Eddie Van Halen Jamming at his house in 1974
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2011
- A classic recording of Ed "putzing around" at his house in 1974. Thought id put this together for the true fans with some more appropriate photos. You can always just go listen to VanHalenStores if you want. I do not own the masters for these recordings...... but I wish did! :)
He went to school with me. I met him as a HS freshman. I got to see him play at his home, in many backyard parties, and in my parent's living room. DLR was in my English class. Yup, those times were great!
When I went off to UCLA, I was on my dorm's party committee; I organized a street party on Landfair Ave with a battle of the bands and invited Dave and VH to play; they thought LA was too far a drive, but I finally convinced them. They started playing and we got about 1000 students in the street until the police shut it down at 11 PM for noise violations! But they obviously won the battle. They ended up with more gigs at UCLA at Frat parties, and then 3 mos later were playing on Sunset strip
That opening riff hits so hard.
Eddie probably couldn’t have dreamed at the time that this little recording would be so special down the road. What a gem.
RIP. He died yesterday and its the 1st time I've cried in a long time.
My aunt met Eddie at the Betty Ford Clinic. She was an AP History teacher in high school and he had art knowledge, so they teamed up and beat everyone in Trivial Pursuit. She had no idea who he was. When my dad called her to check in on her, she said she teamed up with some guy who was apparently a very well-known guitar player. When my dad asked who and she said Eddie Van Halen, my dad freaked out because he knew I was a maaajor fan, taking guitar lessons and learning his songs at the time. He told her I was freaking out, so she got his phone number for me. So I called him and he picked up and then I froze and hung up on him and never called him back again. Lame, I know! I was just a little kid. I always regretted that.
This is how you become a master...Hours and ours of this. It's beautiful.
The audio equivalent to watching Picasso sketch out new ideas.
this was like him coming over and playing on your sears guitar thru your stereo, because you dont have an amp.... just put this thru a Marshall on 11, and POW! there he is!
Somebody get me a doctor!!
Eddie was always a seriously underrated rhythm guitarist. That right hand was just so damn funky! His rhythm style alone spawned so many metal gods throughout the 80’s
if you have ever listened closely to Eddie you know his voicing, his phrasing, his attack, his finesse, you know how his fingers on the strings sound and you know thus is him. its like listening to a voice. its younger but its still him.
This audio is Eddie Van Halen in the beginning. It’s phenomenal. Even though the audio isn’t the greatest. You can hear somebody get me a doctor before it was perfected Young Eddie practicing home This audio is gold if you ask me
What I love about this recording is you can hear Eddie was about a lot more than playing fast and flashy.....he was always working on new riffs and rock guitar songs!!
That classic tone is one in a million and recognized world wide.
4 years from this date... Eddie stumbles upon the "Pick of Destiny".
In summer 1973, Dave and my girlfriend took a music performing class at Pasadena City college (PCC); everyone had to learn a new song and perform it. Dave chose Ice Cream Man. Since my girlfriend was in the class, I brought my 7" reel-to-reel tape recorder and also recorded Dave playing (acoustic) and singing Ice Cream Man ; this is the first recording ever of it, and I still have it!
This tape should be inspiring to anybody that is relatively new in any field whatsoever that they can get from good to great...talent develops greatly with practice. Eddie is known for practicing a lot, hours on end. He got where he's gotten by countless hours of hard work. He's earned his accomplishment level.
I like anything Van Halen, don’t care who is singing, just to hear that guitar and drum’s is why so many people love them.
I grew up in Altadena, lived on Midlothian Drive in the 1970’s just up the street from Dave's house on New York Ave. His mom and my mom were best friends; his dad was my family eye doctor. Dave was incredibly bright, was reading Kafka and Sartre in 7th grade (but doing badly in school due to non-conformity). I used to hang out with him in his garage when Eddie and Alex would come over to use his amps and mikes...at the time Dave was not singing, just doing the light show for different bands.