2000 - Little Guitars : A Tribute to Van Halen / 1981 - Fair Warning / Released : April 29, 1981 / Recorded : Early March - Early April 1981 / Label : Warner Bros. / Producer : Ted Templeman / Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released in 1981, it sold more than two million copies,but was still the band's slowest-selling album of the David Lee Roth era. Despite the album's commercially disappointing sales, Fair Warning was met with mostly positive reviews from critics.The cover artwork features a detail from "The Maze", a painting by the Canadian artist William Kurelek which depicts his tortured youth.The album was listed by Esquire as one of the 75 Albums Every Man Should Own."Unchained" is a song from Van Halen's fourth album, Fair Warning. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen wrote the main riff at 4:00 in the morning with engineer Donn Landee while they were doing some overdubbing on the album. The song features prominent use of the MXR M! -117 flanger, which became a popular sound. A preset for the flanger setting was included on the EVH Flanger MXR. It uses a drop-C♯ tuning with suspended fourth chords interspersed. The song is also notable for being producer Ted Templeman's only vocal contribution to the band when he says "Come on, Dave, gimme a break!" during the interlude of the song. One theory is that he thought David Lee Roth was getting too obnoxious and he jumped in. The band liked the way it sounded and kept it in the song ...
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