Brian Might has revealed a favourite reminiscence involving a Queen live performance, Eddie Van Halen and a bottle of Southern Consolation.
“I remorse terribly that I didn’t communicate extra with Ed Van Halen,” Might admitted in an interview with Traditional Rock, pondering again to a fond second alongside the late Van Halen guitarist.
“I’ve a whole lot of favourite recollections, however I do keep in mind one time him coming to see [Queen] play,” Might recalled. “We went again to the lodge afterwards. He’d introduced a bottle of his favourite drink with him, which I feel was Southern Consolation. Anyway, he’s knocking it again, and so I began knocking it again, and I fully misplaced it. The following factor I keep in mind I used to be on the ground within the lavatory, having fallen down and cracked my head on the washbasin. I don’t even keep in mind going into the toilet. It’s one of many few instances in my life the place I’ve gotten uncontrolled.”
The artists first met backstage in Munich early in Van Halen’s profession as their respective bands opened for Black Sabbath. They bonded over their mutual love for guitars, later swapping two of their custom-made devices through the making of Might’s 1983 Star Fleet Challenge mini-LP. “I appeared like me on his guitar and he appeared like him on my guitar,” Might mentioned with fun in a 2020 interview with Guitar World.
The concept for the Star Fleet Challenge was born after Might obtained hooked on the Japanese TV present X Bomber (renamed Star Fleet within the U.Okay) and have become impressed to rerecord the present’s theme tune with the assistance of a number of musician buddies. “I do know Edward performed the solo on Star Fleet thrice,” Might mentioned in an interview final yr with UCR. “Every time it was unimaginable. Every time it was completely different.” The undertaking turned out to be a collaboration of rock titans and a uncommon journey outdoors of Van Halen for the band’s namesake guitarist.
“Van Halen” could also be one of the recognizable names in rock music, however the late founder wasn’t at all times a fan of the moniker that grew to become hooked up to him personally, based on Might. “I don’t wish to name him Eddie,” the Queen guitarist mentioned within the UCR interview. “He at all times used to say, “I don’t like this ‘Eddie Van Halen’ factor! I’m Edward!”
Might, who reissued his 1992 solo debut Again to the Mild final yr, can be on Queen’s Rhapsody Tour this summer time, which begins Friday in Glasgow.
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