Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on 'Beat It'

[Baby Lee]

Van Halen: I'll never forget when Tower Records was still open over here in Sherman Oaks. I was buying something,

What are the odds he bought whatever he bought from Jimmy Pardo?

Ironically, Jimmy, Matt, and Gillmartin did a round robin of Thriller [along with several KISS albums and Chicago's Greatest Hits] to see who was stumped for a track first on the most recent Never Not Funny.



Beat was THE SHIT in '83. One of my funniest [dryly funny] remembrances of JHS was the 83/84 JHS talent show.
Thriller had JUST come out, this was Dec '83, or Jan 84, can't recall exactly, and a 9th grader had already mastered all of MJ's moves, the Moonwalk, the hip point, the front kick, the jizz spray rotate, all of them.

And he did a move for move performance of 'Beat It' for the talent show to much acclaim. Had backup dancers to do the easy moves while he moonwalked back and forth, even found a guy who could do the jackhammer chin move that one dude did at the 'big fight.'

Well, I participated in the TS was well soloing in the JHS jazz band performance of 'Take the A-Train' [decent, capable, but not accolade garnering]. There was a guy who played trombone in the band who was the epitome of a teenaged William F. Buckley, ever patrician, ever nerdy, yet ever apparently cerebral to a JHS cohort. I was standing beside him just after our performance watching Mr. Moonwalk strut his stuff and he stared in awe and announced to all within earshot 'that man is a hell of a performer.'

A memory as fresh as the day it happened.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

What are the odds he bought whatever he bought from Jimmy Pardo?

Ironically, Jimmy, Matt, and Gillmartin did a round robin of Thriller [along with several KISS albums and Chicago's Greatest Hits] to see who was stumped for a track first on the most recent Never Not Funny.

My daughter is best friend's with Matt's daughter. They go to the same preschool and we hang out all the time for play dates.

That said, I've never checked out his comedy. And no, Jimmy's not related to Don Pardo. Apparently, I wasn't the first to ask.