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Van Halen barely even has 25 minutes of decent music from their entire 5 decades long catalog?…Ain’t Talkin Bout Love, Beautiful Girls, Panama, Janie’s Cryin & Unchained. & the rest of Van Halen’s work was underwhelming. All told, Van Halen never was in a league with bands with much more solid catalogs like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Black Sabbath, Rush, Creedance Clear Water Revival. Van Halen was like a mash up of ZZ Top & Aerosmith doing a bad impression of Heart, even Van Halen’s biggest fans only wanted to hear their old radio greatest hits from the late 70’s, that Van Halen milked for decades, where if Van Halen’s albums had been released in reverse order the band never even would have gotten famous? Van Halen came out the gates red hot all to melt down and fizzle out like a flash in the pan, before taking a synth pop soft rock direction. It’s glaringly obvious that EVH stagnated & suffered from severe writers block for decades, EVH shied back from the spotlight, & the double edged sword of fame, & never lived up to all the early hype & fame. Players like Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, SRV, Randy Rhoads, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, Robbie Krieger, John Fogerty, Alex Lifeson got better & better as time went on, who deserve the vast majority of all the credit that has been misappropriated to Eddie Van Halen, ever since his passing…🤔

Zeppelin is the greatest rock band to grace the planet earth ❤❤❤

' 77 they were the dope sick blues. Notorious for not being their best shows. Page. Bonham drinking too much

Mitch Mitchell could follow Jimi's erratic speeding up and slowing down because of his drug usage. That takes REAL skills! 😮❤

Ok.....you are listening to EC, a total drug addict when he quit music in 1971-74...his mouth is going faster than his brain...its true...not to mention how envious he was,sorry love EC but I don't buy the sideways compliment....this has been around for decades

Clapton loved Jimmy I think he was just exaggerating a little because he was so good not meaning to take away from.the band. Didn't Clapton give him a guitar for gift just because he liked Jimmy so much. Hendrix was not just a good guitar player but a humble person who loved music and people I think from the interviews I've seen.Its no wonder Eric would say nice things about Jimmy he was a great hippy type loving person that 100% real I think anyway. Imagine how great the world would be if everybody was like Jimmy Hendix no wars just Jams parties and lots of love 💗 ❤️ 💕 😅😅

Let's be honest...this guy was the pioneer of a sound Randy Rhoads, Yngwie and others jumped on later.

I agree, Hendrix is way overrated 😉

I think Noel ( nothing too fancy but solid with some decent improvising ) and Mitch ( now come on- Mitch was a great drummer) were perfect with Hendrix- Hendrix alone would definitely be good but I believe with the band the whole thing was great! Nothing like a solid rhythm section to back you up! And Hendrix music was like a new style to many of us- and the band stayed with him - it was a great band!

Critics can only criticise the artist. What materials has the critics produced? What have they contributed to the art?

Awesome have a good weekend

Jimi would certainly have been successful without the Experience. However, it remains a fact, Jimi's best recorded material is with the Experience. Here endeth the lesson.

Walked out on Emmy Lou in 2020 when she got all political, called Americans names and admitted her guitar was way out of tune and played anyway. Waved the roadie away, as well as our group. We went and ate something good and non -abusive

My girl cousin saw Led in Atlanta when she was 16 in 75. She was super hot back then. She and her friend "got bored " after 3 hrs and went behind the stadium to catch a glimpse. Said an older lady,older to a 16 yr old anyway, was wearing a maxi coat. When Jimmy's limousine came by she opened her coat to display her naked wares. Jimmy rolled the window down, gave a thumbs up and said, "Shake it, baby!", and laughed. Always thought that was a cool story.

Yeah, he could have hit the stage by himself, but I don't think it would have been the same...I don't discount how good that band was with both Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell...I've worked with various drummers, and I've heard comments from a particular drummer I play with on a regular basis when we've been in situations of having to use a sub bass player or auditioning for a bassist...if the bassist isn't really locked in with the drummer, it can be very distracting for the drummer...having to fight all night to maintain the grooves of the songs because the bass player and the drummer continually going in and out from being locked in with each other...I'm not a drummer, so I don't know what that particular type of frustration feels like from their perspective...regardless of what people say or don't say about Noel Redding, I don't think he would have even been in there from the get go if Mitch Mitchell and Jimi Hendrix didn't like his playing approach. There is something about a particular musical recipe that just ends up really working, where the "dish" being served, figuratively speaking, just really does it for a lot of people, and, IMO, these three men dished it out big time.

Band of gypsies is a much better band mitch Mitchell was exciting but Noel Redding was very mediocre even for the Times

In my late 60's now and still don't buy into the hype! I'd rather have a Clapton album than a Hendrix album.

Always thought it would have been cool to have heard Jimi play in a band with Jack Bruce on bass.

I think the songs speak for themselves especially the DLR years.

hendrix played in a prior band. No one can name the band here probably. Hendrix wasnt so much a musician as a tool of a political agenda. See tavingstock Institute ...

My favorite Van Halen guitar solo is Ice Cream Man from Van Halen 1. He was more than just a tapping guitarist he was an innovator!!! RIP EVH and thanks for all the great music. You truly changed the music world!

Is he a poser? 100%.However,he plays because HE enjoys it, he's not doing it for the money or the fame,as he already has them, he's playing purely for the love of it

his manager did it

I thought K.K. was THE founding member. Granted, they had a different name when he put together the band, but after all the members were in the band they changed their name to "Judas Priest". That's how I understood the situation.

Eddie came from a piano background and his father was an orchestra musician. Certain things were ingrained in him that most guitarists, at least in those days, didn't have. Eddie also began on the drums, he had a great sense of rhythm, an innate perspective of the WHOLE sound, not just his part in it. Sammy, in his book Red, said that he's still the best he's ever seen or played with. He mentioned that Eddie's sense of pocket while at the same time being able to play complex material was unlike anyone.

EVH didn't invent tapping, he did perfect it. EVH father was a jazz musician. And his father had a big influence on his piano playing. And in jazz you add notes that really don't fit, but somehow they belong. Eddie took that to the guitar. And a classically trained guitar player can listen to Eddie and point out the wrong notes, but can't tell you why they are wrong. Because they all seem to fit.

Id say they are a Rock and Roll band

You're only as good as you're band you can be the best guitarist in the world however if you're drummer is trash you will also be trash

What I never hear anybody say is that besides pioneering how the instrument is played and built, Ed influenced songwriting for hard rock. His use of straight major/minor diads and suspensions was lifted by Ratt, Dokken, Winger, and a myriad of others. Eighties music, particularly, sounds like it does BECAUSE of Edward Van Halen.

Eruption solo is nothing but a load of ugly noise.

Jimi obviously needed Mitch Mitchell enough to bring him back, after the short lived band of Gypsies’s disintegration. Although when he died Jimi was forming a band with Miles Davis, who had Tony Williams, Billy Cobham & Jack Desionette, some of the very best drummers of all time at his beck & call. & With his old army buddy Billy Cox on deck, Noel Redding was out of favor & was expendable on the Bass, & then Jimi wanted to bring in Paul McArtney to the band he was forming with Miles Davis, although Jimi wanted Paul to play rhythm guitar & sing…At some point, when he was established, Jimi could attract the very best musicians on the planet to join him, & it’s such a tragic shame, that Jimi died just before that had materialized…🎸

Satch could play vh in his sleep

Hendrix would have been successful with any band he played with his brilliance would have elevated musicians playing with him, same with SRV and EVH and Trower, page etc...

Good original music is rare and precious. Page used to love to really catch a buzz before a concert. It helps deal with the massive rush of the audience volume. I have seen Eddie Van Halen suck, too. Only Rush played like the record every time.

Hmm, Mitch Mitchel was an incredible drummer and a big part of the Experience.

Kiss was an act not good singers

He was certainly the king of tapping whether he invented it or not. His style overall was just plain fun for everyone to hear. I mean I can think of hundreds of guitar players that were better than him and if you didn’t care for him, that’s fine. But no one has ever or will ever sound like or play like him ever again. He was one of a kind.

No. Its how he overall views the final product. Alex said Ed would play something incredible on the bus, and Alex would freak out and say "thats incredible!!! We gotta use it!!". And Ed would say "Nah. Its just an exercise i do." Then,.... a year later, that exercise would become a lead. So Ed didn't necessarily construct pyro and smoke to match the musical vibe. He made the music match the the pyro and the vibe. He was very different.

Well SHEESH if you try to play his stuff, you'll find out quickly,...those solo's are not even remotely the same. Go watch Joe and Sammy on Howard Stern with Joe attempting to play Meanstreets and Summer Nights.😂😂😂😂😂 He is struggling quite a bit. 😂😂

Eddy did NOT invent "tapping". He revolutionized it.

Well. Ed was "self taught" if you will. Ed was very unique technically. However,.....he didn't follow any industry norms. Or industry suggestions. No i will say,.....he does do things in live recorded performances that are,...... questionable. In terms of making musical sense. But hey !!!??? Thats why we loved him. His willingness to explore the unexplored.

Eddie haters think his playing all sounds the same they should listen to Tim Henson. That sounds the same too. Everyone has their own style. Haters will be haters no matter what.

Someday all the guitar rating assholes will admit that Eddie is number ONE and there is everyone else. Not the Jimi's, Eric, Beck, Gilmore blah blah blah... they all are a distant second to Eddie. It really is that simple. It is not just he playing, it is his writing that puts him over the top. Plus the had what, 14 albums???? That is just crazy.

Sammy was crazy like asking zakk to Butcher pantera... for VH, should have been one or 2 names....Paul Gilbert or Phil x look them both up doing VH.

Eddie was a Gift on loan from God. A genius, a pioneer, an inventor, an innovator, a savant, a true musician. I mean just listen to the first 30 seconds of Mean Street. Who thinks of something like that?

As far as not making musical sense, I think he’s talking about symmetric scales. But I wish he gave more info.

True pioneer on so many levels. Ed Van Halen, stands top of the list. Greatest ever, hands down.

Genius nuff said!😎

Already in 1979 Page was a washed-up has-been whose creativity was long gone! With "In Through the Out Door" it was blatantly obvious Led Zeppelin was done and finished !!!! Page was never much of a songwriter; from the earliest days of Led Zeppelin, Page blatantly ripped off other people's songs and credited himself with their works; Bert Jansch, Willie Dixon, Jake Holmes, and Anne Bredon are some of the people the odious Page ripped off ! Post Zeppelin, Page's work was bullshit so he monotonously regurgitated played out Zeppelin material over and over, and over again !!!!! People such as Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, and Robert Plant are in Page's age range and put out new albums with new material; even Jeff Beck was working before he passed. Page ? He's just a washed up relic from the past !

Eddie was great,but if you want no sense compostion,listen to Primus,both the guitar and bass are it's own rule book.