“I couldn’t find one live clip of Eddie playing the same song that was remotely similar”: Joe Satriani watched other guitarists cover Eddie Van Halen to prepare for the Best of All Worlds tour
Joe Satriani says he prepared for the Best of All Worlds tour by watching cover versions of Van Halen songs to see how other players wrestled with the knowledge that “their hands are not Eddie’s hands”.
Before Sammy Hagar tapped him for the tour, Satriani admitted he’d never wanted to learn how to play Van Halen songs so that his electric guitar hero’s playing style didn’t bleed into his own.
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A freelance writer with a penchant for music that gets weird, Phil is a regular contributor to Prog, Guitar World, and Total Guitar magazines and is especially keen on shining a light on unknown artists. Outside of the journalism realm, you can find him writing angular riffs in progressive metal band, Prognosis, in which he slings an 8-string Strandberg Boden Original, churning that low string through a variety of tunings. He’s also a published author and is currently penning his debut novel which chucks fantasy, mythology and humanity into a great big melting pot.
