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Nov112010

"Dirty Movies"

This song, from the Fair Warning album, is one of only two Van Halen songs with quotation marks around the title. The other is "5150".

This, Eddie's second instance of recording with a slide, was recorded on a Gibson SG with a Les Paul Junior neck. Eddie couldn't reach high enough up on the fretboard, so he had Ted Templeman hold the guitar's lower horn while he sawed it off with a hacksaw.

Decadent Dub Team sampled parts of this song for their 1990 tune "Money."

Mr. Bungle covered this song on 05/27/90 at the Moon Saloon in San Fransisco, CA. A bootleg recording of this show is in circulation among Mr. Bungle fans.