FIRST TIME HEARING Van Halen Eruption Guitar Solo REACTION | IS HE TAPPING THE GUITAR?! 🤯😳
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The guitarist (Eddie Van Halen) played an unpaid, initially uncredited solo on one of the biggest pop songs of all time: Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
He was paid in beer
@@creepyaxe yup
Yes he sure did!
Quincy called him at home, he was like, 'yeah sure, I'm bored, you're about an hour away, be there in 20 minutes'
Eddie Van Halen once publically admitted that he was so ripped performing this that he had no recognition of doing it
There are many great guitarist throughout history but there will only ever be one Eddie Van Halen.
It's funny when he said how? Because that's the same question I asked back in the late 70s when I first experienced king Edward.
No doubt the word was out there was a band called Van Halen in 1978 so I went out and bought the album well eight track tape and when I heard the very first song I knew that they were something special and look what they grew into and upset the hell out of me when I heard he passed away that’s been my favorite band since that day in 1978 I handed my brother the eight track tape to put into his eight track tape player in his car
Check out George Lynch, "Mr Scary", greatest Rock solo ever.
Well said!
In the 70s if you played rock you were compared to EVH. RIP
This is one of the best guitar solos i have ever heard. The things he did to the guitar to make those sounds was amazing RIP Eddie
The moment you realize that your parents/ grandparents music is way cooler than yours! Not to mention genuine talent 😉
Hell yes!
I don't know how old you are but, there are some amazing guitarists around now. Synyster Gates or Zacky Vengeance from avenged sevenfold for starters. Andy James from Five Finger Death Punch. Jim Root from Slipknot/Stone Sour just to name a few. Personally I think Zacky and Gates are the best I've ever heard and I've heard a lot of guitarists.
But even if you go back 20 years you'll find a guitarist who was an absolute beast until he died in 2004, that would be Dimebag Darrel from Pantera.
Now you know. You now know why my generation says our music was way better than what it is now. It's pretty cool to see you younger generations are watching this . Its yall that will keep this music alive. Rock on
@@time.worn-soul8243 Dimebag was a HUGE Van Halen fan as was his Brother. Dimebag was buried with one of Eddie’s guitars.
You must understand now, what he meant to my generation. This is why my whole generation wept openly when he died. He changed that entire way the guitar is played. He also changed the way guitars were made. Fender and Gibson asked him to help them redesign them. He did it so well that no one would even try to emulate him. Being in the audience to witness his genius was a life changing event to me. I see that you enjoyed this a lot so I will share my favorite interview Eddie did. Don’t let what you see overwhelm you. Genius is never what you’ve seen before. You see the guitar he is playing, he built himself. He could not afford the costly sound equipment to make this music. So he built it to emulate those sounds. He named the guitar Frankenstrat because it was put together from so many piece of other guitars. The paint you commented on is his own design. It now hangs in the Smithsonian. Yes it had a built in cigarette holder. Also, taped to the front are a bunch of guitar picks. He throws them to the audience and just grabs another off the guitar. The style is known as taping and he didn’t invent it but he did turn it into an art form. Guitar masters in rock music learned from Eddie. Below I’ve shared the interview he did about his life, his family (his brother Alex is the drummer in Van Halen), building Frankenstrat and growing into this icon of rock music. Humble and charming. I can tell you his story but you need to hear it from Eddie. This interview was with a rep from the Smithsonian. The best thing about seeing him perform is his smile. That man is never more happy than when he is playing that guitar. Ironically it was one of the things that lead to his cancer in his mouth. He used metal picks and in between songs he would hold it in his mouth. He did not know those picks had toxic level of lead in them. The tumor appeared in the spot he held the pick. And the 2 packs + a day cigarette habit did not help. The alcohol began as a way to calm the stage fright but grew with the addition of other chemicals. Never hurt his performance but it shortened his life. In the interview I posted, Eddie was finally clean, cancer in remission and a happy proud dad and brother. It’s a good interview. I wept for days when he died.
So many heroes of my generation are gone. I just am so sad. His angelic genius will be missed.
Interview = ua-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/v-deo.html.
So well stated. EVH is The GOAT imho.
Great one Brother. I loved what you wrote, I could write forever on Eddie forever too. Ive been lucky to see eruption live 4 times.. There is great interviews and videos out there. I grew up in LA & went to school with two of their cousins, Amazing human being. There is lots of Amazing Guitarist, but my favorites growing up were Eddie & Randy. I cried like a baby. I have a huge Eddie playlist on youtube of everything after he passed, tributes, interviews, etc. His son is incredible as well..... RIP 🌹🎸 Legend. 🌹 Much Love❤ 🎸
LoL...built in cigarette holder..LoL...its called the E string,,,you just squeeze the butt between the string and the headstock and there ya go..one built in cigarette holder!!!
Great comment !! I never got to see the man live...but as a guitarist I took his words to heart when he said that Music is all we got man, so keep play'n or I'll come find ya. I never thought I was good enough as a teenager in bands. At 45, I lost my dad and stepdad in the same year and slowly and after 20yrs I started playing and healing with what I loved as a kid. Now at 51, I've had a song played on our local station and have written 60+ plus originals that are currently being worked on to see if we can make our own CD, and if anyone else likes it that's just a bonus. Just like Eddie, Jeff and I just do it for ourselves for brain therapy. Cheers
Van Halen transcended the way a guitar was played and sounded during the eighties.
When Eddie Van Halen plays a solo, the guitar smokes a cigarette afterwards
I can’t help but chuckle at the shock over the cigarette stuck in the guitar it was so common back in the day. While Eddie was modest and humble about everything, for me he epitomizes the rockstar.
The guitar is Frankenstein, Eddie made it from pieces of other guitars. Your face is in awe, yes he's tapping.😂😂😂
The guitar he is using in this is a kramer that was custom made for him with the classic frankenstrat paint job. Its not the original frankenstrat
As Lynx said, this is the 5150 Kramer guitar. There are several differences between that and the original Frankenstein/Frankenstrat. The original was originally black, then painted white with black stripes as seen during their first album/tour. He then taped it up again and painted it red, cut the pickguard down, added a quarter to it (among other things).
The 5150 came in around 1984. In addition to a few other changes, the stripes are different and applied in a different order. There are some cool YT videos showing how people have built their own EVH guitars from scratch. It's fascinating.
Its still called frankenstrat not frankenstein. And yes he made it from 2 different guitars. Z
When they released their first record in 1978 , it was Eddies tone that grabbed ya.
Your faces are priceless😉 he was so amazing!! I won a giant red blow up guitar at a carnival, took it home and taped it up like Eddie's and display it proudly like a real guitar🤣
Saw this, someone reacting to Neil Peart on drums... it hurts my heart that we lost such greats, but thankful I saw them live & will NEVER forget the talent & love! ✌❤
Eddie is a magician with a guitar... Don't try to decipher or wonder how, just absorb and enjoy the beauty 😁
I wish I was there live in that crowd, front row to witness that 🔥🙌
The master of "tapping"!! There will never be another Eddie!! RIP Eddie...gone too soon🎶🎸🎵🎸💙 Eddie built that guitar!!🎶🎸
Eddie built his guitars. He was a mad scientist on that shit. A true genius in every way.
I saw an article or interview where he said he got shocked a lot building guitars lol
@@timothybuchanan662 If Ed somehow thought he could get a new guitar sound by sticking his finger in a wall socket, I have no doubts he would've done it.
I was FLABBERGASTED when I saw this , in concert, in Billings Montana.Slaughte opened for them. But to see and hear Panama, Jump, and Running with the Devil, was pretty Awesome! Until Eddie got up and did “ Eruption”! To hear this in real life was NOT REAL! Um a forever ACDC FAN. Angus was my ultimate guitar Hero. But what Eddie did that night forever altered the way I viewed how a guitar could be played. To say he was the GOAT, just doesn’t cover that man’s ability to make a guitar talk. It was a symphony of sound that stayed with me to this day!! RIP EDDIE VAN HALEN.
On the Monsters of Rock tour in 1989(?), my buddy and I were front row. During a solo, while we were just STARING in awe, Eddie looked RIGHT AT US and SMILED.
1988 maybe? That was my 2nd concert ever. Kingdom Come, Dokken, Scorpions, Metallica, Van Halen.
@@koror Yeah, I knew it was one of them.........88 or 89. First show of the tour, Alpine Valley.
Might be your best reaction yet. The awe on your face looked so real. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
You asked the same exact question everyone else has and does for the past 40+ years, "How the hell does he do that?" Many have tried and many have failed. Also, the numbers on his guitar was 5150. It is the police code for a mentally disturbed person. It is also the name of the album they were touring on at that time of the video and it is also the name of Eddie's studio at his house.
He was definitely a one of a kind 🎸🤘R.I.P. Mr. Van Halen 🙏.........can you just imagine the jam session in heaven?
Ok im about to school you in this so it will be long. Eddie van halen was the innovator of the guitar. On the 1978 album he had a solo called eruption and when it came out every guitar player in the world never knew what hit them when he came out with the tapping section, it was something new and left jaws dropped open. EVH was a guitar hero to every guitar player in the 80s including me but it didn't stop there he kepted on reinnovating it with harmonics by tapping and his dive bombs and unique phrasing on his chord progressions. His guitar is made up of different parts of many guitars, pickups , necks, electronics and so therefore came the name of his guitar called Frankenstein or aka Frankenstrat. Eddie paved the way of the superstrat that became very popular in the 80s and 90s. The floyd rose bridge was created for him and also he pattened many thungs such as the D-tuna and his own guitar straps. His guitars started out as white with black stripes and then moved the white black and red gutar which is the same guitar just painted throughout the years ( you can google evh striped). All the things you just heard are all his solos from every album since they started "eruption" "Spanish fly " "cathedral" and the intro to Mean street in which in this case he extended it for the solo spot live. In the early 90s he came out with his own line of amps known as the 5150 series and is still in production to this day with many different series, eddie was always chasing sound in his guitars and amps and in the mid 90s he came out with his signature guitar line called the Wolfgang ,named after his son, and is still in production today even after his passing. There is plenty more about him but I'd be here forever if were to continue. Please do some research with more vids and google. You'd be surprised how much he did with this unconquerable instrument
I feel like if just heard a full blown concert from one man and a guitar.
Your face says it all. I love when the people I follow react to this, those are just random stripes on the guitar that he built on his own. He revolutionized playing guitar. Forget sheet music, there's instructions on learning his style. RIP GOAT
I call the second section of this solo "the horror film" section. It's done by pulling the springs on his whammy bar setup. Guitars with a whammy bar have springs in the back that let the bar manipulate the string tension. If you pull them it makes that eerie sound. Then he plucks the strings up by the tuning pegs to get those creepy high pitched sounds. Makes it sound like the sound effects of an 80's/90's horror film. Eddie had a LOT of tricks in his bag for unique sounds he could intertwine into his music. Hell the man used a power drill on the intro to their song Poundcake for example lol.
I learned so much with your comment!
Thank you!
@@jennhurl any time 👍
I sure love my baby's pound cake 🎸
Saw him do this live, years before this video was ever shot. Un-effing-believable!! I didn’t know guitars could make these sounds before I heard this
He actually just started taping his guitar one day and that’s what he got, is still today one of the most famous guitar designs. He created things for the guitar as well. Pure rock legend and thankful I got to see him do this live a few times. RIP EVH
One of the best to ever do it Rest In Peace Eddie
Eddie is to Guitar as Neil Peart is to percussion. Your face was priceless .....great reaction...and yes. I have seen it....several times live.
That tapping is essentially the same way a piano works. You hit a key, a pad goes and hammers on a string. Guitar is a stringed and a percussion instrument. If you only play it one way, it's only going to sound one way. Eddie redefined that thought process for a lot of future guitarists.
This is the genius of Eddie Van Halen! Some people build bridges, others walk over them. Eddie built bridges!
Eddie was unbelievable! I only saw him 4 times, first in the late 70s. I instantly fell in love. When you hear it you know it’s Eddie. This is what so many people missed out on and now he’s gone. It’s a huge loss!
That’s just complete mastery of the instrument. To the point where him and the guitar are one and the same.
The drummer is his brother. History of the band, original singer was David Lee Roth, then Sammy Hagar became the singer during the time of the video you are watching. BOTH singers made some massive hits with the band, but the original singer lays claim to the classic hits that will live forever. JUMP, HOT FOR TEACHER, AIN’T TALKING BOUT LOVE, RUNNIN WITH THE DEVIL, etc.
It's the GOAT! 9:20 he was rocking the volume knob in time with the echo effect. Insane.
so many amazing Guitarists- BB king- eddie- randy rhodes- Ingva it goes on. such amazing talent- we are blessed.
Im 55 and I`ve seen many of the guitar greats! Only Eddie Van Halen, the 3 times that I seen this live, Has completely and thoroughly blew me away! EVH is The King!
Eddie could do whatever he wanted to on guitar 💔🎸. Miss him greatly
Yep he is tapping! He was absolutely amazing!
I got to see these guys live back in the early 90's. Alice In Chains opened for them. Michael Anthony, the bass player did a very impressive bass solo as well.
The guy on drums is Eddie's brother, Alex.
RIP Eddie. You were and still are loved!
Saw them 3X in Concert. It was Memorable.
I was in college up in Michigan when VH 1 came out. A bunch of us were under the influence when one of my roomies said, " you need to listen to this guitar solo, you've never heard anything like it." ....and there you had it, 1:43 of sonic music that forever changed the guitar world, cranked through a high wattage Kenwood receiver with JBL speakers. I swear, one of my roomies who was a guitarist, literally dropped his beer on the floor, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. We bought tickets to see them live on their 1st concert tour with Montrose and Journey...they played that entire 1st LP from start to finish....Mr. EVH...the GOAT.
My man, I've been playing guitar for ten years and I still have no idea how he did half the things he did. The dude was a certified legend.
Guitarists are all very different. The best of the bunch bring along with technique their own flair and style. For that reason it is sometimes a challenge in futility to rate guitarists. However, Eddie consistently falls into at most the top 5, usually top 3 and often #1. There are a lot of reasons for this and as hard as it may seem to believe, technique isn't the top reason. Eddie didn't invent tapping, but he did elevate it to heights that other musicians have spent the past 40+ years aspiring to duplicate. Whenever you listen to Eddie play, just know that most of what you hear was literally created by this man. He built his own guitars, constructed a specific sound (brown sound) which, I can't really even wrap my brain around...like how do you create a sound? He was an innovator and inventor. He's got actual patents on things he created for the guitar. On top of that, when you consider his contribution to music, not just in all of the innovation, but the sheer amount of composition, it's easy to understand why he's #1 on so many lists. Van Halen had a decades long run making music and I don't even know how many hundreds of fire guitar solos and riffs are included in that time span..a LOT. In fact, this solo is actually a compilation of many of Van Halen's most well known riffs. The solo part of it is from a song called Eruption, which began as a 2 minute finger exercise. Can you imagine that?? What this dude calls a finger exercise turns out to be one of the nastiest and most famous guitar solos ever created. Yeah, that's Eddie for you in a nutshell. A giant in music, a legendary rock star, and yet kind and humble and full of joy when he strapped on his guitars! He was very special and will always be missed. RIP to a true genius and nice guy. Oh, and btw, he was also a classically trained pianist. You absolutely need to dive into some Van Halen. The entire band are no joke. His brother on drums is one of the absolute best.
You will never see another like him. Godspeed, Eddie.
Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, BB King, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Keith Richards, Roy Clark, and more, there’s no right order to say who’s number one, whatever style you like.
The older guitarist didn’t have the new technology, and the newer guitarist learned from the older ones.
Such a true statement 💯
Let's not foget Paul Kossoff and George Lynch, best Metal guitarist in the Galaxy.
Tina S lol
And Robin Trower deserves a mention.
@@d.a.w.975 Check 4out the beginning of Hey Joe from Jimi Hendrix's Live at Wonderland concert from 1968. Some rudimentary tapping before most people knew what it was!!
You just witnessed the greatest rock guitarist to ever grace the stage. Listen up kids, you can develop some talent yourself if you just replace the cell phone in your hand with an instrument.
The sweetest smile in rock and roll played the audience as well as he played the guitar.
Still miss Eddie so fkn much. Never ever will the world see another guitarist better than him. For someone that never had a guitar lesson, couldn't read sheet music, built his own guitars, and changed guitar playing forever is a very special, unique, extraordinary talented person indeed. The absolute fkn GOAT. R.I.P. Eddie, sadly missed but never ever forgotten.
My mom was blessed enough to see him twice live during his process, absolute unit of a musician
Eddie Van Halen is the very guitar who perfected the guitar tapping technique. He's on a different level, a level of his own and he's a true Rock legend in his own right. When comes to Eddie Van Halen and his god-like guitar skills, you cannot help but stand in awe. *In AWE!*
RIP Eddie. One of the best to ever play🔥🔥🤙🏼🤙🏼
He’s possessed !!! IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE 🔥🔥. He’s THE master!!
Now you know!! Bravo for the reaction!
You made me a fan. I’m in!
that is the frankenstrat he hand made his guitars
Hermonics from loften rush Eddie loved loften from rush.
Eddie incorporated Hammond with classical scales slides destoration reverberation mostly, all combinations he demonstrated here. They flew out of the 70's along with rush, Eddie looked up to Lofton and used those hermonics and slides, he added his own hammonrods to them, plus sytezisers in Jump, He wanted to keep up with Rush, they both were equals but Val Halen got popularity Rush became the Icon.
Totally the reaction I was expecting. The looks on your face said it all.
Can you hear how he makes his guitar sound like other instruments? A harpsichord, an organ, a violin, chimes, a synthesizer, an Australian/Aboriginal wind instrument I can't remember the name of that makes that super low, bass sound, a harp - it's beyond amazing, truly!
This might be the GREATEST REACTION EVER!!! The look on your face during this solo was like you were watching an ALIEN. Too funny!!!
Years and years of practicing and playing, his guitar was part of his soul, he always had a guitar in his hand, he probably felt naked without it!
Eddie was the man. He brought tapping from classical guitar over to rock and made a one of a kind signature sound that many try to master today. Thank you for your reaction. Eddie was the best RIP EVH. His brother was the Drummer of Van Halen I will send you a video of him soon. Thanks again Brandon from TN.
It is so fun to watch peoples facial expressions as there brain tries to process it all . Eddie was the first at many new things and a true legend and KING of the hammer ons . I was lucky enough to catch Van Halen twice live in the 80,s and they were SO good ! Just awesome to see younger generations discover this man and his many talents .. RIP Eddie you will be missed Sir ! Great reaction !
Van Halen literally just showing off that he was a god and magician on guitar!! So many different techniques and styles he demonstrated and master of them all!!
You were witnessing the greatest innovator of modern guitar playing in that segment of there 1986 tour, those were pieces of music from a few albums that EVH created over the years to showcase his musical talent and passion for guitar 🎸 R.I.P EVH ❤
I believe he was the world's. Top. Guitarists 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍🎶🎶🎶🎶
I got the pleasure of watching Eddie perform this twice,once in 1984 and again in 2007.It was Amazing! Keep On Rockin'
I was at this concerts (both) in New Haven CT. Wow....they were awesome. Everytime I saw Van Halen they put on a great show. Watching EVH was magic.
I was never into their music but respected the band. Their songs are catchy as hell. I’m glad someone showed me how much of a guitar god Eddie was. There is no denying that. I’m a metal head at heart and Eddie is my number one guitarist ever. Just imagine if he was in the metal genre! RIP Eddie!!!
This is called "perfecting your craft"! Whatever that craft is, if you wanna be the best, commit to it, FULLY! Rockstar, painter, teacher, machinist, welder, pianist, Whatever! Find what you love & are good at, & COMMIT! Study it, question it, try it, fail, try it again, fail, try it again, grow, learn! Nothing is ever perfect out the gate! This right here, is YEARS of TRYING! until it all fell into place
I was at this show in Connecticut in 1986. All I have to say kid, he's the greatest guitarist of my generation, period. Seen him 15 times live. You need to watch videos from 1978 live shows. He's even better
You'll NEVER be the same after watching this solo! You need to have your girl watching this too! She'd be blown away and mesmorized!!
How does he do that? The short answer: A souped up guitar, a lot of pedal effects, and a lot of practice. He was no Superman, he just loved what he did and put in the time and effort to be really great at it.
Our generation was SO blessed to have had Eddie. There are no adequate words to describe the experience of him and Van Halen as they were happening. We knew then that he was special. We knew that he was a historic figure for music. But, in those moments of youthful exuberance when life seems long, and the future so distant, we couldn't know just how rare he was and how privileged we were to be there for it.
I got to see that live two times back then and its always impressive. RIP Eddie❤❤
pure artistic genius, and a lifetime devoted to his craft. It never gets old
Eddie was amazing, inspired a generation and more. (Guitar player here and as a kid I went to this show). As for how he does the Cathedral part (9-10minute mark) it's really tricky but cool...watch his right hand on the volume knob. He hammers the note using his left hand while the volume knob is off then he quickly turns the volume up, then back for the next note. It leaves out the initial thump of the note. With a delay pedal (and lots of reverb) he times the repeat of the delay and whhaa laaa you have this awesome sound.
when you ask at around 9;15 how's he doing this. He's making sounds by striking the guitar in unconventional areas like the back of the neck, the strings above the neck and cables in a cavity at the back of the guitar that he pulls. He was a genius mad scientist of the guitar, constantly experimenting to create all kinds of sound. I must say, as a guitarist of color who grew up in the 1980's and was inspired by Eddie, who is my all time favorite musician, i truly enjoy seeing so many people of color be just as excited and amazed as I was over forty years ago when I used to wear out my VHS copy of the Van Halen: Live Without a Net concert from which this, Eddie's guitar solo, comes (the You Tube title EVH Eruption Reaction title is actually incorrect, as this is a solo form a concert, not the solo as recorded on the first VH album, though it is incorporated within this solo).
Growing up watching Eddie..We couldn't believe it either..Thanks
We were blessed with a few great guitarist all at the same time and he was one of them I could never pick a favourite just enjoyed them all.
Eddie is at the top of the greatest guitarists of all time. Stevie Ray Vaughn is right there, and Jeff Healey in my opinion. Eddie and that eruption solo is mind blowing, and legendary. Just Amazing!
Good list, but don't forget Ray Clark.
Oops.. Roy Clark. Not sure if I hit that "a" by mistake or because I was 3 sheets to the wind. But Roy Clark, not Ray.
@@RLKmedic0315 Absolutely. People forget about him, like me lol. He was a legend, and wasn't just a great guitar player. He played many instruments.
Guitarist’s are very subjective, for me personally EVH, Jimi, Satch… Then there’s my next group of SRV, Page, Randy Rhoades etc etc
@@drummerboy2834 Very good list indeed. No argument here. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Zack Wilde, Nuno Betancourt, and George Lynch are amazing as well.
@@ramondwilliam1307 I did my top 50 about 5 years ago… it took about a month to complete… but as I said, it’s subjective so I got alot of blowback 😂 I’m 50 and I’ve been playing drums 40 out of those 50 years… my dad’s a jazz guitarist so I could reel off about 10 at least from that genre 🤷🏾♂️
Hard to believe he started out playing the drums!!!😍😍😍
The guitar he is playing he made from old guitar bodies. He called it the "Frankenstrat". The look of the guitar was achieved by masking with tape numerous times and painting between masking's.
Some of the sounds he made in this solo sounds extra terrestrial to me! ♥️
Watching Recklezz searching for words to describe the awesomeness of what he just witnessed...................................PRICELESS!!!
Eddie was so in the zone here and really on top of his game.
There won’t be anyone like him.
Rest my king
When he we works those hammer-ons with the volume knob, and couples it with that slapback echo...it is just stone cold!
Im 62 and I grew up in this generation - Eddie Van Halen was one of the most bad ass guitar players on the friggin' planet - I still have my album of their very first release LP, in fact I have two copies cause I played the first one so much I had to put it away - after than I made a cassette of the album and saved the new copy, it was only played twice I think, once the day I brought it home to check it for defects then once to copy it onto a CD later. RIP E.V.H.
Technically this isn’t just “Eruption” but a collection of guitar solos or interludes from VH albums. An extended version of Eruption is first, the second is “Cathedral” which has the chorus and delay sound with Eddie raising and lowering the volume knob with his right hand and finally an extended variation of “Spanish Fly”.
Eddie, the sound of my youth RIP. One of the few musicians that ever affected me when he passed.
I’ll never forget when my brother and I got into Van Halen. We were at a dance and the dj played Beat It by MJ and when the solo hit we knew immediately it was Eddie. That sound, vibe and classic whammy bar dive gave it away. Timeless stuff.
There is a reason he was introduced as "The World's best Rock and Roll guitarist".
Strings are highly amplified on an electric. The pick-ups (they pick up the sound, the structures under where the open part of the strings are) pick up finger tapping as well. He can make sounds by tapping because of that, it just creates a different sound than the pick in left hand would. The thing he does where he hammers his finger down is called a "hammer-on", a slightly different thing than tapping or double hand tapping. When he wanted to do any of that, he would either tuck the pick into the knuckle of his middle finger and then switch back to it w/ his index&thumb or he would put the pick on a spot on his tongue and then take it out quickly when he needed it.
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You can also use your fingernail on the open section of the strings in a tight spot, but it makes a less plingy sound than a pick does. Eddie had to use his thumbnail as a substitute pick when the piece he did required him to be quicker than he could be when he had the pick on his tongue. I've rarely seen him do it, tho. He did all that stuff thousands of times, so it was 2nd nature for him. Incidentally, he lost 1/3rd of his tongue to oral cancer a number of years before his death and it was the spot where he would put a metal pick on for decades. He was convinced that was not accidental and I tend to believe that it probably had something to do with it. The combo of chainsmoking for decades plus a metal pick could've made that spot extra sensitive due to transferring electrons or some kinda sciency stuff.
He was playing on a guitar that he built. FRANKENSTRAT. Can you imagine growing up in the neighborhood with Eddie and his brother Alex on the drums, while they were learning their craft? Best neighborhood ever.
I’ve watched this solo numerous times and I am still in awe of how he was able to do what he did. The tinkering and hours and hours of practice he did to perfect the sound. The legend of EVH will live on forever. Just like Hendrix and others who are passed on.
So glad you finally did this one😘
The looks on your face were priceless. I had the same looks back in '86 when this came out.
RIP TO THE GOAT 💔💜🤘🔥
"How was he doing it?"... He is one of the few genuine Masters of Rock! That is how he does it. There are most definitely several other incredible people who fall into this prowess but Eddie is definitely at the top of the tree.
I was at this concert August 27 1986 New Haven Coliseum in New Haven Connecticut!! This was absolutely awesome! This was amazing so freaking loud. I had great seats close to Eddie.
The smile on your face said it all. Eddie was the best ever guitarist ever or will ever be. The 5150 is in reference to a police code for a people who has lost the plot / gone crazy. The first bit of playing is called 316 which he wrote when his son was born. Eruption was his warm up before recording in the studio and got added to the first album. The tapping he mainly invented although some blues players did sort of tap before, Eddie took it to a whole new level. So many have copied Eddie but no one has come close. The song Cathedral is part of the solo and his timing using the volume control as a kill switch is 100% accurate to get the organ sound. He is even featured in Back To The Future. Anyone who knew about music cried the day he passed away. God Bless you Edward Van Halen and thank you for your music.
This solo is laced with so many classical music influences. Notice how he throws his guitar picks into the crowd without losing any momentum in his play. The more I listen to this, the more I realize how great Eddie was (if I didn't already know that before). An inventor, a game-changer, a true rock icon. A rock GOD. If only he could have done without that damned cigarette. When he passed the rock 'n roll universe got cut bad. Big time.
If you want to know more about Eddie you may want to check out this interview he did in which he gives some information on how he and his brother Alex came to the US and eventually started the band Van Halen: ua-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/v-deo.html
Now imagine being a teenager and hearing this in the 80's, I don't know either. It would take an advanced Physics PHD to explain how it works and sounds, JUST ENJOY IT!