No, it wasn't. All most people saw was a headline about "Alex Van Halen to work on new album with Steve Lukather". Nowhere was it indicated who was doing what, or implied, and if you were lucky, you might have gotten two sentences filling out that headline.AliceManson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:33 amIt was implied to. Anybody who didn't have their chromosome count off understood what it meant.Anthrax442 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 7:23 pmThat wasn't what was announced at first, which is why Steve had to make that post to clarify.AliceManson wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:57 am Jesus Fuck, people are fucking dense. Lukather is helping put the recordings together, he isn't playing guitar on them.
Maybe that's how you took it, but unless you read every single post the aggregated the story, you can't say that with authority.
Also, as far as "implications" goes, if you DON'T fill that out, and you have Alex trying to finish a bunch of "unfinished" songs with a world class studio guitar player, whose job for 50 years has been to namelessly contribute to thousands of albums, what exactly would you guess that guitar player is going to do? Maybe act as a producer and finish/clean up parts to fill out the songs?
Spare us the "you guys are stupid" junk.