Alex Van Halen has released the full version of “Unfinished,” the last song the drummer wrote and recorded with his late brother Eddie Van Halen before the guitarist’s death.
The six-minute piece – subtitled “Between Us Two” – had been teased ahead of its inclusion in the audiobook version of Alex’s memoir “Brothers.”
The track was made available for free download via the Van Halen website.
“Unfinished” may have been the last song the brothers wrote and recorded together, but Alex recently told Billboard that there is more unheard Eddie Van Halen material in the archives.
“I’m not in a hurry,” Alex said of unveiling any further unreleased material. “I do have a certain obligation to keep it to Ed’s standards. He was meticulous and he was a pain in the ass… and I need to have access to the right takes, ’cause not every day did we play at our best. But we always had the tape recorders running.”
“We didn’t go in the studio like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna make a record from beginning to end,'” he continued. “We had little pieces here, little pieces there, you put ’em away until the time comes and you go, ‘Hey, I think I like that piece…’ and then go back to it and build something from there.”
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