R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen ♥ღ Michael Jackson BEAT IT Live | Eddie Solo Guitar | Version I #xyanaღILMOMJ
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Video dedicated to Eddie Van Halen. For his genius and for the magnificent and iconic guitar solo that Eddie released for free to Michael for the song "Beat it" from the album "Thriller".
I combined two Victory Tour "Beat It" performances, which Michael Jackson did with his brothers, the Jacksons in the '80s. One is the show Eddie Van Halen attended on July 14, 1984, and the other in Toronto that same year.
During the video I included some curiosities about the making of the legendary guitar solo that Eddie Van Halen gave to Michael for "Beat it".
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Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist of hard rock band Van Halen, was asked to add a guitar solo. When initially contacted by Jones, Van Halen thought he was receiving a prank call. Having established that the call was genuine, Van Halen used a Hartley–Thompson amplifier borrowed from guitarist Allan Holdsworth and recorded his guitar solo free of charge. "I did it as a favor", the musician later said. "I was a complete fool, according to the rest of the band, our manager and everyone else. I was not used. I knew what I was doing—I don't do something unless I want to do it." Van Halen recorded his contribution following Jones and Jackson arriving at the guitarist's house with a "skeleton version" of the song. Fellow guitarist Steve Lukather recalled, "Initially, we rocked it out as Eddie had played a good solo—but Quincy thought it was too tough. So I had to reduce the distorted guitar sound and that is what was released." Two versions of the solo were recorded. Van Halen reported in 2015 that he also rearranged the song and asked Jones to edit the chords so his solo could be in the key of E.
Right before Van Halen's guitar solo begins, a noise is heard that sounds like somebody knocking at a door. It is reported that the knock was a person walking into Eddie's recording studio. Another story has claimed that the sound was simply the musician knocking on his own guitar. The sound, however, is that of Jackson knocking on a drum case, as he is credited in the album's liner notes.
The engineers were shocked during the recording of Van Halen's solo to discover that the sound of his guitar had caused the monitor speaker in the control room to catch fire, causing one to exclaim, "This must be really good!" (Wikipedia)
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