Ran across these pics yesterday and thought some EVH fans might enjoy.
Ran across these pics yesterday and thought some EVH fans might enjoy.
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If I recall correctly, there was a caption under this series of pics on Instagram stating that these were from the "Women and Children First" recording sessions, and apparently there is a mandolin somewhere on this record. That was always my least favorite VH record and my knowledge of it is very slim. You may want to take a listen through it and see if you can spot the mandolin.
I can say that before I played mandolin, I rarely recognized them in songs. I'd usually think it must be a 12-string guitar capo'd up or something, if I even thought that deeply about it. I think the sounds mostly just blended in and passed me by. After I started playing mandolin, I would hear them everywhere.
A few years ago I was re-listening to a Creed record and even heard one buried in the mix there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5e3WKbesEw If you are curious, go to about 4:15 and you'll hear it.
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Makes sense, Caleb, Eddie would play or attempt to play music on any instrument he touched, especially a stringed instrument. I couldn’t imagine that he’d pose with a mandolin and not play it, whether or not he ever recorded with one.
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Was he not recently on the cover of a guitar magazine with a Gibson Mando-bass?
I’m not sure about that. This topic reminds me of an EVH interview I read back in the day in a guitar magazine where EVH said he played cello daily, but had no idea what he was doing technically. (I’m pretty sure he is playing cello on this track here: https://youtu.be/K07gLBVeLR4) It’s entirely possible that he messed around on mandolin (and other instruments) the same way. The guy was a genius with anything with strings.
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To me, it looks like he's actually checking it out; don't see any reason to think otherwise. Perhaps this was a way to kill a little break time during a recording session. It's slyly amusing to see him playing in one of these two photos and tuning in the other. It lends credence to the old saw about mandolin players: they spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
And of course it's amusing to see DLR doing his typical mugging-for-the-camera thing. Now, he is posing; EVH, not so much.
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