I saw Eddie and the boys in 1979 on there first world tour and Eddie was so intense and so good, people thought he was from another planet. I'll never forget it. Eddie Van Halen, is one of the IF NOT THE best rock guitar players and INNOVATORS that ever was or will be. Since Eruption first came out 30 years ago, there has not been another guitarist that actually changed the course of guitar playing as we know it. Yes, there are great players, but Eddie is an innovator.
Este sólo de Eddie fue el motivo de querer tocar la guitarra como mi héroe, me produjo asombro, deslumbramiento, admiración, por su sonido, su técnica increíble y ese alucinante, sonido parecido a un clavicordio o que rayos era eso? Quedé shokeado, alucinado y fanatizado de por vida al ver su técnica extraordinaria!! Ese show es de Febrero de 1983 en el Club Obras de Buenos Aires, en Argentina Dios encarnado en Edward Van Halen visitó mi país!!... luego de ver este show por la TV, fue un antes y un después, todos los guitarristas que vi quedaron pequeños a los pies del Genial GUITARRISTA que vino de otro planeta, haciendo rock y sonriendo!!! Vive por siempre en mi corazón mi adorado maestro Eddie VH!!🎸🎶🎵🤙🏼
Unbelievable. Just...unbelievable. No one will ever be able to play and revolutionize the guitar the way Eddie did. Just perfect Ed. Your fan and friend from NY.
Fue el 1er sólo de Eddie que vi , uno de los más memorables ... fue transmitido en vivo para todo mi país , como a las 20.30 hs , por canal ATC (Argentina Televisora Color) inolvidable sólo del gran Rey de la guitarra!!
what it all boils down to is we all have our favorites. stevie ray is my personal favorite. but mr. van halen has been playin some really kick ass music for the last 30 years, and i for one am happy to listen to it.
Eddie you are AWESOME. And he's still KICKING and playing. That's what I like. He's an innovator of guitar and he revolutionized it. It's amazing. All that he's created in about 30-40 years. You ROCK. EVH is Rock God. Your fan From Florida.
this solo, just this posted, has my age, i'm 27 years old, i was born on 08/05/1983 in Bologna!! Best reagards to all VH'S fans from Italy......ps. it's wonderful!!!
digin that four cam angle. too cool. Just think this is 5 years after the original recording. It's hard to believe eddie is 52 now man. Wow time flys. The Man. The Innovator. The Genious.EVH. ^_^
So clean, especially live on stage. It's harder than it looks to play that clean when you're sweating your ass off and have 20,000 people screaming at you. Go, Edward.
There is no "best". There are styles and personal tastes but no 1 player is the best. There are jazz guys that are incredible as well as classical players. Flamenco players, rock players. Technical players and guys that play with pure feel. My list of favorites changes depending on my mood. Lots of talent to enjoy. Its music, its art!!
Got to love eddies feel when he plays. When he goes running down the stage the guitar explodes with intensity. If he settle down a bit a melodic tune comes in lol!
this totally inspired the guitar hero 3 version of the devil went down to georgia. u can hear so many similar licks and tones. bit different to the version of eruption i am used to but its great to hear how he keeps it interesting on tour. nice job evh u the man!
Eddie Van Halen kicked ass at the rescheduled concert at Duluth,GA 5-11-08.EVH was sober and gave a shit and it showed BIGTIME!IT was my 1st time to see them with Roth since 1984!They didn't do the Craddle Will Rock live back in the day.EVH did the awesome sound at first and thru out at different times in the studio with a synthesizer.Eddis good but he can't do both at the same time!The light's would go off and there would be a green laser show each time Sound came on !!You can see it on youtube
yep...."spanish fly" often gets overlooked because of "eruption" but it's an amazing piece!! listen to the studio version where he plays it on nylon strings.
mean street intro, what he does is hits the bass E with his thumb then the high E and B string with his first finger, its pretty cool when you figure it out :D
For rock guitar Eddie is one of the most important players ever. But that isn't because of tapping, or soloing. It is because of the combined elements of Van Halen the band. His brother is equally as good a drummer. He shapes Eddie's solos with an incredible rythm backdrop, but really Eddie is one of the greatest rock rythm players too. This is a cool live solo, but that isn't why he is great. He is a dynamic, and masterful player on every level--regarding rock.
what a legend...dont care what anyone says...Eddie Van Halen and Jimi hendrix...who is better?? ...there is no better they are both great and im sure Eddie would have loved to jam with Jimi..:) Imagine that..:)
@Adnoydall For the avoidance of doubt, I'm referring to your list of guitarists who made a difference, not the ever growing list of people who you plan to but-chug then kill in their sleep.
thiss as at a les paul tribute concert in 1988 he's not playin with the vh line up. But they hold one every year to honor the creator of the electric guitar...
It common knowledge that guitar playing changed AFTER Feb '78...not before. Rock soloing was blues based Clapton/Page/Nugent before Eddie blew the doors off the established way of thinking. It was such a different approach to the instrument it caused a revolution.
Well seeing as eddie started his career a year after hendrix yes you would, Jimi started his career in 1966, Eddie started his in 1967, then formed Van halen in 1972.
Young Eddie is just plain and simple the best of all by a million ligh year ahead from anyone..
I saw Eddie and the boys in 1979 on there first world tour and Eddie was so intense and so good, people thought he was from another planet. I'll never forget it. Eddie Van Halen, is one of the IF NOT THE best rock guitar players and INNOVATORS that ever was or will be. Since Eruption first came out 30 years ago, there has not been another guitarist that actually changed the course of guitar playing as we know it. Yes, there are great players, but Eddie is an innovator.
GOD he has some wicked ass crazy hands man. that's gods hands playin' right there.
nothin can compare to the greatness of eddie, he will be always #1
Este sólo de Eddie fue el motivo de querer tocar la guitarra como mi héroe, me produjo asombro, deslumbramiento, admiración, por su sonido, su técnica increíble y ese alucinante, sonido parecido a un clavicordio o que rayos era eso? Quedé shokeado, alucinado y fanatizado de por vida al ver su técnica extraordinaria!! Ese show es de Febrero de 1983 en el Club Obras de Buenos Aires, en Argentina Dios encarnado en Edward Van Halen visitó mi país!!... luego de ver este show por la TV, fue un antes y un después, todos los guitarristas que vi quedaron pequeños a los pies del Genial GUITARRISTA que vino de otro planeta, haciendo rock y sonriendo!!! Vive por siempre en mi corazón mi adorado maestro Eddie VH!!🎸🎶🎵🤙🏼
I saw him play this live back in the 80's. You cannot possibly imagine the goosebumps it gives you to see and hear that kind of skill in person.
Unbelievable. Just...unbelievable. No one will ever be able to play and revolutionize the guitar the way Eddie did. Just perfect Ed. Your fan and friend from NY.
I dont care what anyone says...I can watch this video 1000 times and not get tired of it.
Fue el 1er sólo de Eddie que vi , uno de los más memorables ... fue transmitido en vivo para todo mi país , como a las 20.30 hs , por canal ATC (Argentina Televisora Color) inolvidable sólo del gran Rey de la guitarra!!
your listening to one of the greatest guitar players to ever step foot on this earth. he will never be forgotten KEEP ROCKING EDDIE !!!!
what it all boils down to is we all have our favorites. stevie ray is my personal favorite. but mr. van halen has been playin some really kick ass music for the last 30 years, and i for one am happy to listen to it.
Eddie you are AWESOME. And he's still KICKING and playing. That's what I like. He's an innovator of guitar and he revolutionized it. It's amazing. All that he's created in about 30-40 years. You ROCK. EVH is Rock God. Your fan From Florida.
this literately blows up my head every time i listen to this! i wish i can play this song...
this solo, just this posted, has my age, i'm 27 years old, i was born on 08/05/1983 in Bologna!! Best reagards to all VH'S fans from Italy......ps. it's wonderful!!!
Ive never heard Eddie use this style of eruption before its freaking awesome Van Halen FTW
No words for it.... Just... AWESOME!!!!!!
Dimebag Darrell will always be the greatest guitarist that ever walked this Earth. nobody can match him in greatness. PERIOD.
Ooohhh! Eddie!! Awesomeee! Beautiful!! Incredible! THE KINGGGG!
Awesome, man.. Old skool rock stars... HIGHLY DOUBT any kids friend can jam as "warmup"... k fella!
EVH is one of the best quitarists ever. He is truly a god of guitar
one of the greatest guitarists ever :D
No puedo creer que esto es en argentina!!!!! :) :) :)
digin that four cam angle. too cool. Just think this is 5 years after the original recording. It's hard to believe eddie is 52 now man. Wow time flys. The Man. The Innovator. The Genious.EVH. ^_^
ridiuclous. it Cant get any better than the legend
So clean, especially live on stage. It's harder than it looks to play that clean when you're sweating your ass off and have 20,000 people screaming at you. Go, Edward.
There is no "best". There are styles and personal tastes but no 1 player is the best. There are jazz guys that are incredible as well as classical players. Flamenco players, rock players. Technical players and guys that play with pure feel. My list of favorites changes depending on my mood. Lots of talent to enjoy. Its music, its art!!
My face just melted!
aww this is sick!!!!
mad guitar skills going on here
Got to love eddies feel when he plays. When he goes running down the stage the guitar explodes with intensity. If he settle down a bit a melodic tune comes in lol!
God I love the way this cat playes!!
He takes my breath away. Every time I see them, I scream so much that
I loose my voice.
Damn, EVH is so f-able
unbeevable the flamenco style guitar he shows in this he is a genus hard rock player fur sure id say
is teh only video that have "little guitars" played with Eddie, i think that is INSANE the armonics with one hand EDDIE is GOD
Wow how can you say that? Do you not see this amazingness right in front of your face? mine has just landed in a pile on the floor. FACEMELTING ACTION
this totally inspired the guitar hero 3 version of the devil went down to georgia. u can hear so many similar licks and tones. bit different to the version of eruption i am used to but its great to hear how he keeps it interesting on tour. nice job evh u the man!
You can only be in awe with the skill/talent even if it does not go anywhere (as somebody else rightly suggested).
damn that song never get´s old
Eddie is the man, PERIOD.
Even though hardly anyone even know who the eff Yngwie is?? Ed is THE MAN...Not only does he rip, he writes great songs.
that intro of "Little Guitars" is fucking incredible, that's why Eddie is o awesome, he does somethings that are unbelievable
Phenomenal post!!!! just awesome,
Thanks!
Eddie is the best.
Long live the king!!!
That crowd must've rawred and screamed so loud that u could hear it 5 miles away. That is the best Eddie Van Halen live eruption solo
WOW!!!! EDDIE EDDIE EDDIE!!!!! AMAZING!!!! He is master of the fretboard. My God!!!
I would never want to lean it since its so sank. You're the BEST!!!!
One of the best guitarist ever
this is incredible
my all time hero
I'm proud 2 be born in the same same as Eddie.
He's Dutch you know...Amsterdam4life!!!
Eddie Van Halen kicked ass at the rescheduled concert at Duluth,GA 5-11-08.EVH was sober and gave a shit and it showed BIGTIME!IT was my 1st time to see them with Roth since 1984!They didn't do the Craddle Will Rock live back in the day.EVH did the awesome sound at first and thru out at different times in the studio with a synthesizer.Eddis good but he can't do both at the same time!The light's would go off and there would be a green laser show each time Sound came on !!You can see it on youtube
Ya man he's my fav, fippin amazing!
Long live the king!
yep...."spanish fly" often gets overlooked because of "eruption" but it's an amazing piece!! listen to the studio version where he plays it on nylon strings.
kinsmith1, the song you're thinking of is "respect the wind". It can be found on youtube, just type it in and click.
It's called Little Guitars pt 1.
From Diver Down, good album
Thank you for the music ;]
esto es en ARGENTINA estadio obras.Una animalada,lo tengo completo cuandolo escuche x 1ra vez los ame
hihihi told u so...but really ...when i listen 2 this i feel like he's from another planet
master of heavy for ever!!!!
mean street intro, what he does is hits the bass E with his thumb then the high E and B string with his first finger, its pretty cool when you figure it out :D
For rock guitar Eddie is one of the most important players ever. But that isn't because of tapping, or soloing. It is because of the combined elements of Van Halen the band. His brother is equally as good a drummer. He shapes Eddie's solos with an incredible rythm backdrop, but really Eddie is one of the greatest rock rythm players too. This is a cool live solo, but that isn't why he is great. He is a dynamic, and masterful player on every level--regarding rock.
I 100% agree. Eddie and randy and ace defined darrell's early sound, then Dimebag created a monster that will be unequaled.
amazing!!!
Eddie is #4 is the top fastest guitarists. Very insane.
I would kill to be as good as him. =o
happy belated bday,ed.. keep on jammin til next time..1/26..
Genius!!!
what a legend...dont care what anyone says...Eddie Van Halen and Jimi hendrix...who is better?? ...there is no better they are both great and im sure Eddie would have loved to jam with Jimi..:) Imagine that..:)
he is awsome
Oh great! Now my pants are on fire! Thanks for posting this! :o)
UH !!! El show en Argentina 1982 en el Luna Park !!!
This show was in Argentina. I lost my VHS.
:(
now this is what i call seven minutes in heaven
che roba spettacolare!
@Adnoydall For the avoidance of doubt, I'm referring to your list of guitarists who made a difference, not the ever growing list of people who you plan to but-chug then kill in their sleep.
He's focused sometimes but mostly is on the piano and man the dude plays the piano yup, and his father is the clarinet in Big Bad Bill :)
eddie didn't invent tapping, he just perfected it.
i like his overalls there cool
THE KING. Nuf said!
thank you
your the king watch my riffs for laugh
hes like half slapping half tapping thats sick
thiss as at a les paul tribute concert in 1988 he's not playin with the vh line up. But they hold one every year to honor the creator of the electric guitar...
Eddie is great! There may be alot of fast players today but still a mystery how to produce the tone that eddie does fast or slow.
yeah yeah i love your hand too.
Good point. This is really not "Eruption"...it's "Eddie's live solo".
1984 Madison Square Garden… ON FUCKING FIRE!!!! RIP EDDIE ❤
Perfection
So many people want to say Hendrix was the best, not even close. Eddie is THE KING !!!!
lol you can tell hes having fun up there
It common knowledge that guitar playing changed AFTER Feb '78...not before. Rock soloing was blues based Clapton/Page/Nugent before Eddie blew the doors off the established way of thinking.
It was such a different approach to the instrument it caused a revolution.
in this video he is using the eccho effect all the time, and i dont know why... but its awesome! >:D
You can definately tell he was really "feeling-it" at the beginning of this solo! He was all over the place! lol.
eddie is the best
long live the king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he realy turned the guitar world upside down
He is. BELIEVE me, man.
Freedom of Speech.
Well seeing as eddie started his career a year after hendrix yes you would,
Jimi started his career in 1966, Eddie started his in 1967, then formed Van halen in 1972.
The poll wasn't asking who is "most popular" it specifically asked who is the "greatest" and fans voted for that, not stale old Eruption
Poka madre!!!!! super fregon!!!!!!!!
Cool lingo..
dude my favoirte part was 2:00-2:35. He playes the guitar so sick. god's hands i tell u gods hands.