The precision and the intention in his playing will be untouched forever. I’m not mentioning his creativity… and the fact he was the coolest guitar hero of all times. Thanks Ed for all the good music🙏
I remember the feeling I would get the day of a Van Halen concert. All day I would be so excited that I was going to a VH concert that night. Then when I got to the venue that evening I would be so excited that Ed is somewhere in the building. And then when the band hit the stage and you got that first glimpse of Ed you knew it was game on. No other musician makes me feel the way Ed did when in his presence. I’ll never forget that.
I looked at him as being immortal. I never fathomed him getting sick, and certainly not him leaving us. Sigh. The weird thing is I was listening to girls gone bad on my way home from work and got out of my car and got on Facebook and saw that he had died. And then Tony Rice died on Christmas Day. Ed was a fan. Ugh..2020 was shitty.
@@biffleonetti5298 @UCu932X_-EcD40H9W7Zs9hqA I've always loved classic rock, but in December 2019 I broke the antenna off of my pickup somehow and instead of spending $20 on a new one I popped in VH1, Poison's greatest hits, CCR, and Kid Rock's Cocky CD. VH1 was in my dash for about 8 out of 12 months in 2020 and that is no exaggeration. It just never got old to me. That CD is the reason I bought a guitar and starting trying to mimic the wild things I heard on that album. Then he passed away that October. His death was the only famous death that actually had an impact on me. It felt like I had lost someone I had known for a long time. It is simply incredible how his music touched so many people the same as it did me. RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
Ya he was always smiling cause playing music was his greatest joy. He radiated happiness and his face said it all. RIP EVH I still can't believe he's gone.
@@rickleblanc8900 I’ll always feel a certain sense of joy when I hear a Van Halen song, as well as a little bit sad that Ed has left us. Thank god the joy outweighs the sadness.
Nonsense!!! All Van Halen’s guitar gimmicks have been done decades earlier by others. He invented or did or did nothing new or original. He was full of himself. A real turn-off!
@@dr.buzzvonjellar8862 Counts just as much as everyone else’s. Can I help it if others have no taste or appreciation for what makes good music? Golly gee!!
I am from nijmegen, the netherlands and frequently pass by the house eddie and his family lived. The city hall should really consider naming a street in his honor...i mean when does somebody with his talent pop up from your town. RIP master of tappers
I'm genuinely curious is the house marked in anyway? Like a plaque or sign? Like I figure it's still got people living in it, but is there a historical society or something that's ensured it would stay intact/not be demolished?
In the 90s. I saw Van Halen in Massachusetts. Wolfgang walked out on stage. He was about 3. Eddie played 3:16. And Valarie was on the side of the stage. Very cool moment.
When Ed first came out with that short hair I said to myself, damn Ed looks better than ever! (of course not to mention that I loved all of the music he made during that period too)
The essential quality with Eddie is realness. Because it is real. It's all his deal, he's the source. It's like Robert Johnson (or Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, etc) and the natural blues. We can practice till we're blue in the face, but compared to them we're just typing. It's a similar thing with Eddie, as compared to everything else downstream from him. And there's a whole hell of a lot downstream from him. Respect.
Goddamn phucking cigarettes! -- If it wasn't for smoking we would've have had another 20 years of Eddie's genius and the joy and charisma he transmitted playing live. Guitar players watch stuff like the live solo at the end of this video and we drop our jaws in amazement wondering how what Eddie Van Halen does with a guitar is even POSSIBLE! He will always be the Bruce Lee of Guitar Players -- no one else will ever reach his level.
even in 60's he's more technically sound, ferocious, and fluid than anyone before or after him. The amount of talent he was blessed with is not from this planet.
BALONEY! Van Halen’s material was utter crap. He was a show-boater and that’s all. Horrible synthesized tone. No one was better than Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was also a composer and a true musician!
While Eddie isn't someone I think about every day, the moment I see a picture or video clip of him, a smile immediately comes across my face and I miss the guy. Probably because he was usually smiling as well. (Same with Burt Reynolds lol...the likeable personas and the humor)
Just watching this, you see that his whole entire life was dedicated to music. He is a music prodigy, a genius. I will however, never understand why he chose Sammy double-knit haggar to be in Van Halen. Everyone on these comments talks about what a great guy he is. All I see is a phony hacky salesman. Say what you want about diamond Dave, but he brought the band to the masses, & he truly was the baddest front man of all time.
He's friendly, has solid pipes, and has been a successful rocker for years b4 joining the band, that's my best guess. But absolutely no one can do it like dave, he had the style vision, wits, and attitude. He was the ultimate Rockstar paired with the ultimate guitar player and the kill8ngest swinginest rythym section in all of rock n roll
He was working with Kramer FOR FREE . He never made a dime while he was endorsing Kramer for that video segment . He played all the instruments for the 1984 demo tapes he made with 5150 studio co-creator Donn Landee .
A few times I've seen Alex say that ginger baker was one of his heroes. Alex actually smokes ginger baker to oblivion on a bad day. He's like Bonham and Peart rolled into one..As for his brother Ed, he was and still is the pioneer of modern rock guitar..
Nah Ginger Baker was a monster. The problem with comparing ginger to other rock drummers is that he really came from the jazz world and he's a jazz drummer at heart. The guy has a totally different sense of when and how to let loose than the people who've followed him in the rock world. When ginger goes to take a solo or fill he's not trying to cram in as many hits as he can get into measure or sound like a v-twin motorcycle
I've always felt that Alex didn't ever get the appreciation that he deserved. He was a very musical drummer and definitely had his own thing going on. Van Halen would've been very, very different without him. Also, as hard to believe as it is, even in a band with David Lee Roth, Alex was always kind of the life of the party in the old days. He was a crazy S.o.B! His interviews were always my favorite to watch. This is just a guess, but my opinion is that his wife drained a lot of the life out of him. She always looked angry and bitter in photos. I believe she took Al for a lot of money as well. Plus isn't her brother that sumbitch Ray Daniels?
@@Roger8176 That's what I've always thought too, even Eddie himself would talk about how Alex is also very gifted musically, even as kids how Al would win all these awards for violin playing, and said that unlike himself Alex could read music quickly and play accordingly super fast. As for his wife, yeah Ray Daniels was her brother. And idk about her draining the life from him necessarily, I think his first marriage (the one that lasted only four months, a lot of people forget about that one, Al's actually been married three times) hurt him a lot more, but he also got sober with his second wife but that was around the time thier Dad died and it seemed Eddie went the other direction cause his addiction began to get even worse. I think all the stress from that and going on the journey to sobriety did make Al become more calm and collected, but yeah he seems a ton more happier with his current wife (who he's also been married to the longest I think🤔)
For sure ! Eruption and You Really Got Me blasting away on my car radio for the first time and I'm wondering who the hell is this kickass guitar god ? Immediately, the world would never be the same ! That's how much of an impact VH had 😮😮
Late 90’s he looked horrible by 2012 he looked better than he did in 1984. I loved this man. Sue me but Diver Down is my favorite album. I was a Junior at Tina Fey’s High school in 82’.
yeah, dude is smoking something saying they had to invent ways to describe his music...single note runs are so easy to tab or write out on sheet music. And yes they had tapping before EVH... in sheet music and tab.
He said out of all the 80’s shredders…he liked Vito Bratta (white lion).I get it cause Vito plays from the heart and that damn solo in the song Wait,just beautiful.Rip Ed.
He obviously was the first to do a lot of that, but you could find dozens of guys on RUclips that can sound exactly like that. Still Van Halen fan though.
Obviously there wouldn’t be anyone on You Tube ‘sounding exactly’ like the originator who manifest a new style of guitar playing decades before the internet existed, internet copy cats ain’t shit.
I don't have the time to search RUclips for the "dozens" that you claim "can sound exactly like that"...but could you please share a link to even ONE of them?
Idk if anyones watching this on their phone but does the old interview where he’s talking about Clapton come through your top speaker and the rest of the clips come through the normal one by the charging port?
@@MR.KERNAN I hate to judge or compare. Randy was classically-trained and technically sound. Eddie was also as solid but came from a different background. His tapping and speed were a revelation af the time and he sounded unleashed, If that makes sense
When its not about music or a groove, but all about speed and technique. I find it amuzing that people would actually buy these records and then sit down to listen to them. Boring as drying paint to me.
I get goosebumps EVERY time I hear him play .... I Miss E.V.H. ❤
Man he is so amazing there will never ever be anyone that can come close to what ground breaking guitar work he invented god bless you ED !
No words. I never met the man but his independence and incomparable talent were a huge influence on me.
The precision and the intention in his playing will be untouched forever. I’m not mentioning his creativity… and the fact he was the coolest guitar hero of all times. Thanks Ed for all the good music🙏
R.I.P. Eddie =\//-/= Gone but not forgotten! ✌😎🎸🎶🎶🎶
I remember the feeling I would get the day of a Van Halen concert. All day I would be so excited that I was going to a VH concert that night. Then when I got to the venue that evening I would be so excited that Ed is somewhere in the building. And then when the band hit the stage and you got that first glimpse of Ed you knew it was game on. No other musician makes me feel the way Ed did when in his presence. I’ll never forget that.
Yeah buddy there was a force with him ✌️
i saw VH in 1980 and he killed ! Among my top 5 concerts of all time imho
I looked at him as being immortal. I never fathomed him getting sick, and certainly not him leaving us. Sigh. The weird thing is I was listening to girls gone bad on my way home from work and got out of my car and got on Facebook and saw that he had died. And then Tony Rice died on Christmas Day. Ed was a fan. Ugh..2020 was shitty.
@@riceflatpicking4954 I feel ya bud…..We all miss him, damn if we don’t all miss him
@@biffleonetti5298 @UCu932X_-EcD40H9W7Zs9hqA I've always loved classic rock, but in December 2019 I broke the antenna off of my pickup somehow and instead of spending $20 on a new one I popped in VH1, Poison's greatest hits, CCR, and Kid Rock's Cocky CD. VH1 was in my dash for about 8 out of 12 months in 2020 and that is no exaggeration. It just never got old to me. That CD is the reason I bought a guitar and starting trying to mimic the wild things I heard on that album. Then he passed away that October. His death was the only famous death that actually had an impact on me. It felt like I had lost someone I had known for a long time. It is simply incredible how his music touched so many people the same as it did me. RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
I remember as young teenager watching Van Halen play on SNL and I was in awe of his playing and the fact that he was always smiling. 🔥🔥🔥
Ya he was always smiling cause playing music was his greatest joy. He radiated happiness and his face said it all. RIP EVH
I still can't believe he's gone.
@@rickleblanc8900 I’ll always feel a certain sense of joy when I hear a Van Halen song, as well as a little bit sad that Ed has left us. Thank god the joy outweighs the sadness.
That Smile Lights up a Room!
I remember thinking "Wow, I am in the same room with Eddie Van Halen". Now there were 20,000 others there, but still....
What an awesome personality and talent.
The last guitar GOD
Lol...he was a great guitar player bro
He was unlike any other. Such swing, such power, such compositional brilliance. He had a hell of a ride
Nonsense!!! All Van Halen’s guitar gimmicks have been done decades earlier by others. He invented or did or did nothing new or original. He was full of himself. A real turn-off!
@@henryrogers5500 Golly Gee, your opinion is contrary to most people on Earth, but oky doke.
@@dr.buzzvonjellar8862 Counts just as much as everyone else’s. Can I help it if others have no taste or appreciation for what makes good music? Golly gee!!
Not to mention a SMOKIN' HOT WIFE!!!!
Just discovered these terrific EVH videos today. Thank you for posting them.
Thanks please subscribe ✌️
@@MR.KERNAN I just subbed you,keep the good stuff coming 👌
I am from nijmegen, the netherlands and frequently pass by the house eddie and his family lived. The city hall should really consider naming a street in his honor...i mean when does somebody with his talent pop up from your town. RIP master of tappers
Master of tappers was pulling the stings... Pun intended
I'm genuinely curious is the house marked in anyway? Like a plaque or sign? Like I figure it's still got people living in it, but is there a historical society or something that's ensured it would stay intact/not be demolished?
In the 90s. I saw Van Halen in Massachusetts. Wolfgang walked out on stage. He was about 3. Eddie played 3:16. And Valarie was on the side of the stage. Very cool moment.
When Ed first came out with that short hair I said to myself, damn Ed looks better than ever!
(of course not to mention that I loved all of the music he made during that period too)
The essential quality with Eddie is realness. Because it is real. It's all his deal, he's the source. It's like Robert Johnson (or Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, etc) and the natural blues. We can practice till we're blue in the face, but compared to them we're just typing. It's a similar thing with Eddie, as compared to everything else downstream from him. And there's a whole hell of a lot downstream from him. Respect.
Goddamn phucking cigarettes! -- If it wasn't for smoking we would've have had another 20 years of Eddie's genius and the joy and charisma he transmitted playing live. Guitar players watch stuff like the live solo at the end of this video and we drop our jaws in amazement wondering how what Eddie Van Halen does with a guitar is even POSSIBLE! He will always be the Bruce Lee of Guitar Players -- no one else will ever reach his level.
Always blows my mind we know how he did it, but how he came up with it is a whole different story ✌️
Not true without the cigarettes he woulda died earlier
Without cigarettes we may not have had a day of his genius
Eddies a guitar magician , without question the greatest guitar player of all time .
even in 60's he's more technically sound, ferocious, and fluid than anyone before or after him. The amount of talent he was blessed with is not from this planet.
BALONEY! Van Halen’s material was utter crap. He was a show-boater and that’s all. Horrible synthesized tone. No one was better than Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was also a composer and a true musician!
@@henryrogers5500 I think you're wrong about Van-Halen but you're right about Hendrix, Henry. 😉
You're delusional.
@@shawndouglass2939 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Randy Rhoada
We miss you, Eddie!!!
The King ia dead. Long Live The King.
The best guitarist ever.
I miss my guitar hero. still feel the pain every day
Eddie was really the man all those years. All the other players were afraid of his talent.
Those are some bad-assed, Terminator 1000 pick-ups!
Miss that guy. Thank you for sharing!
I miss u Eddie!
Like Hendricks, players will study his technique for 100 years.
While Eddie isn't someone I think about every day, the moment I see a picture or video clip of him, a smile immediately comes across my face and I miss the guy. Probably because he was usually smiling as well. (Same with Burt Reynolds lol...the likeable personas and the humor)
He played with JOY. That's what we saw on his face. RIP EVH
@@rickleblanc8900 Exactly right!!! EVH playing guitar always with a huge smile on his face, the most joyous guitar god there ever was.
Thanks Ed!! Peace brother
He was pretty loaded in that first segment……and in the end, he could still tear it the bleep up!
All in good fun I'd say he was pretty funny most of the time anyway ✌️
Thank you this was great!
Thanks for watching please subscribe more to come ✌️
Most of my life, guitar was defined by Eddie, Randy Rhoads and Iron Maiden. Then, thank you God...Punk wound its way into my brain. Bless the Ramones!
Long Live Edward Van Halen!
Just watching this, you see that his whole entire life was dedicated to music. He is a music prodigy, a genius. I will however, never understand why he chose Sammy double-knit haggar to be in Van Halen. Everyone on these comments talks about what a great guy he is. All I see is a phony hacky salesman. Say what you want about diamond Dave, but he brought the band to the masses, & he truly was the baddest front man of all time.
He's friendly, has solid pipes, and has been a successful rocker for years b4 joining the band, that's my best guess. But absolutely no one can do it like dave, he had the style vision, wits, and attitude. He was the ultimate Rockstar paired with the ultimate guitar player and the kill8ngest swinginest rythym section in all of rock n roll
The Greatest. 💀🔥
R.I.P. EDDIE
Eddie was so hot back in the day!
Nobody can touch this Man
RI P
This was VHS to VCR vibe. Echo plex and a Marshall.
He was working with Kramer FOR FREE . He never made a dime while he was endorsing Kramer for that video segment . He played all the instruments for the 1984 demo tapes he made with 5150 studio co-creator Donn Landee .
Imagine how much them kramer shoes he was wearing are worth ✌️
@@MR.KERNAN 😈
A few times I've seen Alex say that ginger baker was one of his heroes. Alex actually smokes ginger baker to oblivion on a bad day. He's like Bonham and Peart rolled into one..As for his brother Ed, he was and still is the pioneer of modern rock guitar..
Nah Ginger Baker was a monster. The problem with comparing ginger to other rock drummers is that he really came from the jazz world and he's a jazz drummer at heart. The guy has a totally different sense of when and how to let loose than the people who've followed him in the rock world. When ginger goes to take a solo or fill he's not trying to cram in as many hits as he can get into measure or sound like a v-twin motorcycle
I've always felt that Alex didn't ever get the appreciation that he deserved. He was a very musical drummer and definitely had his own thing going on. Van Halen would've been very, very different without him.
Also, as hard to believe as it is, even in a band with David Lee Roth, Alex was always kind of the life of the party in the old days. He was a crazy S.o.B! His interviews were always my favorite to watch. This is just a guess, but my opinion is that his wife drained a lot of the life out of him. She always looked angry and bitter in photos. I believe she took Al for a lot of money as well. Plus isn't her brother that sumbitch Ray Daniels?
@@Roger8176 That's what I've always thought too, even Eddie himself would talk about how Alex is also very gifted musically, even as kids how Al would win all these awards for violin playing, and said that unlike himself Alex could read music quickly and play accordingly super fast.
As for his wife, yeah Ray Daniels was her brother. And idk about her draining the life from him necessarily, I think his first marriage (the one that lasted only four months, a lot of people forget about that one, Al's actually been married three times) hurt him a lot more, but he also got sober with his second wife but that was around the time thier Dad died and it seemed Eddie went the other direction cause his addiction began to get even worse. I think all the stress from that and going on the journey to sobriety did make Al become more calm and collected, but yeah he seems a ton more happier with his current wife (who he's also been married to the longest I think🤔)
Peoples heads literally exploded when they first heard that shit 🎸
For sure ! Eruption and You Really Got Me blasting away on my car radio for the first time and I'm wondering who the hell is this kickass guitar god ? Immediately, the world would never be the same ! That's how much of an impact VH had 😮😮
The.
Best.
Period!
YES SIR!!! ✌️
Rest Easy Legend
"...They had to create a whole new thing called tablature..." - EVH. Umm...tablature was intevted in the 15th century...
I will keep playing Eddie thanks ❤️🔥
Late 90’s he looked horrible by 2012 he looked better than he did in 1984. I loved this man. Sue me but Diver Down is my favorite album. I was a Junior at Tina Fey’s High school in 82’.
Just Fucking WOW!!!
Holy shit. He only got better as the years went on..
Nice to have no audio for something called the guitar show
There’s nobody like him…
Tablature been around way before V.H
yeah, dude is smoking something saying they had to invent ways to describe his music...single note runs are so easy to tab or write out on sheet music. And yes they had tapping before EVH... in sheet music and tab.
eddie lives
Any guitar players playing now that catches your ear? No...lol
I love that he said it so quickly too ✌️
He said out of all the 80’s shredders…he liked Vito Bratta (white lion).I get it cause Vito plays from the heart and that damn solo in the song Wait,just beautiful.Rip Ed.
dutch master
It's too bad he's gone from the physicall realm
Any of today’s guitar players catch your ea..NO! 😂
He obviously was the first to do a lot of that, but you could find dozens of guys on RUclips that can sound exactly like that. Still Van Halen fan though.
Anyone can get that sound but what you do with it is a totally different story his Albums speak for there self on numbers not views ✌️
Right… But perhaps not if he didn’t do it first.. keep in mind he did this in the 70’s !!!
Having the sound is one thing, the tone and style is something else entirely. Plus copying and originating are 2 totally different things altogether.
Obviously there wouldn’t be anyone on You Tube ‘sounding exactly’ like the originator who manifest a new style of guitar playing decades before the internet existed, internet copy cats ain’t shit.
I don't have the time to search RUclips for the "dozens" that you claim "can sound exactly like that"...but could you please share a link to even ONE of them?
Still.weird seeing.him.with.grey short hair&grwy goatee..lol almost unrecognizable lol
Idk if anyones watching this on their phone but does the old interview where he’s talking about Clapton come through your top speaker and the rest of the clips come through the normal one by the charging port?
Yeah its old not the best recording
Really? You included The Guitar Show interview?!?!
Yup ✌️
No disrespect meant to Eddie...his influence on the world of music is indisputable. He is definitely a classic narcissist.
This is my favourite EVH moment... He was 21 🤯
ruclips.net/video/xr7nXIzwqJg/видео.html
Amazing great recording too thanks for sharing ✌️
i love eddie to death but his ego is crazy. you didn't invent tabs, ed. sorry bro
How can im not impressed by his solo guitar...small scale typing and lot of delay.
Il sentiero della felicità ruclips.net/video/v9IbVekNyEk/видео.html
Randy Rhoads was BETTER!!!
he had a completely different style. They were both amazing 😊
Ed was far superior ✌️
@@MR.KERNAN I hate to judge or compare. Randy was classically-trained and technically sound. Eddie was also as solid but came from a different background. His tapping and speed were a revelation af the time and he sounded unleashed, If that makes sense
@@rickleblanc8900 they were both great Randy died way too soon...
@Hubert Czerkawski Eddie van Halen was actually my 1st guitar Influence, he was awesome.
When its not about music or a groove, but all about speed and technique. I find it amuzing that people would actually buy these records and then sit down to listen to them. Boring as drying paint to me.
I've seen your videos talk about "boring" lmfao ✌️
When Picasso paints music we like to see the grooves ,technique and speedy delivery 🎸
I mean obviously you enjoy his music or you wouldn't have clicked on the video lol