Watch a Jawa Play ‘Eruption’ in Fan-Made Tribute to Eddie Van Halen
A
clever
Star
Wars
and
Van
Halen
fan
has
crafted
a
stop-motion
animated
video
in
which
a
Jawa
pays
tribute
to
Eddie
Van
Halen
with
a
performance
of
“Eruption.”
Animator
Thomas
J.
Yagodinski
made
the
clip,
which
he
uploaded
to
YouTube
on
Saturday,
January
23rd.
In
it
a
Jawa
—
the
hooded
creatures
who
live
on
the
desert
planet
Tatooine
—
speaks
of
the
mythic
Edward
Lodewijk
Van
Halen,
“a
virtuoso,
innovator,
intergalactic
legend!”
The
Jawa
goes
on
to
say
that
he
once
“scavenged
an
artifact,”
and
proceeds
to
pull
out
one
of
Van
Halen’s
signature
“Frankenstrat”
guitar.
The
Jawa
then
shreds
along
to
the
studio
version
of
“Eruption”
—
the
epic
instrumental
that
leads
into
Van
Halen’s
cover
of
the
Kinks’
“You
Really
Got
Me,”
off
the
band’s
self-titled
debut.
Eddie
Van
Halen
died
last
October
at
the
age
of
65
after
a
long
battle
with
cancer.
Tuesday,
January
26th,
would’ve
been
his
66th
birthday.
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