Tell you what.. You hit the nail on the head.. Everyone always says Eddie was a master shredder, which he was no doubt. But he was every bit of a legendary rhythm player and riff maker!🎸🔥🤘
Ha ha ha ha ha now that's funny . That's a great idea , then I'll walk outside and say OK ladies line up there's enough of me to go around for all of you.
i recently watched a video about the "scale" that eddie loved playing and its amazing because if you played it out slowly, some of the notes would sound sour. he just played it so blisteringly fast and started/ended on the right notes within the same scale that you literally couldn't tell
This song has such hard rock nostalgia all through it. I'm afraid to say there may never be anything this good again. A majestic snapshot in time that was the best there ever was.
If you do not like Eddie's tone on this record, you have an ear made of concrete!! The man embodies rhythm and melodies! R.I P. Mr. Edward Van Halen, you were taken too early and NEVER to be forgotten!!
That tone is easy to do. a lot of stage pedals. Tom Scholz of Boston designed a lot of those. However EVH designed all guitars and affects and amplification to match his personal style. His amazing technique and classical training hasn't been matched and in my opinion never will be matched. people try. nope. not happening.
It's very clear this man had a brilliant sense of rhythm his dynamics, feel and playing are well advanced for someone his age at the time of this recording....
Always thought this was one of THE BEST tunes on VH1 - and the solo is so ridiculously good , the change and modulation it goes thru is like it’s own little song to itself Simply Amazing rest in peace, Ed
@Liberty AboveAllElse Yes. I'm getting jaded with a lot of the guitar tones that were the ones that I once loved. Especially hearing it this way,..out of the mix.
@@stricknine8623 But if you were to listen to isolated tracks from today’s popular rock songs, you!d realize that they damn sure knew how to make a guitar tone fit properly in a mix back then. Great guitar players like Edward Van Halen had a unique voice. Today’s crap is cookie cutter tone. Can’t hardly distinguish one tone from the next. I guess you could say I’m jaded by listening to today’s cookie cutter digital sing album processing where they all sound the same.
@@TheAxe4Ever Well I'm certainly not exhausted with today's music. Its just not my thing at all, so I keep periodic tabs on things just in case but routinely stay disappointed and uninterested. I was figuratively emersed in the guitar rock of late 70s and all through the 80s. Not just a listener, a player. I spent all of my teen years locked away spending several hours a day learning to play from Eddie Van Halen, Rhoads, DeMartini, Lynch, Vito Bratta, Clapton, Collins, Rossington, Carlisi, Page, Gibbons,, ect,...In most cases, note for note on the leads. But I was REALLY into the DeMartini sound and Van Halen sound...The style and phrasing was a big part of it but so was the tone. I still love those guys but I'm beginning to not like the tone anymore. Of course isolated is one thing but even in the mix.
Sadly it's not heard here but the rhythm guitar under the solo is my absolute favorite part of this song. So simple yet so perfect... Eddie had a swagger that in my opinion will never be matched.
That big wet reverb in the right speaker and dry in the left gave this album such a far out spacey feel, like fire it up dude, like wow man, far out, haha. I can smell some good bud in the air right now...
I’d rebuy every album all over again if they were just Ed’s isolated guitar tracks. He’s got such a groove of his own going on that there doesn’t need to be much more.
Nobody will ever match Edward Van Halen's talent and innovation as a classical trained pianist and a guitar designer and amplification designer and lucky to be in the beginning of anti-disco which I certainly did not like. He nailed it all. RIP Eddie. You way more than ever deserve it.
On balance, this has always been my favorite examples of Eddie's playing. That first ripping fill he plays is almost impossible to play because of his feel/swing.
It all began back in 2016 when I listened to Eddie for the very first time back then I was 17 and it had been being 2 years since I started learning the guitar I was more into grunge and alternative But when I heard "panama" and "ain't talking bout love" I was speechless I thought to myself "this is not a human being made music this is magic" How can anyone extract such sounds from an instrument? I started listening more and more to their songs and I was constantly amazed Then, I decided that from now and on I should be putting all my efforts into guitar so that I'd become a true guitar player not even as half as Eddie was but at least I'd do my best I wish I could meet him one day But not all our wishes come true He left us When I heard his death announcement back in last October I felt like a piece of me died with him But I promised myself that I'll keep on going with the same will until I reach my dream I wasn't born in the 80's or the 70's like most of his fans but I know that he's the ultimate pinnacle And yes he's the one who inspired me to pick up the electric guitar and go forward RIP Eddie
The original fan's were born in the 60's. Just saying. I was 17. In 78. I had the pleasure of watching VH blow Sabbath off the stage that year at the Philadelphia spectrum
Hope it's still going for you. Two years after Ed's passing and I'm still listening to his greatness. The difference between Eddie and everyone else is the humour in his playing. He was having fun and it always shows.
Crisp,,,Immediate,,,,Never missing a beat despite all the delightful ad lib detours.....Just FANTASTIC.....Didn't even need more than one guitar track...Although I think on this one they may have placed his rhythm guitar behind the main solo.
this tone is different from the rest. cant even say the perfect brown sound like this is in any other song. would kill for the tone on this song. love this song and it is by far my favorite for that reason.
Just insane tone from hell!!! That ending F bar 5 chord just screaming out of that cranked Marshall with the feedback harmonics!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One and only ......... God must have created him .... Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger was to Bodybuilding coming from Austria Eddie was the same of Modern Rock.....
When the first album was done, Eddie didn't know how to do overdubs, so he begged Ted Templeman to let him do all of his guitar parts just like he played them live, switching from rhythm to lead. That makes him even more of a virtuoso to me, he didn't know how to do studio tricks.
While he's holding the B... you hear a 100% dampened pick scrape across all strings (twice in the song) and you will NEVER hear this on the album through all the Bass, Drums and Vocals, etc... he actually does it THREE TIMES in this song... and so many, many open string "ticks" between notes, just for timing.... and that squealing guitar picking right after the main solo which is melodic to the two chords, his tone REALLY shows there.
Not sure about that - there was only one working pickup in the Frankenstrat (the bridge humbucker). The single-coil neck pickup didn't work, it wasn't wired up.
I’ve been trying to nail that guitar lick at 57 sec the last few days and I’ve had the Tab Book for about 30 years and because of this isolated track, I can hear that the Tab is not accurate and Eddie is playing it differently. It sounds easier than the tab. Can’t wait to try it when I get home from work.
It sounds like a punch-in played over what you hear on this track. But you are right, that lick on the album is unbelievable and no one tabs the other part.
I also owned a Van Halen twb book, was pretty old too, and I noticed MOST of the tablature couldn't be more wrong than what Eddie is playing. So I threw it out lol
One of the hardest things I have to grapple with as a musician is that you need to have your own unique sound to be a great musician, because there's nothing I'd like more than just sounding and writing like Eddie Van Halen.
rythm with ibanez destroyer korina wood solo one of his first frankstrat. practically all of his first album was recorded like this, where there's not vibrato bridge it is ibanez
I believe this might be the return feed from the echo chamber. Sunset Sound had a pretty nice one, I've heard. So this IS an iso track but doesn't sound like like much, if any, of the direct mics.
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Eddie is rhythm. Eddie is lead. Eddie is awesome.
Ian McSweet Shut up you virgin. (Sent from TracFone)
DJ North Korea uhh ok... 😂
Eddie is leadthm
Tell you what.. You hit the nail on the head.. Everyone always says Eddie was a master shredder, which he was no doubt. But he was every bit of a legendary rhythm player and riff maker!🎸🔥🤘
Legend
I like playing these isolated guitar tracks full blast and making my neighbors think I'm a guitar genius.
Ha ha ha ha ha now that's funny . That's a great idea , then I'll walk outside and say OK ladies line up there's enough of me to go around for all of you.
Thats hilarious!
LOLOLOL...... thanks for the idea. Best comment yet. \m/
Good idea until there a block party and they ask you to play
Ha, LMAO.
This album has one of the best guitar tones of all time
One of the best name the others please
@@scottcoleman5088 the other Van Halen albums
I was just thinking this song in particular has such a great sound.
Ty Tabor of _King's X_
amen!!!
I love how this video is categorized as education
Oh you're getting schooled alright.
I feel edgeamacated
Take notes kids, don’t take it too far in the back of your car
Rightfully so!
Timing technique with the Rhythm and the solo creativity it will be education from now to Eternity
Love how Eddie hits that F instead of E at 3:18 but still makes it fit. I’ve always loved that.
I think that was accidental but they kept it
i recently watched a video about the "scale" that eddie loved playing and its amazing because if you played it out slowly, some of the notes would sound sour. he just played it so blisteringly fast and started/ended on the right notes within the same scale that you literally couldn't tell
@@wadewilson4998chromaticaly
I noticed that more recently than I'd like to admit
Any wrong note can be a right note if followed by the right notes 😅 He's taking a page from jazz in a way
This song has such hard rock nostalgia all through it. I'm afraid to say there may never be anything this good again. A majestic snapshot in time that was the best there ever was.
If you do not like Eddie's tone on this record, you have an ear made of concrete!! The man embodies rhythm and melodies! R.I P. Mr. Edward Van Halen, you were taken too early and NEVER to be forgotten!!
Eddie will be greatly missed.
My favorite guitarist.
His rhythm playing blows me away.
Been chasing that great tone ever since the 1st time I heard VH 1. Simply the best tone ever IMHO
Eddie was best.....I also love his solo in live, Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do. From their Balance album.
That tone is easy to do. a lot of stage pedals. Tom Scholz of Boston designed a lot of those. However EVH designed all guitars and affects and amplification to match his personal style. His amazing technique and classical training hasn't been matched and in my opinion never will be matched. people try. nope. not happening.
That’s not your opinion, that’s a fact. It doesn’t get any better than this
It's very clear this man had a brilliant sense of rhythm his dynamics, feel and playing are well advanced for someone his age at the time of this recording....
Always thought this was one of THE BEST tunes on VH1 - and the solo is so ridiculously good , the change and modulation it goes thru is like it’s own little song to itself
Simply Amazing
rest in peace, Ed
When I can’t wait to feel your lovin comes in. Holy shit. Best power chord tone ever!
Dude I know man! So sick
I prefer to hear Eddies rhythm more than leads. That tone.
Have some playing with your REVERB.
@Liberty AboveAllElse
Yes. I'm getting jaded with a lot of the guitar tones that were the ones that I once loved. Especially hearing it this way,..out of the mix.
@@stricknine8623 But if you were to listen to isolated tracks from today’s popular rock songs, you!d realize that they damn sure knew how to make a guitar tone fit properly in a mix back then. Great guitar players like Edward Van Halen had a unique voice. Today’s crap is cookie cutter tone. Can’t hardly distinguish one tone from the next. I guess you could say I’m jaded by listening to today’s cookie cutter digital sing album processing where they all sound the same.
@@TheAxe4Ever
Well I'm certainly not exhausted with today's music. Its just not my thing at all, so I keep periodic tabs on things just in case but routinely stay disappointed and uninterested.
I was figuratively emersed in the guitar rock of late 70s and all through the 80s. Not just a listener, a player. I spent all of my teen years locked away spending several hours a day learning to play from Eddie Van Halen, Rhoads, DeMartini, Lynch, Vito Bratta, Clapton, Collins, Rossington, Carlisi, Page, Gibbons,, ect,...In most cases, note for note on the leads.
But I was REALLY into the DeMartini sound and Van Halen sound...The style and phrasing was a big part of it but so was the tone. I still love those guys but I'm beginning to not like the tone anymore. Of course isolated is one thing but even in the mix.
@@TheAxe4Ever
I still play and gig to this day but my tone has changed more than my style has. Although both have.
Sadly it's not heard here but the rhythm guitar under the solo is my absolute favorite part of this song. So simple yet so perfect... Eddie had a swagger that in my opinion will never be matched.
Yes! Always said that about that..4 sure..
Eddie’s rhythm playing was god-like. I think even better than his lead stuff.
That big wet reverb in the right speaker and dry in the left gave this album such a far out spacey feel, like fire it up dude, like wow man, far out, haha. I can smell some good bud in the air right now...
I’d rebuy every album all over again if they were just Ed’s isolated guitar tracks. He’s got such a groove of his own going on that there doesn’t need to be much more.
I'd rebuy every album if they got rid of Roth's lousy vocals and assless spandex pants....
Yes when you hear them isolated it opens up so much for guitar fiends like my self
I've got all of them I could find, on UTube play just waiting on me to fire up..
Those muted scratches basically do the percussion for ya
use moises
I remember when the album came out I was blown away, there was nobody playing guitar like this .
Nobody will ever match Edward Van Halen's talent and innovation as a classical trained pianist and a guitar designer and amplification designer and lucky to be in the beginning of anti-disco which I certainly did not like. He nailed it all. RIP Eddie. You way more than ever deserve it.
That tone!!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻
Simply put, Edward Van Halen the master of six and ten fingers. 🎸🤘🏽
Best player to ever touch the instrument....
Absolutely beautiful ❤️ RIP Edward 😭
On balance, this has always been my favorite examples of Eddie's playing. That first ripping fill he plays is almost impossible to play because of his feel/swing.
Delicious tone
It all began back in 2016 when I listened to Eddie for the very first time back then I was 17 and it had been being 2 years since I started learning the guitar I was more into grunge and alternative
But when I heard "panama" and "ain't talking bout love"
I was speechless I thought to myself "this is not a human being made music this is magic"
How can anyone extract such sounds from an instrument?
I started listening more and more to their songs and I was constantly amazed
Then, I decided that from now and on I should be putting all my efforts into guitar so that I'd become a true guitar player not even as half as Eddie was but at least I'd do my best
I wish I could meet him one day
But not all our wishes come true
He left us
When I heard his death announcement back in last October I felt like a piece of me died with him
But I promised myself that I'll keep on going with the same will until I reach my dream
I wasn't born in the 80's or the 70's like most of his fans but I know that he's the ultimate pinnacle
And yes he's the one who inspired me to pick up the electric guitar and go forward
RIP Eddie
The original fan's were born in the 60's. Just saying. I was 17. In 78. I had the pleasure of watching VH blow Sabbath off the stage that year at the Philadelphia spectrum
Hope it's still going for you. Two years after Ed's passing and I'm still listening to his greatness. The difference between Eddie and everyone else is the humour in his playing. He was having fun and it always shows.
@@tomcee7Yesir we were..:))
Crisp,,,Immediate,,,,Never missing a beat despite all the delightful ad lib detours.....Just FANTASTIC.....Didn't even need more than one guitar track...Although I think on this one they may have placed his rhythm guitar behind the main solo.
this tone is different from the rest. cant even say the perfect brown sound like this is in any other song. would kill for the tone on this song. love this song and it is by far my favorite for that reason.
1:35 Such an underrated riff
Favorite part of the song. So simple yet so sweet
@@mutt8553 I’d love to have it as my ringtone
@@Seabee156 You’re so right, that’d be killer. I’m going to find a way to make that happen one way or another
as if no one ever instantly got hooked right then and there when they heard it first bro
How is it underatted
Thank you. I’m 18 again. RIP EVH ❤️
1 and 2 have their own tones, that are ONE OF A KIND ...
I read in 78 that Ed somehow, washed his strings in Palmolive dish wash soap, and hung dried them. I swear to God, it was in CREEM, or one of the mags
This and the I'm the One solo are my favorite.
RIP.
Hot for teacher is also insane... And Sinners swing. Actually, the whole Fair warning album is his best work.
Just insane tone from hell!!! That ending F bar 5 chord just screaming out of that cranked Marshall with the feedback harmonics!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wrote more hits than any other guitarist on earth. Tone, bluesy, technical, tasty and it's all in his fingers not the amp or guitar!!
Exactly. Even when hearing him play an acoustic, you knew it was Eddie. There's no mistaking that style.
2:40 Instant chills
Awesome thanks for the music 🎶 I’m. God bless
I don't think I ever noticed the little behind the nut rakes before! Can't really notice on the full track, but he does 'em!
One and only ......... God must have created him .... Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger was to Bodybuilding coming from Austria Eddie was the same of Modern Rock.....
I love the fact that they left the two little minor slip ups on the track. Even the master was human haha. Love it!
The riffs Eddie came up with were pure Genius !!! Not to mention that awesome tone !❤ R I P .. King Edward ✌️
the rhythm and swing here is unsurpassed in rock by a guitarist
Just beautiful!
When the first album was done, Eddie didn't know how to do overdubs, so he begged Ted Templeman to let him do all of his guitar parts just like he played them live, switching from rhythm to lead. That makes him even more of a virtuoso to me, he didn't know how to do studio tricks.
@Buff Cooch the actual truth is he didn't like doing overdubs, he said it felt wrong...
So he didnt know how to play one thing twice? How does these false statements still exist?
To me, it does sound like The solo was punched in. Ed probably just wasn’t happy with the solo he played on the live track.
While he's holding the B... you hear a 100% dampened pick scrape across all strings (twice in the song) and you will NEVER hear this on the album through all the Bass, Drums and Vocals, etc... he actually does it THREE TIMES in this song... and so many, many open string "ticks" between notes, just for timing.... and that squealing guitar picking right after the main solo which is melodic to the two chords, his tone REALLY shows there.
1:30 listen for the blank pick strum
Even among a great session of tracks for this album, this was a particularly great day for that Marshall plexi, holy cow.
One of the cool things about real tube amps vs. modelers. On any given day, the tube amp can have slight character changes!
If you didn’t know, Ed messed up at 3:17 expect it ls very very slightly noticavke
Noticed it in 1978 🤣
Sounds good with guitar alone. We miss you Eddie. Jam for the man upstairs.
Man.. they sure don’t make em like this katt!
Great job caleb, love the dive....
you bet !
Solo Eddie love it
This isolated track is awesome! You can hear in the quiet part Eddie switching pick up positions 🎵
Not sure about that - there was only one working pickup in the Frankenstrat (the bridge humbucker). The single-coil neck pickup didn't work, it wasn't wired up.
@@kevinmcguinness11132:28
@@kevinmcguinness1113 Edward used his Ibanez Destroyer on this track, not the Frankenstrat.
@jordanrussell-howard9491 ah, OK, wasn't aware, thanks for the correction 🤘
@@kevinmcguinness1113 No problem, mate.
King Edward, Mr. Clean and Tasty!
I’ve been trying to nail that guitar lick at 57 sec the last few days and I’ve had the Tab Book for about 30 years and because of this isolated track, I can hear that the Tab is not accurate and Eddie is playing it differently. It sounds easier than the tab. Can’t wait to try it when I get home from work.
It sounds like a punch-in played over what you hear on this track. But you are right, that lick on the album is unbelievable and no one tabs the other part.
I also owned a Van Halen twb book, was pretty old too, and I noticed MOST of the tablature couldn't be more wrong than what Eddie is playing. So I threw it out lol
R.I.P great Eddie ♡
That f$&ing tone! GOAT
A TRUE GIFT from God!!! EVH
RIP Ed.😪
Great!
As great as VH became their first album was never topped, isn't that weird?
3:19. Am I the only person In history to catch this recorded, kept mistake?
Just randomly heard this part...turns out he was human, after all! :) (Barely)
Cabuloso solo....
One of the hardest things I have to grapple with as a musician is that you need to have your own unique sound to be a great musician, because there's nothing I'd like more than just sounding and writing like Eddie Van Halen.
rythm with ibanez destroyer korina wood solo one of his first frankstrat. practically all of his first album was recorded like this, where there's not vibrato bridge it is ibanez
not korina, Japanese sen wood which is like ash
Eddie rock number one !
I believe this might be the return feed from the echo chamber. Sunset Sound had a pretty nice one, I've heard. So this IS an iso track but doesn't sound like like much, if any, of the direct mics.
RIP eddie
My favorite comment about Eddie is when Satch said he might be the best RHYTHM player ever. LMFAO. Ed was King Kong on Skull Island . RIP
Edward ludvik Van Halen kept the world on its-axis with his rhythm playing
Genius.
Eddie was only 22-years-old.
All I need is "Little Dreamer"
That guitar was not perfectly in tune..... and that is why I love it.
He ridiculous unique
Remember cruising with a cold pack listening to this?
We're gettin' funny in the back of my car 🎙🎶
2:40
The lick at :56 makes me feel like I could land the baddest chick
you i heard a mistake at 3:18 when he slides, he accidentally goes up by one note to far
EDUARDO WOLFGANG, LOL! THE SHIT!
Gênio
King Edward
Fender string packets on the floor... Possibly 8-38?
9-40
Single note lines just sound so fat, that’s a masterpiece
Badass😂😂😂😂
0:03
0:04
rare mistake by EVH at 3:17...He overshot it.
wtf kind of sick shit is that solo? good luck trying to nail that one...lol.
The one thumbs down must of came from deaf person.
Fkn A! Thats all
The punch man
Eds the goat. But I wish the band put out more music after Balance. VH3 was not stellar. ADKOT was much better.
Oopsie.. 3:17
Always loved how this slip just past power chord E was left on the track. I always felt like I was the one that 'first heard' this mistake.
@@ktoddstorch haha ya me too!
0.21 😁🤘
Unpopular opinion. But I think he deserved a better band. Except Alex of course
Eddie hugely overrated
🤘🏻
Whow!
0:56