@@acezoviet976 don't worry dude .. as Hendrix said in an interview once. . When he was asked how he would like to be remembered. .. just keep listening to the music
What separated the great Eddie Van Halen from everybody else was. He wasn't restricted by the type of music that he played. And what I mean is such as were most rockers of the day played blues licks. Some such as rainy roads use classical music in his guitar playing. Therefore resulting in they had to follow the rules majority of the time of the major and minor chords and scales of that type of style that they were playing. Eddie Van Halen did not follow any of these rules. He could not read sheet music. Only took a few short lessons and was profoundly self-taught. Therefore resulting in a freelance style of plane such as Jimi Hendrix but a little bit more open and broad scale to New horizons. Not only did he change the way that guitar players played since his debut. But even sheet music has been changed resulting in what is called tablature. Which is what they had to come up with the music industry that is to compensate with what Edward Van Halen was doing. At the time he didn't even have a clue what they were doing lol. But besides music itself as far as reading and writing and following rules. He did not like what they had to offer on the shelves at guitar stores. He didn't even like the amps. He had a certain tone in his head that he kept hearing. So he changed them all together. Resulting in a new way that all manufacturers make guitars nowadays. If we're Van Halen not only change your tar and not only the way that music is written and played but he change the course of rock and roll such as Elvis Presley started and many after. But just the whole approach to playing guitar in stage performance in itself. Adds off to this man we are where we are today in music in general because of this man. And I would like to say thank you to Edward Van Halen for an inspire me to play guitar and to inspire others.
Eddie Van Halen clearly is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reincarnated. Look at his smile. He knows. Valerie knew too, and they named their son after Wolfie. We were lucky to have this virtuoso on our lives. Thank you, Eddie. You are unchained from this Earth, and immortal for eternity.
You did good raising a awesome young man,Eddie. You would be so proud to know,yes he too is a genius. Like father,like son. What you'll never know is that beautiful young man,created out of love,is so full of love for you,his eyes well up w tears talking about you! Father/ son bond was very strong! He misses you with all his heart & soul & it'll be a long time for his heart to heal.....💔💔🦋🦋🦋🦋🎸🎸🎸🎸 The Circle of Love includes processing / dealing w losses.
@@tiffanyroseangeles7517 Thankfully, Eddie absolutely knew how much he was loved by his son, family, friends & fans. I think Wolf is overwhelmed at just how much love there really is for his father! But no doubt, Eddie knew his son loved him deeply. I saw a very touching IV w/one of Valerie's brothers. He was visibly broken up about Ed's passing. He said Wolf was the last person he saw alive before he went to sleep that night. He died the next morning. 💔
With how flashy and iconic Eddie's guitar playing was we sometimes forget about how damn good of a songwriter he also was. The absolute best all around guitar player there ever was and ever will be...period!
Not sure he was using his beautiful old Marshall here. The gain is too high. He was experimenting with other amps at this time. Still… it’s beautiful.❤
That's the thing about the bass; in the hands of a master, you hardly notice it. But the moment it's gone, nothing sounds right. Without a rock like Mikey, Eddie would have not been able to reach out as far as he did and still stay grounded.
That's cuz his Bass Solo Sucked Total Ass!!! It's a Bass Guitar and he's making it squeak and squeal very high pitched notes 🎶. If I was the Van Halen's I would've told him to play something that's not Oxymoronic!!! But nope all effects pedals and strobe lights. I'm sure I'm not the only VH fan to think this cuz somebody else somewhere along the way will like my comment too prove so. Thank you and I do love Mike's background vocals and he serves every song with purpose albeit said Solo.
@@shawnstarks1743 I didn't have the time because of the life I was living to really play anymore. Now that's behind me the guitar is in front of me again and I'm learning all the songs I always wanted to play. Still wish my fingers were 2' longer though. RIP Ed x
THIS is part of the reason why Van Halen is so great. Alex had the patience to allow Eddie to work his parts into perfection without whining about all the stopping and going. This is like watching Rodin chipping away at granite to form The Thinker. Absolute brilliance and genius at work and Alex is the perfect accomplice.
And now Alex is alone, without Ed, for the 1st time in 65 years. I am heartbroken for him. I heard an IV recently where Ed said, "I don't think I could ever play without Al"... I imagine Al feels the same way about Ed. 💔
that was my first thought that hit me as well.micheal anthony as well.al and mike both do minimal residual noises or continuations .its quite amaing and i dont remember a band of member thag all will go down in history and are in the hall of fame of special musicians and are both beyond superstars in their own right.but here are a drummer maybe the goat.i would never pick another ahead of him.and the same cor a bass plar who may be the goat and i would never pick another ovdr him especially when you realize and consider that mike anthony is probably the greatest vocalist and singer to also play the bass..again i know there have been some really technically wonderful drummers same gods for bassists.the greatest ones numbers are exponentially reduced when you speak of the gdeatest bassists and vocallist in one human and i just feel incapable of picking,putting,declaring,for that matter even i find it hard to mention some of the other greats names much less putting anyone of them ahead of these 3 dudes.i really would love to know what brought about these 3 guys in a band,in a studio,cutting,chipping striking of the parts that arent what they wanted to be left in the making of a masterpiece.adding to,using parts that ended up discarded but used as a scaffolxing,or a bridge to get to the masterpiece and its such a genius approach in the way these 3 have ended up and are on a cleary magical,mythical,unatainable by many who search fof it,a golxen highway,a set method that is and has proven to be at least one oc very little formulas to achieving im.ortality and achieving master works of music. was it unspoken?and the bass and drums just by simple the order of the genius of music and the natudal evolution of things that magically fall in place.was it that they were listening to such a inovagive genius of a creator with a masterful ear for sound and what sounds right and they were almost hipnoticed or under ghe control of that specially thing.that thing that everyone really xoesnt expirience and hear and witness fifst hand.i had a best freind growing up.his dad was always trying to have him follow his footsteps and be like him and like the things he did.he waz a succesful entrepanur and buisnessman who owned several thriving compaNys.he developed land and built commercial buildings.but my freind billy did bax in school,bad i math,science,undiciplined ,always getting bad grades and failing.he had some attention in class problems.his mother was an acentric artist who had some mental izsues that worsened and split the parents up and the dad took both brothers and raised them mostley by himself.mother lived across town in and out of mental homes never too involved with the kids.and a real hatred of her from billys dad was alway there and mutual from her.his xad hater her for ber eccentric artistic qaulitys.extreme mood shifts,etc.and billy was like moms adtistic brain.his younger bro was like dads brain.but billys dad tried to not accept that his mind was like hers.and want him to be like that since she ruined the family and they butted heads. one day his dad realised that you cant change a artistic minded brain into a mathematical minded brain.there are only a rare amount of people born with ability of both.Leonardo davinci is the biggest example.interestingly i have both.i can paint like davinci and im an engineer and architect.and musically inclined. as well. but the day billys dad gave up,he went down to his best creind growing up c.b. lacy and bought a guitar from him that lacy said was good.in fact lacy was in the band stillwater and just left the studio to record their 1st and most famous album and needed some extra cash to get the al um promoted sold him a gibson explorer mahogony or stained body ,with the drop neck style with lear dialz.anyway brought it home for billys bithday.paid i think 3 thousand dollars ,alot in those days,and billys dad always had money invdsted in new ventures and had money but not livinv a rich lifestyle.that was his ztatement to billy that i accept you the way you are.billy picked it up plugged in the marshall amp he got with it and after never having a guitar before, began to play by ear anything he herd or remembered .which he femembered things he didnt know he had herx before.i wdnt to my car took the brand new cassette tape of van halens album with hot summer nights out of my radio and left it for billy to listen to .the next day i ame to his house and he played the entire album both sides every song,every note exactly.exept he actually mimiced the same sound as eddie but it was better.billy was a onece i a lifetime genius with music.his ear was beyond amazing it was actually scary and he would ripp off a 30 minute classicall masterpiece from some freaking musical orchestral piece piece that him or anyone had ever liztenx to.his mother was pregnant with him and its said she listenex to that type of musi way too loud angeri g his dad who thought it was to loud for the baby i sixe her sfill.it was magic type of gift.and he could and would combine the world of everything together into his own creation.he would start tipping these epic jamsolos that would never stop or have to think.only pauseing at the perfe t moment the session creation required to be ep ic. and he would scream the most perfect soundi g electic guitar sound that was so similar to the eddie sounds on this recording but more warmish and epic.thats hard to say that it was betfer than evh.but it is a true story.his jams would go on for an hour ,then 2 hrs.sometimes he would incorporate intthe jam seemlessly the entire eruption solo...an hour later you would realize hes playi g the entire scene both guitars steve vai in the movie crossroads.every part exept way better adding his mixtures into improvment.he could mix in flameco spanish,style s and we would have these huge parths in 9 10 11 12 grades making tons of money charging 5 dollars to get in.a giant barn or open field.i set up a way to get power ran o a marshall amp connected to a pa system amp and speaker and after the first time it bappenex i knew big things were gonna happen.billy would just be in the big spaces and start to rip. people would hear the sound and would start to make a circle around him to see him and see what was making the magic sounds.it didnt take long for everyo e there in a 25 foot ircle trying to be near billy standing on a speaker .people would see random adults and kids at the quickie store while they were vettin beer and like they had seen bigfoot or amaing thing and tell everyone shat was haPpening and where at .next thing i know the circle is 50 feet deep.then 75 feet.cars lights in the distant fields like a highway comming....from then on we would have a party every week or two and the numbers of people was scaring me.adults parents kids ,elderly people even.were all trying to hear and see.billy would play fof hours with out stopping making it all sound as if it were 1 massive song.no drums no singing no bass.just billy.his fingers would be so swollen and fingertips with bistered spots next to giant callusez like leather.he couldnt hold his pencil in a way that you could read his handwriting and would get f on tests due to handwriting legibility..the shit was so surreal then and lookin back anx bringing back those memorys.so billy stafted to change .he was always so cool and normal and sense of humor.after high school billy move to atlanta to work on reroofing company our other freind started.i would go visit and go to falsons games but billy would more and more be off unrea chable when not working.then i asked about him latef and he had deteriorated more into a scitzophrenic behavior lime his mom had when close to his age.i was watching antiques roadshow one day and saw a ghitar that was identi al to billys.the appraiser pointed out that there are a cuople ways that that year was easy to identif since gibson only uzed the combination of clear epoxy dials with that body sthle and that color of stain body.it was identical when i looked at old pics.they priced it at 96000$. in the lesser qaulity one on he show.but this one of billys had re corded a famouse Album as well.i made some calls and the value above that price was just gu estimated by a couple of people at more han double.and would by it for double.so i try to get ahold of billy.who was broke,and to paranoid to come out of a camoflauged treebouse he was living in centenial park.nobody even knew he lived there e,pt our freind who would take him water and food.i ad go tell billy the ood news that he was practically rich back then values.my ffeind alled me back next day.....he said billy didnt have it.he idnt ave any guitar.he pawned it2 monthz ago for 40 dollars and was to paranoid o go get it.he hought it was an fbi setup .....my reind said e had he money to .be auzd e brought is mail that ad cash from his dad in it.wow....his mild pot smoki g and rinki g,and maybe some acid use turned billys life into insanity.he killed iself a few onths later they say rom pure malnutri ion,not hydrating or taking baths and just got thin they found him dead in park somewhere. but this tape reminds me of billy .sorry for the fucking short novel here.but back to he subject.did eddie tell he guys to limit your playing and just listen and follow and et e lo ate he direction.or did hey know without being told.or as it he producer or studio manager that got hat going.be ause it so smart and it couldbe a producer like they had at those times.who was sitti g in or rdcording with hem in his session?.if you know that
I think that's his secret. Everything is so in lock-step with Alex, it's disgusting. I remember him saying about Wolfgang, "Oh, thank God he's got rhythm." Without it, you have no career.
Simply the greatest guitarist ... ever. Pretty amazing the various renditions he came up with before settling on the particular version we all got to eventually hear on record.
Eddie was the most wicked rhythm guitar player. Man the guy's riffs can make me fell like busting through a brick wall. Very powerful emotional connection I have with his music. Van Halen is the shit!
Me too. The whole thing is really sad. Why did he have to leave us? God's timetable is not our timetable, that's for sure. Hopefully he's starting over in a better world where he'll bring them guitar greatness like they've never heard before...
Anyone else just leave this playing while you are doing whatever stuff around the house? Feels like you are near the rehearsal space just no big deal... ;)
I'm 51 now and started playing guitar when I was 12 years old because of this guy. What a lucky person I was to grow up at the time I did. Saw them in concert 5 times. I wonder how many other young kids he inspired to to play?
He was the man who first made me take notice of the guitar at age 6 in the late 80's, when I heard "Beat it" on the radio. I was just blown away, and that same year my mum bought me an accoustic guitar. Music is my life, and Eddie's the man who inspired me to be the guitarist I am today at 41. R.I.P Edward 🤘
I was already playing for 3 years when VH1 came out - I was blown out of the universe by his playing and still am - I could not comprehend what I was hearing and at the same time I was ashamed and sad about my own playing - I feel extremely lucky to be alive during his time on earth. Sure there are other rock electric guitarists, but since 1978, every one of them is influenced by EVH - he was the king. RIP EVH and Jeff BEck
@@keeganjones924congratulations you’ve know it since you were 7 want a cookie news flash no one gives a fuck about your bullshit no one really knew until they played with Sammy stfu clown
Hearing this now, seems like he fit the riff into jump because he didn't know what else to do with it at the time. You can hear him trying to make a song out of it but it wasn't clicking in yet.
Watching all these old photos/videos it's painful to see that Eddie more often than not was smoking. Kind of hard to think of when you see other rockers do massive amounts of drugs and keep on keeping on until their 70's and 80's. We miss you Eddie. Wish you could have stayed around for longer but we'll always enjoy the time you gave us.
If you’ve got the bad “gene” with a propensity to develop cancer, then toking on a cigarette for 50 years, much of it spent chain smoking, is going to unfortunately catch up. RIP Eddie! I put 32 years in the cancer sticks and dread the day, and people in my family get cancer from looking at a cigarette. The young version of you doesn’t think about these things or dwell on your mortality. 50 year old me is acutely aware that I may one day pay.
After listening to this i had a premonition and I think I know exactly how many of the tapes in Eddie's studio vault have awesome, important, priceless material on them.... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE MUTHAFUKERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
This is awesome stuff. To hear the evolution and creation of Girl Gone Bad into the final recorded version is gold. I could listen to hours and hours of this stuff. 🤘🤘🤘
Eddy had an extraordinary life , he lived the rock n roll dream . When all is said and done , he did it all and some . plus he left behind some fantastic music to forever remember him by . Life is short , live it while you can because before you know it you are too old to enjoy it and its over . Thanks Eddie you did well this time around . See you on on the other side (B)
Yes, he had been listening to a lot of Alan Holdsworth around this time, and the influence is very obvious. If you haven't heard of Holdsworth, check out some of his recordings. He passed away last year, but his music lives on as Eddie's does.
@@ichikaba I heard an interview with Eddie where even said Holdsworth was the best guitar player ge ever heard and Eddie was stunned that Holdsworth was about to go work a factory job so he helped Holdsworth to get a recording contract.
@@fazole True. I've heard that interview as well. I was fortunate to see both of these gifted musicians many times between the late 70's to the mid 2000s.
BEST VAN HALEN SONG EVER, groove, savage feeling, incredible rythym and irrepetible solo, so fresh, unique drums/bass/guitar interaction... Really impressive, unforgetable.
This is GOLD. So awesome. I’m about a 5th of the way in. I just heard a riff from the Wild Life sound track! Ed broke the mold. There will never ever be another like him. E-v-e-r.
@@andydavis9963 I go to where ever that is with you man and kick that dumbass's teeth in. Eddie Van Halen is the greatest to ever do it, he better show some fucking respect
People don't realize that in 1983.. This was a entirely NEW guitar sound... Eddie was a master... Aamazing a Trio can create that much music, sound, and tone? ⚡🎸
@@rmp3648Not THIS sound. His tone changed on every damn album. This is pure ferocity. It sounds better than the album. It just blisters with electricity and this warm, woody, unbelievable power. It sounds like he's taming lightning or something.
This is 1983..like 37 years ago.....How amazing should sound this in the real time listening????? Eddie Van Halen wrote the definitive lessons for the Rock Guitar in the world. He changed the way we look at her...The way we build her..And the way we play.....Now he is gone. There's nothing to be written anymore. The Rock Guitar book is closed forever.
It was like EVH was a constant companion in my life since VH1 - of course I never met him - I don't try to play like him. I would never be able to replicate what he did, and becasue out of respect, the king should be the king and the subjects should find their own way. No matter where I was in life, there was EVH on my wall beckoning me to work at my craft - whatever it might be - to achieve the best I could achieve. Now I am sad he is gone, but so glad I was able to be here to experience his gift. And it WAS a gift to all of us
Rhythm yes! Technique amazing! Tone beautiful! But above all he was an incredibly Melodic musician. In any style! Music was his life and his life was music. You are deeply missed.❤
shows not only how great Ed was, but also the rhythm section in Al and Micheal.... hanging on for dear life trying to keep it all moving down the track. Not easy to find your place, yet they really do it well.
his goofing around is more musical than damn near anything i have ever heard in my life. and the tone is just more than heaven can offer. when its time fore me to leave this realm and move on, no matter if i go to the place next to god or if i go straight to hell i"m pretty sure the sound track will be eddie rippin on a guitar no matter where i end up. oh and the other members of the band all of them were on the same level for a whole lot of years. just off the charts great. i just wish i could have hung out with them once or twice after the shows only because i"m still a virgin and that may have cured me.
I always knew what an incredible rhythm player he was. The riffs in the textures of his tunes are extraordinary, alway new and original, with huge rhythmic sense... then Eddie was also the solo virtuoso everybody knows. But to clear up the matter, listen to the second part of “Drop dead legs". In it there is everything we need to understand... he goes in and out rhythm with extraordinary sense of rhythmic elasticity. The second part of the tune has got three layers of guitars, it begin with an amazing riff, the second layer place the chords and the third is the unbelievable solo and that is not only technique, sure, tech plays an important role here but mainly it is the inspired soul of that crazy, amazing man that makes that solo a big thrill... for long time remember, Eddie Van Halen
I was blessed to see VH live twice, the last tour with Dave, and the first tour with Sammy.. I can rest knowing I've been in the same room with Eddie twice. He may be gone, but he will never die...
I was fortunate to see EVH 5 times in my younger years twice as Van Hager. The Fair Warning tour I couldn't hear a thing for 3 days! I wouldn't trade it for the world. Young Eddie will blow your fucking mind live!
Eddie was the best quitar player in my lifetime. Still have all his stuff in my garage on heavy rotation. And his brother absolute bomb on drums. Mikey ok on bass.But the one thing we are all missing is that Big Mouth on David L ee Roth. Now everytime i heard him talk especially about self promotion i stopped and i listened cus i knew i could get some one liners for the drive in theater Friday night. Yes they had those.
I still miss Ed, and all that he was, far more days that not, and do not see this phenomenon coming to an end... I'm thinking ever. So much love for this Dutch boy. Thx for the video.
What I’m hearing is Alex helping to craft this into the behemoth that it became. There is of course no recording of the back and forth but you can hear it from time to time when he accentuates a hi-hat feel or tromps on the kick to make it known.. pick here, this works. Unbelievable to be able to hear VH working up a song.
Can you even start to imagine how it must have felt to be Eddie in those days? So much more than just the baddest guy in the room...he defined next-level on so many levels. I'm so glad I was 16 and heavy into guitar when they came around. Thanks Mom!
Girl Gone Bad. One of the songs I loved playing on the guitar! Strong rhythm. David Lee Roth's voice was perfect. I don't think Sammy Hagar could've pulled off this song.
Dave couldn't do a lot of Sammy's songs because of the range difference, and Sammy couldn't do some of Dave's songs because of - get this - the range difference. Both guys had different vocal characteristics that suited the music Van Halen was recording during their tenures. What makes this whole thing tragic is that both Roth and Hagar, along with Michael Anthony and manager Noel West, got kicked to the curb because they weren't part of the Van Halen biological family. Both Eddie and Alex drove away the people that were genuinely trying to help them. If that's not the very definition of social maladjustment, it comes close.
Ethan Henderson - Eddie got rid of long time engineer Don Landee because Ed was jealous of any control in the studio. Don was part of the sound of the classic records, I don't know what he did to make Eddie part ways with him, but you don't get rid of an engineer that good. Ed probably hated that Landee was part of the characteristic sound they had in studio.
No one comes closer lead magician and rhythm genius,who else can come up with intros like Top Jimmy Spanish Fly Dance the night away and I can go on and on,only Eddie yes only Eddie,peace! 🕊🙋🙏⚘
...is it just me ?....it still hurts when I think of Ed not being with us anymore....it's just sad as hell .... it was bad with Gregg Allman ....but not this bad !
This is my bedtime music. Listening to Eddie noodle in the studio is a warm fluffy pillow for me. Life will never be the same without him.
Ha ha!! Same here!
Love it!
He is still here ... Don't you hear ..? ...
Thank god I’m not the only one, I literally cannot sleep without hearing Van Halen first
@@acezoviet976 don't worry dude .. as Hendrix said in an interview once. . When he was asked how he would like to be remembered. .. just keep listening to the music
What separates Eddie from everyone else? His RHYTHM PLAYING. Good lord he was incredible
Agree 100% Can you imagine how solid Mikey had to be to put up with Ed’s gymnastics?!,!! Haha
Which he played 99% of the time, since it was a 3 piece band.
Absolutely. He was a riff meister. Incredible musicianship.
What separated the great Eddie Van Halen from everybody else was.
He wasn't restricted by the type of music that he played.
And what I mean is such as were most rockers of the day played blues licks.
Some such as rainy roads use classical music in his guitar playing.
Therefore resulting in they had to follow the rules majority of the time of the major and minor chords and scales of that type of style that they were playing.
Eddie Van Halen did not follow any of these rules.
He could not read sheet music.
Only took a few short lessons and was profoundly self-taught.
Therefore resulting in a freelance style of plane such as Jimi Hendrix but a little bit more open and broad scale to New horizons.
Not only did he change the way that guitar players played since his debut.
But even sheet music has been changed resulting in what is called tablature.
Which is what they had to come up with the music industry that is to compensate with what Edward Van Halen was doing.
At the time he didn't even have a clue what they were doing lol.
But besides music itself as far as reading and writing and following rules.
He did not like what they had to offer on the shelves at guitar stores.
He didn't even like the amps.
He had a certain tone in his head that he kept hearing.
So he changed them all together.
Resulting in a new way that all manufacturers make guitars nowadays.
If we're Van Halen not only change your tar and not only the way that music is written and played but he change the course of rock and roll such as Elvis Presley started and many after.
But just the whole approach to playing guitar in stage performance in itself.
Adds off to this man we are where we are today in music in general because of this man.
And I would like to say thank you to Edward Van Halen for an inspire me to play guitar and to inspire others.
His phrasing and natural relaxed sense of timing...
Of all the time on this earth we got to live in the time of Eddie Van Halen. We were lucky 🙏❤️
Girl Gone Bad, possibly the finest and most underrated VH song ever.
absolutelty and house of pain which was written for the demo tape
Great tune! But Romeo's Delight serves as my favourite unheralded VH tune
I'm not sure why they held onto it for so many years before putting it on an album. Great tune. It's neat to see how it evolved over the years.
push come to shove is one very underrated
@@iamtheliquor9400 that as well as sinners swing are 2 that I really like.
Eddie Van Halen clearly is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reincarnated. Look at his smile. He knows. Valerie knew too, and they named their son after Wolfie. We were lucky to have this virtuoso on our lives. Thank you, Eddie. You are unchained from this Earth, and immortal for eternity.
Yes, indeed. Sorry for this, but when I first heard about his son Wolfgang, I thought how would he named his second son? Ludwig... :D R.I.P. Eddie
@@szunabass Maybe!?!
Agreed! 💗🎶
You did good raising a awesome young man,Eddie. You would be so proud to know,yes he too is a genius.
Like father,like son.
What you'll never know is that beautiful young man,created out of love,is so full of love for you,his eyes well up w tears talking about you!
Father/ son bond was very strong!
He misses you with all his heart & soul & it'll be a long time for his heart to heal.....💔💔🦋🦋🦋🦋🎸🎸🎸🎸
The Circle of Love includes processing / dealing w losses.
@@tiffanyroseangeles7517 Thankfully, Eddie absolutely knew how much he was loved by his son, family, friends & fans. I think Wolf is overwhelmed at just how much love there really is for his father! But no doubt, Eddie knew his son loved him deeply.
I saw a very touching IV w/one of Valerie's brothers. He was visibly broken up about Ed's passing. He said Wolf was the last person he saw alive before he went to sleep that night. He died the next morning. 💔
Sooo glad Eddie Van halen was in my generation! 🎸 thank you for all your incredible music! 🎵🎶 rest in peace! ❤👑😇
With how flashy and iconic Eddie's guitar playing was we sometimes forget about how damn good of a songwriter he also was.
The absolute best all around guitar player there ever was and ever will be...period!
Open the Vault Wolfie. I cant get enough of the Greatness your pops left us
Girl Gone Bad is a MASTERPIECE
Yep, one of the best tracks off that album that rarely, if ever gets played on the radio.
Thanks!
Best pick slides period ever!
No one gets close.
Been into EVH since I was around 14.. 49 now and still just as mesmerized...
Me too, 13 - 51yrs ❤🤍🖤
I’m 28 and have been a Van Halen fan since I was 11.
Edward had the best Marshall tone ever recorded. That tone along with his rhythm chops……MAGIC!
Always chasing it!!!!🎸❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸
Not sure he was using his beautiful old Marshall here. The gain is too high. He was experimenting with other amps at this time.
Still… it’s beautiful.❤
Yes I wish Ed put out an instrumental album like satriani Kinda line his extended solo at his concert.
Hearing lots about Eddie and Alex but not enough about Mike. What a rock of a bass player. Extremely underrated and always plays the right thing.
…and Michael Anthony’s high pitch voice was always a great backup..
Right you are.
That's the thing about the bass; in the hands of a master, you hardly notice it. But the moment it's gone, nothing sounds right. Without a rock like Mikey, Eddie would have not been able to reach out as far as he did and still stay grounded.
That's cuz his Bass Solo Sucked Total Ass!!!
It's a Bass Guitar and he's making it squeak and squeal very high pitched notes 🎶. If I was the Van Halen's I would've told him to play something that's not Oxymoronic!!! But nope all effects pedals and strobe lights. I'm sure I'm not the only VH fan to think this cuz somebody else somewhere along the way will like my comment too prove so. Thank you and I do love Mike's background vocals and he serves every song with purpose albeit said Solo.
@@johnpoertner1361yea his bass solo did suck.
He even looks like the best guitarist you’ve ever heard . This is the best guitar lesson I’ve ever had ! Thanks
I just spent a few days learning 5150. I have a brand new appreciation of Eddies rhythm playing. Amazing riff master. The King.
He was as good at rhythm as he was lead.
Where you been? (You just finding that out) Just kidding. Rock on!
@@shawnstarks1743 I didn't have the time because of the life I was living to really play anymore. Now that's behind me the guitar is in front of me again and I'm learning all the songs I always wanted to play. Still wish my fingers were 2' longer though. RIP Ed x
@@mickweall It’s all good man. Never give up.
Good for you that's a badass riff
THIS is part of the reason why Van Halen is so great. Alex had the patience to allow Eddie to work his parts into perfection without whining about all the stopping and going. This is like watching Rodin chipping away at granite to form The Thinker. Absolute brilliance and genius at work and Alex is the perfect accomplice.
Brotherly Love.
And now Alex is alone, without Ed, for the 1st time in 65 years. I am heartbroken for him. I heard an IV recently where Ed said, "I don't think I could ever play without Al"... I imagine Al feels the same way about Ed. 💔
That's the secret of all the greats..I have played with many, and could never get something like that going. They wanted to move on to the next hole.
Ed said they had a bond because when they got here as kids, they didn't know any English. They only had each other to talk to.
that was my first thought that hit me as well.micheal anthony as well.al and mike both do minimal residual noises or continuations .its quite amaing and i dont remember a band of member thag all will go down in history and are in the hall of fame of special musicians and are both beyond superstars in their own right.but here are a drummer maybe the goat.i would never pick another ahead of him.and the same cor a bass plar who may be the goat and i would never pick another ovdr him especially when you realize and consider that mike anthony is probably the greatest vocalist and singer to also play the bass..again i know there have been some really technically wonderful drummers same gods for bassists.the greatest ones numbers are exponentially reduced when you speak of the gdeatest bassists and vocallist in one human and i just feel incapable of picking,putting,declaring,for that matter even i find it hard to mention some of the other greats names much less putting anyone of them ahead of these 3 dudes.i really would love to know what brought about these 3 guys in a band,in a studio,cutting,chipping striking of the parts that arent what they wanted to be left in the making of a
masterpiece.adding to,using parts that ended up discarded but used as a scaffolxing,or a bridge to get to the masterpiece and its such a genius approach in the way these 3 have ended up and are on a cleary magical,mythical,unatainable by many who search fof it,a golxen highway,a set method that is and has proven to be at least one oc very little formulas to achieving im.ortality and achieving master works of music.
was it unspoken?and the bass and drums just by simple the order of the genius of music and the natudal evolution of things that magically fall in place.was it that they were listening to such a inovagive genius of a creator with a masterful ear for sound and what sounds right and they were almost hipnoticed or under ghe control of that specially thing.that thing that everyone really xoesnt expirience and hear and witness fifst hand.i had a best freind growing up.his dad was always trying to have him follow his footsteps and be like him and like the things he did.he waz a succesful entrepanur and buisnessman who owned several thriving compaNys.he developed land and built commercial buildings.but my freind billy did bax in school,bad i math,science,undiciplined ,always getting bad grades and failing.he had some attention in class problems.his mother was an acentric artist who had some mental izsues that worsened and split the parents up and the dad took both brothers and raised them mostley by himself.mother lived across town in and out of mental homes never too involved with the kids.and a real hatred of her from billys dad was alway there and mutual from
her.his xad hater her for ber eccentric artistic qaulitys.extreme mood shifts,etc.and billy was like moms adtistic brain.his younger bro was like dads brain.but billys dad tried to not accept that his mind was like hers.and want him to be like that since she ruined the family and they butted
heads.
one day his dad realised that you cant change a artistic minded brain into a mathematical minded brain.there are only a rare amount of people born with ability of both.Leonardo davinci is the biggest
example.interestingly i have both.i can paint like davinci
and im an engineer and architect.and musically inclined.
as well.
but the day billys dad gave up,he went down to his best creind growing up c.b. lacy and bought a guitar from him that lacy said was good.in fact lacy was in the band stillwater and just left the studio to record their 1st and most famous album and needed some extra cash to get the al um promoted sold him a gibson explorer mahogony or stained body ,with the drop neck style with lear dialz.anyway brought it home for billys bithday.paid i think 3 thousand dollars ,alot in those days,and billys dad always had money invdsted in new ventures and had money but not livinv a rich lifestyle.that was his ztatement to billy that i accept you the way you are.billy picked it up plugged in the marshall amp he got with it
and after never having a guitar before, began to play by ear anything he herd or remembered .which he femembered things he didnt know he had herx before.i wdnt to my car took the brand new cassette tape of van halens album with hot summer nights out of my radio and left it for billy to listen to .the next day i ame to his house and he played the entire album both sides every song,every note exactly.exept he actually mimiced the same sound as eddie but it was better.billy was a onece i a lifetime genius with music.his ear was beyond amazing it was actually scary and he would ripp off a 30 minute classicall masterpiece from some freaking musical orchestral piece piece that him or anyone had ever liztenx to.his mother was pregnant with him and its said she listenex to that type of musi way too loud angeri g his dad who thought it was to loud for the baby i sixe her sfill.it was magic type of gift.and he could and would combine the world of everything together into his own
creation.he would start tipping these epic jamsolos that would never stop or have to think.only pauseing at the perfe t moment the session creation required to be ep
ic. and he would scream the most perfect soundi g electic guitar sound that was so similar to the eddie sounds on this recording but more warmish and epic.thats hard to say that it was betfer than evh.but it is a true story.his jams would go on for an hour ,then 2 hrs.sometimes he would incorporate intthe jam seemlessly the entire eruption solo...an hour later you would realize hes playi g the entire scene both guitars steve vai in the movie crossroads.every part exept way better adding his mixtures into improvment.he could mix in flameco spanish,style s and we would have these huge parths in 9 10 11 12 grades making tons of money charging 5 dollars to get in.a giant barn or open field.i set up a way to get power ran o a marshall amp connected to a pa system amp and speaker and after the first time it bappenex i knew big things were gonna happen.billy would just be in the big spaces and start to rip.
people would hear the sound and would start to make a circle around him to see him and see what was making the magic sounds.it didnt take long for everyo e there in a 25 foot ircle trying to be near billy standing on a
speaker .people would see random adults and kids at the quickie store while they were vettin beer and like they had seen bigfoot or amaing thing and tell everyone shat was haPpening and where at .next thing i know the circle is 50 feet deep.then 75 feet.cars lights in the distant fields like a highway comming....from then on we would have a party every week or two and the numbers of people was scaring me.adults parents kids ,elderly people even.were all trying to hear and see.billy would play fof hours with out stopping making it all sound as if it were 1 massive song.no drums no singing no bass.just billy.his fingers would be so swollen and fingertips with bistered spots next to giant callusez like leather.he couldnt hold his pencil in a way that you could read his handwriting and would get f on tests due to handwriting legibility..the shit was so surreal then and lookin back anx bringing back those memorys.so billy stafted to change .he was always so cool and normal and sense of humor.after high school billy move to atlanta to work on reroofing company our other freind started.i would go visit and go to falsons games but billy would more and more be off unrea chable when not working.then i asked about him latef and he had deteriorated more into a scitzophrenic behavior lime his mom had when close to his age.i was watching antiques roadshow one day and saw a ghitar that was identi al to billys.the appraiser pointed out that there are a cuople ways that that year was easy to identif since gibson only uzed the combination of clear epoxy dials with that body sthle and that color of stain body.it was identical when i looked at old pics.they priced it at 96000$. in the lesser qaulity one on he show.but this one of billys had re
corded a famouse Album as well.i made some calls and the value above that price was just gu
estimated by a couple of people at more han double.and would by it for double.so i try to get ahold of billy.who was broke,and to paranoid to come out of a camoflauged treebouse he was living in centenial park.nobody even knew he lived there e,pt our freind who would take him water and food.i ad go tell billy the ood news that he was practically rich back then values.my ffeind alled me back next day.....he said billy didnt have it.he idnt ave any guitar.he pawned it2 monthz ago for 40 dollars and was to paranoid o go get it.he hought it was an fbi setup .....my reind said e had he money to .be auzd e brought is mail that ad cash from his dad in it.wow....his mild pot smoki g and rinki g,and maybe some acid use turned billys life into insanity.he killed iself a few onths later they say rom pure malnutri ion,not hydrating or taking baths and just got thin they found him dead in park somewhere.
but this tape reminds me of billy .sorry for the fucking short novel here.but back to he subject.did eddie tell he guys to limit your playing and just listen and follow and et e lo ate he direction.or did hey know without being told.or as it he producer or studio manager that got hat going.be
ause it so smart and it couldbe a producer like they had at those times.who was sitti g in or rdcording with hem in his session?.if you know that
To hear this, knowing the end result, is just amazing. Insight into the creative genius and process. Hope more of this comes to light.
People forget what a hell of a rhythm player Eddie is.
I think that's his secret. Everything is so in lock-step with Alex, it's disgusting. I remember him saying about Wolfgang, "Oh, thank God he's got rhythm."
Without it, you have no career.
@Whip Lash
All I am gonna say is to each their own it's only my opinion
Tapping has nothing to do with rhythm. You are the one who is not a guitarist. Maybe you do play but must suck.
if you can't play rhythm guitar u basically can't have a career in music - unless of course you're so good at lead you get hired regardless
Clifford Amey Eddie did everything and carried this band to be the best melodic hard rock band ever!!!
No other guitarist in the world can sound like that!
Agre, is impossible!!! 🤘
Maybe Jimmy page but I think Eddie is the best rip 🪦
Wrong. A lot of people sound like this. This isn't Eddie but Kurt Mitchell. Look it up. Besides , I have the tape
Simply the greatest guitarist ... ever. Pretty amazing the various renditions he came up with before settling on the particular version we all got to eventually hear on record.
As a drummer, it's awesome to hear Alex working out his part in real time...the evolution of his part in his mind as they play things again and again.
The methods of madness and craftin' masterpieces! 👍
I miss Eddie so much that even hearing him tune up warms my heart . RIP G.O.A.T.
Eddie was the most wicked rhythm guitar player. Man the guy's riffs can make me fell like busting through a brick wall. Very powerful emotional connection I have with his music. Van Halen is the shit!
Greatest guitarist in the world with the best smile in Rock n Roll history ...thanks man ..rip
This is incredible! FU to the thumbs down people. Haters! Love 💘 you forever Eddie
Eddie was so much more than a lead guitarist.... he was writing the soundtrack to my upbringing
The Master Guitarist! Untouchable!!
We need a box set of this stuff...
probably ... when Eddie dies and the van Halen brand explodes
Luis Luna Moon the time is now
@@willparker547 who would say that my words came true :( Now it's only up to wolf and alex to do things
Luis Luna Moon man you called it
@@21LuisLuna21 Irzoff has said that they will go through the vault now that EVH has passed and see what we can get..
I don't know why exactly, but I've been taking EVH's passing pretty badly, and listening to early VH for a month now. This still sucks.
Me too. The whole thing is really sad. Why did he have to leave us? God's timetable is not our timetable, that's for sure. Hopefully he's starting over in a better world where he'll bring them guitar greatness like they've never heard before...
Me as well, brother. Eddie took a piece of all us with him.
I know how ya feel
I've been listening to old Rush lately
Neil has been gone a year
so do I
Same here still..can’t stop playing the songs on this album especially and playing it on guitar and just missing the guy...
Anyone else just leave this playing while you are doing whatever stuff around the house? Feels like you are near the rehearsal space just no big deal... ;)
David Harris Yup...totally just did that, lol
very much…thats pretty funny…
Eventually there will be a Sirius XM channel of 24-hour-a-day Eddie Van Halen practice tapes.
Yeah, EVH is down in MY basement just messin' around! lol If you have a loud stereo down there..
I'm 51 now and started playing guitar when I was 12 years old because of this guy. What a lucky person I was to grow up at the time I did. Saw them in concert 5 times. I wonder how many other young kids he inspired to to play?
Me! I Turn 50 next month. Still playing VH riffs in my little studio every day. Only picked up a guitar because of EVH. RIP to the King
Me. 42 now, started at 12. Saw Eddie once live. Amazing show
He was the man who first made me take notice of the guitar at age 6 in the late 80's, when I heard "Beat it" on the radio.
I was just blown away, and that same year my mum bought me an accoustic guitar. Music is my life, and Eddie's the man who inspired me to be the guitarist I am today at 41. R.I.P Edward 🤘
I was already playing for 3 years when VH1 came out - I was blown out of the universe by his playing and still am - I could not comprehend what I was hearing and at the same time I was ashamed and sad about my own playing - I feel extremely lucky to be alive during his time on earth. Sure there are other rock electric guitarists, but since 1978, every one of them is influenced by EVH - he was the king. RIP EVH and Jeff BEck
@@joerectifier Amen brother. Makes me cry today to think of Eddies passing even today.
Ed's iso tracks is like listening to mamma's heartbeat from inside the womb.
This is a birds eye view into some of the greatest guitar riffs ever
The world will never be the same i could listen to this all day thanks Eddie for all you have given us
I could listen to these for hours.
Even Ed's noodling about shows a glimpse of what creative genies that is the one and only Edward Van Halen !!! Thanks for sharing.
"During Ed's noodling you can hear parts of "Top Of The World" :"
Top Of The World actually came from the riff he played over the outro to Jump.
I was just about to comment this
Everyone knew this. I’m sixteen and known this since I was 7
@@keeganjones924congratulations you’ve know it since you were 7 want a cookie news flash no one gives a fuck about your bullshit no one really knew until they played with Sammy stfu clown
@@thebullshitchannel1762 bro stfu. What’s the disrespect for. U can obviously hear the same riff
Hearing this now, seems like he fit the riff into jump because he didn't know what else to do with it at the time. You can hear him trying to make a song out of it but it wasn't clicking in yet.
That chirp Ed got from his pick is music to my ears. You can always tell when he’s playing a Marshall. Boy do I miss him…R.I.P. GOAT 🙏🎸
I thank God every day that Eddie wrote the music to my youth.
🤘😎🤘
I could listen all day long. This stuff is great.
Watching all these old photos/videos it's painful to see that Eddie more often than not was smoking. Kind of hard to think of when you see other rockers do massive amounts of drugs and keep on keeping on until their 70's and 80's.
We miss you Eddie. Wish you could have stayed around for longer but we'll always enjoy the time you gave us.
He did tons of cocaine and booze
Kieth Richards is still going strong
dude was a dedicated smoker, drug & alcohol abuser. Amazing talent & frightening demons. Gone far too soon.
If you’ve got the bad “gene” with a propensity to develop cancer, then toking on a cigarette for 50 years, much of it spent chain smoking, is going to unfortunately catch up. RIP Eddie! I put 32 years in the cancer sticks and dread the day, and people in my family get cancer from looking at a cigarette. The young version of you doesn’t think about these things or dwell on your mortality. 50 year old me is acutely aware that I may one day pay.
After listening to this i had a premonition and I think I know exactly how many of the tapes in Eddie's studio vault have awesome, important, priceless material on them....
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE MUTHAFUKERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
This is awesome stuff. To hear the evolution and creation of Girl Gone Bad into the final recorded version is gold. I could listen to hours and hours of this stuff. 🤘🤘🤘
Eddy had an extraordinary life , he lived the rock n roll dream . When all is said and done , he did it all and some . plus he left behind some fantastic music to forever remember him by . Life is short , live it while you can because before you know it you are too old to enjoy it and its over . Thanks Eddie you did well this time around . See you on on the other side (B)
Eddies tone evolved so much over the years, his tone in this particular era is my favorite. He put so much into that sound.
Yes, he had been listening to a lot of Alan Holdsworth around this time, and the influence is very obvious. If you haven't heard of Holdsworth, check out some of his recordings. He passed away last year, but his music lives on as Eddie's does.
@@ichikaba
I heard an interview with Eddie where even said Holdsworth was the best guitar player ge ever heard and Eddie was stunned that Holdsworth was about to go work a factory job so he helped Holdsworth to get a recording contract.
@@fazole True. I've heard that interview as well. I was fortunate to see both of these gifted musicians many times between the late 70's to the mid 2000s.
Same here. 1984 era tone can’t be topped.
Ohh my God, thank you for posting this, Damn his playing was so exciting, the best & coolest guitar player ever!!!
BEST VAN HALEN SONG EVER, groove, savage feeling, incredible rythym and irrepetible solo, so fresh, unique drums/bass/guitar interaction... Really impressive, unforgetable.
This is GOLD. So awesome. I’m about a 5th of the way in. I just heard a riff from the Wild Life sound track! Ed broke the mold. There will never ever be another like him. E-v-e-r.
It's hard to know he's gone.
@@andydavis9963 I go to where ever that is with you man and kick that dumbass's teeth in. Eddie Van Halen is the greatest to ever do it, he better show some fucking respect
That man lived life at 1000 mph. I know it’s Def Leppard and all but. Better to burn out. Than fade away.
that is true everyday... still.
People don't realize that in 1983.. This was a entirely NEW guitar sound... Eddie was a master... Aamazing a Trio can create that much music, sound, and tone? ⚡🎸
That sound had been around since 1978...
@@rmp3648Not THIS sound. His tone changed on every damn album. This is pure ferocity. It sounds better than the album. It just blisters with electricity and this warm, woody, unbelievable power. It sounds like he's taming lightning or something.
@@e.l.norton he is!!
Man I wish we could hear them talking as they worked out this kick ass song!! Great video🤘
"Al hand me another beer."
Yeah that's the dream ...just to see
This one’s rare. THANK YOU
This is 1983..like 37 years ago.....How amazing should sound this in the real time listening????? Eddie Van Halen wrote the definitive lessons for the Rock Guitar in the world. He changed the way we look at her...The way we build her..And the way we play.....Now he is gone. There's nothing to be written anymore. The Rock Guitar book is closed forever.
Spot on comment. I've played for 33 years and Ed is the final mountain.
Very well said. Chills
@21:28 amazing to hear how early some of the riffs from the late-Sammy era were being worked out!
It was like EVH was a constant companion in my life since VH1 - of course I never met him - I don't try to play like him. I would never be able to replicate what he did, and becasue out of respect, the king should be the king and the subjects should find their own way. No matter where I was in life, there was EVH on my wall beckoning me to work at my craft - whatever it might be - to achieve the best I could achieve. Now I am sad he is gone, but so glad I was able to be here to experience his gift. And it WAS a gift to all of us
Miss you Eddie! Thanks for all your music left behind for us to listen to!! R.I.P! Eddie! ✌😎🎸🎶💔😪
Incredible to hear this master piece being crafted by Ed !
Amazing, every time I listen to this! Thank you!
Wow getting chills, this is like being in the Kitchen with the Master Chef of Guitar.
Eddie was also the greatest guitar salesman of all time and amplifiers......undisputed
Rhythm yes!
Technique amazing!
Tone beautiful!
But above all he was an incredibly Melodic musician.
In any style!
Music was his life and his life was music.
You are deeply missed.❤
shows not only how great Ed was, but also the rhythm section in Al and Micheal.... hanging on for dear life trying to keep it all moving down the track. Not easy to find your place, yet they really do it well.
As a drummer it always amazed me on how much Edward emphasized the "and" of the beat instead of the downbeat.
Their dad played a lot of jazz and they basically apprenticed under him, besides whatever else,first. .
his goofing around is more musical than damn near anything i have ever heard in my life. and the tone is just more than heaven can offer. when its time fore me to leave this realm and move on, no matter if i go to the place next to god or if i go straight to hell i"m pretty sure the sound track will be eddie rippin on a guitar no matter where i end up. oh and the other members of the band all of them were on the same level for a whole lot of years. just off the charts great. i just wish i could have hung out with them once or twice after the shows only because i"m still a virgin and that may have cured me.
I always knew what an incredible rhythm player he was. The riffs in the textures of his tunes are extraordinary, alway new and original, with huge rhythmic sense... then Eddie was also the solo virtuoso everybody knows. But to clear up the matter, listen to the second part of “Drop dead legs". In it there is everything we need to understand... he goes in and out rhythm with extraordinary sense of rhythmic elasticity. The second part of the tune has got three layers of guitars, it begin with an amazing riff, the second layer place the chords and the third is the unbelievable solo and that is not only technique, sure, tech plays an important role here but mainly it is the inspired soul of that crazy, amazing man that makes that solo a big thrill... for long time remember, Eddie Van Halen
Well said!
LEGENDARY! DDL- MASTERPIECE as is all of his work! 👍
This is what you can do when you have your own studio!
You can hear him and Alex jamming out an early version of GGB during the 1983 US Festival. Pure magic.
also there's an earlier version played in January 1983 in Sao Paulo
Yep
I could listen to Eddie all day, every day. Thank you for this 🥰🥰
I was blessed to see VH live twice, the last tour with Dave, and the first tour with Sammy.. I can rest knowing I've been in the same room with Eddie twice. He may be gone, but he will never die...
This channel is pure gold. Thank you.
Prime time! Edward at the top of his game. Listening to this doesn’t make me feel bad about worshiping him in my early teens.
I was fortunate to see EVH 5 times in my younger years twice as Van Hager. The Fair Warning tour I couldn't hear a thing for 3 days! I wouldn't trade it for the world. Young Eddie will blow your fucking mind live!
Yes he did in 1978( Detroit ), and I became an Addict.
Wow, early version of Girl Gone Bad!!
And Standing on Top of the World
great album even today....saw them twice for that tour.....2nd row
He is phenomenal like,so effortless,so constructive,girl gone bad and drop dead legs are pure twisters of the mind for guitar plauing
This is flipping amazing! Hearing all these parts isolated.
Eddie was the best quitar player in my lifetime. Still have all his stuff in my garage on heavy rotation. And his brother absolute bomb on drums. Mikey ok on bass.But the one thing we are all missing is that Big Mouth on David L ee Roth. Now everytime i heard him talk especially about self promotion i stopped and i listened cus i knew i could get some one liners for the drive in theater Friday night. Yes they had those.
i met ed once in 86 he was as cool as can be i still havnt washed my hand after i shook his
I still miss Ed, and all that he was, far more days that not, and do not see this phenomenon coming to an end... I'm thinking ever. So much love for this Dutch boy. Thx for the video.
Love hearing the process, great ROCK songs in their infancy... RIP King Edward
What I’m hearing is Alex helping to craft this into the behemoth that it became.
There is of course no recording of the back and forth but you can hear it from time to time when he accentuates a hi-hat feel or tromps on the kick to make it known.. pick here, this works.
Unbelievable to be able to hear VH working up a song.
Mind blowing hearing him working this stuff out at his creative peak. Wow. Man Alex did a great job joining his world and keeping it going. Siblings.
They should have worked with Sam for like seven eight years then back to Roth then back to Sam back to Roth lol . .
This is awesome!! Thank you for posting this
Can you even start to imagine how it must have felt to be Eddie in those days? So much more than just the baddest guy in the room...he defined next-level on so many levels.
I'm so glad I was 16 and heavy into guitar when they came around. Thanks Mom!
Edward van halen
Guitar God
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Eddies Noodling is others careers for sure.
Wow, didn't know he was working on Top of the World during this period!!
Girl Gone Bad. One of the songs I loved playing on the guitar! Strong rhythm. David Lee Roth's voice was perfect. I don't think Sammy Hagar could've pulled off this song.
Dave couldn't do a lot of Sammy's songs because of the range difference, and Sammy couldn't do some of Dave's songs because of - get this - the range difference. Both guys had different vocal characteristics that suited the music Van Halen was recording during their tenures.
What makes this whole thing tragic is that both Roth and Hagar, along with Michael Anthony and manager Noel West, got kicked to the curb because they weren't part of the Van Halen biological family. Both Eddie and Alex drove away the people that were genuinely trying to help them. If that's not the very definition of social maladjustment, it comes close.
Ethan Henderson - Eddie got rid of long time engineer Don Landee because Ed was jealous of any control in the studio. Don was part of the sound of the classic records,
I don't know what he did to make Eddie part ways with him, but you don't get rid of an engineer that good. Ed probably hated that Landee was part of the characteristic sound they had in studio.
@@henderson023 you're socially maladjusted. Family always comes first.
@@Fretfeeler Whatever you say, man. Whatever you say...
Sammy could sing ANYTHING!!!
15:46 Sounds like "Can't get this stuff no more"
21:27 Sounds like "Top of the World"
No one comes closer lead magician and rhythm genius,who else can come up with intros like Top Jimmy Spanish Fly Dance the night away and I can go on and on,only Eddie yes only Eddie,peace! 🕊🙋🙏⚘
I’m guessing that this is new to TH-cam? It’s the 1st time that I’ve seen it & I get notifications for most EVH videos. Thanks for sharing it!
When I hear these raw licks and melody's It brings me back to my youth
This is pure gold
Thanks Ed !
thanks, it"s gold
...is it just me ?....it still hurts when I think of Ed not being with us anymore....it's just sad as hell .... it was bad with Gregg Allman ....but not this bad !
Greg Allman died? 🤔
So precise with incredible feel simultaneously.
This going to gone on forever. I was playing on the road when he hit the waves. Changed everything.
Even when he makes a mistake it still sounds good!
A mistake, Say What!? It’s Eddie, there are No mistakes just alternates!
..yes, and that's what they always said about Jimi Hendrix also...
Girl Gone Bad.. rest easy King