Rappers React To Van Halen "Mean Street"!!!
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- On this segment of Rappers React, Smokey and Hollywood ask each other what took us SOOO LONG to get to some Van Halen!!!. Any suggestions, send them our way!!!
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California Girls is a David Lee Roth song. Eddie doesn’t play on it
Steve Vai plays for that solo record....
@@happrah don’t think so. Steve is on Skyscraper and Eatem and Smile
@@happrah Steve does not play on Crazy from the Heat EP
Thanks for info and suggestions. AMAZING SONG UNC
And its a Beach Boys song
This is the most underrated album in the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen. Every song is 🔥🔥🔥
Underrated yes but it is the favorite album of hardcore VH fans like me!!
It's their best,in my opinion.
It's not underrated at all to true VH fans, it's always been my favorite and to me Ed's best work.
underrated by who.......????????????fuck them fools
Underrated? I dont think so...I have heard almost every song on this album on the radio many many times....its still one of the best albums ever released
This is why Eddie Van Halen is the Best Rock and Roll Lead Guitar of all time……………….PERIOD! AMEN BROTHERS!
Rhythm too dude!✌💛🤘
Rock & Roll wise...yes!
ONE of them anyway! ❤
Steve Vai said he had the best right hand in the business
Nah
This one of the most criminally underrated songs from the David Lee Roth Era of Van Halen
Agreed. I think it’s my fav VH album.
I always loved the fact that Eddie placed one of his guitars to rest with dime..!!!! Vinnie said that if you had said to dime when he was young that this would happen he would be like “take me now” 😂😂😂😂
Yup it was EVHs black & yellow homemade strat
Alex Van Halen on drums
Van Halen had Eddie and Alex Van Halen as the main founding members of the band. Eddie on guitar, Alex on drums. Had David Lee Roth from their club days to about mid 80s. Sammy Hagar joined for about a decade from mid 80s to mid or late 90s. On the last Van Halen album, Eddie's son joined as bass player, replacing long time bassist Michael Anthony.
In Hockey, there's Gretzky and In rock and Roll guitar there's Edward Van Halen.
And in basketball theres michael Jordan 😁
In bakeries there's cakes and in tire shop there's tires
Don't forget their song "Hot for Teacher" every boys dream 😆 Alex Van Halen is a great drummer check out some of his solos he is great!!
Alex is so underrated because Ed blows everyone away. Sad bc IMO Alex is 2nd only to Neil Peart
Watching Alex play that live was mind-blowing.
"Everybody Wants Some"
Alex on Girl Gone Bad...killer track.
Eddie Van Halen was the Jimi Hendrix of the 1980s (and late 1970s). He reinvented the concept of shred solos and popularised the Tapping technique, which is where you use your picking hand to press the hammer on the strings to make it ring without picking the string. He built his own guitar and it was a brand new sound to the world and everyone picked up on it.
Jimi Hendrix introduced new ways to shred and how to use distortion at its max.
Jimmy Page introduced unique chords, progressions, and techniques and mixed cultures with different tones and styles.
David Gilmour introduced new guitar effects and experimentation along with proving you don't need to play a thousand notes to deliver the same message.
Brian May introduced the concept of multilayered guitar harmonies and invented his own guitar with its own unique tones.
Ritchie Blackmore introduced classical elements to guitar solos while demonstrating how to break out in fast riffs.
Tony Iommi introduced the thickness of distorted and downtuned guitars that eventually gave birth to Heavy Metal.
Eddie Van Halen explored and popularised tapping and proved you could make almost any sound you want with the instrument.
Tom Morello explored the potential of guitar effects and the kill switch technique.
Jack White introduced clip gain distortion in the digital age.
Currently, the Internet has allowed for much more innovation, however, the traces end up becoming so blurred that we can't pin point which guitarists discovered any new techniques. But it's more than just how much you cam innovate new things, but how you can incorporate said innovations into your own music. All the guitarists above did exactly that.
That was an AMAZING SYNOPSIS on the world's GREATEST guitarists to date, and their contributions to the music we Love, remember, and listen to even to this day... Weeeeell fkn done!!! We cannot forget Stevie Ray Vaughn who blended Blues, rhythm, and solo guitaring with a bit of Country and heavy rock riffs during HIS unfortunately short time on Earth, before he was taken from us in a ("musically cliché") helicopter crash... But, EDDIE!?! MY "GUITAR GOD," CREATED AAAAALL the new guitarists we listen to in Rock today... And, the fact is that HE ACTUALLY STARTED ON DRUMS (and, his brother, Alex, actually started on guitar, but they switched instrumnets WHEN THEY WERE JUST YOUNG BOYS BORN AND LIVING IN HOLLAND before coming to America with their parents who were also musicians, well, their Dad was), and after Eddie took piano lessons, BUT EDDIE NEVER TOOK A GUITAR LESSON, just goes to show this GREAT Man's "god-like" musical prowess, ingenuity, and creativity... As well as the fact that TAKING LESSONS can sometimes keep you "IN THE BOX," as he had said in an interview on YT, WHERE EDDIE ALWAYS THOUGHT, CREATED, AND PLAYED "OUTSIDE THE BOX" JUST BECAUSE he never took a lesson... That ability to not be "grounded" by "normal" guitar-playing techniques and styles is what made him do the AMAZING things he did, musically, as well as to experiment, and "remake" numerous guitars, amplifiers, and "effects" that made his famous "Brown sound" as well as his style of playing, nearly impossible to duplicate, tho, many have tried... lol (Oh, and, btw, Eddie not only did the solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It" song, but he TOTALLY REARRANGED THE ENTIRE TRACK from what it was to what it IS TODAY, AND HE WANTED NO MONEY OR CREDIT ON THE ALBUM for it, THAT'S GREATNESS!!!) RIP EDDIE VAN HALEN😔 (You've been, and always will be, missed)... Thank you, sir... 🙏🏾😔🔥🎸😇
The album Fair Warning is said to be Van Halen's dark album. Highly underrated. Check out songs from the first two in 78 and 79, also the third release Women and Children First. But the pinnacle of Eddie's skills is in the concert Live Without A Net. The clip of his solo is said to be one of the greatest live guitar solos in rock music history.
DOA
Couldn't agree with you more!
"Romeo Delight"
It is said bc it is so 🤟😎🔥
Actually, Diver Down is highly underrated too. Some incredible songs
You can't overstate the amount of soul that David Lee Roth brought to the band
And swagger
David Lee Roth was the nephew of the infamous Manny Roth who ran the Cafe Wha? In Greenwich Villiage in the 60's. From a very young age, Dave saw some of the wildest beat poets, rappers, musicians, and intellectual weirdos.
Musically, what's going on raised the bar to heights that no one saw coming like Jackie Chan, but the lyrics are beat poet royalty. Only a guy like that could sketch a story like this.
Flamboyance yes, soul no
I had seen Van Halen in backyards parties in the San Gabriel Valley/Pasadena area (California).
David Lee Roth-Singer
Eddie Van Halen- Guitar
Michael Anthony- Bass
Alex Van Halen- Drums
Eddie built his own guitar, FRANKENSTRAT!!🎸🎸
We're forgetting Van Halen was just as good with Sammy Hagar after Roth left.
Have A Cigar, Paranoid Android and Mean Street all in the same week! loving the diversity
Van Halen were the borderline of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. They would often go into both sides while staying loyal to everyone. They were such a widely beloved band that all the commercial fans loved the melodies and the singer, while all the harder and underground fans loved the heavy shredding guitars. They in a sense brought Heavy Metal to the states. They were responsible for the rise of Glam Metal and Pop Metal which largely kicked off in LA.
While the band and half of the members were from LA, the Van Halen brothers Alex and Eddie were from the Netherlands.
You picked the right VH album. This whole album is a banger! Check out Unchained from it next.
Van Halen was the ultimate 80's party band.
I just can't bring myself to think of VH as an "80s band"......since the first two albums came out before the 80s started and were immediately popular....and their sound and music is simply....."Van Halen"! They are their own genre. That being said, I have heard and agreed that their music could be called "California Party Rock".
@@kdm71291 "California Party Rock". LOL. That's a new one for me and I grew up in the area during the period. It fits. The main reason they lump Van Halen into 80s metal is because Van Halen and Randy Rhoades are pretty much responsible for the bands that followed in the 80s. As teens in LA during the early-70s, going to extremely large (200+ people) backyard parties was the thing to do. And you could pretty much bet Van Halen would be playing at most of them. Except, they were called Mammoth back then. By the mid-70s, Van Halen and Quiet Riot (with Randy Rhoades) were the top local bands. And every other band was trying to imitate their sound. Once Van Halen released their debut album, every A&R man in the record business was trying to sign wannabe Van Halen bands. It got so bad, one of the main clubs the record people would hang out at went to pay-to-play (Gazzarri's). Rather than the band getting paid, the band paid Bill Gazzarri to play on his stage. Van Halen, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Guns 'n Roses, and Poison were all bands that paid to play there. If you played Gazzarri's, the chances were pretty good you'd get signed by a label. It was funny, when ever Bill Gazzarri would show up, he would be dressed like a 1940s mobster. They gave him the nickname "Godfather".
Eddie was all about the ' Sound '....the brown note!
He was forever in search of that elusive tone and just before he passed he admitted that he had finally been able to get that {or as close to it as possible} with his signature guitar and amps.
His guitar is unlike any other, like Hendrix, he literally crafted his work from scratch.
Van Halen are big as big can get, in terms of rock'n'roll sound signatures.
Brown sound.
Van Halen's FAIR WARNING album has always been my favorite VH album.
Their debut is probably top 5 all time releases in the genre, but I agree, Fair Warning is likely my favorite.
There is a live version of Eruption that is incredible. California Dream in is The Mama's and Papas, David Roth covered the Beach Boys California Girls in a solo project. Jump is a great song. Running with the devil, Panama, Try to find Eddie doing Eruption live. You will be amazed
California girls was a solo project by Van Halen’s lead singer David Lee Roth. No way would Eddie and Alex Van Halen would ever associate themselves with that song. The band also hails from Pasadena, California.
If you guys wanna watch one of the best live guitar solos ever performed you need to look up Eddies eruption solo. The video should be around 13 min long. Would be great to watch during the best guitarists of the 80s tournament
Live without a net. Watch the whole set.
Gene Simmons of kiss found van halen in a bar or club in 77 and helped get their foot in the door
✌🎸🤘🙏. If you've heard Michael Jackson's "Beat it" Eddie Van Halen played guitar the solo for free!
I saw them at Madison Square Garden - in their prime! We had 3rd row, center, seats!
At the break, in "Eruption" - my friend and I screamed, "Eddie, we love you!!!" He smiled and winked back at us!!! We lost minds!!! Man... Just thinking how great that concert/experience was bring backs the BEST memories!!!
They were each firing on all cylinders! 🔥
David Lee Roth was a spectacular front man!
💜💫✌🏼🎵
They are a 70's band, thir biggest selling Album ( Well one of them anyway) was their Debut which sold 10x Platinum! They are from Pasadena, california
Two albums at the tail end of the 70s does not a 70s group make
@@mikethemotormouth A lot of their songs from their first 4 albums were demos from before the 1st album. Regardless, whichever decade you put Eddie in he should win, 70s or 80s (or 90s, or....)
@@mikethemotormouth When they started does which was in the 70's
It was David Lee Roth’s idea to call the band Van Halen.
"You can't park there." lol Enjoying your work guys! Also - lovin' Smoke's Queensrÿche T-shirt - epic!!!!!
Eddie VanHalen…..Best ever……MIC DROP!!!🎤👍
Batta Bing !!!!
Eddie Van Halen ... Would need to be on ANY list of 'greatest guitarist' - period. He created sounds & styles, as well as the actual equipment... Such a kind soul, and loved his craft.
*RIP 🎸 EVH*
My #1 by has to be in Top 5
Their 1st album set the world on fire
It was a jaw-dropping experience to hear that LP in 1978.
As Mike the Music Snob put it:
Guns N Roses couldn't figure out whether the singer or the guitarist was more important.
Van Halen found out that the guitarist was more important.
Check out their songs House of Pain and Girl Gone Bad. Both from 1984. Both phenomenal. RIP Eddie 🎸
I’ve been trying to get all reaction channels to review both of those songs!! Great songs! Hidden gems!✌️
Girl gone bad rips. Killer stuff.
Nice fn heavy struttin s- - t brother
✌💛🤘
@@mattharvey968, good luck with that! I’ve been trying and trying too. It’s majority rules, not who knows what they’re talking about. Don’t give up man. Somebody’s got to teach the kids.
Suicidal Tendencies- You cant bring me down, garauntee you will love this band
"All I wanted was a Pepsi" 😆
@@jeffthejinjer This ain`t Mr. Rogers neighborhood........
Eruption- Live without a net. Is far and wide regarded as Eddie Van Halen at his best and one of the best performances on guitar ever. It will melt you guys faces off
You can't make a list of great guitarist without watching that video... it's gonna blow your minds
Indeed
Eruption Solo Hollywood Bowl 2015 is so much better than Live without a net! An older and sober Eddie makes for much, much better playing. R.I.P. King Edward... The GOAT!
Eddie Van Halen’s brother is the drummer; Alex Van Halen. It’s their band hence the name. Also, the song you guys were singing “California girls” is NOT a Van Halen song.
It was actually David Lee Roth’s idea to name the band “Van Halen”
Eddie wanted to name the band Genesis, not realizing there was already a band called that. Then the ultimate front man David Lee Roth stepped aside and suggested the name Van Halen.
Van Halen, Little Guitars, Runnin' with the Devil, Little Dreamer, so, so, so many great songs
Saw VH 4 times live...the absolute best. Never disappointed an audience. Amazing, their music got me through my teens. RIP Edward. 🤩
Roth is the one that suggested Van Halen to be the name. Original name was "Mammoth" which is now the name Eddie Van Halens son Uses for his Solo Project.
Great, early VH track. Soooo underrated. Unchained and Running with the Devil great also.
In my opinion Van Halen's most underrated album. It slays front to back. They were at their best. My favorite!
I just love it when people who have never really heard of this band put on a jam like this and get blown away by it! I love the reactions and the look of shock in their faces. It’s like, they just saw the light.
Mean Street is one of those songs that makes you feel like a complete badass just by listening to it.
These Rappers reaction was a genuine Delight
Aint talkin about love is a must VH reaction.
Just like Dime and Vinnie Paul RiP Legends
Probably my favorite VH songs of all time. The backing vocals are from bass player Michael Anthony, and Eddie. Alex Van Halen is the drummer. In my humble opinion, VH is the most iconic rock/metal band from the US. Check out Hot For Teacher, can't go wrong. Thanks for what you do!
Edward Van Halen: guitarist, Alex Van Halen: drums, Jan Van Halen:(Father):woodwinds, inspiration, David Lee Roth: vocals,Michael Anthony: bass guitar. They started out as Mammoth,before David Lee Roth.
The Van Halen brothers are from Amsterdam and moved to the States as kids (Pasadena, CA). Eddie actually started on drums and Alex on guitar and the swapped early on.
This song is pure ROCK N ROLL. ✌
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his older brother drummer Alex Van Halen formed Van Halen.
And have been its only consistent members since their debut from 1978.
(And they started out playing each other's instruments.
Eddie was originally the drummer, and Alex was the guitarist.
But while Eddie was out throwing his paper route, Alex started playing Ed's drums.
And when Eddie heard Alex play his drums?
He realized Alex was the better drummer, so Eddie picked up the guitar.
And the legend was born.)
Eddie was the first to play that finger tapping guitar thing.
Well, on electric guitar.
Some other guitarists did finger tapping many many years earlier on acoustic guitar.
But Eddie was the first electric guitarist to do it.
His screaming dives you mentioned were not exactly unique to Eddie.
Finger tapping was.
He was the first.
And Ed's equally amazing on acoustic guitar, too, and does the finger tapping there, too.
Singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony rounded out the first few years.
Yes, I know almost every Van Halen song.
(Except for the songs on Van Halen 3.
Not my favorite.)
And "California Girls" was David Lee Roth's first solo album.
His guitarist, Steve Vai, is still an Eddie Van Halen acolyte, all these years later.
Oddly enough, Alex and Eddie are Dutch.
"Van" is Dutch.
(I'm 3/4 Dutch myself, even though I was born here.)
And they were born in Holland, and emigrated here.
Their father was a clarinetist, and played clarinet on one of their songs on Diver Down.
On their cover of "Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now."
But the band got together in Los Angeles, California.
Started out playing all the clubs on the strip.
They have always had a badass groove.
(And yes, the Mama's & Papas did California Dreaming...but way back in the 1960s.
Not the Beach Boys.
The giveaway is the female harmony vocals throughout the song.)
Oh.
Back many years ago when Eddie and Valerie Bertinelli were still married?
She was trying to lose some weight, and her trainer said:
"You want to lose weight fast?
Dance to nothing but Van Halen songs.
Knock the weight right off you."
So she did, and it worked.
True story.
Eddie and Alex Van Halen were born in the Netherlands and moved to the US when they were kids. The band started, and rose to fame, in California.
Eddie Van Halen and Randy Roads brought an amazing sound to rock in the early eighties. Randy Roads added classical guitar to rock.
You should watch the documentary “Metal Evolution” starts from the early days through the 2000s and goes through the different genres.
"You can't park there!" Brilliant.
Van Halen became huge right from the release of their debut album in 1978. They are from Los Angeles. They made 6 albums with singer David Lee Roth who then left the band in 1985. His first solo release was cover of California Girls. VH brought on board Sammy Hagar to become new singer. They made 4 albums with him up to 1995; all 4 albums went to number 1 on charts. Hagar left in 96. Gary Cherone was brought in as singer for 1 album and then Roth came back in 2006 and one final album was recorded. Sadly Eddie Van Halen passed away last October...a HUGE loss to VH fans...R.I.P. Eddie!
We can tell you all day long what is was like back in 78 the first time we heard Van Halen but unless you lived in that time you will never fully understand how they, particularly Eddie, changed music forever. ✌❤
sound like my dad nice
truth
Yes girl!❤❤❤ it is me DavidLeeRoth
@@rothed16 haven't seen you around lately. Hope you're good! 😄
You need to hear the eruption for eddies guitar solo!
Michael Anthony's groove bass is fucking locked into Alex's kick and also Alex's snare/hi hat work is sublime off the back of Ed's guitar..
The Van Halen brothers were born in Amsterdam (Netherlands). In 1962 they moved Pasadena, CA.
Van Halen brothers were born in Holland and moved to the USA while Eddie and Alex (drummer) were kids. Eruption live from the video "Live Without A Net" is Eddie at his absolute best.
California dreaming was Mamma’s and the Pappa’s. California girls was originally Beach Boys redone by David Lee Roth solo career.
I can't wait until you guys hit 100k subs. Man, you deserve it! Thanks brothers
Same here. Thanks alot brother
When Eddie came on the scene he raised the bar through the ceiling for all the other guitarists. They went home and tried to duplicate his sound but they couldn’t. It’s because Eddie was an innovator and he altered his pickups( through many a trial and error )to create the tones he wanted to hear. No one ever did that before! That’s what made him special besides being a great guitarist.
Don't forget the solo on MJ's "Beat It" from Thriller. Eddie killed another one!! RIP
You guys are killing me lol. Alex and Eddie Van Halen were born in Amsterdam and came to Pasadena California when they were children.It was David Lee Roth who suggested they name the band Van Halen
Originally named Mammoth I think. Which explains Wolfgang Van Halen' s project, Mammoth WVH, to honor his dad.
They were originally named The Broken Combs, then The Trojan Rubber Co., then Genesis, and then Mammoth. There was a band from San Francisco that had the same name so they had to change it again. They had just got Dave from the band Red Ball Jet and Michael Anthony from Snake when they formed Van Halen. I guess Mammoth was the best one to choose from or maybe that was the name Eddie really wish they could have kept🤷♂️
As someone that has been a Van Halen fan since the early 80s, it was certainly fun watching you dudes listen to this song for the first time. :) By the way, to all the guitar players out there, if you want to learn the guitar solo for this song, I have a lesson here on YT :)
Eddie used to be the singer when they were a 3 piece band and right before Michael Anthony joined. They used to rent David Lee Roth's P.A. system and they finally hired him as a singer to avoid paying him the $$ and they really blew up shortly after that.
Eddie was really well known for tapping (guitar technique where you also play notes on the fretboard with your right hand as well as your left in essence as if you had super long alien fingers on your left hand) to the point where he’d turn his back to the audience so no one could see how he was doing it but alas he was like the Steph Curry of guitar but anyways other ppl had tapped before Spanish guys jazz guys on the acoustic but never like THAT before..
Eddie Van Halen is the reason there’s so many killer guitarist today. OG Van Halen is some kick ass rock/metal
I love watching these guys rock out like I did when this album came out in the mid 80's! That's right, I've been loving VH for over 40 years! So don't be too surprised when you see a 55 year old rocking out in the car next to you at the stop light! Once a rocker, always a rocker.
According to some stories I've read, EVH was usually very self conscious of his own guitar playing. He knew he was good, but he never felt like he was good enough to jam with other guitar players. Steve Lukather, another amazing guitarist, asked EVH to jam at a show, and he had a hard time convincing him to actually do it.
Ugh my heart just sunk. The VanHalen brothers are Eddie and Alex VanHalen! Alex plays drums, amazingly...
The band was actually named by the lead singer, David Lee Roth. He told Eddie it sounded great and they decided to go wth it. The rest is history. RIP Eddie, you were the greatest.
The Lyrics to this track were written about a Street DLR lived on for a short time
Love both of you ❤️, look forward to seeing your review s
This album has FIRE on it - “Hear About It Later” - “Dirty Movies” “Push Comes To Shove” etc
U clowns are one of the best reactionaries ever. Love it.
The next one you need to react to by Van Halen: "Everybody Wants Some". BTW, did you know after David Lee Roth left the band he went on to become an EMT in New York City? I always wondered what it must have looked like after you got hit by a car in NYC and when the ambulance pulled up, out walks David Lee Roth!!! But it's true, he did become an EMT.
Van Halen is the ultimate garage band - just a bunch of guys you'd hire to play at your block parties and park events. David Lee Roth was on Joe Rogan a couple years back and was talking about Van Halen's early strategy when they played - traveling the different Southern California neighborhoods and playing different melodies to the different ethnic neighborhoods. The Hispanic neighborhoods who wanted quicker beats for their birthday parties like Carlos Santana would do, the surfer guys out on Venice Beach who wanted to hear faster guitars and lyrics like Aerosmith would do, and the working man from San Bernadino who wanted to hear ZZ Top and more bass rhythm. Dave even exampled that 'Dance the Night Away' and 'Jamie's Crying' had the Hispanic flavor because they had the Rumba and Cha-Cha beats to them. They just knew what all kinds of people wanted to hear versus playing what the band wanted to make and hoping an audience would find them.
This song is "MEAN" and "GROOVALICIOUS" from Beginning to End! With a little Magic Eddie Dust Sprinkled In to complete the Recipe.
So glad you guys liked this song so much. It’s one of rocks greatest and most important songs. Van Halen changed and revolutionized rock music. What he did for music, for guitar manufacturing, guitar amplification, music stores, clubs, arenas. What they did for music and a generation in impossible to quantify. They were the sound of 80’s rock. 🎸🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼
This is my most favorite song of Van Halen’s followed by the very first song that made them rock stars from the beginning, “Running with the Devil”. Thanks for doing this song🙏🏼
Eddie is the arguably the GOAT . If you want to hear another great rock guitarist look up Randy Rhoads.
Laughs in Buckethead .....
My favorite Van Halen song!!!
Great job!
Oh - you boys picked a good one! Yes, the MIGHTY VAN HALEN!!! There will never be a guitarist or a band like them again. A complete shame that the band is over but at least we have their music!!!
Eddie's brother Alex played drums. Van Halen was my very first live concert way back on their debut album/tour called the 1980 Invasion - I was 8 going on 9 years old at the time (I have a stepbrother 6 years older than me and I went with him). I was hooked immediately and have been a huge fan ever since.
Every band was playing disco according to the record companys. That's why it's so refreshing
This is a great album so many good tracks
Dave actually suggested using the name Van Halen. Think at that point they were referred to as Mammoth
Wolfgang Van Halen, who took over as bassist when Michael Anthony left the band, is now using "Mammoth" as HIS band's name now in honor of his Dad, EVH...
Ohhh Yyeeaahh!!! So glad you gentlemen( ; ? ) enjoyed that!! Awright,awright....in chronological order.....Titus Oneals finisher was Clash of the Titus! ..... Eddie's brother Alex was the drummer......they didn't grow up on the mean streets,they were middle class at least, but I would say the street cred came after the stardom. Keep 'em comin, boys!
I imagine a monk in a remote mountain monastery in Nepal, meditating on how Buddha-nature is expressed in the sublime perfection of DLR-era Van Halen
Great reaction guys
I sooo love this, welcome to van halen!!
This my first vid I saw from you guys, and I liked and subbed b/c of it. If you guys ever want someone who knows most everything about this band, I would be happy to comment or even join one of your casts.
The thing you guys might have missed is just how hard it is to play the intro you liked. I have known guitarists who have played a lifetime and cannot play that intro correct, one of the hardest 33 seconds of guitar you could ever ask anyone to master. There are maybe only 2 people in all of YT that actually come close, some kid named Tyler is probably the closest one of everybody. Even current professional guitarists cannot re-create that intro verbatim.
You are correct in that Van Halen started in 1978 but peaked in the 1980's, before the lead singer change. What you might not know is just the sheer number of people who started to play guitar b/c of hearing those Roth-Era Van Halen songs. This number would easily be in the millions, and not just the US, worldwide.
While the Van Halen songs are great on their own, what Eddie did outside of the recording to further the guitar as an instrument is a whole other discussion. If Eddie never recorded a song, he would still be famous for what he pioneered in guitar design and also amplification design. In 2021, to this day, the designs of the guitars and amps he created, in collaboration with others, are still some of the best selling products today. His Peavey amplifier (the 5150, now 6505) models are the best selling Peavey models. His signature guitars sold by EVH (aka Fender), Charvel EVH models, Music Man models, and Kramer EVH models go for crazy amounts on eBay and are still being produced and sold in 2021. He was a key contributor to the Floyd Rose whammy bar on most guitars today, while he did not invent the component, he was one of the early testers of this piece of equipment and was the person who added the fine tuners to the design. This is just touching on the surface of the number of things he designed or developer during his prime in the 80's and 90's.
As for song writing, the basic Van Halen formula would be Eddie coming up with the guitar part first, then his bro on drums would add the rhythm, then Eddie would usually add the bass, and at the end they would bring in Roth for vocals. Eddie was the key to most of their songs, with Roth adding a few tracks, but I would estimate Eddie wrote 80-90% of their originals.
Hope this adds some light to the subject, I can say I played piano until I heard the Van Halen albums, then I switched to guitar because it had that much of an impact on my ears.
David
Ain't talkin bout love from van Halen is a great suggestion!
Love that you mentioned BBQs, Hung out with some old friends, finally, this weekend, BBQ’d and had this album “Fair Warning” playing in the background…Good Times!!
This shit is hard. Love it guys. Thanks.
For pattern recognition, look at Ted Templeton. In 1973 he produced "Montrose" (named after guitarist Ronnie Montrose) and in 1978 he produced "Van Halen" (named after guitarist Eddie Van Halen). The rest is evolution.