I saw Van Halen in the 5150 tour in Massachusetts. What you see on the video is what I saw in real life. When he played it was like he was one with his guitar like part of his body. People can try to dress like him, play like him, even do his iconic jump like him. There will only be one Eddie Van Halen. The guitar God. 5150 nation misses you. R I P Eddie Van Halen. Thank you
@@progolf95 well I saw them in Massachusetts on the 5150. I don't care if you are a video expert. I am just letting the young people of today know the feeling on how it was like when you saw Van Halen that's all.
Can I just say as a 51 year old guy that started playing guitar because of this man . I love seeing people faces when they finally witness the master at work . He was an anomaly, in the famous words of tommy lee Jones in men in black talking about Elvis , Eddie didn’t die , he just went home 🙏🏻 Eddie was the greatest and with you whopper snappers becoming interested in it will keep King Edward alive forever , thank you !
That part in the middle that sounded like a violin or a viola or cello was accomplished by using an echo effect and turning his volume knob up and down…perhaps with some additional form of modulation effect. Eddie was very much into exploring what he could do with a guitar and what sounds and musical sequences of sounds he could get out of it….endless hours of experimentation! This is the first new reaction to this I’ve seen in a while….I’ve watched 30-40 of them, and it never gets old witnessing others experiencing EVH for the first time!
Same! I’m just now seeing these guys react to it. But I, like you have seen “This” solo at least 50 plus times. And it’s new everytime because the people reacting to it get younger. And I LOVE THAT. But most people don’t mention Eddie’s background included classical music. And think a lot of this was played “ on the fly”. NOPE! Eddie knew EXACTLY what he was doing. A lot of this solo has others incorporated into it, eruption, and so many others. But that was Eddie. He played Futuristic electric guitar, never played before, or equaled since. I was lucky enough to see 5150 tour when I was 15. I just turned 52. RIP-EDDIE
@@chrisstone5868 Exactly! There was a small amount of ad-lib to it, but it was all stuff he’d created and done before…..the basic sequence. I saw them in ‘82, ‘86 (like you did), and in ‘88 on the Monsters Of Rock tour…..wish I had seen them more!
Glad you guys recognized greatness and respected it. I'm a serious player and everybody will tell you that there will never be another EVH - EVER!!! I like how you mentioned his creativity! As you study his playing (as a player) you quickly see how great he was. My mother was an accomplished classical pianist and really recognized he was incredibly gifted and creative. Great Reaction Brothers!!!
The reason he learned to make his guitar make all these sounds, was because in their beginnings they could not afford the pedals for all the different distortions. So he learned to make the sounds without the pedals. Last I heard, "Frankie" the original "Frankenstrat", is in the Smithsonian and Van Halen #2, black guitar with yellow stripes, was buried with Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pantera, after being shot on stage by a very "weird" fan!
This was filmed in New Haven Ct.....I was there! I lived up in the Hartford area and this was my first time ever seeing my guitar hero....I'll never forget it
I saw them in concert in 86 or 87...Eddie's playing was so beautiful and with absolute perfection and the whole band sounded awesome. Eddie, and Alex too, played classical piano as a child and won the #1 spot at a number of piano competitions 💯🐐💔
I saw Van Halen when I was stationed in Hawaii, back in the 1980 ‘s they were the best band that I have ever heard to this day! Eddie was the GOAT followed by Jeff Beck, Jimi H., and Stevie Ray V. RIP to all of you, this world is much less without all of you three gone.
Saw this tour in 86 at the Capital Centre in Landover MD, pretty close to this very show. Pure magic, pure genius. Shows in the 80s were really something to behold. They can never be the same. Still have the ticket stub and the shirt. And yeah, that is the Frankenstrat, and he did build it. Like I said...genius. RIP Mr. Van Halen.
I saw these guys in Jackson Mississippi in 1986 and it was about 10 shows before this taping. I was 15 years old and my mom drove me all the way from Michigan to there because my brother was in the service and had tickets.
During cathedral, which was the song where he used a lot of Echo and, as you noted, used the tone knob... was actually the volume knob which was intentionally mislabeled "tone" to knod to his his quest for the perfect tone....
Seen this all live many many times!!!...the best!...at this concert..live without a net...check out summer nights!....eddie plays his ass off on that song...its perfect!
Eddie made that iconic guitar from other guitar parts and named it Frankenstein; some call it the Frankenstrat (from the 1931 horror movie named Frankenstein about a mad scientist who puts together a monster using the parts of dead people). The Frankenstein guitar is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
Congratulations young men you just watched the goat I was reading an interview with Alex his brother who's the drummer and he said when they were starting out that he would leave for a date at 7:00 at night and Eddie would be sitting at the foot of his bed playing guitar. When he got home at 5:00 in the morning Eddie was still sitting at the foot of his bed playing guitar. If you go back and look at any interview since he's passed and all the people the musicians that have talked about him he was never without that guitar they figured probably two to three hundred thousand hours spent on that guitar it was an extension of him he was put on this planet to play and now his son Wolfgang has taken over that Wolfgang is a 30 32-year-old young man is going to be a force to be reckoned with he's the only person on the planet that I've seen by eruption just like his dad I mean nope or no everything you can possibly want and he plays drums and bass he just put out his first album a year ago you're a half ago whatever it was after his dad died he put it on hold for 4 years while he was there with his dad and he wrote every song he played every instrument saying every song on it all the lyrics everything was Wolfgang he did everything then went out and got a good band to go with him if you get a chance go out and see him but there is nobody better he was the modern day Mozart for my generation.
I was there both nights this was filmed. Watching it today it seems almost impossible....wow! I was there in New Haven. It's hard to believe he is gone.
I am three years younger than Eddie and was fortunate to grow up with these guys in socal. Saw them play before they ever got a record contract or open for anyone and I was sold. I be bias but you just watched the greatest Rock and Roll guitar player that's ever lived. Period. RIP Eddie.
That's not his Frankenstein guitar. This is his 5150 Kramer, which he started playing during the 1984 tour. It has a similar striped design, but it's not the original. This was his main guitar from 1984 until he started playing his Ernie Ball Music Man in 1991.
Ok. I saw him in the 70s & 80s and it looked like the same one. I get half of a pass on guitar mistakes because im a life long drummer Now thinking of it the Frankenstein has a different body. Lol. Oh well.
He was amazing. The part in the middle where you say he is messing with the tone, that is the volume pot. He is lowering the volume when he strikes the string so you can’t hear the tap. Then raising it to get the sound. So it sounds smooth, resembling a violin. That part is taken from his short tune “Cathedral”.
He's actually cycling the volume control up and down, his guitar is so hot it's on the edge of feedback (tapping the body creates resonate sounds) so he's using the volume to create a lot of the sound you hear and of course some serious echo.
9:04 He's is a technique called volume swells, in an effort to get a more violin or cello style sound. Eddie didn't invent it, but this piece, called Cathedral, is one of the most famous uses of volume swells, and one of the only popular songs done entirely with them.
There’s another cat you need to check out as well is Randy Rhoads. He played for Quiet Riot in the 70’s and then OZZY OSBOURNE’s first two solo records: Blizzard of OZZ and Diary of a Madman. I actually saw Randy’s last show in Knoxville Tennessee Thursday March 18th 1982. The next morning he was killed in a plane crash in Florida! Cried like a baby! He was 26 at the time. Check him out. The difference between him and Eddie is Randy was classically trained!
He made his guitars, pedals, and amps. There is another video on TH-cam, where he listens to someone else play through a bunch of different amps and he can tell them which wood the amp box was made from. He was a prodigy and remember he had no formal training at playing.
He was trained on piano but apparently totally self-taught on guitar after Alex & he switched--Alex from guitar to drums & Ed from drums to guitar...meant to be💕
That guitar started life as a Kramer. Nicknamed Frankenstein, that’s exactly what it is. He was always tinkering with it and used parts, often from other guitars, to keep it what he wanted at any given time. The pin stripe patterns became recognized as the EVH trademark. You can get copies of it and the black & yellow version also from Sweetwater, GC or Sam Ash.
I had the honor of meeting Eddie Van Halen in Oslo, Norway way back in 1993 and got my picture with him (and got his guitar pick from him personally). He was the nicest coolest guy ever and it is a memory that lives with me forever as a Van Halen fan. Long live King Eddie
Checkout the faces on these 2, there's zero emotion, there's nothing, it's blank while they're watching arguably one of the greatest rock n roll guitarists ever. It's true, these last few generations have no souls
They are mesmerized, that's why! It's not 'zero emotion' or 'no souls'. It's what youmg people look like when they're minds are blown! (I know it's been over a year!) Listen to their comments. Theses 2 know and see exactly what's going on!
The guitar folks usually get confused with this one was his Frankenstein, which he pieced together with a reject body and neck from Boogie Bodies in the 70s and painted black/white, then red later. This one he pieced together in the Kramer factory during his brand deal with them out of Pacer parts. The headstock was reshaped by Paul Unkert there to replicate his old Ibanez Destroyer's (also a cool guitar of his that he ruined the sound by cutting out a big chunk of with a chainsaw to make it look like a shark lol). If you look closely at the fretboard, its got weird blotchy shadowy parts from him trying to scrape back the finish and then giving up halfway through so his hand sweat and gunk made the bare wood all dark and the rest looks new. This guitar (called the 5150) now has a 7th tuner on the head because he busted the headstock and had to get it repaired, but tension would rebreak it so its in a jacked up spot on the bottom. Ed's gear is always a huge interest because he tinkered with everything and put it through hell to get his sounds.
The guitar he made himself to get the proper tone that he wanted. Where you said he was using the tone knob, he wasn't. He was using the volume knob. Volume knob at zero, strum strings, then bring the volume up. He was going for the sound of an organ from his instrumental titled "Cathedral". I had the pleasure of seeing him live in the front row, seated directly in front of his mic stand four times in the 80's in Philly at the Spectrum. That was when you could go to the Spectrum the night before the tickets went on sale to be first in line for tickets the next morning after partying in the parking lot all night long. The 80's were awesome. 😼
I think Kramer may have built that guitar. It is the "5150" guitar because of the numbers on the body, He also had a "1984" red striped guitar. The "Frakenstrat" is the original red striped guitar. It started out completely black, then he taped stripes on it, painted it white, then peeled the tape, and it is the guitar that he is holding on the Van Halen 1 album.
Edward Van Halen made all his guitars back in the day! He got a phone call late one night from Les Paul and Les said: Eddie, you, me, and Leo Fender are the only ones who make our own guitars 🎸!
Eddie was doing "volume swells" around the 9:00 minute mark, using the volume knob to bring in the notes after they were hammered. Amazing effect that can be done without any effect gear. :)
The part where you said he was messing with the tone knob is partially correct...He had no tone knob only a volume knob and what he is doing is called volume swells where he moves the volume knob from almost zero to full on and the effect he is using is a Eventide H3000 Harmonizer for that part...I had the Great Great Fortune to see Van Halen Live 16 times and his solo always blew my mind, Eddie will always be the Greatest EVER in my mind...If you wanna hear another Amazing solo of his listen to Push Come to Shove, it's my personal favorite of his and the one I tell new Van Halen listeners to check out because I believe it shows Ed in a perfect form...not super flashy, not super fast but bluesy as hell and jaw dropping...
Yes, he made that guitar from a Garbage can. He found them tossed out, and he didn't know a thing about Electricity. He blew a lot of equipment up before he got the sound he wanted. He made the Variac famous. Now you can get amps that have built in Variacs. What a time that was to live in, to see him live several times from the Dave days to the Sammy days, and even into the very last days, was never a disappointing experience. Learned everything he's ever composed and put out to the Public. You can tell his classical piano training. I went thru the similar type of training. Picking his stuff up was HARD. Once I figured out what he was doing, I was off to the races!!! Still play his stuff every day!
@7:23 he’s popping the trem spring in the back of his guitar to set up for the cathedral sound using a delay pedal in conjunction with his volume knob ( on/off ) to give the sound. He chords a fret, the delay picks it up and he goes to the next chord for the delay. Timing and the volume knob is intricate. The guitar is called Frankenstrat. It’s in the Smithsonian. Eddie created the guitar with an old Kramer neck and a Jackson body. He waxed his pickups and threw in a locking nut and tremolo. He sprayed painted the guitar by taping the thing. He created the yellow one on the cover which is buried with Dimebag Darrell. The hardest thing to attempt to do is his speed picking technique.
I used to have the record player on repeat to play this song over and over the needle grooved so much it had this static sound from just repeat playing this song over and over good thing I had a headset it probably bug other people but I love how Eddie play his guitar. Great music. thanks for reaction video.
Mastery. Very few reach it. Eddie was one. Incredible to witness. Mastery is more than just licks. Without the inventive mind, it's just finely honed muscle memory.
Yes! Eddie went to a guitar factory,found a discarted body,found a neck,pieced it together himself! Invented his own custom pick ups and plays with no effects pedals!
Okay, you guys are pretty young. That part where you figured out that folks and guitar players like myself lost it over was the thing that made EVH! He did not invent tapping, but he made it mainstream. The first guy I saw tapping was Steve Hackett, from the original Genesis lineup. The part you thought he was using his tone was him using his volume to make his guitar sound like a pipe organ.
There are many technically great players around today (all influenced by Ed, even if indirectly) but the thing that separates Edward if that he did it all with a big grin on his face whilst leaping around the stage. He made it look like fun, not hard work
When Eddie hit in 78, no played or sounded anything like him... He changed the way guitars and amplifiers were manufactured, they created guitar tab because of him... All the tapping, Whammy bar Shredding in guitar today was because someone copied him, or the person that influenced them copied at least some part of what Edward did... This performance is two years shy of being 40 years ago... For those of us that saw him live... How fortunate we were to see Eddie kicking ass on stage for all those tours. Player, builder, inventor, legend.
Funny how Samuel did not react, (outwardly) but Lucas smiled and kinda giggled at the last part of the video. (After Cathedral; the Mean Streets part. So did I, when I first saw it! How cool. How creative, right?!). I'm 63 and it's always cool to see younger folk react to music and movies I grew up with! We grew up with some pretty awesome shit, am I right?! Haha! Hey guys, please check out Steve Vai - Teeth of the Hydra. . . Be Good. Back with more suggestons for you two. ( Jeff Bck, Buddy Rich, Annie Lennox, Alan Parsons Project, ELO, One-Hit Wonders of th e70s and 80s. . . ) Great reaction S&L!. Peace.
9:30 He's using the volume nob on each note along with a delay while tapping the notes with his playing hand. really fun once you figure the timing out.
Yes , in his era , he made up the guitar (body and electrical sircuits , and sounds too) , he made up the way how to plays the guitar , and the notes of him called "brown" , not black grey white red blues rock classical latinos etc , but Brown ... Then so why Zappa said about him "thanks for Invented the new ways to play the guitars" . One and only EVH . RIP EVH
Eddie was 1 of 3 guitarist who revolutionized what a guitar can do. Jimi Hendrix & Tom Morello are the other 2. Check out Jimi’s Star Spangled Banner for his iconic solo or Machine Gun for song. Tommy Emmanuel has done same for acoustic guitars even does a ‘drum’ solo on guitar
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I saw Van Halen in the 5150 tour in Massachusetts. What you see on the video is what I saw in real life. When he played it was like he was one with his guitar like part of his body. People can try to dress like him, play like him, even do his iconic jump like him. There will only be one Eddie Van Halen. The guitar God. 5150 nation misses you. R I P Eddie Van Halen. Thank you
This was filmed in New Haven Connecticut. Sorry dude.
@@progolf95 well I saw them in Massachusetts on the 5150. I don't care if you are a video expert. I am just letting the young people of today know the feeling on how it was like when you saw Van Halen that's all.
@@progolf95 Yes it was and it was hot as hell in there that August night. Rest in peace EVH.
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Saw them on the W&CF tour
It was a sound from aliens
No one could touch the chemistry
Can I just say as a 51 year old guy that started playing guitar because of this man . I love seeing people faces when they finally witness the master at work . He was an anomaly, in the famous words of tommy lee Jones in men in black talking about Elvis , Eddie didn’t die , he just went home 🙏🏻 Eddie was the greatest and with you whopper snappers becoming interested in it will keep King Edward alive forever , thank you !
Eddie Van Halen, Forever Loved, Forever Missed, Forever Remembered. ❤❤
I saw him live 15 times starting in 79'. He was the real deal. Every show was a guitar clinic. Van Halen was the best live band of the 80's
fkin A 100%
Saw first and only VH concert in 80 or 81 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens RIP Eddie 💚
That part in the middle that sounded like a violin or a viola or cello was accomplished by using an echo effect and turning his volume knob up and down…perhaps with some additional form of modulation effect.
Eddie was very much into exploring what he could do with a guitar and what sounds and musical sequences of sounds he could get out of it….endless hours of experimentation!
This is the first new reaction to this I’ve seen in a while….I’ve watched 30-40 of them, and it never gets old witnessing others experiencing EVH for the first time!
Same! I’m just now seeing these guys react to it. But I, like you have seen “This” solo at least 50 plus times. And it’s new everytime because the people reacting to it get younger. And I LOVE THAT. But most people don’t mention Eddie’s background included classical music. And think a lot of this was played “ on the fly”. NOPE! Eddie knew EXACTLY what he was doing. A lot of this solo has others incorporated into it, eruption, and so many others. But that was Eddie. He played Futuristic electric guitar, never played before, or equaled since. I was lucky enough to see 5150 tour when I was 15. I just turned 52. RIP-EDDIE
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Exactly!
There was a small amount of ad-lib to it, but it was all stuff he’d created and done before…..the basic sequence.
I saw them in ‘82, ‘86 (like you did), and in ‘88 on the Monsters Of Rock tour…..wish I had seen them more!
Glad you guys recognized greatness and respected it. I'm a serious player and everybody will tell you that there will never be another EVH - EVER!!! I like how you mentioned his creativity! As you study his playing (as a player) you quickly see how great he was. My mother was an accomplished classical pianist and really recognized he was incredibly gifted and creative. Great Reaction Brothers!!!
The reason he learned to make his guitar make all these sounds, was because in their beginnings they could not afford the pedals for all the different distortions. So he learned to make the sounds without the pedals. Last I heard, "Frankie" the original "Frankenstrat", is in the Smithsonian and Van Halen #2, black guitar with yellow stripes, was buried with Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pantera, after being shot on stage by a very "weird" fan!
Straight up beast mode here. And he's just playing around
The guitar GOAT in so many ways. Van Halen was THE party to go to.
Yes, he is!!! and it's hard to believe that he was self-taught!!!
Everytime you went to a VH concert you got a session with Eddie like this. My fave guitarists
Anyone lucky enough to see this genius live can honestly say he was in a class all by himself. Rip EVH. So glad I was one of those lucky fans
I can't help it that every time I hear this,tears come to my eyes. He is a legend . RIP EDDIE
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YEEEES!!! The best guitarist ever. ❤️
This was filmed in New Haven Ct.....I was there! I lived up in the Hartford area and this was my first time ever seeing my guitar hero....I'll never forget it
Lucky !!! 👍👍
I saw them in concert in 86 or 87...Eddie's playing was so beautiful and with absolute perfection and the whole band sounded awesome. Eddie, and Alex too, played classical piano as a child and won the #1 spot at a number of piano competitions 💯🐐💔
I saw Van Halen when I was stationed in Hawaii, back in the 1980 ‘s they were the best band that I have ever heard to this day! Eddie was the GOAT followed by Jeff Beck, Jimi H., and Stevie Ray V. RIP to all of you, this world is much less without all of you three gone.
I saw them in Hawaii too, at the Blaisdell Arena....late 80's I think.
Saw this tour in 86 at the Capital Centre in Landover MD, pretty close to this very show. Pure magic, pure genius. Shows in the 80s were really something to behold. They can never be the same. Still have the ticket stub and the shirt. And yeah, that is the Frankenstrat, and he did build it. Like I said...genius. RIP Mr. Van Halen.
❤❤❤RIP EVH !!! What a one of a kind !! Only one Eddie Van Halen !!! Gone too soon !! Yes he built this guitar himself !! Makes me want to cry !!!
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I saw all of Eddie’s shows with Roth then Hagar then Roth again. There will never be another like him again!
I saw these guys in Jackson Mississippi in 1986 and it was about 10 shows before this taping. I was 15 years old and my mom drove me all the way from Michigan to there because my brother was in the service and had tickets.
During cathedral, which was the song where he used a lot of Echo and, as you noted, used the tone knob... was actually the volume knob which was intentionally mislabeled "tone" to knod to his his quest for the perfect tone....
Seen this all live many many times!!!...the best!...at this concert..live without a net...check out summer nights!....eddie plays his ass off on that song...its perfect!
My generations Mozart. Miss you Eddie.
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Eddie made that iconic guitar from other guitar parts and named it Frankenstein; some call it the Frankenstrat (from the 1931 horror movie named Frankenstein about a mad scientist who puts together a monster using the parts of dead people). The Frankenstein guitar is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
This is the Kramer guitar. Eddie stopped using the Frankenstrat after 1983.
Congratulations young men you just watched the goat I was reading an interview with Alex his brother who's the drummer and he said when they were starting out that he would leave for a date at 7:00 at night and Eddie would be sitting at the foot of his bed playing guitar. When he got home at 5:00 in the morning Eddie was still sitting at the foot of his bed playing guitar. If you go back and look at any interview since he's passed and all the people the musicians that have talked about him he was never without that guitar they figured probably two to three hundred thousand hours spent on that guitar it was an extension of him he was put on this planet to play and now his son Wolfgang has taken over that Wolfgang is a 30 32-year-old young man is going to be a force to be reckoned with he's the only person on the planet that I've seen by eruption just like his dad I mean nope or no everything you can possibly want and he plays drums and bass he just put out his first album a year ago you're a half ago whatever it was after his dad died he put it on hold for 4 years while he was there with his dad and he wrote every song he played every instrument saying every song on it all the lyrics everything was Wolfgang he did everything then went out and got a good band to go with him if you get a chance go out and see him but there is nobody better he was the modern day Mozart for my generation.
I was there both nights this was filmed. Watching it today it seems almost impossible....wow! I was there in New Haven. It's hard to believe he is gone.
That's so sick!
I am three years younger than Eddie and was fortunate to grow up with these guys in socal. Saw them play before they ever got a record contract or open for anyone and I was sold. I be bias but you just watched the greatest Rock and Roll guitar player that's ever lived. Period. RIP Eddie.
That’s his home made Frankenstein guitar. I saw him play this solo a few time Never the same. He came into the seen and blew everyone away
That's not his Frankenstein guitar. This is his 5150 Kramer, which he started playing during the 1984 tour. It has a similar striped design, but it's not the original. This was his main guitar from 1984 until he started playing his Ernie Ball Music Man in 1991.
Ok. I saw him in the 70s & 80s and it looked like the same one. I get half of a pass on guitar mistakes because im a life long drummer Now thinking of it the Frankenstein has a different body. Lol. Oh well.
Got to see him do this live multiple times, was always amazing.
the tapping is nuts but its even crazier when you know he was one of the first people to ever do it
This is a COMPILATION of ALL their Album SOLO'S ...nothing is freestyling...except his performance on stage...
He was amazing. The part in the middle where you say he is messing with the tone, that is the volume pot. He is lowering the volume when he strikes the string so you can’t hear the tap. Then raising it to get the sound. So it sounds smooth, resembling a violin. That part is taken from his short tune “Cathedral”.
He's actually cycling the volume control up and down, his guitar is so hot it's on the edge of feedback (tapping the body creates resonate sounds) so he's using the volume to create a lot of the sound you hear and of course some serious echo.
Yells faces have been melted
Guitar. Cello. Violin. Mindblown
Guys, It's amazing to see you get close and watch the G.O.A.T do his magic that nobody will ever duplicate. Thanks for the reaction
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Oh yeah, I've watched all of your reactions. Keep Rock alive
9:04 He's is a technique called volume swells, in an effort to get a more violin or cello style sound. Eddie didn't invent it, but this piece, called Cathedral, is one of the most famous uses of volume swells, and one of the only popular songs done entirely with them.
Two things that break my heart is I will never see Van Halen or Rush in concert. Two absolute legends gone way too soon. RIP Eddie and Neil Peart.
The last great innovator on the guitar. Absolute best. We all miss you. We never see his like again❤
There’s another cat you need to check out as well is Randy Rhoads. He played for Quiet Riot in the 70’s and then OZZY OSBOURNE’s first two solo records: Blizzard of OZZ and Diary of a Madman. I actually saw Randy’s last show in Knoxville Tennessee Thursday March 18th 1982. The next morning he was killed in a plane crash in Florida! Cried like a baby! He was 26 at the time. Check him out. The difference between him and Eddie is Randy was classically trained!
He made his guitars, pedals, and amps. There is another video on TH-cam, where he listens to someone else play through a bunch of different amps and he can tell them which wood the amp box was made from. He was a prodigy and remember he had no formal training at playing.
He was trained on piano but apparently totally self-taught on guitar after Alex & he switched--Alex from guitar to drums & Ed from drums to guitar...meant to be💕
That guitar started life as a Kramer. Nicknamed Frankenstein, that’s exactly what it is. He was always tinkering with it and used parts, often from other guitars, to keep it what he wanted at any given time. The pin stripe patterns became recognized as the EVH trademark. You can get copies of it and the black & yellow version also from Sweetwater, GC or Sam Ash.
Every 80s school band guitarist must learn the tapping technique.
I believe his Son Wolfgang has that guitar. Check him out, he's awesome 👍 Saw them 3X in Birmingham. Awesome Memories in the 80s
I had the honor of meeting Eddie Van Halen in Oslo, Norway way back in 1993 and got my picture with him (and got his guitar pick from him personally). He was the nicest coolest guy ever and it is a memory that lives with me forever as a Van Halen fan. Long live King Eddie
Texas Jam 1978, Van Halen wasn't that well known yet and Eddy just blew us away when he played Eruption! I saw Van Halen twice and Van Haggar once.
Checkout the faces on these 2, there's zero emotion, there's nothing, it's blank while they're watching arguably one of the greatest rock n roll guitarists ever. It's true, these last few generations have no souls
They are mesmerized, that's why! It's not 'zero emotion' or 'no souls'. It's what youmg people look like when they're minds are blown! (I know it's been over a year!) Listen to their comments. Theses 2 know and see exactly what's going on!
If you'd like an AS iconic guitar solo you need to check out Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb live at the Pulse. David Gilmour speaks to your soul.
Van Halen Live Without A Net. One of the most incredible concert films ever made.
Im.not a classical fan but, it is all through this. Greatness repeats it self.the next generation please don't drop the ball!
What a legend EVH
The guitar folks usually get confused with this one was his Frankenstein, which he pieced together with a reject body and neck from Boogie Bodies in the 70s and painted black/white, then red later. This one he pieced together in the Kramer factory during his brand deal with them out of Pacer parts. The headstock was reshaped by Paul Unkert there to replicate his old Ibanez Destroyer's (also a cool guitar of his that he ruined the sound by cutting out a big chunk of with a chainsaw to make it look like a shark lol). If you look closely at the fretboard, its got weird blotchy shadowy parts from him trying to scrape back the finish and then giving up halfway through so his hand sweat and gunk made the bare wood all dark and the rest looks new. This guitar (called the 5150) now has a 7th tuner on the head because he busted the headstock and had to get it repaired, but tension would rebreak it so its in a jacked up spot on the bottom. Ed's gear is always a huge interest because he tinkered with everything and put it through hell to get his sounds.
this is not the Frankenstrat !! this is a cutom Kramer guitar
@@fkops2773 yep, thats what I was saying
The guitar he made himself to get the proper tone that he wanted. Where you said he was using the tone knob, he wasn't. He was using the volume knob. Volume knob at zero, strum strings, then bring the volume up. He was going for the sound of an organ from his instrumental titled "Cathedral". I had the pleasure of seeing him live in the front row, seated directly in front of his mic stand four times in the 80's in Philly at the Spectrum. That was when you could go to the Spectrum the night before the tickets went on sale to be first in line for tickets the next morning after partying in the parking lot all night long. The 80's were awesome. 😼
I think Kramer may have built that guitar. It is the "5150" guitar because of the numbers on the body, He also had a "1984" red striped guitar. The "Frakenstrat" is the original red striped guitar. It started out completely black, then he taped stripes on it, painted it white, then peeled the tape, and it is the guitar that he is holding on the Van Halen 1 album.
Fantastic,now you can do eddie van halen solo 2015 tokyo dome at 60 years old.34 years after this one 👍
Look up "History of the Frankenstrat" here on TH-cam. He made his first guitar from scraps.
Edward Van Halen made all his guitars back in the day! He got a phone call late one night from Les Paul and Les said: Eddie, you, me, and Leo Fender are the only ones who make our own guitars 🎸!
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Eddie was doing "volume swells" around the 9:00 minute mark, using the volume knob to bring in the notes after they were hammered. Amazing effect that can be done without any effect gear. :)
Yes, Eddie "made" that guitar, named it "Franken-strat" I've seen VH several times, with DLR and Sammy. Just fantastic stuff!!!
The part where you said he was messing with the tone knob is partially correct...He had no tone knob only a volume knob and what he is doing is called volume swells where he moves the volume knob from almost zero to full on and the effect he is using is a Eventide H3000 Harmonizer for that part...I had the Great Great Fortune to see Van Halen Live 16 times and his solo always blew my mind, Eddie will always be the Greatest EVER in my mind...If you wanna hear another Amazing solo of his listen to Push Come to Shove, it's my personal favorite of his and the one I tell new Van Halen listeners to check out because I believe it shows Ed in a perfect form...not super flashy, not super fast but bluesy as hell and jaw dropping...
He makes it look so childish at the same time loaded with technique. He's the epitome of guitar heroes.
Seen EVH play that 8 times live,no one could get sounds out of a guitar like he could........he was the greatest ever!RIP Ed, you're sorely missed!
Yes, he made that guitar from a Garbage can. He found them tossed out, and he didn't know a thing about Electricity. He blew a lot of equipment up before he got the sound he wanted. He made the Variac famous. Now you can get amps that have built in Variacs. What a time that was to live in, to see him live several times from the Dave days to the Sammy days, and even into the very last days, was never a disappointing experience. Learned everything he's ever composed and put out to the Public. You can tell his classical piano training. I went thru the similar type of training. Picking his stuff up was HARD. Once I figured out what he was doing, I was off to the races!!! Still play his stuff every day!
@7:23 he’s popping the trem spring in the back of his guitar to set up for the cathedral sound using a delay pedal in conjunction with his volume knob ( on/off ) to give the sound. He chords a fret, the delay picks it up and he goes to the next chord for the delay. Timing and the volume knob is intricate. The guitar is called Frankenstrat. It’s in the Smithsonian. Eddie created the guitar with an old Kramer neck and a Jackson body. He waxed his pickups and threw in a locking nut and tremolo. He sprayed painted the guitar by taping the thing. He created the yellow one on the cover which is buried with Dimebag Darrell. The hardest thing to attempt to do is his speed picking technique.
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The Frankenstein guitar...one of the most famous guitars in the world....yes, Eddie pieced it together in order to get the sounds he wanted from it.
I used to have the record player on repeat to play this song over and over the needle grooved so much it had this static sound from just repeat playing this song over and over good thing I had a headset it probably bug other people but I love how Eddie play his guitar. Great music. thanks for reaction video.
Yes, EVH built the Frankenstrat through various oddball pieces and made things do what he wanted them to do to add to his sound.
this is not the Frankenstrat !! this is a cutom Kramer guitar , look at it the name is on the guitar
Mastery. Very few reach it. Eddie was one. Incredible to witness. Mastery is more than just licks. Without the inventive mind, it's just finely honed muscle memory.
Watch his solo from 83 US festival and somebody get me a doctor from 83 US festival EPIC!
The GOAT!
Tapping gets the glory, but his pick hand is insanely fast
So true. Joe Satriani said EVH had the best right hand amongst all guitar players. EVH was incredible and will be forever missed.
Yes! Eddie went to a guitar factory,found a discarted body,found a neck,pieced it together himself! Invented his own custom pick ups and plays with no effects pedals!
Guys you have just witnessed the guitar God
The best that ever will strap on a guitar
Nuff said…
RIP Ed
Okay, you guys are pretty young. That part where you figured out that folks and guitar players like myself lost it over was the thing that made EVH! He did not invent tapping, but he made it mainstream. The first guy I saw tapping was Steve Hackett, from the original Genesis lineup. The part you thought he was using his tone was him using his volume to make his guitar sound like a pipe organ.
Check out their video for “Poundcake”…epic!!
Man I'm 45 and I felt the same way when I saw that at the age of ten. 1987
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There are many technically great players around today (all influenced by Ed, even if indirectly) but the thing that separates Edward if that he did it all with a big grin on his face whilst leaping around the stage. He made it look like fun, not hard work
The GOAT! Can not be beat
When Eddie hit in 78, no played or sounded anything like him... He changed the way guitars and amplifiers were manufactured, they created guitar tab because of him... All the tapping, Whammy bar Shredding in guitar today was because someone copied him, or the person that influenced them copied at least some part of what Edward did... This performance is two years shy of being 40 years ago... For those of us that saw him live... How fortunate we were to see Eddie kicking ass on stage for all those tours. Player, builder, inventor, legend.
I saw Van Halen during their 5150 tour at Southpark Meadows in Austin Texas and Eddie did a version of Eruption. Sheryl Crow opened up for them
Saw them a couple of times, back in the day. . .Back when David Lee Roth was with the band. Wasn't the same without him.
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Rest In Sound Edward.
Funny how Samuel did not react, (outwardly) but Lucas smiled and kinda giggled at the last part of the video. (After Cathedral; the Mean Streets part. So did I, when I first saw it! How cool. How creative, right?!). I'm 63 and it's always cool to see younger folk react to music and movies I grew up with! We grew up with some pretty awesome shit, am I right?! Haha! Hey guys, please check out Steve Vai - Teeth of the Hydra. . . Be Good. Back with more suggestons for you two. ( Jeff Bck, Buddy Rich, Annie Lennox, Alan Parsons Project, ELO, One-Hit Wonders of th e70s and 80s. . . ) Great reaction S&L!. Peace.
Every time I watch this, it is like the first time❤❤❤🔥🔥 G.O.A.T
Try Helter Skelter from the Beatles.....the first punk/heavy metal song ever!!!
And yes, that was "Frankencaster" aka "Frankie" the guitar he made, and continued to alter and modify over the years.
9:30 He's using the volume nob on each note along with a delay while tapping the notes with his playing hand. really fun once you figure the timing out.
Play Atomic Punk. And if they ever come to your area, go see The Atomic Punks tribute band.
Yes , in his era , he made up the guitar (body and electrical sircuits , and sounds too) , he made up the way how to plays the guitar , and the notes of him called "brown" , not black grey white red blues rock classical latinos etc , but Brown ...
Then so why Zappa said about him "thanks for Invented the new ways to play the guitars" .
One and only EVH . RIP EVH
Frankenstrat is the guitar's name that can be bought. his kramer was just frankie or frankenstein.
this guitar is a Kramer and when he ventured out sourcing his second chapter of guitar builds..Frakenstrat was resting in LA the one he built himself
yes he made that guitar and you can buy it online
The guitar Eddie is playing is a Kramer guitar but he was constantly tinkering with his rigs. He HIGHLY modified his gear.
Such a good song
That was a Kramer signature series for / by Eddie. It was his first. His Frankie was a Gibson p/u in a strat body wired to only a volume pot.
he made the guitar, and AMPS...and other things... he was like NIKOLA TESLA or EDISON...loved tinkering with electronics
Eddie was 1 of 3 guitarist who revolutionized what a guitar can do. Jimi Hendrix & Tom Morello are the other 2. Check out Jimi’s Star Spangled Banner for his iconic solo or Machine Gun for song.
Tommy Emmanuel has done same for acoustic guitars even does a ‘drum’ solo on guitar
In answer to your question. Yes he did make that guitar from the ground up. It is called the "FRANKENSTRAT"
Yes, he made that guitar and others. Guitar World did an article on it.