{"id":5314,"date":"2015-06-19T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/19\/eddie-van-hales-talks-about-alcohol-and-his-guitar-solo-at-qbeat-itq\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:11:18","slug":"eddie-van-hales-talks-about-alcohol-and-his-guitar-solo-at-qbeat-itq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/06\/19\/eddie-van-hales-talks-about-alcohol-and-his-guitar-solo-at-qbeat-itq\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Van Halen talks about alcohol and his guitar solo at &#8220;Beat It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0f\/Eddie_Van_Halen_2007-11-10.jpg\/1280px-Eddie_Van_Halen_2007-11-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>\u201cI think it\u2019s funny the way people talk about that,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was 20 minutes of my life. I didn\u2019t want anything for doing that&#8230;I literally thought to myself, \u2018Who is possibly going to know if I play on this kid\u2019s record?\u2019 So I went to the studio and listened to the song twice, and I didn\u2019t like the section they wanted me to solo over. They wanted me to solo over the breakdown. I asked [Thriller producer] Quincy Jones to edit the chords underneath the solo. Then I could play the solo in the key of E, but it was the chords underneath that made the solo interesting. So I guess I did rearrange it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was an alcoholic, and I needed alcohol to function,\u201d he says now. For  years, he awoke every morning with dry heaves. \u201cI started drinking and  smoking when I was 12. I got drunk before I\u2019d show up to high school. My  ninth grade science teacher, he could smell the alcohol, and he told  me, \u2018Don\u2019t drink anything you can\u2019t see through.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018So,  vodka?\u2019 And he said yeah. Which was great, because that was my  drink&#8230;I\u2019m not blaming my father at all, but he was an alcoholic, too.  So in our household, it was normal. But it never affected his work,  although I guess it didn\u2019t affect my work, either. Around 2004, I  suppose I became a very angry drunk. But [the stuff in Hagar\u2019s book] was  definitely embellished. That\u2019s him painting a picture of something that  never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s funny the way people talk about that,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}