![]() ![]() “I remember hearing stories of Van Halen opening for Ted Nugent, and Nugent going out to watch Eddie, saying, “What is this guy playing through?!” Then he went and plugged into Eddie’s stuff, and he sounded like Ted Nugent. His answer included this tidbit about Eddie: I’ve seen him play in so many different states, and he’s always on, but hearing him miss a couple notes while getting a laugh out of us was great.”Įarlier in the interview, Cantrell was asked about how he found his signature tone. ![]() He’s one of those guys who never fucks up. There’s a great photo of it, taken right as Eddie turns around and realizes what’s going on, and he’s totally losing it. So we took some of these panties and put them on-of course they weren’t big enough keep our junk in, so we had to turn them around with the butt parts in front to keep our stuff together-and put on some combat boots, and we made ourselves up as strippers and did that Van Halen signature walk across the stage behind them, and they didn’t know it was happening, except for Alex. “On the flip side of that, there’s a photo, which I think some people have seen, but I don’t think is necessarily public knowledge… So Van Halen used to do this signature walk across the stage, and at the time they had these skimpy panties that they would sell to the chicks in the audience. And that was all in one set! I don’t think anyone has ever topped that commitment to fucking with the opening act. And at the very end of our set, we were playing “Man In The Box,” and their crew came out and started dismantling our entire set around us-they left Sean with a kick and snare, left me with one cab, they just unplugged Mike Starr. Then they sent out one of their techs, I think he was a guy named Zeke, in a Little Bo Peep outfit with some live sheep. They sent out some strippers, not very attractive ones, who stayed out there for a whole song. When we came out on stage, they had taken a bunch of three-foot strips of duct tape and put them all over the stage face-up, so we walked out and within the couple seconds we were all dragging around huge wads of duct tape on stage. I remember the Van Halen guys got us like four times in one set, back in ’91, at the end of that tour. “A lot of pranks get pulled on stage, it’s kind of a tradition to fuck with each other at the end of the tour, especially the opening bands. In a recent interview by Jim Dunlop, Alice In Chains lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell recounts the prank battle between Van Halen and Alice In Chains as they toured together in 1991: ![]()
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