Listen to Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s final song – which sounds like nothing EVH had ever recorded before
The recent release of Unfinished, the final song by Eddie and Alex Van Halen, marks a poignant moment in rock history.
This six-minute instrumental track, featured in the audiobook version of Alex’s new book Brothers, showcases a sound quite unlike anything we’ve come to associate with the late guitar legend.
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Stripping away the hard rock bravado that defined much of his career, Unfinished — with its haunting melody and intricate harmonies — reveals a more introspective side of Eddie’s artistry. The virtuoso’s signature guitars could be heard throughout the song, with a classic Eddie solo shining through at around the 4:35 mark.
The full track can be downloaded from the Van Halen website, or streamed below.
While Unfinished may have been the last song the brothers wrote and recorded together, Alex has said that he’s open to finishing some unreleased Van Halen material with the help of artificial intelligence.
In fact, the drummer told Rolling Stone that he has reached out to OpenAI – the creators of ChatGPT – about analysing “the patterns of how Edward would have played something” in hopes of generating new guitar riffs and solos.
But before you get your hopes up, Alex has also stressed that he’s “not in a hurry” to release more Eddie Van Halen material from the archives.
“I do have a certain obligation to keep it to Ed’s standards,” said the musician in a new interview with Billboard. “He was meticulous and he was a pain in the ass…and I need to have access to the right takes, ‘cause not every day did we play at our best. But we always had the tape recorders running.”
“We didn’t go in the studio like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna make a record from beginning to end.’ We had little pieces here, little pieces there, you put ‘em away until the time comes and you go, ‘Hey, I think I like that piece…’ and then go back to it and build something from there.”
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