SEALED PROMO VAN HALEN 45 (1984) ******Hot For Teacher*******
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Sealed!!! VAN HALEN - 1984 - US PROMO - 7" Vinyl Single - Never played! Hot For Teacher.
Van Halen took the ’70s English rock n’ roll and translated it for a new decade. With Eddie Van Halen’s revolutionary guitar playing paving the way, they became one of the most influential bands of all time. Any band with Eddie Van Halen’s virtuosity would have a head start, yet the much-missed Californian guitarist had far more to offer than his shredding technique. Eddie also brought his highly advanced compositional skills to the table – and when he aligned these with a crack rhythm section and not just one, but three fantastic frontmen, that meant his band could move with the times and remain among the world’s biggest and most revered hard-rock acts for the best part of two decades.
Hot For Teacher is a rock classic.
Amazing collectible!!
Eddie Van Halen was a game-changer, a tone-chaser, a riff machine, songwriter, composer, an avant-garde artist who picked up the guitar where Jimi Hendrix left it, and ran with it like a quarterback into the future.
Eddie’s wide palette of guitar tropes became a Rock Guitar 101 lesson for the legions of players who followed him. Like Hendrix, many of his extended licks and tricks were highly unconventional at the time, but have since been copied so closely as to have become the new orthodoxy.
Steve Hackett, Billy Gibbons and Brian May were just some of the rock guitar players who had ‘tapped’ before – playing melodies by fretting notes on the neck with the fingers of their picking/ strumming hand. But Eddie strapped two turbo engines either side of the concept and shot for the moon. In his nimble hands the technique created whole new possibilities, in terms of the note intervals that could be achieved on the guitar, and the speed at which they could be delivered.
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