“Light Up the Sky” by Van Halen

"Light Up the Sky" rips out of Van Halen II, the second album Van Halen handed Warner Bros in 1979, and the songwriting is a four-way split: David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony all get their names on it. The same four play it, Roth out front on lead vocals, Eddie on guitar, Alex on drums and Anthony on bass.

Nobody dawdled over this record. The band rolled into Sunset Studio on December 10, 1978, barely a week after wrapping their first world tour, and had the album finished inside another week. Ted Templeman produced, Donn Landee engineered with Corey Bailey and Jim Fitzpatrick assisting, and it all went to tape through a Putnam 610 console, a close cousin of the desk Eddie would put in his own home studio in 1983.

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