The band's chemistry owed much to Eddie Van Halen's technical guitar wizardry and David Lee Roth's flamboyant antics, strong points which later made them rivals.

Larson also contributed a harmony vocal on the track " Could This Be Magic " on the Van Halen album Women and Children First ( 1980 ) to thank Eddie Van Halen for contributing a guitar solo to the Nicolette album track " Can't Get Away From You " against David Lee Roth's wishes.

A year later, Roth's solo guitar playing for the album In Trance "... would become the prototype for shred guitar.

As had occurred, historically, when Roth chose a new lead guitarist-in light of Roth's lead guitar lineage: from Eddie Van Halen to Steve Vai to Jason Becker to Steve Hunter and others-Lowery quickly gained public recognition for his virtuosic abilities, as well for the " heart " in his playing.

'" Roth's philosophy brought out the best in Lowery, whose guitar sounds particularly raw and excitable on the DLR Band album, ( as opposed to on later albums with other artists, which feature heavy production and sometimes distort Lowery's sound.

Philip Roth's novel, Exit Ghost, features a character who is described as having been a valedictorian at Kinkaid, prior to attending Harvard.

Some shred guitarists, such as Scorpions ' Ulrich Roth, have used custom-made tremolo bars and developed modified instruments, such as Roth's " Sky Guitar, that would greatly expand his instrumental range, enabling him to reach notes previously reserved in the string world for cellos and violins.

Roth's work claimed that most Jews involved in the war were only taking part as profiteers and spies, whilst he also blamed Jewish officers on fostering a defeatist mentality which impacted negatively on their soldiers.

* In Philip Roth's second Chapter of his novel Our Gang (' 71 ), Trick E. Dixon in a fictive speech tries to claim Helsingør as US-territory and tries to convince the audience to occupy the area

Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.

* In Philip Roth's novella, " Goodbye Columbus ", Roth uses " bacchanalian paraphernalia " to describe Mr. Patimkin's stocked bar.

The Jewish humor — particularly the character of the oversexed Jewish man — draws on Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint.

Michael and Hagen observe that Roth's strategy to destroy Michael is well planned.

He tells Michael that the Senate Committee's chief counsel is on Roth's payroll.

Under Roth's control Nortel became the leading engine of Canada's 1990s high-tech boom.

Unable to sustain the debt load incurred during Roth's tenure, Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 and then sought to cease operations, selling off all of its business units.

Ashburn and Ms. Roth maintained a friendship for many years, and the Roth's son later served as a Phillies batboy.

A free summary in English of the Standard Rules is contained on Charles Roth's website, including omissions and ambiguities regarding piece moves across the four Tri-D gameboard 2 × 2 attack boards.

Philip Roth's popular novel Goodbye, Columbus about a newly affluent Jewish family in the 1950s, was set in the Short Hills section of Millburn, and a key scene takes place at the Millburn High School track.

Eddie's desire for more serious and complex songs was at odds with Roth's poppy style.

Eddie was sick of Roth's flamboyant behavior and stage persona.

Hagar also had concerns over comparisons on an album which featured both his work and Roth's.

Eddie Van Halen would later explain ( in regard to the MTV Video Music Awards appearance ) that he had initially been embarrassed by Roth's antics while on camera behind Beck, who was giving an acceptance speech for the award that Van Halen had presented to him.

In Philip Roth's novel Operation Shylock, the author and protagonist travels to Israel in order to confront a doppelgänger.

Although technically not a doppelgänger, the imposture threatens Roth's self-identity and forces him to undergo a personal transformation, both themes associated with Doppelgangers in fiction.

Continuing the tradition ( and following a brief stint in David Lee Roth's band from 1986 to 1988 ), Vai went on to release a number of highly acclaimed solo albums.

Eli Roth's character in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds took Margheriti as his namesake.

" Roth's statement to Michael Corleone that " We're bigger than U. S. Steel " was actually a direct quote from Lansky, who said the same thing to his wife while watching a news story on the Cosa Nostra.

The first electric guitarist of note to use a seven-string guitar was jazz guitarist George Van Eps, who was a pioneer of this instrument.

Although the most common seven-string has a low B string, Roger McGuinn ( of The Byrds and Rickenbacker ) uses an octave G string paired with the regular G string as on a 12-string guitar, allowing him to incorporate chiming 12-string elements in standard six-string playing.

Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar.

Roger McGuinn worked with C. F. Martin & Company to develop a seven-string folk guitar.

Vysotsky accompanied himself on a Russian seven-string guitar, with a raspy voice singing ballads of love, peace, war, everyday Soviet life and of the human condition.

Vizbor would record songs with a traditional Russian seven-string guitar that was often slightly out of tune.

A seven-string guitar

A seven-string guitar is a guitar with seven strings instead of the usual six.

French guitarist Napoleon Coste ( 1805 – 1883 ) composed works with a seven-string guitar specifically in mind.

This makes the history of the seven-string guitar more than 230 years old.

A seven-string Russian guitar

The Russian guitar, a seven-string acoustic guitar tuned to the Open G tuning, ( DGBDGbd ) arrived in the beginning of the 19th century in Russia, most probably as a development of the cittern, the kobza and the torban.

The Russian version of the seven-string guitar has been used by professionals, because of its great flexibility and its sound, but has also been popular with amateurs for accompaniment ( especially Russian bards ) due to the relative simplicity of some basic chords and the ease of playing alternating bass lines.

The earliest music published for a seven-string guitar was in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 15 December 1798.

The Brazilian seven-string guitar () is an acoustic guitar used primarily in choro and samba.

The Brazilian seven-string guitar is typically tuned like a classical guitar, but with an additional C below the low E as follows: C-E-A-D-G-b-e ; although some musicians tune the C down to a B resulting in B-E-A-D-G-b-e.

In the United States, the jazz guitarist George Van Eps had a seven-string guitar built for him by Epiphone Guitars in the late 1930s and a signature Gretsch seven-string in the late 60s and early 70s.