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THVan Halen performing “Eruption” Live on the 27th of August, 1986 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut
“Eruption” was born out of a warm-up exercise Eddie used before the band’s recording sessions. It involved the guitarist running his guitar through a cheap echo unit called a Univox to get the low growl at the end. He put a different motor in the unit to give it a distinctive sound. In fact, the guitarist had gained a reputation for taking apart his guitars and processing devices to create new effects. Rolling Stone magazine Issue 1054 asked Eddie Van Halen how this song came about: “We recorded our first record on Sunset Sound in Hollywood, and we were warming up for a weekend gig at the Whisky. And I was just rehearsing, and [engineer] Donn Landee happened to record it. It was never planned to be on the record. So the take on the record was a total freak thing. It was just an accident. He happened to be rolling tape. Whenever I hear it, I always think, Man, I could’ve played it better,” It’s as if he’s making an argument against perfectionism. Another cool piece of trivia is that the introduction to the song is modeled after the track “Let Me Swim” by Cactus, and once the intro concludes you hear an E-flat major quotation of the “Etude No. 2” by French Composer Rodolphe Kreutzer.
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