Just the song parents want to hear when dropping their freshman daughters and sons off at the dorm and saying goodbye. 😂 This along with Welcome to the Jungle
Pleasure To Kill bro I grew up with hair metal and grunge rock and classic country like george strait and Travis tritt. You need love in your life brother. Sorry for your hate
I was 14 years old when Diver Down came out, which meant it was a staple in my suburban redneck high school. I was, of course, entirely unequipped to understand what went into a band, and the mugging David Lee Roth you see in this video was the only one I recognized. "Ice Cream Man" -- when I finally heard it -- was my first solid clue that this band was mining musical history that I knew nothing about.
For anyone who was 15 years old in 1978, when this album was released, you know the impact it made. Eddie's insane and different guitar left a lot of people not knowing what was going on. How was it possible to get those harmonics and that tapping technique? Eddie was an alien...R.I.P.
Was 10 years old. Wore that record out..picked up my first guitar at 11 , jumping off furniture because of this. Never knew the intro was car horns. I even installed 8 in my car to make the same noise.(dumb) RIP King Edward. The rock word continues on as you set the bar for guitarists for generations.
@@lisacline4975 im 54, never saw Daves VH, the 5150 tour i did. I think they went downhill on 1984 album. It wasnt the "in your face" rocking! The VH logo will be inked on me in Feb. LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
What you got was beauty..and I lost lost that loving feeling that I'd learned to depend on..as my own. To believe in you. vingded you ..the real you..was all I depen
Sitting in history class at a group table with a community tape player, listening to class lessons...when one student pulled out the school tape and put this VH in. We were 6th graders, mind blown. Life forever changed that day in Mr. Pennington class.
Shit, here I go again, crying like a little girl over Eddies death and I’m a 54 year old man. You were the soundtrack to my youth Eddie. This world thanks you.
Say what you want but DLR knows how to move and shake it on stage. Amazing front man! I never thought Van Halen was quite the same w/o him. Those were the days!
You were a God among men. Often imitated but never duplicated. Your music was and will remain a part of my life until I too meet my end. There are way too many memories to put down about what your music has meant to me over the course of my life. Tonight, I will have a drink and listen to your incredible talent and ability. RIP Eddie.... your heroes are waiting at the pearly gates \m/
So true Cindy. I was in high school the day their first album came out and went to the record store and bought it. The Van Halen band was part of my up bringing. I just dug out my box of concert tickets and counted 22 concerts I went to. Their style, their shows, and their music still lives in me .
As a 16 year old guitarist who first heard Van Halen 1 in a friends basement in 1978, his death today marks the passing of the most influential guitar player in history. There were guitarists I liked more, but Eddie was a force of musical nature, like Mozart. You can’t know what it was like in 1978 unless you were there. The world was already full of hot shot guitar players as guitar solos were still popular and necessary in songs, if you can believe it. We were surrounded by solos. Out of an already elite atmosphere comes someone who reinvented the guitar, by borrowing, stealing and adding his own personality. This was no Berkeley grad snob with an ‘education’, but a natural innovator who could not even read music. We heard ‘eruption’ and could not even understand what we were hearing. Was it a guitar, a keyboard, voodoo magic? And this was right in the middle of disco! All the hot shots who came after: Steve Vai, satriani, malmsteen, would not have existed without VH. They added more speed and more technique, but none could match the sheer personality and songwriting chops of Eddie. I stress songwriting, and the ability to make a song memorable by the masses, not just guitar players. How many people (non guitarists) do you know that can tell you the title of one song from any of these other guitar players? VH not only wrote the most iconic hard rock riffs in history, his sense of melody and feel and tone were unmatched, and still are to this day. He is a once in a generation comet we will likely not see again. Van Halen, the band, through sheer force of talent, drive, their outsized personalities, influenced every rock band in the 80’s, creating a copycat machine of terrible bands and players who tried to be VH, or David Lee Roth, and failed. This stink of hair bands and ever accelerating , million notes a minute guitar players could only be erased by the arrival of Nirvana and grunge in 1992. Suddenly, guitar solos were passé, and I was glad to see the clone wankers go the way of the dinosaur. Today, most under 30’s don’t even know who Van Halen is or was. His music, his instrument, the guitar, and guitar solos, no longer fits in with what is cool. Real musicians with actual talent, the abilty to perform live, put on a show without backing tracks or silicone inflated buttocks, no longer matter in the “music” world. It’s now George Orwell’s 1984, with covid banning live music everywhere. You can read the book, but I’m going to listen to the last album by the original Van Halen.
Are you really going to act this way? 🤔 Someone made an outpouring of what they felt within themselves & your only response is "no, you're wrong, this is right" what is your major malfunction? You didn't even give a plausible reason as to why you THINK that is true, you just stuck your fingers in your ears and went "la la la" 🤷♂️ Grow up, a great legend that changed the industry for the better has died, this isn't a platform for your bitch fit, away with you.
Craven Moorehead most artists overwhelmingly recognize Jimi Hendrix as the best and most influential rock guitarist ever. You are simply not telling the truth.
No Thanks the truth should be told. Jimi Hendrix is virtually universally regarded as the greatest rock & roll guitarist ever. Eddie Van Halen was one of the greatest but Jimi Hendrix was an institution unto himself.
Me too I hadn’t given him or vh a lot of thought in years and I’m remembering how much I loved them from 80 to 84 when I was a kid first getting into music....loved unchained
Imagine hearing this for the first time on the radio when it was first released. That was me. It was like from another universe. The siren and bass intro. DLH’s screeching. Pounding drums. And an instant guitar god. Still gives me a rush, and I listen to this song all the time.
@@9mmbastage I am so glad, that I was already there, (and young), when all these phantastisc music started. And I seen a lot of them live (unfortunately not Van Halen, therefore good, to have all these super Videos)❤️
He was a king in his own right. One of the founding fathers of his genre. His sound was as unique as he was. You hear that sound and you know it's van Halen. The soundtrack of my childhood . God bless
This song is the opening track. And after a mere 3 minutes and 31 seconds, track 2 starts. And changes rock and roll guitar playing forever. RIP to the King: Eddie Van Halen.
Im 65 and watching these old restored VH videos reminds me of how they were the mighty Van Halen from the debut album through fair warning.first saw them in '78 opening for sabbath...damn im old!!
Did you watch Black Sabbaths set too? I'm only 37, but a huge Black Sabbath fan. I ask, cos I heard they were washed up by then and were terrible live. Is that true?
I was born too late. I wish I grew up in these eras when Rock n' Roll was king. Back to where it all began, the opening track to a legendary debut album of one of the most legendary Rock Bands of all time. Thank you EVH for this.
Did you know gene Simmons from kiss discovered van Halen in a club, he financed their first recording session back in 1977.eddievanHalen will be missed
Might have been the night my grandpa met Eddie because they were alternating sets in the same club. That would be wild, because he also mentioned meeting Gene Simmons multiple times
Undoubtedly, but I liked Fair Warning and Diver Down better, if I had to pick. FW was harder, darker, but DD was just straight up a party album. I have fond memories of playing in the pool with Diver Down cranked. The summer that came out was a blast.
my grandmother loved everything about ac/dc, van halen, etc. she loved rock as much as she loved me. from hanging a poster with eddie's guitar pattern to naming our puppy after him, she was forever hooked on the sound. i might have never heard her favourite rock song, but im sure this one is close to her heart.
Damn I could be your Grandma. I saw these guys in 79 at Masonic Temple in Detroit 2nd row center stage, small venue. It was insanely good and David Lee Roth was the most charismatic front man I've ever seen
@@theresacollins3898 lmao she saw them in 2012 or 2013 i think, and even got a few signatures from foreigner as well. i remember she told me not to touch them in a funny tone, and i smiled, not knowing who was on that poster at the time. our dog eddie is just about as batshit crazy as the riffs on van halens albums, tearing apart whatever fabric or toy he gets his teeth into lol. i love him to death, i swear.
we'll never know each mans contribution in the studio when they recoded every song. but if you listen to the 1982 radio interview with jim ladd, Dave picks up a n accoustic guitar and starts playing and singing. they guy had musical talent. I wish eddie didnt get sick. maybe if he stayed healthy he could have done guitar store appearances to meet the public but who am I kidding, none of these rock stars do that anyways.
@@TheBestLife2184 you're not one of those guys who *listens* to music then? None of those things you mentioned were anything to do music whatsoever. But yeah codpieces probably 😂
Alex was a classically trained piano player and he was actually the first guitar player in Van Halen and Eddie was on the drums and then they switched places Alex knew how to read a music score Eddie didn't know how to read music well he probably did but Alex was giving the credit
@@LoH919 LOLZ Dave Grohl. Junna at 18 was better than Grohl was age, well, ever. th-cam.com/video/GIr-3Qp1JbA/w-d-xo.html Dave Grohl is bankable. That is why he is anything. He is bankable because of Kurt Cobain. Grohl is as much of a hack drummer as Alex VH is. Good luck!
This song came out in 1978. I owned a 1978 Gold Edition Y-88 Trans Am. It was awesome riding down the Highway with the T-tops off listening to this. Wish I was back in those days. Funny how Eddie couldn't read music yet became 1 of Americans best. RIP Eddie, hope to meet u on the other side.
I dropped to my knees when i heard about Stevie Ray Vaughan dying 30 years ago and a little over a month, but he was 35 and killed in a accident, Eddie Van Halen is something all together different, I grew up with Van Halen, they are a concrete part of my adolescence and forever forged in my youth and adult life, RIP EVH, I hope you're Running with a higher power
Shit, here I go again, crying like a little girl over Eddies death and I’m a 54 year old man. You were the soundtrack to my youth Eddie. This world thanks you.
@@jacknoble2050 51 years old dude I cried when Stevie ray died and I broke down when eddie died but weird to say but I broke down bad when robin williams took his own life
I'm 15 and I discovered van halen 2 years ago and its my most favorite band of all time. There is something about vh which is just soo perfect and unique. Their songs are my perfect taste. Its just sounds sooo fun and cool. This is one of my favorite vh songs! The vibes this song gives makes me cry all the time.
I once heard Alex told Eddie ( back when they first got famous) to turn his back to the camera so no one could see how he created that exclusive sound we all know and love today !!!!!!!!!! Now that's family loyalty !!!! ❤️
Rock in Paradise Eddie... the cosmos are sounding amazing I am betting with all that talent you are joining that have gone before you. Thank you for the music... hope you are with the angels not Runnin' With The Devil but if you are hope you really show him a thing or two . You are a legend and have left a musical legacy that will endure... your music is a soundtrack to my childhood and such a big part of my life.
Van Hagar ISN'T EVEN VAN HALEN! (In fact, they couldn't legally use the SAME band name, since it was a radically different "product". That's WHY they kept the name: inertia!) At least they called VH with CHerone "VH lll"
I saw these guys at age 16 yrs old in 1980 was quite hammered a couple hours prior to showtime and thank god I sobered up enough to go. I was SO HAPPY I was able to see them in their prime. THEY WERE F’ing amazing ! I was told 20 yrs later from a guy who had lived in Binghamton his whole life that VH had been kicked out of Binghamton forever after that. ROCKON VH. Crazy bunch of dudes
This was the opening tune on tour for their album in ‘78. Lights go down, Eddie dive bombs and all hell breaks loose. I remember it like it was yesterday. Man concerts were fun back then.
Jerry Davis Im not someone who is stuck in the past or wishes they lived in fucking 1976. Im aware this song came out in ‘78 but you get my point. Either way, the problem with today is the phones man, people just need to experience it and not be on there phones. Makes the crowd so dead, and makes the experience kinda junk. Im aware you want to be able to show you were there, and be able to look back, but then there is no story to be told. Because no matter what, the camera doesn’t capture the experience as well as someone who lived to tell the tale🤷♂️, just my thoughts. Adios
Not that I don’t believe you, but they Opened with On Fire 99% percent of the time; however they could’ve edited their set list for that show though since they were the opening act for Black Sabbath, Journey and Boston depending on where you saw them.
I played guitar from 1966....when l first heard VanHalen l said how in the hell is he doing that shit ?? Then l got my issue of Guitar Player mag in 1978 and Eddie divulged some of his technique....l still can't play that stuff lololol
In Louisville KY van Halen opening band and they opened with running with the devil eddie had his bombshell amp rack the next act Ronnie Montrose and then journey with a new singer by the name of Steve Perry . steve Perry and berg rookie sat behind us at the sound board for van Halen had no clue as. To who they were
This is cool to go back and relive, but when this came out, it was on another level. You’d pull up to a light and it would be in surround sound, blasting out of 3 or 4 cars. Rock then was good, but this is so different from Frampton, Zeppelin, Skynard and so on. Even kids that listened to top 40, had this playing at the Park, for the whole group to hear, while talking or throwing a ball around vs on an iPod with ear buds while texting the kid next to them. We had it so good, and Van Halen was a huge part of it.
The culture of music has changed so much. I think it was much more of a sharing experience back then because of that social aspect of it, whereas now it's a private thing with people sitting in the corners of their rooms. And everybody has their own customized personal playlist on streaming or whatever. Just a totally different vibe.
Thank God this video exists! And they did one last Reunion Tour before Eddie passed. I’m grateful for that! Eddie will be missed! He was one of a kind! He rocked the World! And he shocked me the first time I heard Eruption! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Then I saw him play it in concert footage and still couldn’t process it. Amazing technique and speed!! He will never be forgotten! RIP EVH
Eddie will always be my favorite guitar player hands down, the fact that he worked so hard to become so. Even taking lessons from Roy Clark a master at any string instrument. Eddie created his own style his own sound. That Rock Heaven the Righteous Bro's sang about surely has a hell of a band.
Backstage after a show one night at the whiskey a few months before the first record came out I asked Edward for his autograph he asked what should I write I really couldn't think of anything but get wasted. So, on the back of a Budweiser label which he always provided to us, we shared our weed, amazing days!! Anyways I have a mint condition autograph on the back of a bud label long neck that reads, "get wasted/ Edward van Halen" one of a fkn kind and incredible memories
Eddie Van Halen was Dutch. He married Valerie Bertinelli from 'One Day at a Time'. McKenzie Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips from The Mama's and The Papas, was the thin brunette on One Day at a Time.
Eddie Van Halen you will always be remembered by all of us as a legend of a guitarist 🎸🎸🎸 which this world will never forget a pure genius guitarist 🎸🤟 🤟♥️
August 1979. Freshman in College. Dorm mate down the hall blasted the shit out of this album. Transformative.
Haha I was just a little kid in 1979, now I own my own home and i got a 20850 watt pa system in my garage to blast this thanks so much!
I was born in august ‘79. I wish I’d been older in the 70’s.
Just the song parents want to hear when dropping their freshman daughters and sons off at the dorm and saying goodbye. 😂 This along with Welcome to the Jungle
Born almost 20 years later but I fuck deep with this
Legends are never forgotten. Keep rockin Eddie. 🤟
True
rip
Pleasure To Kill gate keeping music💀
Pleasure To Kill bro I grew up with hair metal and grunge rock and classic country like george strait and Travis tritt. You need love in your life brother. Sorry for your hate
@Pleasure To Kill
Dude, stop being 11 for like 6 seconds for Eddie
Can we recognize how *funky* Van Halen was? It was heavy metal, but the grooves are a MILE deep in the pocket, it had so much soul.
I was 14 years old when Diver Down came out, which meant it was a staple in my suburban redneck high school. I was, of course, entirely unequipped to understand what went into a band, and the mugging David Lee Roth you see in this video was the only one I recognized. "Ice Cream Man" -- when I finally heard it -- was my first solid clue that this band was mining musical history that I knew nothing about.
Definitely not heavy metal, but metal nonetheless.
What does that mean, "deep in the pocket?"
The New Jersey Devils.
dlr's band before van halen was a rnb group funnily enough so it makes sense
For anyone who was 15 years old in 1978, when this album was released, you know the impact it made. Eddie's insane and different guitar left a lot of people not knowing what was going on. How was it possible to get those harmonics and that tapping technique? Eddie was an alien...R.I.P.
I was 12 but definitely got into them a few yrs later and now at 57 still a fan
Was 10 years old. Wore that record out..picked up my first guitar at 11 , jumping off furniture because of this. Never knew the intro was car horns. I even installed 8 in my car to make the same noise.(dumb) RIP King Edward. The rock word continues on as you set the bar for guitarists for generations.
@@lisacline4975 im 54, never saw Daves VH, the 5150 tour i did. I think they went downhill on 1984 album. It wasnt the "in your face" rocking!
The VH logo will be inked on me in Feb.
LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
I was only 10at the time life changing
born in 1962 so fortunate
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen. Heaven’s got another legendary guitarist/front man
This one seems to have caught up with him. Always to early. Eh?
GOAT
Legend lives on Eddie Van Halen R.I.P
I’m down with that, except Eddie wasn’t really the front man.
RIP Eddie
"I live my life like there's no tomorrow" , those opening lines right there ... RIP Van Halen
RIP Eddie. Stuck in another lockdown and here in 2021, we still miss you and your fantastic music. Keep on rocking 🤟🏻
What you got was beauty..and I lost lost that loving feeling that I'd learned to depend on..as my own.
To believe in you.
vingded you ..the real you..was all I depen
Vote republican
You weren’t stuck in a lockdown you complied along with all the others!
@JC-du6snWHO?
Sitting in history class at a group table with a community tape player, listening to class lessons...when one student pulled out the school tape and put this VH in. We were 6th graders, mind blown. Life forever changed that day in Mr. Pennington class.
I had the same religious experience..... I swear God put this band together and the Devil destroyed it.
RIP Eddie. Your music is legendary and you will live on forever.
Eddie the master of shredding..., may you rest in peace, the ones you left behind will rock their socks off to your music.
Shit, here I go again, crying like a little girl over Eddies death and I’m a 54 year old man. You were the soundtrack to my youth Eddie. This world thanks you.
54 HERE ALSO. I am with you. I remember vividly playing air guitar to this as a little kid. It started my whole music career.
17 year old and I have been crying all day.
Claire bertinelli his ex was by his side
Valerie bertinely by his slide
you're not the only one
Say what you want but DLR knows how to move and shake it on stage. Amazing front man! I never thought Van Halen was quite the same w/o him. Those were the days!
You were a God among men. Often imitated but never duplicated. Your music was and will remain a part of my life until I too meet my end. There are way too many memories to put down about what your music has meant to me over the course of my life. Tonight, I will have a drink and listen to your incredible talent and ability. RIP Eddie.... your heroes are waiting at the pearly gates \m/
So true Cindy. I was in high school the day their first album came out and went to the record store and bought it. The Van Halen band was part of my up bringing. I just dug out my box of concert tickets and counted 22 concerts I went to. Their style, their shows, and their music still lives in me .
Imagine a day where Eddie Van Halen plays alongside Neil Peart. Too soon. They are both gone too soon! *Rest in power Eddie!*
you wer a great muscian rock on eddie
@@jamesb.9472 More of a god than some imiginitive sky fairy they write about in books.
As a 16 year old guitarist who first heard Van Halen 1 in a friends basement in 1978, his death today marks the passing of the most influential guitar player in history. There were guitarists I liked more, but Eddie was a force of musical nature, like Mozart. You can’t know what it was like in 1978 unless you were there. The world was already full of hot shot guitar players as guitar solos were still popular and necessary in songs, if you can believe it. We were surrounded by solos. Out of an already elite atmosphere comes someone who reinvented the guitar, by borrowing, stealing and adding his own personality. This was no Berkeley grad snob with an ‘education’, but a natural innovator who could not even read music. We heard ‘eruption’ and could not even understand what we were hearing. Was it a guitar, a keyboard, voodoo magic? And this was right in the middle of disco!
All the hot shots who came after: Steve Vai, satriani, malmsteen, would not have existed without VH. They added more speed and more technique, but none could match the sheer personality and songwriting chops of Eddie. I stress songwriting, and the ability to make a song memorable by the masses, not just guitar players. How many people (non guitarists) do you know that can tell you the title of one song from any of these other guitar players? VH not only wrote the most iconic hard rock riffs in history, his sense of melody and feel and tone were unmatched, and still are to this day. He is a once in a generation comet we will likely not see again.
Van Halen, the band, through sheer force of talent, drive, their outsized personalities, influenced every rock band in the 80’s, creating a copycat machine of terrible bands and players who tried to be VH, or David Lee Roth, and failed. This stink of hair bands and ever accelerating , million notes a minute guitar players could only be erased by the arrival of Nirvana and grunge in 1992. Suddenly, guitar solos were passé, and I was glad to see the clone wankers go the way of the dinosaur.
Today, most under 30’s don’t even know who Van Halen is or was. His music, his instrument, the guitar, and guitar solos, no longer fits in with what is cool. Real musicians with actual talent, the abilty to perform live, put on a show without backing tracks or silicone inflated buttocks, no longer matter in the “music” world. It’s now George Orwell’s 1984, with covid banning live music everywhere. You can read the book, but I’m going to listen to the last album by the original Van Halen.
Jimi Hendrix is the most influential guitarist in the history of Rock & Roll.
@Craven Moorehead He absolutely is and he is far more influential than Eddie Van Halen. That is known.
Are you really going to act this way? 🤔 Someone made an outpouring of what they felt within themselves & your only response is "no, you're wrong, this is right" what is your major malfunction? You didn't even give a plausible reason as to why you THINK that is true, you just stuck your fingers in your ears and went "la la la" 🤷♂️
Grow up, a great legend that changed the industry for the better has died, this isn't a platform for your bitch fit, away with you.
Craven Moorehead most artists overwhelmingly recognize Jimi Hendrix as the best and most influential rock guitarist ever. You are simply not telling the truth.
No Thanks the truth should be told. Jimi Hendrix is virtually universally regarded as the greatest rock & roll guitarist ever. Eddie Van Halen was one of the greatest but Jimi Hendrix was an institution unto himself.
I just couldn't believe the news, hit me harder than I would have thought. RIP Eddie, Your music and influence on all guitar freaks will live on.
Me too I hadn’t given him or vh a lot of thought in years and I’m remembering how much I loved them from 80 to 84 when I was a kid first getting into music....loved unchained
Imagine hearing this for the first time on the radio when it was first released. That was me. It was like from another universe. The siren and bass intro. DLH’s screeching. Pounding drums. And an instant guitar god. Still gives me a rush, and I listen to this song all the time.
it would be like these kids who got to hear it before anyone th-cam.com/video/HgFjYNPgRwI/w-d-xo.html
I think you meant to type DLRoth...not DLHalen lol ; )
I'm on an old-folks chat room. I advised many to play it LOUDLY to get the teens out of bed.
It’s not a siren it’s 3 different car horns blended
Hear👋
Today the world lost a legend. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
Thats true and so sad! R.I.P. EDDIE
THIS is by far my most favorite VH tune ever The groove The in your face blow you away power
I heard it so damned loud and 50 times in a row. Again and again. One of the best songs ever. I am 65 in April.....
Happy Early Birthday to you homie. Love Early vh not so much new vhg . Van Halen / Van Haggar. Rip Eddie.
I turned 65 last September and I'm right there with you. One of the best songs ever !!
@@9mmbastage I am so glad, that I was already there, (and young), when all these phantastisc music started. And I seen a lot of them live (unfortunately not Van Halen, therefore good, to have all these super Videos)❤️
I can't get over their harmonies together. The sound is just so contagious.
He was a king in his own right. One of the founding fathers of his genre. His sound was as unique as he was. You hear that sound and you know it's van Halen. The soundtrack of my childhood . God bless
Diamond Dave ❤🎉real Rock and Roll
Dave and Eddie: One of the greatest frontman/guitarist teams ever.
Only Palmer and Page could top them.
@Violla Blonde f off
@@rugermossberg9221 I’ll take Eddie And Dave’s more over the top style!
@@koba5152 e mi u
Yes 1 + 1 = rock legends
This song is the opening track. And after a mere 3 minutes and 31 seconds, track 2 starts. And changes rock and roll guitar playing forever. RIP to the King: Eddie Van Halen.
Farewell Eddie. You made the World a funner, brighter, more exciting place with your genius. And you will be missed.
"The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you the best memories becomes a memory" THANK YOU
30 seconds into this first song on a debut album and you already know these guys are going to be huge.
I was 17 the first time I heard this on KISW in Seattle. I thought what the hell was that. Bought the album the next day.
Im 65 and watching these old restored VH videos reminds me of how they were the mighty Van Halen from the debut album through fair warning.first saw them in '78 opening for sabbath...damn im old!!
You're not alone.
71, no worries 😅
we're all old!!
Did you watch Black Sabbaths set too? I'm only 37, but a huge Black Sabbath fan. I ask, cos I heard they were washed up by then and were terrible live. Is that true?
Yeah.. it sucked when Dave left.. Sammy Hagar was a grifter
I was born too late. I wish I grew up in these eras when Rock n' Roll was king. Back to where it all began, the opening track to a legendary debut album of one of the most legendary Rock Bands of all time. Thank you EVH for this.
Me too I wish I was born earlier because all the musicians I like are dying and I never got the chance to meet them :' (
Born in 88 wishing it was 68 just for the damn music !!!
Probably my favorite Van Halen songs. Still a great song that stands the test of time.
Dave’s vocals
Eddies guitar playing this band was something else, RIP Eddie
Happy Anniversary Van Halen 1,releases this day in 1978,what a first album❤
The legend lives in all of us. WE LOVE YOU EDDIE. We'll miss you.
Did you know gene Simmons from kiss discovered van Halen in a club, he financed their first recording session back in 1977.eddievanHalen will be missed
Actually he financed/produced their 15-track-demo. But nevertheless he kind of discovered them...Best regards!
I herd, ...and some other stuff about it, but let's all rock...together!!!!!
Actually he financed a 3 track demo that got no interest from record companies.
Aaaaaay. I LOVE Van Halen, Kiss , Bon Jovi ....
Might have been the night my grandpa met Eddie because they were alternating sets in the same club. That would be wild, because he also mentioned meeting Gene Simmons multiple times
Never seen a man so happy playing 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
We were all lucky enough to be alive at the same time as Eddie Van Halen. Thanks for the jams man. See you on the next adventure
Rest in peace, this year has been such a horrible year, so many legends lost
Kobe Bryant died on January 26.
Eddie Van Halen was born on January 26.
😩
@@AntwhaleNearfar Neil Peart died in January 😢
Worst year ever 😪
And alexi died almost 2021
that first album is so powerful stands up to anything ever recorded period
And it's aged so well,sounds barely dated.
Glad that I was there when they opened for Black Sabbath!
Undoubtedly, but I liked Fair Warning and Diver Down better, if I had to pick. FW was harder, darker, but DD was just straight up a party album. I have fond memories of playing in the pool with Diver Down cranked. The summer that came out was a blast.
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I believe this set the tone for what was to come in the 80s
One of the Greatest songs in music history!
🙋🏆✨💯
Eddie, for nearly 30 years your epic solos always shook up my entire house. RIP, Super Shredder! 🤟 🤟 🤟
This song is 42 years old and still kicks ass and is played on the radio. No way is the auto tuned crap on today going to be played 40 years from now
The first song I went to after hearing about the loss of EVH. Rest in peace, man
Same here man :(
same bro! 2020 CAN YOU JUST FUCK OFF NOW
Same wtf is 2020
Me too
Right here with you bro
my grandmother loved everything about ac/dc, van halen, etc. she loved rock as much as she loved me. from hanging a poster with eddie's guitar pattern to naming our puppy after him, she was forever hooked on the sound. i might have never heard her favourite rock song, but im sure this one is close to her heart.
Damn I could be your Grandma. I saw these guys in 79 at Masonic Temple in Detroit 2nd row center stage, small venue. It was insanely good and David Lee Roth was the most charismatic front man I've ever seen
@@theresacollins3898 lmao she saw them in 2012 or 2013 i think, and even got a few signatures from foreigner as well. i remember she told me not to touch them in a funny tone, and i smiled, not knowing who was on that poster at the time. our dog eddie is just about as batshit crazy as the riffs on van halens albums, tearing apart whatever fabric or toy he gets his teeth into lol. i love him to death, i swear.
Here on 10-6-20. Forever and always remember Eddie Van Halen. Rip
I graduated high school in 1987 and this song still makes me wanna party..luv em
You dont get em like this no more boys. Rip Eddie
It's over.
Rock is slowly dying ((
@@callmegiorgioorsmth5004 🥺😭
RIP Edward Van Halen. You led a tough life, but man did you make so many people happy. I hope you are hanging with Jesus and rocking Heaven.
DLR's range is phenomenal.
RIP EVH you legend.
we'll never know each mans contribution in the studio when they recoded every song. but if you listen to the 1982 radio interview with jim ladd, Dave picks up a n accoustic guitar and starts playing and singing. they guy had musical talent. I wish eddie didnt get sick. maybe if he stayed healthy he could have done guitar store appearances to meet the public but who am I kidding, none of these rock stars do that anyways.
@James H For real? I disagree.
Agree
Van Halen music is definitely guay all the way. What do you guys like the most? Their chestless shirts, pursed lips, or the swiveling man hips?
@@TheBestLife2184 you're not one of those guys who *listens* to music then? None of those things you mentioned were anything to do music whatsoever. But yeah codpieces probably 😂
Why does Alex not get enough credit for his drumming skill. He's been playing at a top level for a long time.
Alex was a classically trained piano player and he was actually the first guitar player in Van Halen and Eddie was on the drums and then they switched places Alex knew how to read a music score Eddie didn't know how to read music well he probably did but Alex was giving the credit
Because Alex's playing is meh.
Two words, DAVE GROHL
@@LoH919 LOLZ Dave Grohl.
Junna at 18 was better than Grohl was age, well, ever.
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Dave Grohl is bankable. That is why he is anything. He is bankable because of Kurt Cobain.
Grohl is as much of a hack drummer as Alex VH is.
Good luck!
So what's the big deal
RIP Eddie. Your music will live on forever
So freakin good. The music, the guitars, the harmonies…such an awesome band
Love the way Alex beats the hell out of those drums at the end, he's badass.
Greatest rock band of the 80s
Brings back great memories
@@Enclave824 That was Led Zeppelin bro
@@prodbyjeremiah97 Led Zeppelin was the greatest rock band of the eighties ???
Hey schmuck, Led Zeppelin was dead in 1980 !
This song came out in 1978. I owned a 1978 Gold Edition Y-88 Trans Am. It was awesome riding down the Highway with the T-tops off listening to this. Wish I was back in those days. Funny how Eddie couldn't read music yet became 1 of Americans best. RIP Eddie, hope to meet u on the other side.
Van Halen-definitely an original sound and voice. One of the best. One of my favorites. There were a lot outstanding performers. The best of times.
MR. DIAMOND DAVE IS
A PARAMEDIC 😂❤
I dropped to my knees when i heard about Stevie Ray Vaughan dying 30 years ago and a little over a month, but he was 35 and killed in a accident, Eddie Van Halen is something all together different, I grew up with Van Halen, they are a concrete part of my adolescence and forever forged in my youth and adult life, RIP EVH, I hope you're Running with a higher power
Same. I grew up listening and partying to this talented group of musicians.
Same here!! I just can't seem to get over him being gone..RIP Eddie
Shit, here I go again, crying like a little girl over Eddies death and I’m a 54 year old man. You were the soundtrack to my youth Eddie. This world thanks you.
...like the devil?
@@jacknoble2050 51 years old dude I cried when Stevie ray died and I broke down when eddie died but weird to say but I broke down bad when robin williams took his own life
Rest In Peace to this absolute legend of a guitar player...
I love his whistle vocals when he goes aaaaaah
ME TOO
Tanner Sandell Is also GAY
I need bigger Speakers ...................................LOL XO
No your speakers are fine. This music video was reproduced at too low of a volume.
Everyone thinks Sammy Hagar has more vocal range than DLR. Roth's range is technically broader on both ends!
I'm 15 and I discovered van halen 2 years ago and its my most favorite band of all time. There is something about vh which is just soo perfect and unique. Their songs are my perfect taste. Its just sounds sooo fun and cool. This is one of my favorite vh songs! The vibes this song gives makes me cry all the time.
the best frontman with the best guitar player and the best backing vocals ever.
The good old days in the 80's, what a band, uplifting......down memorylane, all the way!!
This came out Feb 1978
I once heard Alex told Eddie ( back when they first got famous) to turn his back to the camera so no one could see how he created that exclusive sound we all know and love today !!!!!!!!!! Now that's family loyalty !!!! ❤️
this was the golden era of music
Good song, but the 70's has nothing that can compare with the 90's music 🎵🎶
#90'sForever 🎉❤😊
Man this song never gets old . It brings back so many good memories. I totally love this song one of my all time favorites
The "original" Van Halen was the best ever!
Van Hagar sucked...
@@jeffh643 I agree
What ever Sammy Hagar was the shit
The Ringmaster same bro same 😎😎😎 rock and roll and ROCK ON !!!!🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿🤘 🎸 🎸 🎸
@@tylerharvey8890 literally
Happy Heavenly Birthday Eddie Van Halen January 26 1955 🎉🎸🎸🎂🎸♥️
One of the best Rock Bands ever!!!
These rock concerts brought us all so much joy back in the day 😃😃
I saw them in Bay City, Mi. They were fantastic!! 😊
Rock in Paradise Eddie... the cosmos are sounding amazing I am betting with all that talent you are joining that have gone before you. Thank you for the music... hope you are with the angels not Runnin' With The Devil but if you are hope you really show him a thing or two . You are a legend and have left a musical legacy that will endure... your music is a soundtrack to my childhood and such a big part of my life.
This was the BEST Van Halen line up! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Van Hagar ISN'T EVEN VAN HALEN! (In fact, they couldn't legally use the SAME band name, since it was a radically different "product". That's WHY they kept the name: inertia!) At least they called VH with CHerone "VH lll"
@@dumpygoodness4086 Bullshit
@@darkairlord Calm down Sister 🙄
RIP Eddie Van Halen, you left this world too soon ❤
I saw these guys at age 16 yrs old in 1980 was quite hammered a couple hours prior to showtime and thank god I sobered up enough to go. I was SO HAPPY I was able to see them in their prime. THEY WERE F’ing amazing ! I was told 20 yrs later from a guy who had lived in Binghamton his whole life that VH had been kicked out of Binghamton forever after that. ROCKON VH. Crazy bunch of dudes
Eddie...you are flying with the Angels in Heaven. Rest in peace baby! Thanks for your amazing talent and making our teenage years AWESOME!
Yes he did!!!
One of VH's best songs!
VAN HALEN at their finest- screaming vocals - kick ass bass- Eddie letting her rip on the strat
R.I.P. EDDY VAN HALEN YOU’LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN 🎸🎸🎸🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This was the opening tune on tour for their album in ‘78. Lights go down, Eddie dive bombs and all hell breaks loose. I remember it like it was yesterday. Man concerts were fun back then.
Jerry Davis Im not someone who is stuck in the past or wishes they lived in fucking 1976. Im aware this song came out in ‘78 but you get my point. Either way, the problem with today is the phones man, people just need to experience it and not be on there phones. Makes the crowd so dead, and makes the experience kinda junk. Im aware you want to be able to show you were there, and be able to look back, but then there is no story to be told. Because no matter what, the camera doesn’t capture the experience as well as someone who lived to tell the tale🤷♂️, just my thoughts. Adios
Freakin right man. U nailed it. Still got all those memories in my head from back then. Thank God for that. Rock On🔊🎸🎤
Not that I don’t believe you, but they Opened with On Fire 99% percent of the time; however they could’ve edited their set list for that show though since they were the opening act for Black Sabbath, Journey and Boston depending on where you saw them.
I played guitar from 1966....when l first heard VanHalen l said how in the hell is he doing that shit ?? Then l got my issue of Guitar Player mag in 1978 and Eddie divulged some of his technique....l still can't play that stuff lololol
In Louisville KY van Halen opening band and they opened with running with the devil eddie had his bombshell amp rack the next act Ronnie Montrose and then journey with a new singer by the name of Steve Perry . steve Perry and berg rookie sat behind us at the sound board for van Halen had no clue as. To who they were
This is cool to go back and relive, but when this came out, it was on another level. You’d pull up to a light and it would be in surround sound, blasting out of 3 or 4 cars. Rock then was good, but this is so different from Frampton, Zeppelin, Skynard and so on. Even kids that listened to top 40, had this playing at the Park, for the whole group to hear, while talking or throwing a ball around vs on an iPod with ear buds while texting the kid next to them. We had it so good, and Van Halen was a huge part of it.
David Lee Roth was fuckin awesome!! Saw Van Halen twice in the early eighties!!!!!
The culture of music has changed so much. I think it was much more of a sharing experience back then because of that social aspect of it, whereas now it's a private thing with people sitting in the corners of their rooms. And everybody has their own customized personal playlist on streaming or whatever. Just a totally different vibe.
This is the Song that made me a Halen fan,Awsome stuff man !
I'm still Runnin'
I was 24 when this was released. It was, and still is, one of the most amazing albums I ever heard. The world misses you Eddie!
Thank God this video exists!
And they did one last Reunion Tour before Eddie passed. I’m grateful for that! Eddie will be missed! He was one of a kind! He rocked the World!
And he shocked me the first time I heard Eruption! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Then I saw him play it in concert footage and still couldn’t process it.
Amazing technique and speed!!
He will never be forgotten!
RIP EVH
It wasn't a reunion tour without Michael Anthony. Wolfgang Van Halen was bullshit compared to Mad Anthony.
Eddie will always be my favorite guitar player hands down, the fact that he worked so hard to become so. Even taking lessons from Roy Clark a master at any string instrument. Eddie created his own style his own sound. That Rock Heaven the Righteous Bro's sang about surely has a hell of a band.
@@deanasc
it was never a van halen reunion without mark stone . . . ever
From 78 and ALWAYS..You’re still ROCKING US! Thank You! ❤😊
Eddie didn't die, he will never die, IT'S JUST A CHANGE OF STATUS, THE SOUL NEVER DIES!!!
FUCN RIGHT!!!!!🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Eddie always let his playing speak for him
RIP Brother
You were one of the Great Ones!
23 yrs old but this by far my favorite band ever
Backstage after a show one night at the whiskey a few months before the first record came out I asked Edward for his autograph he asked what should I write I really couldn't think of anything but get wasted. So, on the back of a Budweiser label which he always provided to us, we shared our weed, amazing days!! Anyways I have a mint condition autograph on the back of a bud label long neck that reads, "get wasted/ Edward van Halen" one of a fkn kind and incredible memories
Roth is a whole vibe
Only gone a week, and it is so weird hearing a VanHalen song and know Eddie isn't here anymore.
No kidding. :(
I felt that, it's already 2 months that's so sad 💔
Eddie Van Halen was Dutch. He married Valerie Bertinelli from 'One Day at a Time'. McKenzie Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips from The Mama's and The Papas, was the thin brunette on One Day at a Time.
Werid stuff
RIP, the heavy metal wouldn't have been the same if the masterpiece hadn't been released in the late 70'S
Still #1.
R.I.P. Eddie. You were one of a kind
Eddie Van Halen you will always be remembered by all of us as a legend of a guitarist 🎸🎸🎸 which this world will never forget a pure genius guitarist 🎸🤟 🤟♥️
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen. Take your music to every corner of heaven
Best band since eeo😊
Best debut album ever.
Appetite for Destruction would like to have a word with you.
RIP Eddie. The song is "Running with the Devil", but you're hanging with Angels now.
@Jean B. B. stfu you nut he's in Rock n Roll Heaven jamming with Bonham, Hendrix, Dio, Dimebag and Burton
Rip EDDIE VAN HALEN you’re gonna be missed by the millions
My favorite song from their first album. Even so, they were all young.
My favorite Van Halen song. Sooo many memories. God speed 🤟
R.I.P my friend, you'll be missed.