Yep, and unfortunately he abandoned that tone after about 1984. It was *THEE* perfect tone. I guess he got bored with perfection. Who knows. I was never much of a Van Hagar fan. All I know is this tone right here was just unbelievably tasty.
@@Excalibur2112in his fingers ultimately. Any guitar thru any amp, or acoustic, you can hear his feel. Any electric guitar amplification he played thru, his feel shined.
No doubt about it! This is like holy grail , lost ark material. These unfinished gems & demos are far better than even many bands & artists final songs and albums released !
This is my absolute favorite of the unreleased stuff we’ve heard so far. Man what a gnarly tone. It’s just mean. I love it so much. Fair warning vibes are oozing from this to me as far as the mood of the track. 100/10
This is what Edward’s sound was like until Dave left. Then he started using too much chorus and took the edge off of his tone. You can’t imagine how much I wish he had kept the same tone. This tone has attitude. It was one of the things I loved about Van Halen.
I love this too. And how how about 'Last Night'? In a Simple Rhyme of the demo version blows away the album version, - way more ballz-soul-bitchinness.
i hear a few tracks in this song. The drums at the beginning sound like "A.F.U. Naturally Wired". One little riff sounds like "the seventh seal". Then you have a mix of "act like it hurts." This is awesome!
All of this older stuff turned into two, three, four songs over the years. The brilliance of Ed, recording a idea that never goes to waste. There's stuff on this track alone that goes through a few songs on 1984 and definitely the AFU Naturally Wired beat. I've pulled parts of Drop Dead Legs, Hang em High, AFU, and another riff that I'm still trying to remember the song it's on. 😂 Ed was and always will be the GOAT.... 🐐
He always did, whenever you actually get to hear him. He really got screwed on all those albums. Just buried. Every time I saw them live, Mikey was just tearing it up.
I am very thankful I got to see them 5 times. They were my 1st concert. Saw them in October 1979 at the L.A. Forum when I was 15, just after Van Halen II came out, I was sitting in the 6th row in front of Eddie & still remember bits and pieces of that concert but definitely remember just being in shock & blown away by all that high energy they had on stage, it was just unreal, and then again in 1980,1982, at the US 83 festival and the last time in 2010. I saw a lot of bands in L.A. back in the 80's & 90's and Van Halen was always great !
I saw them for the first time right around that exact same time, in ‘79. I was 11 years old, almost 12, and it was one of my earliest concerts. They knocked me into the dirt. Just stunned me. I had just seen Cheap Trick about a month earlier, and had my mind blown there as well. I thought I would never see anything that would top that, but VH was at the very least just as good. Maybe a little better actually. Those were great times. I was just beginning to turn on to all this stuff that would eventually define who I am.
Isn't it incredible. I was born in October 1979, and my first concert was VH at the Los Angeles Forum in 1995. They've been in my top 3 all time favorite bands since I heard the 5150 album when I was in 7th grade. Guess around 1991 or so. I love both Roth and Hagar and all VH music.
Hey, that's frickin cool ! Those were great times ! Cali changed too much fur me, I moved to South Carolina last October & I absolutely love it here but So. Cal. was the place to be in the 70's & 80's ✌️🤘
That was also the first time I saw them. I was 15. I went on to see the original lineup 7 times, the Sammy era lineup 8 times and the WVH era 5 times. It will always bum me out that we didn't get to see the reunion with the original 4 because we lost King Edward in 2020. R.I.P. to the G.O.A.T. 🎸🎸🎸
Definitely my favorite unreleased VH track. Ed’s guitar tone is monstrous, Alex’s drum sound is gargantuan, and Michael Anthony’s bass totally shines. Wish they would’ve put this out, as musically it’s one of the best tracks I’ve heard from them. Wow. Long live the mighty Van Halen!!!
Yep. There’s no shortage of high quality unreleased material floating around out there and making it’s way on to youtube. Some of it is stuff I’ve already heard a long time ago on various bootlegs, but quite a bit of it is brand new to me, and I’m 56 years old and have been a hardcore VH fan since the first album. I already knew Ed had been sitting on a vault of unreleased recordings, but I had no idea just how vast it was. It would seem that we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. I just hope that Wolfie gets all this stuff compiled and released (officially) at some point in the near future. It’s like rediscovering Van Halen all over again.
Yea man that's so crazy and True! If I was Alex I'd be pissed off to no end knowing there's demos better from many years prior yet Warner Bros or whoever just muffled Alex and Mike. Crazy mixing gone bad
With VH, the demos always sound better than the official album recordings. To me they do anyway. The drums always have more punch, and you can actually hear Mikey’s bass, which is always rock solid. Wolfie really needs to compile all these early demos and release them in a box set. Give ‘em a good remaster but leave the mixes as they are. I’d pay good $$$ for that.
There’s already *TONS* of stuff (from the vaults) floating around here on the youtoobs, and it’s only just the tip of the iceberg. The boys practically lived in the studio (when they weren’t on the road tearing it up on the stages). They recorded *SO MUCH* material that never got an official release. You could probably fill an entire record store with all the recorded material that never saw the light of day. I’m 56 years old, been a massive VH fan since I first heard Eruption/You Really Got Me way back in the summer of ‘78, and I’m still stumbling on to old unreleased songs that are brand new to me, all these decades later.
I hope Alex & Wolfgang go into the vaults & go through all of these gems . Then make peace with DLR & Mikey & finish these songs & release them. Life is way too short
@chrischoir3594 Agree to completely disagree. Instrumentals are awesome, and so is this one. All the greatest bands have terrific ones: VH, Zeppelin, the Who, Rush, the Police. I guess Atomic Punk is not a complete VH song either? There are other great classic VH tunes without backing vocals too.
A awesome instrumental Ed & Al are so locked in together and enhance each other with Mike laying down a solid foundation. More gems like this need to be heard. 🎸 👑❤️🤍🖤
Awesome. 81 very prime Van Halen period. And all you MA haters saying he can’t play… sounds like some damn good live bass chops to perfectly round out the brothers’ excellence.
@davidlauter1622 I aint taking anything away from Jimi, But I aint going to give him or anyone else something that aint theirs either! Yes Jimi certainly did Grab the attention of most all the Guitar Players of the time, No doubt! But nobody on planet Earth actually contributed more to not just the Guitar as an Instrument, but to the entire music industry as a whole. There was a massive effort by the best of the best to figure out a brand new way to explain what Edward was playing and the way he was playing it . Bottom line is Nobody Before Eddie or Since will ever have the profound impact on Music in such a way as he did . Facts Or Facts Man. Its not an opinion of mine . Even though i agree
@TonyTruth without JIMI HENDRIX there wouldn't be an Eddie Van Halen - period ! No other guitar player ever innovated the way electric guitar was played like JIMI HENDRIX ! JIMI wasn't a show off like Eddie ( using his tapping tricks till it just sounded boring ) JIMI painted sound scape pictures with his guitar playing ( just check out " Machine Gun " from the live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve show ) this is the most relevant and best guitar solo ever recorded. Eddie stole everything he could from JIMI ( and never gave him any credit ) Listen, I love some of the stuff that Eddie did and he did innovate certain things, but not like JIMI did. I've seen many players ( including myself ) that have learned Eddie's tricks, but no one can even come close to capturing the MAGIC of JIMI HENDRIX ! When JIMI hit the scene everything changed. The way the guitar was played would never be the same after Hendrix. Plus he was a song writer that was in a class of his own, and had a very unique singing voice. JIMI and Eddie are the only 2 guitar players that ever gave me chills. But JIMI was first. JIMI opened the door and Eddie walked in. That's Why every guitar player that came after Hendrix said JIMI was ( and is ) The Man ! Period !!!!!!!!!!
If Jimi and Eddie set down to Jam , Jimi would have been in Awe and outclassed by absolutely No comparison whatsoever Period.... Jimi died in 71 but his music is still with us today. Eddie Van Halen was doing variations of Eruption in 73 and 74 . To say there would be no Van Halen without Jimi is about as good as saying that there would be no Led Zeppelin without Kentucky Fried Chicken
@TonyTruth your obviously an idiot - But without Hendrix there wouldn't of been a Led Zeppelin - JIMI was only a national act for 3 years. He recorded the greatest electric guitar solo ever recorded shortly before he was murdered.check out " Machine Gun" from the live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve show - JIMI captures all the horrors of war in a sound scape picture. JIMI was much more than a guitar player, he was a force of spiritual awakening. JIMI was a total innovator - any serious guitar player knows that Hendrix totally changed the whole game. Every serious guitar player ( including Eddie ) borrowed from JIMI - I love Eddie's raw energy and All his tricks ( that I learned how to do ) but there has never been ( and never will be) an innovator like JIMI Hendrix. He was " The Man " Eddie played from his heart ❣️ JIMI played from his Soul ! If Hendrix would have lived as long as Eddie, he would have totally changed the course of music 🎶
No matter when or where, we always know when he’s playing guitar. 1:12 THATS what made him the best. Nobody has to say “that’s EVH”…. He’s unmistakable
EXCELLENT!! FORCE!!! Invaluable material! Van Halen's best moments, like every band! The first times are the freshest and most powerful, full of creativity. Thanks for uploading it!
It's always fun hearing these old demos and noticing ideas that were eventually used in other songs from their albums. There was a lot of that from Alex in this song.
Seriously though, they had enough original material to make an album as early as 1976, but it was all waiting on a record label deal. "In A Simple Rhyme" was written in 1974 but wasn't put on an album until 1980.
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Very Cool! These are the raw demos of the Warner Bros Tapes! Should be at least 25 tracks and whatever was cut from those releases. This is one of those songs also known as Act like It Hurts. Main Squeeze must have been an earlier name for the song. This song was nearly released on Women and Children First but didn't make the cut. I have the last version known on Vinyl from the Women and Children First Studio Sessions. Most of these tracks were released on bootlegs and were sped up and pitched changed. This is the first time I've heard them Raw from the Studio! These are from October 26th and 27th of 1977. Awesome Stuff Freddy! Thank You!
I figured this had to be from the WACF era. It just has that whole vibe to it. Someone else here was saying it reminded him/her of Fair Warning, but I don’t hear that at all. Each one of those first 6 albums has a distinct, unique feel to it… and this has WACF written all over it, even if a lot of parts of the song were later put to use on the Van Hagar albums.
@@Shikta-poobah67 After learning more about these songs being released recently you are right. These songs are all from different recording sessions. Big Squeeze is most likely from Dec 1979. And having experience with Van Halen bootlegs and early recordings I should've known better before making the previous comment.
That made my day! If we only had some more stuff from "the vault" that we could have on a purchasable medium. If that's a selfish wish... well, I'm guilty then!
You said it. Best rhythm section in rock (well, maybe after Moon/Entwhistle or Paice/Glover)… that always seems to get overlooked and overshadowed by the guitar. The thing about VH is that they were a sum of their parts, though you’d never guess by the way those albums are mixed. It was when you saw them live that it hit you. They were all on the same tier of talent, yes even Diamond Dave (in the early days). Just because DLR didn’t have some huge vocal range like Freddie Mercury didn’t diminish his unique style. Who else had a signature “OWW! AAH!” like that? It worked perfectly for what they were doing. Anyway, yeah. Every member of VH deserves equal credit for their performance and talent.
At first, I didn't quite like Van Halen One's arrival, being forced to hear their music at a party, but I grew to like and appreciate it, and it became a part of my life, too. I ain't talkin' 'bout love; they took over.
I agree with some folks here. There are glimpses of other "future" songs here on this one. I can hear some "Can't Get This Stuff No More," "Seventh Seal," "AFU/Naturally wired (drums)" and a couple similarities to two others I just can't put my ears to yet. I also agree with many that it is always ALWAYS a pleasure to be able to hear something "new" to me (us) just as a reminder of how amazing this electric guitar God was and how much he will be missed. Jimi Hendrix and Edward Van Halen.... the two TRUE rock and roll gamechangers of the electric guitar (a case could also be made for Chuck Berry believe it or not too) and unanimous busts on Mt. Rushmore. May they both shred in peace.
Love this. Get Roth to stick some lyrics over this and auto-tune him. I don;'t care what it takes, make it happen and release a new album of all this material !
This doesn't need any vocals IMHO. Alex, Edward and Michael are on their A+ game and just totally going for it. I get blissed out every time I hear this cut. Cheers!
Years after his death we are loving this. Nobody has idea how many like this have been recorded. Wolf has all the tapes. Thousands of hours of music. All being put on digital as we speak.
I love that you pulled this of out the recently discovered outtakes and made a photo collage to go with it. It helps expose this great music to future generations. I put it in my family's Friday Night Video collection.
My first Van Halen concert was THIS tour. It was their first tour as a headliner. It was also my first time being completely blown away by a guitar player…so much so that I soon after began playing the instrument myself. Around 50 years, two record deals, and thousands of gigs later, I still am playing because of this guy. Eddie set the world on fire. We will never be the same again. Long live the King!
5150 was my first concert and will always love VH in any form and in every way. I have my 9 piece drum set with cymbals all over because I always wanted to be Alex. Thank you for giving us great music all those years and inspiring many musicians
Awesome, as an obsessed young guitarist when VH1 came out in 78 to now hear this so many decades later is as good as it gets, awesome pics too, Ed and Al were too cool and total rock stars in every aspect.
The Van Halen brothers are typically on fire here, but less mentioned, check out Michael Anthony's bass lines on this track - and in this raw format - absolutely incredible...
Yep. Mikey’s probably the most overlooked bass player in all of rock, in no small part because his tracks were always buried so low on the albums that you’d be hard pressed to even make out root notes. Then I’d go see them live, and Michael’s just ripping it up. Same thing as on all these demos, where you can actually *HEAR* the bass tracks. He’s a major talent. Why do they bury him on the albums? I’ve never understood. Also, the drums always sound better on all these demos. A lot punchier. The kick drum stands out more. It doesn’t take anything away from Ed’s playing. The guitar still sounds just as great and full as it does on the albums, but being able to hear the rhythm section really enhances the songs that much more.
WOW. Never heard this. Amazing sound quality and song structure. Groove for weeks. Eds solo is fricken gorgeous. Oh and that guitar tone....to DIE for.
This is my favorite VH outtake. Edward, Alex and Mike are on the same plane. From the groove, Edward's solo emerges and rips like a MOFO. Why didn't this get released back in the day?!
The vocal version of this song ruclips.net/video/ZuSLKvn2us0/видео.html
Not much compares to hearing a “new to you” Van Halen song from your favorite band when you’re 53. I have bought their albums on tape, cd and digital!
Same here (52 yrs old).
@@insidethemusicalmind7207 same here 55 YR old. Lol
49 and I agree
I was born in 1970 also. My 24 year old son's middle name is Edward. This reminds me of discovering VH when I was 12. All over again
8-tracks too!!
If someone had leaned over to eddie after they recorded this and told him that people would be listening to it in 2023, he would have fallen over.
Indeed ,don't we love it, still doesn't get the recognition of just how damn good he is
Or in 5150
Yes but so true as I am on this 2023 Thanksgiving!!!!!
Idk, I think he'd say it was about damn time.
He did
That guitar tone… just one note is all it takes to know it’s him. Awesome.
Yep, and unfortunately he abandoned that tone after about 1984. It was *THEE* perfect tone. I guess he got bored with perfection. Who knows. I was never much of a Van Hagar fan. All I know is this tone right here was just unbelievably tasty.
His tone was monstrously grand. It made him into a guitar giant!
Goosebumps
@@Excalibur2112in his fingers ultimately. Any guitar thru any amp, or acoustic, you can hear his feel. Any electric guitar amplification he played thru, his feel shined.
LOL...that is so freaking true Paul. Loves it!!!
Even at my old age, Ed's playing can still bring tears. I miss ya', brother.
Agreed!
🐐
He’ll yes bro
Just reading your comment brings me to tears. RIP our rock guitar God Edward Van Halen
Wait.... you cried when you heard this because of Ed's guitar? LOL
The magic of the Roth era is unmatched
No doubt about it! This is like holy grail , lost ark material. These unfinished gems & demos are far better than even many bands & artists final songs and albums released !
well, this song proves they didnt need Roth at all.
@@carlklejna5774 This here represents Van Halen in their top form,…. DLR not needed in this.
The seventies and eighties were the greatest time to be a teenager.
@@larryroybal6946 Yes, 2 great decades. 👍
The rhythm section is incredible
Yes indeed
@@TrueFreddyKdrums sound like AFU
@@thetanman2233 yep!!! had that one in the bank for a rainy day
Ed’s tone was epic.
it is this is great tone
Right on. The opening riff tone just pure Ed.
And Alex's drums have always had an unmistakable sound as well
All in the hands
The ultimate tone! Exactly how a guitar should sound 👌
If we all could find our purpose like Edward had for the guitar . The world would be a far better place . Just magic The king
Great comment!
Good comment and also you can Ikigai is the way...logotherapy too...Viktor Frankl and Makima Asimiya
Unfortunately some people's "talent" is destruction.
I think about this exact thing every friggin day trying to discover it!
I agree and honestly that is my passion and key to getting out of this thing "alive '".
This is my absolute favorite of the unreleased stuff we’ve heard so far. Man what a gnarly tone. It’s just mean. I love it so much. Fair warning vibes are oozing from this to me as far as the mood of the track. 100/10
Itz badass alrite
This is what Edward’s sound was like until Dave left. Then he started using too much chorus and took the edge off of his tone. You can’t imagine how much I wish he had kept the same tone. This tone has attitude. It was one of the things I loved about Van Halen.
I love this too. And how how about 'Last Night'? In a Simple Rhyme of the demo version blows away the album version, - way more ballz-soul-bitchinness.
agreed. fair warning
Voodoo Queen, Act like it hurts, Down in Flames, We Die bold, etc
i hear a few tracks in this song. The drums at the beginning sound like "A.F.U. Naturally Wired". One little riff sounds like "the seventh seal". Then you have a mix of "act like it hurts." This is awesome!
I really dig this track too
That's crazy talk! Sam Hager said they never recycled ideas when he wrote all the songs for VH !
@@DarknessIsSpreading_01 not really crazy talk when theres a video of Eddie playing Amsterdam in 1986
All of this older stuff turned into two, three, four songs over the years. The brilliance of Ed, recording a idea that never goes to waste. There's stuff on this track alone that goes through a few songs on 1984 and definitely the AFU Naturally Wired beat. I've pulled parts of Drop Dead Legs, Hang em High, AFU, and another riff that I'm still trying to remember the song it's on. 😂 Ed was and always will be the GOAT.... 🐐
@DylanAdamson I think the poster was being sarcastic about Sam's penchant for, uhh, gross exaggeration.
Mike Anthony is killin it!!!!
It's probably Ed playing bass
@@24theMoney i would hope think not...mike kills it the bass...seen him live 7 times...solid as two rocks and locked in tight as all get out
It's Mike
He always did, whenever you actually get to hear him. He really got screwed on all those albums. Just buried. Every time I saw them live, Mikey was just tearing it up.
His bass kicks it like the band Tower of Power. Great groove.
These guy's are talented. They should record an album.
How? EVH is in heaven
@@d.s1014 dummy
It's hard to want to live in a world without EVH
We’ll said
Kinda reminds me of that major-ish mid break in light of the sky… Edward always had that just melodic sensibility in his playing
I am very thankful I got to see them 5 times. They were my 1st concert. Saw them in October 1979 at the L.A. Forum when I was 15, just after Van Halen II came out, I was sitting in the 6th row in front of Eddie & still remember bits and pieces of that concert but definitely remember just being in shock & blown away by all that high energy they had on stage, it was just unreal, and then again in 1980,1982, at the US 83 festival and the last time in 2010. I saw a lot of bands in L.A. back in the 80's & 90's and Van Halen was always great !
I saw them for the first time right around that exact same time, in ‘79. I was 11 years old, almost 12, and it was one of my earliest concerts. They knocked me into the dirt. Just stunned me. I had just seen Cheap Trick about a month earlier, and had my mind blown there as well. I thought I would never see anything that would top that, but VH was at the very least just as good. Maybe a little better actually. Those were great times. I was just beginning to turn on to all this stuff that would eventually define who I am.
Isn't it incredible. I was born in October 1979, and my first concert was VH at the Los Angeles Forum in 1995. They've been in my top 3 all time favorite bands since I heard the 5150 album when I was in 7th grade. Guess around 1991 or so. I love both Roth and Hagar and all VH music.
Hey, that's frickin cool ! Those were great times ! Cali changed too much fur me, I moved to South Carolina last October & I absolutely love it here but So. Cal. was the place to be in the 70's & 80's ✌️🤘
A- men to that! I was lucky enough to see them 7- times!
That was also the first time I saw them. I was 15. I went on to see the original lineup 7 times, the Sammy era lineup 8 times and the WVH era 5 times. It will always bum me out that we didn't get to see the reunion with the original 4 because we lost King Edward in 2020. R.I.P. to the G.O.A.T. 🎸🎸🎸
Definitely my favorite unreleased VH track. Ed’s guitar tone is monstrous, Alex’s drum sound is gargantuan, and Michael Anthony’s bass totally shines. Wish they would’ve put this out, as musically it’s one of the best tracks I’ve heard from them. Wow. Long live the mighty Van Halen!!!
Some amazing bass going on here!
Live yes he's good but on record with the Dave yrs. Don't hear it.
I love all this extra VH we get now. They were so good, magical.
Yep. There’s no shortage of high quality unreleased material floating around out there and making it’s way on to youtube. Some of it is stuff I’ve already heard a long time ago on various bootlegs, but quite a bit of it is brand new to me, and I’m 56 years old and have been a hardcore VH fan since the first album. I already knew Ed had been sitting on a vault of unreleased recordings, but I had no idea just how vast it was. It would seem that we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
I just hope that Wolfie gets all this stuff compiled and released (officially) at some point in the near future. It’s like rediscovering Van Halen all over again.
I hear you, Don. The deeper you go, the greater they are. Amazing all this old stuff.
The guitar player that changed the tone and the approach of rock music 🎉😊😊
I put EVH & Jimi Hendrix as the GOATs ! Both innovators & game changers in their eras ! They were not of this world !
@@carlklejna5774 agreed, i would also add Allan Holdsworth as well
Sensational stuff. Alex’s drumming is unbelievable. His drums here sound better than what we hear on the official WB albums.
I agree with that
I think MA's bass also sounds better than on the albums.
Yea man that's so crazy and True! If I was Alex I'd be pissed off to no end knowing there's demos better from many years prior yet Warner Bros or whoever just muffled Alex and Mike. Crazy mixing gone bad
With VH, the demos always sound better than the official album recordings. To me they do anyway. The drums always have more punch, and you can actually hear Mikey’s bass, which is always rock solid.
Wolfie really needs to compile all these early demos and release them in a box set. Give ‘em a good remaster but leave the mixes as they are. I’d pay good $$$ for that.
Especially those Simmons drum pads which totally removed the balls from 5150.
This is amazing. I can just imagine what's in the vault 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
There’s already *TONS* of stuff (from the vaults) floating around here on the youtoobs, and it’s only just the tip of the iceberg. The boys practically lived in the studio (when they weren’t on the road tearing it up on the stages). They recorded *SO MUCH* material that never got an official release. You could probably fill an entire record store with all the recorded material that never saw the light of day.
I’m 56 years old, been a massive VH fan since I first heard Eruption/You Really Got Me way back in the summer of ‘78, and I’m still stumbling on to old unreleased songs that are brand new to me, all these decades later.
I hope Alex & Wolfgang go into the vaults & go through all of these gems . Then make peace with DLR & Mikey & finish these songs & release them. Life is way too short
This stuff is timeless! Wow! Van Halen were the crème de la crème!
Michael sure seems to be having fun in this track.
Vintage Eddie! The man was so creative! Sure do miss you buddy 🙏
Just goes to show how truly Great they were!
Jesus H - all doubts are officially removed (never really had any!)
This is the the best rock unit EVER - not even a close second!
This song should have been on an album. Classic greatness!!!
Maybe with words and singing
@@chrischoir3594Not everything needs words and singing. Instrumentals are awesome, and VH always had good ones on every album from the Dave era.
@@kevinwilkins3248 well then it needs more solos, but no VH song is complete unless MA sings backup voclas
@chrischoir3594 Agree to completely disagree. Instrumentals are awesome, and so is this one. All the greatest bands have terrific ones: VH, Zeppelin, the Who, Rush, the Police. I guess Atomic Punk is not a complete VH song either? There are other great classic VH tunes without backing vocals too.
A awesome instrumental Ed & Al are so locked in together and enhance each other with Mike laying down a solid foundation. More gems like this need to be heard. 🎸 👑❤️🤍🖤
Awesome. 81 very prime Van Halen period. And all you MA haters saying he can’t play… sounds like some damn good live bass chops to perfectly round out the brothers’ excellence.
yeaH DUDE ED WAS MORE LIKELY THAN NOT PLAYING BASS
Wow and Wow 🤩! Mighty Van Halen!
Man , Eddie laysdown some frick'n sick shred right there , i dont care what anybody says ! He is the Man Period...
Hendrix was The Man ! Eddie learned from his ( as did most guitar players after him !
@davidlauter1622 I aint taking anything away from Jimi, But I aint going to give him or anyone else something that aint theirs either! Yes Jimi certainly did Grab the attention of most all the Guitar Players of the time, No doubt! But nobody on planet Earth actually contributed more to not just the Guitar as an Instrument, but to the entire music industry as a whole. There was a massive effort by the best of the best to figure out a brand new way to explain what Edward was playing and the way he was playing it . Bottom line is Nobody Before Eddie or Since will ever have the profound impact on Music in such a way as he did . Facts Or Facts Man. Its not an opinion of mine . Even though i agree
@TonyTruth without JIMI HENDRIX there wouldn't be an Eddie Van Halen - period ! No other guitar player ever innovated the way electric guitar was played like JIMI HENDRIX ! JIMI wasn't a show off like Eddie ( using his tapping tricks till it just sounded boring ) JIMI painted sound scape pictures with his guitar playing ( just check out " Machine Gun " from the live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve show ) this is the most relevant and best guitar solo ever recorded. Eddie stole everything he could from JIMI ( and never gave him any credit ) Listen, I love some of the stuff that Eddie did and he did innovate certain things, but not like JIMI did. I've seen many players ( including myself ) that have learned Eddie's tricks, but no one can even come close to capturing the MAGIC of JIMI HENDRIX ! When JIMI hit the scene everything changed. The way the guitar was played would never be the same after Hendrix. Plus he was a song writer that was in a class of his own, and had a very unique singing voice. JIMI and Eddie are the only 2 guitar players that ever gave me chills. But JIMI was first. JIMI opened the door and Eddie walked in. That's Why every guitar player that came after Hendrix said JIMI was ( and is ) The Man ! Period !!!!!!!!!!
If Jimi and Eddie set down to Jam , Jimi would have been in Awe and outclassed by absolutely No comparison whatsoever Period.... Jimi died in 71 but his music is still with us today. Eddie Van Halen was doing variations of Eruption in 73 and 74 . To say there would be no Van Halen without Jimi is about as good as saying that there would be no Led Zeppelin without Kentucky Fried Chicken
@TonyTruth your obviously an idiot - But without Hendrix there wouldn't of been a Led Zeppelin - JIMI was only a national act for 3 years. He recorded the greatest electric guitar solo ever recorded shortly before he was murdered.check out " Machine Gun" from the live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve show - JIMI captures all the horrors of war in a sound scape picture. JIMI was much more than a guitar player, he was a force of spiritual awakening. JIMI was a total innovator - any serious guitar player knows that Hendrix totally changed the whole game. Every serious guitar player ( including Eddie ) borrowed from JIMI - I love Eddie's raw energy and All his tricks ( that I learned how to do ) but there has never been ( and never will be) an innovator like JIMI Hendrix. He was " The Man " Eddie played from his heart ❣️ JIMI played from his Soul ! If Hendrix would have lived as long as Eddie, he would have totally changed the course of music 🎶
EVH showing everybody why he's the King! What a great piece of music!
Beginning sounds like AFU from OU812
Yep. It's also got parts of what would become Seventh Seal.
There's the cowbell part that Alex used at the end of House of pain also.
I've never seen most of these photos either. Amazing song and video.
No matter when or where, we always know when he’s playing guitar. 1:12 THATS what made him the best. Nobody has to say “that’s EVH”…. He’s unmistakable
It's up there with one of his best quiet breakdown bits for sure. I absolutely love it, in fact I got a bit teary when I first heard it
That part is so 🔥🔥🔥
Great music. Like being able to hear Michael's bass lines so clearly. A band in their prime.
11/19/23
That was a shot I really needed.
\m/ 🎸
King Edward and Crew will always live in my heart.., that bass ❤
This is an outtake/alternate arrangement of a track called Red Zone, which was recorded in late 1979 for Women and Children First.
Right! I thought I was the only one that knew that!
Just think how many countless unreleased tracks there must be.
EVH...... BEST OF ALL TIME!!!!
EXCELLENT!! FORCE!!! Invaluable material! Van Halen's best moments, like every band! The first times are the freshest and most powerful, full of creativity. Thanks for uploading it!
Right on
This rocks. So cool hearing unreleased early Van Halen for the first time.
It's always fun hearing these old demos and noticing ideas that were eventually used in other songs from their albums. There was a lot of that from Alex in this song.
Great tone and a very "brown sound" song. Great riff and it's stuck in my head which is great!
Van Halen was a 10,000-hour band before they even went on their first tour
10000 hours or iterations, they did both.
Seriously though, they had enough original material to make an album as early as 1976, but it was all waiting on a record label deal. "In A Simple Rhyme" was written in 1974 but wasn't put on an album until 1980.
House of Pain was from the 70s, too.
@@vincevegas8529 Ed never learned to read music. He had such a good ear and just memorized the notes in his head. This is why he was so avant-grade.
@@vincevegas8529 Great story, different category lumberjack landlord looking up on RUclips drops out of school at 9 grade, owns a 140 properties doors. As we say, it in real estate, Ann manages them all and manages a sale software company. And has his fourth child with his wife. Lumberjack landlord school is so much b******* for so many.
Very Cool! These are the raw demos of the Warner Bros Tapes! Should be at least 25 tracks and whatever was cut from those releases. This is one of those songs also known as Act like It Hurts. Main Squeeze must have been an earlier name for the song. This song was nearly released on Women and Children First but didn't make the cut. I have the last version known on Vinyl from the Women and Children First Studio Sessions. Most of these tracks were released on bootlegs and were sped up and pitched changed. This is the first time I've heard them Raw from the Studio! These are from October 26th and 27th of 1977. Awesome Stuff Freddy! Thank You!
I figured this had to be from the WACF era. It just has that whole vibe to it. Someone else here was saying it reminded him/her of Fair Warning, but I don’t hear that at all. Each one of those first 6 albums has a distinct, unique feel to it… and this has WACF written all over it, even if a lot of parts of the song were later put to use on the Van Hagar albums.
@@Shikta-poobah67 After learning more about these songs being released recently you are right. These songs are all from different recording sessions. Big Squeeze is most likely from Dec 1979. And having experience with Van Halen bootlegs and early recordings I should've known better before making the previous comment.
That made my day! If we only had some more stuff from "the vault" that we could have on a purchasable medium. If that's a selfish wish... well, I'm guilty then!
So much talent !
RIP EVH
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Mike Anthony getting it done as usual to a high degree mikey rules
This has a fair warning tone to it. Wolfgang release all THIS unreleased stuff.
He hates VH fans.
Mike is tearing it up...the best ruthym section...and even live in the studio🤪
You said it. Best rhythm section in rock (well, maybe after Moon/Entwhistle or Paice/Glover)… that always seems to get overlooked and overshadowed by the guitar. The thing about VH is that they were a sum of their parts, though you’d never guess by the way those albums are mixed. It was when you saw them live that it hit you. They were all on the same tier of talent, yes even Diamond Dave (in the early days). Just because DLR didn’t have some huge vocal range like Freddie Mercury didn’t diminish his unique style. Who else had a signature “OWW! AAH!” like that? It worked perfectly for what they were doing.
Anyway, yeah. Every member of VH deserves equal credit for their performance and talent.
At first, I didn't quite like Van Halen One's arrival, being forced to hear their music at a party, but I grew to like and appreciate it, and it became a part of my life, too. I ain't talkin' 'bout love; they took over.
I agree with some folks here. There are glimpses of other "future" songs here on this one. I can hear some "Can't Get This Stuff No More," "Seventh Seal," "AFU/Naturally wired (drums)" and a couple similarities to two others I just can't put my ears to yet. I also agree with many that it is always ALWAYS a pleasure to be able to hear something "new" to me (us) just as a reminder of how amazing this electric guitar God was and how much he will be missed. Jimi Hendrix and Edward Van Halen.... the two TRUE rock and roll gamechangers of the electric guitar (a case could also be made for Chuck Berry believe it or not too) and unanimous busts on Mt. Rushmore. May they both shred in peace.
Brilliant 👏
THANX ,KRUMINS! Great pictures too!!!!!
That opening drum part is also the opening to the song "Naturally Wired" on the OU812 album
King Edward, indeed! Hey Fred!
Wow, enjoyed this so much! Some fresh Van Halen, like the spirit of godly inspiration 🫠
Amazing tone man... and MA kicking it at: 1:19
Love this. Get Roth to stick some lyrics over this and auto-tune him. I don;'t care what it takes, make it happen and release a new album of all this material !
Even autotune can't make Dave sound good.
This doesn't need any vocals IMHO. Alex, Edward and Michael are on their A+ game and just totally going for it. I get blissed out every time I hear this cut. Cheers!
Years after his death we are loving this. Nobody has idea how many like this have been recorded. Wolf has all the tapes. Thousands of hours of music. All being put on digital as we speak.
Was just thinking about how so much better if he was still here yesterday. Then found this one on youtube. Thanks for the upload
Lots more here that you probably haven't heard
@@TrueFreddyK Awesome. You made my decade 🤘🤘
That crescendo that Eddie does at the end of his solo at 3:00 is so sweet.
Awesome slide show in the video! Thanks!
“Naturally Wired” from OU812 used that opening drum beat
I love that you pulled this of out the recently discovered outtakes and made a photo collage to go with it. It helps expose this great music to future generations. I put it in my family's Friday Night Video collection.
That should have been on Fair Warning. Killer tune! I'm sure there are tons of demos like that lying around at 5150 the the world has never heard.
sounds so good, thank you
What a jam! That opening groove!
All I need now is a cold beer!!!
Sounds straight out of the Twister era 1996! Love it, brought tears to my eyes. Thanks Al! 🙏
Van Halen The most ultimate rock band of all time RIP EVH
My first Van Halen concert was THIS tour. It was their first tour as a headliner. It was also my first time being completely blown away by a guitar player…so much so that I soon after began playing the instrument myself. Around 50 years, two record deals, and thousands of gigs later, I still am playing because of this guy. Eddie set the world on fire. We will never be the same again. Long live the King!
Why wasn’t this released? It’s brilliant. Got hit written all over it!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, nothing beats original Van Halen !
More inspiration !! Love it 🤘🤘
5150 was my first concert and will always love VH in any form and in every way. I have my 9 piece drum set with cymbals all over because I always wanted to be Alex. Thank you for giving us great music all those years and inspiring many musicians
I’m listening to VH more and more everyday. Absolutely legendary!
Ive never seen the covers and iv not heard this recording. TY
The King is gone but not forgotten. AMAZING MAN
for sure!
Thanks so much for posting!! Sounds like parts from their 2nd 3rd and 4th in one blast. Bass is cool too!
pretty cool even without vox~
Thanks for uploading
Awesome, as an obsessed young guitarist when VH1 came out in 78 to now hear this so many decades later is as good as it gets, awesome pics too, Ed and Al were too cool and total rock stars in every aspect.
Incredible. That lick in 2nd verse is ridiculous!!! Thanks for posting!!
He had such an ear for melody. That is catchy. Thank you for sharing.
Edward was one of the greats!
OMFG! A VH song in 5! #progrock
The Van Halen brothers are typically on fire here, but less mentioned, check out Michael Anthony's bass lines on this track - and in this raw format - absolutely incredible...
Yep. Mikey’s probably the most overlooked bass player in all of rock, in no small part because his tracks were always buried so low on the albums that you’d be hard pressed to even make out root notes. Then I’d go see them live, and Michael’s just ripping it up. Same thing as on all these demos, where you can actually *HEAR* the bass tracks. He’s a major talent. Why do they bury him on the albums? I’ve never understood.
Also, the drums always sound better on all these demos. A lot punchier. The kick drum stands out more. It doesn’t take anything away from Ed’s playing. The guitar still sounds just as great and full as it does on the albums, but being able to hear the rhythm section really enhances the songs that much more.
I’m so happy this band happened
I love this! Thank you for uploading!
Great stuff
flippin great guitar work, live this
What an enjoyable piece . Love it
WOW. Never heard this. Amazing sound quality and song structure. Groove for weeks. Eds solo is fricken gorgeous. Oh and that guitar tone....to DIE for.
Thanks for posting this. Really added to my morning
So satisfying! So triumphant!
Ed's composing was genius!
So missed, every day!
But he still makes me smile...
EVERY DAY! ❤
This is a real gem to hear! So thankful for this! VH Forever!
OMG, those outfits!!!
Why wasn't this on anything? So close to being done...and the break down is GREAT!!
Thanks for this Freddy... Awesome.
Enjoy~
legend
This is my favorite VH outtake. Edward, Alex and Mike are on the same plane. From the groove, Edward's solo emerges and rips like a MOFO. Why didn't this get released back in the day?!
It's so damn happy😅! I recall having a very poor mix of this in 2003 or so. This is excellent!