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Aerosmith first heard Van Halen in early 1978 while they were rehearsing for another record.
One of the members of their road crew told them, hey guys, there's a new hot band,
Van Halen, and they just released their first album.
You have to check it out, it's fantastic.
So they went to his car where they listened to the first Van Halen album for the first time.
Many years later, Joe Perry confessed that he heard a lot of little tricks and things
Eddie played and he was scratching his head wondering how Eddie did it.
So Joe Perry and the whole band Aerosmith were just blown away.
Then next year, on April 8, 1979, Van Halen co-headlined performance at the California
World Music Festival at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
They shared the bill with Aerosmith.
As a huge rock [Em] guitar fan, Eddie Van Halen went to meet Joe Perry backstage.
He went up to Joe Perry to shake his hand, but Joe Perry just looked at him arrogantly
and walked away.
In a 1982 radio interview, Eddie Van Halen [G] opened up about how bad he was treated by
some of his elder fellow guitarists he looked up to and admired.
And so this is what Eddie said,
This one thing that bothered me so much in the very beginning or in 1978, [N] our first tour,
is how people like Joe Perry and other guitarists would just give me, you know, like the shaft
with their eyes.
You know, wouldn't be fair though, wouldn't be nice, no nothing.
I'm not that way.
I don't give a crap, you know.
If I play a holiday in lounge, I enjoy playing.
Alan Holdsworth was ready to sell his guitar and everything and work in a factory, you know.
I mean, I just think of people like Joe Perry or Richie Blackmore who all hate my guts anyway.
They wouldn't go out of their way to help anyone because they would feel threatened.
Hey, the way I look at it is I wish there were more people that were innovative so I
would have somebody to copy licks from.
There are very few guitarists that I can listen to that make me turn my head and go, wow,
how did you do that?
And Alan is about the only one.
So Eddie felt very better about how mean some of his guitar idols were to him when he first met them.
A bit later when Eddie Van Halen was asked if he liked Joe Perry, Eddie replied, I don't
like him because I don't think he likes me.
I met him once, I walked up to shake his hand and he looked at me and walked away.
As a guitarist, I don't think he's that good.
He lacks feel.
So Eddie had a deep resentful inside.
He wanted to be friends with Blackmore and Joe Perry.
He wanted to hear some words of praise and encouragement from them.
But they just buzzed him off.
Eddie should have known better that at that point the only friend Joe Perry had was his
bag of coke.
In fact, Aerosmith were going through hard times back in 1979.
In 1979, Aerosmith headlined over Van Halen, Ted Nugent, ACDC and Foreigner during the
World Music Festival concerts.
[G] However, the band's drug use began taking its toll and [F] tensions were slowly coming to a head.
Guitarist Joe [N] Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album Night in the Ruts.
Perry took a collection of unrecorded material with him, which would later become the basis
of his album Let the Music Do the Talking, released in 1980.
In 2014, Joe Perry revealed in his autobiography book how much he was frustrated back in those days.
I thought we'd cut some of the best tracks we'd ever done.
The guitar interplay between me and Brad broke new ground.
Everyone was at the top of their game.
When it came time for lyrics though, Stephen began to drift away.
Slowly progress ground to a halt.
I started to get annoyed, then aggravated, and then out and out pissed.
We've made untold millions.
Where did all of it go?
We went to work every day, spending a fortune on hotel bills and studio time with nothing
to show for it.
The whole operation had become a nightmare.
I was tired of the bullshit.
I just wanted to get in a van and go play rock and roll.
I was willing to play clubs, any clubs.
I was told that when Stephen finally did show up to do his vocals, he was smoking crack.
On April 20, 2013, Van Halen shared the stage with Aerosmith, and that was the first time
they'd played at the same festival since 1979.
This is what Joe Perry said on Eddie Van Halen Then,
When I first heard Van Halen, I thought, Oh man, this is great.
Considering where Aerosmith was in our career, we were totally burned out, and Eddie came
along like a breath of fresh air.
It was fresh and hard, and I just felt this was the start of something new.
Eddie's playing was revolutionary.
Eddie's a gifted natural talent.
He's unstoppable.
The thing about Eddie is he never lost the rock and roll spirit to his playing.
He did what Jimi Hendrix did, taking the same guitar that everybody plays and turning it
into a different instrument.
His guitar solo on Beat It is unbelievable.
It's one of those solos that you can listen to over and over again, wondering how in the
hell he did it.
I've never seen Eddie without a guitar in his hand.
He invited me and Stephen Tyler up to his house one time and came out to meet us, and
he had a guitar in his hands.
Every time I've seen him backstage, he always had a guitar in his hand.
Maybe Eddie was worrying that someone would steal his guitar.
He's always playing.
That's a sign of a true musician's musician.
On Friday, the day before the show, Eddie Van Halen, Aerosmith's Steve Tyler, and Joe
Perry actually hang out together.
And Eddie Van Halen has shared a backstage photo taken with Aerosmith's Steve Tyler
and Joe Perry at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia on Saturday.
This is what Stephen Tyler said at a festival press conference.
We loved Van Halen in the beginning, but they got so big so fast that we offset each other
on tour and we never saw them.
We've been following them ever since and I'm always honored to see them backstage.
Every time I look into their eyes, I can see a camaraderie that knocks me over, so I love those guys.
Actually, David Lee Roth once called Stephen Tyler a static singer.
This is what Roth said.
Nobody imitates Stephen Tyler or Robert Plant.
Those are static singers that are a little bit closer to a Frank Sinatra.
I've been dancing.
They don't dance.
They perform and they present a little closer to what David Bowie did.
Bowie didn't dance either.
Neither does Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen is a job site foreman at a construction site.
I'll imitate.
He walks around, finish those gaskets, I'm buying lunch.
They don't dance.
When Eddie Van Halen died, Aerosmith's frontman Stephen Tyler shared a photo with Eddie on
his Instagram account.
Here's how Stephen Tyler bid farewell to Eddie.
He changed the course of guitar, whammy bar, rock and rhyme, a game changer.
And his melodic crazy was over the top.
We'll miss you Eddie.
Love from above.
ST.
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Aerosmith first heard Van Halen in early 1978 while they were rehearsing for another record.
_ One of the members of their road crew told them, hey guys, there's a new hot band,
Van Halen, and they just released their first album.
You have to check it out, it's fantastic. _
So they went to his car where they listened to the first Van Halen album for the first time.
_ Many years later, Joe Perry confessed that he heard a lot of little tricks and things
Eddie played and he was scratching his head wondering how Eddie did it.
So Joe Perry and the whole band Aerosmith were just blown away.
_ Then next year, on April 8, _ 1979, Van Halen co-headlined performance at the California
World Music Festival at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
They shared the bill with Aerosmith.
As a huge rock [Em] guitar fan, Eddie Van Halen went to meet Joe Perry backstage.
_ He went up to Joe Perry to shake his hand, but Joe Perry just looked at him arrogantly
and walked away.
In a 1982 radio interview, Eddie Van Halen [G] opened up about how bad he was treated by
some of his elder fellow guitarists he looked up to and admired.
And so this is what Eddie said, _
This one thing that bothered me so much in the very beginning or in 1978, [N] our first tour,
is how people like Joe Perry and other guitarists would just give me, you know, like the shaft
with their eyes.
You know, wouldn't be fair though, wouldn't be nice, no nothing.
I'm not that way.
I don't give a crap, you know.
If I play a holiday in lounge, I enjoy playing.
Alan Holdsworth was ready to sell his guitar and everything and work in a factory, you know.
I mean, I just think of people like Joe Perry or Richie Blackmore who all hate my guts anyway.
They wouldn't go out of their way to help anyone because they would feel threatened.
Hey, the way I look at it is I wish there were more people that were innovative so I
would have somebody to copy licks from.
There are very few guitarists that I can listen to that make me turn my head and go, wow,
how did you do that?
And Alan is about the only one.
So Eddie felt very better about how mean some of his guitar idols were to him when he first met them.
A bit later when Eddie Van Halen was asked if he liked Joe Perry, Eddie replied, I don't
like him because I don't think he likes me.
I met him once, I walked up to shake his hand and he looked at me and walked away.
As a guitarist, I don't think he's that good.
He lacks feel.
So Eddie had a deep resentful inside.
He wanted to be friends with Blackmore and Joe Perry.
He wanted to hear some words of praise and encouragement from them.
But they just buzzed him off.
Eddie should have known better that at that point the only friend Joe Perry had was his
bag of coke.
In fact, Aerosmith were going through hard times back in 1979.
In 1979, _ Aerosmith headlined over Van Halen, Ted Nugent, _ ACDC and Foreigner during the
World Music Festival concerts.
[G] However, the band's drug use began taking its toll and [F] tensions were slowly coming to a head. _
Guitarist Joe [N] Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album Night in the Ruts.
Perry took a collection of unrecorded material with him, which would later become the basis
of his album Let the Music Do the Talking, released in 1980. _ _
_ In 2014, Joe Perry revealed in his autobiography book how much he was frustrated back in those days.
I thought we'd cut some of the best tracks we'd ever done.
The guitar interplay between me and Brad broke new ground.
_ Everyone was at the top of their game.
When it came time for lyrics though, Stephen began to drift away.
Slowly progress ground to a halt.
I started to get annoyed, then aggravated, and then out and out pissed.
We've made untold millions.
Where did all of it go?
We went to work every day, spending a fortune on hotel bills and studio time with nothing
to show for it.
The whole operation had become a nightmare.
I was tired of the bullshit.
I just wanted to get in a van and go play rock and roll.
I was willing to play clubs, any clubs.
I was told that when Stephen finally did show up to do his vocals, he was smoking crack.
_ On April 20, _ 2013, Van Halen shared the stage with Aerosmith, and that was the first time
they'd played at the same festival since 1979. _
This is what Joe Perry said on Eddie Van Halen Then, _
When I first heard Van Halen, I thought, Oh man, this is great.
Considering where Aerosmith was in our career, we were totally burned out, and Eddie came
along like a breath of fresh air.
It was fresh and hard, and I just felt this was the start of something new. _
Eddie's playing was revolutionary. _ _
Eddie's a gifted natural talent.
He's unstoppable.
The thing about Eddie is he never lost the rock and roll spirit to his playing.
He did what Jimi Hendrix did, taking the same guitar that everybody plays and turning it
into a different instrument.
_ His guitar solo on Beat It is unbelievable.
It's one of those solos that you can listen to over and over again, wondering how in the
hell he did it.
_ I've never seen Eddie without a guitar in his hand.
He invited me and Stephen Tyler up to his house one time and came out to meet us, and
he had a guitar in his hands.
Every time I've seen him backstage, he always had a guitar in his hand.
Maybe Eddie was worrying that someone would steal his guitar.
_ _ He's always playing.
That's a sign of a true musician's musician.
_ On Friday, the day before the show, Eddie Van Halen, _ Aerosmith's Steve Tyler, and Joe
Perry actually hang out together.
And Eddie Van Halen has shared a backstage photo taken with Aerosmith's Steve Tyler
and Joe Perry at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia on Saturday.
This is what Stephen Tyler said at a festival press conference.
_ We loved Van Halen in the beginning, but they got so big so fast that we offset each other
on tour and we never saw them.
We've been following them ever since and I'm always honored to see them backstage.
Every time I look into their eyes, I can see a camaraderie that knocks me over, so I love those guys.
Actually, David Lee Roth once called Stephen Tyler a static singer.
This is what Roth said.
Nobody imitates Stephen Tyler or Robert Plant.
Those are static singers that are a little bit closer to a Frank Sinatra.
I've been dancing.
They don't dance.
They perform and they present a little closer to what David Bowie did.
Bowie didn't dance either.
Neither does Bruce Springsteen. _
Springsteen is a job site foreman at a construction site.
_ I'll imitate.
He walks around, finish those gaskets, I'm buying lunch.
They don't dance.
_ When Eddie Van Halen died, _ Aerosmith's frontman Stephen Tyler shared a photo with Eddie on
his Instagram account.
_ Here's how Stephen Tyler bid farewell to Eddie.
_ He changed the course of guitar, whammy bar, rock and rhyme, a game changer.
And his melodic crazy was over the top.
We'll miss you Eddie.
Love from above.
ST. _ _ _ _ _ _
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