The Van Halen’s lived in the city I grew up. The Pasadena/ Arcadia area. Both Eddie and Alex played on the same baseball team as my boyfriend Steve. I kept the stats. The Teams name was “The Long Strong Devastators.” LSD for short. Fun times. I’m 68 now and love those memories. Quite a legend.
The guitar that you are thinking of is Eddie's "FRANKENSTAT" that he made himself when he was to poor to by a custom made guitar. He got a blank guitar body from a pile of a guitar manufacturer's second's and dug out the places for the pick ups and for the control box and he painted it himself. That guitar is in the ROCK AND ROLL MUSEUM.
You are the first person doing a reaction on this performance that partially nailed it on how is making the keyboard sound. You are correct. He is using a delay pedal and if you watch his right hand, he is turning the volume knob up and down and he is fretting the notes at the same time with his left hand and doing volume swells (by turning volume up and down), and the delay gives it that sound.
Eddie Van Halen rearranged Michael Jackson's Beat It. What's more he did without Jackson's permission, then he (Jackson) agreed it was way better. The perverse thing was Eddie didn't want his band members to know he was moonlighting so took no credit, or money! It was Thriller that kept Van Halen's epochal 1984 off the top spot!
He was trained classically in piano from his father so he could play in the family band. He learned guitar on his own, but he already knew music which is the much harder part. I'm a self taught guitarist and after 30 years of playing I still struggle with theory which Eddie had in the bag from classical training
When you see him "flicking" his hand out he his chucking his pick into the audience. He has replacement picks wedged into his guitar on the top "horn" of the body
@sebastianlarosa5669 0 seconds ago I build these guitars, it's double sided tape, sometimes made by regular tape folded in half on the top and the bottom horns. That's what holds his picks.
You're adorable! Van Halen was my first concert without parents back in 82, I was 13 Going on 17 and I'll never forget it LOL we were five rows away from The Music Man himself EVH, rip✨🤘💙 'NOODLING AROUND' is my new favorite😊
The most popular lead singers were David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, the Red Rocker. The bassist and higher vocals was Michael Anthony, later replaced with Eddie's son, Wolfgang Van Halen ( he has a band called WVH Mammoth). The drummer is Alex Van Halen, Eddie's older brother. They immigrated from Amsterdam, because their mother is Indonesian and considered a second class citizen in the Netherlands. Alex and Eddie would have also been looked down on because they are biracial. So they traveled by ship here, part of the fare being covered by playing music. Father, Jan Van Halen, an accomplished jazz musician, played multiple instruments and the boys played piano. They were so good they were even invited to the captain's table. Arriving in the US, the boys had a rough go of it, since they didn't speak English. Alex wasn't picked on much because he is tall, like their dad. Edward "Eddie" Lodewijk (Ludwig) Van Halen was small like their mom. He got picked on a lot and was protected by his black friends. His parents both worked multiple jobs to pay bills and cover the piano lessons. There were yearly classical piano competitions and Eddie won three years in a row starting at 8, 9 or 10 years old (some ridiculous age ). Imagine the horror of their strict, Russian, ruler-wielding piano teacher, when he learned that his star pupil couldn't read music. 😮 Eddie was just copying what he saw his teacher playing. 😂 He did learn though, as he wrote the band's music. Eddie wanted to play drums and paid for them with his paperboy earnings. Alex got a guitar. Eddie, upon coming home and hearing Alex playing his drums ("Wipeout") decided to play Alex's guitar. And as they say, "The rest is history." Eddie is responsible for many innovations and inventions. He IS the EVH line, it came from hearing a specific sound "in his brain" and then recreating it with his gear. I remember him going for a "brown sound". So many things he has accomplished. Always grinning. 😄 RIP Edward. I miss your smiling face.
Saw them 3 times in concert and every time he had a different guitar solo for every tour his brother on the drums would do a 15 minute drum solo too !!!
I saw Van Halen live when I was in high school in the 70s. Awesome. (He's throwing guitar picks into the audience.) Yes, he was married to Valerie at the time. They have a son Wolfgang Van Halen (Wolfie) who is also a musician.
Eddie is THE BEST guitar player ever and that is a fact! The guitar world can pretty much be summed up with pre or post eruption. This solo changed the face of guitar playing more than any single moment ever in the history of guitar playing. This ushered in a completely new era of guitar playing and made lead guitar cooler than a lead singer.
@@jamesmorris5937 I simply do not agree. While Randy was masterful, and a true phenomenal player he was far from ground breaking and innovating. No person alive or dead changed the way the guitar is played as much as EVH and that's what makes him the goat.
He also said to ask Alex Lifeson, and Jimmy Paige, and SRV, andcEric Clapton. He was always saying someone else so he didn't answer that question the same ever
Did he really say that? B/c that guy was REALLY good! I saw him at the Fairgrounds when I was a kid. I was impressed he could make animal sounds from his guitar - BUT when he did the TRAIN!!! Starting from the chug-chug to racing down the tracks with the train whistle - DAMN! 10 YO me was VERY impressed!
best is a tough one... Eric Johnsons fingers when he does cliffs of dover is crazy fast like Eddies.. I think Eddie was by far the most innovative and belongs on the mount Rushmore of the best
He played a custom assembled "Frankenstein" Kramer in the first part of his career (used in this video) and then he had a signature Music Man guitar and then finally his own EVH guitar line
The Frankenstrat was built from parts he acquired from a place called boogie bodies, that's the original Frankenstrat not the 5150 Kramer guitars of which he had six for touring. He talked about it in an interview he had with the Smithsonian. HIS OWN WORDS. ua-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/v-deo.html
Close. This guitar is not the Frankenstrat. He had many striped guitars. This one is known as the "5150" guitar. The Frankenstrat was originally built and painted by Ed. Many of his other guitars, like this one, were built for him. This one in particular was made custom by Kramer guitars and painted by George Felise in the Neptune, New Jersey Kramer factory.
Prince is up there too, top 10 if not top 5. A great from yesteryear, Roy Clark, reactors usually do "Malaguena". More modern but classical guitar, Tommy Emmanuel will wring sounds out of an acoustic you didn't know possible in his rendition of Mason Williams's "Classical Gas" (with some other songs mashed in as well). Carlos Santana isn't as flashy, but you don't last in the business as long as he has if you're not _good._ "Oye como va" or "Smooth". Jeff Beck is another top 10 entry.
Eddie Van Halen could make his guitar sing, talk and rock like no other! 🤘 What do they say? Heaven must have one hell of a band! Love what you're doing!
In the record (as in the vinyl record), the gaps between 'Runnin' With The Devil', 'Eruption' and 'You Really Got Me' were so small that I've always treated them as "one". Even today, it doesn't feel right when I hear the 1st one without the 2nd and the 2nd without the 3rd. 😄
There are many great guitar players i belive it comes down to your taste in music in different genre the list would be really long ill put my choice as Roy Clark
Man first of all thanks very much for what you did not only by high appreciation and approach to Eddie Van Halen. With no doubt one of the best electric guitar player of all times. This guy was a giant! With a heck of dominium of an incredible sound control and virtuosity! But thanks very much for showing him to new generations, you make something great in times where music is becoming crap in many directions. I enjoyed very much this video! God bless and peace out!
This vid is more than "just" Eruption. EVH was also known for his short solos, you'll hear a lot of them played as intros to a song on their albums. On this vid, the first part that sounds a bit like a lullaby is 316. The part where the lights go blue and he's tweaking the volume knob to make it sound like a violin or cello is another of his called Cathedral. Eruption is more well known (it intros "You Really Got Me"). Eruption popularized the two finger tapping technique on the electric guitar. EVH was known for experimenting with the "what sound does it make when I do this to it", and not just with guitars, he did it with pianos too. Van Halen has kind of like two eras, divided by two different lead singers. The first was David Lee Roth for their 1st 10 years and when he left to go solo, he was replaced with Sammy Hagar. Eddie's brother is the drummer.
He was throwing his pick out to the audience, it's better than trying to hold onto it when you don't need it, if you noticed he had many more of them stuck to his guitar! I would love to have been in the audience and caught one of them! He threw out two as far as I can tell! The cigarette had the best seat in the house! Ha!Ha!Ha! Loved your reaction Krizz! I think when he runs his hand along the back of the neck he does that for an echo effect, if I'm mistaken I'm sure someone will correct me right away, but I'm pretty sure that is the reason, or at least part of the reason! Drummer-Alex Van Halen, Bass-Michael Anthony, Lead Singer-Sammy Hagar! Alex is Eddie's brother and Sammy is the lead singer after David Lee Roth! FABULOUS reaction!
The part with eyes closed sounds like a cello (not a keyboard) and it is achieved because if you see his right hand, he is turning the volume up and down to get that sound.
If you actually hear it explained how he is pulling that off, I'm not a guitar player, it's a lot more complicated than just turning the knob up and down. The timing involved is very complex.
Eddie is on my guitar Mt Rushmore with David Gilmour, SRV, and Jimi. Eddie created some methods of guitar that revolutionized playing. The term hammer on and off came from Eddie. Eddie was just greatness on a different level. Pound cake, Eddie plays his guitar with a hand drill, Hot For Teacher, Panama. Jesus the catalog is so deep you could react for weeks.
Dimebag Darrell of PANTERA is quite lengendary. He's the reason why I picked up the guitar in the first place. That said, he was heavily influenced by EVH. In fact, Dimbag was buried with one of Eddie's original guitars. Yes, Rest in Power to them both!
Nice comments Chris. I love it that you're in the music biz and there's things you still don't know. We keep learning and growing. Enjoy your music too!
Went to a Journey concert and the opening act was Van Halen. Van Halen was not on the local radio yet and MTV was not around. We joked "What's a Van Halen/" waiting for the show to start, 30 seconds after they took the stage WE KNEW what a Van Halen was!! And as far as solos goes a lot of bands did guitar bass and drum solos . Rock on dude!!!
There are a lot of prodigy guitar players, Eddie is definitely up there w/ the greats! RIP, Eddie! 🙏🏼 He & Valerie has a son, Wolf. He plays guitar as well! Loved your reaction, keep them coming! I'm here for it & thank you for keeping great music alive! 🎵 Peace & love 🫶🏼✌🏼
RIP Eddie. He was diagnosed with cancer and was getting treatments in Germany that were working. Then COVID hit and he could not travel because of the travel bans so he ended up loosing his battle because of the travel bans. He was dealt a bad hand in this one but he is resting now and forever. Hail to one of the best guitar players of all time.
I'm fortunate enough to have seen VH twice in concert. The 1984 Tour with David Lee Roth on vocals and again for the 0U812 tour with Sammy Hagar on vocals. Eddie's solo's were insane live. His passing was unusually emotional for me. I assume because he was so much a part of my musical journey from Jr.High, High School and college. I still have my concert Tshirt I bought at the 1984 concert. It's pretty ragged and worn, but hell it's been 40yrs now, I'm pretty ragged and worn myself!
VH albums had short instrumentals of Eddie on guitar. The first part of this solo is called 'Eruption' (also the intro to their cover of The Kinks classic 'You Really Got Me'). He re-tunes the guitar, makes some adjustments, then plays 'Cathedral' where he uses the volume knob on the guitar while using fingers on the fret board to create a sort of church organ type sound (also killed the distortion for a chorus or phase shifter or some different foot pedal effect). Most parts of this solo are actually found on some of their albums.
Many great guitar players. All different styles. Eddie was the best rock guitar player. I could name hundreds that anyone under 40 would not know. Eddie made his own guitars out of different parts and always was an experimenter with the tapping technique. This was a show some of my friends were at in my home state. I think it was 1985.
The drummer is Eddie Van Halen's brother, Alex Van Halen. The original singers name was David Lee Roth, and the bass player's name is Micheal Anthony. Van Halen was my the first concert I went to, 1981. I was fifteen and was in awe!
Playing around on the instrument is not only part of the fun...you also get a feel for what you can do with it. Experiment with it and you learn to know it. What we are watching is a musician who has such a feel for his instrument that it's a part of him. It's like dancing.... with sound.
I saw them several times growing up outside of Cleveland. His solos were usually more like 20+ minutes! Ppl started off standing and getting into it…then just sat down and absorbed the greatness!
Would also like to point out Randy Rhoads. Another one to RIP, but also another one on the greatest guitar player argument. Yes, Eruption is this guitar solo...though it was originally his warm-up before a show, at the time David Lee Roth, the lead singer at the time, convinced him to put it on their album.
this is 1986, Eddie built his guitar in the search for whatever tone he had in his head...Love it ! listening since they came out in '78 saw them in '82 & '84 instead of writing and explaining everything, Eddie was interviewed by the Smithsonian Institute, it's worth the watch... Eruption started out being a warm-up exercise Eddie would do before going on stage, then they put it on the debut album in 1978...ever since, every concert had an "intermission" where Eddie would do a Eruption guitar solo, each one was different, and as he came up with new techniques, he would add them to it. I saw 3 of them, but the best i have seen is the 1986 Eruption Live without a net (this one)
It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Randy Rhodes, Dimebag , Nuno, Eric Johnson, Vai, the list is endless and they each brought something different to the table. The pedals are part of the rack effects . Distortion, echo, delay, wah, flang, etc. Eddie preset the pedals . He uses his picks which are taped to the mic stand and sometimes guitar. He throws them to the crowd to use his fingers. He had his own EVH model of guitar. I’m not sure I want to say it’s an ESP I may be wrong.
Dimebag Darrel, The Doo, Eddie, Satriani, SRV, Clapton, Synyster Gates, Kirk Hammit to name a few of my favorite all time guitarists. But Eddie was special, he changed the way ppl played and viewed the electric guitar, the sounds he was able to create with it are still unheard of today.
The part you are asking about Valerie Bert-N-Ernie, he is playing using two methods - tapping and harmonics. This type of harmonics happen when you hit the string in just the right way to make it vibrate at one speed in the bottom part and a different speed in the top part. It sounds like a bell ringing and usually its done with a technique called pinch-harmonics where you control the vibration of the string with your thumb, not open tapping. What hes demonstrating seems like more of the same but its an absolute masterclass display of control over his guitar
"Ticklin' the bottom" 😂 I hope this is taken the right way... Working in the Entertainment Industry, I was blown away by the amount of "older black dudes" that knew Eddie and Classic Rock! Appreciate you Krizz 🤘🤘
Eddie isn’t really changing any effects during this piece. He is utilizing a lot of techniques to alter the tone on a more physical level. Only effect really added in the piece was a delay pedal, and the “synth” tone from that comes from him rapidly turning the volume knob from off to high volume and back as he hits each note. (Volume swells). His guitar was known as Frankenstein because it was pieced together from parts of multiple different guitars. The hitting the back of the guitar is him hitting and pulling on the springs of the tremolo The singers were David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. The drummer is Alex Van Halen.
Eddie dubbed this guitar "Frankenstein". It has a Kramer neck, and a Fender Stratocaster body. When I was 13, I had the opposite which was a Kramer body with a Fender Strat neck. Also, this original video is mistitled. This is not "Eruption" per se. It has a couple of bits from Eruption in it, but it's a combination of lots of parts from his songs and also includes a classical song near the beginning of the solo. Van Halen songs he includes are: Eruption, Cathedral, Spanish Fly, and Mean Street. When you're talking about the pedals, in that particular song, Cathedral, he's using a chorus and a delay. Lots of songs use a chorus and a delay, but what really makes this sound unique is how he plays it. He's not plucking the strings. If you watch his picking hand, he's rocking the volume knob from zero to full at a speed that matches the delay. He slightly hammers the notes with his fretting hand, but that's done while the volume knob is all the way down, so you don't hear that. That's how he makes the guitar resemble a violin. Lastly, when we are just messing around with notes and sounds on guitar, we do indeed call it "noodling".
Eddie most notably played the Fender Stratocaster “Frankenstrat”. The coolest part in my opinion is that it looks like it only had a knob for volume so the sounds that came out was mainly in part of his ability along with knowledge and experience. Fucking legend
There is no guitar player past or present that can compose this diverse range of technique and pulled off with this much precision and fluidity. As great as Hendrix & SRV were )and they were brilliant) you couldn’t watch him do 13 min of reshuffled 12 bar blues licks. This guy was on a whole different level than the rest of the guitar greats.
Each really has a different style, but Eddie could play all types, IMO. Eddie was the top of the list for me. Thanks for the reactions, much appreciated. Their first lead was David Lee Roth and this lead was Sammy Hagar. Each entirely different styles.
You’re close Eddie was asked How does it feel to be the best rock guitarist in the world? Eddie said How the hell would I know you need to ask Alex Lifeson of Rush. Hey Krizz The 10:00 minute part of this video he wasn’t using a pedal but he was using the volume knob hitting each note before he turned up the volume and turned it all the way back down and then the next note and volume back up again so forth. Not easy to do, he was light years ahead of everyone, obviously. Love your channel bro.
Eruption was from Van Helen's first album. Eruption, is Eddie's iconic guitar solo that was basically the opening intro to the follow up song which was a Kinks cover song You really got me. All of the guitars he used in the bands early years in the bands early years were all home made by him, that he Hot Rodded himself. When asked by interviewers which guitars he used recording and live.. his response was I tour and record with the same $150 pieces of shit that I built myself! Eddie was one of a kind for sure
The guitar is called the Frankenstrat. He built it himself out of parts of a stratocaster and some stuff that had never been used on a guitar before. The guitar made this kind of playing possible for the first time.
It was of no consequence what 'type' of guitar the late, great Eddie Van Halen got his hands on - he and the guitar of his choice became one. And, it was a privilege to experience that phenomenon in real time.
Ed didn’t use any peddles back during this tour. This is all his skill. The wavering sounds about midway through is done with the volume control on the guitar. He was a classily trained pianist and plays the guitar like it was piano. Ed was this century’s Mozart on the guitar.
BB King is one of if not he is the legend of Legends, think about it rhythm and blues is where rock stems from. BB King who showed and shared his riffs. Then others of the greats today stem from their inspiration and in turn today has some of the most legendary guitar riffs. Such as Eddie Van Halen, Randy Roads, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and you never can forget Jimi Hendrix
151k in just a few weeks, Wow! I just subscribed. Hey Krizz are you aware that when you listen to "Beat It" by MJ, Eddie played the main guitar solo and what Michael at the time wasn't aware of is that Eddie changed the way the guitar was written to be used in the song. A great tune from 1975 for you to react to is from the group ,Foghat, the tune "Slow Ride" make sure it's the long version.
Ed and Valerie 's son Wolfgang played bass with Van Halen up until Ed died. He is also considered a musical genius just like his dad, Ed. Wolfgang was recently nominated for a Grammy in song writing. His nomination was following Ed's death, but Wolfgang said he knew his dad was with him.
His guitar was built by him. It was a stratocaster knock-off by a company called Boogie Bodies, He then installed a hum bucking pickup from a Les Paul into it. After dipping the pickup in parafin wax. It was known as the Frankenstrat.
When Eddie and Alex were kid. Eddie was giving a drum set for Christmas and Alex was given a guitar. They both kept sneaking in to each other’s rooms to play the other’s gift. Alex caught Eddie one day and they switched. And the rest is history
The Van Halen’s lived in the city I grew up. The Pasadena/ Arcadia area. Both Eddie and Alex played on the same baseball team as my boyfriend Steve. I kept the stats.
The Teams name was “The Long Strong Devastators.” LSD for short. Fun times. I’m 68 now and love those memories. Quite a legend.
40+ years, heard it hundreds of times and I'M STILL NOT TIRED OF IT! :) RIP to the sweetest smile....but he was a bad boy y'all. They all were. :)
Right? But that smile just melted my heart, especially when he was playing. He just had a look of pure joy 😊
Eddie's brother Alex Van Halen on drums
Sammy Hagar (David Lee Roth - previous) on lead vocals
Michael Anthony on bass guitar
The guitar that you are thinking of is Eddie's "FRANKENSTAT" that he made himself when he was to poor to by a custom made guitar. He got a blank guitar body from a pile of a guitar manufacturer's second's and dug out the places for the pick ups and for the control box and he painted it himself. That guitar is in the ROCK AND ROLL MUSEUM.
Wolffang has the original frankenstein guitar
Roy Clark rarely gets the love he deserves. He was not only a great guitar player, but he was world class with most known stringed instruments.
I was just gonna suggest roy!
You are the first person doing a reaction on this performance that partially nailed it on how is making the keyboard sound. You are correct. He is using a delay pedal and if you watch his right hand, he is turning the volume knob up and down and he is fretting the notes at the same time with his left hand and doing volume swells (by turning volume up and down), and the delay gives it that sound.
I am pretty sure you heard Eddie van Halen play guitar before. Remember Michael Jackson - Beat It?
Eddie Van Halen rearranged Michael Jackson's Beat It. What's more he did without Jackson's permission, then he (Jackson) agreed it was way better.
The perverse thing was Eddie didn't want his band members to know he was moonlighting so took no credit, or money! It was Thriller that kept Van Halen's epochal 1984 off the top spot!
He was self trained. He played by ear.
I was very fortunate to see him in concert many years ago. Absolutely the best.
He was trained classically in piano from his father so he could play in the family band. He learned guitar on his own, but he already knew music which is the much harder part. I'm a self taught guitarist and after 30 years of playing I still struggle with theory which Eddie had in the bag from classical training
It's not about the best guitarist, it's who is your favorite guitar player.
When you see him "flicking" his hand out he his chucking his pick into the audience. He has replacement picks wedged into his guitar on the top "horn" of the body
Yeah, this is a thing at rock concerts! They also throw their beer on you sometimes. hahahaha
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He also held them in his mouth, the lead paint from his early years was one factor in his throat cancer.
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I build these guitars, it's double sided tape, sometimes made by regular tape folded in half on the top and the bottom horns. That's what holds his picks.
Imagine owning one of those picks.
You're adorable! Van Halen was my first concert without parents back in 82, I was 13 Going on 17 and I'll never forget it LOL we were five rows away from The Music Man himself EVH, rip✨🤘💙
'NOODLING AROUND' is my new favorite😊
Ha, that was my first Vh concert tour, too, at the L.A. Forum.
The most popular lead singers were David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, the Red Rocker.
The bassist and higher vocals was Michael Anthony, later replaced with Eddie's son, Wolfgang Van Halen ( he has a band called WVH Mammoth).
The drummer is Alex Van Halen, Eddie's older brother. They immigrated from Amsterdam, because their mother is Indonesian and considered a second class citizen in the Netherlands. Alex and Eddie would have also been looked down on because they are biracial. So they traveled by ship here, part of the fare being covered by playing music. Father, Jan Van Halen, an accomplished jazz musician, played multiple instruments and the boys played piano. They were so good they were even invited to the captain's table.
Arriving in the US, the boys had a rough go of it, since they didn't speak English. Alex wasn't picked on much because he is tall, like their dad.
Edward "Eddie" Lodewijk (Ludwig) Van Halen was small like their mom. He got picked on a lot and was protected by his black friends.
His parents both worked multiple jobs to pay bills and cover the piano lessons. There were yearly classical piano competitions and Eddie won three years in a row starting at 8, 9 or 10 years old (some ridiculous age ).
Imagine the horror of their strict, Russian, ruler-wielding piano teacher, when he learned that his star pupil couldn't read music. 😮 Eddie was just copying what he saw his teacher playing. 😂 He did learn though, as he wrote the band's music.
Eddie wanted to play drums and paid for them with his paperboy earnings. Alex got a guitar. Eddie, upon coming home and hearing Alex playing his drums ("Wipeout") decided to play Alex's guitar. And as they say, "The rest is history."
Eddie is responsible for many innovations and inventions. He IS the EVH line, it came from hearing a specific sound "in his brain" and then recreating it with his gear. I remember him going for a "brown sound". So many things he has accomplished. Always grinning. 😄
RIP Edward. I miss your smiling face.
I never get tired of watching that video of Eddie. RIP Eddie!!
Saw them 3 times in concert and every time he had a different guitar solo for every tour his brother on the drums would do a 15 minute drum solo too !!!
Every time I see this video I see and hear something different/new EVERY time.
I saw Van Halen live when I was in high school in the 70s. Awesome. (He's throwing guitar picks into the audience.) Yes, he was married to Valerie at the time. They have a son Wolfgang Van Halen (Wolfie) who is also a musician.
Eddie is THE BEST guitar player ever and that is a fact! The guitar world can pretty much be summed up with pre or post eruption. This solo changed the face of guitar playing more than any single moment ever in the history of guitar playing. This ushered in a completely new era of guitar playing and made lead guitar cooler than a lead singer.
NOPE ITS RANDY RHOADS THEN EDDIE
@@jamesmorris5937 I simply do not agree. While Randy was masterful, and a true phenomenal player he was far from ground breaking and innovating. No person alive or dead changed the way the guitar is played as much as EVH and that's what makes him the goat.
I was 17 yrs old front and center for this, New Haven coliseum live without a net. Blew the skin off my face🎸💥
Yeah Hector!
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@@HowardHeathcote-p3f hey brother. Fancy running into you here! Lmao
Eddie was once asked what it was like to be the best guitar player in the world. He said he didn't know Roy Clark.✌
Roy Clark on acoustic guitar is great
He also said to ask Alex Lifeson, and Jimmy Paige, and SRV, andcEric Clapton. He was always saying someone else so he didn't answer that question the same ever
Did he really say that? B/c that guy was REALLY good! I saw him at the Fairgrounds when I was a kid. I was impressed he could make animal sounds from his guitar - BUT when he did the TRAIN!!! Starting from the chug-chug to racing down the tracks with the train whistle - DAMN! 10 YO me was VERY impressed!
best is a tough one... Eric Johnsons fingers when he does cliffs of dover is crazy fast like Eddies.. I think Eddie was by far the most innovative and belongs on the mount Rushmore of the best
Roy Clark was the shit@@AzKt71-xx8oc
He played a custom assembled "Frankenstein" Kramer in the first part of his career (used in this video) and then he had a signature Music Man guitar and then finally his own EVH guitar line
The Frankenstrat was built from parts he acquired from a place called boogie bodies, that's the original Frankenstrat not the 5150 Kramer guitars of which he had six for touring. He talked about it in an interview he had with the Smithsonian. HIS OWN WORDS. ua-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/v-deo.html
Close. This guitar is not the Frankenstrat. He had many striped guitars. This one is known as the "5150" guitar. The Frankenstrat was originally built and painted by Ed. Many of his other guitars, like this one, were built for him. This one in particular was made custom by Kramer guitars and painted by George Felise in the Neptune, New Jersey Kramer factory.
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Prince is up there too, top 10 if not top 5. A great from yesteryear, Roy Clark, reactors usually do "Malaguena". More modern but classical guitar, Tommy Emmanuel will wring sounds out of an acoustic you didn't know possible in his rendition of Mason Williams's "Classical Gas" (with some other songs mashed in as well). Carlos Santana isn't as flashy, but you don't last in the business as long as he has if you're not _good._ "Oye como va" or "Smooth". Jeff Beck is another top 10 entry.
Eddie Van Halen could make his guitar sing, talk and rock like no other! 🤘 What do they say? Heaven must have one hell of a band! Love what you're doing!
As I recall, the album version of "Eruption" was a little shorter, and got radio play as the intro for cover of the Kinks "You Really Got Me"
In the record (as in the vinyl record), the gaps between 'Runnin' With The Devil', 'Eruption' and 'You Really Got Me' were so small that I've always treated them as "one". Even today, it doesn't feel right when I hear the 1st one without the 2nd and the 2nd without the 3rd. 😄
"...a little shorter..." 😅
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There are many great guitar players i belive it comes down to your taste in music in different genre the list would be really long ill put my choice as Roy Clark
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Man first of all thanks very much for what you did not only by high appreciation and approach to Eddie Van Halen. With no doubt one of the best electric guitar player of all times. This guy was a giant! With a heck of dominium of an incredible sound control and virtuosity! But thanks very much for showing him to new generations, you make something great in times where music is becoming crap in many directions. I enjoyed very much this video! God bless and peace out!
This vid is more than "just" Eruption. EVH was also known for his short solos, you'll hear a lot of them played as intros to a song on their albums. On this vid, the first part that sounds a bit like a lullaby is 316. The part where the lights go blue and he's tweaking the volume knob to make it sound like a violin or cello is another of his called Cathedral. Eruption is more well known (it intros "You Really Got Me"). Eruption popularized the two finger tapping technique on the electric guitar. EVH was known for experimenting with the "what sound does it make when I do this to it", and not just with guitars, he did it with pianos too.
Van Halen has kind of like two eras, divided by two different lead singers. The first was David Lee Roth for their 1st 10 years and when he left to go solo, he was replaced with Sammy Hagar. Eddie's brother is the drummer.
He was throwing his pick out to the audience, it's better than trying to hold onto it when you don't need it, if you noticed he had many more of them stuck to his guitar! I would love to have been in the audience and caught one of them! He threw out two as far as I can tell!
The cigarette had the best seat in the house! Ha!Ha!Ha! Loved your reaction Krizz! I think when he runs his hand along the back of the neck he does that for an echo effect, if I'm mistaken I'm sure someone will correct me right away, but I'm pretty sure that is the reason, or at least part of the reason! Drummer-Alex Van Halen, Bass-Michael Anthony, Lead Singer-Sammy Hagar! Alex is Eddie's brother and Sammy is the lead singer after David Lee Roth! FABULOUS reaction!
The part with eyes closed sounds like a cello (not a keyboard) and it is achieved because if you see his right hand, he is turning the volume up and down to get that sound.
If you actually hear it explained how he is pulling that off, I'm not a guitar player, it's a lot more complicated than just turning the knob up and down. The timing involved is very complex.
@@ericbarnes6130 Totally agree. The timing is very important and he was always coming up with innovative sounds.
Eddie is on my guitar Mt Rushmore with David Gilmour, SRV, and Jimi. Eddie created some methods of guitar that revolutionized playing. The term hammer on and off came from Eddie. Eddie was just greatness on a different level. Pound cake, Eddie plays his guitar with a hand drill, Hot For Teacher, Panama. Jesus the catalog is so deep you could react for weeks.
Dimebag Darrell of PANTERA is quite lengendary. He's the reason why I picked up the guitar in the first place. That said, he was heavily influenced by EVH. In fact, Dimbag was buried with one of Eddie's original guitars. Yes, Rest in Power to them both!
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He's discovering what real music and talent is now.
Nice comments Chris. I love it that you're in the music biz and there's things you still don't know. We keep learning and growing. Enjoy your music too!
Went to a Journey concert and the opening act was Van Halen. Van Halen was not on the local radio yet and MTV was not around. We joked "What's a Van Halen/" waiting for the show to start, 30 seconds after they took the stage WE KNEW what a Van Halen was!! And as far as solos goes a lot of bands did guitar bass and drum solos . Rock on dude!!!
There are a lot of prodigy guitar players, Eddie is definitely up there w/ the greats! RIP, Eddie! 🙏🏼 He & Valerie has a son, Wolf. He plays guitar as well! Loved your reaction, keep them coming! I'm here for it & thank you for keeping great music alive! 🎵 Peace & love 🫶🏼✌🏼
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and also Panama, are both super fun videos to watch
David Lee Roth was the first lead singer. This one is Sammy Hagar. The drummer is Ed's brother Alex. Bass player is Anthony Something.
RIP Eddie. He was diagnosed with cancer and was getting treatments in Germany that were working. Then COVID hit and he could not travel because of the travel bans so he ended up loosing his battle because of the travel bans. He was dealt a bad hand in this one but he is resting now and forever. Hail to one of the best guitar players of all time.
I was at this concert.. I had no idea I'd be witnessing greatness and watching it now on UA-cam..❤ love your channel thanks for the reaction
I'm fortunate enough to have seen VH twice in concert. The 1984 Tour with David Lee Roth on vocals and again for the 0U812 tour with Sammy Hagar on vocals. Eddie's solo's were insane live. His passing was unusually emotional for me. I assume because he was so much a part of my musical journey from Jr.High, High School and college. I still have my concert Tshirt I bought at the 1984 concert. It's pretty ragged and worn, but hell it's been 40yrs now, I'm pretty ragged and worn myself!
Eddie's guitar tone is what grabs ya. His skill along with that. Wow. No footprdal there , he is using his volume knob and delay. This is a medley.
I am subscribed to your channel so glad you did this one as many times as I’ve seen it. I can’t get enough.
VH albums had short instrumentals of Eddie on guitar. The first part of this solo is called 'Eruption' (also the intro to their cover of The Kinks classic 'You Really Got Me'). He re-tunes the guitar, makes some adjustments, then plays 'Cathedral' where he uses the volume knob on the guitar while using fingers on the fret board to create a sort of church organ type sound (also killed the distortion for a chorus or phase shifter or some different foot pedal effect). Most parts of this solo are actually found on some of their albums.
You're still killin it with these reviews, thank you!
Now this was fun to watch
Was at this concert 10th row floor center. New Haven coliseum, Ct. Long live “king”Eddie!!!!🔥🎸🤘
Many great guitar players. All different styles. Eddie was the best rock guitar player. I could name hundreds that anyone under 40 would not know. Eddie made his own guitars out of different parts and always was an experimenter with the tapping technique. This was a show some of my friends were at in my home state. I think it was 1985.
The drummer is Eddie Van Halen's brother, Alex Van Halen. The original singers name was David Lee Roth, and the bass player's name is Micheal Anthony. Van Halen was my the first concert I went to, 1981. I was fifteen and was in awe!
Playing around on the instrument is not only part of the fun...you also get a feel for what you can do with it. Experiment with it and you learn to know it. What we are watching is a musician who has such a feel for his instrument that it's a part of him. It's like dancing.... with sound.
I saw them several times growing up outside of Cleveland. His solos were usually more like 20+ minutes! Ppl started off standing and getting into it…then just sat down and absorbed the greatness!
He’s up there with Vaugn and Jeff Beck. RIP EVH 🤘 🎸 🔥
I'm a guitar player. And he's one the best that ever lived. Volume swells with the knob. That's it. Genius
He made his own guitar from different guitars
Would also like to point out Randy Rhoads. Another one to RIP, but also another one on the greatest guitar player argument.
Yes, Eruption is this guitar solo...though it was originally his warm-up before a show, at the time David Lee Roth, the lead singer at the time, convinced him to put it on their album.
You are truly getting closer to the classics with this one
this is 1986, Eddie built his guitar in the search for whatever tone he had in his head...Love it ! listening since they came out in '78 saw them in '82 & '84 instead of writing and explaining everything, Eddie was interviewed by the Smithsonian Institute, it's worth the watch... Eruption started out being a warm-up exercise Eddie would do before going on stage, then they put it on the debut album in 1978...ever since, every concert had an "intermission" where Eddie would do a Eruption guitar solo, each one was different, and as he came up with new techniques, he would add them to it. I saw 3 of them, but the best i have seen is the 1986 Eruption Live without a net (this one)
He played a Fender mostly that he rebuilt, now you can buy EVH guitars and amps, the Wolfgang line of guitars made by Fender named for his son.
I saw you on Black P and joined. Hang on for a great ride.✌
Roy Clark ! Now he's a Classic 😊
I saw an interview where Eddie said he never used distortion peddles. That's all him , guitar , and Amp.
It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Randy Rhodes, Dimebag , Nuno, Eric Johnson, Vai, the list is endless and they each brought something different to the table. The pedals are part of the rack effects . Distortion, echo, delay, wah, flang, etc. Eddie preset the pedals . He uses his picks which are taped to the mic stand and sometimes guitar. He throws them to the crowd to use his fingers. He had his own EVH model of guitar. I’m not sure I want to say it’s an ESP I may be wrong.
I guess you've never heard Jimi Hendrix play The Star-Spangled Banner ❤
Eddie has always been my favorite rock guitarist, but i also discovered Yngwie Malmsteen and was blown away by him as well.
Roy Clark was Eddie's role model for guitar playing, as he said that Roy Clark was the best. Keep staying real and the best bro.
Eric Clapton was Eddie's role model coming up !
Roy Clark was John 5’s first influence, not Eddie’s.
Stevie Ray, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter❤❤❤R I P TO ALL❤❤❤
Dimebag Darrel, The Doo, Eddie, Satriani, SRV, Clapton, Synyster Gates, Kirk Hammit to name a few of my favorite all time guitarists. But Eddie was special, he changed the way ppl played and viewed the electric guitar, the sounds he was able to create with it are still unheard of today.
I have my sons guitars since he passed away and all 3 of them and his bass has a his last cigarette he was smoking in the neck of all them.
The last thing Edward Van Halen recorded was a hip hop song with LL Cool J called “We Are the Greasest”.
The part you are asking about Valerie Bert-N-Ernie, he is playing using two methods - tapping and harmonics. This type of harmonics happen when you hit the string in just the right way to make it vibrate at one speed in the bottom part and a different speed in the top part. It sounds like a bell ringing and usually its done with a technique called pinch-harmonics where you control the vibration of the string with your thumb, not open tapping. What hes demonstrating seems like more of the same but its an absolute masterclass display of control over his guitar
"Ticklin' the bottom" 😂 I hope this is taken the right way... Working in the Entertainment Industry, I was blown away by the amount of "older black dudes" that knew Eddie and Classic Rock! Appreciate you Krizz 🤘🤘
Valerie was the love of his life. He never remarried. They had one son, Wolfgang "Wolfie". Wolfie now plays for Van Halen.
Valerie was the love of his life, but he married Janie Liszewski in 2009, and was still married to her upon his death in October 2020.
He looks like he's having so much fun with that solo!
Eddie isn’t really changing any effects during this piece. He is utilizing a lot of techniques to alter the tone on a more physical level. Only effect really added in the piece was a delay pedal, and the “synth” tone from that comes from him rapidly turning the volume knob from off to high volume and back as he hits each note. (Volume swells).
His guitar was known as Frankenstein because it was pieced together from parts of multiple different guitars.
The hitting the back of the guitar is him hitting and pulling on the springs of the tremolo
The singers were David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. The drummer is Alex Van Halen.
Eddie dubbed this guitar "Frankenstein". It has a Kramer neck, and a Fender Stratocaster body. When I was 13, I had the opposite which was a Kramer body with a Fender Strat neck. Also, this original video is mistitled. This is not "Eruption" per se. It has a couple of bits from Eruption in it, but it's a combination of lots of parts from his songs and also includes a classical song near the beginning of the solo. Van Halen songs he includes are: Eruption, Cathedral, Spanish Fly, and Mean Street.
When you're talking about the pedals, in that particular song, Cathedral, he's using a chorus and a delay. Lots of songs use a chorus and a delay, but what really makes this sound unique is how he plays it. He's not plucking the strings. If you watch his picking hand, he's rocking the volume knob from zero to full at a speed that matches the delay. He slightly hammers the notes with his fretting hand, but that's done while the volume knob is all the way down, so you don't hear that. That's how he makes the guitar resemble a violin.
Lastly, when we are just messing around with notes and sounds on guitar, we do indeed call it "noodling".
The drummer is Eddie’s brother Alex 19:28
Eddie most notably played the Fender Stratocaster “Frankenstrat”. The coolest part in my opinion is that it looks like it only had a knob for volume so the sounds that came out was mainly in part of his ability along with knowledge and experience. Fucking legend
I don't believe there is a best..just legends. Different styles, all legends...
Eddie Van Halen is the true definition of focused driven.
check out Pantera and Dimebag Darrel he was buried with eddies guitar
Eddie's son Wolfgang has his own band called Mammoth WVH and he plays all the instruments
There is no guitar player past or present that can compose this diverse range of technique and pulled off with this much precision and fluidity. As great as Hendrix & SRV were )and they were brilliant) you couldn’t watch him do 13 min of reshuffled 12 bar blues licks. This guy was on a whole different level than the rest of the guitar greats.
Each really has a different style, but Eddie could play all types, IMO. Eddie was the top of the list for me. Thanks for the reactions, much appreciated. Their first lead was David Lee Roth and this lead was Sammy Hagar. Each entirely different styles.
I don't have to imagine being there 😊
Eddie was pretty drunk the night I saw him and still, even off his game, it was amazing.
Eric Clapton was asked in a interview what it was like to be the best guitarist he said you should ask Prince. Much love have a great day
You’re close Eddie was asked How does it feel to be the best rock guitarist in the world? Eddie said How the hell would I know you need to ask Alex Lifeson of Rush. Hey Krizz The 10:00 minute part of this video he wasn’t using a pedal but he was using the volume knob hitting each note before he turned up the volume and turned it all the way back down and then the next note and volume back up again so forth. Not easy to do, he was light years ahead of everyone, obviously. Love your channel bro.
Yessir!! Classic. E.V.H. forever 🎸🔥 Alex Lifeson, Glenn Tipton, and K.K. Downing are some other highly skilled guitar heroes, too. 💯💯
Back when MTV was actually music and playing videos, you always saw that little clip of him shaking his head at the end,
eddie is now among the angels giving them a tutorial
Eruption was from Van Helen's first album. Eruption, is Eddie's iconic guitar solo that was basically the opening intro to the follow up song which was a Kinks cover song You really got me. All of the guitars he used in the bands early years in the bands early years were all home made by him, that he Hot Rodded himself.
When asked by interviewers which guitars he used recording and live.. his response was I tour and record with the same $150 pieces of shit that I built myself! Eddie was one of a kind for sure
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The guitar is called the Frankenstrat. He built it himself out of parts of a stratocaster and some stuff that had never been used on a guitar before. The guitar made this kind of playing possible for the first time.
It was of no consequence what 'type' of guitar the late, great Eddie Van Halen got his hands on - he and the guitar of his choice became one.
And, it was a privilege to experience that phenomenon in real time.
he changed the sound on the dial on his guitar. That’s what he was doing. When you asked what he was doing he was tuning his guitar.
Ed didn’t use any peddles back during this tour. This is all his skill. The wavering sounds about midway through is done with the volume control on the guitar. He was a classily trained pianist and plays the guitar like it was piano. Ed was this century’s Mozart on the guitar.
He is throwing pics to the crowd as he is playing \m/
BB King is one of if not he is the legend of Legends, think about it rhythm and blues is where rock stems from. BB King who showed and shared his riffs. Then others of the greats today stem from their inspiration and in turn today has some of the most legendary guitar riffs. Such as Eddie Van Halen, Randy Roads, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and you never can forget Jimi Hendrix
151k in just a few weeks, Wow! I just subscribed. Hey Krizz are you aware that when you listen to "Beat It" by MJ, Eddie played the main guitar solo and what Michael at the time wasn't aware of is that Eddie changed the way the guitar was written to be used in the song. A great tune from 1975 for you to react to is from the group ,Foghat, the tune "Slow Ride" make sure it's the long version.
the flicking of his hands is him tossing his guitar picks to the crowd
Ed and Valerie 's son Wolfgang played bass with Van Halen up until Ed died. He is also considered a musical genius just like his dad, Ed. Wolfgang was recently nominated for a Grammy in song writing. His nomination was following Ed's death, but Wolfgang said he knew his dad was with him.
I was at this exact tour in 1986. Lakeland Civic Center, Florida
His guitar was built by him. It was a stratocaster knock-off by a company called Boogie Bodies, He then installed a hum bucking pickup from a Les Paul into it. After dipping the pickup in parafin wax. It was known as the Frankenstrat.
When Eddie and Alex were kid. Eddie was giving a drum set for Christmas and Alex was given a guitar. They both kept sneaking in to each other’s rooms to play the other’s gift. Alex caught Eddie one day and they switched. And the rest is history