“He’s doing Eddie right”: Sammy Hagar praises Joe Satriani playing Van Halen songs on the Best Of All Worlds tour
For fans still waiting on a Van Halen reunion concert, Sammy Hagar and co’s ongoing Best Of All Worlds tour is likely as close as you’d get to the real thing.
The tour, which gathers Hagar, ex-Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham, and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, sees the band performing Van Halen classics from the David Lee Roth and Hagar eras.
As the member tasked with the formidable role of bringing to life on stage the parts of the late Eddie Van Halen, Satriani is absolutely “hitting all the right notes”, says Hagar.
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The former Van Halen and Montrose singer speaks on the latest episode of SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, where he says of the guitarist’s skills [via Blabbermouth]: “Oh, I gotta tell you, Joe is a scholar. I can’t tell you how good of a musician Joe Satriani is. He’s as good as any musician on the planet.”
According to Hagar, Satch – who’s using an EVH Striped Series Frankenstein electric guitar for the job — is able to expertly capture the late Eddie’s essence while channelling his own style: “He’s got his own style. It’s a little different than Eddie’s,” Hagar explains. “Joe’s got his thing. Joe went into the woodshed, and since the announcement [of the tour] he’s dialled it in.”
“What [Joe has] done, for any of you guitar players out there that wanna come and see what Joe’s doing, or wanna criticise Joe or wanna praise Joe, whatever you want to do, he has taken the essence of Eddie’s guitar solos and parts and he plays the necessary parts to make sure it sounds just like the record, the way it’s supposed to.”
“The solo on a song like Jump… he plays it like the record. And then he’ll go off in the middle somewhere. He’ll do a little tiny thing. He’ll do little things that say, ‘No, this is Joe Satriani playing Eddie,’ but he’s doing Eddie right. No one could complain.”
Hagar adds: “He’s hitting all the right notes that make the essence of what Eddie invented. And he puts his own heart and soul into it, which makes it so much different and so much better, in my opinion, than a guy just mimicking him exactly.”
“And his tone is different. It’s kind of like Eddie’s, but I don’t know – Joe’s just so good. I don’t know how he’s doing this. I really don’t know how he’s doing this.”
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