey man, we're off to a great start.

Speaker 6 17:43

This is great.

Speaker 3 17:45

That's not going to be in the I know excluded.

Speaker 6 17:49

Yeah, it's not a hit hit, but it's a hit.

Speaker 3 17:52

You know what I mean. Right, these are all hits in my mind.

Speaker 6 17:57

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 17:59

This is called dirty movies.

Speaker 4 18:04

Hey, man got a big box of porn for you.

Speaker 2 18:08

Jesus.

Speaker 3 18:10

That was Tim. I don't know what that was.

Speaker 6 18:12

That was four year old Virgin. They already put it out there. We're just, we're just parakeeting it.

Speaker 3 18:18

I mean I'll just just to, this place is called I lick my left pump. Ok, that was a Chris, so we're just even it out a little bit to make it equally weird.

Speaker 6 18:31

Should we apologize? We got to apologize, ok.

Speaker 1 18:36

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Speaker 3 18:47

OK, oh, so they're hitting a high note there too. You wanted this is he's tuned it lower he has to go.

Speaker 6 18:57

It does. It sounds really good.

Speaker 3 18:59

Like it doesn't like sting your ear.

Speaker 6 19:01

Right, it's all half down, half Half, not.

Speaker 3 19:08

Or half a note, there are yeah.

Speaker 6 19:12

Half an octave Yep Shops of the ladies I went to prom with.

Speaker 3 19:21

I went to three proms, so OK, shout out to the three prom days of tunes.

Speaker 6 19:26

I hope you're keeping it clean With your cinema.

Speaker 3 19:30

This is an interesting time for you to bring that up. Why are you shouting out to them right now?

Speaker 6 19:35

Well, at the end is remember you used to be prom.

Speaker 3 19:38

Oh yeah, there you go yeah.

Speaker 6 19:40

Born Queen. Remember your prime queen, freudian slip Love that line.

Speaker 2 19:48

So fetch she's really.

Speaker 6 20:06

Oh no see what they're saying, Baby.

Speaker 3 20:11

My personal collection of erotica.

Speaker 2 20:20

Just saying let it out. You Remember when that girl was prom queen?

Speaker 4 20:25

Just saying let it out, Give it some air. Man Play with it.

Speaker 6 20:29

She was girls prom queen.

Speaker 4 20:34

Pandora's box of love.

Speaker 6 20:41

Open up Pandora's box of love.

Speaker 5 20:52

No, this is really gracious and kind and generous and everything, but I just don't want a big box of corn.

Speaker 3 21:03

Just like listening to that with this music in the background. I can't, I don't know, I don't even I blush.

Speaker 4 21:14

Really great, great movies.

Speaker 3 21:20

Shout out to Dort Highway. You don't even know what that I have no idea.

Speaker 2 21:25

She doesn't. Did you ever see School of Rock?

Speaker 4 21:29

Yeah, well, this is called School of.

Speaker 2 21:35

Rock, oh, I like that, but it stars Jack Blackcock Action.

Speaker 6 21:47

Oh, that makes sense, Dude. Here it is Boner Jam's 03.

Speaker 4 21:52

It's a mixed tape I made, all right.

Speaker 3 21:55

That was a nice little ending there, that was some church lady action going on there.

Speaker 6 22:02

That was a Well, isn't that?

Speaker 3 22:03

special.

Speaker 4 22:04

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 3 22:08

All right, yeah, okay. So anyway, that's kind of like A song that you hear like and what's the? What's the? There's no real red like district around where we live, maybe Richie Highway, I don't know. I don't know. Richie Highway, richie Highway, like certain. I don't know.

Speaker 6 22:24

You brought your mouth. Yeah, okay, that's it. You brought your mouth about Richie Highway.

Speaker 3 22:28

I'm sorry yeah, you know God, a little bit further up the road, who's-.

Speaker 5 22:33

Today, on Church Chat, we're going to be discussing Satan. You remember him, don't you? The Prince of Darkness, the Antichrist, the Beastmaster, the Primering's a little bell on your head now, doesn't it?

Speaker 3 22:43

All right, this is a center swing. This is a non-hit. So know what this is? Flag it. The danger in the rear of your mind has troubled in the wind.

Speaker 2 22:54

The band is ringing out the rear. The menace is loose again.

Speaker 6 22:58

She looks so fucking good, whoa, the answer is so real. Something got the bite on me. I'm going straight to hell.

Speaker 2 23:06

And now I'm wasted done. Now I'm wasted, satan, pick up lines.

Speaker 5 23:16

Little joke. I find Satan hilarious.

Speaker 2 23:19

I'll come back to your senses, baby. We can't come to terms. I can almost taste it. Taste it, it burns. He'd be sitting pretty. But you try to take the fifth. Don't take the fifth. And now my welcome.

Speaker 6 23:33

Gets up at a second. Fight your case. Call Tim at law. Now we're wasted. I'll represent you for a lot of money and do nothing.

Speaker 3 23:43

I see more than a lie.

Speaker 6 23:44

Can we just met his.

Speaker 3 23:45

Richie highway address.

Speaker 6 23:47

Yeah give me my yeah. Reach me a Richie, that's right. Shout to the Richies out there, yeah.

Speaker 4 23:53

So I say this is a miracle lips letter rip.

Speaker 6 23:59

Kick, kick, kick and push Letter rip. Just say it, let it out Give it some air man Play with it.

Speaker 3 24:09

He is not messing around right now. Listen to that Like what. It's crazy.

Speaker 6 24:20

Is it finger tapping? Yeah, he is. Yeah, it is finger tapping. Finger tapping is insane. Yeah, it was unheard of at the time.

Speaker 3 24:27

This is nice. It's a nice song. It was unheard of at the time. This is 1981.

Speaker 6 24:33

This is like the best guitar playing still this day. I mean less cli oh, was it a less? Paul used to do stuff like this, but it was like jazzy weirdness. He does it in a hard rock metal way. It's cool. No, I agree, he's reinvented something that they've been doing. In the 50s, when electric guitars started coming out, the people used to threat up and down the fretboard in a corded way. He just puts a distortion on there, does it? Makes it hard rock, like a little barbershop rock-a-pop. It's reinvented, but there's also nothing like it, you know.

Speaker 3 25:21

Well, everybody started doing it after people.

Speaker 6 25:23

Well, yeah, they did. He started the trend. It's very special.

Speaker 5 25:30

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 3 25:33

That nearly is good though.

Speaker 6 25:35

Yeah, they never came up to his level.

Speaker 3 25:38

No one really.

Speaker 6 25:39

Steve Vi can't, came close right, I don't even know other Shredders. Yeah, that's a tree on me. Yeah, that wild guy, zach Wilde, maybe yeah, he's great.

Speaker 3 25:52

Yeah, I'm a fan. Tony, I owe me this one very gentle, delicate.

Speaker 2 26:06

This is called. This piece is called I lick my left pump.

Speaker 3 26:09

No it's here about it. Now it's starting to rock. You know it's kind of serves up slow. That's getting meaner.

Speaker 1 26:20

I could see your lips more.

Speaker 2 26:29

Yeah.

Speaker 3 26:32

Oh, your loving pay my bills my lovin's paying my bills.

Speaker 6 26:40

I did not sleep with that woman.

Speaker 3 26:44

Neighbors getting crazy about the noise next door, shout out to our other neighbors. Yeah, thanks for putting up with our shenanigans.

Speaker 6 26:54

Got a light show in here.

Speaker 3 27:04

Yeah, Alex is not shy about the symbol.

Speaker 6 27:10

Yeah, too much symbol kind of Storts the bass a little bit maybe in my opinion.

Speaker 3 27:14

But I think so, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 27:17

If you're only listening to bass, I don't know.

Speaker 3 27:35

That higher the harmony is. Michael Anthony's really Intrigal to that dynamic okay.

Speaker 4 27:54

No, I can pull it back a little if you like, not too much, though I'm telling you fellas, you're gonna want that cowbell. Oh, you're gonna want that cowbell, fellas, you're gonna want that cowbell. I Fellas, fellas, you're gonna want that cowbell.

Speaker 6 28:34

Sorry. I was there is fun, I feel like a DJ sometimes.

Speaker 3 28:45

I haven't heard this, even now, man. I listen to this guitar playing just gives me chills you heard it earlier and you hear about it later.

Speaker 1 28:54

Yeah, I.

Speaker 6 28:58

Love the wet, the whammy bar, the vibrato. Speak up, you know, gotta shout out to the ballooners Wow, wow, wow.

Speaker 1 29:18

Whoa.

Speaker 5 29:22

You understand something, Dave. I don't know you understand something, dave.

Speaker 1 29:28

I Remative day.

Speaker 3 29:38

I read you that was a nice little exit there, courtesy of Hal 2001 space Odyssey. All right, moving on. That was a hit, by the way wasn't that special yeah. Yeah there's a this is a chain.

Speaker 6 30:00

No, let's chain Satan back up. That's right. Go those effects.

Speaker 3 30:09

The whoa, that kind of sounds like a train, like the a trinkets moving baby. And the bass really adds to the it's mimicking the drum, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 30:38

We got the vocal dexterity of blue-eyed murder in a side swipe dress.

Speaker 3 30:44

Size 5 dress blue-eyed murder. Oh yeah, it never occurred to me to look the bass is really critical to this song.

Speaker 2 31:04

This is my chance to fly.

Speaker 6 31:16

Apparently, a record executive walks in while they're recording this. There's an executive that walks into the studio and they're recording this and Dave makes fun of them. In the next verse we'll hear it.

Speaker 2 31:44

This same. Let it out, give it some air. Man play with it.

Speaker 3 31:55

I think you talk about when he says come on, dave, give me a break.

Speaker 6 32:00

Well, this, this one, hey, man, that's suit, is you right?

Speaker 5 32:09

You understand something, Dave?

Speaker 6 32:11

Hey, man that's suit is you that's suit is you? He's making fun of us.

Speaker 3 32:16

Yeah, so he's in prom to.

Speaker 6 32:18

Yeah, he's making. This is impromptu.

Speaker 1 32:27

I'm sorry, dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Speaker 2 32:32

That's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 32:46

Affirmative, dave, I read you. I could see your lips move.

Speaker 3 33:08

I mean, how are people not flipping? When this came out?

Speaker 6 33:10

This is insane. I Don't think this is a platinum song this got bad like reviews my first. Understand that.

Speaker 3 33:26

It's like you try that.

Speaker 6 33:28

I know.

Speaker 3 33:30

The first 10 seconds of mean street and then give it a 2.5 out of 5 star rating. Rolling Stone.

Speaker 6 33:36

Rolling Stone Only after the fact gets it right.

Speaker 3 33:42

Yeah, it's at the time. Shout to the Vapors out there.

Speaker 6 33:54

That's all the songs got my mind all bottled up. Yeah it's mind-bottling.

Speaker 3 34:11

Glass cage of emotion.

Speaker 6 34:15

It's a different mind-bottling.

Speaker 3 34:18

You're saying your mind like your mind is in a bottle.

Speaker 6 34:22

SOS like a ship in a bottle.

Speaker 3 34:29

Aries wondered how they did that.

Speaker 6 34:31

They got that ship in the bottle very carefully Just a little magnifier some kind of Calming, some valley, ever time. Okay, just whatever sits you, sits you down for a long time.

Speaker 3 34:54

Is that the key to it? The patience of it. You wonder how many guys were on value as they put the ship in the bottle.

Speaker 6 35:06

That ever, that ever happen maybe they're just on the patience pill.

Speaker 3 35:11

I wonder if I've ever met a guy that put a ship in a bottle like that. I'm gonna shake their, shake their damn hand. That's right. It's a lost art. Shout out to the the ship and bottle people. We should have somebody close the show do that and we can Can plug their bottle. People still buy those. I hope so, that's got one of our house like that. We've had some kids.

Speaker 6 35:40

It's a great. It's great pastime. It looks great and you know what people say when they see it on your mantle. I wonder how they do that. Bring them over to do my eyebrows.

Speaker 3 36:03

Yeah, exactly, get all the blow, all became.

Speaker 6 36:08

Shout out to the unibrow's out there.

Speaker 3 36:10

Yeah, big shout out to the unibrow. This is really disrespectful. This is a good solo here under the radar I was talking about earlier.

Speaker 6 36:25

Yeah, ah Tight yeah, they're only saw 2.5. Kind of crap is that. And then they just go right into this little. Did you hear that upper bass riff too? Yeah, the amount of practicing they're probably winning in this album is insane. Oh okay, no wrong note can be had because it's so. It's like a little package, it's on fire.

Speaker 3 37:00

I know can only imagine the smell in that studio.

Speaker 6 37:02

Oh god, so much to you.

Speaker 3 37:03

Oh, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah, bye, but nevertheless incredible. So we've got Pandora's Box of Love, so this is love. Okay, this is the fourth single, I think, that I made. It's the one I made, so this is love.

Speaker 2 37:23

Check me out on the good side here, when my baby's on the corner and she's looking so fine. Put one and one together and it blow my mind up. Man needs a little bit of love Little Raga out here.

Speaker 3 37:48

Yeah, that's the Raga, right.

Speaker 6 37:51

Yeah, it's like the do-do-do, do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do.

Speaker 1 38:01

I know my way around.

Speaker 2 38:16

She knows she's mine and let it go, she's love.

Speaker 6 38:29

I usually go high here.

Speaker 5 38:37

You are everything I never knew, I always wanted.

Speaker 3 38:43

Shout out to Matthew Perry RIP.

Speaker 6 38:48

What this is like Danny Gatton stuff.

Speaker 3 38:59

It sounds good too, man, it's not just shredding for the sake of shredding either.

Speaker 1 39:05

It kind of has like a blow and a purpose to all the notes.

Speaker 6 39:10

Yes, it's not shredding, just shredding. Shout out to Danny Gatton RIP. Eric Clapton said Danny Gatton was the best guitar player when asked who the best guitar player is.

Speaker 3 39:24

I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 39:25

And he was virtually unknown, Still kind of is.

Speaker 3 39:30

But how would you put Eddie Van Halen up next to Danny Gatton?

Speaker 6 39:34

Well, he's more rock. Gatton is more rockabilly. This is more heavy metal with rockabilly influences. I see, so different it's a pairing of apples and oranges. Exactly yeah, different styles.

Speaker 3 39:49

I like your carefully worded explanation.

Speaker 6 39:51

They're both amazing. I don't want to choose. Van Halen had more material. What a question.

Speaker 1 39:58

It's a very uncertain.

Speaker 6 39:59

Yeah Well, I would do a top ten guitarist's list. We should one of these days.

Speaker 1 40:07

That's a good idea.

Speaker 6 40:10

Of course, everybody's biased.

Speaker 3 40:15

There are a lot of good players out there that don't get their due.

Speaker 6 40:18

No, it's true. Yeah, this is some like.

Speaker 3 40:24

Isn't this the wedding stress song? Yeah, space odyssey kind of stuff here.

Speaker 1 40:28

I'm sorry, dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Speaker 3 40:34

Sunday in the park. Yeah, it's wedding you wanted to sing on this one.

Speaker 6 40:37

They were like I'm sorry, Dave.

Speaker 3 40:41

Listen. Can you sing for my wedding? I'm sorry, Dave.

Speaker 6 40:44

Valerie Bertinelli is like I'm sorry, dave, you're not singing at our wedding.

Speaker 3 40:50

He was super stressed out about the wedding. I think the song is sort of like his mood.

Speaker 1 40:55

You're like the dread Alex, I could see your lips move.

Speaker 3 41:01

This is for Eddie's wedding.

Speaker 6 41:02

Oh for.

Speaker 3 41:03

Eddie, yeah, when you got married to Valerie Bertinelli, valerie.

Speaker 6 41:13

This is some weird shit.

Speaker 1 41:16

Affirmative, Dave.

Speaker 3 41:17

I read you I made a statement about Dave. Yeah, but I read you.

Speaker 6 41:24

I can be Dave Be, whoever you want me to be.

Speaker 5 41:29

You understand something, dave.

Speaker 3 41:36

I'm going to sing a second not a second in a few moments. This is going to lead right into the very last song.

Speaker 6 41:45

This is like a wild animal in a cave. That's like don't come any closer, I'm going to come out of the corner and I'm going to be Satan.

Speaker 3 42:05

Yeah slow it down.

Speaker 6 42:08

Yeah, this intro to build up to the next one. Come here. This is very jam bandy.

Speaker 3 42:15

Okay, this is one foot out the door.

Speaker 6 42:19

Very cool, good segue.

Ranking Favorite Songs From an Album

Speaker 3 42:24

It's kind of like a slow punk rock Little bit. Yeah, it's a nice balance between punk and metal. This little triplet, sir, Well Alex showing off it.

Speaker 6 42:46

A little roundy round drum kit.

Speaker 3 42:51

He's got to keep the audience honest. It's not all about Eddie, it's true. He can rip on the drums. He can do it all the time. For sure it plays hard too.

Speaker 6 43:10

Help, I mean an adult. I'm scared.

Speaker 1 43:18

Can you help?

Speaker 2 43:21

me get home, so fetch.

Speaker 1 43:23

What is fetch?

Speaker 3 43:29

Eddie's not done. Every song has something amazing. Hand door is box of love. So he's something a little different than every little vignette.

Speaker 6 43:52

It's like so much arm action, brotto, finger tapping back to the pick, back to the brotto, back to the whammy, it's just insane.

Speaker 3 44:02

Yeah, it's like.

Speaker 6 44:05

He's playing the guitar like a crazy athlete.

Speaker 3 44:14

It's almost as if he has to sort of rev it up first before you can start just wailing. It's like he's kind of warmed the guitar up and then he just kind of just flies.

Speaker 6 44:24

He harnesses the spirit of the begotten tree that has fallen in the woods and crafted for his axe.

Speaker 4 44:36

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 3 44:38

Well, that was only because we didn't have the. I mean, you sit in the next couple plays out champ. We didn't have that in any of the banks today, so they couldn't do that one.

Speaker 6 44:48

But that's good. Yeah, good recovery there, because I wasn't helping the out. I thought it was profound. I don't know no.

Speaker 3 44:54

I mean, it started out profound. You lost me at a certain point.

Speaker 6 44:57

You had one foot out the door on that one.

Speaker 3 44:59

I did. I had one foot out the door.

Speaker 6 45:01

I was going for some red violin shit. That's right, right. Well, we're, at that time, check that movie out. That's it, that's all.

Speaker 3 45:08

That's it. We got to do the ranking.

Speaker 6 45:11

You ready?

Speaker 3 45:12

Oh my God no.

Speaker 1 45:14

Do we need? Yes, I'm ready. Do you want me to?

Speaker 3 45:16

go number three I can I mean just if you would give me a little.

Speaker 6 45:20

Give me some bare warning here.

Speaker 3 45:22

I know, yeah, I got a little self-fair warning, it's kind of Because there are a lot here. There's a lot of good.

Speaker 6 45:28

So the hits are Mean Street, hear about Later and Unchained. Yeah, all right, I'm going three Center Swing.

Speaker 3 45:43

Yeah, so this is, love is One, but number three is Center Swing for you.

Speaker 6 45:47

Yeah.

Speaker 3 45:48

I like it and we're off Any particular it's sort of got that little rockabilly heavy metal melding. I hear you.

Speaker 1 46:04

Yeah.

Speaker 3 46:06

Because it is kind of manic. For me it's an impressive song.

Speaker 6 46:12

I couldn't do it. I like the manicness yeah.

Speaker 3 46:17

It is. If there's a fun song on this, it would be that one kind of All right.

Speaker 6 46:23

Yeah, what's your number three?

Speaker 3 46:27

My number three. I'm thinking Sunday in the afternoon in the park, because I like that. It's just different, it's got that. It has like a feel to it like you're watching a horror movie. Yeah, and it's got it's that's kind of cool. So I think it deserves to be in there and I like the backstory of it being inspired by his Not uneasiness about getting married but like the stress leading up to the marriage. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 6 47:01

Interesting.

Speaker 3 47:02

Yeah, that's my number three.

Speaker 6 47:06

Okay. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of a fish. Intro interlude.

Speaker 3 47:14

What I can't find it Sunday afternoon in the park, yeah.

Speaker 6 47:18

It's like a crazy heavy metal interlude. Anyway, okay, my number two. Oh, this is this is. This is hard, so this is love. Now One. One foot out the door. Yeah, one foot out the door, I'm going.

Speaker 3 47:39

You like the fast ones.

Speaker 6 47:40

I like the fast ones, because I can't do it, it's just, it's something I can't do, so I admire it a lot. All right, cool yeah.

Speaker 3 47:49

It does have nice little guitar outro thing towards the end. That was a good song. Yeah, I wish I had room for it. It's not my number two, I would say for me my number two is probably Push comes to shove, okay.

Speaker 1 48:07

Okay.

Speaker 3 48:07

I believe it was inevitable, you know, so it's yeah it's got nice interesting turns to it. It's kind of it's a cool song, it's not too heavy. Yeah, it's a departure from the heaviness and the of the album, so I kind of like you know it's like a cigarette over here. Yeah, that kind of thing. I like that. It's kind of a crooner.

Speaker 6 48:27

It is a little crooner.

Speaker 3 48:28

It's croony yeah.

Speaker 6 48:30

That's why it's my number one.

Speaker 3 48:31

Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 48:31

When push, push comes to shove, yeah, got to put that one on there. I really like just the different sort of minor keys that he's hitting and it's actually tuned and standard. So, yeah, shove it up to the top for me.

Speaker 3 48:51

Nice.

Speaker 6 48:52

Yeah.

Speaker 3 48:52

Well, as good as that song was, it was a close set. It was close to my number one. My number one is going to be Dirty Movies.

Speaker 6 48:59

Yeah, that need to be on there.

Crafting and Transitioning in Music

Speaker 3 49:00

Yeah, and we didn't need that on there. It's just a great song Pictures on the silver screen. Yeah, it's just put together like the crafting of the song and how it transitions from like one tempo to another and you know, one, the solo, back to the chorus and all that.

Speaker 1 49:23

Yeah.

Speaker 3 49:24

And then it all kind of comes together at the very end.

Speaker 6 49:26

The subject material might not be, you know, fit for church lady, but the way they discuss it is a very adult and you know it's deep.

Speaker 3 49:40

Yeah, yeah For being the cheapness of the subject matter it is a class it's a cleverly crafted together class that shit up. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's good, it's a paradox. So anyway, so clever, it's so stupid, it's clever.

Speaker 6 49:57

It is, it is.

Speaker 3 50:00

But I think that's about it. It's a bow on it, doesn't it.

Speaker 6 50:03

Yeah, I think we ripped. We hit a home run on this one. This is good.

Speaker 3 50:07

Yeah Well, I had great songs and departure from some of the other genres that we've been covering lately. Get back to classic hard rock, metal, etc.

Speaker 6 50:20

Yeah, maybe we'll have to do Brian Enos ambient album after this. Yeah, exactly as a complete. You're just going down the roller coaster and then.

Speaker 3 50:29

Eric B and rock him to Hall of Nodes to.

Speaker 6 50:32

Van.

Speaker 3 50:32

Halen. Why not do Brian Eno next?

Speaker 2 50:35

Well, we'll see, yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 3 50:37

We might do a complete departure, but I don't know Well keep you on your toes.

Speaker 6 50:44

Keep you on your toes and we'll have one foot in the door and one foot out the door. So Rock on. All right Thanks guys Super and deeper.

Speaker 3 50:52

Way down. Take care, bye.