Comments on: The Brown Sound

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:36:12 +0000

I just like the fact that Craig and the lads are making great music that makes me wanna go for a drive…Everything else is just “talk” as far as I’m concerned…

By: VH2008

VH2008 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:19:30 +0000

Famac,

I like the fact that Craig sounds so much like Eddie in these demos. Craig *is indeed* trying to flat-out copy Eddie. That is the whole point of what he’s doing with these VH-sounding demos.

But he does have his own style. You can hear other styles of playing on his website, besides to the “VH-esq demos” section, where he is blatantly trying to sound like EVH.

I miss the days of hearing new Van Halen, so I’m glad that there is a dude out there who is trying to make songs that sound like VH.

By: BleedingEars

BleedingEars — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:56:26 +0000

I liked this guy better the first time, when he was Vito Bratta.

By: Oberheimhaven

Oberheimhaven — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:17:42 +0000

Huge fan.The guy bring’s it all to the table. Besides being a great guitarist and writer, he is beyond appreciative and humble. I can tell by his playing its in his heart and soul. What can we say Edward kicked all of asses but good VH there is No Substitue..

By: woz

woz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:36:28 +0000

Craig is spot on about Eddie’s playing in that 2003 Namm show!!! There are new things there that I’ve never heard Eddie play before!! The one bit that blew my mind away was when Eddie played something….and I swear it sounded like some spaceship landing!!! My favourite bit was when Eddie played some incredible technique that sounded like a blues harp!!! My jaw was on the floor!!!!! Eddie’s blues playing is so overrated, the man is GOD!!!!!

By: FAMAC

FAMAC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:21:39 +0000

The pick scraping from Unchained is so obviously a rip that it ruins anything else that’s good. This was a problem with the last batch of songs too. Its one thing to be inspired by Ed (as are Vai and Satriani) but to cut and paste passages into your songs only works in Rap.

By: J5149.5

J5149.5 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:53:56 +0000

craig seems like a nice guy but i agree dweezil zappa can sound almost exactly like edward.it only makes sense being that not only did dweezil idolize edward but he is good friends with him and has hung out with ed.craig’s pretty good but it does seem a little to much on the preamp saturation relying heavily on the phasey,flangey,chorusy sound.i was impressed with his mean streets intro on his website though.