In what is the most random of years-in-the-making rumor confirmations, TMZ caught up with (as in ambushed) Eddie and Alex Van Halen at what could be an airport, and besides the typical awkward banter you expect to hear off camera from the show’s distinguished photojournalists, I must admit this guy kinda scored a geektastic of a doozy.
He asked Eddie if it was actually him playing the screaming guitar riff in Back To The Future that was heard on the cassette tape Marty cranked via a Walkman for young George McFly in 1955.
You remember, when Michael J. Fox as Marty snuck into his father’s bedroom disguised in his plutonium safe suit and revealed himself as Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan…
Anyway, Eddie off handedly confirmed that it really was him who played the guitar riff. All these years I had assumed director Robert Zemeckis and the filmmakers just had some dime-a-dozen 1985 Eddie VH knock-off session guitarist quickly bang out some garbled riffs in post production and called it a royalty free day. Eddie also performed the guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s Beat It in a two take favor on the Thriller album. Kinda makes you wonder what else might be out there.
In lieu of yesterday’s big internet hoax/sensation/snafu regarding June 27, 2012 as being the day Marty traveled (forward) to the future, and that future being yesterday (sorry, it was actually a doctored screen capture), but score one for TMZ for putting this 27 year mystery to rest (that is if Eddie was actually being serious)…
Doctored photo that made the rounds yesterday…
But Marty, Doc, Einstein, and Jennifer actually travel to October 21, 2015 in Back To The Future II.
SOURCE: TMZ
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