This week has been a bit of a struggle for me. Usually, posts come to me so quickly and easily. This week, not so much.
For weeks like this, I like to have songs queued up - ones that appear to me in some way, shape or form. Sometimes, that's helpful. Today, that was helpful, because this is one of those songs.
And this song really deserves to be queued. Written by the band, it was the lead single of their 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, which every kid on every playground knows spells "fuck" - you've tried to justify using the F-bomb because you were told it was a legal term, right?
That sound you hear at the beginning of the song is not Eddie Van Halen's Frankencaster (how the hell he played that thing, I'll never know), but a Makita power drill.
Lyrically, this song ain't great. Musically, the song is dense and interesting and one of the best guitar songs ever written and performed.
Oh yes. Eddie did use that drill live. Take this performance from the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards - where the FrankenMakita is on full display.
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