...and if my math is right, this is probably being noodled out at the same time they're recording 5150. Just imagine, this could have been on 5150 instead of Balance.
If you saw the 1998 interview with Eddie at the 5150 studio, you’ll find out that he was sitting on so much music he recorded over the years that got turned into songs as time went on that there was still plenty when he died that hadn’t been made into full on songs. In that same interview he said he found a tape of “Right now” labeled 1983 on it, long before it made it to For unlawful carnal knowledge, apparently he wrote most of it even before “Jump”. Same thing with “316”, it was just a riff he played around with long before Van Halen was even signed and used it for Carnal knowledge after Wolfgang was born on March 16, he wrote “316” for him.
@@gameroftheyear1000 This is true. I have an old vhs tape of EVH noodling. And on it it said he wrote eruption long before he had a whammy bar. And he said that most of his hits were made from riffs that he found listening back to noodling. RIP Eddie. Thanks for sharing. 🤘
This is why all those criticisms of “A Different Kind of Truth” being “old demos” is stupid. It didn’t matter in the least that those riffs were old... they were still badass riffs ready to be made into amazing songs. Tons of Eddie’s best stuff was written years prior to being released. Every musician has a catalog of ideas laying around. Some ideas come to fruition immediately, others take years to develop. They’re all valid artistic expressions. Long live The Mighty Van Halen. We miss ya, Edward, 😎✌️
What ppl dont realize is ALOT of VH2 and Carnal was written and demoed before their 1st tour. So arguments like this are just dumb, who cares if its old or new or whatever if its good you know?
Can't believe your comment because I'm the same way. I cried like a baby the morning after he died. Never happened to me before. Put it this way, I'm a HUGE Rush fan since I was a kid, but when Neil Peart died... not a tear from me. Don't get me wrong, It hit me hard, I just didn't cry? Knowing that I'd never see Ed's smile again tore me to pieces. Sorry to ramble.
I live in LA, so when my brother texted me that he had just passed, I told my boss that a family member just passed and I had to excuse myself from work for the day. I then drove straight to Sunset Sound Recording and listened to the local rock radio station playing VH nonstop and I was parked outside where all that music was recorded years earlier. Although we all knew Ed wasn’t well, it me harder than I thought it would.
We miss you Eddie. But your gifts to us throughout your beautiful life will be our blood flowing through out veins till we have our front row chairs in heaven. RIP
How am I only seeing this now, on 5/11/2024…!?!?! What an AMAZING clip. Watching him put the pieces of this song together, is such an absolute TREAT to behold. THANK YOU for SHARING this bit of Ed’s history. 👊🏽🎸🤘🏽
Balance was such an underrated masterpiece. Only one or two songs that I thought were “throw ins”. Amsterdam still gets played VERY loud in my household. 🤟🏼
My brother and I dig Balance and reach for it more often than the others, yo! And. . .Van Halen 3. And. . .we are legitimately cool people, and we like cool music. Peace.
RIght on! As a kid in the 80s and totally amateur guitar player, I was into the riffs and solos and EVH had the best. But as an adult I realize that his rhythm, along with the riffs and solos, is what sets him apart from the rest. He just did his thing, both musically and with his gear, and he will live on forever because of it. RIP EVH
Eddie had it made....Beautiful house, hot wife, talented son, and a studio/playroom full of guitars right next to his mansion where he could go and do his thing. What a life and what a guy. RIP
@@rodbhar6522 nah he was definetly tryin to find the notes he wanted. I think it was a combination of remembering what he'd already wrote and he wanted to add in to finish it off. Either way I'm just glad we got him for as long as we did. Panama is an awesome song!!!
Bro the way he’s dressed the studio he’s in and the vibe and everything just perfectly represents eddie’s playing style and how amazing and original he was especially for his time
One of the only musicians who passed and when I heard I hyperventilated from shock and literally started crying. Ed impacted my life in such a positive way musically. Much love and respect.
Just another piece of evidence on how far ahead of the game EVH always was. I've got a Memorial in celebration of his life in my bedroom, and rare vids like this are only true conformation why... EVH ♾
Me too brother... somewhat of a shrine!!! His music was so heart felt its almost like you knew him and hung out with him !! Never felt like that with any other musical artist... extremely special!
It's amazing how varied Ed's writing style was. You hear songs that you think are "older Eddie", but they actually come from his younger days. I mean, Right Now is pre-1984. That's amazing. His inspiration was all over the place.
@@bls8959 No, meaning thinking the song was written in 1995, not 1985. It's a full decade younger than you would think. And, I'd argue the peak was 1984, maybe even earlier. He wrote DIFFERENT stuff for 5150, but none of it really rivaled anything from the 78-84 years, at least musically. Though, to hear what Dave would have done with Summer Nights would be great since that song was written while he was still in the band. Ed wrote some radio-friendly pop rock with Sam, yes. But, his musical peak was certainly pre-Sam. His songwriting became more polished, yes. But, musically it had become more predictable. That edge was largely gone by 86-88.
@@e.l.norton actually I changed my mind..eds peak was 81...84 is overrated and just as poppy as any van hagar stuff ..not a van Hagar guy btw..that's what I meant 86 was the end
@@bls8959 I'd agree Ed's playing peaked with Fair Warning. But, as a total band, production, etc. I think I still lean toward 1984 being the band's peak. Not Eddie's, but the band's.
Has a bit of Beautiful Girls feel too it. One of the tunes I wish we could hear Dave’s melodies and lyrics to. “Oh Wham bam oh Amsterdam!” is a big whiff if you ask me.
Eddie hated the lyrics Sammy came up with for this. He said this piece of music meant a lot to him and Sammy crapped all over it. This was when I knew they were going to break up. Right before the Balance tour commenced. What a thing to say on live radio lol!
@@UptempoMusicLessons Eddie said a lot of mean shit to just about everyone…. Look how he tried to shit on Jimmy Page’s live guitar skills….. said he plays like a 2 year old….. like whaaaaaaat
You never know, this may have been the reference track he used when putting this on Balance. I can see him thinking "now what was that riff again?" And then digging through all his recorded material to find this gem. I hope one day Wolfe goes through all Ed's stuff and releases some riff outakes. I'd love to hear them!
It's seems so weird to me that he's been removed from this life because yet every single time I hear a van halen song I feel comfortable knowing that Eddie is still here with us because he has always been here with us and for us like that. And I guess it makes sense that because most of us didn't see him every other day and spend time with him that it would still feel like he was still here. But yet, for Wolfie ,Alex,Val, and his new wife and his handlers and all the van halen Inc. People its got to hit home much harder on adaily basis. Eddie Van Halen was a True musician of the century. The heart of his art will still beat strong ,long after we are all gone. Rip Eddie and thank you.
i’m super glad he is lovin his life. take that cig away from this kind soul. i’m 24. i smoked and i’m glad i stopped. hard to believe it’s been a year. rip to king edward and my hero
@@UptempoMusicLessons hmm, you don’t say. Alcohol didn’t give him cancer on his tongue. Id say it was cigs, but maybe it was his guitar pick theory. Maybe both. I don’t think that alcohol gave him lung cancer which spread to his brain. Sure he drank way too much booze over the years, but i don’t think it caused his cancer. Which cancer is what ended his life.
@@UptempoMusicLessons which product literally had pictures of people dying of cancer. Never seen that or a surgeon general warning on the on a bottle of Heineken beer.
@@DKH35 maybe not but when you think about the amount of Coke, the amounts of heroin and the amount of alcohol that went in his system, read his death report cancer was only one problem, and he didn’t die of that. He died of a stroke.
Man, I tear up every time I watch these old videos. Like a home movie of the big brother I had as a child. Eddie was and is my hero. That infectious smile, and heavy riffs. RIP.
Dear Lord thank you for allowing this man to change my life to an extent the day I first heard Eruption and was fascinated til the end. RIP to one of my very few heroes...
It burned in me deep when Eddie passed. He passed on my B-Day too. What a legend to millions across the Globe. I believe he is playing riffs in Heaven. Eddie was a gift to us for certain.
There all... SPECIAL!!!. anything that he did was incredible, heart felt and should never be critiqued!! We'll never have him back physically, but his style & conviction will live forever!!! It will never be duplicated!!
Eddie had a seemingly endless supply of riffs, some of which would hang around for years before being used in a song. He made a hilarious 30 second cameo on the American TV show “Two and a Half Men”, during which he played a finger-twisting riff that would surface a few years later in the track “As Is” on the A Different Kind Of Truth album. For fun, go listen to the early WB demos and pick out the bits and pieces of the demos that ended up in other songs years or even decades later. The guy had an incredible memory for riffs.
Eddie was an amazing rhythm player, kept it so tight. His solos were legendary and his sound was infectious. Would absolutely love to hear what he recorded that never made it to an album. Between the guitar and keyboard there must be a lot of good stuff sitting in a vault begging to be heard. Maybe someday.
I saw in an interview once that they have hundreds of tapes of his at the studio, that were all numbered and then indexed with a computer from the early 80s. Then, 25 years later, that computer's hard drive died, and now they dont know what's what anymore. So there's just a huge pile of unlabeled tapes waiting to be listened to.
Man, what an awesome video to witness the Master at work.. and many years before the song was released. Such a great song and a great album. Definitely the darkest of the VH catalog.. a lot of tension in the band and they didn’t last too much longer after it’s release
😂😂😂😂..Sammy is a great singer but his lyric sucks... check out the song from OU812 which is very similar to Sinner Swing..fucking Hagar couldn't come with some lyrics to Eddie music in other hand Sinner Swing kicks ass.
My book too. I always had Jimi as one and EVH as 2, but no, EVH did it all. Way better at rhythm guitar and his leads were much more concise and clean. He also didn’t use many tracks and would solo on his rhythm track, nobody did that now or then. Maybe in the 50-60s when all was live. EVH is the true King and cannot see anyone replacing him. Then of course his innovation and tech creations. EVH was and is the true Master on the 6 string.
Even his practice sounds legendary. Definitely no one is posting my practice vids when I am gone. While I am still here, most leave the room! R.I.P. legend! Let us not be as sad he is gone that we are grateful he once walked among us.
When we were younger Charvell wasn't really the "cool guitar" to have. Jake E Lee ruled the world to me so I bought one anyway, still have today 30 years later. Love this vid RIP Eddie GOAT!!!
My old guitarist from my Death Metal band played an old white Charvell (as I played drums) and it sounded SICK! IMPO. He ended up stripping it all down and had me prep, prime and paint it with single stage Urethane BLACK automotive paint. After he assembled it, he then retired it! I was like 🤔 "Dane man. I kinda went through ALL that work cuz I wanted to SEE and HEAR you play that black SOB!"... But , he went through a couple different Ibanez guitars and finally, a BC RICH Chuck Shuldiner model. But yeah, I STILL missed hearing that ol Charvel! 🎸
And yeah! JAKE E LEE..!!!!? 😳 🙌 I mean, WHAT else NEEDS to be said?🤘🎸🔥🤘 I'm gonna HAVE to go on the record and vouch for Sharon Osbourne picking Jake E Lee OVER the almost near secured Rhoads guitar replacement, George Lynch. And obviously, I love Lynch's guitar playing and all but?.... I'm gonna HAVE to bet that Jake IS/was responsible for Ozzy's CONTINUED success through the better part of the 1980s. And as much love I had/have for Bark and Ultimate Sin? I think Jake's band BADLANDS was/IS on a whole other level! JUST an UNBELIEVABLE band 😏 Just too darned horrible that the whole grunge garbage overshadowed it (among other factors then).....ROCK the funk ON!!!🤘🔥🤘
In the 80's, Charvel was a hot rodded custom guitar that was the sign of a serious rock guitar player. Wayne Charvel used a different neck/headstock (the hockey stick style) not the Fender neck like they do now. I wish there was a closeup of the guitar in this video.
@@familiardave6540 Cool guitar story: I purchased my Charvel from Focus guitar store on LI 1991ish. At the time Kevin Moore who was a family friend was still working there. I went in one day for guitar lessons and he said he wanted me to check out a used guitar that just came in. It was so beautiful (metallic Dark green) EMG active pick ups legit Floyd rose. SOLD!! this was literally weeks before Pull me under rocketed them to much deserved legendary status. Crazy almost 30 years ago.
Watching the Master polish his creations and craft. A peak behind the door at the Genius at work. Whoever in the VH camp released these, Thank You. #GoneTooSoon RIP ELVH GUITAR
Eddie, one of the most amazing guitarists who ever lived, unpolished and raw just playing. And as a Guitarist, I know for a fact that there are probably thousands of recordings of him just playing riffs and licks he wrote and just noodling around like this, and I hope we can hear them all some day!
It’s still to early to have someone go through the vault like Wolfie but man who knows what’s in there, maybe alternate versions of this and other songs! No idea but still too soon to go through it
Shows how Eddie noodled his songs,. Didn't chart them out. Also explains why he has hundreds of tapes of his noodles. Piecing the the noodles together is the greatness.
And people complain about how the last album had too much old material. This is one example of how many more songs throughout there career were probavly like that we dont know about.
Not sure what I’m amazed at more is that this is 1985 and it didn’t appear on 5150 or that he said it’s not ready yet and worked it and held it for ten years where it appeared on Balance.
@Gina Chiaverini Not buying that at all. His greatest creative period tho seems to be after Roth joined up until the '84 album. Gotta remember they were still doing mostly covers till about '76.
Lotta hate on sammy in here. There was problems both ways. In the end the test of the band had their tracks knocked out but eddie would take 3 days in a solo because he was too drunk to do it. I like both sammy and Dave. Dave was a better front man but VH became a tighter band when sammy joined. Sammy is a hell of a musician and songwriter in his own right
@@anc5150 He certainly wasn’t lazy though. The band should’ve stayed on a break instead of going into Twister and everything else they’ve done since then. Sammy just got married and had a kid, he had all the right in the world to stay home and enjoy that.
Amsterdam in 85'!? That didn't come out till Balance! I didn't know that riff was so old. 1985! I was 9 or 10 years old! I miss the 80's. I remember how exciting it was when a new album or cassette was coming out. My dad bought me 5150, who made who, and back in black cassettes for christmas 85' or 86'. My dad was a drinker and didn't have much money so those tapes were probably the best gifts I ever got. I miss my Dad, he was a good man.
Even the extremely gifted among us have to noodle before it becomes a finished product. It's great to see the humanity in the creation of art, that not everything just comes instantly, requiring sweat and toil. Thank you for your years of inspiration, Eddie. You are missed, but thankful we have your music to inspire the generations.
The day Eddie died I just sat there on shock. Panama introduced me to Van Halen and I will never forget seeing that music video. That video is the 1980s for me. Times were so different back then but then again times were so pure. There was a different vibe in those days without Internet, and although it's a godsend for seeing videos like these nowadays, nothing ever beats putting that new cassette or vinyl in the player as we used to. RIP Eddi, a true Icon and the man who completely turned guitar on its head.
Absolutely Absolutely I heard Eddie say that Randy copied him. Bull shit. Randy was a classically trained musician he knew more ways to chord notes and different voicings. Eddie should have copied Randy. That would have been cool.
The funny thing is that Hagar criticized Van Halen because VH used all demos in ADKOT...sorry Sammy but you are an hypocrite in a major level....even 5150 was almost done when Hagar came aboard...
Well in dkot you know those demos. They were whole songs . Lyrics to. Most of that album was way back in the day . And you can tell . I think like Chinatown was written when they got back together. To me that song didn't have that vh feel to it . Maybe a couple of others. I personally don't think they had much else to speak of in the vault. I think if they had something good. They would have put it out . Not that second album with David. Tokyo live album.You got to admit. David did sounded HORRIBLE. If you to be upset that it took 10 years to put words to it . Just work in progress. Me myself. I would want to hear. What words David would put to this riff. Or any of Sam stuff with Edward. Those riffs were gonna be what Edward was hearing. No matter if David was there or not.
@@scottmcclure4153 I agree with you Dave sound horrible on Tokio live album... but I disagree with what you said about China Town...that song is what VH is all about....ironically for me Why cant this be love,Love walkin' in,Feel So Good dont have that VH feel...
@@wilfredfreytes9384 totally agree on any love song or ballat from Sam. Can't stand a one. Except feeling. There are 3 or 4 songs on that album are not Van Halen. Chinatown is one of them. To me that's stuff that him and wofe work on together. Kinda speed metal. To me it doesn't have the Edward jazzy swing to it . Like the rest of the album feels. .
Eddie plays with such authority but not towards the instrument but the ideas. They speak to him and his playing is just the result of his conviction of their value.
It’s 2022 and you get to come here and watch the greatest guitarist of all time construct a song as often as you want. What a gift this video is.
Tru words my friend
Greatest of all time? No
The GOAT...YES!
@@terrym681 one in every crowd
So true. Eddie lived and breathed his guitar.
How he sat on that for 10 years before releasing it is unreal . That video is priceless .
...and if my math is right, this is probably being noodled out at the same time they're recording 5150. Just imagine, this could have been on 5150 instead of Balance.
If you saw the 1998 interview with Eddie at the 5150 studio, you’ll find out that he was sitting on so much music he recorded over the years that got turned into songs as time went on that there was still plenty when he died that hadn’t been made into full on songs. In that same interview he said he found a tape of “Right now” labeled 1983 on it, long before it made it to For unlawful carnal knowledge, apparently he wrote most of it even before “Jump”. Same thing with “316”, it was just a riff he played around with long before Van Halen was even signed and used it for Carnal knowledge after Wolfgang was born on March 16, he wrote “316” for him.
Easy, he was a perfectionist.
@@gameroftheyear1000 This is true. I have an old vhs tape of EVH noodling. And on it it said he wrote eruption long before he had a whammy bar. And he said that most of his hits were made from riffs that he found listening back to noodling. RIP Eddie. Thanks for sharing. 🤘
thats what he did for a living he jammed out perfected it
This is why all those criticisms of “A Different Kind of Truth” being “old demos” is stupid. It didn’t matter in the least that those riffs were old... they were still badass riffs ready to be made into amazing songs. Tons of Eddie’s best stuff was written years prior to being released. Every musician has a catalog of ideas laying around. Some ideas come to fruition immediately, others take years to develop. They’re all valid artistic expressions. Long live The Mighty Van Halen. We miss ya, Edward, 😎✌️
What ppl dont realize is ALOT of VH2 and Carnal was written and demoed before their 1st tour. So arguments like this are just dumb, who cares if its old or new or whatever if its good you know?
He's an artist he's working
No shit! A different kind of truth is amazing for so many reasons. It’s way better than diver down
It's probly Sam's fans repeating his whining and bitching . What a whiny little rat "Van Halen brothers were mean to me , boo hoo hoo !"
@Stephen Allsman
A Different Kind of Truth is phenomenal, but Diver Down is classic, if only for Hang 'Em High, The Full Bug, and Little Guitars.
I watch this at least once a week. Man I miss Eddie.
Every day! He's just magic. I'm gonna get my old les paul out and learn everything he's playing in this video. RIP Ed!
The tone is killer, im back weekly as well🤘
We all are, he was incredibly charismatic...no one can top his acrobatics let alone guitar playing and that Smile 😁
🙏🏼Amen🙏🏼
Honest to God….Never thought I’d miss him SO bad either…catch myself crying to some of his videos often …
I've seen tons of EVH videos, but something about this one is special
This one as well th-cam.com/video/7G9otXcqwz0/w-d-xo.html
If someone edited hours and hours of video of just Eddie noodling in the studio, I’d pay for it…
@@codywilliams3789 same
@@codywilliams3789 Thats would be pure gold.
@@codywilliams3789 why would you want someone to edit it? kind of defeats the purpose.
I never cried when a celebrity died.
But I did for Eddie and my eyes water up just thinking about it 2 years later.
I miss you Eddie.
Can't believe your comment because I'm the same way. I cried like a baby the morning after he died. Never happened to me before. Put it this way, I'm a HUGE Rush fan since I was a kid, but when Neil Peart died... not a tear from me. Don't get me wrong, It hit me hard, I just didn't cry? Knowing that I'd never see Ed's smile again tore me to pieces. Sorry to ramble.
I still weep when listening and watching videos...
I live in LA, so when my brother texted me that he had just passed, I told my boss that a family member just passed and I had to excuse myself from work for the day. I then drove straight to Sunset Sound Recording and listened to the local rock radio station playing VH nonstop and I was parked outside where all that music was recorded years earlier. Although we all knew Ed wasn’t well, it me harder than I thought it would.
I didn't cry, but what I did was worse, I felt hollow and devastated. If I had cried, I would of cleansed a lot quicker.
@@hyperdog67same here Tom Petty did for me as well
Imagine the vibes being around that kind of talent all the time. Rare rip
I'd be just like that dude in the corner. Watching. Kinda like when McCartney was churning out incredible works between Let it Be and Abbey Road.
We miss you Eddie. But your gifts to us throughout your beautiful life will be our blood flowing through out veins till we have our front row chairs in heaven. RIP
How am I only seeing this now, on 5/11/2024…!?!?! What an AMAZING clip. Watching him put the pieces of this song together, is such an absolute TREAT to behold. THANK YOU for SHARING this bit of Ed’s history. 👊🏽🎸🤘🏽
It blows away that this tune was already “old” when they went into production with it. I’m floored by how fresh it still sounds today.
Balance was such an underrated masterpiece. Only one or two songs that I thought were “throw ins”. Amsterdam still gets played VERY loud in my household. 🤟🏼
No it isnt.
@@donDonau Thank you for your very valid opinion.
Production on Balance was very good.
My brother and I dig Balance and reach for it more often than the others, yo! And. . .Van Halen 3. And. . .we are legitimately cool people, and we like cool music. Peace.
I definitely wouldn’t call Balance underrated or a masterpiece.
Eddie’s feel, groove and creativity were unmatched!!!
RIght on! As a kid in the 80s and totally amateur guitar player, I was into the riffs and solos and EVH had the best. But as an adult I realize that his rhythm, along with the riffs and solos, is what sets him apart from the rest. He just did his thing, both musically and with his gear, and he will live on forever because of it. RIP EVH
Absolutely. Everything he plays just sounds so big, sweet, accurate and groovy.
I could watch him in the studio like this all day long. Raw and unpolished building the song and figuring out note by note
We're all here because we miss him in our own way.....
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Eddie had it made....Beautiful house, hot wife, talented son, and a studio/playroom full of guitars right next to his mansion where he could go and do his thing. What a life and what a guy. RIP
It's sad that too much coke cost him his wife and band.
Mansion 😆 It was an ordinary house.
Don't forget the Lambo!!!
Don't forget that he broke his ass to get all of that shit......and he gifted us with all of his music.
@@familiardave6540 that. Crap sucks. Hurt so many people. . They made it sound great in early 80s
He has it in his head now he's learning where it is on the fretboard and this is how most good songs are made
Doubt that. I think he hadn't played it in a while so he was trying to remember.
@@rodbhar6522 nah he was definetly tryin to find the notes he wanted. I think it was a combination of remembering what he'd already wrote and he wanted to add in to finish it off. Either way I'm just glad we got him for as long as we did. Panama is an awesome song!!!
@@MainPrismHe's not writing Panama here
@@fawder1014 yea idk why I put Panama instead of Amsterdam. I didn't even notice it til you pointed it out lol
Bro the way he’s dressed the studio he’s in and the vibe and everything just perfectly represents eddie’s playing style and how amazing and original he was especially for his time
A great demonstration of Eddie's incredible musicality, his sense of rhythm, brilliant chord play, feel, etc.
I miss him..what a legend..greatest guitarist of all time
I love the part where Ed hadn't figured out what he wanted to play, yet.
One of the only musicians who passed and when I heard I hyperventilated from shock and literally started crying. Ed impacted my life in such a positive way musically. Much love and respect.
This footage is incredible. We get to see one of the greatest of all time actually composing.
Just another piece of evidence on how far ahead of the game EVH always was. I've got a Memorial in celebration of his life in my bedroom, and rare vids like this are only true conformation why... EVH ♾
Me too brother... somewhat of a shrine!!! His music was so heart felt its almost like you knew him and hung out with him !! Never felt like that with any other musical artist... extremely special!
Easily my favorite song from the Balance album, 10 years before its time. 😁 Absolute genius riff creator.
It's amazing how varied Ed's writing style was. You hear songs that you think are "older Eddie", but they actually come from his younger days. I mean, Right Now is pre-1984. That's amazing. His inspiration was all over the place.
So it is older eddie...eds creative peak was 86
@@bls8959 No, meaning thinking the song was written in 1995, not 1985. It's a full decade younger than you would think. And, I'd argue the peak was 1984, maybe even earlier. He wrote DIFFERENT stuff for 5150, but none of it really rivaled anything from the 78-84 years, at least musically. Though, to hear what Dave would have done with Summer Nights would be great since that song was written while he was still in the band. Ed wrote some radio-friendly pop rock with Sam, yes. But, his musical peak was certainly pre-Sam. His songwriting became more polished, yes. But, musically it had become more predictable. That edge was largely gone by 86-88.
@@e.l.norton actually I changed my mind..eds peak was 81...84 is overrated and just as poppy as any van hagar stuff ..not a van Hagar guy btw..that's what I meant 86 was the end
@@bls8959 I'd agree Ed's playing peaked with Fair Warning. But, as a total band, production, etc. I think I still lean toward 1984 being the band's peak. Not Eddie's, but the band's.
@@e.l.norton oh man van Halen 1 had such an impact idk friend
Has a bit of Beautiful Girls feel too it. One of the tunes I wish we could hear Dave’s melodies and lyrics to. “Oh Wham bam oh Amsterdam!” is a big whiff if you ask me.
Song could have been way better with DLR lyrics and singing
I love Sammy Hagar but a lot of his lyrics were really cringe to me.
Eddie hated the lyrics Sammy came up with for this. He said this piece of music meant a lot to him and Sammy crapped all over it. This was when I knew they were going to break up. Right before the Balance tour commenced. What a thing to say on live radio lol!
@@UptempoMusicLessons Eddie said a lot of mean shit to just about everyone…. Look how he tried to shit on Jimmy Page’s live guitar skills….. said he plays like a 2 year old….. like whaaaaaaat
@@emmanuelleroy2915 but it’s true
You never know, this may have been the reference track he used when putting this on Balance. I can see him thinking "now what was that riff again?" And then digging through all his recorded material to find this gem. I hope one day Wolfe goes through all Ed's stuff and releases some riff outakes. I'd love to hear them!
Agreed, can you imagine?
There has to be hundreds of awesome riffs. I would love to hear him just noodling around ‼️👍
Everything Wolfie does is stolen from Eddie's back catalogue. So just listen to Wolfie song and you're hearing Eddie's writting.
🎼…Could you imagine, his collection of unreleased recordings 🎶 The treasure🎵
…..Legendary.
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was/is forever a Rock God. 🎸
I can never get tired of this footage. Way ahead of his time. So legendary.
It's seems so weird to me that he's been removed from this life because yet every single time I hear a van halen song I feel comfortable knowing that Eddie is still here with us because he has always been here with us and for us like that. And I guess it makes sense that because most of us didn't see him every other day and spend time with him that it would still feel like he was still here. But yet, for Wolfie ,Alex,Val, and his new wife and his handlers and all the van halen Inc. People its got to hit home much harder on adaily basis. Eddie Van Halen was a True musician of the century. The heart of his art will still beat strong ,long after we are all gone. Rip Eddie and thank you.
i’m super glad he is lovin his life. take that cig away from this kind soul. i’m 24. i smoked and i’m glad i stopped. hard to believe it’s been a year. rip to king edward and my hero
Alcohol too. Both in combination are even deadlier.
@@UptempoMusicLessons hmm, you don’t say. Alcohol didn’t give him cancer on his tongue. Id say it was cigs, but maybe it was his guitar pick theory. Maybe both. I don’t think that alcohol gave him lung cancer which spread to his brain. Sure he drank way too much booze over the years, but i don’t think it caused his cancer. Which cancer is what ended his life.
@@UptempoMusicLessons which product literally had pictures of people dying of cancer. Never seen that or a surgeon general warning on the on a bottle of Heineken beer.
I wish he would’ve keep like this for “Balance”. He’s the boss man tho.
Rip King Edward
@@DKH35 maybe not but when you think about the amount of Coke, the amounts of heroin and the amount of alcohol that went in his system, read his death report cancer was only one problem, and he didn’t die of that. He died of a stroke.
It’s always been one of my all time Van Halen songs. The guitar is insane. No one else would have ever come up with that ever!!!!! Everiii
Mr. Edward Van Halen. The greatest guitar player to ever walk this face of earth.
That's my favorite version of Amsterdam.
The tone he has going here is much better than the version he did on Balance!
@@josharmoogam6696 Balance is 1 of my favorite albums
Construction.
Yeah, no lyrics
needs Sammy, bro
Growing up, a man only has a few men to up to.
Their Grandfathers
Their Fathers
And EDDIE VAN HALEN 🔥 🎸🔥
My favorite VH riff. RIP Eddie
That is some tone right there!
Man, I tear up every time I watch these old videos. Like a home movie of the big brother I had as a child. Eddie was and is my hero. That infectious smile, and heavy riffs. RIP.
2 years now, rest in power Eddie!
Dear Lord thank you for allowing this man to change my life to an extent the day I first heard Eruption and was fascinated til the end. RIP to one of my very few heroes...
to be able to go into the vault and listen to hours of the king do this would be absolute bliss
I'd cash in a winning lottery ticket to have access to the 5150 vault for a month. C'mon Wolf...c'mon Al...go through those tapes!!!
This is how I will remember Eddie. A kid who never grew up because of his love for the music.
Yes hello i am here again 50th time or so this week. This is so good
It burned in me deep when Eddie passed. He passed on my B-Day too. What a legend to millions across the Globe. I believe he is playing riffs in Heaven. Eddie was a gift to us for certain.
A master at work! Always reaching for new sounds. One of the greatest musicians to walk the planet🙏🏾 we are blessed to have had Eddie🙏🏾❤️
Eddie seemed to Always Be Smiling He Was A Good Soul ....You Are Missed Like A Close Frie✌️✋️
Priceless video. Seeing Eddie play around with a song in his head that he'll release years later is just too good.
Truly missed. Rest easy EVH.
There all... SPECIAL!!!. anything that he did was incredible, heart felt and should never be critiqued!! We'll never have him back physically, but his style & conviction will live forever!!! It will never be duplicated!!
What an amazing rhythm guitarist Eddie is, of course
Time for my weekly listen to this masterpiece
Yup lol
Me too.
He was the GOAT.. So missed… King Edward🙌🏻
His guitar is just so perfectly in tune, even over all those octaves.
Eddie had a seemingly endless supply of riffs, some of which would hang around for years before being used in a song. He made a hilarious 30 second cameo on the American TV show “Two and a Half Men”, during which he played a finger-twisting riff that would surface a few years later in the track “As Is” on the A Different Kind Of Truth album. For fun, go listen to the early WB demos and pick out the bits and pieces of the demos that ended up in other songs years or even decades later. The guy had an incredible memory for riffs.
Eddie was an amazing rhythm player, kept it so tight. His solos were legendary and his sound was infectious. Would absolutely love to hear what he recorded that never made it to an album. Between the guitar and keyboard there must be a lot of good stuff sitting in a vault begging to be heard. Maybe someday.
I saw in an interview once that they have hundreds of tapes of his at the studio, that were all numbered and then indexed with a computer from the early 80s. Then, 25 years later, that computer's hard drive died, and now they dont know what's what anymore. So there's just a huge pile of unlabeled tapes waiting to be listened to.
@@manbeezis man I would love to hear it!!
Could watch this over and over again....amazing
We should all be grateful to have had this genius share his gifts with us. The (music) world is all the poorer without him. x
Ed was a natural talent but it wasnt without long hours jamming into the night to come up with riffs like this
Priceless footage here!!! All hail King Edward🎸👑🏁
Massive kudos to whoever caught this on a video camera. The young genius at work.
We miss you mr Eddie Van Halen
I think it is super awesome to see Eddie Van Halen be both awesome and just fucking human in the same clip.
Man, what an awesome video to witness the Master at work.. and many years before the song was released. Such a great song and a great album. Definitely the darkest of the VH catalog.. a lot of tension in the band and they didn’t last too much longer after it’s release
Unbelievable guitar tone, just amazing!!!
Imagine working on this for ten years only to have Sammy slap “Wham bam Amsterdam” on it.
😂😂😂
It's a good song
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂..Sammy is a great singer but his lyric sucks... check out the song from OU812 which is very similar to Sinner Swing..fucking Hagar couldn't come with some lyrics to Eddie music in other hand Sinner Swing kicks ass.
@@wilfredfreytes9384 - Dude lyrics like "Crossing Over" are amazing.
The GOAT right here in my book!! Rest in rock Eddie.. You were and still are such an inspiration to me..
My book too. I always had Jimi as one and EVH as 2, but no, EVH did it all. Way better at rhythm guitar and his leads were much more concise and clean. He also didn’t use many tracks and would solo on his rhythm track, nobody did that now or then. Maybe in the 50-60s when all was live. EVH is the true King and cannot see anyone replacing him. Then of course his innovation and tech creations. EVH was and is the true Master on the 6 string.
Like watching Mozart create new music from scratch. Absolutely amazing.
Even his practice sounds legendary. Definitely no one is posting my practice vids when I am gone. While I am still here, most leave the room! R.I.P. legend! Let us not be as sad he is gone that we are grateful he once walked among us.
Just imagine being in that tiny room watching a musical genius at work! RIP Edward, the world was a better place with you in it. We miss you!
When we were younger Charvell wasn't really the "cool guitar" to have. Jake E Lee ruled the world to me so I bought one anyway, still have today 30 years later. Love this vid RIP Eddie GOAT!!!
Jake is criminally underrated. Absolute beast
My old guitarist from my Death Metal band played an old white Charvell (as I played drums) and it sounded SICK! IMPO. He ended up stripping it all down and had me prep, prime and paint it with single stage Urethane BLACK automotive paint. After he assembled it, he then retired it! I was like 🤔 "Dane man. I kinda went through ALL that work cuz I wanted to SEE and HEAR you play that black SOB!"... But , he went through a couple different Ibanez guitars and finally, a BC RICH Chuck Shuldiner model. But yeah, I STILL missed hearing that ol Charvel! 🎸
And yeah! JAKE E LEE..!!!!? 😳 🙌 I mean, WHAT else NEEDS to be said?🤘🎸🔥🤘 I'm gonna HAVE to go on the record and vouch for Sharon Osbourne picking Jake E Lee OVER the almost near secured Rhoads guitar replacement, George Lynch. And obviously, I love Lynch's guitar playing and all but?.... I'm gonna HAVE to bet that Jake IS/was responsible for Ozzy's CONTINUED success through the better part of the 1980s. And as much love I had/have for Bark and Ultimate Sin? I think Jake's band BADLANDS was/IS on a whole other level! JUST an UNBELIEVABLE band 😏 Just too darned horrible that the whole grunge garbage overshadowed it (among other factors then).....ROCK the funk ON!!!🤘🔥🤘
In the 80's, Charvel was a hot rodded custom guitar that was the sign of a serious rock guitar player. Wayne Charvel used a different neck/headstock (the hockey stick style) not the Fender neck like they do now. I wish there was a closeup of the guitar in this video.
@@familiardave6540 Cool guitar story: I purchased my Charvel from Focus guitar store on LI 1991ish. At the time Kevin Moore who was a family friend was still working there. I went in one day for guitar lessons and he said he wanted me to check out a used guitar that just came in. It was so beautiful (metallic Dark green) EMG active pick ups legit Floyd rose. SOLD!! this was literally weeks before Pull me under rocketed them to much deserved legendary status. Crazy almost 30 years ago.
Watching the Master polish his creations and craft. A peak behind the door at the Genius at work. Whoever in the VH camp released these, Thank You. #GoneTooSoon RIP ELVH GUITAR
Pure genius. Miss you Eddie!!!!
Eddie, one of the most amazing guitarists who ever lived, unpolished and raw just playing. And as a Guitarist, I know for a fact that there are probably thousands of recordings of him just playing riffs and licks he wrote and just noodling around like this, and I hope we can hear them all some day!
It’s still to early to have someone go through the vault like Wolfie but man who knows what’s in there, maybe alternate versions of this and other songs! No idea but still too soon to go through it
You don’t have to worry about the Man!🤘 Rest in Paradise EVH🕯️
I know that 5150 is soundproof, but imagine hearing EVH noodling on the piano in his house and a year or two later it’s on the radio. LOL.
Shows how Eddie noodled his songs,. Didn't chart them out. Also explains why he has hundreds of tapes of his noodles. Piecing the the noodles together is the greatness.
This fuckin guy man. Ill see you again maestro.
How is that going to work for you? the man is dead, and he was cremated. That magical Sky Wizard you think is real, is all in your mind.
@@standingvertical3048 youre in for a rude awakening when you pass away asshole lol.
And people complain about how the last album had too much old material. This is one example of how many more songs throughout there career were probavly like that we dont know about.
He sounds incredible, his playing sounds live.
Not sure what I’m amazed at more is that this is 1985 and it didn’t appear on 5150 or that he said it’s not ready yet and worked it and held it for ten years where it appeared on Balance.
What guitar is Eddie playing just love how he kept this one in his back pocket till balance came out just shows how ahead he was
Some sort of charvel
@Gina Chiaverini Not buying that at all. His greatest creative period tho seems to be after Roth joined up until the '84 album. Gotta remember they were still doing mostly covers till about '76.
He called this "Noodling"🎸
So loved and so missed by us all
✌️💛🤘
Lotta hate on sammy in here. There was problems both ways. In the end the test of the band had their tracks knocked out but eddie would take 3 days in a solo because he was too drunk to do it. I like both sammy and Dave. Dave was a better front man but VH became a tighter band when sammy joined.
Sammy is a hell of a musician and songwriter in his own right
Edward had a work ethic second to none. Sammy? Not so much.
@@anc5150 He certainly wasn’t lazy though. The band should’ve stayed on a break instead of going into Twister and everything else they’ve done since then.
Sammy just got married and had a kid, he had all the right in the world to stay home and enjoy that.
Lord have mercy. I miss him so damn much. 🙁
God, he had the best tone ever!
Preach!
Pure passion for his music noodling until the riffs come about RIP sir thank you for you contribution miss ya.
You have to wonder what’s in that VH vault
Amsterdam in 85'!? That didn't come out till Balance! I didn't know that riff was so old. 1985! I was 9 or 10 years old! I miss the 80's. I remember how exciting it was when a new album or cassette was coming out. My dad bought me 5150, who made who, and back in black cassettes for christmas 85' or 86'. My dad was a drinker and didn't have much money so those tapes were probably the best gifts I ever got. I miss my Dad, he was a good man.
Thank you Eddie, for 15 years of jaw dropping gold.
The only flaw with this song is that Hagar sings on it.
#onlyTimeWillTellIfWeStandTheTestOfTime
Agreed.
It's not his singing. It's some of his lyrical decisions. That line from "Why Can't this be Love" has always cracked me up.
Even the extremely gifted among us have to noodle before it becomes a finished product. It's great to see the humanity in the creation of art, that not everything just comes instantly, requiring sweat and toil. Thank you for your years of inspiration, Eddie. You are missed, but thankful we have your music to inspire the generations.
Would love to see 1:40-1:55 tabbed out. I figured out first part
I’ve tried to figure it out. Too sophisticated for me.
i managed to always watch his fingers and figured it out and im no music nerd bc i cant read music but its easy once u see it and slow it down
The day Eddie died I just sat there on shock. Panama introduced me to Van Halen and I will never forget seeing that music video. That video is the 1980s for me. Times were so different back then but then again times were so pure. There was a different vibe in those days without Internet, and although it's a godsend for seeing videos like these nowadays, nothing ever beats putting that new cassette or vinyl in the player as we used to.
RIP Eddi, a true Icon and the man who completely turned guitar on its head.
RANDY RHOADS IS THE GOAT!!!!
Absolutely Absolutely I heard Eddie say that Randy copied him. Bull shit. Randy was a classically trained musician he knew more ways to chord notes and different voicings. Eddie should have copied Randy. That would have been cool.
Pure gold!
And The beer and cig is not far away. The 2 things that killed him😢😢
You sound rather stupid. Children get cancer from birth, did they have a drink in there hand and cigarette in there mouth?
The funny thing is that Hagar criticized Van Halen because VH used all demos in ADKOT...sorry Sammy but you are an hypocrite in a major level....even 5150 was almost done when Hagar came aboard...
Well in dkot you know those demos. They were whole songs . Lyrics to. Most of that album was way back in the day . And you can tell . I think like Chinatown was written when they got back together. To me that song didn't have that vh feel to it . Maybe a couple of others. I personally don't think they had much else to speak of in the vault. I think if they had something good. They would have put it out . Not that second album with David. Tokyo live album.You got to admit. David did sounded HORRIBLE. If you to be upset that it took 10 years to put words to it . Just work in progress. Me myself. I would want to hear. What words David would put to this riff. Or any of Sam stuff with Edward. Those riffs were gonna be what Edward was hearing. No matter if David was there or not.
@@scottmcclure4153 I agree with you Dave sound horrible on Tokio live album... but I disagree with what you said about China Town...that song is what VH is all about....ironically for me Why cant this be love,Love walkin' in,Feel So Good dont have that VH feel...
@@wilfredfreytes9384 totally agree on any love song or ballat from Sam. Can't stand a one. Except feeling. There are 3 or 4 songs on that album are not Van Halen. Chinatown is one of them. To me that's stuff that him and wofe work on together. Kinda speed metal. To me it doesn't have the Edward jazzy swing to it . Like the rest of the album feels. .
@@scottmcclure4153 - Those ballads are beautiful
@@sirkayda7205 might be. But so soft. Marshmallow stuff. Cream puff stuff. Just to
Man, i can watch any of his personal videos, and still, tears run down my face
The pain that we all still feel, of losing Edward Lodewijk Van Halen
There will never be another. RIP Edward
Eddie plays with such authority but not towards the instrument but the ideas. They speak to him and his playing is just the result of his conviction of their value.