This imo is the best rhythm guitar performance of all time. Listen to the guitar iso track it's just nuts how good he was. I play it every day to warm up. Wears out my 5th/7th frets.
The 1978 debut album from Van Halen is a classic... Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing changed the game overnight 🤘🤘 The last track is literally called "I'm on fire" 🔥 and every song is a banger... They even added a couple of cover songs - 'Ice cream man' by John Brim ... 'You really got me' by The Kinks.
Fun fact: This song was originally called "Show Your Love" (Chorus makes more sense now). They had written it a few years before their first album (good audio of them playing it in January of 1977 at the Starwood on RUclips). Album producer Ted Templeman made them change the title because the first Van Halen album already had Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love and Feel Your Love Tonight, and he didn't want a 3rd song on the album with "love" in the title. Something similar happened on their 4th album Fair Warning, where the song Sinner's Swing was originally called Get Out and Push (again, that's why you hear that phrase in the chorus), but, with When Push Comes To Shove already on the album, they changed the title to Sinner's Swing.
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!! VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE My favorite Van Halen tour shirt is from this tour-Fair Warning. The band on the front with Worldwide Tour on top and 81 with a circle ⭕️ around it on the bottom and world tour 81 on the back with the VH LOGO and Van Halen written in the logo! My second favorite Van Halen tour shirt after Fair Warning in 81. Band on the front World Vacation Tour 79 on the back.
My older brother bought this album when it first came out. Blew my mind, got my hooked on rock. Eddie was a guitar god! Saw them live in 1980 on the Women and Children First tour. 🤘
Imagine a bunch of teen-agers who have never heard *ANYTHING* like Van Halen before hearing this stuff for the 1st time. We knew 10 seconds in to "Runnin' With the Devil" that these guys were a game changer. And then they dropped Eruption on us. "Holy F***!" So when people suggest you react to more Van Halen, you might as well just plan on reacting to the full debut album. Can't miss on any of it!
I can't imagine hearing this for the first time in 1978. Any other band puts out this song and it's a hit. For Van Halen it doesn't even crack the radio because there are so many other hits on the album.
Van Halen had no learning curve. They were the apex when they first stepped on stage. Check out their early shows just before this album came out. Their stage energy, in my opinion, cannot be matched. It really is truly incredible.
THE record that changed my world when I was 12 and listening to typical 70's Hardrock and Pink Floyd :p Even that back then most people thought that I now am completely lost for good listening to noise like this (even more than listening to early Nazareth & Co before) lol. But I was playing rock guitar since I was 6 yo and grabbing VH was jackpot. And hey, I just bought itt because I liked the cover, never heard anything of them before.
Great Reaction Beautiful young lady, my recently passed identical twin brother just 4 months ago had a VH tattoo..We grew up in the late 70's and early 80's enjoying this type of Rock!!😪🤘
Hey Ray!! When this song first played on the Radio, I thought the Title was "Show Your Love"!!!! When I finally looked at the album, I Didn't SEE that Song and was Pissed! I figured it out once I heard it, but you Can't Blame Me, they only sing "I'm the One" in a couple parts, so..... Anyway, Great Reaction! I've been a SUB for a Long Time!!! ~ Keep Rockin'!! ~~ I'm "Daytona Snooper"
19 years old first heard. 3 days later, i have the greatest First Release album on my Turn Table 3 months later, Fort Worth Tx Journey Ronnie Montrose The Mighty Vanhalen
So much fun watching you react to this. I suggest a fun one for you and us... would be Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" The moment you figure out what it is about alone will be priceless video LOL
That album still holds relevance even today. (hell, all of em do) ...I'd say you have your pick of songs to cover by them... (Panama , Jump, I'll wait, ...that's just off of 1984, and off the top of my head)
Unless you're a guitarist, it's impossible to explain how difficult it is to duplicate the swing "feel" that Eddie displays throughout this track. Every guitar player who has ever tried, knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about......I don't care how accomplished.
This entire album is just pure FIRE!! Perhaps the best debut album ever. And I am a bit more of a Sammy Hagar era than DLR, but both were absolutely perfect fir the eras of VH they sang in. The driving force is obviously Edward, but Alex pounding those drums is amazing and Michael Anthony's ripping baseline and backing vocals just complete that entire VH sound
When people talk about preferring the DLR version of Van Halen, this is what they are talking about. The swagger and swing on the debut album are legendary.
I understand that old VH may not be everyone's cup of tea style-wise, especially a song like this, but I do wish EVERYONE could truly appreciate what they're actually doing here LIVE in the studio in ONE SEAMLESS TAKE. It's 100% untouchable.
Killer freaking song from that ground breaking album. If they only did that album they would still be legends. Also from it do Atomic Punk, another wicked banger. I saw them open for Black Sabbath on this tour, Sabbath had to really bring it after Eddie freaked us all out, who the Hell was that reaction throughout the arena. They were awesome but Ozzy was great that night and the opening riff to Warpigs snapped us back to reality and we knew why Sabbath was the headliner. Great double bill for $6.50, LOL! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎶
The song hits hard immediately for what I'm guessing is 2 reasons. When you have arguably the best guitarist ever in Eddie Van Halen, you let him work his magic early and often. 2ndly, when David Lee Roth is your vocals, while maybe not the most technically sound singing, you let his showmanship take over.
I have a shop in my basement and this song is one that has nearly cost me my fingers more than once. Its hard to sit still to. And, when you are working around a tablesaw or a mitersaw, headbanging and dancing doesn't exactly mix. Icecream Man is another song that i like of theirs.
Maybe my favorite VH tune. I know the lyrics are about hitting town and getting chicks but musically it has an ominous threatening vibe like driving a truck full of nuclear waste down a mountain and through all the switchbacks with the gas floored and your hands deliberately in your pockets. Yet they stick the landing every time.
I would like to see you do comparison cover songs as in OK..Van Halen where have all the good times gone..it was a Kinks song from 1966..redone on Diver Down..VH
Dear Foxy Girl id love to see you react to "the official" Dance the Night Away VH video complete w backstage shenigans, and ASAP if you please, thank you very much.
This album changed rock & Roll forever.
This album single handedly brought rock and roll back to the forefront, buried disco and made all other genres irrelevant.
23 year old EVH - so young and so fresh. Probably wrote it at 18. Just an otherworldly talent.
This imo is the best rhythm guitar performance of all time. Listen to the guitar iso track it's just nuts how good he was. I play it every day to warm up. Wears out my 5th/7th frets.
I said in another comment that, when they first came out, there was no learning curve. They were at the apex the first time they stepped on stage.
When a great hard rock band seamlessly turns into a barbershop quartet for 20 seconds. Shut the front door!
Exactly!
Untouchable debut album from the mighty VH
This album inspired millions to pick up the guitar...
And maybe caused many to put it down for good.
The Van Halen Boys' papa was a jazz blues musician...and you can freeking tell he taught them so much!!! Swing, boogie shuffle...signature VH
The 1978 debut album from Van Halen is a classic... Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing changed the game overnight 🤘🤘 The last track is literally called "I'm on fire" 🔥 and every song is a banger... They even added a couple of cover songs - 'Ice cream man' by John Brim ... 'You really got me' by The Kinks.
This album is when the world realised EVH has taken the number one spot of rock guitarists.
That song isn't played enough. Love it.
It's a bit hard to think of this as a 1978 song, when Van Halen had so much influence on what 80's music sounded like.
That debut album is just SO good...
One of my fave VH songs. These guys were ultimate party rock. More please!
Van Halen's debut album is a masterpiece 🤘🏻
And I love the energy you transmit while enjoying the music
More. VH please!!
Van Halen was just EPIC!!! When I was a teen in the '80's, I was obsessed with EVH and the band. Great react(as always) to a great band!!!
Eddie Van Halen was the Greatest musician of the end of the century........❤❤🎸RIP legend
One of the best rock albums ever, and easily one of my favorites!
Girl you need to react to the whole album, absolute banger!
I’m the One is perhaps their very best song. Just incredible
Fun fact: This song was originally called "Show Your Love" (Chorus makes more sense now). They had written it a few years before their first album (good audio of them playing it in January of 1977 at the Starwood on RUclips). Album producer Ted Templeman made them change the title because the first Van Halen album already had Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love and Feel Your Love Tonight, and he didn't want a 3rd song on the album with "love" in the title. Something similar happened on their 4th album Fair Warning, where the song Sinner's Swing was originally called Get Out and Push (again, that's why you hear that phrase in the chorus), but, with When Push Comes To Shove already on the album, they changed the title to Sinner's Swing.
RIP King Edward 🙏
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!!
VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE
My favorite Van Halen tour shirt is from this tour-Fair Warning. The band on the front with Worldwide Tour on top and 81 with a circle ⭕️ around it on the bottom and world tour 81 on the back with the VH LOGO and Van Halen written in the logo!
My second favorite Van Halen tour shirt after Fair Warning in 81. Band on the front World Vacation Tour 79 on the back.
My older brother bought this album when it first came out. Blew my mind, got my hooked on rock. Eddie was a guitar god! Saw them live in 1980 on the Women and Children First tour. 🤘
Imagine a bunch of teen-agers who have never heard *ANYTHING* like Van Halen before hearing this stuff for the 1st time. We knew 10 seconds in to "Runnin' With the Devil" that these guys were a game changer. And then they dropped Eruption on us. "Holy F***!" So when people suggest you react to more Van Halen, you might as well just plan on reacting to the full debut album. Can't miss on any of it!
RIP to the GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER EVER!!
I can't imagine hearing this for the first time in 1978. Any other band puts out this song and it's a hit. For Van Halen it doesn't even crack the radio because there are so many other hits on the album.
If you're foot or head ain't bopping during this song there's something wrong with you. Great tune been listening to this for years!
This is a VH song that has every genre in it. With lots of comic edge. There will never be another Van Halen
Van Halen had no learning curve. They were the apex when they first stepped on stage. Check out their early shows just before this album came out. Their stage energy, in my opinion, cannot be matched. It really is truly incredible.
NICE deep cut! Keep'em coming. Enjoy the ride into those first 6 albums.
I think that you should react to one of my favorite songs by them on this same album "Atomic Punk" 🎉❤
One of the best tunes off of this album, along with ATBL, which precedes it. Learning it at 15 on the guitar was so much fun.
It's criminal how good the guitar work is on every single VH song. Eddie never gets to rest.
The lead guitar in this acts as the rhythm too. There'a another VH song that does that, called, "Source of Infection". _SO_ fire.🔥
Great Reaction!! VH is king..
THE record that changed my world when I was 12 and listening to typical 70's Hardrock and Pink Floyd :p Even that back then most people thought that I now am completely lost for good listening to noise like this (even more than listening to early Nazareth & Co before) lol. But I was playing rock guitar since I was 6 yo and grabbing VH was jackpot. And hey, I just bought itt because I liked the cover, never heard anything of them before.
Jeez, this whole album is amazing.
I absolutely loved your energy watching this. Seen these guys several times since I was a teenager.🙏🏼🌹💕
Great Reaction Beautiful young lady, my recently passed identical twin brother just 4 months ago had a VH tattoo..We grew up in the late 70's and early 80's enjoying this type of Rock!!😪🤘
Hey Ray!! When this song first played on the Radio, I thought the Title was "Show Your Love"!!!! When I finally looked at the album, I Didn't SEE that Song and was Pissed! I figured it out once I heard it, but you Can't Blame Me, they only sing "I'm the One" in a couple parts, so..... Anyway, Great Reaction! I've been a SUB for a Long Time!!!
~ Keep Rockin'!!
~~ I'm "Daytona Snooper"
One of my favorite things about Van Halen is how they harmonize so well. Michael Anthony does great background vocals too.
... And this is why these guys are among the greatest rock bands ever...! Give a chance to: Light up the sky, Van Halen II.
The entire first album is fire!
The first every vinyl LP I ever bought when I was 9, with my pocket money. Listening to VH is my happy place.
I used to have this album on cassette back in the 80s. Loved this song. It probably migrated thru several boom boxes and car stereos. I loved VH
Jeeezus Eddie. And Mike, singing and that bass.
19 years old first heard. 3 days later, i have the greatest First Release album on my Turn Table
3 months later, Fort Worth Tx
Journey Ronnie Montrose The Mighty Vanhalen
North America's Greatest Rock Band! The Mighty VanHalen!!!!
Eddie tearing it up. Great tune.
Eddie Van Halen’s guitar is simply unhinged in this tune!
You need to see Eddie Van Halen's live "Eruption" solo taped in New Halen, Connecticut back in '86.
The background vocals of Micheal Anthony and Edward Van Halen totally kicked it up! EVH's guitar sound will never be replicated.
So much fun watching you react to this. I suggest a fun one for you and us... would be Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" The moment you figure out what it is about alone will be priceless video LOL
"I'm the one" is my favorite song off Van Halen 78'. My second favorite being Atomic Punk.
One of the greatest albums of all time. Hands down 😊
A fantastic debut album !
Glad you liked it, first album brilliance, toured with the Scorpions. Thankyou, Metal wins.
The music is excellent and you are beautiful as always Rachael, keep up the work you are doing and Brazilian greetings to you Rachael! 💚💛💚💛
That album still holds relevance even today. (hell, all of em do) ...I'd say you have your pick of songs to cover by them... (Panama , Jump, I'll wait, ...that's just off of 1984, and off the top of my head)
DOA BABY, Van Halen
Who else could put swing, harmonies, and doowop
Unless you're a guitarist, it's impossible to explain how difficult it is to duplicate the swing "feel" that Eddie displays throughout this track. Every guitar player who has ever tried, knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about......I don't care how accomplished.
The debut album that single-handedly ended disco! God bless Van Halen.
I remember getting this album when itwas released and had my mind blown. Still listen to thiis album quite often.
Dave had to have a splash of blues in there. He loves the style. Check out his solo career song, Sensible Shoes.
Listen to that in a hopped up 72 Camaro with a Jensen system on 10! Let’s go to a concert!
This entire album is just pure FIRE!! Perhaps the best debut album ever. And I am a bit more of a Sammy Hagar era than DLR, but both were absolutely perfect fir the eras of VH they sang in. The driving force is obviously Edward, but Alex pounding those drums is amazing and Michael Anthony's ripping baseline and backing vocals just complete that entire VH sound
you are so cool..great reaction..its a well not some easy thing to try to play if you're not a player
COOL BAND WIYH THE GREATEST GUITARIST OF ALL TIME AND THE COOLEST SINGER IN MUSIC HISTORY
Open all the windows in the house and crank it up!Screw the neighbors. This is van fing halen my dear. Oh bye the way cheer up! Enjoy !
Van Halen tends to shred 🤟🏽
I used to love to run to this song. Talk about getting pumped. 😂
"This is hard".........That's what she said!
Into the midst of Disco dominating everything, this came out of nowhere and changed the game.
When people talk about preferring the DLR version of Van Halen, this is what they are talking about. The swagger and swing on the debut album are legendary.
I understand that old VH may not be everyone's cup of tea style-wise, especially a song like this, but I do wish EVERYONE could truly appreciate what they're actually doing here LIVE in the studio in ONE SEAMLESS TAKE. It's 100% untouchable.
You would probably like this song, “ Black and Blue,” by Van Halen. 😊
Sammy is Running the Best of Both Worlds Tour, but there is NO VAN HALEN without EDDIE and ALEX ❤❤
Killer freaking song from that ground breaking album. If they only did that album they would still be legends. Also from it do Atomic Punk, another wicked banger. I saw them open for Black Sabbath on this tour, Sabbath had to really bring it after Eddie freaked us all out, who the Hell was that reaction throughout the arena. They were awesome but Ozzy was great that night and the opening riff to Warpigs snapped us back to reality and we knew why Sabbath was the headliner. Great double bill for $6.50, LOL! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎶
The song hits hard immediately for what I'm guessing is 2 reasons. When you have arguably the best guitarist ever in Eddie Van Halen, you let him work his magic early and often. 2ndly, when David Lee Roth is your vocals, while maybe not the most technically sound singing, you let his showmanship take over.
I have a shop in my basement and this song is one that has nearly cost me my fingers more than once. Its hard to sit still to. And, when you are working around a tablesaw or a mitersaw, headbanging and dancing doesn't exactly mix.
Icecream Man is another song that i like of theirs.
Maybe my favorite VH tune. I know the lyrics are about hitting town and getting chicks but musically it has an ominous threatening vibe like driving a truck full of nuclear waste down a mountain and through all the switchbacks with the gas floored and your hands deliberately in your pockets.
Yet they stick the landing every time.
Imagine it's 1978 and you hear this album...
If you really want your chair to vibrate, check out ‘Out of Love (Again)’. 😎😉
Ray, At the end of the song when they do the crazy instruments… They call it taking out the trash 🤪
The term I like to use to describe Van Halen..... "Swing-Boogie-Bounce". No one does the SBB like Van Halen.
Led Zeppelin and The Beach Boys had a baby and named it Van Halen!
🙏❤🌹 Eddie 🌹❤🙏
Awesome album.. this song is fast n hard! 😂 ❤ Soubie do wah! 🎉
" Ice Cream Man" next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out the song "Ice Cream Man" its a surprise if youve never heard it.
This album dropped like a BOMB! do more. Atomic Punk,or On Fire.
PLEASE listen and react to "Ice cream Man" next from this same album! You'll LOVE it!!
At two min. 50 sec. It's Van Halen.
I think I heard this song in a bar I was having a beer someone put this song on
Who wouldn't want to see an earthquake reaction,,,, It's natural,,,, why after all it is The Mighty Van Halen
🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I would like to see you do comparison cover songs as in OK..Van Halen where have all the good times gone..it was a Kinks song from 1966..redone on Diver Down..VH
Turn up the volume
Good reaction ❤️🔥
You could react to "The Plot In You - Don't look away", thanks 😂❤
Dear Foxy Girl id love to see you react to "the official" Dance the Night Away VH video complete w backstage shenigans, and ASAP if you please, thank you very much.
DLR may not be the Best singer in Rock and Roll but he sure Damn is an Entertaining Lyricist and master of Dynamic Lounge Lizard brilliance.
have you done the Eruption video yet ? so you can watch Eddie in his splendor.