The Mitch Lafon and Jeremy White Show welcome Chris Holmes, founding member of W.A.S.P.
In this clip, we talk about Chris lending #EddieVanHalen his Destroyer for the recording sessions of “Women and Children First”, plus what it was like being his friend in the late 70’s in Pasedena!
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So Rad!
EXCELLENT.
Thanks Chris Holmes. Eddie was a mad scientist.
Great stories Chris! Ty. ❤🤍🖤
I had a original Ibanez Destroyer iirc bought it for $600 and carved it up…. Yup but before I had a whole lot of demo tapes and noodling with it before. Thing is I cannot tell any difference betreen the original and Shark recorded. None. But if you hold it against your chest and play it unplugged you can feel and difference in vibration as the cut out of course eliminated a lot of resonance. I suspect Ed tried to fix that by tying that gap together.
Very cool conversation Jeremy. I like how he mentioned the old Marshall’s not having a pre-amp and you had to crank the amp… Eddie innovated the variac or the “light dimmer” for the amp! Cheers – R
Cool story
Glad to see Chris is doing well, man does he sound different from recent years! Great interview guys 🤘🏽
I've really been digging Chris's solo stuff that he has been doing over the past few years, great stuff!!
From the way Chris was talking , it sounds like the family still lived in the Pasadena house after a few albums . They were still paying off the "loan" from the crappy contract with Warner Bros .
Great stories man noodling is a good way to create good songs rip king Eddie.
The band "Stormer" (feat. Jimmy Bates) that Chris mentioned also had a bass player called Timothy "Tim" Gaines, who later joined the famous Christian Metal band Stryper.
Jimmy Bates died in October, 2020.
For chris and blackie being known for a wild band like WASP they sure are very listenable guys ,not like alot of musicians that dont remember or forgot ,LOVE the interview