Yeah, the cool thing about having all these tuning offsets now, or the ones Allen Garber has shared, is being able to try those out. Eddie wasn’t keeping a spreadsheet of tunings or anything. After a while, you kind of figure out how to tune it so everything sounds intonated as best as possible. I like to also do what he was showing here, check the Bs, and Ds on the neck, open chords, making sure the B and E strings are nicely intonated with each other at the 5th and 12th, things like that. I’m sure if you analyzed things like that, that a lot of us do, it would be similar to what Eddie was doing. You can’t do that live, on the fly. So, having the exact cents to tune to would come in handy. Even though I’m not doing all that in my tribute band. The only song I sweeten the tuning is with running with the devil, and I could do that with my fine tuners, without no reference at all. I’ll the B string a nice quick counterclockwise turn, and it’s right there.😝🤘🏻🎸🇺🇸

He doesn’t like the Origin 50 I just got, but at least I use those black jazz IIIs also, ha ha. I hadn’t played through Marshals in a long time, so I’m digging the Origin for the tone-and for what I am mostly playing now, in my Van Halen tribute.

Going to see the show this weekend, and can’t wait! And I agree this may be the last time we get to hear these songs live! I hope not, but you just never know! And lets be honest, their will never be another Edward Van Halen, but Joe is fully capable of doing the songs justice and for one, I hope the guitar parts aren’t note for note the way Eddie did them. I’d rather here Joe do them justice than try and copy Eddie note for note

I wonder if Jizzy is still friends with Skid Their first 2 albums are awesome.

The black and white is my favorite. No Floyd Rose, not that I don’t like the Floyd Rose. I have couple of guitars that have them but there is something about just a fender bridge that I love.

Did you find the little old lady?

Thanks for all you do for the VH community. 🍻

Great interview. I took guitar lessons from Mike back in the late 80's at "Strings and Things" . Super cool guy.

Love Mike. Just not crazy about how he said , Sammy wants to be his friend now, I mean why not? Sammy is cool as F. Is there something we’re missing? Or did I hear it wrong? If so, my apologies. Other than that comment. Mike is the real deal. Love Mike

I’m the Metalcop mentioned in this video. Thanks, Mike!! Check out my channel for the Music Man to Peavey Wolfgang video that Mike mentions and tons of other great guitar vids. More insider vids upcoming… stay tuned!! 🤘😎🤘 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/br1nipeDupecj4E.htmlsi=PlL8Jx1kj_VjnO8l

Great interview; and Mike so interesting! I'm from Newcastle, England where Mike lived when in Venom/cronos, and like most rock musicians of my vintage in Newcastle, know Jim Clare and Jeff Dunn, both also great guys. Was on a bill with Mike in 92 when he was in Cronos and he was as down to earth then as he seems now too. Been subscribed to you for years Jeff, great to see how your channel has grown 🤘

In reference to Dave wondering if Ed used a JB on fair warning. It actually was a Custom Custom he used on the fair warning album that was revealed in an article about him and Seymour Duncan.

I just had 5 minutes of unskipable commercials for this 3 minute video, never actually got to the video

😂 Let me play a Stevie song.. Oh wait, there's Stevie! I'll just keep 🎸killing and we'll catch up in the mean time. Can't waste a multitask moment! WTH😮👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Great story, I like Damon, I really like eddy, Dicky Betts taught eddy alot

I dont know man.... he said the "Guitars serial number is #1505"coincidence? I think not! (...and the answer is...5150)

Really enjoyed this video!

Great interview!

every time i see nat with ec on tour that smile he has playing its still there

Great interview !!

Somebody ask this guy when Bonamassa is gonna buy norms rare guitars when norm decides to retire ….

Phil X is such a genuine cool, nice, fun dude. He is a phenomenal guitar player. He is who i would have play guitar if there was ever a VH tribute show/tour

Dave litterslly could not sing "Love you call real". He would sing it with a different vowel sound. I think he blew out his vocal cords because he never got voice lessons when he was younger

Wow, great conversation guys! I saw Mike with Carcass back March of 94 in Berkeley, Ca Heartwork tour. He was the perfect foil to play along with Bill Steer. I know how it was moving past VH once you got into the heavier music, went through the same at that same time; altho Fair Warning was still sacred to me even then!

Terry Kilgore said no to the slaving.....but the slaving sounds like $$.

Can either of you guys talk about the great Mase Bailey?

Jas is such a kind man. Nice Michigan Man.

This is going to seem random..but in the last 15 or 16 minutes, the guys mention Christone Ingram. Man..that dude can play. I remember when and how I was introduced to him. It was on Nikki Sixx's old radio or youtube showoo (I can't remember which one)..but it was years ago. The dude is an amazing young talent. However, the cat needs an intervention. People who care about him need to talk to him about getting his health in check. We need that dude around making music for many more years. Already being morbidly obese in your early 20s does not turn out well. This might seem random...but I only say this because I am a fan of the dude and I care. He needs serious help...and NOW.

I don’t know, Eric Gales really stood out when I saw him up there jamming and battling with Joe in this one video. That may have been where I first discovered Eric, just a few years ago online. A more pure Blues player like Eric, his tone will always cut through more than a heavier type of shredder ‘blues,’ like Joe.

He said that someone named Keith owned that black guitar… that Brian Adams used on tours, I think? Is Keith a guitar player, or a tech for Brian? I might’ve missed something there. Thanks! 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸

On my Mesh Cymbals I bought the Windshield Washer Wiper robber hose and split it down the middle with a razor blade for the edging of the Cymbals Sounds a lot better than Door the Trimming is to hard,

Another great guest and discussion! The brief topic of Ed’s guitars (Frankenstein) in particular being out of whack- I have a theory that guitars that are laboring to play lends to having to struggle giving the performance a more dramatic or emotional quality. Same with the feel SRV gave us with his main guitar based on info I’ve read over the years having ridiculous action with heavy gauge strings.

If Mike Hickey isn't the most down to earth guy in the music business, I don't know who is. I've never listened to a boring interview with him...they are always awesome. The dude has passion for our instrument.

Great title! That’s right! If someone doesn’t like Ed or Van Halen, then something’s wrong. 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸

I agree with Dave, I respect and admire all of Ozzy’s guitarists but Jake was his best, he was so versatile and his phrasing/nuances and soloing was amazing. His style has always been one of the most influential in my opinion.

I thinks Ed’s earlier sound is unmistakable, everyone knows that sound and it is incredible…however, my favorite tones he had was 1984, 5150 and then the F.U.C.K. era were his best.

Roth said, "Earth people are weird." This was during the VH1 session

It's not really a debate if ed was "systematically" sweetening his tunings. He specifically tuned up 25-30 cents for many albums and tours, and there are several pictures clear enough to at least make out the fact that his Peterson was set to that. As for "systematically", he may not have totally nerded out on the cents for each string (definitely not to the tenth of a cent) but he was definitely sweetening by ear which just comes naturally with a ear-tuning and a good ear. Allen's offsets look daunting when you don't understand them, but if you do a little math you will find that most of them are just a standard tuning, transposed a certain amount of cents up or down, and then a few strings are slightly tweaked to make chords sound better. The offsets are simply a way to get in tune with the recordings.

Exactly they’re bros and they got history with satch. My preference as far as authenticity would have been dweezil or Nuno or Al Estrada. But at the same time dweezil and Nuno and Al Estrada do the vintage era well, nvr heard them do vanhagar era riffs on KZfaq .

And that’s the thing about the Floyd Rose everybody wanted to get one when Ed started using them, but the truth is not everybody is Mickey Mantle not everybody can hit a home run every time and was the one guy that make it sound good everybody else is just imitators and second

if you wanna see the effect of too much volume on the first 10 rows, look at the footage of Hendrix opening for the Monkees for the first few gigs on that tour, lol, its true! some of the 13/14 y/o teeny boppers were crying non tears of joy & the rest looked.ike they just came downstairs on christmas morning & discovered 0 gifts under the tree, lol

a lot of these notable players who take flack from the community, IMO, it seems to have more to do with their personalities, level of humility, entitlement etc. hell it even comes down to personal charisma. eds guitar playing got him to the top of the heap, the other stuff , grin included, kept him there.. yngwies playing made players go whoa. the other stuff made you wanna slash his tires. i think most of us realize that our personalities come out in our playing. it factors in to our regards more than most realize. what we all should appreciate is that these guys are all still strapping it on & slinging it night after night. if not for them taylor swift would be on the cover of guitgod magazine.

I say Eddie like to tune flat a little bit go remove some brightness from the open chord sounds, then he had to tune to the chords being used, and if that down tune drifted a little bit, it was just Michael on bass to tune to him. 😊 the strobe tunner will show you the inconsistencies of guitar tuning, 😊

Charvel, ibanez, Marshall, Friedman, Gibson Burst's, etc,etc Me and Mikexwoyld get along great!🤘we like the same ezaxt gear and pkayers.

If Wolfgang wasn't Van Halen and I heard don't back down, I would love it just the same.it's a great song it's my favourite song from Wolfgang.😊

Great interview once again

Great interview! Thanks!

That was amazing 👏 What a interview amazing stories thank you Jeff and Mike

That poor guitar…

You guys have dispelled the myth that women say more words than men! 🤣🤣🤣Maybe men say less words to women but not to each other. 🤣🤣🤣 I had to take and intermission. This was GREAT though! I really like Mike! He's an encyclopedia of knowledge. Tonight, I learned what a Dumble is. Where is your =VH= necklace is my biggest question? jk. I know it's somewhere. Mike is right "Everybody loves Ed!" I sure wish he would have been able to get up to 5150. Oh well. Thanks guys!