[ REACTION ] Eddie Van Halen - Solo/Eruption - Live without a Net
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I don't always listen to Eddie Van Halen, but when I do, so do my neighbors.
My man. LOL
Ben Ely Dude, you win hands down!
the right way to do it.
Thnx for the laugh m8
Best comment ever.
Notice how quiet the crowd gets when he's actually playing. _That's_ respect.
#nolifeshaq
Got em.
It's because our jaws had dropped.
I dont think they actually got quieter they usually mess with the audio so that in the recording the crowd doesnt over power the music. That's why people always say "whats wrong with the crowd why are they so quiet!"
@@gator4458 I've been to over a half-dozen Van Halen concerts over the years. The reaction was always the same; the crowd got very quiet when EVH took his solo.
Stoned and drunk and he still outplays everyone. He's a one-off. He'll never be equalled let alone bettered.
Wasn't he sober in the 80s?
And with mostly closed eyes
@@jimmyju76 He was definitely NOT sober in the 80s. Not even close. He didn't really clean up till the late 90's to 00's.
Have you ever... Heard of Shawn Lane. eddie is a pop guitarist.... A one trick pony. Not in my top 100.
@@jamessullivan9574 There is no way you just called Eddie Van Halen of the band Van Halen. A "pop" guitarist. Shawn lane is good but you look at ANY top lead rockers and Eddie is AT LEAST top ten. Most of the time he is number 1 or 2. Dude I know everyone has the right to their own opinion. But you are clearly an outlier with it.
I love people's reactions when seeing this for the first time!
Me to.i remember in 82 when I was16.im 53 now still love
That's why I'm watching it after Eddie leaving us.
It's the only thing cheering me up
@@lisaparsons6136 ah!!!
A rocker chick!!
We lost a god😪😪😪😪
Me too. Instant fans.
The grin that you get on your face when someone is fixing to experience Ed for the first time............😈
Just flat out laugh cause their reactions are priceless when he starts shredding
And then your smile gets even bigger when their response is better than you were expecting!!
My friend could play this note for note by grade 11. He is great, but their band never went anywhere.
⚡️🤘🏽😆🤘🏽⚡️
haha, well said.
Not only is he playing this live, he's also playing this drunk and high on some other shit. lol
Not to mention dressed in pink.
I caught a buzz just listening
Yo he was so high all through the 80's that he was walking through women's clothing stores wondering why all the men's wear was so pink. Well he needed clothing some of the time, so he bought what he found hahaha
@@vovindequasahi Do to hanging with Dave LOL
@Contrasting The Void
Beat me to it. Probably one of his best live performances ever.
Not only guitar God. Not only classically trained, he is an awesome Composer. And he named his son Wolfgang!
Paul Underwood you’re correct he did know how to read the music but he was taught classical music in his adolescent years
I mean, the Van Halens are from The Netherlands so Wolfgang is a natural name for them
@Paul Underwood As a kid he had to play classical piano
Eddie Van Halen created 5150 Studio in Los Angeles. Word is there are THOUSANDS of unreleased tracks of Eddie playing the guitar or piano. I'd love to spend a day there, just browsing the catalogs.
@@kyndread71 Ef brousing. I want to hear them. I bet most have never been heard by anyone. I'm sure his son has heard a lot but I bet not all. Think of what could be there?
The best there ever was. R.I.P. Eddie, and prayers to your family and friends.
The respect the wind twister jam
When Eddie Van Halen arrived on the scene, he changed the game for guitarists everywhere. No one played like him beforehand, & a lot of guitarists were inspired by him afterwards.
Eddie arriving in 1978 inspired millions to play and broke the hearts of millions more.
Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. The best ever.
He was the Mozart of our time. He could see the music. Couldn’t read it at all. 🤘😢
RIP EVH🤘🤘🤘
@@godblessamericamyhomesweet1094 They are up there but Stevie Ray Vaughan and Steve Vai are right there beside them. It's hard for me to put any one of these above the other...
Him: "That's the coolest thing since I've had eyesight."
Eddie: "Hold my beer."
Also Eddie: "actually no, give that back for one second."
*hold my cigarette*
Music is the great language we all understand
Eddie: now listen to this shit!
@@AxeManWolf25 🤣👌
#RIP Eddie. Thanks for the memories.
RIP Mr. Guitar GOD...The all time GOAT of GOATS👑🎸!!!😢💔
Before Eddie even plays a note:
L: "Bro, did he just blow out smoke rings and then sit the cigarette in the guitar? Like that's the coolest thing I've seen since I've had eyesight."
lol! I love it.
You call that the coolest thing since eyesight? How about touring Neuschwanstein or watch a C-5 take off right over your head. So close you could almost touch it. Oh, that word that you can't figure out, that's King Ludwig's Castle in S. Germany.
@@troyadamson8618, I have been involved with 31 military special projects and a C-5 dropping tanks on 6" steel plates was really nothing. You don't see it unless you were in the military and volunteered.
82nd Airborne, Ft Bragg NC.
Yes he always puts a cigarette in his guitar during this solo ha
Easily in the top ten greatest guitarists who ever lived.
@Mike Forti
Van Halen was more the 80's. They didn't even release their first album until 1978 and they were still relatively unknown until around 1983-1984.
@@Rowgue51 yeah, I was going to say the same thing as has already been pointed out. That first VH album changed the face of rock. Your reference to the '80s is partially right though, every guitarist in a rock band in the '80s was trying to emulate EVH
sorta...
but he's ALL pyro and no soul...
Remember sometime in the 90's we were talking about such a list and when I said Eddie, some one else claimed he sounded like everyone else and I said no, everyone is trying to sound like him. He makes the list
Maybe I put them in the top 10 but none are greater than Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan and just my personal opinion I believe Stevie Ray Vaughan was better even did some Hendrix covers and took those to a whole other level! RIP JH & SRV 💔
I never get tired of watching this performance by the great EVH, he was truly the BEST!!!
Welcome to the world of Eddie Van Halen my friend.
Yes indeed
Love Eddie, but his brother Alex doesn't get the credit he deserves on drums
Yep alex is very underrated
Alex always improved from album to album. He was pretty inspirational because he developed and grew right in front of our eyes. He might be underrated by some, but those of us that saw his evolution as a drummer know better.
Funny Eddie started as the drummer and Alex on guitar as kids till Alex came home and Eddie had stolen his guitar
Us musicians respect Alex
Never appreciated Alex much because Eddie obviously outshined everyone else. But damn, I’ll never forget when I heard Hot for Teacher for the first time. Those drums....
Part of the solo is derived from a classical piece for violin, Etude #2 by Rudolphe Kreutzer. Yep, Eddie just whipped out some classical music on you.
ffjsb , i thought his guitar 🎸 sounded like a violin 🎻
@@teresas8173 Not so much like a violin... He's just playing music inspired by classical music. There ARE some videos of guys using bows on electric guitars though.
@ 10:10 when he is running his left hand up the neck, his right hand is spinning volume controls back and forth it sounds like a mix of violins and towards the end of that section cellos
he had a lot of classical training as a kid
@@johnnyparsnips7641 mmm, he was just playing the same notes, not really making it sound like a viola or cello. He did a variation on a classical piece, which is not surprising since the Van Halen brothers were from the Netherlands, and Eddie started in music playing classical music on the piano.
It's really cool to pick out bits of classical music in modern rock and other genres.
I love watching people discover Eddie Van Halen for the first time.
It's funny, when VH started in the mid-late 70's, other guitar players would go see them live just too see and hear what Eddie was doin on guitar, they all feared him !
Randy Rhodes, a brilliant guitarist in his own right, was reportedly devastated after witnessing EVH playing.......
Ken Hall
He would turn his back to the crowd so they couldn’t see.
Silver Gorilla that was David Lee Roth’s idea to do that (VH 1st Singer)
Jason Derek I’m pretty it was Alex’s idea to have Eddie do that.
Someone once asked Jimi Hendrix what it was like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. Jimi responded "I don't know, go ask Roy Clark." If you want to see some serious artistry on a guitar, Roy Clark is the man. "If it had strings, Roy could make it sing"
I've heard a dozen different versions of that quote, of one great guitarist being asked how it feels to be the greatest guitarist, and naming another one. The first version I heard was someone asking Eddie, and his reply was, "I don't know, go ask Phil Keaggy."
But yeah, Roy Clark could MURDER anything with strings. Guitar, banjo. mandolin, fiddle - hell, give the man a sitar and he'd probably melt your face with it after about five minutes.
Chet Atkins was ridiculous too
@@lobotomizedjellyfish2171 The original Certified Guitar Picker (CGP).
It was Rory Gallagher Jimi mentioned.
Joe Day Yeah, and the one about asking Einstein how it feels to be the smartest person in the world and he says “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”
don't try this at home, you'll break your air guitar
And your fingers.
@@matiasbadilla5717 good luck with that!
I broke my air guitar trying the Eruption solo. God damn it.... time to save up for a new one.
@@thanossnap4170 good thing they're only worth their weight in gold
Mine just broke!!
I swear to god man! A little more than half way through when he started bringing that cello sound out of that git fiddle you literally looked dumb founded. Absolutely amazed. I loved it.
The 80's were the best times for most bands live🤙😀
this was the 90's
@@markbailey3225 no.....
@@nathanieldelrosario1324 ,yes it was...Live without a Net look it op. youre welcome
@@markbailey3225 but it said 1987?? That the was performed
@@nathanieldelrosario1324,its wrong, that was 1995
Whoever suggested this,..thank you!!😉I'm still blown away every time I see this.Eddie somehow manages to make his guitar sound like otherworldly instruments at times,all while making his playing look totally effortless.For me,another artist who also is absolutely amazing to watch is Jimi Hendrix.❤️❤️❤️He was so damn talented!😃
I saw Van Halen during this particular tour, the concert was fantastic Eddie Van Halen is pure genius on his guitar. I was and still am in awe!
Im jealous😐
Same man......I saw this tour....and it was my first concert ever. IT.......was....phenomenal. First song....There's Only One Way To Rock.........BLEW my mind as a 9th grader.
If this was the show recorded at New Haven the last day of the tour I was actually at this concert. Epic night. Me and my buddies went to a diner before the show and started talking to the waitress. She and her gf's met up with us after the concert at some hole in the wall bar/rock club across the street from Yale University where they only sold light beer. :( . Sammy Hagar stole the show when he almost fell off the rafters high above the stage. He was standing on this walkway about 75 feet up and he decided to grab a bar at the end of the walkway over his head and swing on it. Well, the last swing his feet hit the bar below and he dam near came tumbling down. This is the second time I saw Van Halen. The first was on 14th street at the peladium in Manhatten in 78 or 79 for the first album. I am sure they played eruption then too but we were too high for me to remember. LOL.
saw them in Cleveland many times once on Eddie's birthday. unbelievable!!!
I love your reaction....but I got to one up you....I was at that show and watched him do it live....New Haven Connecticut. At the New Haven Collesium! Will never forget it! Nothing like it today. Peace to you!
The greatest of all time. He’s an alien with a guitar
And this is what we call: Shredding a 🎸 🤘🤘🤘
I call it practicing.
I just calling it ”doing an Eddie”
His guitar doesnt gently weep...it bawls and cries for mercy. Virtuoso
That's awesome I'm stealing it.
RIP Eddie.......Eddie brought the smoke and is a legend. Legit guitar god
RIP, brother. Im still gagging over your passing. We love you, Eddie.
Yes, Eddie has extraordinary talent and is in the top 10 of every list of the top guitar players of all time, but back in the day these lengthy, amazing solos were common at every live concert! We'd truly get pissed if we didn't hear at least one solo, guitar or drums, it didn't matter. By watching your reaction to this, I think you probably understand now why those of us who experienced this "epicness" when it was new, can find very little talent in today's "music"! We've all been spoiled by the true talent we experienced back in the day!
The world experienced the genius of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Stravinsky. The world has and is experiencing the genius of Edward Van Halen......
you are so right on
For me, EVH is Top 3 -- alongside Jimi Hendrix & Stevie Ray Vaughn
This video / solo has launched THOUSANDS of guitar players.
"Greatest rock and roll guitar player ever" and I had a picture of beer alone with him for about 45 minutes in 1984 in a bar in Sheboygan, WI
Picture?? 📷
Or Pitcher?? 🍺
haha, i'm j/k with ya', Lmbo.
😎 👍
@@Military450Veteran I have tried a few times to change it but it will not let me.
That’s awesome man, I live really close to Sheboygan
@Jay Quan lmao Ediie would have him for a snack...
Nice you had the honor to met him ...it was sadnto hear he passed hill be remembered ..the twister sound track respect the wind
Dude, I'm an old white boy rocker, and with this video you just heard THE TRUTH! The man has now passed on recently, but there is no doubt he changed the face of the guitar and Rock and Roll. Not only was he an incredible musician, but he also invented several things to make the guitar sound the way it does when he plays it. An engineering and musical genius ... my favorite of all time. And I'm old school, I love Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page etc. Van Halen's first album was released on my 18th birthday back in 1978. What a birthday present!
Eddie Van Halen plays on Micheal Jackson's beat it
He did it ONE take, for FREE!
swimsack not true it was two takes the producer even merged the two together without Eddie knowing and yes he did it simply cuz he had met MJ and liked him as a friend all Eddie got was a thank you in the liner notes
I believe there were 2 versions. The album track and the original where he played the solo slightly off-sync because he showed up drunk to the recording.
@@My6StringSweetheart he stated in an interview that he showed up at the studio and no one was there. he did two takes and left not knowing if they were even going to use his solo, heard nothing from either MJ or management. didnt find out till the song was released that they spliced it together. he was pissed at the time but was ok with it cuz it turned out fucking badass. So, yes 2 versions but the one on the song is like take 1 and take 2 together.
@@My6StringSweetheart Eddie said he only drank what he could see through. And this whole time I thought he meant water. LOL
Yeah, Eddie's impressive. Even in the 70's, when guitar legends abounded, their first album dropped a bomb in the anthill. He's one of those guitarists you know right away, his style is so distinctive. And yeah, his thing has always been really fast playing. Another mark of his playing is how he likes to split chords into triplets - he's like Mozart that way.
… His sons same is Wolfgang :) check him out, Eddie taught him well, playing 'some' of this solo on same guitar. Thanks for all of your reactions. Love Love.
Not only is it very fast, but it's *very clear*. A lot of people play fast and much of the time it sounds like mush. When Eddie does it, it sounds like classical music. Eruption in particular sounds like the toccata part of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach.
Not bad for a guy who never had a guitar lesson.
@@chrisd7047 but he was classical trained on piano and did his work on keyboard before translating it on the guitar so it kinda explains why it sounds like classical music but in 16 notes per second haha.
Bob, guitarists in the 70's were hardly "dying on the vine" as you say. I recall it being intensely rich with Southern rock guitarists in particular, plus a genuinely strong mix of nationwide players both new and old, and hardly any of them dedicated to copying Jimi Hendrix. And it might have been a slip coming from a too quick reaction, but Van Halen isn't a guitarist, it's a band.
@@lucasberglund2620 LOL. Oh, I'm aware. I was a bassoonist; it's nothing BUT classical training for that. Eddie was the reason why VH stood out from the other early '80s hair bands.
When you go quiet and just hear. That's respect
"Sounds like he was contacting aliens"
Lolololol! This!
The aliens are like WTF.
He actually wrote these solos via recording. He would patch together solos, then teach himself how to actually play the impossible.
...and THAT sir, is why Edward Van Halen is the greatest rock guitarist to ever pick up the instrument.
;o)
Billy Gibbons?
Jimi Hendrix said he was the greatest
I’ll hang up and listen
Eric Clapton would like to talk to you
Eric Clapton is not a rock and roll guitar player. Eddie can play Clapton but Clapton could not even come close to playing Eddie
It may be a cliche to some folks, but cliches becomes cliches because they're true: Jimi Hendrix is that best guitar player and no one will come close, much less surpass him. Some people say Jimi said Gibbon was "the best". People who like Terry Kath say that Jimi said he was the greatest guitarist. In both cases, Jimi was being polite. Kath is probably the best of the two. But it's NOT about who is the fastest player; it's about who elicits the most EMOTION out of the instrument...and that is Jimi, by miles and light years. Eddie is good, others are good. Jimi has the only perpetual lease.
There's a reason Eddie Van Halen is Now and Always going to be remembered as One of the, IF NOT THE, Ancient ShreadLords
Imagine how many hours and hours of his life was spent honing his skills.
Somewhere around 18 hrs a day he practiced.
G Melford
What's even funnier is that he didn't even start out on guitar.. His brother Alex (the band's drummer) did. Eddie had drums and they ended up switching.
Both Ed and Alex are classically trained pianist.. And both have been trained and playing a life time..
Sure, practice helped, but what he has is straight up talent.
I could practice 24 hrs a day for 20 years and still not come close to him.
I remember reading an interview with both Eddie and Alex where Alex said when they were younger he would go out clubbing and Eddie was playing/practicing guitar and then when he came back several hours later Eddie was still playing.
After listening to this man play for over 40 years (CD or live in person), it never gets old. There will never be a better guitar player in this genre EVER. Hendrix, Rhoads, Page are all incredible but then there is the King of the Mountain. Only a guitar player knows how hard it is to play like that. What's more amazing, Eddie's concert volume is so loud it's crazy. Keeping a guitar quiet with volume that high is very hard to do (minus noise gate). Your reaction was exactly like millions of first time listeners. #subscribed
im going to add a new one to that list, Mark Tremonti, he is a top guitar player and musician all around, but i wont disrespect van halen by saying tremonti is better.
Great reaction. Thanks. Eddie is amazing. When we first heard it years ago that's how we all felt. Yeah I this is the stuff us old guys all drank and got stoned to...
Amen brother!🤫🤣🤣🤣
Eddie was the best man!!He made his own guitars and he is missed..He was a legend 😭😭😭
The best thing about this is Eddie just be chilling while blowing your mind
Surprisingly this isn't pre-recorded. There are a couple mistakes here and there where he falls off a bit compared to the studio, and he added stuff in for the crowd at points .... But you have to intentionally search for it because it's barely there. Pretty much the hardest solo ever played, and he can recreate it on stage with complete minimal variation. 🤯
Ed has said for years that the studio recording of "Eruption" has a mistake in it. And I know where it is.
Just think almost every bit of it is off the top of his head. We all sat in our rooms for hours, days, weeks, months, and years to learn how to do his stuff when its just second nature to him , That's the beauty of VanHalen,Hail King Edward. He changed Rock and Roll forever in 1978.
@@joeday4293 where I ask you, Me and thousands of others have been listening for it for 40years ,please let us know.
As Edward would say... Falling down the steps and landing on your feet ...
Heard dlr hint that Eddie used to play eruption but it was all warmup mix mash,it was the producer who pieced it all together and told Eddie ok now go play it all together,which might explain live in concert he never plays it all at the same time
He's a classically trained musician, not just a guitar player.
What? Before or after he started playing the guitar? He started on drums, but he was better at the guitar, so his brother switched to the drums. After he became famous, he went to Glen Campbell for guitar lessons. When did he get classically trained??
@@Tony-5000 both he and Alex studied classical piano as kids. Eddie actually won some awards for recitals.
@@EmpressMermaid I've never heard that anywhere. Eddie always credited Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page as being his guitar influences.
Actually, he never took guitar lessons and he can't read music. He played the piano by ear and memorized his lessons. Yeah, he's that good.
Isn't learning music from scratch the same as taking lessons? Iidk
I wish I could tell you this before you watched the video: Prepare yourself to get your mind scrambled by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan!
Nice BTTF reference
Props! Everybody brings up the "Beat it" solo but very few mention this.
When he was so impressed by the smoke rings at the behginning, I was like "Boy are you in for a treat" Hell I could've done the smoke rings the rest, I CAN NOT do :P
Dude....your face, your reaction....was the same as mine back in 1978 (12 yo) when the first album dropped and the world was introduced to this sound. It changed the world of music!
Vader's Rage I was 9 when Van Halen dropped, i know exactly how you felt back then
Still my favorite album of all time!!
I was 12 also and was dumbfounded when my neighbor says” hey, man, check this out. Running with the devil, by these cats named Van Halen”. Lol.
@@timothysandvik6865 "Runnin' With The Devil" was like a run-up to "Eruption". It got your mind and ears ready for what came next. The whole album needs a reaction vid!
You know what you just watched bro???? You just watched Eddie Van Halen change the World !
That was THE precious MR EDDIE VAN HALEN🙌🏻
"How do you put that in a context?" You don't. You just bow down to the greatest that is Eddie Van Halen.
The guitar needed the cig more then Eddie............and when he's done we all need a cigarette break
EDDIE'S DADDY WAS A CLASSICAL MUSIC TEACHER.
YOU CAN HEAR IT IN EDDIE'S PLAYING. MOZART, BEETHOVEN, STRAVINSKY, ET AL.
actually he was not a teacher,just played in bands
@@markbailey3225 He taught Eddie!
@@drServitis , he was self taught,hate to break it to you
Not true but ok. He was a musician not a teacher
@@GeorgeZimmermen Wikipedia says that Jan Van Halen was a music teacher. So that's all I know. It also says he died of alcoholism at the age of 66, only one year older than Eddie when he died of chemical abuse leading to cancer. Kinda sad.
The amazing thing is that he can shred like this and then you listen to a song like Dreams where he plays with such soul. One of the most versatile guitarists in history in my opinion.
Ed was at the top of his game that year......
MJ pulled Eddie for "Beat-It".
Ah, no. Live Without A Net was recorded in '85 and released in '86. Thriller was released in '82. Fun Fact: Eddy first hearing of Beat It was a couple times during playback while engineers were placing mics, setting inputs etc. First time they hit Record, is what has blown away the millions of pop music listeners up to that point never heard of Eddy Van Halen. Another fun fact: he did it for free.
@@AVIDEDITOR18 Are you replying to me?
@@thesoultransferprotocol721 obviously 😯
@@AVIDEDITOR18 it was recorded Aug 27 1986 and released a year later...
Great reaction sir! During long stretches of that if your eyes were closed you'd swear it was a mad, demonic rock n roll cellist playing. Just Eddie showin' off like only Eddie can.....
😁, I had the Honor to see this live a few times. God Eddie. We all were in love with him. This was the norm for us. Just EDDIE, SHREDDING. LOL
Now you understand why Eddie is the greatest ever
Bruh!! The coolest thing since i had eyesight!!😂 Yo EVH is legend and im glad u got to experience it in one of his best performances in my opinion.
Eddie is A God!!!! He's a GOAT... that's how he got away with those ridiculous pants!!!
😂🤣
Dude you just got Edified..king of the guitar..Edward fkn Van Halen!!!
Welcome to the realm of the guitar gods where Eddie stands high on a mountain above the rest.
GOAT!!! There will never be another like you! Many will try and duplicate...but
You were one of a kind!
A gift from God! RIP Eddie
I love 80's rock and Eddie Van Halen is definitely one of the greatest to play .
You've just heard his guitar named Frankenstein! He altered a cheap guitar to achieve all these crazy sounds! He became one with his instrument.....
This is the Kramer 5150 guitar, NOT the famous frankenstrat (although it’s close in popularity). The frankenstrat was used mostly through the first few albums and then Eddie started playing his Kramer 5150 as his main for years
He was the Michael Jordan of guitar. He did shit that no one else can do. If you play the guitar, the more you play and learn about the instrument, the more you have to appreciate how good this guy was. He was so technically flawless. No Judas notes, every long run perfectly mathematically executed, even when he was drunk off his ass. One of the few people who truly deserved the word "virtuoso."
Listening, part of it sounded like a classic violin. Amazing.
Eddie never buys guitars he makes his own lol
God sends them from heaven
"What was that?" That was just Eddie being Eddie. Certainly alien though, from completely out the world.
I'm 30 seconds in and I see your a TITANS fan. I'm sold !!! RIP EDDIE
That was growing up in the 80's.
Every few hundred years we get a musical genius. Eddy Van Halen was a musical genius.
We were lucky to have him in our lifetime.
Rocking out to him was a privilege. I am very happy to have been able to do this.
RIP Eddie Van Halen 2020. Gone too soon.
The best there was, best there is and best there will be!!!
And you know? Hè is a Dutch man! Born in Nijmegen the Netherlands 👍🏼 Again Dutch glory like the Tulips 🌷 and the best cheese in the world 😁 Hè was the one who made Beat it from Michael Jackson number one! He didn’t only play the solo but he changed the song too!!
It's our boy " L" , and he's back! I just happen to be watching VanHalen reactions, and look who it is! Good for you " L" rock on hard brother! Wes Sept, one of your biggest fans
"He has that guitar speaking a language" is the most accurate description I've ever heard.
I love anybody who can throw down some mad riffs on a guitar and make it talk, Eddie, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi.. Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Vince Gill.. would love to see a reaction video to some of Chet Atkins guitar solos.. he only SANG one song "This Old Hat" but you will love his mastery skills on the guitar
Chet Atkins and Roy Clark didn't riff!
💸💸💸💲💲💲
The Mighty Eddie Van Halen. There’ll never be another. May his soul Rest In Peace.
Eddie van Halen the real mc coy......!!!!!😳😳😳😳 No doubt !!🙆🚀🚀🚀🚀⚡💥
I listen to him growing up best ever
Another guitarist that isn’t as well known but was amazing is Roy Clark
Asher young he’s definitely well known, but by the old school country crowd. I remember seeing him play on the odd couple when I was a kid. He was amazing...
You ain't lyin..he could wear out an accoustic guitar with speed big time too.
Chet Atkins was better.
@@midiman5045 apples and oranges my friend
@@robertscoggin Same could be said about Roy Clark and Steve L.
RIP EDDIE VAN HALEN!
Dude was a LIVING GOD walking the earth.
As long as there's fans like you, playing his music & giving him props, EVH will live forever.
This is MY generation! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. He is DEFINATELY a ROCK GOD!
He can make sounds u never heard before... beautifully!
Just know that Eddie Van Halen is a guitar God! Mic drop....
Not too many people can captivate 35000 people with a guitar and a Marlboro!! Thanks for the memories Eddie....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠
What most don't notice that it's several compilations of solos/songs and they all have a beginning and an end, which makes this solo so incredible!
Bro at 2:44 seconds is the exact moment you fell in love with Eddie. Your reaction was fucking epic lol. Awesome
EVH truly is a one of a kind, an innovator on the guitar and a complete Ahole 😂
Not so much now that he's sober! Still kinda, but nowhere near as much as he was when he was a raging alcoholic!!!
Well, I've never met him and never will so the A-hole thing doesn't matter to me. All I care about is that awesome guitar.
From what I know he is a nice guy. Even in his drinking days
Lots of nice guys become monsters when they're in the bag.
@@robmcgrath5202 and imagine all the great guitar you could have heard if he wasn't an ahole?!? Since 1996 there has been one studio album, and that was even just a bunch of reworked demos from the '70s.
T-shirt " Blessed" . Yes, God blessed Eddie
no matter how many times I see this video....Eddie was a Rock God that sat in a world all his own RIP Eddie
were would Eddies life gone if he stayed away from that bitch Valerie Bertarelli...Yoko Ono of Van Halen
Eddie is the master and a leader anyone who comes later is a student and follower.
Can't say he is the best. I'm sorry..
@@johnchristy6639 seriously not trying to start problems, but out of curiosity who would you say is better? I might guess Hendrix...
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Lol I knew I shoulda shut up.
Paige
Slash
Townsend
Clapton
Vai
Rhodes.
That's just me..
@@johnchristy6639 ok, but I still think Eddie created notes/riffs that hadn't been done before. Even slash has admitted in interviews he was blown away watching Eddie play. I do, however, think you've listed some very talented guitarists.
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I'm for sure not gonna argue that he is a master. He could really kick ass with a guitar. Different strokes for different folks I guess lol. My age. Lol
Man, there's parts of this piece that sound like a fricking fugue! Like he's channeling Mozart or Bach and I just LOVE it! (And as you said, he's so chill while doing it too.)
Truth be told, that's a variation of "Spanish Fly" at the end, and "Cathedral" just after he plays what everyone knows as "Eruption"
I remember Van Halen in 1982 when. I was 16.Im 53 now still love.Great group.
RIP Eddie, he passed away yesterday 10-6-2020. I was lucky enough to see them live in 1986. Simply amazing.