He stated at the time: "I heard 'Eruption' and I was just blown away immediately. Thal previously spoke about Eddie Van Halen's influence on his playing in an October 2020 interview with the WDHA radio station. And I am so grateful that I got to be on earth at the same time VAN HALEN was." It will always be one of my favorite albums. I started really experimenting and digging deep to find who I was.
And from there, I became a different kind of player. It just changed the course of everything and how I looked at playing guitar and making music and the role that guitar has in a song and in music. That intro was just a sound I had never heard before, and it opened my eyes, my ears, my mind, my spirit, my entire being. Still, to this day, I've never heard that kind of guitar playing ever again. I never heard that kind of guitar playing before. And just like anybody that heard VAN HALEN for the first time, it blew my mind. I hadn't heard them before, so he played me a recording of the intro to 'Mean Street' on the just-released 'Fair Warning' album.
I remember I was at a band practice, and there was a kid hanging out there who asked me if I heard VAN HALEN. He said: "I was 12 years old, and up to this point, I was sort of like an Angus Young kind of guitar player.
Last year, Thal discussed VAN HALEN's fourth LP, 1981's "Fair Warning" ruring an appearance on the 100th episode of the "Infectious Groove" podcast. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below (courtesy of registered YouTube user Justin West). Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES), Michael Starr (STEEL PANTHER), Nita Strauss (ALICE COOPER) and Jason Hook (ex-FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH) are among the musicians who paid tribute to legendary VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen by performing a number of VAN HALEN classics with the all-star band THE STOWAWAYS on this year's ShipRocked cruise, which set sail from Galveston, Texas on January 22 and included stops in Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico before returning on January 27.
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