So I thought, If Eddie says I should do it, I’m going to try it! “I’d met Eddie Van Halen on Van Halen’s first tour of the U.K., and he’d said to me that I’d never be happy with the sound unless I changed that pickup. I had a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge where I’d cut a hole in it. “The main thing I used was a Strat that my mother bought me for my 21st birthday that I nicknamed Felix. He just said, ‘Let’s try that idea you had,’ and it worked perfectly.”Ĭollen can remember exactly what he used to record his parts.
“Mutt had remembered it and stored it in his head. “About six months earlier, me and Steve were jamming in Ireland and he’d come up with this really wonky riff, which was what we used for the bridge, where it alternates between the seventh and sixth frets on the G string. Lang and his keen memory were also responsible for the addition of the bridge riff. Me and Steve were jamming in Ireland and he’d come up with this really wonky riff, which was what we used for the bridge Phil Collen “I’m not really a fingerpicker, so I adjusted it a little by playing it with a pick and giving it a slightly different feel.” “Mutt’s a big country fan, and he came up with a fingerpicked country idea for the intro riff on the G and D strings,” Collen reveals. By that stage it was obviously being very influenced by that mid-’80s minimalist hip-hop feel, and that was when I came up with the riff on the A and E strings, which was meant to be kind of like a bass line.”Ī couple of other fairly minimal guitar parts became additional melodic hooks.
“Mutt said to me we needed a verse to go with the chorus.
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