On 'honeybabysweetiedoll' I Used A Whammy, A

A Guitar Is Just Theoretically Built Wrong. Each String Is An Interval Of Fourths, And Then The B String Is Off. Theoretically, That's Not Right, All The Strings Should Be Off.

I Played 'eruption' Two Times For The Record, And We Kept The One That Seemed To Flow ... There's A Mistake At The Top End Of It Whenever I Hear It, I Always Think, Man I Could've Played It Better ... But I Like The Way It Sounds. I'd Never Heard A Guitar Sound Like That Before.

I Can't Read Music. Instead, I'd Do Stuff Inside The Piano, Do Harmonics And All Kinds Of Crazy Things. They Used To Put Me In These Annual Piano Contests Down At Long Beach City College, And Two Years In A Row, I Won First Prize - Out Of Like 5,000 Kids!

David Lee Roth Had The Idea That If You Covered A Successful Song, You Were Half Way Home. C'mon - Van Halen Doing 'dancing In The Streets'? It Was Stupid. I Started Feeling Like I Would Rather Bomb Playing My Own Songs Than Be Successful Playing Someone Else's Music.

To Hell With The Rules. If It Sounds Right, Then It Is.