Guns N' Roses Slash On Why He Didn't Want to Be Eddie Van Halen & Their History Together!
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Slash and evh is like comparing apples and oranges.
rj zander EVH formed GN’R?! Are you high with your own fart?!
@Some annoying person noo it's nick jonas, lil wayne and you
Van Halen technical genious Slash more feeling 🤟☘
They both made history. Both with their own original sound.
Both totally different than each other.
Both are Icons!
@newagetojo 100% mate ☘🤟🇮🇪
Slash is cool. Very good chops, iconic riffs. Classy perspective of EVH.
One of the main reasons I was drawn to Slash over all the other 80's era guitarists was that he was one of the few following in the footsteps of the 70's greats like Page and Perry. There's only one Eddie and all the clones never did it as well.
Randy Rhodes didn’t do a bad job of it
As a guitarist why would you want to sound like another player .
Another thing that gets me is Who is the greatest guitarists of all time . I seen Porl Thompson play with Page and Plant . Never seen him play but man ! What a player, what a show .
Well given the choice of sounding like me or Stevie Ray Vaughn I'm going to with sounding like Stevie.
Of course only Stevie could ever sound like Stevie.
@@thomaspawlak6487 : Plus grands guitariste de tous les temps ? Euh Jimi Hendrix; Jimmy Page, Ray Vaughan, Clapton, Slash (même) et pourquoi pas Gilmour Mick Ronson bref Porl Thompson ok mais le meilleur faut pas trop pousser
Si t'es Mick Mars je pense que tu y pense forcément physiquement autant que musicalement !
Because when you sound like another well known guitarist your career in music will be bar bands on your weekends off from the chicken skinning factory job your destined to stay working .
Guns N Roses were the first LA band since Van Halen that weren’t TRYING to sound like Van Halen. That’s what made them stand out. The influence on GNR? A hard rock band who put songs first and achieved mainstream success by incorporating incredible gifts into concise meaningful songwriting!
Thank you🙏
So Eddie said when you’re in a band it’s a collaboration and you all try to do the right thing. So why did Eddie and his brother cut Michael Anthony out of the royalties from the 1984 album? Causing Michael Anthony to lose millions of dollars. That was a real prick move and kudos to Michael Anthony for his integrity as a musician.
Steve Holstein Michael Anthony is the best.
Anthony got way more than most non writers in a band get. He didn’t wrie shit.
Timothy H Tell that to eddie. He’s the one who said collaboration. Did you understand the point of contention here?
@rj zander Bob didn't write Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman by himself.
Both he and Randy wrote the songs for those records.
@@timothyh6670 I remember reading VERY VERY EARLY that Van Halen split the royalties “4 ways”.... so, ....
David's comment was not cool. Death of a fan is not "it's rock n roll" - that's BS. As much as I dislike Axl's behavior I'll stand behind him on this one.
That happened at a Guns N' Roses concert too. I think it was in Argentina. A female fan died. It was something to do with the stage I think (correct me if I'm wrong, whomever knows the actual story). Supposedly they blamed it on the band but it wasn't their fault.
Since when is Axle Rose such a delicate human being ?
Slash and Eddie Van Halen have two different sounds.
It all depends on the mood from the listeners perspective in the moment.
They are both great, but I think Eddie Van Halen is way too unique that is hard for most to duplicate with perfection.
Slash was definitely not the man for the job. Really, Eddie was so unique that there isn't a good man. Vai probably comes the closest. Buckethead could probably imitate Eddie pretty well too. I'm not taking away from Slash though. He isn't as impressive, technically, as EVH, but he wrote the best guitar solos imo. If I were to rank the best solos ever it would go. 1. Sweet Child O' Mine, Tornado of Souls, Stairway to Heaven, Hangar 18, Don't Cry, Right Now, Jordan, Nightrain, Rocket Queen, Hotel California. I had to refrain from including more Guns N Roses songs, but to me nobody even comes close, except Marty Friedman.
@@crowntotheundergroud Well in my opinion EVH was better with rhythm guitar than solos, amazing riffs with amazing tone, he was an incredible lead guitar player too with all the tapping, whamy bar things, harmonics, etc but when it came to the solos eddie generally didnt shine a lot, he made solos that accompanied the songs and were not too long nor overpowered the song, some exceptions might be big river solo, beat it solo, one foot out the door, these solos did stand out from the song but most solos didnt (EXCLUDING INSTRUMENTALS, ERUPTION SPANISH FLY AND CATHEDRAL ARE INCREDIBLE). In these sense randy rhoads i feel was the opposite of EVH, i feel like randy was incredible with most solos (partly because he composed them, he didnt improvise em, at least most of them) and not so much with the riffs (obviously there are exceptions like crazy train and others). To finish (sorry the long comment) i feel like SLASH is a guitar player whos in between EVH and randy, in the sense that slash is good with rhythm guitar and also with solos.
Almost every other guitarist on RUclips sounds like van Halen. Cmon bra.
@@cristianconnolly2709 Eddie Van Halen was an incredible rhythm player, I know I play guitar. Ask any other guitar player. That's why he was such a good solo guitar player. Eddie had some monster solos, obvisously eruption, but I also dig the Mean Streets solo, that solo is fucking powerful. Like you mentioned, the One Foot Out The door is badass too. Slash has badass solos too, the Mr. Brownstone solo is the first one that comes to mine, I also dig the solos on Civil War. Slash is more like a Jimmy Page, while Eddie Van Halen is like, well a Eddie Van Halen. Two different styles, but they both get the job done.
As a guitarist I'll say this. They both left their mark as 2 totally different styles so both deserve the hype. That being said e.v.h. inspired me to want to sound and play everything he ever did. To this day his playing is my foundation and I still revert back to every riff I ever learned from him when I'm sitting alone and rehearsing by myself. Slash, not so much.
Maybe you're not into dirty blues rock. Slash's riffs are awesome, too.
Thats funny, its interesting how all our ears are different....i love love love EVH...i mean you can't love guitar and not love EVH...and ill admit EVH is way better than SLASH..but.....my ears just love SLASHES style....i just love it....
@@kevinc1968 that's cool man, we all are different, and love what we love. It is what it is, & I dig them both, and have learned something from both of them, Slash is one of the coolest mfr's in the land, but Edward will always be my guy when it comes to anything guitar, and alas, I am sad today at his passing. I feel like I took a cannonball to my stomach. Rest in peace, you beautiful bastard!
I love you Slash! Saw you in Chicago, May 2015 !
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDDIE VAN HALEN RIP MY COLDOLENCES TO THE VANHALENFAMILY AND HIS TRILLION OF FANS /LOVE WALK IN😪😪😪
Slash stayed with the tradition of rock guitar playing.EVH changed the face of hard rock
That’s why I love that slash never finger taps
@land air sea dumb comment
@land air sea dumb comment
@land air sea they were all talented. How crazy to think he was the only one 🤷♂️
Guns N Roses and Van Halen two of the best bands ever Rip Eddie
There’s only one Eddie Van Halen.
Slick Tiger We all know that already.. when did you find out?
Only one slash
Slash is much better to listen to in my opion
EVH is a much more technically proficient accomplished guitarist then Slash could ever dream of...
@@danielsmithjr.8571 nah, EVH is one of the best, if not the best. Grew up listening to VH when they first started out and GNR..
Although slash has his own style, but come on, we have to tell the truth that eddie van halen more than just the best guitarist, he reinvented and revolutionalized guitar techniques, and followed by million guitarist in thr world, even slash he knows eddie still better than him
Two different virtuousos paving their own way. Eddie was an 80s pioneer who could play anything but mostly stayed in his period. Slash channels so many different influences and arguably has a more timeless style.
🤣 slash dreams of being evh
Slash is not a virtuoso. I wouldn’t exactly give Eddie that moniker either. That term is thrown around too easily.
@@isaiahmarquez9717 Cap. Both are virtuosos
No reputable guitar teacher will even mention Slash. Nothing to talk about. Virtuoso at what? Pop melody?
@@pgnandt ok fine, go on and make an ass out of yourself in public. First amendment allows it. 😂😂😂
Eddie and Slash -- two opposite ends of hard rock guitar playing, both great soloists, both amazingly influential (Eddie more innovative and better shredding chops, but still, they both rule).
RIP EVH 🎸🤘🏻🖤
Did he burp at start of interview , then look at camera , like...oh well ?
Van halen hall of fame
Hahaha!!!🤣🤣Yep!!!
I heard this to
@@jukedar I didn't hear it
Yeah what a pig lol
Any real guitar player knows comparing guitarists is generally pretty dumb. Guitar playing is relative to what you like. Someone may think EVH was the worst guitar player of all time and think the world of Jerry Cantrell. They all deserve to be celebrated for the contributions they've made for the genre and the instrument. I love them all.
@newagetojo I'm aware of what he did. Trust me I'm a huge Van Halen fan. But like I said previously, it's all relative to what you like. I've seen both of them live, they both deliver.
EVH is one of the 5 who changed the guitar game. Slash (respect) is a good rock player.
Rose was disgusted with somebody else's attitude?! Lol
Yeah, I had to laugh at that too. LOL
Amazing how quickly he switched from the victims to Roth is an asshole
Yeah exactly. He just has to find a reason to be a victim and that somehow justifies his rude words and behavior. He tried Tom beat the shit out of a fan fo taking pictures. Now he’s all judgmental on a DLR who is just like “wtf u want from me you ginger ass maniac?!”
who wouldn’t be disgusted about that?
@@nicktpg9100 DLR.
Slash is the best!
Axl pissed at Roth's attitude? You should ask Metallica about Axl's attitude after the '92 Montreal riot that he started.
I respect Slash developed his own sound and GNR are a great band that being said I never cared for their music but Van Halen are the greatest American rock in our history.
Van Halen was amazing
the burp kills me...
Even though it never happened, in 1988 Guns N' Roses were supposed to be the opening act for David Lee Roth on his solo tour
Slash kicks ass!
it's just a matter of different styles/schools actually, Slash is more rooted to 70's style guitarist like Jimmy Page, Joe Perry or Brian Jones, very blues influenced, more raw sounding, more orthodox style of playing if you will, heavier guitar (preferably Les Paul) while EVH basically created the 80's sounds, more processed sound, expanded technicality, expanded gear, more flashy style, preferably lighter super strat style guitar
both can't be more different but i love them both, RIP EVH
@john jagger oh, you're right, i didn't realize it, my bad,...
I'm not a guitar player but EVH has impressed the fuck out of me.
I've never been that impressed with Slash's playing (not saying he isn't great I must be missing something.
Its funny because as a guitar player trying to find my own style when VH hit the scene i was impressed,however,i spent my time trying to learn to play impossible guitar pieces by Frank Zappa and Alan Holdsworth,to this day Alan Holdsworth was the most gifted guitarist of the 20th century.
Of the 20th century? That’s a bold statement.
"You a big fan of Eddie? [Burp!]"
LMAO
Van Halen to my opinion is a better guitarist than Slash but i choose to listen to Slash solo... i connect better. Van Halen style/technique is hard to copy of course but for the most part sounds wild. I like how melodic Slash solo is as i could emotionally connect to it better.
Slash doesn’t sound like his playing when he solos, but I do feel like Slash has Eddie’s sense of rhythm playing - the best part.
Good point. The way they play rhythm as much more similar than any intros/solos
Slash is not on eddie playing level but is a nice guy.
different styles. listen to you are a lie awesome guitar playing
As a guitar player now focused on tuba I’m so thankful the good lord led me to the tuba. Tuba players get the best groupies!
slash is a day older than me I to play a les paul i guess you can say we were influenced and feel the same way when VH came out I never wanted to be EVH either lol I grew up in northern California lol how funny
I saw EVH live back in 92. That man was epic and no one was on his level. Slash is a great guitar player, but too blues e for my taste. EVH was very melodic and his style was not a style many could ever replicate. Slash style on the other hand, he uses a lot of pentatonic and blues scales. I’m not saying he was not gifted, he was definitely a gifted guitar player.
EVH was incredible on those strings, finger tapping or not! Nobody can or probably ever will touch him. Van Halen was a killer band with an even more killer axe man!
Eddie and slash were very different players both were pretty equal in my mind. But the kind of songs they played made sense for their style of play
Eddie is a killer on guitar. Too much smoke and mirrors for my style. I am old school. I would pick slash twice over Eddie.
I agree 100%.
EVH is a great guitarist, and an influential one no doubt. But all the talk on here about "Eddie's better" is subjective at best. Is he better technically? Most likely, but who has written the better riffs and solo's? Subjective again but for me, EVH has written few solo's that I think are integral to the song itself, and that is how I persoanlly judge a guitar player. It isn't just about speed (I personally hate shredding guitarists - just dull to listen to with no vibe in my opinion) and technical ability. Those two concepts need to be part of a package along with understanding the placement of intervals in relation to the song - Slash has written many more memorable riffs and solos than EVH I would argue. This is why people like Clapton, Page, Beck, Kossoff and Slash et al. are considered guitar greats - they had technique but also knew how best to construct a memorable solo that complemented a song. EVH has sometimes done this, I personally love the riff of Aint Talking Bout Love and the solo sections to Running With the Devil - but often EVH's solo's seem to jump out of the song in much the same way Dimbag's solo's and seem like a seperate entity to the song it is supposed to compliment.
to me its apples and bowling balls. They are both great in their respective realm. Slash was criticized for not tapping during the solo in Crazy Train on some recent award show. But Slash don't tap. And I respect that he played the way Slash plays and didn't try to impress or placate or imitate.
@@timothyh6670 Exactly. I don't tap on crazy train either. Most people don't even notice. If you want. You can check it out. ruclips.net/video/Xp61UwEevHs/видео.html
@@jimherleva4541 Who has written the better riffs and solos? Seriously? EVH and it's not close. Van Halen is the #2 most played artist on classic rock radio behind only Zeppelin for a reason. Van Halen's body of work dwarfs Guns n Roses, so naturally EVH has more recognizable songs/riffs/solos than Slash does.
Yeah, Slash is perfect for Guns. He's a "bluesy, feel-type" player. EVH can and has done all that, plus he's the most influential guitar player of all time..certainly since the first VH album came out. Dude literally changed the face of rock guitar.
If you think EVH's solos don't go with the songs, I don't know what you're listening to. EVH's main strength are his riffs....not his solos, which are brilliant. The vast majority of his solos are complimentary to the song.
And yeah, technical ability is EVH by a long shot as well. I think we that are fans of both are much better served by simply enjoying both bands and not trying to directly compare them. But if you're going to do so, no logical analysis comes up with anything other than EVH is the King.
@@SealofPerfection Ah subjectivity being passed off as fact. Of course your "logical analysis" is only given here as YOUR opinion. Most played does not equal better and never will. If it did, it would mean that the highest earning bands would also rank as the order of "best bands". Such a statement would lead to your "logical analysis" indicating that Madonna is better than Led Zeppelin and Rhianna being better than Pink Floyd. Oh, and just so I can show how your "logical analysis" works, certainly concerning your statement regarding "most played" G n' R rank higher in global album sales than VH despite a "larger body of work". In fact if we take it by single song recognition and higher radio airplay "Welcome to the Jungle" ranks higher than VH's top played radio song "Jump". So despite vH's "larger body of work" VH don't outsell Gn'r in the global album stakes and VH's most played song ranks lower than Gn'R most played song. In fact what the above data shows is that EVH's most recognisable riff in his "larger body of work" is a keyboard riff! Funny huh?
So what makes a better band? Higher global sales or being 2nd highest played on US radio? Simply neither examples show anything of the sort. What I have shown is how data can be used to prove anything and what you have proved is how people use subjective opinion as fact or "logical analysis".
For the record, I absolutely prefer Slash's playing. Not because hes technically better, but because his solo's, to me at least, work to compliment the songs, unlike Eddie's, who always seems to me to be working to compliment himself. Again, not unlike Dimbag.
Widdly widdly widdly harmonic divebomb tap tap widdly. Some people prefer that style, some don't. That's fine, but to claim any "logical analysis" points to EVH? Subjective analysis is what you meant.
That giant pile of Les Pauls is SICK.
"burp" (3:44) ... what a pro. : ) )
LoL wtf?
Right on man
What did the axl and David lee Roth story at the first have to do with slash and Eddie?
Great info!
RIP EVH
I don't any problem at all with DLR and his answer to Axl's question. It was not the most empathetic response. But a rock and roller would say something like that.
Roth absolutely wins the Van Halen commerce battle with 57 million album sales worldwide to Hagar's 27 million worldwide album sales. This is an easy fact to look up. It's not even close. 2 of the Dave era albums are certified Diamond.
I am just glad to see a musician like Slash admit that there was more to EVH's playing than the pyrotechnics. EVH has taken some shots from some players that I admire like Joe Walsh who, IMO, are not listening close enough to his playing. They don't get that Eddie's biggest influence was Clapton. It's all the blue licks that he throws in in between the tapping and the vibrato work that is unreal. Also, my ex-guitar teacher, who was a music student at a major university, said the greatest thing about Eddie were his riffs. Stuff like "Unchained," "Mean Streets," AFU (Naturally Wired), and "Without You." These riffs are motherfuckers to play, but they are the riffs of a band that has sold well over 100 million albums. Where a guy like Joe Walsh has it wrong is that you cannot sell that many records and not have "soul" to your playing, and most of all, be a substandard songwriter. At the end of the day, Eddie was about songwriting, and that is what separated him from his imitators who, in all honesty, probably out-Van Halened him, but who could not come up with the riffs and the tunes. That's really what it comes down to.
I was listening to Van Halen yesterday and I thought to myself "wow, Eddie was so great at writing riffs."
I'll agree with that. As a drummer, bass player and guitar player, as well as a singer, its basically nothing to get up and play a killer cover. People tell me all the time, I wish I could play like you, well yeah maybe but I'll tell ya, I'm nothing compared to the folks that WROTE this stuff. I just don't think people understand what writing really is. Ofcourse you can relate to playing something you are familiar with but for the most part, people I see who consider themselves writers come up with the chords to Gliserine by Bush and claim it as their own. So that being said there is such a different world to music that a lot of folks (including myself) don't know because we just aren't prolific writers.
Hot-rodded Clapton licks, when you break down and learn some of Eddie’s solos you see them sprinkled all over the place, he just usually plays them so goddamn fast. I mean, and besides that, Eddie added so much to the lexicon of electric guitar playing, his originality is impossible to deny.
But in the rare instances where he actually reigns himself in a bit from the flashiness, like on the solo to Right Now, the Clapton influence, the melodic bluesy side really becomes noticeable.
crowntotheundergroud Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love
I agree. He left o’l slow hand in the dust back I’m 1978.
Obviously you don't know shit about Eric Clapton. Comparing and ranking guitarists is for soulless fucktards. Go watch wrestling.
Michael Reynolds where would you rank John Cena as compared to league leaders like haystacks Calhoun?
Tim -me Tube lmao!
@@drby0788 i dont understand the obsession. I watched him last night and he sounded just like any other ordinary blues type player.
Tim -me Tube Clapton’s a pretty badass guitar player man. He doesn’t do anything flashy, but plays with some serious feel and emotion. Not a fan of all his stuff. But he’s very good.
I was at Donnington that day amid the crush when 2 fans were killed. I stay away from large crowds because of it. I tried once, went to Glastonbury but had flashbacks and couldn't wait to get out of there. On the day in question at Donnington, when a security guy who was pulling people from the crowd jumped on stage asking DLR to stop the show, DLR turned his back on him and told his own security, "Get this asshole off my stage." From what I understand, none of the bands knew that people had died, or were about to die. For all the hate that Axl gets, he has my gratitude, and I'm probably not the only one, because he saw what was happening in the crowd and was concerned enough to stop Gn'R's show and asked people to stop pushing forward and to move back as people were being crushed at the front. It was a temporary respite as the crowd just weren't listening. There were so many idiots in the crowd who didn't care about anyone, throwing bottles of piss and generally behaving like yobs, pushing up to the front at all costs, deaf and blind to what was going on. I wonder what DLR now thinks about what happened. It was a terrible day anyway. RIP to the guys who passed away.
Slash did his own thing. He KILLED it. You definitely can here the EDDIE influence in his playing. It’s impossible to not be influenced in some way by Eddie. But Slash went his own way and the results speak for themselves. Well I guess I should have watched before commenting lol he said the same thing didn’t he.
Slash’s riff from Sweet Child o Mine is still one of the most famous guitar riffs of all time. So there.
As a guitar player, that opening sounded amateurish back then and it still does. Sounds like something a new player would make up.
And I like Slash. GNR, Snakepit, and Velvet Revolver are all driven by Slash’s playing.
@@isaiahmarquez9717that’s actually the point. Slash was just messing around with the intro riff at a jam practice and the band liked it so they decided to make it into a song
I want to hear Slash telling to Fortus the things he said about Yzzy guitar playing.
Why do these interviewers constantly go to that comparison of the two guitarists? They have so little in common. Why not compare EVH to Roy Clark? I mean Clark was doing the whole shredding thing in the late 1950's !! What Van Halen came up with was new to the rock world, but a lot of country artists were actually doing a lot of that stuff long before that first Van Halen record came out!! Heck go and listen to Ace Frehley of KISS doing his Shock Me guitar solo in 1977 and you hear him finger tapping and that was BEFORE the first Van Halen record ever came out! EVH did the finger tapping more, and yes better, than anyone else but he certainly was not the only one doing it!! I am not a big Van Halen fan or Guns N Roses fan, but I have always liked the style of Slash more than EVH simpy because Slash was never about flash and balls and it seemed that was all EVH was about. Slash seemed more of a guitar player while EVH seemed more of a "hey watch me" guitar player. As I have grown older and gotten more into my guitar playing I have come to respect more of what EVH did outside of his fast stuff and I think he himself would prefer people pay more attention to that rather than Eruption!! Listen to the melodies of some of those Van Halen songs, listen to the cool guitar riffs and entire progressions of chords and such and there lies EVH's true talent, not just fast solos!! Slash was always about the entire song, not just the solo's!!
I know this will set a lot of VH fans in anger mode but outside the guitar community barely anyone cares about Van Halen. Ask someone out on the street for a Van Halen song. 99.9% will say "JUMP!". Ask for a GN'R song and they will at least say
Paradise City
Welcome to the jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine
November Rain
Knockin' on heaven's door (although it's not their song).
Van Halen isn't played on the radio at all. For years. That doesn't mean GN'R is a better band/Slash is a better guitarist (he's not regarding the technical skills at least) but I think the higher popularity of GN'R can't be ignored.
It would've been interesting to see if Sammy could've kept Axl's ego in check. LOL.
That’s Rock n Roll baby. Sad thing is Dave’s not lying. I’m sure Dave didn’t want those people to die. Diamond Dave is awesome, an asshole, but still awesome.
Without question EVH is a better guitar player, in terms of hearing a song and jumping in. (We're talking the 1980s not today.) His SNL jams were legendary in '85. Slash isn't like that imo. When you listen to him jam he just sticks to pentatonic blues scales. What Slash did on Appetite and a few UYIs boils down to work ethic. He worked harder on Appetite than anybody and if you listen to his rhythm channel (right speaker) you can hear him constantly jangling around with the riffs and putting little accents in and making the songs live a little. He's probably most interesting as a songwriter - Coma is pretty much unlike any song out there. Of course Eddie's a really weird songwriter too
Bob Douglass slash wrote very little I the way of song structure he embellished incredibly. He played solos that are aggressive,beautiful sincere. He is however not a very good songwriter based on Gun’s Body of work. Most of the classics were created by Stradlin and then built to greatness by the other members.. I. Agree with regard to his work ethic and his playing on appetite.
Van Halen were not glam. Not even close. They didnt wear makeup, or dress like women or try to look feminine. Their music was about nitty gritty life, not any ballads about "I lost my love". Dave never sang about his "Sweet Child O' Mine", he sang "Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love"! And all those guitar players were all flash and no substance. Ed was the fucking original.
"Their music (Van Halen) was about nitty gritty life, not any ballads about 'I lost my love'.... Dave never sang about his 'Sweet Child O' Mine?' "----
You're right... FUCKIN Guns n' Roses?... Such a joke... nothing about NITTY GRITTY LIFE... just all those
crappy nnn shitty BALLADS... My nan's favourite is that real lovey-dovey ballad ...y'know that thatcorny and cringey
NITTY GRITTY LIFE?....
Original, but boring.
Long hair and spandex, no they weren’t glam.
Alan Woodwind they were a goofy pop band who sang about getting laid and played guitar solos while looking surprised
you know that Diamond Dave stole 😱 his look from Jim Dandy don't you? 🤔 Just saying. LOL.. Jim Dandy to the rescue Jim Dandy to the rescue Jim Dandy to the rescue go Jim Dandy go diamond Dave
I have the Donningham recording where you can here the people being crushed in the audience
He didn’t want to be Eddie because he couldn’t
what r you talking about, Slash is unique! I choose slash by far, big inspiration of style and composing.
Just shut the fuck up
In my opinion slash has better solos, but technically vh is better
Slash has better solos that’s funny and u say slash is unique like Eddie isn’t Eddie was here way before slash
Brian Thomas so give me van halen solos that are not technical or just to prove he is the fastest on earth
There is a video of Jimmy Hendrix playing live on BBC tv......they were supposed to play Hey Joe....after a few seconds in, the band stopped playing and Jimmy said something like: we are going stop play this rubbish and do some real music, and it's a song by the Cream.....
And they played Sunshine of you love.
That wasn't what the BBC had in mind, and if not live kicked him out of the studio probably.
But Hendrix didn't care.
He loved it far better as his own music.
Funny thing is, the song was written by the Cream as a tribute to Jimmy Hendrix.
They had seen him for the first time playing at a concert somewhere, and it blew them away... totally in awe....
How great things like that turn out sometimes....
Um, the band is called Cream. Not The Cream.
@@Bstonz85 Thanks for this huge gift of enlightenment.......
I love Eddie van Halen
Slash couldn’t play like Eddie if he wanted to
He wanted to stand out? Bullshit, him and Tracii Guns went to school together, Guns was the Van Halen Rhodes player in that circle and Slash only could pull of April Wine licks, so he has coped that style as his own, and Tracii has owned his playing style and where he got it from.
Van Halen defined 80s glam metal.
When everyone tried to copy them is when it became a joke and it even devalued Van Halen in a sense.
If we're going to be honest with ourselves, the first question that we should ask is, "Could he...".
Just ask Sammy and Michael
You mean why Slash COULDNT be Eddie Van Halen😁🙏🔥
anybody know the band playing in the background at 4:16?
It's Slash's Snakepit and the song is Be the Ball off the "It's five o clock somewhere" album.
@@harleym6486 Thanks......always good to check out music I never heard before from an awesome musician.
Slash is officially the coolest person alive on the planet
Ed is an amazing guitar player. He literally changed the way guitars are played in rock.
He's also a complete piece of shit as a human being. At least Slash is down-to-earth and for the most part, humble about his playing skill...
Marty Red Well not literally. Guitar is still played ona guitar.
Ok thanks Michael Anthony.
Ok thanks Valerie Bert....
Well worded my friend, well worded.
At least Slash sounds like Slash and not like EVH like many clones out there😉😎
Yes. There's only one Eddie Van Halen and one Slash. Even Slash said he wanted to do his own thing. You can be a fan etc but you're not that person. I'm a fan of both but I don't compare them cause they're 2 different people with their own guitar playing style and are both very talented guitarists and r.i.p Eddie.
@@latingirl042 That's right! both are talented!!!
We miss you Eddie R.I.P. 🙏
Scott Weiland and Slash are more well-known that Satriani or Vai to the general public. That's why they did the tribute at the RnR HOF. Yeah, it was pretty bad. Not anyone's fault. But the organizers should've picked more suitable people to perform a VH song
I don’t believe DLR said that, that’s something Axl would say.
I love rock but couldn't care less about gossip or politics within bands. I already have *my own* problems to care about, don't need other people's troubles. But, now and then, i like to know about these things... I guess it's the voyeur factor inside us humans or whatever.
Slash [please all in my opinion only] is an above average guitarist, Izzy carried a lot of the load and both were magical live. The dual sound was for me a way lower level of the dual sound the late great Steve 'The Riffmaster' Clark was capable of creating and with Phil Collen mostly doing more technical work and shredding. They both complimented each other as did Hudson and Izzy. Izzy's influence should arguably NEVER be missed, he was the brains in GnR in my opinion. His loss was massive, and he also oozed cool like Steve did live.
Slash plays completely differently to God. EVH, like Ace Frehley and other guitarists influenced generations of guitarists. Slash himself has said Ace was a massive influence, Ace was tapping in the early KISS years also. Dimebag also idolised EVH and Ace, Dimebag went to his grave with one of EVHs guitars in his coffin and Ace inked on his chest.
Slash to me is the perfect example of a guitarist/product who has been, like Coke a Cola or McDonalds, NIKE, the most brilliantly marketed guitarist in recent rock history. His iconic top hat is a marketers wet dream, and he can play. Slash plays completely differently. Is he a great? That's for others to say. To me he's a great guitarist, solid, a very unique style, much is made of the way he vertically holds his axe, but Ace was doing this in the Alive days and in the 'First Final Tour 1996 to 2002], so that's not something I'd argue Slash came up with as Kennedy has claimed in interviews, it is just BS. But it does give Slash, and Ace, Steve also played like this, a very unique sound from his LPs, and when you put on the radio and hear a song you can pick it is Slash playing. That is a legacy. All the greats have that.
EVH is simply a giant. On many fronts, what he did with creating, butchering, tweaking his early guitars was amazing. Eruption or Spanish Fly but two examples of the amazing sounds EVH can get out of his guitars. In the end most of these men are on good terms. It's not a pissing contest. Apples and oranges.
One more thing, a guitarist who's won a BS Emmy but still has one and for me/many is SO under rated is Steve 'Fingers' Stevens. Lovely story involving SS/EVH and a shit load of RVH guitars/amps that Eddie gifted Steve one day. I just want both brothers to get their shit together and bring Mikey back, we fans deserve it.
This ^
Slash could never be Eddie
The thing about EVH was that while I'm sure he worked very hard to get the style that he has he also cheated somewhat by using that Variac Transformer that changed his tone on his amp. No one knew or thought about using that which caused a lot of players to almost give up playing. Plus the fact that Eddie had an "Ah-Ha" moment when he saw Jimmy Page and Zeppelin at the LA Forum that resulted in Eddie's tap technique
Adrian Lee Ed’s tapping story is pure bullshit. He was taught tapping by Terry Kilgore who he was friends with at the time and terry was taking lessons from Harvey Mandel. Ed just wants it to seem he just did it all himself.
Adrian Lee what?
@@darthhull85 Eddie never said he invented tappping, harvey mandel didnt invent either, its well known by now that tapping started many years before both of them. What im trying to say is who cares how eddie discovered tapping, he made it famous because of his way of doing it and his style with it.
I love them both, but if I had to pick which band I'd rather see live today, I'll take GNR any day. The current VH live show is crap.
He the greatest at finger taping
Roth's comment was taken way out of context. He probably just didn't want them to burden themselves with something they had little control with. Also every rockstar was drunk all the time back then, especially at a bar lol. FBS man, Axl is way too sensitive I am surprised anything got done with that band with someone that volatile.
At 8.20 Sammy sold more records with VH than Roth hahahaha not even fuckin close, Roth era out sold Sam's era by alot, although Sam was great, and they all went #1 but sales no, VH1 and 1984 both were diamond and sold over 10 mil each, I think 5150 sold about 5 or 6mil and that was their best selling with Sammy, which is great don't get me wrong,..but Roth era is way better
The confusion lies in the o/seas markets. I'm an Aussie who discovered Van Halen in 1982.
We Aussie pre-1984 fans are few but proud!
1984 exploded world wide.
The Van Hagar albums were way, way bigger than the DLR albums world wide hence the confusion.
The Eighties Hagar albums sold 5 - 6 million domestically AND another 4 million world wide. This is why Sammy Hagar brags about 10 million per albums in sales.
Van Halen and Guns N' Roses are the most entertaining rock bands I've ever seen. They both have a combination of musicianship, showmanship, great song writing, and style that rarely comes together which is the reason they were both so successful. I enjoy listening to Guns N roses more, but Van Halen is almost equally enjoyable and Eddie makes up for it with his technique and creative innovation with the guitar. Slash is better at composing solos, but Eddie is better at writing riffs. Both bands are 9.5/10 to me.
Eddie is probably the best 80/90 guitarist. and among the 5 of all time, Slash very good but completely different, or you compare van halen to Randy Roads or it doesn't make sense
Eddie van Halen was some kind of godlike entity guitar wise when I started playing...
I never bothered trying it because it was so far beyond my capabilities....
Slash was someone I was really in to....loved the tone, the guitar sound, the blues funk feeling he had (I think he has) ...
I failed miserably at sounding or playing like Slash as well.....ofc....
Trying to copy and learn from people like EvH or Slash or whatever, and take what feels right to you....well that was the real gem in there.
You can't be or really recreate what someone else would do, for the simply fact you are a different person.
If Slash played van Halen songs, I can't imagine he did so to show off or be like or whatever.
He probably loved the songs, the guitar parts...and had fun on the podium while sayin I fucking love this song so that's why I play it, in my best version of it. (I think that's what musicians do when playing someone else's music....not to show of, but to say I love this, let's play it)
I think if EvH stood next to the podium, hearing Slash play his music, he should've been flattered....
Funny this...like when James and Lars were looking for a new guitar player when Mustaine got the boot they said they didn't want a Eddie Van Halen clone
What did he expect??? Some philosophical discussion??? It’s David Lee Roth. Did you want a hug and a atta boy?
I would expect that from Diamond Dave. Axl should have, too.
Dave didn’t let shit affect him in that way. The show must go on. I get that. I would be affected by something like that but Dave isn’t me. He’s a whole different species of human.
Slash or GnR definitely wouldn't want to to sound or be compared to a pretty good pop rock band, as Angus Young called Van Halen..lol
I live both of them, but you guys who think that Slash is "better" and has more riffs than EVH don't know what the hell you're talking about. EVH influenced an entire generation of rock and roll guitarists and is essentially the living embodiment of Jimi Hendrix. He changed rock and roll guitar playing forever. The list of his memorable riffs and solos is practically endless. Slash is great and GNR is a classic band, and you can like whomever you want to, but objectively he's not close to EVH.
Its very simple when it comes to Eddie van Halen. Before EvH, noone sounded like EvH. After Van Halen I, everyone wanted to sound like EvH.
EVH all day long
he dosent want to copy Eddie,,,,, because HE CAN"T,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, plane and simple!
Dude I can play both Slash's stuff and Van Halen's on guitar. I know if I can do it, Slash can certainly do it too. Not that he'd want to. Lol
I am glad he didn’t go the Eddie Van Halen Way
Axl had no moral high ground. He punched Stephanie Seymour in the face. He treated his audiences like shit.
Dave did wear makeup
And how many "EVH" style players are playing in 2022 ?
They should of had Chickenfoot on stage instead of Velvet Revolver. That was the worst Rrhof performance.