Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil - SX Callisto Goldtop Custom LP
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- And, of course, it does Van Halen! Since some of the tracks on Van Halen's first album were done with a Les Paul, I guess it's no surprise!
"Runnin' With The Devil" is from Van Halen's 1978 debut album and is written by Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and David Lee Roth.
SIGNAL CHAIN:
GUITAR: SX Callisto Les Paul Custom Goldtop. I found this one in my local classifieds for $150. I'd never seen a Goldtop Les Paul Custom before. So, I jumped at the chance! What a guitar! It was taken care of VERY well! I didn't have to do ANYTHING to it at all. It was ready to go!
UPGRADE - 2/18-22 - GraphTech Ratio Locking Tuners (Gold)
AMP: My PC with Behringer UMC22 U-Phoria USB Interface
AMP SIM: Guitar Rig 5 Pro with 'Edward Van Halen - Left Side 16' preset I made
DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION (DAW): Reaper 64-bit
AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING: OBS Studio (Free)
EQUIPBOARD (my gear/instruments - past and present): equipboard.com/...
SOCIAL MEDIA:
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LYRICS:
I live my life like there's no tomorrow
And all I've got I had to steal
Least I don't need to beg or borrow
Yes, I'm living at a pace that kills
Runnin' with the devil
Runnin' with the devil
I'll tell y'all about it
I found the simple life ain't so simple
When I jumped out on that road
I got no love, no love you'd call real
Ain't got nobody waiting at home
Runnin' with the devil
God damn it lady, you know I ain't lying to ya
I'm wanna tell you one time
Aah-yeah
Running with the devil
Yes I am
Yeah
Woo
Woo
You know I, I found the simple life, weren't so simple, no
When I jumped out on that road
Got no love, no love you'd call real
Got nobody waiting at home
Runnin' with the devil
Runnin' with the devil
Runnin' with the devil
Runnin' with the devil
Happy Sunday sir. Always love VH! Keep on rockin ✌❤
Happy Sunday, Kurt! Keep the Van Halen alive! 🤘😎🤘
Yep this lovely Les Paul even does Van Halen and you did a super job.I had no idea Ed used a LP on the first album!
Thank you, man! Yeah, bands use a lot of instruments you don't see on stage or in their publicity photos. Ace Frehley recorded the entirety of the first KISS album using an Ovation 'Breadwinner' guitar. He also recently admitted that he used Strats and Telecasters on some of the KISS recordings. Not sure how true that is. I know he has them. The story of the 'Breadwinner' is true though because there are enough pics of KISS in the studio back in those days when he was using that guitar.
Likeee 7 for you my friend 🙌🙌🙌🙌💣💣💣💣🙏😎🤘
Thank you, Su! 👍😎👍😎👍🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶
Excellent job! We can really tell you've put your time in the woodshed. Very accurate and articulate
Thank you very much! Yeah, I've been learning Van Halen tunes for years. A few of them are beyond me, though - especially the solos. 😎👍
@@Axess-sv8nq I hear you, ever since I saw Van Halen in 1977 I've been a huge fan. He's a tough act to follow and a legend in his own time and now after as well RIP EVH
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 (LONG REPLY - BEWARE!) When I was young, my older brother (who was 3 years older than I) was a huge influence on my musical tastes. He would bring home albums and listen to them - and I liked what I heard. I was introduced to groups like KISS, Van Halen, Boston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, and many more through him buying albums.
I began to buy my own albums when I was 9 - shoveling driveways/walkways, doing yard work in the Spring/Summer/Fall, and sometimes getting some money from my Mom. My family would go to the Flea Markets and yard sales every single weekend when I was a kid. So, I could buy albums for anywhere from 25 cents to $2. I got a LOT of vinyl that way back then.
I still have most of it. I still have the first album I ever bought (retail) with my own money: KISS - Rock And Roll Over, which I bought in early 1977 with snow shoveling money.
I became a drummer in 1976 and played in the school bands. Then, in 1978, a friend's dad took a bunch of us to see KISS in New Haven, CT ( I grew up in CT ). Seeing Ace up there started the thought process of becoming a guitar player. I, then, saw the Ace 1977 picture inside the 'Evolution Of KISS' booklet in the album 'Alive II'. That made me really want to become a guitarist and own a Les Paul. But, the final straw was the song "Don't Look Back" by Boston. That was it. I wanted to become a guitar player and play that incredible song! That's what started this long journey.
@@Axess-sv8nq Thanks for sharing, very cool evolution of your progression in music/life.
Okay long response...lol
I like you started out in school band as a snare drummer (74' freshman year) then in a little band we put together from band class, so learning and reading rhythm was significant for me.
In my junior year I met this girl and she suggested I take guitar with her and thus my start in guitar was born (it was just cooler to the chicks)... and of course I loved it.
I kept it up and learned more theory and playing. Then in the summer of 77 after I graduated, I had what became a life/music changing experience of seeing Sammy Hagar, Van Halen, Black Sabbath and headlining was Boston on the more than a feeling tour and it changed me.
Ever since I've been writing, playing & producing music and in the 90s I started doing video as well and love that too.
Okay long story but I do see some Correlations in our storys.
Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
@@agateenchantmentrockwizard5969 (REALLY long reply) Yep! I remember hauling around the snare drum, playing in the parades, and playing on those little rubber practice things. I remember them insisting we learned 'paradiddles'. They were adamant about it! But, we never ONCE played paradiddles in ANY music piece we played. Go figure.
I remained in the school bands until 1981 (when I was a Freshman in high school). We had way too many drummers (18). So, the teacher/band-director booted some of us. My heart wasn't in it anymore anyway. So, I split. I was a guitarist for 3 years by that point anyway.
Ahh, so a CHICK got you to play guitar! Interesting! I had 1 class of Music Theory in high school - barely passed it. I know music/song structure. Modes - and other crap like that - means zero to me. Music is about art. The structure is the bare bones. I had to deal with a lot of Berklee School Of Music Grads (snobs) over the years. They all thought they were smarter than everyone else because they knew all the theory. But, none of them could entertain a crowd or 'feel' a piece of music. So, back to their day jobs (and paying for that Berklee debt) they went!
That's cool what you did in the 90's and the cool bands you saw. It was the 80's for me when I went to all the concerts. The 90's were sparse in the first half because I, stupidly, got married. That ended by the mid-90s and I headed out to the midwest (going to college, playing in bands).
I worked for a Sci-Fi/Fantasy convention company and met/worked-with MANY celebrities from Star Trek and Doctor Who. I met nearly all my childhood heroes - and they were decent people (back then)! I got involved in many aspects of music - and the music business. So, met a few rock-stars back then as well. It's been an interesting road.
I've reconnected with a few since then - now that we're all online. And some new ones contacted me about this channel: Neal Schon (Journey), Peter Frampton, Howard Jones (80s New Wave musician), Queensryche, Rudy Sarzo (Whitesnake, Ozzy, Quiet Riot), Jack Russell (Great White), Donnie Vie (Enuff Z'Nuff), Junkyard (late 80s' hard rock band), and a few more.
It's always weird when they contact me about my channel and praise what I do. It feels so surreal when that happens. My channel is small and, by UA-cam 'fame' standards, I'm a nobody - not even a speck of dust. But, the rock stars watch. And that's REALLY humbling! I feel blessed to have the people who watch me - no matter how many of them there are. Rock stars are among them - which seriously blows my mind!
This is a fantastic guitar cover have a great weekend
Thank you, Amin!
super nice
Thank you, man! 😎👍
Great job
Thank you, Corey! 😎👍
Terrific !👍🎶
Thank you! 😎👍🎶
Great cover Axess2084!! Love it!
Thank you, Jess! Glad you liked it! 😎👍
Nice job buddy
Thank you, Paul! 😎👍
RIP. "TONE GOD"....Your friend....Rob
RIP Axess2084! You will be missed
Great cover and sounded awesome, really good.
You've really used that guitar on several videos now, and I see why, sounding great.
Thank you, Dale! Well, that is the last one with it - for a bit. I'm doing a video tomorrow with my Glarry Strat (with a $20 upgrade) that I've owned for a few years now. Gonna do an 80's song with it. Now that all the tests are done with the new Les Paul, I can go back to rotating my guitars out. So, each video will have a different guitar for a while. 😎👍
@@Axess-sv8nq Cool, I'll check in tomorrow afternoon.
Another big day, have to get ready for another possible ice storm, plus tomorrow night, a chance of tornado's again, so cutting wood tomorrow.
Always something going on here.
I'm anxious to hear the Glarry. I'm guessing you did a pickup swap.
@@dalesmyth7398 No. I upgraded the guitar a few days after I got it. I've had the Glarry since early 2020. This is it doing Boston: ua-cam.com/video/-793ZaEBpFw/v-deo.html
@@dalesmyth7398 And with that, it's this old man's bedtime. 🛏💤💤
I think you are enjoying this latest addition to your arsenal.
Well, there's no doubt in my mind that it's a great guitar. I'm just putting it through its paces and seeing what it can handle. And, so far, it can handle everything! 😎👍
I wonder how many bar fights there has been on what Guitar Eddie used on his first recordings 😆 🤣.. Definitely Memorex Axess!! Man this sounds so great!! Love the endings when you go solo God the tone match is so darn good Great work Axess2084!!
Thank you, man! Bar fights over that? Probably close to none. Most people in the audience can't tell one guitar from another. Guitarists fight over girlfriends/wives and/or insults. They don't get into bar fights over technical details. LOL! Thanks for the compliment about the tone maching! I just reproduce what I hear. 😎👍
@@Axess-sv8nq lol"" o Ya Southside of Chicago we fought over anything & everything if you walked in a bar the wrong way there was a warped brain moron that started fights by the end of the night 😆 🤣 😂 total morons would fight over anything.. there was always that moron who thought he was king S### on everything & anything hated those morons 😆 🤣....
@@ElvisPretzel-rv3bg Up here in Hick-Ville, the fights are usually started by stuff like: "I heard you been messin' with my woman!", "You parked your truck too close to mine!", "I heard you sayin' you're tougher than me!", "Are you trying to steal my woman?" , "Ford!"/ "Chevy!", "What are you staring at? Mind your business!", and - not to be forgotten - "Hey! That was MY beer!" 😆😆😆 (And the probably argue over NASCAR as well!)
@@Axess-sv8nq ya we had them guys left and right & ones think they can take your woman when your at the bar lol""" one of my best friend was a great guitar player I mean great since birth he was like you whole family were musicians he made unplugged electric guitars sound better then any of us with amp effects... this guy we all knew from school at bar shot him because he looked at this guy the wrong way.. He has his gibson flying V in his hands for eternity Rocking it out!! We're I grew up people did things for stupid reasons it's why I left that Hell hole and became a Wisconsin pussy!! 😆 🤣 😂
@@ElvisPretzel-rv3bg LOL! Nahh, you moved away and became a proud Cheese-head! I'm a life-long Green Bay (and Miami) fan - since I was little kid in the 1970s!
That thing sounds great for stalk. Where did you get it? What amp do you use and effects?
Thank you, Mike! Stalk? I didn't climb a beanstalk and steal this from a giant! Just kidding, brother! Gotta love auto-correct! 99.9% of the time, I'm using amp simulators on my computer. I plug my guitar into my USB interface. That way, I have access to amps/effects/mics/speakers that I could NEVER afford in this lifetime!
For the Eddie Van Halen preset I made (from scratch), I'm using (in order):
- Noise Reduction
- Tube Screamer
- Treble Booster
- Marshall JMP
- Delay
- Reverb (Plate at 'long' setting)
- 2 Equalizers (1 for final boost)
- Vintage Marshall 4x12 cabinet (1960A)
That's the preset from start to finish.
Oh, in my goofy humor mode, I forgot to say where I got this guitar. I found it in my local classifieds for $150. I think Rondo Music still has them for $250. Elvis wants one ASAP!
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Very good from another lead who plays gibson