Eddie Van Halen Wrote Riffs Like Jimmy Page But He Was Underappreciated, Mark Bryan Explains

Throughout a current look on The Paltrocast, Hootie And The Blowfish guitarist Mark Bryan shared his ideas about Eddie Van Halen. The guitarist thinks the Van Halen guitarist was underappreciated.

“I wanna say this as a result of all people places him on the highest with the guitar taking part in [makes fingers on the fretboard impression] and he’s however he’s additionally one of many all-time biggest riff masters,” Bryan stated. “[He] got here up with these track riffs like Jimmy Web page did with Zeppelin the place you’re like, ‘What a f*ckin’ riff,’ you understand? And so Eddie is, I feel, underappreciated for that. His songwriting riff potential, it blows me away.”

Van Halen and Hootie And The Blowfish members first met again in 1996 on the Grammys. Hootie And The Blowfish received two awards — one for Greatest New Artist, and one for Greatest Pop Efficiency By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

“We shared a dressing room with Van Halen. Van Hagar-Van Halen. We shared the dressing [room], [we had] the identical couches there,” the rocker recalled assembly the band. “[It] was all our room so we are available in, they usually’re all tremendous cool.”

Bryan additionally revealed how pleasant Eddie was and the way the remainder of the bandmates had an affect on him: “And we’re assembly them and shaking arms with them and every little thing, and I inform Eddie what an affect he’s on me, and I discuss concerning the riff factor and every little thing, and he simply offers me this huge hug. A pleasant man, he has a giant smile on his face. All of them had been so cool, Alex too. Simply tremendous cool guys, man. Michael Anthony couldn’t have been cooler. In order that was our first expertise. [It] was sharing a dressing room with them, and there’s an image from the afterparty with me and Eddie Van Halen and Emmy Lou Harris and Daniel Lanois and I really feel I’ve by no means felt cooler in my life.”

Bryan bid farewell to the Van Halen guitarist when he handed away. He referred to him as ‘Shredward’ and famous that his affect on the music world will nonetheless be talked about 300 years from now.