Learning how to play like Eddie Van Halen is no easy task – that’s why Joe Satriani didn’t even try.
As he prepared for Sammy Hagar’s ‘Best Of All Worlds Tour’ Satch says he didn’t watch videos of Eddie himself, but of *other* artists covering Van Halen.
He did it for two reasons: first, he wanted to “see how other guitar players work around the fact that their hands are not Eddie’s hands.”
Second, any time he watched Van Halen footage, Eddie would play the song differently: “I couldn’t find one live clip of Eddie playing the same song that was remotely similar.”
The ‘Best Of All Worlds Tour’ launched earlier this month with Hagar, Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Jason Bonham.