Built his guitars himself too, not the prettiest or fanciest, just work horses, never seen a guitarist enjoy playing guitar like Eddie, he exuded pure joy in his playing - Long Live King Edward!
I was lucky enough to see van halen live a few times...and he did these solos every show..so did his brother on the drums...and they both were amazing 👏 😍 🔥🔥🔥👍😎
Came to America with his family and a piano when he was a kid. Couldn't speak English and never learned to read music. A God given ear for music. There is an interview with him when one of his guitars was placed in the Smithsonian museum. He explains a lot. It's worth a look see
Definitely the grandfather of all shredders no doubt I was fortunate enough to see him in the club scene in Los Angeles, but he's not the greatest guitar player of all time, an innovator hell yes did he bridge the gap between the seventies guitar players and the 80s guitar players hell yes, but there's a lot of guys that were every bit as good Randy Rhoads being one of them not to mention all the '70s guys that brought rock and blues into the mainstream.
He’s great technique wise but in the end it’s all about the songs and his band never came close to releasing the type of epic songs like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Who did.
@@dickcnormis1444 No it is not all about the songs but about solos. Every guitar player i ever met said the same. There was no one better than Eddie Van Halen.
@@quecksilber457 absolutely wrong, It’s about the total song as a whole, the guitar solo is just part of the song. Eddie Van Halen was a great innovative player but his songs don’t come close to the other top bands . He also is a pure technician, after the first few times ,the finger tap , hammer on technique just became tiresome . He never played a soulful guitar solo like SRV or like Jimmy Page or Santana. Sorry to burst your bubble , he’s all technique, his songs were popish and. It even close to the complex arrangements of groups like Zeppelin
@dickcnormis1444 EVH was beyond transcendent. And what he did on guitar far surpassed anything that came out of jimmy page's guitar lol. Not even close. Yea, the songs might have been more worldwide but Van halen was far more recognized in the states. And Eddie's innovations and imagination separate him from Clapton, page, or even hendrix. He took what they did and made it better while finding new sounds and ways to make guitars that played how he wanted them to play.
That guy right there mastered a style of playing called "shredding" and has inspired millions of people since the 70's to pick up a guitar and become a shredder. And some of them got really damn good at it and became guitar gods too. Guitar is a crazy thing, there are so many variables that will make it sound a certain way...strings, pick ups, amp, effects pedals, even the wood the guitar is made of. The possibilities are endless really.
Thank you for this. My dad just died, and I haven't smiled smiled in days. When your cam messed up, then the Pepsi ad came on, I knew you were gonna speak on it. I almost spit my Pepsi out! 💙💙
That sucks, especially around the holidays 😕, lost my mother Thanksgiving eve of 2020 at 11:30pm. I'm not going to lie and say time heals all wounds, but it doesn't. I think of calling my mother daily. When I have a strong feeling, I'll call one of my aunt's that sound similarly to my mother's voice. It'll be hard, but have a merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and have a safe new year!..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
The 'original' Eruption around @ 6:57 was a warm up Eddie would use before practices. A producer/exec heard it one day and told him they should add it to their upcoming album. It became the intro to You Really Got Me. It was less than a minute long. As they went on in concerts it was a signature solo. Nothing EVER written down (Eddie did not read sheet music very well) and they just let Eddie do Eddie things with his love. No two concert solos were ever the same. I miss that man SO much ❤
You won’t find much better than this. There are a lot of great guitar players out there, but Eddie stood head and shoulders above the rest for a lot of different reasons. Innovation and creativity, the sheer amount of composition and material in the 20 + years span of Van Halen’s career, etc. Eddie could make that guitar sound any way he wanted, but he choose to make it sound so distinctively VH that they had to come up with a name for the sound. It’s called the brown sound, and when you hear it, you immediately know it’s Eddie Van Halen. His brother is no slouch on the drums either. If you haven’t already, you should react to Hot For Teacher, official video. Get to see the whole band in action.
@@marlew6629 I am just going to assume what u meant. This is the simplest way to explain it, just like with Hendrix, Page, Clapton, AND "SRV". He could copy and mimic what they all did pretty well. NOT ONE OF THOSE GUYS could even come close to doing what Eddie could do. they would all sound like 7th graders....Does that make sense?
The G.O.A.T. I got to grow up with these guys in socal. Was lucky enough to see them play before they ever got a record contract or open for anyone. I was sold! The greatest rock and roll guitar player ever. RIP Eddie.
This is how my dad played guitar. Watching him is like watching my dad. 🥰🥰🥰 There were so many times he would meet other guitar players, so he would invite them to come jam out. My dad would ask them to play first. "Lemme see whatchu got!" But they would always say "No, you play first." My dad would be like Ok... Start playing and then just be lost in his own world. When he would finish, the other person would always say they didn't even want to bother after watching him and how good he was. "I can't even compare. You put me to shame!" The technique you're asking about is called Two-Handed Tapping. The lever is called a Whammy Bar. Joe Satriani is probably my favorite guitarist, along with Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player). Steve Vai is also great! I'll be sure to send in some requests. 🥰🥰🥰 All this makes me want to get my guitar back out and get back into it. That's when I feel closest to my dad. My guitar has been calling me. Like this mysterious force that I just can't fight. 🥰🥰🥰 I learned guitar from my dad fresh out of high school. First song was learned in a day. It was one of the few times I ever seen my dad cry like that. "it's in your blood!!!!" He was pacing around just mind blown. I did my Ancestry DNA and found out our family goes way back to the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. There's lots of musical talent in our family, lots of guitar and fiddle players, some make instruments, some have played at the Grand Ole Opry with some famous country and bluegrass artists. I wish my dad was alive to learn of all of this family history and to know that his talent came our family -- it truly is in our DNA. 🥰🥰🥰 I am beaming with pride to know that there is so much talent in my family.
I should have noted that he rearranged the music for Michael Jacksons, Beat It. And that's him playing on the original version. And he did it free of charge. There's video of him playing with Michael live at one concert
I wasn’t lucky enough to be born yet in the Prime Van Halen Years. But I was lucky enough to see them on a reunion tour with David Lee Roth in like 2015 I think it was. Eddie still had it, even as an old man!
Stevie Ray Vaughn is right up there as well! They just have 2 different styles.Eddie is known as the Mozart of guitar,playing with sound,and making the guitar speak in ways other guitarists only dream about...🎸🤯👊
The electric guitar has multiple dials and a whammy bar and also it's hooked up to an amplifier with different sets of pedals which you can make different sound effects with
That's his older brother Alex Van Halen on drums. 🔥🔥 Check out their song and vid Hot For Teacher. Good drums on there...and of course great guitar. ✌❤
He wasn't tuning it at that point, he was plucking the tops of the strings beyond the upper bridge, past the fretboard, on the way to the tuning pegs....it's a very short section of the strings so you get that very high sound.....but the way he has his pickups set so sensitively, they still can pick up the vibration. Mesmerizing, isn't it?!
Seen Ed Do His Thing live Many Times! The Man Was Self Taught & Didn’t Know 1 Note But Could Play Just About Any Instrument! When He Passed From Cancer A Few Yrs Ago In His Early 60’s We Lost The Best!!
Saw VH twice live. Both phenomenal concerts. VH always had long solos for each member during their live shows. Michael Anthony would have a Bass solo, Alex VH a long drum solo and of course Eddie VH's amazing guitar solo. The ultimate party band that never disappointed a crowd!
Some of my buddies were at this show. I wish Eddie did mor acoustic stuff because he was even more versatile than his solos often showed. He is using his "Frankenstrat" here, called that because he put on and took off so many parts, it was like Frankenstein's monster. Everyone wanted to always hear "Eruption" and Van Halen followed their "format" all the time. But there was so much more. He's gone now too. Damn, I'm getting old.
@@courtney5796 it doesn't matter , look at te video and you can see the name Kramer on the headstock , and if you look at the guitar boddy you see 5150 , this is Eddies 5150 Kramer
Now you need to check out the live version of Domination by Band-Maid. If a female version of Eddie Van Halen ever existed it would be Kanami Tono of Band-Maid
The next song they do after this is I Can't Drive 55, and Eddie has to change guitars because he starts breaking strings. If you want another great guitarist, check out Roy Clark, Malagueña, won't disappoint
Thats several pieces with Eruption sprinkled in. There's Eruption, I forget that little opening he did but its a piece. Then there's Cathedral, Mean Streets, Spanish Fly It was his feature solo nearly note for note that he did for... I dont know, 30 years Acoustic vs electric question.. Depends You can basically do the same on both. You can do work-a-rounds where dive bombs are. Nothing prettier sounding than a nice nylon string classic guitar though
The Best Guitarist in the World Kimberly Johnson. By far the most creative guitarist ever!! He changed the electric guitar so much it is incredible. He didn't raise the bar, he put it in a different Galaxy!!!
Guitar playing is so subjective. It really comes down to personal preference whether someone is better than the other. There are so many great and unique players out there and Van Halen surely is one of them. For me, the best are Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, SRV, Chet Atkins, Denny Dias, Jerry Reed, Tommy Emmanuel, and Guthrie Govan. All have their own voice and style. No one player is above the rest to me
Electric Vs Acoustic Guitar. You get a lot more functionality out of an electric guitar. You can make an electric sound like it is acoustic. You can't make an acoustic sound like an electric. But notes are notes and depending on the song sometimes an acoustic is more suited for the song. Think of cutting a tree down using a hatchet Vs a chain saw. What you use is dependent upon the size of the tree. It's kinda like that.
For it's time it turned the entire guitar world upside down and inside out . Eddie admitted he made a mistake in the beginning but left it on the album anyway . That's one of the things that makes him so great, he just ripped and didn't bother fixing any mistakes on those early albums . Mistakes to him by the way I can't find any mistakes anywhere on any of those albums it's flawless to me.
It's not even close he's the goat his brother is the drummer in the band before they got signed to a contract and he would have to turn around and put his back to the audience so nobody would take the tapping technique before he got signed
Why do you always stop the video early? those last 2 seconds were precious.. It's like hammering a nail almost all the way but stopping before it's all the way flush... You gotta finish with nailing it home
But that first Van Halen album was so iconic. This and Running with the Devil. I do give Eddie his props. Eruption is a badass solo though. (SRV grew up down the street from me so I AM biased.)
That's just a single live performance... he did this hundreds of times a year... Eruption is not the greatest guitar solo ever.. live or studio. A solid candidate for best solo ever would be Steve Lukather's live solo for "I'll be Over You " from 1990: ruclips.net/video/zrZUh9ZzeBQ/видео.html be hard pressed to find a more emotive and glorious live guitar solo anywhere ...
Rest in peace Eddie. He is no doubt the greatest guitarist that ever lived. Saw Van Halen many times and my daughter showed up in a video when they performed in Fresno.
Built his guitars himself too, not the prettiest or fanciest, just work horses, never seen a guitarist enjoy playing guitar like Eddie, he exuded pure joy in his playing - Long Live King Edward!
I was lucky enough to see van halen live a few times...and he did these solos every show..so did his brother on the drums...and they both were amazing 👏 😍 🔥🔥🔥👍😎
Came to America with his family and a piano when he was a kid. Couldn't speak English and never learned to read music. A God given ear for music. There is an interview with him when one of his guitars was placed in the Smithsonian museum. He explains a lot. It's worth a look see
No pressure for him...he knows what he's doing, exceptionally well!! 🔥🔥 He is missed for sure. ✌❤
And that is why Eddie Van Halen is the G.O.A.T of guitarist. There will never be anyone better than the G,O.A.T. King Edward!!!
Definitely the grandfather of all shredders no doubt I was fortunate enough to see him in the club scene in Los Angeles, but he's not the greatest guitar player of all time, an innovator hell yes did he bridge the gap between the seventies guitar players and the 80s guitar players hell yes, but there's a lot of guys that were every bit as good Randy Rhoads being one of them not to mention all the '70s guys that brought rock and blues into the mainstream.
He’s great technique wise but in the end it’s all about the songs and his band never came close to releasing the type of epic songs like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Who did.
@@dickcnormis1444 No it is not all about the songs but about solos. Every guitar player i ever met said the same. There was no one better than Eddie Van Halen.
@@quecksilber457 absolutely wrong, It’s about the total song as a whole, the guitar solo is just part of the song. Eddie Van Halen was a great innovative player but his songs don’t come close to the other top bands . He also is a pure technician, after the first few times ,the finger tap , hammer on technique just became tiresome . He never played a soulful guitar solo like SRV or like Jimmy Page or Santana. Sorry to burst your bubble , he’s all technique, his songs were popish and. It even close to the complex arrangements of groups like Zeppelin
@dickcnormis1444 EVH was beyond transcendent. And what he did on guitar far surpassed anything that came out of jimmy page's guitar lol. Not even close. Yea, the songs might have been more worldwide but Van halen was far more recognized in the states. And Eddie's innovations and imagination separate him from Clapton, page, or even hendrix. He took what they did and made it better while finding new sounds and ways to make guitars that played how he wanted them to play.
That guy right there mastered a style of playing called "shredding" and has inspired millions of people since the 70's to pick up a guitar and become a shredder. And some of them got really damn good at it and became guitar gods too. Guitar is a crazy thing, there are so many variables that will make it sound a certain way...strings, pick ups, amp, effects pedals, even the wood the guitar is made of. The possibilities are endless really.
Thank you for this. My dad just died, and I haven't smiled smiled in days. When your cam messed up, then the Pepsi ad came on, I knew you were gonna speak on it. I almost spit my Pepsi out! 💙💙
That sucks, especially around the holidays 😕, lost my mother Thanksgiving eve of 2020 at 11:30pm. I'm not going to lie and say time heals all wounds, but it doesn't. I think of calling my mother daily. When I have a strong feeling, I'll call one of my aunt's that sound similarly to my mother's voice. It'll be hard, but have a merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and have a safe new year!..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
Thank you for reacting to this- mind blown, right!! Legend! RIP Eddie
The 'original' Eruption around @ 6:57 was a warm up Eddie would use before practices. A producer/exec heard it one day and told him they should add it to their upcoming album. It became the intro to You Really Got Me. It was less than a minute long. As they went on in concerts it was a signature solo. Nothing EVER written down (Eddie did not read sheet music very well) and they just let Eddie do Eddie things with his love. No two concert solos were ever the same. I miss that man SO much ❤
You won’t find much better than this. There are a lot of great guitar players out there, but Eddie stood head and shoulders above the rest for a lot of different reasons. Innovation and creativity, the sheer amount of composition and material in the 20 + years span of Van Halen’s career, etc. Eddie could make that guitar sound any way he wanted, but he choose to make it sound so distinctively VH that they had to come up with a name for the sound. It’s called the brown sound, and when you hear it, you immediately know it’s Eddie Van Halen. His brother is no slouch on the drums either. If you haven’t already, you should react to Hot For Teacher, official video. Get to see the whole band in action.
@@marlew6629😂 🐂💩
@@marlew6629 SRV?
@@marlew6629 I am just going to assume what u meant. This is the simplest way to explain it, just like with Hendrix, Page, Clapton, AND "SRV". He could copy and mimic what they all did pretty well. NOT ONE OF THOSE GUYS could even come close to doing what Eddie could do. they would all sound like 7th graders....Does that make sense?
R.i.p. Eddie
The G.O.A.T. I got to grow up with these guys in socal. Was lucky enough to see them play before they ever got a record contract or open for anyone. I was sold! The greatest rock and roll guitar player ever. RIP Eddie.
This is how my dad played guitar. Watching him is like watching my dad. 🥰🥰🥰 There were so many times he would meet other guitar players, so he would invite them to come jam out. My dad would ask them to play first. "Lemme see whatchu got!" But they would always say "No, you play first." My dad would be like Ok... Start playing and then just be lost in his own world. When he would finish, the other person would always say they didn't even want to bother after watching him and how good he was. "I can't even compare. You put me to shame!"
The technique you're asking about is called Two-Handed Tapping. The lever is called a Whammy Bar.
Joe Satriani is probably my favorite guitarist, along with Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player). Steve Vai is also great! I'll be sure to send in some requests. 🥰🥰🥰
All this makes me want to get my guitar back out and get back into it. That's when I feel closest to my dad. My guitar has been calling me. Like this mysterious force that I just can't fight. 🥰🥰🥰 I learned guitar from my dad fresh out of high school. First song was learned in a day. It was one of the few times I ever seen my dad cry like that. "it's in your blood!!!!" He was pacing around just mind blown. I did my Ancestry DNA and found out our family goes way back to the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. There's lots of musical talent in our family, lots of guitar and fiddle players, some make instruments, some have played at the Grand Ole Opry with some famous country and bluegrass artists. I wish my dad was alive to learn of all of this family history and to know that his talent came our family -- it truly is in our DNA. 🥰🥰🥰 I am beaming with pride to know that there is so much talent in my family.
The Greatest Period End Of Story 💥
OMG I’m thinking I am going to find one just one without your reactions 😂😂😂😂😂
Being in my teens in the 80s was fucking awesome! Van Halen is so ingrained in my heart!
Congratulations! I love it when young people find him! As to what he threw? Guitar pick!
No pressure, he already knows he's going to kill it.
You can actually say you have seen one of the best or the best guitarists in the world
I should have noted that he rearranged the music for Michael Jacksons, Beat It. And that's him playing on the original version. And he did it free of charge. There's video of him playing with Michael live at one concert
I wasn’t lucky enough to be born yet in the Prime Van Halen Years. But I was lucky enough to see them on a reunion tour with David Lee Roth in like 2015 I think it was. Eddie still had it, even as an old man!
Stevie Ray Vaughn is right up there as well! They just have 2 different styles.Eddie is known as the Mozart of guitar,playing with sound,and making the guitar speak in ways other guitarists only dream about...🎸🤯👊
And there you have a master musician.
That smile that crosses you face when someone experiences Ed for the first time
The electric guitar has multiple dials and a whammy bar and also it's hooked up to an amplifier with different sets of pedals which you can make different sound effects with
the GOAT that many others point to, RIP Eddie.
That's his older brother Alex Van Halen on drums. 🔥🔥 Check out their song and vid Hot For Teacher. Good drums on there...and of course great guitar. ✌❤
He wasn't tuning it at that point, he was plucking the tops of the strings beyond the upper bridge, past the fretboard, on the way to the tuning pegs....it's a very short section of the strings so you get that very high sound.....but the way he has his pickups set so sensitively, they still can pick up the vibration.
Mesmerizing, isn't it?!
You need to see Gary Richraft flying turkey trot live REO Speed wagon guitar solo best ever early 70s
Seen Ed Do His Thing live Many Times! The Man Was Self Taught & Didn’t Know 1 Note But Could Play Just About Any Instrument! When He Passed From Cancer A Few Yrs Ago In His Early 60’s We Lost The Best!!
Saw VH twice live. Both phenomenal concerts. VH always had long solos for each member during their live shows. Michael Anthony would have a Bass solo, Alex VH a long drum solo and of course Eddie VH's amazing guitar solo. The ultimate party band that never disappointed a crowd!
If you have ever heard MJ's Beat It. The guitar solo was written and performed by EVH.
Some of my buddies were at this show. I wish Eddie did mor acoustic stuff because he was even more versatile than his solos often showed. He is using his "Frankenstrat" here, called that because he put on and took off so many parts, it was like Frankenstein's monster. Everyone wanted to always hear "Eruption" and Van Halen followed their "format" all the time. But there was so much more. He's gone now too. Damn, I'm getting old.
what a bullshit !! this is not the Frankenstrat but a custom Kramer guitar !! know your facts !!
Was this '86 or later?
@@courtney5796 it doesn't matter , look at te video and you can see the name Kramer on the headstock , and if you look at the guitar boddy you see 5150 , this is Eddies 5150 Kramer
@@courtney5796 yes 1986 in New Haven Connecticut
Eddie’s the einstine of guitar creativity and playing guitar he changed everything e I p king Edward vanhalen❤ 17:20
Now you need to check out the live version of Domination by Band-Maid.
If a female version of Eddie Van Halen ever existed it would be Kanami Tono of Band-Maid
Awsome guitarist!! Listen to Neil Peart from Rush. RIP to 2 of the best who left us to young.
The next song they do after this is I Can't Drive 55, and Eddie has to change guitars because he starts breaking strings. If you want another great guitarist, check out Roy Clark, Malagueña, won't disappoint
Your camera only had eyes for Eddie!
Thats several pieces with Eruption sprinkled in. There's Eruption, I forget that little opening he did but its a piece. Then there's Cathedral, Mean Streets, Spanish Fly
It was his feature solo nearly note for note that he did for... I dont know, 30 years
Acoustic vs electric question.. Depends
You can basically do the same on both. You can do work-a-rounds where dive bombs are.
Nothing prettier sounding than a nice nylon string classic guitar though
RIP brother Eddie.
We miss you! Happy holidays everyone.
The Best Guitarist in the World Kimberly Johnson. By far the most creative guitarist ever!! He changed the electric guitar so much it is incredible. He didn't raise the bar, he put it in a different Galaxy!!!
miss Eddie so much 💔
RIP King Edward
✌🎸🤘🙏👍👍❤❤❤
he does the guitar solo on michael jacksons song beat it
Guitar playing is so subjective. It really comes down to personal preference whether someone is better than the other. There are so many great and unique players out there and Van Halen surely is one of them. For me, the best are Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, SRV, Chet Atkins, Denny Dias, Jerry Reed, Tommy Emmanuel, and Guthrie Govan. All have their own voice and style. No one player is above the rest to me
Electric Vs Acoustic Guitar. You get a lot more functionality out of an electric guitar. You can make an electric sound like it is acoustic. You can't make an acoustic sound like an electric. But notes are notes and depending on the song sometimes an acoustic is more suited for the song. Think of cutting a tree down using a hatchet Vs a chain saw. What you use is dependent upon the size of the tree. It's kinda like that.
Check out Zakk Wylde playing Mississippi Queen...
For it's time it turned the entire guitar world upside down and inside out . Eddie admitted he made a mistake in the beginning but left it on the album anyway . That's one of the things that makes him so great, he just ripped and didn't bother fixing any mistakes on those early albums . Mistakes to him by the way I can't find any mistakes anywhere on any of those albums it's flawless to me.
In answer to your question,it's not really the difference between guitars.There is a lot going on because Eddie is a guitar ninja,lol...😄
It's not even close he's the goat his brother is the drummer in the band before they got signed to a contract and he would have to turn around and put his back to the audience so nobody would take the tapping technique before he got signed
hey my channel eddie is top 3 more influents guitar hero ever , tnks from brazil his style is unique
Yngwie Malmsteen
If you haven’t checked out AC/DC yet… Angus Young is one of the best guitarists ever!
Look no further for the best guitar Hero. Eddie Van Halen was the best. Period.
electrics are more forgiving, you can hide mistakes in all the effects and string ring. An acoustic guitar, if you beef a note everybody hears it.
Why do you always stop the video early? those last 2 seconds were precious.. It's like hammering a nail almost all the way but stopping before it's all the way flush... You gotta finish with nailing it home
Eddie was a bad man!,But noodling has nothing on SRV!
Bam! SRV was so technical and precise. EVH is way up there, but SRV is the GOAT!
But that first Van Halen album was so iconic. This and Running with the Devil. I do give Eddie his props. Eruption is a badass solo though. (SRV grew up down the street from me so I AM biased.)
That's just a single live performance... he did this hundreds of times a year... Eruption is not the greatest guitar solo ever.. live or studio. A solid candidate for best solo ever would be Steve Lukather's live solo for "I'll be Over You " from 1990: ruclips.net/video/zrZUh9ZzeBQ/видео.html be hard pressed to find a more emotive and glorious live guitar solo anywhere ...
Luke is even wearing a Hendrix t-shirt to seal the deal...
Rest in peace Eddie. He is no doubt the greatest guitarist that ever lived. Saw Van Halen many times and my daughter showed up in a video when they performed in Fresno.
2012 done shorter version just as bad
He's great. I just don't like that sound it's like pots and pans banging in my eardrums
Eddie ruined rock posing and jumping for all the other guitarists. It was honest and free, and everyone else looks like posers now.
Everyone will hate me for this. It's boring
So delete your comment.
Word has it that Eddie was pretty drunk at this concert and didn't remember doing this solo.