“Joy To The World” by Steve Lukather & Eddie
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Several years ago Eddie Van Halen and his friend, Steve Lukather recorded this version of “Joy To The World”
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December 24th, 2008 at 9:36 am
badass…
December 24th, 2008 at 11:16 am
that is truly a xmas treat! thank you–
i assume that was al and mikey as well…?
December 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
really sucks
December 24th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Really sucks? Not so much….Luke is the man! What they do with their time and talent is their biz.
December 25th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Very nice.
December 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am
nice attempt….great keyboard
December 25th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I think that Eddie could have grown a lot more as a musician if he would’ve done more oftenly these kind of colaborations with excelent players as Steve.
December 25th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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.
December 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Amazing…something by Edward that I don’t like. But then I’m not too fond of people “modernizing” or “jazzing up” classic Christmas tunes. Most of them suck.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Wow how bad was that it would tast good on my Pizza .
December 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
The reason there are no words is because Eddie couldn’t figure out which singer he liked that day.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I bought the album a couple years back and it is now one of my favorites at the holidays.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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.”
January 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
It´s Ok…But i prefer the Craig Parker Adams songs!!
It´s more EVH type of sound!!! hahahha…
Eddie is the KING!!! but i think he really got to listen another guys like Satriani ( sorry die hard fans!)…just to open his mind and reinventing himself…
Sometimes he just repeat his “trademark” tricks: tapping over and over again…and “abusing” the tremolo…There is nothing really new happening…
C´mon Eddie You got the gift!! Give us something new!! I miss a new “mojo” in your style!!
But, STIL, Eddie Van Halen is the KING!!