“We’re playing Led Zeppelin songs, and Eddie would imitate Jimmy Page… I mean, he had it down!”: Steve Farris on the time he jammed ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin songs with Eddie Van Halen

Steve Farris plays a Strat with Mr Mister, while Eddie Van Halen takes a two-handed tapping solo.

When your first recording session involved playing a guitar solo on the title track from Kiss’ Creatures Of The Night, there is no way your career was ever headed to Dullsville, and so it came to pass that Steve Farris would lead a life less ordinary.

He didn’t get the Kiss gig full-time. He might sound a note of regret about it (he never did learn how to sing). But things worked out okay. He made his bones with Eddie Money, before joining Mr Mister and making it big, and being called in for high-profile sessions with the likes of Diana Ross, Kenny Loggins and Celine Dione, and playing live with Whitesnake and Rod Stewart.