Alex Van Halen was the drummer on this and while Eddie deservedly got the spotlight, Alex was incredible in his own right. Always loved the drums on this.
I would say forget Eruption because, while it sounds great, it's just a technical display of what we would hear later. Focus on the other songs for Eddie's rhythm guitar, which is one of the things that made him great.
Although this was a fun song, not the best to show Eddie Van Halen's talent with the guitar. Eruption, as said, is good from a purely technical standpoint. Other songs are great from a musical few. I am sure there will be plenty of suggestions.
@@steadfastneasy26 Just to name one, check out "Chinatown" from Van Halen's last album, A Different Kind of Truth." Check it out: ua-cam.com/video/-Cl1f_6FYQo/v-deo.html
Blows my mind how people have never heard Van Halen before..then I remember Im 56 years old..Van Halen is one of the greatest things about being 56..especially seeing the classic line up live....70's and 80's RNR is just the best music ever made..
Brothers, Eddie and Alex Van Halen! Alex is a drummer to be reckoned with. Was blessed to see them live. Most of the time, you cannot see Alex’s arms move...especially on this song.
The excellent drums and Bass on this song get overshadowed by the MONSTER riff by Eddie Van Halen. This is one of the most perfect rock songs and music videos OF ALL TIME. Such a time capsule of that era.
Van Halen is one of those bands that defines a particular era of music, much like there is pre and post Hendrix, there is pre-and post Van Halen. This is the music of my high school years, Halen was the ultimate party band, chicks, booze, trashed hotel rooms, moar chicks... . Further listening: Eruption, Aint Talkin Bout Love, Mean Street, Unchained, Atomic Punk, Im the One, Take Your Whiskey Home, And the Cradle Will Rock, Everybody Wants Some, Beautiful Girls...
Every song from them felt like a combo of the Movies: Ferris Bueller, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Wierd Science & Animal House all rolled in to one. And then there is my favorite Jaimies Crying! 😊🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Good reaction.. i second the vote for more fun songs!!! The kids in the video represent the band members as kids... David Lee Roth is the lead singer... also played the bus driver and guy driving the hotrod at the end. The band gets its name from Eddie VanHallen (guitarist) and his brother Alex (drummer) who started the band. DAVID Lee Roth eventually left the band and they picked up a new lead singer in Sammy Haggar which gave them a new sound. Eventually they would pick up a new lead sinher in the person of Gary Cherone the lead singer from Extreme! Lots of great music in all interations of the band. Eddie Van Halen is largely held to be one of the best guitarist of all time... check out some of his guitar solos for epic guitar 🔥!
In 1991, Van Halen released a very successful album "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". The single for Poundcake... shows... Eddie playing the opening guitar riffs- with a power drill. Yes- he really did that . Although they usually didnt get to lyrically deep with most of their songs they did have one massive hit with their single "Right Now". The music video is brilliantly done, and the opening piano riff gives a very unique feel to the song. Might be worth a look.
Wow!!!! What a shocker , I was about to leave my job to go to rehab n I look on my phone n it said that Eddie Van Halen had past away from Throat Cancer at the age of years. Eddie was an icon n in my opinion, the Greatest Rock N Roll Guitarist of all time. Him n his brother Alex Van Halen started the group in the 70's then teamed up with Bass Player Michael Anthony & The Greatest Lead Man in Rock N Roll History, David Lee Roth n then came Sammy Hager. They had so many great hits from the 70's, 80's & 90's. The ones that I like were with David Lee Roth, Panama my favorite, then comes Jump & Jamie's Cryin . Rip Eddie Van Halen, Ur now up in Heaven's Tears playing Panama, just like ur music video flying in the air. God Bless The Van Halen Fam. Wolfgang (Son), Alex (Brother) & Valerie Bertinelli (Ex-Wife).
I remember the best times when MTV started in like 1981. After school we would all hang out in my friends basement smokin weed, drinkin the cheapest beer we could find, and watchin the non-stop vids. Good times
Susan Maggiora in the 1980's-90's people and schools were harmless and the problems Teachers had with students was chewing bubble-gum in class, talking in class, skipping class.
The thing is, Van Halen could play circles around just about anyone but they didn’t act like it was life and death. Diamond Dave(David Lee Roth the singer)had a little Biz Markie to him. And yes they were HEAVILY medicated, but they made great sounds more often than not. Check out anything off Fair Warning, rocks fierce but still he the spirit of Saturday morning cartoons around the edges.
@@floorticket Biz is a 'showman' like Diamond Dave. He ain't afraid to show up in a Onsie and rock a New Years Party for MTV back in the day. It might have been same year Van Halen played! 😒 Dang I feel old now, the way these memories hitting me upside my head! 🤣🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Yet even with their laidback attitudes, they all hated diamond dave and couldn’t keep it together. Turned extremely lame during the Sammy Hagar years. Throwing up in my mouth typing it.
Kane Dynasty The dramatic tension between Dave and the rest of the band IS what made them so great. Musically they were practically perfect(to me at least), but Dave’s over the top frontman style made them unlike anyone else. Like an unholy alliance between Rush and The Beach Boys, but damn did it work for a pretty long time considering, well, the gratuitous Bolivian Marching Powder and rivers of booze that were around too. When it comes to Sammy, it’s just some other band to me and not Van Halen. Anyway, fun talking VH regardless!
I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with DLR one night. It was like a crash course in ROCK 101. So, to answer your question based on that hang. EXTREMELY HIGH! HAha!
So much to say about this one Jay. This was a 1984 which was also the name of the album. Times were different then. Eddie Van Halen the guitarist was also the guitarist that Michael Jackson chose to play on his Thriller album. Alex Van Halen the drummer was the guitarist when he was a kid and Eddie was the drummer oh, and then they decided to switch. I got more but that's enough. Thanks for the reaction man
Check out their earlier work from the late 70's. They had some bangers! There 80's stuff is good too but different. You'll like Ain't Talkin bout Love!
Cracked me up the vid got you thinking about "cougaring"! Van Halen has LOTS of banging tracks. If you want to see what's humanly possible to do with a guitar, watch the "Eruption" video. Mind blown, guaranteed.
Yes please! Explore more VH! They are legendary. Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It. There are so many killer songs to check out. Without a doubt tho I would love to see you react to the Eruption solo, live without a net is the best one.
Man my Junior Senior history teacher was FOINE!!! Not fine, but FOINE!! He always wore creased blue jeans with a freshly ironed white button up with the top button unfastened and a small hoop bearing in one ear. He was muscular, tall, with white hair and a goatee. 😝😝😝 he was too fresh. Mr. Smith...ahhhhhh. Think Richard Gere from the late 80's with muscles and an a$s. My God. Lol, me and some other girls would drop our pencils in class during a test to make him bend over and get it for us. He eventually figured out what we were doing but didn't call us out. He was never inappropriate. 🤣🤣🤣 And he smelt good too. All the girls liked him, but the black girls especially loved him. Lol. Oh to be 17/18 again. He had the smoothest voice too. Made you forget he was in his 50's. Too cool for school. Lol.
They played MTV New Years Concert! MTV would throw them in The Pallidium on 14th St. 🤯 I literally can't remember who else played. 🙄 They all blend together. 🤔 I do remember Duran Duran were on tour, they played the year b err for. 😳 Was it Culture Club? Wow! Memory overload 😂🤣😂🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
The thing about it is, Van Halen started out before the MTV craze. Music videos became almost paramount to a band's success all throughout the '80s. Subsequently, a lot of talent became hits because of their making a video when MTV got really popular. Personally, the '80s was a feel-good generation, yet I usually prefer earlier more theme-based Album rock and because bands like Van Halen were just rawer beforehand, generally speaking. That is not to say a lot of great music came out in the 80's and 90's, yet is important to understand the revelation of what technology in the era did to music. The younger generation might not be noticing that important intel.
Try Panama for your next Van Halen video, it is also very entertaining! Also, you are eventually going have to do Eruption Live Without a Net, it is a reactors rite of passage. Might as well just get it over with!
We had a really good looking teacher for a health class, I remember actually thinking about this song at the time. She was the wrong kind of crazy, tho. She got a divorce somewhere in the middle of the year, married her own divorce lawyer, then announced it to our class like it was an accomplishment. Grimy as hell. We basically just played video games in her class for the rest of the year.
I hope you go down a Van Halen rabbit hole. Eddie's guitar playing is insane. Check out his live eruption solo on "Live without a net". Also check out the official video for the song "Panama". You will see Michael Anthony's Jack Daniels bass and a very short cameo of Valerie Bertinelli (Eddie's then wife) in the background when Eddie is sitting at the piano blowing smoke rings. Just a little fun fact.
The "kids" were the band when they were back in school. I had a Spanish teacher that had a chest you could play vollyball on. I was seriously hot for teacher on that one.
Van Halen and Rush are my favorite, so anytime I see them I'm here! Try Ain't 'Talkin' ' Bout Love, Unchained, Panama, Eruption/You Really Got Me and Mean Street.
🤯 OMG! 😒 I was 1 of the folks booing up in the nose bleed section behind a Knicks Banner. 🙄 Nothing against Sabbath but holy cow, I left in love with Eddie that day. My best friend was a Diamond Dave girl. 🧐 Wouldn't drive 55 with them with Sammy but was at the Reunion show when the lawyers all agreed it was safe for all of them to be on the same stage together. 🙏🏾 Prayers answered cause I never thought Dave would ever be "welcomed back". Who says miracles don't happen. 😉🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Eddie was really modest about his abilities too when they asked him what it felt like to be the best guitar player he said I don't know ask Alex Lifeson! LOL 😆
YES!!! What a GREAT tune...too bad this video doesn't let the drum intro play fully from the beginning. But MAN!!!, when this tune came out it was quite popular! I still haven't been able to nail down that beginning part on drums, but I will eventually LOL! Great reaction!!
Unchained, Mean Street and Ain't Talking Bout Love! Do you know the lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen did the guitar solo in Michael Jacksons song Beat It?
LOL. I'm almost an old man these years later, but I still remember two teachers in particular. Don't know if I learned a thing in those classes because my young man hormones had me spellbound and nothing but daydreaming EVERY. DAMN. DAY. in their classes. I remember be exhausted from how bad I wanted them. Literally, shaking as I walked to the next class. I would never go back to be a young man again. That was rough.
Year 1984! David Lee Roth bailed on Van Halen in 1985! Sammy Hagar became their 2nd Singer and became bigger than ever! You should just check out their full catalog to get an idea the difference between the two singers in Van Halen!
Guitarists worth hearing Stevie Ray Vaughan,Yngwie Malmsteen,Joe Bonamassa,Steve Vai,Joe Satriani,Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple),Eric Clapton(cream),Gary Moore,Eric Johnson,Guthrie Govan(GPS,Asia,The Aristocrats),Uli Jon Roth(scorpions)Rudolph Schenker(Scorpions),Matthias Jabs(Scorpions), and Michael Schenker(Scorpions,UFO,MSG,Contraband),Slash(Guns N Roses,Velvet Revolvers,Slash's Snakepit,Slash & Myles Kennedy),Neil Schon(Journey,Soul Sirkus,Solo),Steve Morse( Dixie Dregs,Kansas[80's],Deep Purple after Blackmore left to Present),Stuart Smith (Heaven and Earth Band [Ritchie Blackmore Protege])
Or just hit up EVH’s hero, the late Allan Holdsworth: ua-cam.com/video/IcPbmPM7epY/v-deo.html ... start at the minute and thirty mark and behold the genius.
Waldo pimpin!!! LMFAO... By the way Eddie Van Halen was the rock guitar God of the 80s, all the rock poles had him at the top spot for years. Best drummer was always Neil Peart and Geddy sat as number one bassist for awhile. I think Van Halen and Rush were both at the top of their game in the early 80s, AC DC were up there and Ozzy Osbourne was huge. All these bands were great and yet completely doing their own thing, it was an interesting time.
My Kindergarten teacher in 1970 was a Corvette driving hottie. I was way too young to appreciate it though. Ran into her around 1988 and she was still hot as hell. Turns out she was one of the original "lipstick lesbians" with my fourth grade homeroom teacher though, I imagine disappointing the fathers of many young students.
Here's one for ya...try "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly. They actually played this on on the radio back in the day (1992 to be exact). You can thank me later. You'd also like Nekrogoblikon's "No One Survives".
Jay Rah, you gotta consider the era in reference to Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary guitar style and ability. Wasnt nobody doin that shit before he did it, i suspect you'll get to know more about Eddie in the coming weeks. You'll see what i mean. Peace and Love.
Actually, there was this guy Alan Holdsworth, not to discredit Eddie, I love his playing, but I think he was inspired by Holdsworth when he heard what was possible with tapping, hammering techniques. Alan pioneered this in the fusion jazz genre. Both hands on the fretboard, shredding like mad , hardly using the pic, check him out. But My appreciation of Van Halen has grown over the years, These guys could fuckin play...they deserved more credit as serious musicians, they were not just Rock star posers like so many others.
I always found it amusing that the guitarist could keep time to the music better while than the drummer. Given that they're brothers, I imagine that has been a source of tension over many a Thanksgiving table.
Wasn't the backstory about one of the Van Halen Bro's high school teachers ending up doing a Playboy shoot? I think I remember that being what inspired this song! Maybe it was Roth?
Not only was any Van Halen a groundbreaking guitarist, he was such a positive fun-loving person. RIP Eddie
If you have heard Michael Jackson's Beat it then you have heard Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing.
Eddie went in the studio with a six pack and laid it down in the time is takes Eddie to put away a six pack problely a half hours work.
Eddie played with such ease and good vibes. When he smiled it was genuine. RIP Eddie
Alex Van Halen was the drummer on this and while Eddie deservedly got the spotlight, Alex was incredible in his own right. Always loved the drums on this.
This came out in 1984. “One of the few white women that you liked?” We gotta work on that.
The title of the album this was on is literally 1984. Lol
Check out "Eruption" for Eddie's guitar.
I would say forget Eruption because, while it sounds great, it's just a technical display of what we would hear later. Focus on the other songs for Eddie's rhythm guitar, which is one of the things that made him great.
Although this was a fun song, not the best to show Eddie Van Halen's talent with the guitar. Eruption, as said, is good from a purely technical standpoint. Other songs are great from a musical few. I am sure there will be plenty of suggestions.
Van Halen Unchained is a great song. The beast of Van halen songs for me was "Mean Street"
Agreed. I'll add "Me Wise Magic", which still amazes to this day.
“Unchained” is one of those songs you must play at maximum volume!
Oh yeah...'Fair Warning' is a beast of an album!!!
@Ponyboy Curtis
You've never heard "I'm on Fire" or "Atomic Punk"?? Maybe their two hardest rockers ever!
@@steadfastneasy26 Just to name one, check out "Chinatown" from Van Halen's last album, A Different Kind of Truth." Check it out: ua-cam.com/video/-Cl1f_6FYQo/v-deo.html
I like your honesty and pure passion for music! You crave music and its ability to move the body and soul ..period! .. and i dig that so thanks!!!
OMG. Had to pause before you started.I'm EXCITED!!!
Blows my mind how people have never heard Van Halen before..then I remember Im 56 years old..Van Halen is one of the greatest things about being 56..especially seeing the classic line up live....70's and 80's RNR is just the best music ever made..
Brothers, Eddie and Alex Van Halen! Alex is a drummer to be reckoned with. Was blessed to see them live. Most of the time, you cannot see Alex’s arms move...especially on this song.
Yo this video had me dyin when I was a kid lmao
Drowning pool... Bodies. Head banger
Christina Wright, it did me, too. Poor Waldo. And the drummer, Alex Van Halen has NO dancing rhythm.
@@Tuesdays_Gone Yeah, that's kinda funny, considering how good he was as a drummer. But the two aren't necessarily the same thing.
Doug FA, apparently that’s true. LOL.
@@Tuesdays_Gone :D Yes indeed!
My favorite band. Check out Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo... Eruption
He’s already done (I’m pretty sure) that one if you check his earlier reactions.
The excellent drums and Bass on this song get overshadowed by the MONSTER riff by Eddie Van Halen. This is one of the most perfect rock songs and music videos OF ALL TIME. Such a time capsule of that era.
It was the 80's. They had all the cocaine.
ALL OF IT.
Van Halen is one of those bands that defines a particular era of music, much like there is pre and post Hendrix, there is pre-and post Van Halen. This is the music of my high school years, Halen was the ultimate party band, chicks, booze, trashed hotel rooms, moar chicks... .
Further listening:
Eruption, Aint Talkin Bout Love, Mean Street, Unchained, Atomic Punk, Im the One, Take Your Whiskey Home, And the Cradle Will Rock, Everybody Wants Some, Beautiful Girls...
Every song from them felt like a combo of the Movies: Ferris Bueller, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Wierd Science & Animal House all rolled in to one. And then there is my favorite Jaimies Crying! 😊🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Ive always loved the solo work in this video, a rock and roll gem from back in the day when we had a shit ton of great rock and roll
Good reaction.. i second the vote for more fun songs!!! The kids in the video represent the band members as kids... David Lee Roth is the lead singer... also played the bus driver and guy driving the hotrod at the end. The band gets its name from Eddie VanHallen (guitarist) and his brother Alex (drummer) who started the band. DAVID Lee Roth eventually left the band and they picked up a new lead singer in Sammy Haggar which gave them a new sound. Eventually they would pick up a new lead sinher in the person of Gary Cherone the lead singer from Extreme! Lots of great music in all interations of the band. Eddie Van Halen is largely held to be one of the best guitarist of all time... check out some of his guitar solos for epic guitar 🔥!
In 1991, Van Halen released a very successful album "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".
The single for Poundcake... shows...
Eddie playing the opening guitar riffs- with a power drill. Yes- he really did that .
Although they usually didnt get to lyrically deep with most of their songs they did have one massive hit with their single "Right Now". The music video is brilliantly done, and the opening piano riff gives a very unique feel to the song.
Might be worth a look.
Totally awesome reaction Jay Rah.
That David Lee Roth is quite the showman.
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Jay Rah, a studio audio version that you would dig, is
"Eruption"/"You Really Got Me".
From 1978
Two kick-ass tunes in concurrence.
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Old Van Hallen is always fun.
Wow!!!! What a shocker , I was about to leave my job to go to rehab n I look on my phone n it said that Eddie Van Halen had past away from Throat Cancer at the age of years. Eddie was an icon n in my opinion, the Greatest Rock N Roll Guitarist of all time. Him n his brother Alex Van Halen started the group in the 70's then teamed up with Bass Player Michael Anthony & The Greatest Lead Man in Rock N Roll History, David Lee Roth n then came Sammy Hager. They had so many great hits from the 70's, 80's & 90's. The ones that I like were with David Lee Roth, Panama my favorite, then comes Jump & Jamie's Cryin . Rip Eddie Van Halen, Ur now up in Heaven's Tears playing Panama, just like ur music video flying in the air. God Bless The Van Halen Fam. Wolfgang (Son), Alex (Brother) & Valerie Bertinelli (Ex-Wife).
It was 1984. My senior year in high school. Great song, at a great time.
I remember the best times when MTV started in like 1981. After school we would all hang out in my friends basement smokin weed, drinkin the cheapest beer we could find, and watchin the non-stop vids. Good times
I rode bus 2711 around about this time lol...Van Halens badazzz
i've always loved all the mini me's in this video
RIP Eddie! You one badddd lead!
Michael Anthony on bass, Eddie Van Halen on guitar. He also did the guitar on Michael Jackson’s Beat it. Album was done in 1984
Eddie with his infamous " franken guitar " damn !! Amazing !
RIP. Talent like one in a hundred million.
Love Van Halen!
Yeah buddy, you got it... We all had "that teacher" we all remember ;-)
Dude. You gotta do David Lee Roth "Just a gigolo"
There will come a day. When youth'll pass away. (Badadum) What will they say about me? 😉🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
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Thankyou for reacting to Van Halen! Try "Running with the Devil" next. You won't be disappointed.🇨🇦🤘✌❤
Actually, back then, hopping into a car like that wouldn’t be that big of a deal🤣
Susan Maggiora
in the 1980's-90's
people and schools were harmless and the problems Teachers had with students was chewing bubble-gum in class, talking in class, skipping class.
Why does the double entendree "I brought my pencil, give me something to write on!" go over so many people's heads lol
Lol...great video...I love Van Halen! I was in my 20s in the 80s
LOVE your background music!
The thing is, Van Halen could play circles around just about anyone but they didn’t act like it was life and death. Diamond Dave(David Lee Roth the singer)had a little Biz Markie to him.
And yes they were HEAVILY medicated, but they made great sounds more often than not.
Check out anything off Fair Warning, rocks fierce but still he the spirit of Saturday morning cartoons around the edges.
Biz Markie?
@@floorticket Biz is a 'showman' like Diamond Dave. He ain't afraid to show up in a Onsie and rock a New Years Party for MTV back in the day. It might have been same year Van Halen played! 😒 Dang I feel old now, the way these memories hitting me upside my head! 🤣🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Yet even with their laidback attitudes, they all hated diamond dave and couldn’t keep it together. Turned extremely lame during the Sammy Hagar years. Throwing up in my mouth typing it.
Kane Dynasty The dramatic tension between Dave and the rest of the band IS what made them so great. Musically they were practically perfect(to me at least), but Dave’s over the top frontman style made them unlike anyone else. Like an unholy alliance between Rush and The Beach Boys, but damn did it work for a pretty long time considering, well, the gratuitous Bolivian Marching Powder and rivers of booze that were around too. When it comes to Sammy, it’s just some other band to me and not Van Halen.
Anyway, fun talking VH regardless!
@@frankdiceiii5399 #Facts 🤷🏾♀️
A Song and video from my Senior year in High School. Still have the Album...Vinyl baby!
Back in the 80’s when MTV strictly played music videos this one was played all the time. I freakin loved it. It was my favourite music video!!!
I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with DLR one night. It was like a crash course in ROCK 101. So, to answer your question based on that hang. EXTREMELY HIGH! HAha!
So much to say about this one Jay. This was a 1984 which was also the name of the album. Times were different then. Eddie Van Halen the guitarist was also the guitarist that Michael Jackson chose to play on his Thriller album. Alex Van Halen the drummer was the guitarist when he was a kid and Eddie was the drummer oh, and then they decided to switch. I got more but that's enough. Thanks for the reaction man
great video, I went to school with the kid who played the young Alex Van Halen
They were at the MTV Awards sitting with them. They brought their moms as dates. It was so cute! 😊🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
The teachers we had back in the 60's made Waldo's Mom look good... Van Halen "Tattoo" !!!
van halen mean streets straight up wicked !
They just had fun man. They just had the time of their life making a living doing what they loved. That is why =VH= was so great.
Eddie VanHalen quite the guitarist. Check out "eruption"
Check out their earlier work from the late 70's. They had some bangers! There 80's stuff is good too but different. You'll like Ain't Talkin bout Love!
Cracked me up the vid got you thinking about "cougaring"! Van Halen has LOTS of banging tracks. If you want to see what's humanly possible to do with a guitar,
watch the "Eruption" video. Mind blown, guaranteed.
I was about 16 when this came out..."I don't FEEL tardy!" Great hilarious video too. It was just fun. "I brought my PENCILLLLL"
Best party band of the 1980's
Gotta be the official video.Just see the love
Those 4 kids that got in the car at the end are supposed to be mini versions of the 4 Van Halen members ☺
Dude...your ear for the intricacies of music is impressive. Do you have any musical background?
Yeah brotha I've made music for awhile now but not trained in instruments
Yes please! Explore more VH! They are legendary. Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It. There are so many killer songs to check out. Without a doubt tho I would love to see you react to the Eruption solo, live without a net is the best one.
My grade 9 english teacher, she was fine AF. But you are right most of my teachers were woof.
nice hair cut brother... very tight song- beautiful girls is a great song and also the classic Aint talkin bout love
Man my Junior Senior history teacher was FOINE!!! Not fine, but FOINE!! He always wore creased blue jeans with a freshly ironed white button up with the top button unfastened and a small hoop bearing in one ear. He was muscular, tall, with white hair and a goatee. 😝😝😝 he was too fresh. Mr. Smith...ahhhhhh. Think Richard Gere from the late 80's with muscles and an a$s. My God. Lol, me and some other girls would drop our pencils in class during a test to make him bend over and get it for us. He eventually figured out what we were doing but didn't call us out. He was never inappropriate. 🤣🤣🤣 And he smelt good too. All the girls liked him, but the black girls especially loved him. Lol. Oh to be 17/18 again. He had the smoothest voice too. Made you forget he was in his 50's. Too cool for school. Lol.
Unchained is my favorite...and Ice Cream Man ☺️
Anything from the first album is a must.....
The year was 1984. It was released January 1st 1984. The album name was 1984.
They played MTV New Years Concert! MTV would throw them in The Pallidium on 14th St. 🤯 I literally can't remember who else played. 🙄 They all blend together. 🤔 I do remember Duran Duran were on tour, they played the year b err for. 😳 Was it Culture Club? Wow! Memory overload 😂🤣😂🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
The thing about it is, Van Halen started out before the MTV craze. Music videos became almost paramount to a band's success all throughout the '80s. Subsequently, a lot of talent became hits because of their making a video when MTV got really popular. Personally, the '80s was a feel-good generation, yet I usually prefer earlier more theme-based Album rock and because bands like Van Halen were just rawer beforehand, generally speaking. That is not to say a lot of great music came out in the 80's and 90's, yet is important to understand the revelation of what technology in the era did to music. The younger generation might not be noticing that important intel.
"I'm The One".....from their 1st album, is THE banger. The guitar work is off the friggin' chain.
Try Panama for your next Van Halen video, it is also very entertaining! Also, you are eventually going have to do Eruption Live Without a Net, it is a reactors rite of passage. Might as well just get it over with!
We had a really good looking teacher for a health class, I remember actually thinking about this song at the time. She was the wrong kind of crazy, tho. She got a divorce somewhere in the middle of the year, married her own divorce lawyer, then announced it to our class like it was an accomplishment. Grimy as hell. We basically just played video games in her class for the rest of the year.
I hope you go down a Van Halen rabbit hole. Eddie's guitar playing is insane. Check out his live eruption solo on "Live without a net". Also check out the official video for the song "Panama". You will see Michael Anthony's Jack Daniels bass and a very short cameo of Valerie Bertinelli (Eddie's then wife) in the background when Eddie is sitting at the piano blowing smoke rings. Just a little fun fact.
The "kids" were the band when they were back in school. I had a Spanish teacher that had a chest you could play vollyball on. I was seriously hot for teacher on that one.
Van Halen and Rush are my favorite, so anytime I see them I'm here! Try Ain't 'Talkin' ' Bout Love, Unchained, Panama, Eruption/You Really Got Me and Mean Street.
All hail Eddie Van Halen. RIP great one, your suffering is over.
Van Halen came out in 78, saw them open for Black Sabbath and Sabbath was booed off for Van Halen to come back out....was at Madison Square garden
🤯 OMG! 😒 I was 1 of the folks booing up in the nose bleed section behind a Knicks Banner. 🙄 Nothing against Sabbath but holy cow, I left in love with Eddie that day. My best friend was a Diamond Dave girl. 🧐 Wouldn't drive 55 with them with Sammy but was at the Reunion show when the lawyers all agreed it was safe for all of them to be on the same stage together. 🙏🏾 Prayers answered cause I never thought Dave would ever be "welcomed back". Who says miracles don't happen. 😉🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
Eddie was really modest about his abilities too when they asked him what it felt like to be the best guitar player he said I don't know ask Alex Lifeson! LOL 😆
I've heard this a;out every guitar player. Always saying a different one. Eric Clapton was supposed to of said ask Prince
The last one said David Lee Roth became a game show host.
And He kinda did if you consider his pod cast
YES!!! What a GREAT tune...too bad this video doesn't let the drum intro play fully from the beginning. But MAN!!!, when this tune came out it was quite popular! I still haven't been able to nail down that beginning part on drums, but I will eventually LOL! Great reaction!!
knew you would like this vid
I was lucky on the teachers, all those ladies were super foxy.
Unchained, Mean Street and Ain't Talking Bout Love!
Do you know the lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen did the guitar solo in Michael Jacksons song Beat It?
Check out Van Halen's Light Up The Sky or Mean Street...they are under praised, yet, defining songs for the band as a whole.
LOL. I'm almost an old man these years later, but I still remember two teachers in particular. Don't know if I learned a thing in those classes because my young man hormones had me spellbound and nothing but daydreaming EVERY. DAMN. DAY. in their classes. I remember be exhausted from how bad I wanted them. Literally, shaking as I walked to the next class. I would never go back to be a young man again. That was rough.
Eddie Van Halen is one of the greatest, if not the greatest guitarist ever!💕💕
Good stuff... Nice side story on the chemistry teacher ;););) ...BTW... If you dig guitars and drums --> KISS / "Detroit Rock City" >:)>:)>:)
Ain't talkin bout love is a personal Van Halen favorite
Youve got to react to "Eruption" the studio version, for supreme guitar work!
Scary thought that I had just graduated the year this came out. Geeez, Im starting to feel old. lol
Year 1984! David Lee Roth bailed on Van Halen in 1985! Sammy Hagar became their 2nd Singer and became bigger than ever! You should just check out their full catalog to get an idea the difference between the two singers in Van Halen!
Van Halen....."Ain't Talking about Love"
Guitarists worth hearing Stevie Ray Vaughan,Yngwie Malmsteen,Joe Bonamassa,Steve Vai,Joe Satriani,Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple),Eric Clapton(cream),Gary Moore,Eric Johnson,Guthrie Govan(GPS,Asia,The Aristocrats),Uli Jon Roth(scorpions)Rudolph Schenker(Scorpions),Matthias Jabs(Scorpions), and Michael Schenker(Scorpions,UFO,MSG,Contraband),Slash(Guns N Roses,Velvet Revolvers,Slash's Snakepit,Slash & Myles Kennedy),Neil Schon(Journey,Soul Sirkus,Solo),Steve Morse( Dixie Dregs,Kansas[80's],Deep Purple after Blackmore left to Present),Stuart Smith (Heaven and Earth Band [Ritchie Blackmore Protege])
No mention of Hendrix or Page? Or is that just assumed? No Jeff Beck or Robin Trower, Steve Lukather or The Edge either though.
Or just hit up EVH’s hero, the late Allan Holdsworth: ua-cam.com/video/IcPbmPM7epY/v-deo.html ... start at the minute and thirty mark and behold the genius.
You forgot Ritchie Blackmore`s other bands Rainbow and Blackmore`s Night
@@helenespaulding7562 Jeff Beck is the most unique and awe inspiring guitarist in rock I MO.
Tony Iommi
Straightup
Eddie Van Halen played guitar solo on Michael Jackson Beat it!’
Waldo pimpin!!! LMFAO...
By the way Eddie Van Halen was the rock guitar God of the 80s, all the rock poles had him at the top spot for years. Best drummer was always Neil Peart and Geddy sat as number one bassist for awhile. I think Van Halen and Rush were both at the top of their game in the early 80s, AC DC were up there and Ozzy Osbourne was huge. All these bands were great and yet completely doing their own thing, it was an interesting time.
Van Halen. LITTLE DREAMER. IM THE ONE. RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL. AINT TALKIN BOUT LOVE. just to name a few.
Eddie was drummer and Alex was guitarist.They swithed.All for better.Check out live version of Jump.Amazing guitarist Eddie
My Kindergarten teacher in 1970 was a Corvette driving hottie. I was way too young to appreciate it though. Ran into her around 1988 and she was still hot as hell. Turns out she was one of the original "lipstick lesbians" with my fourth grade homeroom teacher though, I imagine disappointing the fathers of many young students.
Here's one for ya...try "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly. They actually played this on on the radio back in the day (1992 to be exact). You can thank me later.
You'd also like Nekrogoblikon's "No One Survives".
Spend 6 months doing MTV videos from '82 to '90 for a good dose of fun and laughs.
R.I.P Van Halen 😞🤧.
Jay Rah, you gotta consider the era in reference to Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary guitar style and ability. Wasnt nobody doin that shit before
he did it, i suspect you'll get to know more about Eddie in the coming weeks. You'll see what i mean. Peace and Love.
Actually, there was this guy Alan Holdsworth, not to discredit Eddie, I love his playing, but I think he was inspired by Holdsworth when he heard what was possible with tapping, hammering techniques. Alan pioneered this in the fusion jazz genre. Both hands on the fretboard, shredding like mad , hardly using the pic, check him out. But My appreciation of Van Halen has grown over the years, These guys could fuckin play...they deserved more credit as serious musicians, they were not just
Rock star posers like so many others.
I always found it amusing that the guitarist could keep time to the music better while than the drummer. Given that they're brothers, I imagine that has been a source of tension over many a Thanksgiving table.
Wasn't the backstory about one of the Van Halen Bro's high school teachers ending up doing a Playboy shoot? I think I remember that being what inspired this song! Maybe it was Roth?
"Panama" is cool