“Joy To The World” by Steve Lukather & Eddie

that is truly a xmas treat! thank you–

i assume that was al and mikey as well…?

Really sucks? Not so much….Luke is the man! What they do with their time and talent is their biz.

nice attempt….great keyboard

This has kind of a live vibe to it, like from Paul Schaeffer’s “Late Nite” (with David Letterman) orchestra. It actually reminds me of the time Eddie performed “Panama” with them. I’m not real crazy about this, but it’s O.K.

Wow how bad was that it would tast good on my Pizza .

I heard this on KLOS in LA about six years ago. I believe that Eddie performed without Al or Mike since it was Lukather’s album. I hope he got paid for this unlike his contribution to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album.

It’s from Lukather’s album “Santamental”, from 2003. Here’s a quote from Lukather about it: “Ed and I have been friends for 24 years or so. I got him out of seclusion to come rip on one of the Xmas tunes.” Van Halen joins Lukather on a rendition of the standard Joy to the world that Lukather tells will sound a bit different than what most people are used to: “I did a version of Joy to the world that sounds like it’s Hot for teacher or Space boogie. It’s that tempo, that groove, and we re-arranged the voicings around the melody. Me and him go back and forth on some solos.”