No one showed the PURE FUN of “rockin’ out” more than Ed. His whole life was a cranked amp and an ear to ear smile. We are so lucky to have shared the World’s stage with him. He was like no other before or since.
Eddie will be Eddie….a guy who was born with extraordinary musical talent and then through hard work pushed that talent to a super mortal level. Good bless him. He was a true paradigm shift in guitar playing.
Gush, gush. Eddie's a technician that expresses little emotion, discounting the random harmonic squeals that metal guitarists use ad nauseum. Operatic and weird. Any blues from Eddie? Lotsa show... Stevie Ray Vaughn a one-trick pony with a couple unique constructions in songwriting, desperately trying to copy Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix expressed his nervous system through a guitar, made it part of his body, and invented so many unique songs and feelings, from a Royal love song in a toy store to the soundtrack of war that produced the most elegant protest song LIVE IN CONCERT that ended with the military funeral song Taps and not one single word. Eddie taps on strings and sound vaguely classical, inspiring modern master technicians like Nuno Bettancourt. Ho hum. 😊 Closest thing to Hendrix is songwriter Jesse Reyes. Check out her homocidal hate in "Mutual Friend" at Canada's Juno Awards. & "Figures." 😢
@@markplimsoll i think you missed the boat nuno would not be anything if eddie didnt open the floodgates that showed multiple generations "the guitar could sound like that"
Eddie often has a better feel for other guitarists' stuff than his own when he plays live. You can tell he grew up loving the Zep, nailing it down in his bedroom and dreaming about playing it in front of fans.
This was at the Riviera in Chicago! Loudest performance of my life for ALS benefit for Jason Becker. My dad had just passed from Lou Gehrig’s disease. That’s what we called it then.
My wife’s sister was recently diagnosed with ALS. As you know it’s a terrible disease. It I’ll be so NICE when science finds a cure for that disease. God bless your dad and others who had that disease.
I got to go to that benefit too. I have to admit It was a little disappointing that Ed only played a little at the end. But so many phenomenal guitarists that day!!
Ed was more than a guitar hero - he was a guitar GOD! Often imitated, but never duplicated. He had a heart of gold, and a ready smile to match. Ed was PEERLESS!
Ha - I was at this show at the Riv with my then Girlfriend, now wife. I am thinking this was about 28 years ago. Very seeing Eddie in this very small venue. Thanks for sharing this.
Eddie "stepped down" to play other rock songs? Where is that "timeless classic" from Van Halen? Maybe Jamie's Crying, but it's still too hard to play to qualify as "popular" music, which since the invention of sheet music sales, must be easy enough for smatuers to attempt (disregarding guitar-addicted worshippers)..
Lukather's a legend in his own right, and also hell of a funny storyteller... that reminds me, I haven't given White Sister a listen in ages, time to be blown away, once again!
Im so glad for the small handful of us that would take on the challenge of having, packing, and often smuggling video and photograph equipment into shows, never mind saving the footage for decades. Thanks for this great share!!
Anything Van Halenized is always better than the original. I doubt Jimmy Page could take Unchained and improve it in any way. VH and Zep are the two best rock bands of all time certainly but Eddie’s guitar work is next level
every solo is the same with eddie unless it was one he sat and pre-wrote for one of his songs, next level skill required though. Page could jam over anything without sounding repetitive, more soul to his playing imo
Man, Eddie always was a snazzy dresser, lol. I would've loved to see Billy Sheehan in VH with Wolfgang on Vocals. That would be some crazy shit!! RIP Eddie... the king!
He did that at another benefit playing with Richie Sambora, Bryan Adams, Don Henley, Steve Winwood and a bunch of other people. Didn't know the songs and just soloed the entire time.
My Hero Eddie van halen Jamming to Led Zeppelin and to Have Billy Sheehan on bass with Steve Lukather on Rhythm Guitar . the Talent on that Stage i cant tell who the Drummer is anyone Know please say thanks.
I always love how Ed would show up and riff whatever he was working on at the time. This “ripping” solo is a hybrid Man on a Mission solo and everything else on the FUCK album. He was the least skilled guitarist on that stage but at the end of the day, he’s Eddie freaking Van Halen! It’s kind of like inviting Einstein to your math 101 club. 😂
@@jonholland6067 you have to look at it this way. All the other guitarists are trained musicians that can play any style, any key, any time. From a player’s standpoint they can outperform Ed all night long. Ed, when invited on stage could only play what he had done in the past or what he was currently working on. Listen to what he’s playing in this video. Licks are from man on a mission, judgement day, and a couple other tunes. He just threw them into his turn at bat. Totally out of place. There’s no dispute that Ed was groundbreaking and his contribution to guitar will go on unmatched. Ed on stage playing VH was untouchable. If you look up some old vids where Ed is a guest, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. It wasn’t disrespectful, just an observation.
Ed did Ed. He wasn’t a session guitarist playing note-for- note what he’s paid to play. He - like Hendrix - played straight from the heart and soul. That’s why no one is ever gonna forget him. @@kinkinmyslinky967
Very "funny" that all these serious guitar god worshippers don't mention this clip starts out with a joke song, the Surfer-throw-it-out-there surprise hit "WipeOut!" To acknowledge That would undermine Eddie's sacred status alongside Page, jajajajaja 😂😂😂😂😂
Definitely! Eddie can make a zeppelin song sooo much better than the original. I don’t think Jimmy Page could take a Van Halen song and make it sound better.
@@karlsalocks ive heard the mi audio with ed and holdsworth, not his finest hour but then again he’s not a jazz or fusion guy at all, so kind of weird for you to shit on him in that situation. what he played is kind of ok (somewhat) for allans music especially since its so weird and out there to begin with, its not like ed boasted about the first jam he did with allan, he flat out said he didnt know what he was doing but allan invited him. You’d think if it was that bad then their friendship would’ve soured and ted templeman & ed wouldnt have got allan hooked up with warner bros for road games. Ed does a lot better with holdsworth at the Roxy (was that the club?) jam, ed wrote a riff and showed jeff berlin and they were off. Perfect thing for ed to do for that jam and whats funny about that is allan is incapable of playing any rhythm guitar whatsoever
The crowd is clueless. People were heard saying... Like what's this? like I'm not sure like I don't like it like I wish they'd play hot for teacher because like I'm confused like.
Even the pros sound bad when they didn't rehearse songs. It's a difference of night and day. They're jamming and being sloppy, which is okay. I'm just trying to make us less fortunate players feel better. haha!
@@leftpastsaturn67 Mea Culpa - I found an audio recording of this which was actually engineered and you can hear the guitars, bass, drums and vocals clearly as they are tracked. Sounds 1000 times better than this video. ruclips.net/video/igSh_HR-CIM/видео.html
@@T.R.R.Jolkien Stevie is a one-trick pony except when he valiently and capably tries to copy Hendrix's songs. Stevie Is a guitar player. He, and others, most often forget Jimi's climactic end to Voodoo Chile, playing a trebly D7 chord at the octave with Flamenco strumming going into the highest E bent up off the fretboard. Hendrix was a musician and a creative genius. Just listen to his complete Woodstock recording with the rambling improvisations outside the confines of any song. Incredible creativity. Most of Stevie's songwriting sticks to the basic Rockin' Blues progression's I - IV - V chords from 12 bar blues. Hendrix goes there maybe three times in songwriting; Red House, some song I remember the riff and not the title, and another thrown in for good measure. The other standard compositions on Hendrix álbuns were not written by him.
![Van Halen - Live in Fresno 1978 [watermark removed & upscaled to HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/98pfx1B5LVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Van Halen - Live in Fresno 1978 [watermark removed & upscaled to HD]](/img/tr.png)
No one showed the PURE FUN of “rockin’ out” more than Ed. His whole life was a cranked amp and an ear to ear smile. We are so lucky to have shared the World’s stage with him. He was like no other before or since.
Lukather kicking some ass here too!!!
Eddie will be Eddie….a guy who was born with extraordinary musical talent and then through hard work pushed that talent to a super mortal level. Good bless him. He was a true paradigm shift in guitar playing.
Well said
Gush, gush. Eddie's a technician that expresses little emotion, discounting the random harmonic squeals that metal guitarists use ad nauseum. Operatic and weird. Any blues from Eddie? Lotsa show...
Stevie Ray Vaughn a one-trick pony with a couple unique constructions in songwriting, desperately trying to copy Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix expressed his nervous system through a guitar, made it part of his body, and invented so many unique songs and feelings, from a Royal love song in a toy store to the soundtrack of war that produced the most elegant protest song LIVE IN CONCERT that ended with the military funeral song Taps and not one single word.
Eddie taps on strings and sound vaguely classical, inspiring modern master technicians like Nuno Bettancourt.
Ho hum. 😊
Closest thing to Hendrix is songwriter Jesse Reyes. Check out her homocidal hate in "Mutual Friend" at Canada's Juno Awards. & "Figures." 😢
@@markplimsoll i think you missed the boat nuno would not be anything if eddie didnt open the floodgates that showed multiple generations "the guitar could sound like that"
@@keithp8521 That is my point - technique over musicality. Nuno is master of the muted Van Halen pick-hand hammer technique.
@@markplimsoll nuno is a robot EVH was a virtuoso
Eddie often has a better feel for other guitarists' stuff than his own when he plays live. You can tell he grew up loving the Zep, nailing it down in his bedroom and dreaming about playing it in front of fans.
That was a fun way to intro the song. EVH just doing what he does. Simply amazing. So much fun to watch.
Love that he was playing "Wipe Out" - it's got a pretty iconic drum section that this drummer doesn't know. Too bad Alex wasn't there
@@vermontmoocowalex doesnt so shit like this and didnt have a friendship or anything to do with jason becker
This was at the Riviera in Chicago! Loudest performance of my life for ALS benefit for Jason Becker. My dad had just passed from Lou Gehrig’s disease. That’s what we called it then.
My wife’s sister was recently diagnosed with ALS. As you know it’s a terrible disease. It I’ll be so NICE when science finds a cure for that disease. God bless your dad and others who had that disease.
I got to go to that benefit too. I have to admit It was a little disappointing that Ed only played a little at the end. But so many phenomenal guitarists that day!!
RIP
I was there standing 10’ from my hero Eddie. The lineup was insane for that show.
Dang must have been awesome dude!!
Your a lucky devil 😈
When and where was this
@@RodneyDugan-eg8le 11/17/96 at The Riviera in Chicago. It was a benefit concert for the guitarist Jason Becker.
wow
Ed was more than a guitar hero - he was a guitar GOD! Often imitated, but never duplicated. He had a heart of gold, and a ready smile to match. Ed was PEERLESS!
Ha - I was at this show at the Riv with my then Girlfriend, now wife. I am thinking this was about 28 years ago. Very seeing Eddie in this very small venue. Thanks for sharing this.
Who was the band ??
It wasn't a band per se, it was a whole slew of guest players - namely Steve Lukather, Billy Sheehan and Richie Kotzen.@@stevemorgan4084
Eddie always stepped down from his talent to play somebody's song! Truly the king of rock guitarist!
Eddie "stepped down" to play other rock songs? Where is that "timeless classic" from Van Halen?
Maybe Jamie's Crying, but it's still too hard to play to qualify as "popular" music, which since the invention of sheet music sales, must be easy enough for smatuers to attempt (disregarding guitar-addicted worshippers)..
Love this version, fabulous.
first part is "wipe out"...yes, its surf music
Drummer was asleep
Hard to not recognize wipe out 😂😂😂. My band would play that song when we were in Junior high or almost around 60 years ago
Ed Zeppelin.
Thanks for sharing this footage!!!
Holy cow, haven't seen this one yet! Right on
That was frickin' awesome !!! Thanks for sharing this.
Lukather's a legend in his own right, and also hell of a funny storyteller... that reminds me, I haven't given White Sister a listen in ages, time to be blown away, once again!
Name of the band? "The Wife Beaters" !
VanHalen and Lukather Level God.
Another side project that could have and should have toured!! Play it and they shall come!
That first song is called wipe out!
Im so glad for the small handful of us that would take on the challenge of having, packing, and often smuggling video and photograph equipment into shows, never mind saving the footage for decades. Thanks for this great share!!
Magical!
Anything Van Halenized is always better than the original. I doubt Jimmy Page could take Unchained and improve it in any way. VH and Zep are the two best rock bands of all time certainly but Eddie’s guitar work is next level
every solo is the same with eddie unless it was one he sat and pre-wrote for one of his songs, next level skill required though. Page could jam over anything without sounding repetitive, more soul to his playing imo
DLR actually says the Beat It solo was one eddie had written much earlier and was never able to fit into a VH song.
@@looking_33lol😅nice try!
You sir are correct!!
@@jehudavis5422 nice try what
That was A W E S O M E !!!!
Man, Eddie always was a snazzy dresser, lol. I would've loved to see Billy Sheehan in VH with Wolfgang on Vocals. That would be some crazy shit!! RIP Eddie... the king!
There is no Van Halen without Eddie and Michael Anthony
Wolf on vocals???? Yeah that would be some crazy shit. Rusty
The "Wife Beaters" Were Great That Night! Rest In Peace Eddie!
All BAD ASSES
Eddie playing Jimmy both are why i play guitar
EVH the greatest of all times
We Be Jammin' Mon ! ✌️✌️✌️ RIP bro.
✌🏼a good cover band is hard to find🎸
What a treat
Pat Torpey - Drums
YES... THANK YOU :)
Steve Lukather 🙏
That is Luke isn't it!?!?!?
EDDIE..EL MAS GRANDE!!!❤
Van Zeppelin could have been great . . .
Ed the shred fucks up a good song with his crystal meth guitar.
He did that at another benefit playing with Richie Sambora, Bryan Adams, Don Henley, Steve Winwood and a bunch of other people. Didn't know the songs and just soloed the entire time.
DAMN!!! Eddie is just SO CASUAL playing the Buckethead version of Good Times Bad Times!!! .. Incredible natural mind-blowing talent!
a very good version of goodtimes badtimes and wipe out
Remarkable stuff......
I read that Eddie saw Pagey finger tapping in 1971 at a concert in Cally
My Hero Eddie van halen Jamming to Led Zeppelin and to Have Billy Sheehan on bass with Steve Lukather on Rhythm Guitar . the Talent on that Stage i cant tell who the Drummer is anyone Know please say thanks.
Pat Torpey i believe. he is grooving away so heartily, but the cameraman forgot about him
Probably For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge era EVH. Lots of those licks are all over that album. Also the Music Man rig he designed.
Oh no, this is probably right around the time Sammy left VH, around 1996 or so
Like the look ...grunge, after hanging out on the Parisian Left Bank for the summer.
Opens with WIPE OUT. excellent segue into GTBT.
Omfg! Eddie shreddin zeppelin. What year is this?!
1996 at a benefir for jason becker
Judging by his hair and the Peavey Wolfgang he's playing I estimate around late 90s to 02ish.
I always love how Ed would show up and riff whatever he was working on at the time. This “ripping” solo is a hybrid Man on a Mission solo and everything else on the FUCK album. He was the least skilled guitarist on that stage but at the end of the day, he’s Eddie freaking Van Halen! It’s kind of like inviting Einstein to your math 101 club. 😂
Least skilled? The most ground breaking electric guitarist since Hendrix, least skilled. You’re off base brother
@@jonholland6067 you have to look at it this way. All the other guitarists are trained musicians that can play any style, any key, any time. From a player’s standpoint they can outperform Ed all night long. Ed, when invited on stage could only play what he had done in the past or what he was currently working on. Listen to what he’s playing in this video. Licks are from man on a mission, judgement day, and a couple other tunes. He just threw them into his turn at bat. Totally out of place. There’s no dispute that Ed was groundbreaking and his contribution to guitar will go on unmatched. Ed on stage playing VH was untouchable. If you look up some old vids where Ed is a guest, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. It wasn’t disrespectful, just an observation.
Ed did Ed. He wasn’t a session guitarist playing note-for- note what he’s paid to play. He - like Hendrix - played straight from the heart and soul. That’s why no one is ever gonna forget him. @@kinkinmyslinky967
EDDIE VAN HALEN... THE ORIGINAL GUITAR HERO...
I prefer the original
EVH s.l.a.y.s. this cover! 🔥
(Knock Knock.) Who's there? ... It's me, Dave, man. ... Who?... Dave, it's me, Dave. ... Dave? Dave ain't here, man ...
Pretty good comment there Cheech. 🌿
It’s actually “Dave’s not here man” 😂
Sounds like surf music to me
Good times starts at 1:50
Pay no mind to the pissing contest below. If the music moves you, enjoy it. So many aspects of a song to listen to.
How old is this?
Who's the bass player?
Billy Sheehan
Scientologist and rape supporter billy sheehan
Very "funny" that all these serious guitar god worshippers don't mention this clip starts out with a joke song, the Surfer-throw-it-out-there surprise hit "WipeOut!" To acknowledge That would undermine Eddie's sacred status alongside Page, jajajajaja 😂😂😂😂😂
Sweet duds haha.
Don't smoke!
That’s wipe out by the safaris
I knew I knew that bass player I thought it kind of looks like Billy Sheehan
It was Billy:)
ELVIS LIVES AS PASTOR BOB JOYCE NOW!
Who is the drummer on here?
pat torpey from mr big
Eddie will make any song way better with his guitar.
this doesn't even come close to Zeppelins version
Better???🤣
Definitely! Eddie can make a zeppelin song sooo much better than the original. I don’t think Jimmy Page could take a Van Halen song and make it sound better.
@@karlsalocks ive heard the mi audio with ed and holdsworth, not his finest hour but then again he’s not a jazz or fusion guy at all, so kind of weird for you to shit on him in that situation. what he played is kind of ok (somewhat) for allans music especially since its so weird and out there to begin with, its not like ed boasted about the first jam he did with allan, he flat out said he didnt know what he was doing but allan invited him. You’d think if it was that bad then their friendship would’ve soured and ted templeman & ed wouldnt have got allan hooked up with warner bros for road games.
Ed does a lot better with holdsworth at the Roxy (was that the club?) jam, ed wrote a riff and showed jeff berlin and they were off. Perfect thing for ed to do for that jam and whats funny about that is allan is incapable of playing any rhythm guitar whatsoever
@@jimpage7141eddie is light years better than page it's not even close!
Drummer was asleep during wipeout
Shame about xenu on bass
L. Ron Hubbass
Love EVH of course. Awesome rendition as expected but for god sakes keep the tapping away from page songs.
I thought he was playing "wipeout"
The crowd is clueless. People were heard saying...
Like what's this? like I'm not sure like I don't like it like I wish they'd play hot for teacher because like I'm confused like.
Even the pros sound bad when they didn't rehearse songs. It's a difference of night and day. They're jamming and being sloppy, which is okay. I'm just trying to make us less fortunate players feel better. haha!
So who was this really?
evh, lukather, pat torpey, and billy sheehan
What was the occasion?
ALS benefit for jason becker
Poor audio quality...
what do you expect from a bootleg that was filmed in 1996
Ah. Who is the band and why would Eddie be playing? What year? This guys pretends to have the moves but doesn't have the chops. FAKE.
????
Are you drunk?
@@leftpastsaturn67 Mea Culpa - I found an audio recording of this which was actually engineered and you can hear the guitars, bass, drums and vocals clearly as they are tracked. Sounds 1000 times better than this video. ruclips.net/video/igSh_HR-CIM/видео.html
Stevie Ray Vaughan is the goat
SRV is The Lamb following Hendrix...
@@markplimsoll I actually think SRV’s renditions of Jimi’s songs sound cleaner than Jimi’s versions.
Little wing and voodoo child 😎
@@T.R.R.Jolkien Since when is "clean" a virtue, because sex is "dirty?" Creation is not copying.
@@markplimsoll Stevie actually plays it better that the original. Just listen again…😎
@@T.R.R.Jolkien Stevie is a one-trick pony except when he valiently and capably tries to copy Hendrix's songs.
Stevie Is a guitar player. He, and others, most often forget Jimi's climactic end to Voodoo Chile, playing a trebly D7 chord at the octave with Flamenco strumming going into the highest E bent up off the fretboard.
Hendrix was a musician and a creative genius. Just listen to his complete Woodstock recording with the rambling improvisations outside the confines of any song. Incredible creativity. Most of Stevie's songwriting sticks to the basic Rockin' Blues progression's I - IV - V chords from 12 bar blues. Hendrix goes there maybe three times in songwriting; Red House, some song I remember the riff and not the title, and another thrown in for good measure. The other standard compositions on Hendrix álbuns were not written by him.
Which one is Eddie
The right
The one with the peavey wolfgang
GTFOH, ITS NOT WIPEOUT, LOL……
Page could lear from Eddie
Crap fest
Wipeout!!!
Eddie schmeddie
Jesus. Run that through an AI enhancer program online. The quality is horrendous.
EVH had very good grooming skillz hahahaha homeless attire