DL> hahah do you know the story behind the Fire Garden Suite?
 VB> nope.. tell me about it.
 DL> Ok I read this in GUITAR magazine: Apparently, Steve likes to tape
 DL> whatever he's playing at all times, including backstage warmups,
 DL> sitting on the toilet, etc. So he found this awesome tune he was
 DL> playing from one of his really old tapes and couldn't remember ever
 DL> playing something that inspiring. He writes a fourteen minute opus
 DL> around that single idea, which ends up being the Fire Garden Suite.
 DL> Then his manager calls him with some news. She was playing the demo
 DL> of FGS to her boyfriend and had asked him if he knew who it was. The
 DL> boyfriend says, "yeah, that's the theme from Chess." The manager
 DL> says, "uh no, that's Steve's new song" but the boyfri
(quote screwed up.. oh well)
anyway, that's pretty amazing. man, i sure wish david lee roth didn't leave 
vanhalen... i don't like sammy hagar at all!  hopefully, the new singer from 
extreme will put some gusto back into vanhalen's stuff.
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