Last week, Holland’s largest daily morning newspaper, De Telegraaf, reported that drummer Alex Van Halen was working on a some unfinished Van Halen recordings, and that Toto guitarist Steve Lukather was working with him.
Alex is quoted as saying, “Ed and Steve Lukather were very good friends and they often worked together. There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can.”
Lukather took to social media on March 15 to address the sitiation and clear the air:
“For the record: Ever since Alex Van Halen dropped some we were gonna work together I think there is a huge misunderstanding. I will NOT EVER play a guitar note on a VH song ever!.
Al asked me to help him go thru a ton of unfinished recordings of Al and Ed writing and recording that never saw the light of day. As of now that’s all I got. The fact that ANYONE would think for even a second that I would play anything on this is ridiculous. I have too much love and respect for that and … I play nothing like Ed.. more as a co-producer or something. I am honored Al would ask me though.
Lets see …”
In a February 2021 Guitar World feature, Lukather paid tribute to his friend and late Van Halen guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen, who passed away in October 2020. An excerpt follows:
“I first met Eddie at the CaliFFornia World Music Festival in 1979. Van Halen was headlining one night after their first album. Toto’s first album was out and we had a hit with ‘Hold The Line’. I loved him from the moment we met. It was like I’d known the guy my whole life.
I was close with Ed for 40-plus years. And he was more than my guitar buddy. Of course, we played each other whatever we were working on, just showing off our shit and going, ‘Look what I’m doing!’ But we didn’t speak about guitars a whole lot.
With Ed, he always showed me love, and I had the deepest respect for him. And there’s no doubt he was one of the greatest of all fucking time. Who could ever dispute that – how he changed everything?
But he was just a humble little guy who just loved to mess with shit and do things different. Like, the worst thing that could have happened to Eddie Van Halen would have been guitar lessons. When it came down to details about equipment and how he liked to do things, he always had an “adventure” mentality. He knew what he wanted. And he wanted really weird shit.”
Read Steve’s full tribute to Eddie at Guitar World.
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Alex is quoted as saying, “Ed and Steve Lukather were very good friends and they often worked together. There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can.”
Lukather took to social media on March 15 to address the sitiation and clear the air:
“For the record: Ever since Alex Van Halen dropped some we were gonna work together I think there is a huge misunderstanding. I will NOT EVER play a guitar note on a VH song ever!.
Al asked me to help him go thru a ton of unfinished recordings of Al and Ed writing and recording that never saw the light of day. As of now that’s all I got. The fact that ANYONE would think for even a second that I would play anything on this is ridiculous. I have too much love and respect for that and … I play nothing like Ed.. more as a co-producer or something. I am honored Al would ask me though.
Lets see …”
In a February 2021 Guitar World feature, Lukather paid tribute to his friend and late Van Halen guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen, who passed away in October 2020. An excerpt follows:
“I first met Eddie at the CaliFFornia World Music Festival in 1979. Van Halen was headlining one night after their first album. Toto’s first album was out and we had a hit with ‘Hold The Line’. I loved him from the moment we met. It was like I’d known the guy my whole life.
I was close with Ed for 40-plus years. And he was more than my guitar buddy. Of course, we played each other whatever we were working on, just showing off our shit and going, ‘Look what I’m doing!’ But we didn’t speak about guitars a whole lot.
With Ed, he always showed me love, and I had the deepest respect for him. And there’s no doubt he was one of the greatest of all fucking time. Who could ever dispute that – how he changed everything?
But he was just a humble little guy who just loved to mess with shit and do things different. Like, the worst thing that could have happened to Eddie Van Halen would have been guitar lessons. When it came down to details about equipment and how he liked to do things, he always had an “adventure” mentality. He knew what he wanted. And he wanted really weird shit.”
Read Steve’s full tribute to Eddie at Guitar World.
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