You Know, Most People, They Want To

I Wanted A Gibson Type Sound, But With A Strat Vibrato ... I Bought A Body From Charvel For $50.00 And A Neck For $80.00 - I Slapped It Together, Put An Old Gibson Paf In It And Painted It Up With The Stripes

Holdsworth Is So Damned Good That I Can't Cop Anything. I Can't Understand What He's Doing. I've Got To Do This [does Two-hand Tapping], Whereas He'll Do It With One Hand.

The Name Van Halen, The Family Legacy, Is Going To Go On Long After I'm Gone.

Practice. I Used To Sit On The Edge Of My Bed With A Six-pack Of Tuborg. My Brother Would Go Out To Party And Get Laid, Come Home At 3am., And I Would Still Be Playing With Myself.

I Went To The Zoo One Day And Saw A Chimp Playing With A Beat-up Acoustic Guitar In A Way I Had Never Seen Before. Instead Of Using The Pick The Chimp Was Banging The Neck And Tapping It With Its Fingers. I Knew The Chimp Was On To Something So I Practiced This New Technique In My Room For Hours Until I'd Perfected It.