When I first heard this song I was in a van with my buddy getting a ride to school in 2001, his step dad played this , and said “you wanna hear good music?” And me and my buddy both looked at each other said “when we get out of school we need to learn this on guitar” 😂 I remember having the thoughts that it sounded like something out of the video game from double dragon…. Such a bad ass riff
Your comment is what is wrong with the guitar scene and has been since the dawn of the internet. You learn guitar to impress others who don’t care. You show off expensive gear to people who don’t care. The people who actually care are so put off by your ego and phoniness that they end up resenting you. Therefore you listen to non musicians for validation and have no love for the instrument. You just want the attention that comes with it
@@Richard_Clock if wanting to look cool gets them into playing the guitar and falling in love with it then whats the big deal? Do you really think most kids who have picked up a guitar sick atleast the seventies didnt think about how cool it was and sit in front of the mirror playing imagining playing in front of people like the greats they think are awsome? If it brings more people into playing instruments then who cares, its just a phase kids go through but the guitar and music sticks with you for life and its great.
@@Richard_ClockDamn dude who pissed in your Cheerios? Every bit of your cynical comment is silly nonsense. Everybody has mixed motivations, and perhaps one in 100 people aren't swayed by the compliments of others, musicians and non-musicians alike. The idea that a musician shouldn't be swayed by the opinions of non-musicians is elitist nonsense. Arguably non-musicians' opinions are far more important than the opinions of fellow musicians for people who are aspiring to be a professional player. Hardly anybody makes a living just playing for nothing but an audience of musicians. The rest of the world of professional musicians is full of people who play mostly for non-musicians. To act like the opinions of the audience don't matter pretty much guarantees a very short career.
I have seen Dweezil play with his dad and see him whenever he comes around my area . He is a very down to earth individual whom I know his dad would be impressed by his accomplishments. He knows over 500 of his dads songs. Audience participation is what bonds the performer to the audience and once the audience becomes part of the performance you have fans for life. Zappa concerts always had audience participation and I have been a fan of Zappa since '76.
I've seen Dweezil play twice in his Zappa plays Zappa tour. IMO, he's a better technical guitar player than his dad. He can play his dad's music flawlessly, but then he has so much more.
@Scott-no8su hes kinda like a nepo baby but in the best possible way!! He used those resources and legacy to get better, and seems to be a "fairly normal, fairly chill" guy!!
@@bazwav "Ain't Talkin Bout" love by Van Halen. Crank some good speakers or headphones and listen to the intro guitar, that is the best recorded lead crunchy tone possibly in history. Best use of flanger ever.
Dweezil is a super nice, down to earth kinda guy. Me and my wife met him before a show and he signed some stuff for my 4 year old son and my due any second still in the womb son. What an amazing musician man.
As a guitar player, this was SO interesting to hear the difference, stylistically, that the even something as subtle as how you hold the pick generates a different sound from the guitar. Very cool!
Ed was obsessed with this stuff. He said he would spend hours upon hours just playing the same riffs over and over all day in different ways to see what sounded best to him.
You are envious, not jealous. Jealousy means you wish you had what he has & you’re salty about him having it. Envy means you wish you had what he has & you’re happy he has it too. We all get this jealousy usage wrong. I had to be corrected too. I’m also envious of the killer talent & the generosity/grace w/ which that talent is shared makes me feel blessed to experience this moment.💜
Yet somehow when I play it, it is not quite there....'cause I'm really not a rock guitarist, mostly a strummer. Did have a teacher show me last year but I have a long way to go to make it sound great. Fell in love at first listen, in Machine Shop in high school when this came out
I was born in 92 and I would do anything to be able to see certain bands live in the 80’s. All the greatest bands of all time were still playing . It was the best decade of music because you still had access to what came before PLUS so much more.
I did. VH '80, Blizzard of Ozz twice '81, Black Sabbath with Dio(his first tour with them), Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan, Rush Moving Pictures tour, Motorhead's first tour, Rainbow, Deep Purple Perfect Strangers tour, SRV 3 times, Alvin Lee 4 times..and about 100 others.
@mrburns366 I read it as two separate sentences. I'm responding to the second statement. Regardless, it's definitely dripping with bias for when they grew up.
Everything about this track is awesome. When all band members show up to rehearsals bringing their A Games. I bet they had the whole thing down on paper in an hour. No arguments, no endless editing,. It feels like a one take song, A rare song.
Their first several albums were recorded that way. The band would do 3 or 4 tales (with Roth singing, but not necessarily the performance that would be on the record) and then they'd pick the best one, and the band would go get drunk while DLR and Ted Templeman worked on vocals for a while. That's how they recorded the first 5 albums in only 2 or 3 weeks (for each album, of course).
@metalboy5150 Best way to do it. Sabbath would basically play like a live Gig and record an Album in one day. Most of the greats only spent a few days in the studio, l
I saw his dad and three friends jam in a small italian resturaunt in sylmar ...they all had old small tweed amps and jammed like you wouldn't beleive best most intimate jamm ive ever seen circa 1984
@@andthe4010 You never know. In the music business, it's not always about the super talent, but also about luck and meeting the right people at the right time.
I'd read years ago Eddie felt the tone and volume was too strong on the first two albums, but I think that's what makes them great. Guitar power can't be denied!
You want to go to a good concert and not have to take a second on your house, Dweezil is it! Top notch musicians playing well written music...you will not be disappointed!
Not only does it produce an awesome articulation, It also keeps a sweaty pick from moving out of the fingers during the picking of a fast riff or solo. 🎸
Thats the very first guitar riff I learned at 16 yrs old in 1980. That was the start of my lifelong love of the guitar. Still play everyday loud and hard. The grandkids haven't heard this song yet. I think I'll practice and polish this one up and introduce ain't talking bout love to their young impressionable minds. Grandpa Rocks!!
🙀Is that why it’s always been my favorite VH song?! I can’t explain it, there’s something special about Ain’t Talking About Love that caught me the very first time I listened to it & it never let me go!😻
Cuando escuché por primera vez ATBL en 1991 creí que era una canción actual. Cuando supe que era de 1977 - 1978 mi cerebro voló... PUM!!! Eddie fue un adelantado a su época.
Same for me, even though I was listening to hard rock ever since I was 5. I think the chance of hearing Van Halen was abysmal in Sweden during the 90s, except Jump.
Sounded better the first way (regular) can remember when i first bought this album when i was 12 in 1978 after hearing Running With The Devil for the first time on the radio .this riff was my favorite on the entire album .maybe my all time riff of theirs
That man is a treasure. I heard Frank had Eddie give him lessons when he was younger. Not sure if that's true or not, but Dweezil is an absolute beast on the guitar.
it sounds like its almost the picks side scraping while plucking. I got this sound ONE time when I tried learning it and thats what I did. I sort of scraped the string with the side of the pick while picking the string like normal. forgot all about that sound. I held the pick the same way he did in this video. really cool to see thats how Eddie did it to, bc when I stumbled upon it was dumb ass luck.. I saw syn gates back in the day hold it like that and decided to try it and it was on this song. I used a ton chorus and reverb with some delay to get my sound on some digitech guitar workstation gnx3 way back in the day. great fun song to learn for beginners. even the solo is super easy! and if you have a wammy bar, have fun with the dive bomb at the end of that solo and go nuts!
G'day Rick, I did this great song as a piano version 😊 Works on all different instruments on a two chord song. Brilliant. Sounds great on the piano when slowed down.
Eddie always held his pick like that. Somehow when I was learning that’s how I naturally hold a pic as well and people always tell me it’s wrong. Worked for Eddie 🤷♂️ and it works for me.
Eddie openly said this was his secret. He said most of what he played was relatively simple, but because he grew up dirt poor he never had any money for pedals and effects, he had to figure out ways to create effects with his fingers. It's why his sound was so unique to him, even though he wasn't using any special gear.
This is one of those riffs that make you look god-tier to non-players if you can pull it off decently.
When I first heard this song I was in a van with my buddy getting a ride to school in 2001, his step dad played this , and said “you wanna hear good music?” And me and my buddy both looked at each other said “when we get out of school we need to learn this on guitar” 😂 I remember having the thoughts that it sounded like something out of the video game from double dragon…. Such a bad ass riff
I love double dragon ❤ love all the 80's ninja games shinobi shadow warriors
Good times @@Cognitoman
Your comment is what is wrong with the guitar scene and has been since the dawn of the internet. You learn guitar to impress others who don’t care. You show off expensive gear to people who don’t care. The people who actually care are so put off by your ego and phoniness that they end up resenting you. Therefore you listen to non musicians for validation and have no love for the instrument. You just want the attention that comes with it
@@Richard_Clock if wanting to look cool gets them into playing the guitar and falling in love with it then whats the big deal? Do you really think most kids who have picked up a guitar sick atleast the seventies didnt think about how cool it was and sit in front of the mirror playing imagining playing in front of people like the greats they think are awsome? If it brings more people into playing instruments then who cares, its just a phase kids go through but the guitar and music sticks with you for life and its great.
@@Richard_ClockDamn dude who pissed in your Cheerios?
Every bit of your cynical comment is silly nonsense. Everybody has mixed motivations, and perhaps one in 100 people aren't swayed by the compliments of others, musicians and non-musicians alike.
The idea that a musician shouldn't be swayed by the opinions of non-musicians is elitist nonsense. Arguably non-musicians' opinions are far more important than the opinions of fellow musicians for people who are aspiring to be a professional player.
Hardly anybody makes a living just playing for nothing but an audience of musicians. The rest of the world of professional musicians is full of people who play mostly for non-musicians. To act like the opinions of the audience don't matter pretty much guarantees a very short career.
This in why guitar is such a versatile instrument
Facts
Electric guitar*
@@NRG2 acoustic or electric is versatile
Ask Les Claypool about bass
@@NRG2 both are versatile genius, goes to show what you know about instruments wifi genie you don't even play do you
Maybe the best riff in the history of rock-'n'-roll. Definitely top-5 for me.
You’re over 50 aren’t you?
@BuhTM not even close
Unchained
Amen to that
It may be.. its not but it's possible.. Hell i bet Eddie's got at least one or two better
Dweezil is an incredible musician. Just the ability to play his dads music alone speakers volume to his skills
Zappa plays zappa is one of the best shows I've seen
I have seen Dweezil play with his dad and see him whenever he comes around my area . He is a very down to earth individual whom I know his dad would be impressed by his accomplishments. He knows over 500 of his dads songs. Audience participation is what bonds the performer to the audience and once the audience becomes part of the performance you have fans for life. Zappa concerts always had audience participation and I have been a fan of Zappa since '76.
I've seen Dweezil play twice in his Zappa plays Zappa tour. IMO, he's a better technical guitar player than his dad. He can play his dad's music flawlessly, but then he has so much more.
@Scott-no8su hes kinda like a nepo baby but in the best possible way!! He used those resources and legacy to get better, and seems to be a "fairly normal, fairly chill" guy!!
The tone of that intro riff is big enough to shatter multiverses. Van Halen I is one of the best albums of all time.
Only the Boston debut album comes close
I remember hearing it for the very first time. It was just electric... it made me feel electric.
What song is this riff from? I’m new to rock
@@bazwav "Ain't Talkin Bout" love by Van Halen. Crank some good speakers or headphones and listen to the intro guitar, that is the best recorded lead crunchy tone possibly in history. Best use of flanger ever.
@@NytronX It's pretty good. Unchained is also up there as well.
I love listening to Dweezil talk about playing guitar
....DWEEZIL?? What kind of name is that? 😂
Dweezil is a super nice, down to earth kinda guy. Me and my wife met him before a show and he signed some stuff for my 4 year old son and my due any second still in the womb son. What an amazing musician man.
He’s part of Rock Royalties
His dad is a Rock Legend Frank Zappa
@PISStopherNolan You would have to ask his sisters, Moon Unit, and Diva, or his brother Ahmet.
@@PISStopherNolan The name of a Monster Guitar Player!
As a guitar player, this was SO interesting to hear the difference, stylistically, that the even something as subtle as how you hold the pick generates a different sound from the guitar. Very cool!
As a guitar player I had to watch this multiple times to maybe pick up the difference…think I’m just deaf or something. lol
As a guitar player, I heard very little difference, but thought both sounded really clumsy
James Hatfield holds his pick with three fingers and his thumb. Nugent hits the strings with the fat part of the pick. Everybody is a little different
@@garlowloke I couldn't really notice any difference, it's really subtle or more tuned for a guitar players ears. 🤔
Ed was obsessed with this stuff. He said he would spend hours upon hours just playing the same riffs over and over all day in different ways to see what sounded best to him.
Dweezel is so underrated when talking about the best guitar players out there. He notices these little things. This was a great interview!
He is a A-tier musician himself, but it certainly helps when EVH is stopping by your house as a child, and showing you a few things.
No , he been reverd since his MTV vj days
It's the joy and appreciation in Rick's face that makes his interviews so special.
I love that riff.
Rock on, Dweezil. Seen him in concert twice. I love the homage to his father, and also his own songwriting ability.
I've seen Zappa Does Zappa 3 times here in Toronto. Amazing shows.
That first harmonic is just perfect ⚡
Cool, but it’s not like that on the record.
@thefonzkiss there's no need to play it exactly like the record. that wasn't the point of my comment.
Dweezil is awesome!!
Dweezil is so underappreciated!
Just like his dad.
He breezes through his guitar play. I'm a huge VH fan and it isn't his Eddie covers either...D can play anything!
I was always so jealous of this guy. But he's so nice and shares everything he learned with us.
You are envious, not jealous. Jealousy means you wish you had what he has & you’re salty about him having it. Envy means you wish you had what he has & you’re happy he has it too. We all get this jealousy usage wrong. I had to be corrected too. I’m also envious of the killer talent & the generosity/grace w/ which that talent is shared makes me feel blessed to experience this moment.💜
Dweezil is just awesome.
One of the best riffs ever recorded, period.
My absolute favourite track from Van Halen! 🤘😎
It's just so unique and proud sounding. Like it knows it's a good riff .
Yet somehow when I play it, it is not quite there....'cause I'm really not a rock guitarist, mostly a strummer. Did have a teacher show me last year but I have a long way to go to make it sound great.
Fell in love at first listen, in Machine Shop in high school when this came out
I was born in 92 and I would do anything to be able to see certain bands live in the 80’s. All the greatest bands of all time were still playing . It was the best decade of music because you still had access to what came before PLUS so much more.
I did. VH '80, Blizzard of Ozz twice '81, Black Sabbath with Dio(his first tour with them), Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan, Rush Moving Pictures tour, Motorhead's first tour, Rainbow, Deep Purple Perfect Strangers tour, SRV 3 times, Alvin Lee 4 times..and about 100 others.
Uh.... pretty sure we still have access to everything that came before plus so much more in every new decade that comes along
@@benrivenbarkhe said see them LIVE.. It's hard to see a band in concert when they are dead
@mrburns366 I read it as two separate sentences. I'm responding to the second statement. Regardless, it's definitely dripping with bias for when they grew up.
That was the golden age of rock guitar. Now it's like, Oh, another great guitarist, probably trained at Berkeley.
Everything about this track is awesome. When all band members show up to rehearsals bringing their A Games. I bet they had the whole thing down on paper in an hour. No arguments, no endless editing,. It feels like a one take song, A rare song.
Their first several albums were recorded that way. The band would do 3 or 4 tales (with Roth singing, but not necessarily the performance that would be on the record) and then they'd pick the best one, and the band would go get drunk while DLR and Ted Templeman worked on vocals for a while. That's how they recorded the first 5 albums in only 2 or 3 weeks (for each album, of course).
@metalboy5150 Best way to do it. Sabbath would basically play like a live Gig and record an Album in one day. Most of the greats only spent a few days in the studio, l
I saw his dad and three friends jam in a small italian resturaunt in sylmar ...they all had old small tweed amps and jammed like you wouldn't beleive best most intimate jamm ive ever seen circa 1984
The side of the pick will give you a lot great sound, Eddie was one of a kind ❤ Rip my friend
“My love is rotten to the core!”
💥🎸💥🥁💥🎤💥🎸💥
You know you're semi good looking...and on the streets again!!
@@gusgarcia4884 Oh yeah, you think you're really cookin' baby,
You better find yourself a friend, my friend
Dweezil is a living legend
Absolutely..
and he was close with EvH
Nope. If he wasn't a famous guy's son literally nobody would know he was or give a fuck. This is a fact.
He's prolly the greatest EVH Disciple out there
@@andthe4010 You never know. In the music business, it's not always about the super talent, but also about luck and meeting the right people at the right time.
RIP King Edward
❤
EVH reminds me of ME! Sincerely,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alcoholism ruined that king.
@hootowl6354 oh come on go drink your tea😅
I always liked how into the craft Dweezil Zappa is.
EVH was a GENIUS! RIP!
Rockin' with angels now.
I don't play guitar! But I certainly know why ALL of you do. Amazing Stuff!!
bro get one now. Get a squier
One of my favourite tunes
God.... I miss that man.... we don't have musicians like that anymore....
Rip Eddy you were the best so many memories listening to your music
Dweezil is a hell of a guitarist and it is surprising he never went as mainstream as his talent could have taken him. I'm a fan.
I'd read years ago Eddie felt the tone and volume was too strong on the first two albums, but I think that's what makes them great. Guitar power can't be denied!
Dweezil just keeps getting better and better! AMAZING!
You want to go to a good concert and not have to take a second on your house, Dweezil is it! Top notch musicians playing well written music...you will not be disappointed!
Dweezel is an awesome guitar player. He's very technical and totally understand music. His Father Framk was decent musician too.
Dweezil seems like such a cool cat! I miss the old days with Moon Unit and him on MTV when it was about music, before "Reality" hit! 🤙😎
I could listen to Dweezil talk music all day.
One of my all-time favorite riffs. Gotta be top 5
Not only does it produce an awesome articulation, It also keeps a sweaty pick from moving out of the fingers during the picking of a fast riff or solo. 🎸
I could listen to Dweezil for hours. 😃
That riff i think truly changed everything, its so different than anything from that era (late 70s) and opened the floodgates to the 80s
Ed Was in a world of his own. GENUINELY LOVED MUSIC.
Zappa for President!!! 🎸🎸🎸
Dweezil is incredible man! Great vid!
Dweezil’s a beautiful cat & so talented. Remember Ed was running around, leaping & jumping with joy most of the time he was playing this stuff!
The grinding, scratchy sound of the strings by holding the pick at a slight angle, is the anthem of every metalhead.
💯
Dweezil is such a solid guitar player. Dude seems very humble
Dweezil should write a book about Eddie.
He is a huge Eddie fan and he knows he was the best! How cool that he got to play with Eddie, Dwezel is a great player as well.
edward*
@@bowlofnuggets he went by Eddie, but okay 👍
Such a terrible name lol.
@@PISStopherNolan 😆
I've tried to get this lick down at least a couple thousand times. Back to the drawing board and thank you Mr. Zappa!!!
I've seen Dweezil live, twice, and he is freaking phenomenal! Please bring the Hendrix Experience back out to the West Coast!
Dweezil is a great player, you can tell, that he really knows what he is talking about
Dweezil is the ultimate student!!!!!
Dude is the crown prince of rock n roll.
Thats the very first guitar riff I learned at 16 yrs old in 1980. That was the start of my lifelong love of the guitar. Still play everyday loud and hard. The grandkids haven't heard this song yet. I think I'll practice and polish this one up and introduce ain't talking bout love to their young impressionable minds. Grandpa Rocks!!
I bet you're trying that riff right now with the pick held differently, lol
Stevie from Running Man is killing it.
🙀Is that why it’s always been my favorite VH song?! I can’t explain it, there’s something special about Ain’t Talking About Love that caught me the very first time I listened to it & it never let me go!😻
Dweezle looks Do much more like his Dad now that he is Mature . Such a talented family !
Best guitar riff ever.
Dweezil is so good!
One of the greatest riffs of all time
Dweezil is a fuckin legend
The tone on that guitar is amazing 👏
Cuando escuché por primera vez ATBL en 1991 creí que era una canción actual. Cuando supe que era de 1977 - 1978 mi cerebro voló... PUM!!! Eddie fue un adelantado a su época.
This is why we love Dweezil and Rick
I first heard this riff in the Apollo 440 tune, Aint Talking Bout Dub
Same for me, even though I was listening to hard rock ever since I was 5. I think the chance of hearing Van Halen was abysmal in Sweden during the 90s, except Jump.
Same here, became aware of them from the demo disc on PS1 with a level from Rapid Racer (track is Carrera Rapida, has tasty guitar bends in it too)
Greatest Van "Fuckin'" Halen Total Song !!!
RIP
Eddie Van Halen 🎸😇🙏🌅🎵🎛🎛🎛🤟🤟🤟
Miss You !
I haven't seen Dweez in a long time, he's gotten old....and so have I.
He's on tour
@@raidrfrk crazy to think that the first ZpZ tour was almost 20yrs ago
He looks pretty young for 55.
One of those riffs where I instinctively go to the air fretboard....then the head starts to bob
dweezil is our kind of weezil !!! 👽👽👽🌀🌀🌀👁👁👁👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸💥💥💥🚀🚀🚀🛸🛸🛸
This song would get me so pumped up!
That special pick-grip nails it! Great call👌
Thank You Eddie. ❤
Edward
@MrSoulauctioneer huh
Sounded better the first way (regular) can remember when i first bought this album when i was 12 in 1978 after hearing Running With The Devil for the first time on the radio .this riff was my favorite on the entire album .maybe my all time riff of theirs
That 1984 Van Halen Album man, that guitar sound is so sick
I think the way he held the pick also contributed to his swing feel in "I'm the one" and others.
Dweezil has the BEST hand articulation.
That man is a treasure. I heard Frank had Eddie give him lessons when he was younger. Not sure if that's true or not, but Dweezil is an absolute beast on the guitar.
it sounds like its almost the picks side scraping while plucking. I got this sound ONE time when I tried learning it and thats what I did. I sort of scraped the string with the side of the pick while picking the string like normal. forgot all about that sound. I held the pick the same way he did in this video. really cool to see thats how Eddie did it to, bc when I stumbled upon it was dumb ass luck.. I saw syn gates back in the day hold it like that and decided to try it and it was on this song. I used a ton chorus and reverb with some delay to get my sound on some digitech guitar workstation gnx3 way back in the day. great fun song to learn for beginners. even the solo is super easy! and if you have a wammy bar, have fun with the dive bomb at the end of that solo and go nuts!
That's a big insight. Thank you!
Frank's music changed my life.He looks more like his dad every time I see him.
Phenomenal guitarist
He really grew up to be a great guitarist!!!!❤
Love that riff!
Greatest Riff of All Time.
What’s the name of this song?
I love the two tone neck on his Batwing. Beautiful guitar.
It Frank’s old SG
@joecooper7803 That makes sense and thank you.
This is def in my top 200 favs!
Goddamn that SG sounds so good.
I love learning little trivia things like this😊😊😊
Moon Zappa has a cool book to read
I have the audiobook in my list to read... looking forward to it 😊
Moon🌕🤍🎉
DWEEZIL!!! Hell yeah.
G'day Rick, I did this great song as a piano version 😊 Works on all different instruments on a two chord song. Brilliant. Sounds great on the piano when slowed down.
Awesome riff!
Eddie always held his pick like that. Somehow when I was learning that’s how I naturally hold a pic as well and people always tell me it’s wrong. Worked for Eddie 🤷♂️ and it works for me.
If you haven’t seen this guy play live you must!
Saw Dweezil doin’ his Dad’s work..great night..love to see him again
I just got a flash of excitement when i thought i saw Anthony Bourdain.. dang how crazy.
The harmonics too!
Eddie openly said this was his secret. He said most of what he played was relatively simple, but because he grew up dirt poor he never had any money for pedals and effects, he had to figure out ways to create effects with his fingers. It's why his sound was so unique to him, even though he wasn't using any special gear.
HAPPY HOUR w Dweezil & Amhet...twas enjoyable
I love how Edward screwed up the riff himself by chicken picking that C on the b string twice on the second iteration. Still sounds epic. 🤣🔥