VAN HALEN - ERUPTION Guitar Solo - Musician Reaction & Analysis
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I'm loving your reaction. I would have loved to take you to see that show.
He built that guitar and it evolved over the years into what you see there. That was the end result. He called it a Frankenstrat. Now you can actually buy one from Fender. Just Google Frankenstrat. He was always searching for what he called the brown sound. No guitar had it so he took old parts and throw away bodies from Fender. Put a double coil humbucker in the bridge position. The pickup near the neck isn't even hooked up.
the fact that he was blind drunk when he did this makes it more impressive
Eddie for me, wasnt the most technical player or even the cleanest but instead to me Eddie represented the pure JOY of electric guitar..
i dont know how to explain... but his guitar always sound like it was having fun..
i saw him live twice
once with david lee roth as the front man and once with sammy hagar
Eddie didnt make sound effects for moviea but he did do a few songs for soundtracks. Twister is one of the most notable with "Humans Being" and "Respect the Wind." This performance was one where he combined a lot of his guitar solos from different compositions into one performance.
Eddie laid the foundation for everything Steve Vai did (I'm a huge fan of them both as well). When David Lee Roth left Van Halen Steve Vai became the new guitarist but at the time he was quoted as saying "only a fool tries to compete with Eddie Van Halen." as Vai knew he was essentially tasked with filling the same role.
Eddie hit and plucked every area of the guitar to get different sounds from it. No body since has ever made the guitar as versital spunding as Eddie Van Halen. He was self taught and didn't follow the "by the book" approach that 99% of the guitarists have done so his imagination really shined through.
Steve Vai is a talented guitar player, but when a guy like Steve looks to EVH as one of his inspirations you must take notice! RIP Eddie, you are the GOAT and your music will live forever!
i prefer eddie to jimi and i love jimi!
Steve Vai is a very modest person . He was one of the very very few guitar players that can duplicate Eddie's playing .
@@akfreed6949 What Vai was never able to duplicate was playing virtuoso guitar parts that were catchy enough for the masses. Vai was always more of a guitarist’s guitarist.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s a total badass. But Eddie was making better music.
@@G_Demolished He could go note for note on any Van Halen song , just can't duplicate Ed . Almost no one could . Steve Vai is better than most guitar players .
Yeah, steve vai learned most if his techniques from Edward. Steve us excellent, but doesnt even approaxh the creative talents and technical accuracy of Edward. I wish God hadnt taken Edward away from us so early......
Keep in mind, Van Halen's debut album came out in 1978. Every guitar player since then has been influenced by Eddie Van Halen since. He was a living legend. No one had ever guitar playing like that before.
Well said. Completely new musical territory. As debuts go, it was hugely important.
The true sign of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete and everything after you bares your fingerprints
@@nmt2k2hear, hear!
Yes and no. They way he played yes.... but tapping had been around for years before Eddie used it. Nonetheless he innovated the everyone looked at how to play guitar.
That's true 💜
Millie, you're the ONLY reactor I have ever seen who noticed that he was turning the volume up and down with his right hand during that "cello" section. Good job.
Same!!! I have only seen one other person in reactions notice that and he was also a guitarist... *If you know, YOU KNOW!!! lol*
Same. That impressed the hell out of me.
Yeah , I quickly noticed that with her too . That's how he described the way he did Cathedral in guitar magazines .
Then look to Jeff Beck, volume control and whammy bar and playing simultaneously. Both are legends. ❤
Do not listen to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Don't do it.
Ppl forget that not only was Eddie self taught, but by his own admission, he couldn’t read music and was also a self proclaimed tone seeker. Eddie was, is, and will forever remain the greatest. We love and miss you Ed.
He and his brother Alex had classical piano lessons as a children but Ed could not read the music so Ed memorized by ear and watching the hand movements of his piano teacher. Ed won quite a few piano recital contests as a child. His Father was a trained musician , piano , sax and clarinet. Ed was in fact classically trained on piano. Both of his parents were musically minded and surrounded themselves with musicians.
He was classically trained his father and mother were both musicians and moved to California from Holland or somewhere so was alex
He was definitely intimate with his guitar. He knew everything it could do!
There's no other like him.......Legend, innovator, infinite talent......r.i.p man❤🤘😢
Except for his Son Wolfgang Van Halen - he has major talent on guitar and the way he plays, his father told him everything he knows. The legacy of Van Halen lives on 😎
Eddie Van Halen by far is the best guitarist someone once asked Aldanova how great was EVH he said he would have to play since being born and still wouldn't be half as good
@@HEAVYMETALmovie1981 sorry I like Wolfgang as a person but he doesn't have 1/20th the talent of his Dad
And she noticed this as Blues as Eric Clapton's minor blues scale too, she's amazing right.😅
Eddie built that guitar himself from a body from the seconds bin and parts scrounged from other guitars to do just exactly what he wanted it to do so he knew it inside and out. The paint job is the result of 3 or 4 separate different paint jobs. Up close, it looks like hell but its been through world war 3 and is one of the best ever played. RIP Eddie. You gave a 14 year old kid a bunch of great rock and roll! Something I could live for!
Wrong guitar. This is the Kramer 5150 built for him by Kramer
I always thought this was the Frankenstrat
Amen to that. He kept me alive in my youth. I started playing because of him and just when I thought I had him figured out, he did something new that was insanely incredible. RIP the the GOAT...
@@jeffmanny8246 actually it's just a Kramer neck on this one. If you really look you can see it's a strat body that was a little thicker than the Kramer body. The actual original Frankenstrat is the one he's holding on the 1st album and the paint job changed from year to year. When Fender started making them they were so close that he took a sharpie and wrote this one is the shit on the back of the neck. Lol. He said he burned up a ton of double coil humbuckers getting the paraffin wax hot enough to hold it at the slight angle to get the tone he wanted. An innovator from every aspect of the guitar and music in general. God Rest the king...
@@robertswain8313 yes but in this Live without a net he is playing the Kramer 5150 model guitar 1 of 4 built in 1983 by Paul Unkert. The 1984,5150, the Panama and the Neptune guitars
Steve Vai's idol is....Edward Van Halen 'Goat'🎸🎸👑👑
I wished more realize his brother's awesome drum set in this video and that Alex was just as talented as Eddie was.
All the solo's on this tour were epic. I was fortunate to see them 3 nights in a row on this tour. I had not seen a show that good before or since. These were 4 very accomplished musicians in their epic prime. RIP EVH!
All the ORIGINAL fans always knew this . Just as Mike being a great singer as well as a bass player .
@@akfreed6949
Ed is on video record saying there wouldn't have been VH without Michael.
I think it was a very sweet comment and one I'd like to show Michael one day. It's floating on you-tube here somewhere.
People give ED flak for saying this or that , but watch that video Ed says it plainly how important Michael was to the band.
@@TheAgentAssassin Ed played bass on a Sammy Hagar song for Over The Top . While promoting , Ed lied when he said he was new to bass and he praised Mike's bass playing .
Alex was great. Smooth jazz locomotive drumming but he was not "just as talented' or revolutionary. Knew how to drum around Eddie's busy compositions and constant fills. No other drummer could take Alex's place or do as well.
Back in the early 80's, Van Halen played a concert in my hometown, Tucson, AZ. USA.
They were riding high on their third LP release, and one of the local TV stations interviewed Eddie. 90 percent of his answers were just guitar licks, and it was crazy. He made his guitar
talk like a child and scream like a baby. Then an elephant. It was great.
That's how he communicated nthe beat . He even said " That's MY voice . " That's why his marriage to Valerie lasted as long as it did . He really was playing all the time . The guitar was his mistress in a way . He laughed in an old interview that one of his girlfriend's said he loved the guitar more than her .
I loved when Eddie did the "horse" --- he'd go "whoa, Trigger!"
In high school in the 80's there were arguments on who was the best guitarist. Some people said Randy Rhoades and some said Eddie. In an Interview They asked Randy if he had his own style and he said no Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton had their own style.
Edward was a once in a century talent. I was fortunate to see Van Halen 8 times and I was able to meet Ed once. I took my dad with me to see VH on Nov. 1st 2007 for the DLR reunion at Verizon Center in Washington D.C. I purchased the 5 star VIP package with backstage access. There were 125 of us out of 19k people who were lucky enough to get that deal. They allowed us entry into the venue 3hrs before the doors opened to the general public and I will never forget hearing him play Cathedral to an empty arena while doing soundcheck as we entered. They split us up into 3 separate groups and we took a backstage/stage tour one group at a time. We were each able to peak our head into his makeshift guitar hut on the side of the stage (where his guitar tech would change strings/tune etc..) and laid our eyes on the original Frankenstrat hanging on the inner wall. This was the first tour he brought that guitar back out to play since the 1984 tour. Eventually, we were able to shake Ed's hand and chat with him for about 90 secs each (there were alot of people for him to get through before showtime) and luckily, he autographed my Ibanez RT650 guitar and took a pic with me. Make no mistake, IT IS my most prized possession and I am so very thankful that my dad and I have that memory of Ed. He was such a nice guy and very humble. We had front row and Valerie Bertinelli stood next to me on my left with her fiance' at that time to show support to her and Eddie's son Wolfgang who was playing bass for the band. Incredible experience I will forever cherish.
I absolutely love watching younger generations watch in awe, smile, cheer, wonder, and ultimately raise a glass to a man I grew up listening to (and yes, saw him live 4 times).
He built a famous guitar they call The Frankenstrat. You gotta look it up to see everything he did to it and how he built it. He also played through a Marshall amp turned all the way up but had the voltage turned down with a Variac. It was a secret for many years.
everyone thinks this is the Frankenstrat but it's a custom Kramer
@@fkops2773 I never said that was the Frankenstrat.
The biggest difference between Eddie and all the other legends of guitar was his creativity, from the Frankenstrat to all the "sound effects of the 80s" the man seemed to always play around with his music. His son is crazy talented as well.
He said himself that he was a tone searcher. He couldn't find anything that sounded like he wanted (the brown sound) so he just built one. When you heard him, it was unmistakable. The GOAT, and for more reasons than just his incredible playing. ❤️
Love how much fun Eddie always had while playing the guitar! RIP
I'm so glad we have these videos of great musicians to preserve forever just how talented they were , cuz words can't describe their ability.
I have gone to ten Van Halen shows and the thing I associate with the live show more than anything else is the shaking of the concrete at the show venue.
My uncle was at the infamous Tangerine Bowl show in 1980 when VH opened for the Stones --- he said the whole stadium was shaking!
I'm glad you noticed that he's rolling the volume knob up and down during the Cathedral part of the solo. There's a reason he was awarded the first EVER Guitar God Award. He changed the way sheet music had to be written though he couldn't even read music. He was and will always be the GOAT that changed everything about rock and roll in 1978. I saw the 7 times and was always blown away. RIP Ed. Thanks for the memories...❤
eddie came along and showed everyone how to play the guitar to it's absolute maximum. guys like Vai and Satriani learned everything they could from him and they (like many) were huge fans of eddie techniques.. eddie wrote two music for two films.. Twister and the wild life. his playing was famously featured in the bedroom scene in Back To The Future where it was portrayed as music from outer space...
Gotta admit all the guitarists around me back when Vai and Satch first hit the scene we were all like "snooze" here's two more EVH clones. But Vai and Satch really stepped it up so they eventually earned my respect.
I don't either one can write hit songs like Ed does though. They both have noodley songs that are awesome.
Don't forget that he did the amazing lead in Michael Jackson's "Beat IT". The guy was amazing. RIP with SRV, and Jimi !
also for "the legend of the pianist on the ocean". music by Ennio Morricone, lyrics and vocals by Roger Waters and guitars by Eddie Van Halen. Extremely beautiful
He played for the movie top gun
Eddie is just Mozart and Paganini in one person on the guitar ... there is nobody else who can create those sounds like him ... and every guitar player after him wasnt able to reach that level ... i love Steve Vai too, but Eddie is another level, always was ! RIP5150
you can create those sounds if you train. the techniques are not unique to evh
@@thejusticeization You can do anything .. the point is, nobody did it, apart from Eddie .. copying something afterwards is not inventing and is no creativity.
Hi Millie! Also, Eddie was an accomplished piano player raised on playing classical music. In his guitar solos, he throws in classical pieces. His guitar, early on was called the Frankenstrat, a totally reworked Fender Stratocaster with his electronics and his paint job, tape etc he put on there. It will be many many years for another Eddie Van Halen to explode on the scene. RIP Edward, we love and miss you!! Oh, Millie, In the movie back to the future, Marty McFly went into his father's bedroom as an alien and played Eddie's riff to scare him and convince George McFly to take his future Mom to the Prom so they could fall in love and not mess up the time line and cause a paradox. lol Check it out. Back to the Future 1. in 1985. Thanks and cheers from Motown.
He is tapping Harmonics and the Neck Vibration and turns it into a Concerto!! This is and was and will Always be The Greatest Guitarist in the World.
Eddie never stopped asking, "What if..." that's his greatness. He didn't just play guitar he explored everything about the guitar.
not just the guitar. any instrument. he was about the music. if you gave him any instrument he would blow your mind. :)
Why do I watch these reactions... I get teared up every single time.. RIP Mr Van Halen..
I’m 78 this was so mind blowing and introduced the finger tapping style. Eddie is the GOAT!!
Such a great solo!!
Sorry bro, the OG tapper was Harvey Mandel, back in '68
@@osullibr wasn’t aware of him. 👍🏼
There’s a great 10min video on origin of tapping, there’s some Italian guy that was doing it in ‘65… Definitely worth the watch if you haven’t seen it 👍🏾
I guess maybe what you were saying is that Eddie introduced it to the mainstream audiences.
@@osullibr Saw a little Italian dude doing it on an acoustic in Italy about 1962.
I went to this show. This tour. In Florida, Lakeland. In 1986.
They also played the Sportatorium in Miami that year
Unlike a lot of guitarists who use blues scales, he incorporated a lot of classical music scales into his playing.
His father was a classically trained musician (playing the clarinet on the Diver Down album) and he also had some training on classical piano before he switched to guitar as a teenager.
Agreed
Rip the king. Missed so much. The goat. Eddie never had any guitar training. Eddie didn’t have to learn the guitar. The guitar had to learn Eddie.
"The guitar had to learn Eddie ". Probably the best comment I've ever heard about him.
He was a classically trained pianist as a child and won many contests. He couldn't read the music sheet but learned by ear. He was trained.
But when you see most of his songs they have a piano-like structure.
The look on your face is priceless! Imagine what guitarist thought in 1978 when he blasted on the scene. I have to comment again on the way he thanks the crowd after the mean street portion of the solo. He don’t have to speak, he does it with his hands. Thanks for the video.
Eddie and Steve Vai share some qualities like the double tapping, the Floyd Rose tremelo bridge (whammy bar) the delay and distortion pedals, and a variety of other pedals to create spacey, and or repeating sounds (the cello, or )violin sound was a delay pedal repeating each note played more than once. The big difference was Eddie's ability to make more fan friendly melodies, and more cohesive mainstream, relatable tunes.
VAI is a straight up clone of Eddie. You gotta understand VAI survived the massive onslaught of clones out the 80s.
Vai held his ground but every part of his style was ripped from EVH.
When ED first came to the scene , nobody sounded like that but Ed.
I saw him (Van Halen) live 7 times going back to the early 80's. RIP Ed, The Legend Lives On. There will never be another Eddie Van Halen.
Glad I was able to see them around 94-95 in
Sacramento, California. It was a killer concert from what I remember😁 I may have had one too many beers at the time, but it was a killer performance. Also Steve Vai transcribed some of Eddie’s playing, which he could do, Vai is an awesome guitarist in his own right, but he said he couldn’t play what Eddie was playing. Eddie later confessed and I’m paraphrasing, that he was so bombed drunk out of his gore that he didn’t even remember playing that solo.
I was there, both nights. Van Halen played two nights in New Haven Connecticut. They recorded Van Halen Live Without A Net. Amazing!!
Saw them. I've seen him do this. On stage, Capital Center, Maryland. Absolutely amazing. No sound effects in movies, just music. Legendary.
I was at this show both nights😊
When Eruption came out. It was out of this world. Very unique
Eddie was an inspiration to all guitarists in the world! RIP Eddie, you're not forgotten, dude!
Jimmy Page used an actual violin bow. Eddie used his volume knob and Alex Lifeson of Rush used a Morley volume wah to achieve that violin sound. Eddie put that together. It was kind of beat up and he just started taping it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat. A lot of parts on this are bits and pieces of intro/outro's of songs over the years. Listen to the original Eruption from 1978 Van Halen debut album. The violin/cello bit is from 1982's Diver Down album and track is called Cathedral which leads into Secrets. Another bit the fast kind of slapping is from the intro to Mean Street from 1981's Fair Warning. And then a bit from Spanish Fly from Van Halen II. Great reaction.
The guitar in the vid is not the frankenstrat, it's the 5150 kramer.
No words.... Talent from something ...God given
EVH made this guitar called the Frankenstrat. He combined different parts from other guitars. He added a humbucker pickup and a Floyd Rose tremolo system with locking tuners to accomplish dive bombs. Basically he was experimenting to find different sounds because he couldn’t afford to purchase an expensive guitar in his beginning years.
This is Terry VonCannon. Love your reaction. Eddie is on the Mt Rushmore of guitarist. His guitar is called a Frankenstrat. He started with a Fender Stratocaster and modified it himself until he was able to achieve all those incredible sounds. Keep reacting to hard rock and heavy metal videos. 🤘🤘
Great reaction, I just SUBSCRIBED! I first heard Van Halen when they opened for Santana in Long Beach Ca. They were a new band to me, they sounded great and then I noticed that Carlos Santana was standing off to the side of the stage as Eddie started playing the original, shorter version of Eruption. He had a huge smile on his face and I knew that I was witnessing history in the making because even that early in Eddie's career, a guitar master was watching and appreciating the greatness of Eddie Van Halen. 💖✨🔥⚡🚀
Are you new to this? Where you been?
The greatest guitar player that ever lived.
Steve Vai was incredibly fascinated by Eddie's amazing ability to make the guitar sound like so many different instruments and Eddie's incredible finger speed when he was playing. Steve Vai is a great guitarist but he doesn't come close to King Edward. That is why Guitar world magazine named Eddie "THE GUITAR GOD! of all guitarist that has ever picked up a guitar. Dive into Van Halen's extensive catalog of music. He even has a song that he used an electric drill to play his guitar. "Poundcake" by Van Halen. Eddie was a true musical genius when it came to the guitar.
The original solo Eruption was on the first album in 1978. It was under two minutes long and everyone who heard it the first time can tell you exactly where they were.
301 E. 5th Street, Winner, SD. I was 8 years old. It was like nothing anyone had ever heard and changed music forever.
Greatest rock and roll guitar player ever. Period. RIP Eddie
Seeing the joy on your face experiencing EVH for the first time brought joy to me. I guess you're jealous of me 😁, I saw this tour when they played in my city, and your are correct, it was pretty epic. Even though the tapping thing had been used in the past Eddie, took it and ran with it. In 78 when their first album was released he blew everyones minds. Again you are correct he was a genius, he spent hour upon hour experimenting trying to make different sounds with his guitar, and every album had something new he created. It was a special time in music history, and I got to live it.
That's his unique design.
Greatest guitar player in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. RIP Eddie 🎸
Out of all the people I've seen watched this video, you're the only one I've ever heard call it a cello. Good job.
The moment during "Cathedral", when she saw EVH was using the volume knob.........GOLD!
The man was a genius with a guitar and was epic to see live in concert.
Hes THE master of all guitar playing. He figured it all.
EVH designed and painted the guitar. He had another guitar with a similar design that is black and yellow (The bumblebee) from VH II. It is buried with Dimebag Darrell from Pantera.
RIP Eddie, VH music will live on and its great to see this music is hitting a younger audience.
Saw them live in '84 , in Vancouver. Great concert!
I have seen him like 6 times he is THE KING
Saw him and Van Halen, seven times, including this "Live without a net," performance
He did the soundtrack for an 80's movie called the wild Life.
Vai has spoken about the influence that Edward has had .
Imagine being in 1978 and Disco is everywhere and the this dude shows up and changes the world!
All the 80's "hair" bands did their damndest to recreate the magic of the Mighty Van Halen.
This concert is a must see!!!!
Van Halen:Live Without a Net
Check it out!
I didn’t even bother watching Eruption. After seeing that opening clip I immediately searched The LimeSublimes, subscribed to the channel and added “To Work it Out” to my Spotify playlist.
I really like that song
Eddie played with his Heart more than Anything!
This man played strait from his Soul!!!!
His playing with be forever ringing in my ears!
YES! Eddie was aaaaall over the 80’s, 90’s etc - Back to the Future - his guitar playing is what Marty plays to his dad (Darth Vader scene when he puts his Walkman headphones on him) - Bill & Ted’s Excellent adventure - etc etc etc
One thing that I haven't seen anyone comment on is how beautifully clean Eddie's guitar sounds in this video.
When Eddie first started playing he couldn't afford the toys used to make guitar sounds, like a Wah Pedal so he invented ways of making the sounds with his hands and fingers as you noticed in this video. One of the most amazing facts about Eddie is he could not read sheet music. He learned by watching and listening. Because of his unique playstyle sheet music was rewritten for guitars. The guitar in this video Eddie made it himself out of at least 3 different guitars. He couldn't find a guitar with the sound he was looking for so he made his own. It's called "The Frankenstrat" and it has an estimated value of over $3 million.
This solo is dubbed the greatest guitar solo ever.
One thing to note,EVH was completely self taught. All the extraordinary things he did on the guitar came from his own mind.
Hi! Eddie's guitar had strings under neath. It was custom made.
You mentioned his improvisation. When they put Van Halens songs to sheet music, it needed extra notations for what he was doing. He rewrote the book, lol.
And I think they didn't do it RIGHT . In some guitar interviews , he would see people trying to duplicate his playing , and he said they did it WRONG . So I'm guessing the sheet music isn't correct 100%
Hi Millie, greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada.
The part of the solo he played that sounds like a Chello is a song called Cathedral. It's on the Van Halen album called Diver Down. I was lucky enough to have seen Eddie play live many times, and each time was fantastic.
One thing that most commentators seem to miss is that "Eruption" contains a lot of references to classical music, as do a bunch of Eddie Van Halen's other songs (such as his "Für Elise" guitar solo in 1986 based on Beethoven's famous song) since he first learned how to play music when his parents enrolled him in classical piano lessons beginning at the age of six. His middle name, Lodewijk, is the Dutch equivalent of "Ludwig" which his parents named after Ludwig van Beethoven. When he himself produced a son in 1991, he named him "Wolfgang" after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Saw them in Houston, Texas back in the 80s. in their Prime!
So glad you can appreciate Eddie’s talents-he is/was a genius- May He RIP- you spoke on the sounds he can have his guitar make and -as He has said many times, it was out of necessity because he couldn’t afford all the “ bells and whistles” when first started out so he has to expire immediately “ destroyed” many guitars trying to find the sounds in his head and transfer to and through his guitar AND also he built that guitar and I love the way you picked up on slot of his signature sounds and his own style of playing - well done on spotting his “ freedom” on playing 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I saw this live at the Monsters of Rock concert in 1988 in Florida. Eddie was the GOAT. RIP.
There will never be another Eddie! RIP.
And that's sad 😞
First time seeing your channel appear on my feed, and feeling genuinely grateful that it did.
Love your reaction to the late, great Eddie Van Halen's stellar playing.
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I’ve loads of reactions to this video, maybe 30-40 and your only the second person to notice his using the volume control 👏👏 fantastic 😊
I saw this tour live in Toronto in like 1986? I'm thinking?? It was a long time ago but I can always say I saw Van Halen!!
"Was he making sound effects for 80's movies?" Not that I know of but he did have a solo in the movie "Back to the Future." I was actually at this concert. It was the last night of the tour in New Haven Connecticut. Not far from Yale University. My buddies and I, minus the gf's and wives , had a night.
Few guitarist are innovators most of us are traditional no matter how fast or wild our techniques it’s been done. Hendrix, EVH & Tom Morello found new sounds and tricks. RIP Hendrix and Eddie
It's HILARIOUS to see your mind get blown! Eddie just shredded everybody's FACE OFF!
I've seen VH live 2 times. Ed was such a great gutarist. RIP. Ed did indeed 'design' the guitar himself, back in the 70s by experimenting with different pick ups and tunings. The line design in red white and black is iconic Ed style. The Singer is Sammy Hagar, also a great musician.
Saw him at Monsters of Rock '88 in Seattle. One of the best shows ever.
You're critiques are spot on. You're awesome!
I still get chills no matter how many times I’ve seen this. It never seems to amaze me. Always hear something new in this performance. 😢Rest in Peace legend. You were a king among men. The world lost something beautiful here. Dime and Ed are jamming in the heavens now. And I’m sure it’s heavenly.
There is a jazz guitarist named Stanley Jordan who uses a little different tapping technique where he taps full jazz chords and incorporates a melody into it. There is even video of him playing two guitars at once. He has multiple videos on UA-cam. I haven't seen them all but the ones I have seen have all been amazing. You will enjoy his playing.
Stanley is phenomenal!!
So good to see you listen to Eddie Van Halen. I am also thrilled that you actually love Steve Vai . Vai and Van Halen are my two favorites bar none. Eddie is the innovator, and Vai took it to another level.
Eddie masterd feed back and it created his own sound like no other. Eddie is the guitar god himself
eruption has been my alarm clock ringtone for over 10 years and I first listened to this song in 1978.
Depending on your age and interests, there are certain significant things a person never forgets. They remember their wedding and birth of children, grandchildren. They remember historical things like the space shuttle blowing up or 9/11. They remember their first love or their first car. And they remember the first time they heard Eddie Van Halen, the greatest musician of our time.
I love it when I see she is so in tuned and invested in the music!
Another Dutch Master …….. Rest in Peace Edward van Halen
"Did Eddie make sound effects for 80's movies?"...Yes. He wrote the song Donut City for the movie The Wild Life (1984). Great movie.
Futuristic is the word till this day! Hell it was normal in that year in 86 in the guitar scene but Ed was forever the king... (maybe not to randy fans hehe), but in 1978 when people heard that tapping segment of eruption they wouldn't have even realised that the man of the 80s was already there, but man they would've been mind blown lol. He genuinely invented what I consider 80s lead guitar, except of course no one but him did it, and the calm bridge section with his crazy effects is again so out of this world like the entire solo and his style in general, words will never explain his vaporwave 80s alienlike futuristic guitar playing. His lead playing, his style in general, and even his rhythm playing just changed everything in rock and metal, his guitar playing is the definition of cool, revolutionary, precise, and true creative genius. Long live Eddie Van Halen, the God of the Electric Guitar... even though he would be to humble to ever accept that title
Eddie composed the original musical score for "The Wild Life" (1984).
Seen them 8 time's each time blown away
One of the best "Reaction" videos for this Edward Van Halen solo video!! I applauded several of your observations while watching!!! You're a rockstar!!! 😘🤘
I had the pleasure of seeing 3 shows on this tour
It's easy for me to say this is the best reaction video to EVH live without a net guitar solo (1986) thanks for the kind and true words and Happy Halloween ✌️
Late for the show I am again, Eddie (RIP) was a classically trained pianist who could not read music. He started by playing drums but switched to guitar early on while his brother Alex played drums for the band. Eddie built or modified his guitars to suit his playing and the sounds he discovered they made. He made the "tapping" famous playing many of their songs, it's almost as if he's playing piano on the guitar neck
That volume turning, cello sounding segment is actually another instrumental song from their album Diver Down called Cathedral....Eruption which came out of their debut album in 1978 was heard in the first few minutes of his solo. All other parts were improvised but the structures and styles of those parts you can hear in various songs from their catalog.
That was the brilances of Eddie Van Halen. He made the guitar sound like anything but a guitar! His rymth and timing were unmatched. There will never be another Eddie Van Halen. RIP Eddie
I saw this tour, I was 14, had been playing guitar for a bit over a year, and to see Van Halen onstage playing was just mind blowing. Guitar was a big mystery to me then, I had no idea how to play anything like this, so it was something else to see it live in person. Ed was a brilliant player, a real game changer for the instrument, any guitar player worth their weight in soap back then worshipped at the temple of Ed.
The "volume swells" are usually paired with a delay effect. It sorta randomizes the notes being heard in different moments. A good example of this other than in this solo would be "Echo Etude" by Yngwie Malmsteen.