Learning is an eventual process where everyone is always on the go. You can never get off this chart, and Eddie Van Halen is no different. The musical legend believed that he needed guitar lessons with session legend & industry Veteran Glen Campbell. Eddie even asked Alice Cooper to set up a possible association with the industry veteran.
Eddie Van Halen was impressed
Campbell has been with The Wrecking Crew, and has recorded with everyone from The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra to Dean Martin and Elvis Presley. While speaking on BBC Radio’s, “The Rock Show With Johnnie Walker” Alice Cooper recalled how Halen thought that his skills were impressive.
One time Eddie Van Halen called me up and said, ‘Hey, I wanna come to Arizona and play golf. And I went, ‘OK, great.’ Now, Eddie, after the first game of golf, he said, ‘How’s my game?’ And I went, ‘Eddie, you are a great guitar player.’ [Laughs] And he says, ‘Yeah, but what about my game?’ I go, ‘Eddie, you’re a great songwriter.’ He says, ‘Okay, let me tell you the real reason I wanted to come in. I need for you to get me a guitar lesson with Glen Campbell.’
Glen Campbell was such a great guitarist that other guitar players could hear what he was doing and go, ‘Oh my gosh, this guy’s amazing.’ So Glen Campbell was going to give Eddie Van Halen a guitar lesson…”
“He came over to the house. Glen lived pretty close to me, and they sat down, and he said, ‘Eddie, sit down. There’s a guitar right over there…’
According to Ultimate Guitar, Van Halen decided to play golf with Cooper. He did this to set up the meeting with Campbell. It was an easy task and went as planned by Halen. The conversation went well and things turned out in his favour. He won the match and the deal for himself which was an incredible thing.
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