Thanks for your comment. Yeah, I have to agree... I grew up a huge Van Halen fan and grew to be very irritated by Dave although I have to admit I always preferred him over Sammy however I loved Sammy with Van Halen I just wanted irritating Dave back too. Lol. but Dave has caused me to realize be very careful how you judge people on the outside and I have come or grown to respect him a great deal and very glad he is part.. A Precious part of Rock and Roll history. RIP Eddie. God, I actually felt & feel grief over his death. Such an amazing smily incredibly cool to us fans person. If there's a heaven he's in a special place there no doubt
To see David Lee Roth treat you as a paramedic would be a dream you would never want to wake up from, and more importantly, hard to believe for years to come. Try convincing your friends that David is the one who saved your life.
for a guy who played the party boy and ultimate playboy in hard rock's biggest band at the time, dave's a very smart, well-read and well-traveled guy. pretty interesting dude and definitely a character.
He had a syndicated radio show for a while. I can't remember the exact dates but I caught the first airing because it was falling into a spot that I normally listened to on my commute (the show I listened to was going away. I can't remember if it was Howard Stern or the Russ Martin show) but they replaced it with the David Lee Roth show. And I really liked it. It wasn't shock jock stuff or anything and the man really had a good voice, tempo, and story telling ability that made me really like to listen to him. If I remember right it didn't last too long though. For some reason it didn't get the ratings they wanted. I think it'd to a lot better today. I think his show was around.. 2006? I think.
Exactly, he had something to say and teach. He was the epitome of a Rock superstar. Walked the walk, talked the talk, and was everything you expected him to be and more.
I truly believe the animosity between DLR and EVH is what made them such a magical combination. They both thrived off each other whether they wanted to admit it or not...pure musical chemistry. Then when they hit that stage they left all that drama behind them and tore the house down together. The Mighty Van Halen!!! 🤘
I never understood how a band behind the scenes could be fighting and barely talking, riding on different busses and airplanes (it happened with both Roth and Hagar while in Van Halen) and then get on stage and look like the love each other and make great music. Of course I was never anywhere close to their level in any of the many bands I have played in, but If bands members I played with didn't get along, someone quit, there was no lets just stay together and play the gig, It didn't matter how tight or good the band was. I guess that some of the differences that being in a band with a contract, or professionalism, or whatever you wanna call the difference between a state or locally touring bar band and a big worldwide huge band like Van Halen. When I first started playing in my first band I was told that the hardest part about being in a band, is keeping the band together, and I can honestly say, I have played hard songs, in front of rough crowds, hard road trips, but all of that was nothing compared to the hard part of keeping the band together.
What's up with everyone saying rest in power all of the sudden? What does it even mean? Rest in peace. Power has been depleted. It sucks, but it's true bro. 🔋
When DLR was great Van Halen thrived. Then he fell off a cliff and Sammy was the savior. These interviews with him after the fact are a joke. He’s lost and only solidifies the reason he got the boot. In the end though, Sammy is the only gem of the bunch. A real stand up guy.
Van halen was great from their Debut all the way to balance. I wonder what if sammy was the frontman from the beginning and dave replaced him later they might not be so successful but lucky sammy came in after dave.
1984 was (IMO) the best Album,Tho 5150 is close.Dave was a Great Frontman on stage,but Sammy is a way better Singer and Person.Plus Sammy had a Solo career before and after VH while DLR basically became a bald Rasputin.
and he doesn't even know all that much about MMA either, he just jumps in, states the obvious, repeats it and tries tirelessly not to get caught about not knowing what he's talking about. he's about running a business, any business, and if he has to start analysing stocks and securities next week, he'll just read a bit (maybe), watch some financial shows and he's a stock analyst and the funny thing is nobody realises this. there are MANY people like that, but this guy is their president. there's no passion, there's just an insane amount of support and promotion in his favour. i think maybe i'll publish this PhD thesis next year, just need to get myself a good Jewish publisher, maybe Joe knows a few
Eh, I think hes a pretty avid music fan. He's just not an aficionado of the technical details. Not a lot of people who aren't diehards know what DLR is talking about here.
“Guys would come in and just wing it” - exactly what Eddie did on Beat It and it came out amazingly well. He didn’t pre write it and he said it took him all of 20 minutes to record.
But they also likely recorded. Ton of versions of the solo before either making a composite of all of the tracks or picking one out of many solos that were recorded. There's an interview with Steve Stevens about the solo he played for Dirty Diana and he detailed that he recorded a ton of solos, with input from MJ who was there and then they took the tracks he laid down and mixed and mashed to create the two solos in the song.
@@krymsix574 Eddie did actually comp some of his work, but this was done more later on, late 80s & 90s, the earlier stuff was not comp’d and neither was the Beat It solo
I think he did two takes and that was it, nailed it on #2. He also requested to solo over the same chord progression as the chorus, instead of just the monotone _du-du-dum_ E chord thing that precedes the solo. So Eddie had a hand in arranging and thus improving the biggest hit MJ ever had... an outside contribution he had hoped Dave and the others would never find out about, it created tensions.
Simply one of the greatest guitar players in Rock history. He inspired so many players during the 80s and 90s. He made that thing “sing like a bird”. His fingers were a constant blur... We will all miss you great master
U hit the nail on the head there bro-tato chip!! His rhythm playing though is largely over looked and is his greatest asset, it's so light-n-beautiful and full of harmonics and open notes etc..but yes this is revealing.
@Abe Cedeefgee I know, right? There's no way that the singer of Van Halen would have more insight on Eddie's writing techniques then some random ass dude on youtube, that'd be crazy.
@Abe Cedeefgee I agree any search to RU-vid can see eddie can play anything at anytime. this discussion is a insult to the greatest guitar player of all time.
John, I mean no disrespect, and Dave's explanation truly DOES sound reasonable. But, please...don't buy one bit of it. That's simply NOT how it was done. Yes, there are cases where more than one track has been manipulated to fix, embellish, or modify something, but the idea that EVH created "trickery" in the studio that he then had to go back and learn is just unadulterated horse crap. It just is. I was a professional guitarist when EVH came on the scene, and I was recording in modern studios then as now, and combining multiple takes to create something entirely new is just not ever done, unless the music style is built around that - which Van Halen's certainly was not. Running faders up and down on a mixer - even by the most adroit and skilled engineers - results in a sound that any listener in the world would recognize as manipulation. You can't hide individual track volumes going up and down. I love Dave, but he's the worlds greatest story teller for a reason: Half of what he says is utter bullshit, lol!!
Yeah! Break! Care! Break! - He's talking about Eddie comping a few solos to avoid talking about himself and all the punch ins you can clearly hear on his vocal tracks. It's OK Dave, at least you sang the actual notes unlike, uh less good music now. Love you man.
Not much in this crazy world can make you believe for a second in a higher power but what are the chances of van halen finding DLR and lets face it, he was the perfect guy. Then the 2nd perfect guy falls into place a few years later. That feels like the hand of god. Sammy says fate and destination. I agree. And damn glad it happened exactly that way.
@Matt G - Dave is smarter than you want to portray him as being. He may not be a "genius", but give him credit for tapping into the public consciousness for about a decade between 1978-88 that is still being felt today.
Eddie Van Halen's creative process may have been mechanical but his end product was completely organic and super human. I watched a video of Eddie talking in an interview on a stage when he simply got up and dropped those stunning runs on a guitar,with him so sick it was clear he was suffering very much. Eddie Van Halen and all the guys,including David Lee Roth made history. But Eddie was incredible. Rest In Peace Eddie,and Thank You.
I love when Joe does that “Wowwwwwww” comment. That basically means “What you’re saying sounds really incredible, but I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.”
as a guitar player I always wondered about the construction of guitar solos, and this actually explains several crazy solos I had to learn over the years. lol
There really is no single way to create the solo. You basically just gotta go with how your feeling goes. Your knowledge goes from there. After a while it will just come naturally. Check out a video of Steve Vai demonstrating Freak Show Excess. He really breaks it down.
kevin w Holy cow! Crazy story! I’ve been right where you’re saying and on Sunset. I remember the Custom Guitar shop there where Kirk Hammett would pick up some of his guitars. Too bad it isn’t there. That must have been crazy what you saw there. Awesome.
If you want the golden key to solos, master your scales. Once you know how to play scales in different keys, you can begin to create without worry of being out of key. Just play scales in the key the song is in at any given time and sooner or later those scales will turn into solo ideas. And you begin learning writing tricks and habits. But scales and knowing the key changes in the song is key
In my opinion, the weight and influence of Edward Van Halens' guitar playing cannot be overstated. He single handedly changed the way rock guitar was approached and played. In my lifetime, there is only one other artist who achieved similar status and that was Jimi Hendrix. We won't see another like him. Rest in Peace, Edward Van Halen for you surely have earned it.
You didn’t mention Tony Iommi. Not a name everyone would immediately recognize but the was the guitarist behind the band that gave birth to heavy metal
As a musician who's studied Eddie Van Halen since 1978, I can assure you that this is not the "secret" to EVH solos. What Dave's talking about occurred occasionally but not as a rule. The secret is EVH is a guitar genius. He also is extremely methodical about writing instrumentation. He worked very hard at what you hear on a VH record.
foggyblues13 You are dead wrong. Point me to one pointless or confusing tangent in this 3 hour conversation. If you can't follow this you're just not up to speed.
If you're susceptible to his shpiel, that's on you. Dave has always amused me. But if he came up to me and tried to sell me something, I'd reply, "I'm just going to turn around now." It's kind of like the guy who uses all the cheesy pickup lines in college. That guy DOES tend to leave with a gal, and other guys will get a little frustrated by that until they eventually learn that the lines only appeared to work bc those gals were inclined to drop their panties for that particular guy to begin with.
I’ve watched the majority of this interview and have concluded that with each topic David Lee Roth begins to say something insightful that I want to hear then he just starts making faces, noises, hand gestures, and begins to laugh. It’s really quite a tease
There’s guitar faces...and then there’s Eddies smile. I love ya Eddie, not a day goes by that I don’t listen to your playing. I hope you have found your peace
@Barney Fife I've seen many things happen to these performers. Good and Horrific. That's Show biz. Dave once broke his leg jumping off the Drum riser and wore a cast for awile onstage. Shit happens more than you realize.. haha.
The beautiful thing about music is it a time machine. Eddies music will bring us back to the past when Eddie was playing in this human form. He left us some spiritual gifts.
As a 17 year old guitarist, Van Halen, James hetfield, Bryan May, slash, jimmy page and so many more, had the most influence on me wanting to start, these guys and so many more are so important to me. Eruption and the stairway to heaven solo are my favorite pieces of music out there. (And yeah I know these are pretty well known guitarists and it’s kinda cliche to say they inspired you to play, but whatever, it’s true)
You're generation is the most coddled, entitled, privileged in the history of the world. You can't take anything from your own time period as inspirational, that's why you have to go back to the past.
you're right. wait another 10 years and everythings gonna be more fucked and so forth. The internet and social media is fucking these kids minds up without the parents even realizing it cause they are addicted too now. and people saying ok "dad" or "old man" are part of the problem. This world just doesn't deserve greatness anymore and it's sad
Ja ka No I agree, most music today isn’t good. But why get mad that someone from my generation appreciates the absolute greatness of artists from the past?
I don't care what anyone says- Diamond Dave will always get Diamond Dave to laugh at his jokes. He never fails! RIP Eddie. You will never truly be dead because your efforts in this lifetime have made you immortal
I remember as a kid, we couldn't get MTV in my area of Chicago so I had to wait till Friday night video show on T.V and everytime I always waited for jump to come on so I could watch Eddie play that solo with that grin. Was always one of my fondest memories of Eddie. We have truly lost a legend, mentor, teacher and inspiration to millions of guitar players and musicians from all around the world. R.I.P EDDIE, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!!
I would pay him just to come to my house and host parties. Dude is completely timeless and the ultimate classic performer. He always understood it's show business people!!!
Nathan Walsh - I think Diamond Dave is the best front man in rock. Maybe not the best vocalist, but he knew how to entertain a crowd. Look at his solo career after VanHalen. He had some of the wildest videos out at that time from “Eat Em And Smile”.
@@chesterswingjr9796 People always say that: "best front man." What does that even mean? Runs around? Does splits off the drum riser? Whips his hair? Gyrates? Poses? Who cares about that? I want to see someone sing well, and enjoy him/herself. The rest is just foolishness.
Bombastic producing and engineering advice. I always knew my ears were being hoodwinked into having to perform the impossible ...just in terms of pitch and accuracy...but DLR just summed it all up in less than 2:46
I think Dave believes that Rogan understands what he's trying to explain more than Joe does, so he's skipping a few important points to the process he's talking about. He's going Ed mad props. He's laughing becuz that's part of how Dave is conveying how incredible the guys talent was. He would lay down a bunch of different solos, & be unhappy with them. Then listen back to them & point out what he liked & didn't like about each take. Many times the parts he liked about different takes had been played on the complete opposite spectrum of the neck. But once he chose how he wanted the solo to be, no matter how mind boggling, or seemingly inhumanly impossible it would to be to play it in continuity once fused all together he kept it that way. Then would have to 'learn' how to play it like it was on the the tape. He created every bit of it. It came from EVH's mind. Roth isn't taking that away at all. He's rxplaing how a musicians method is, a genius one at that. He saying what sounds like an impossible thing to do in all at once cohesion on tape, he would learn how it, to point where it was not even a thought to him after mastering it. He saying that's why he his playing was always in constant motion, but he did so incredibly well people weren't & don't realize what he was doing, weren't realizing the extreme level of work, effort , & determination the man put into it. But on stage, once he lost himself in his playing, that smile came on his face, he was like a man possessed, & it looked so easy for him. It his the high amount, the high level of skill from the layman audience. He's trying tell Joe do he can actually appreciate what EVH was able accomplish even more. He wasn't just great, he was determined, & more that willing to put in what was necessary, to work his ass off & make that ultimate sacrifice, his time, & his pain & suffering to get it out of his head & in to history. Dave just assumes most of his peers or hip to at least some of what he's talking about, but they're not. His joking sbout it is coming from the angle of how absurd, mad, & awe inspiring it was for dude to even consider doing it.
Dave always seems to be a bit of a goofball but those original VH albums, man they just hit you in the face, a dirty nasty edge. I went to the edge, I stood and looked down, you know I lost a lot of friends there baby, no time to mess around..
More important --- it was ORGANIC and not contrived by assholes in suits --- just four bad ass dudes from the local neighborhood in Pasadena who had music in their souls and a craving to tour the world
Eddie Van Halen was sampling himself in the 70’s. I can’t believe I learned this on the day he passed. What a legend. So ahead of his time and always gonna be my idol and #1 on the all time list. Rest in Power.
DLR is like that guy you start casual conversation with and he just tells you a whole story with such passion you can't walk away... You want to but can't
I hired a sax player for a solo; he did several takes, and after he was gone the engineer and I did the same thing. When the CD came out, the sax player had no idea what we had done and thought that in one of his takes nailed it.
RIP Eddie. Your playing style really made me love rock music. You are such an inspiration in the community and will forever be remembered... Wow so sad.
Diamond Dave, the ultimate Rock Star. He may be high-milage, but like a vehicle, they were freeway miles. Better to burn a little bit, than rust. Good show Joe.
I'v played a lot of VH in cover bands over the years and i have to say Eddies style is out of this world. Great guitar lesson for anyone who's been playing for a few years. Say what you will, Eddie is one of the greatest because it's his own sound and style. Guitar players are a dime a dozen these day's.
Dave is certainly describing the guitar solo in Jump. He can actually hear the splice prior to the hammer on segment. But it’s still an awesome solo !!!
That's the best way to create a solo! Improvise multiple takes on separate tracks. All you need nowadays is two tracks for soloing because it's so easy to split, crop, copy, paste, and delete licks or even punch in and out. Choose the best sounding licks and edit them together. Learn the solo and record it in one take for a smoother feel instead of using the pieces as the final product, unless you want to.
I remember a quote from David Briggs, he was Neil Young's producer, "in the old days, everyone got hard, went in and stood in front a mic and put it down". Just my opinion, but I think when you digitally manipulate the music it loses it's soul. Isn't that why live music is so good?
Best way to do it for me is to live track it with the band. Essentially what Dave is saying here but with the band together so you can work off each other. Depends on the recording. Nice to start with that authentic inspired take and then fix any flubs.
Also I heard Gilmour say that more than three takes in a day (on a solo) for him was overthinking it. Gonna nail that true inspiration somewhere up front. After a point your just trying to duplicate an idea you already had
Breakes my heart......just watcing....love Van Halen so much. Eddie was something special. From the album "Woman and children first".....im in. Love you. Thank you.
No question about it, Dave is a different dude. This being said there is some serious sage he has under his belt and I could listen to his interviews all day.
Yes it is called comping. although that process is usually left tot the producer or engineer. The talent just plays or sings the part multiple times but they almost never get a say as to what gets comped and where. That's why Dave stated "Then you'd have to go learn the part".
@@bonjovisleftnut8954 I'm a guitarplayer myself, sorry but it's the truth. I know of at least one famous guitarist that confirmed this is the way they do indeed record guitarsolos these days. Nile Rodgers, look it up yourself if you don't believe me. I don't think he is bashing. It's just funny, cause it's the truth. Jumping all over the neck if you try to learn those cut & paste solos.
Andreas J Black I’m a guitar player also I don’t see why that matters but I’m sure there are many people who record that way. But to think that this is just the way of doing things now is pretty ridiculous.
This is so true! Dave has some amazing insights! He has been there and walked the walk and so now he can talk the talk with real wisdom. I do exactly this in the recording studio (cut and splice and then relearn the solo) but I never realized it. Dave should have a PHD in rock and roll based on life experience!
King Brilliant how the hell is allen Collins immobile on the neck? Are you implying that he can’t play fast? Have you actually heard the freebird solo? Allen uses 16th notes in the solo! And everyone has their own style but Allen Collins is one of the best guitarist of all time.
King Brilliant when people improvise with scales they tend to use the root note and the tonic of the scale often. So I don’t see what the problem with that is. And nobody gonna notice that shit unless your a scholar.
Ed played tons of those solos one shot too. Dave’s saying this bc that’s how HE was recorded and he’s jealous. Cause he can’t sing. I still love him, lol, but he’s protecting his rep. One Foot Out the Door is one of Ed’s best solos. Blistering, done last minute as filler.
It is a very easy solo to play technically speaking, not to take away how great it sounds and fits in the song, but as far as hard to play guitar solo's it does not rank.
I have duplicated Eddie's style on guitar perfectly, the only thing missing is my cigarette in the tuner. Can someone tell me how to do that on air guitar?
it's been over 8 months since EVH's passing and i'm STILL bummed the fuck out about it. he was my fave musician from my fave band for nearly the past 40 yrs of my life. the king is dead, long live the king.
That has to be one of the most fantastic tips I’ve possibly heard about how to record a kickass guitar solo. EVH solos are COLLAGES!!! Little pieces pasted together, in a beautiful mashup of melody, explosiveness and acrobatics. That’s why Eddie’s solos always sound so odd and unpredictable. WOW
It’s not just Eddies solos, it’s everything you hear from vocals on down. If you train your ear you can hear edits in music all the way back to the mid 60’s. The 50’s were the last golden era. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran... musicians in those days would go in and do a whole record in one or two days. The sounds and the performances became classics.
At first glance, he is just a showboating frontman. But, after watching a few documentaries it is clear that, that guy was heavily involved in the entire process. The attention to detail and dedication that he and the rest of the members put in to every production is astounding.
Dave’s showbiz shtick, ridiculous energy and lyrical inventiveness was a perfect counter to the VH brother’s virtuosity. He’s most certainly insufferable, but our world is the better for him.
Eddie explicitly thanked Les Paul onstage for inventing multi-track recording, saying "We wouldn't be able to make records like we do if you didn't invent multi-track recording". I don't think it was much of a secret that Eddie did that to compose some of his music. The man was simply cut from a better cloth, one in a million, an exceptional musician. At the end of the day a guitarists ability to solo and improvise comes down to the individual player and where his mind takes him, and for what it's worth Eddie could still put on a hell of a show live when he didn't have the benefit of multi-track recording.
It's basically vocal comping but for guitar solos. It's common for singers to record multiple takes and piece the best bits together, but in this case it's just guitar solos instead of vocals.
This actually makes perfect sense. Because the solo for "Hot For Teacher" is so dynamic, I thought he was an alien, but come to find, it was just a "Mix" of lots of takes. And by no means does that make the _playing_ any less great, it just shows that the dynamics were "Stitched" together, as opposed to one fluid thought, first time through. This may be the best guitar lesson ever said, and I am not kidding. In a weird way, it actually teaches you to "Play like yourself". Meaning we are dynamic creatures, and if you met me for 5 seconds, you could never know everything about me. In 20 years, you would start to get the idea. Like seeing a "Highlight reel" of all I have done before meeting me, it would give you a much better sense of all I am. Maybe this is one of the best ways to approach a solo, having to actually LEARN more about ourselves, and what is possible if we were to have many takes at any situation in life. Like the movie "Groundhog day". The _first_ approach at something is not always the best. Nor the second or third, etc. But there may also be a few good ideas to remember from each approach. Maybe it is the culmination of all we have to offer. If we saw our everyday life like that, maybe we would not be so hard on ourselves about one stupid choice we made, one single huge mistake, and instead see ourselves as mix of all the _RIGHT_ choices we have made. Maybe that is a way to forgive ourselves about bad choices, and be proud of the good ones. Mix all our best moments together, and try our very best to be our best each day, knowing every day is just another "Take" and that we have more chances to get it right. But always searching for that moment that makes us feel... "Worthy". Just a perspective. Rock on. - Kevin Venture
Its easy for you isnt it! You inhereted billions from your super-scientist father, Dr. Jonas Venture! Granted, you had to split it with Rusty, but there was still much left over... You probably even got to spend time in the massive space station, Gargantua 1. But at least you dont have to worry about being arched by The Monarch though...
I heard Nuno say he got a chance to play through Eddie's gear. He said he was disappointed he didn't sound like Eddie. His sound wasn't generated from his gear. It was through his fingers. Which came from his soul.
I like Dave, he certainly has his own rhythm. I can also see why Eddie found it extremely annoying. I read it a few days ago in an old Billboard article where Eddie alluded to Dave not growing up (albeit in his 60s) and wanting to make 'dance music', as he put it. EVH was all about exceptionalism and innovation - he wasn't interested so much in the pageantry in contrast to Dave. I can see how it was an unhealthy marriage where it was more about 2 people having different ideas that at points met up, but for the most part were on opposing sides of the spectrum.
I also get the feeling that working in Van Halen was similar to working for some types of family businesses. The type where if your last name is one of the ones NOT on the sign, you are eventually going to have a problem.
@@kennethsouthard6042 of course. However, I work for a family business and my personality is the opposite of my older brother's who's my boss. I can see it be two against any one non-family member person. Not in my case though 🙄
@@kennethsouthard6042 It might have been in that same article where EVH described DLR as being a domineering controlling force in the early days of VH. But then of course others have indicated that it was very much EVH's band. Likely the truth falls somewhere in the middle. Wonder if VH will re-unite for a final live concert. WVH, Michael Anthony and both singers, maybe Vai (or the Atomic Punk's guitarist) to sub in for Eddie.
I will say....Dave is a dynamic front man, that clip he spoke eloquently....but most of the time he talks so much without saying anything!! Just likes to hear his own voice! Just sayin!!!
He has a very unique speaking style --- almost like he rehearses all his answers beforehand but you know that's impossible so it just makes you that much more impressed by his quick wit and intelligence "on the fly"
I was recently watching a "how to" YT vid for the intro to "Mean Streets." The guy was amazing, a very good player who played that intro note for note, rather perfectly. After about 15 minutes of him talking, and explaining tons and tons of notes and how to play them, intonate them, and really make it SOUND RIGHT... he says "ok, that's the first 9 seconds of this 26 second intro." He had to break TWENTY SIX SECONDS... into THIRDS! lol So Dave can talk about multi-tracking all he wants. Because although he's not wrong, he's proving he's not a guitar player, either. There's no real "secret" to an EVH solo, other than he's MF EVH.
@lilnetty2 It actually promotes better and more natural performances because it enables the artist to stay in the moment and perform the full song without interruption despite any mistakes that may happen.
@@scottbaines4747 yeah he's trying to discredit Eddie. And absolutely comping has a been a thing for a while. They even used to splice a few versions of a band playing live in the studio together before we had tons of tracks.
I could sit and talk, (well that is LISTEN) with this majestic man for days. Grew up on Van Halen. Still listen to them. But hearing the soul of the man behind the music is riveting.
He's most likely the greatest frontman America ever produced --- compare him to lame shits like Steven Tyler and Jon Bon Jovi and it's not even close --- Roth is like a God amongst little pretenders
David Gilmour is known to do what Dave is talking about here. Mixing bits of different takes. I used to be somewhat awestruck at some of Gilmour's solos wondering how the hell did he think to go from that lick to that next lick. The truth is, he didn't. They were mixed from different takes. No matter how creative you are you still tend to pigeon hole your ideas, you still tend to do thing (a) then thing (b) then thing (c) .... not strictly of course, but you get the idea. This sort of solo construction creates things you never could have come up with on your own. Forget about computers and integration with the machine, it started with recording studios.
David Gilmour is on record saying he used to do this as well - it's probably very common I would guess. Doesn't change the fact they still played every note of those solos
