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Van Halen
Van Halen · 1978 · Track 1
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The first time you listen to Runnin’ With the Devil, Michael Anthony’s bassline grabs you with a groove that feels like it’s straight out of a street jam session. It’s no accident: the entire album sounds as if the band had been recording between laughter and sweat, but in reality, everything happened in a United States studio under Ted Templeman’s direction. The producer deliberately added echoes and reverb, as if he wanted the listener to feel the air of a smoke-filled venue, even though the recording took place in four bare walls. That gave the song that live-band feel, without the real chaos of a concert.
The idea came about when Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex brought in David Lee Roth to try something different in the hard rock of the late seventies. The technique they used for the solo—the *tapping*—already existed, but they took it to extremes: Eddie moved his fingers as if the fretboard were a keyboard, while Roth sang about something that sounds like a warning disguised as a party. The track was recorded in 1978, and although the album never reached number one on the charts, it sold over eleven million copies worldwide. Today, at just 3:36 long, it remains the kind of song that makes your feet move without you even noticing, as if the devil himself were chasing after you.