After the show, we're sitting in the bar, and I said, "Hey, Rick. Like Rick Derringer opened for us last year, and he did my exact solo. The things I do, like "Eruption" and "Spanish Fly" - I hate to say it, and it's not hard to do, but I came up with it. The Best Of Guitar Player (December 29, 1979)ĮVH: Yeah. This must be the comment Rick was referring to: In reality Eddie may have taken the stuff he learned from us and evolved into the monster that he is, but he may very well have taken it from hearing our stuff. He showed it to me, so it all comes down to Danny Johnson and Danny learned it from a guy in a music store. I love Eddie, he’s a great player, but man, Denny was tapping earlier that I was, before we even knew Eddie Van Halen. Rick: So where did Eddie get that style from? The style that he says we stole from him, he actually learned from us. In fact I told Danny the tapping style that Eddie says I stole from him, way before Eddie - actually Danny showed me how to do that!ĭanny: I wouldn’t call it stealing when you say: "Hey show me that." Stark: Yes, you really complete each other. Rick: The point is, the tour he’s talking about, it wasn’t even his tour, it was a co-headlining tour where we headlined one night and they the next.ĭanny: That’s why I don’t play that much guitar solos, Rick’s such a great guitar player. Kenny: Eddie’s a lying sack of shit, I was there and I know the truth of it and it’s a load of crap! (laughs) So if that is the case that would mean in reality that Eruption was stolen from us! It’s actually on record we were doing You Really Got Me years before Van Halen existed and the solo I played on that record is what Eddie is calling Eruption. To make matters worse he said we would go out and make his hit You Really Got Me and he said he had told me to stop doing that and I would still be doing it, so he had to fire me from the tour. In that book he says how he likes to tell how he was headlining on a tour where we were on with him and that I would go out each night and play Eruption. Rick: Which brings up the story, I don’t know if you’ve read the Van Halen book. Rick used to do a guitar solo, which he’ll do tonight. We did You Really Got Me before Van Halen. Stark: Besides your stuff you also did some covers, like You Really Got Me and on the non-official Live in Cleveland you also did a cover of Rebel Rebel.ĭanny: We talked about what would be the song we could do that everybody would know, a cover. Found this interview - pretty interesting.
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