Personally can't stand that kind of music but there's no getting around the talent all the same. It changes people's lives. The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequor has just come out and said musicians, artists and creatives need to retrain to find work. If he has his way, there would be no more music. No more arts. Just an over saturation of tradespeople, custodians and administrators burying their frustrations in a life they're ill-suited to. At times like this your EVH's are more important than ever. They give people hope where there otherwise is none.
I know he is probably talking about the small time artists in this, the ones who make a living on par with your average worker. As the superstars can just ride this out, crying about being bored and giving us patronising speeches, songs etc... However, it would be the death of theatre, cinema, concerts etc... if you turn those little people away the big people have no one to support them.
Arts are a funny thing. People create their best work while without a pot to piss in. I don't care what the art. Noel Gallagher's best tunes off their first two albums were written in a portacabin on a building site. Herman Melville was so unrecognised he was buried in a grave under the wrong name, later he's become one of the biggest names in literature. Edgar Allan Poe died with nothing. Van gogh sold a single painting in his lifetime. Offer the arts no support whatsoever and you will rip away the hope that drives people to create Live Forever, Moby Dick, The Raven and those ****ing sunflowers. It will turn into an entirely commercial activity filled with manufactured artists of no merit who are as disposable as their output. It is an utter disgrace. Edit: Moby Dick autocorrected as Moby's Dick. Wetting myself.
He did it in one take as well apparently He was an exceptionally talented guitarist and sadly I never got the chance to see Van Halen live
Aye him from Toto (wasn't it??!) Cracking guitarist as well. EVH turned up, played the solo in the studio and left. No pay, one take.
Him from Toto, plus seemingly 50% of any chart hits since the late 70s He is prodigious and prolific. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-lukather-mn0000042513/credits
