Paul Stanley talks Eddie Van Halen on the Anniversary of Van Halen's Debut | Interview
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- The Jeremy White Podcast presents Paul Stanley from KISS!
On February 10th 1978, Van Halen released their iconic debut album! #PaulStanley talks about seeing Van Halen in LA and how he didn't think it was a good idea for their manager to sign them... we also discuss how #EddieVanHalen influenced the scene and picking the next guitar player for KISS. Also, was Eddie Van Halen ever supposed to join KISS?
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Eddie was the Hendrix of his time. He changed EVERYTHING. Unique. One of a kind.
FACTS ❤
Literally the best, most honest I've seen Paul answer questions. He definitely knows his place in rock history, to be able to recognize and give props to his peers. Love Paul and his songwriting. Nobody asked me, but my favorite of his songs is Magic Touch. Amazing writing and Paul's range at its peak.
Totally agree with your take on Magic Touch. Highly underrated in their catalog. Love the video of Paul performing it in his solo band.
Hey John... just wondering... yeah So what is your favorite Paul Stanley song?
Paul rarely has anything good to say about anyone, this is rare, but at the same time he is shitting on Gene.
Great to hear Paul mention Randy.
Yep. Anyone who knows who "Randy" is definitely knows. I've always said that he would have been right there with Ed. Sooooo unfortunate.
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To a degree, I believe that Eddie really benefited from Randy's death. I know how macobb that sounds but that isn't the only time an act benefited from the death of one of their contemporaries. I think ZZ Top benefited from the loss of Leonard Skinnard. I think JLo benefited from the loss of Selina. Hell I think Michael Jordan benefited from the loss of Lynn Bias. It's a recurring theme throughout pop culture.
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No. Rr had no effect on evh's career at all. Your other examples may be correct.
Paul has always been a class act and it’s refreshing to see someone around as long as he has been give nothing but praise.
Except lying about not singing live.
Except when he throws others under the bus incessantly. And the reality of what he did & didn't do regarding his allegations of Bill Aucoin. And his frequent hypocrisy. I could go on. Yeah, real class act. That said, his answers in this interview regarding EVH were actually honest & complimentary towards a colleague, which is more the exception than the rule for Stanley.
I greatly appreciate Paul including Randy’s name in this conversation.
there will never be anyone like EDWARD VAN HALEN again period he was the most beautiful human being and the MOZART OF our generation
Until the mid 90's years where his addiction ruined him ...and VH Sammy / Mikey example
Absolutely Brother...a musical genius. RIP Edward 😃
EVH= Guitar God
I couldn't of said it better. Bitchin my VH brother. This world as I type is going to fucking hell. Shall I remain strong with the LORD and without my Hero. King Edward the king of ten fingers on six strings. 🤘🎸😥✌👍
Hola
Refreshing to hear Paul giving us the straight scoop on how things were during that time period. Great questions, which drew out honest answers.
Thanks man!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Agree. This was really very interesting.
This is the very first time someone ask Paul about Eddie. This interview was a brilliant idea. Thank you!!!
Eddie changed the scene. I love it! Us fans miss you and love you Ed. The world isn’t the same without you. 🎸☝🏽😔
Eddie and the boys played live !!!! Unlike kiss !!! I fuckinging grew up loving kiss til I found out ...they like other cheap bands
@@scottwoods2621 ya and this guy just screams out we play live only!! No recorded vocals and then the video comes out WHAT A TREMENDOUS LET DOWN the best and fastest way to lose ALL CREDIBILITY just a creepy OLD dude with a wig too dark for a guy in his 70s
"There was Edward, there was Randy.....and everyone else. " ---Paul Stanley
65,000,000 years ago a comet from litter space hit the earth as round what is nos known as the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. That impact killed off the dinosaurs. On February 10th 1978. Van Halen debut album dropped and that killed off Disco, substandard rock n roll and every poser who were trying to fool everyone by acting like they new how to play guitar. That impact was real and I was there , and I'm telling you it was that dramatic and the world of music , and especially the world of R n R has never and will never be the same , God Bless Big Ed , I Love You and Thank You fof countless hours of enjoying great music !
I remember the first time I listened to VH One. It felt like an electric shock.
My brother shared with me recently, he & his best pal went to see Van Halen in Feb/March of 1978, still unknown in the Midwest, & they were the 1st of the 3 bands to play that night, (Montrose & Journey were the other two). He said they were so blown away by Van Halen, they left the concert after they were done, (no longer having any interest in seeing the other 2 bands), & proceeded to buy Van Halen's album the very next day. History in the making, to be sure! Thankfully, their music will live on forever. RIP EVH 🎶
My friend went to that concert as well and told me after Van Halen blew the crowd away Journey seemed pale in comparison
That’s a great fucking story. The moment in time for your brother and the entire crowd was instantaneous. They all just knew.
Ace was a hell of a guitarist too, criminally underrated.
Paul, I had KISS all over my walls as a teen. I hear Eruption, and I STILL kept my pics up. This is when I learned that there were MANY MANY KICK ASS ROCK BANDS and I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM. A TIME that WILL NEVER BE DUPLICATED from the 70's to the Late 80's!! Still Love all my Kiss Albums :) Along with all My VH, and other major ROCK METAL BANDS!!
Nice to see/hear Paul being a genuine human being here - just has an ease about himself that makes you feel like he is perfectly comfortable complimenting other artists without having to then boost up himself...a true class act !! Too many others pretend to compliment other artists and then their insecurity forces them to backtrack and boost their own ego... not so with Paul...this really speaks well for him regarding both his humility and humanity !! Thanks for sharing this - it was a great moment.
Paul is so self assured. He has no issue with giving genuine praise to another group. Nice Job.
Thanks man!!
So self assured that he passed on Van Halen because they would have overshadowed KISS on their label.
I've never seen someone that thinks they shit roses and farts rainbows like Paul Stanley...lol
You probably think Stanley was "mentoring" Lita Ford back in the 70's when she was 16 and he was 30 something?...lmfao!
I agree. Hate Paul. But this was a nice job on getting some interesting answers
Well said!
R.I.P KING EDWARD AND MR. RANDY RHOADS
It's "King Edward and Saint Rhoads" That's a quote from Zak!!!! 😂
Love hearing Paul telling like it was! Seems like such a good guy!
I appreciate Paul's honesty and giving credit where it's due.
Very rare in the business. 😊👍
Very rare for Paul especially.
Try listening to Paul’s audiobook clips on here. Paul Stanley has been wronged by everyone in his life, according to Paul Stanley.
Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads were definitely the two big gunslingers on the scene at the time that Vinnie Vincent came into KI$$. To be fair though, although Randy did name Eddie as an influence and proudly played a small piece of "Eruption" in his solo set with Ozzy, they were two completely different players. Randy really mixed a lot of the classical modes into metal, and Ed, although a master technician, still drew his style from the blues. Put it this way: they were both great, IMO.
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But Ed was better!!!
@@chrisjones8977 , that's subjective.
@@MALoadedDiaper not really!!
@@MALoadedDiaper Even Randy would agree. He was schooled and played a.lot of scales but Edward changed the landscape. Everybody knows that.
Wow, very revealing interview. I remember when VH broke out and as Paul said, it was a game-changer for everybody- from local club cover bands to big touring and recording artists who knew they had to up their musicianship.
Paul and Gene are both so straight forward and honest with their opinions and answers in interviews.
So cool to hear Paul Stanley talk about Eddie, Randy, and Sabbath........
hey man great to see you channel growing!
You da man bro! 🤘🏻
Very cool Paul is a good man I like how he admitted he didn’t want there manager to sign Eddie Both bands certainly made it to the top
Feared his spot
What a nice to hear, honest interview.
Eddie Forever man‼️💥
Wow, this has to be the most genuine interview I've ever heard from Paul Stanley.
I always felt Paul was so well spoken and calm, weird for such an iconic rock star. I'm 54 I grew up loving them..
Agree.
More the exception than the rule for him in interviews, that's for sure.
Love that he mentioned Randy Rhoads as well.
Paul’s book is amazing. The human and the persona in the fight for success.
Got to admit, he is a well spoken, smart man. No dummy that's for sure!!
One of their greatest getting off an exit (as Paul says) was that disco song I Was Made for Loving You. It still kicks butt today. Just showed a teen relative that song and she loved it. Asked to play it again. It's undeniably a great song.
Each time I see Paul well I thank God from the depths of my heart. Without him Rock wouldn't be the same. I am so happy that he is still rocking so amazingly well!
And you will LOVE his new album coming March 19th! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Yes sir hes taken good care of his self a very smart humble man he knew how to play. His cards like GENE who seems to be a great roll model and bissness man you know what i mean shit these guys toped LOTS of bands y'all know the picture
Um, Paul is performing with recorded backing vocals, and should've parked it years ago.
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Humble? Please.
@@scottawes921 most groups are using background tracks nowadays because of the digital technology .. and if it's Your Own Music, You reserve the right to do it in any way you choose .. and how many platinum albums do you have out brother? ✌️
Great interview. You ask a question and patiently let him answer. That's awesome. Paul is pretty sincere here. This is pretty much a 100% the same account of things as they happened from all ends. I subbed and liked. Good luck with the channel. You are doing something good here.
My man Jeremy gettin it DONE with this interview and all his interviews. 🤘🏼🎸
So lovely, couldn't say it any better 🎸🎶🌹🙏❣️
Good work you are a young man with a 80s rock n roll soul keep it alive
ROCK N ROLL!!! 🤘🏻
GAME CHANGER! Paul is being respectful of Sabbath, Kiss blew Sabbath off first, Ozzy & Tony says, never again, get us a California cover band or something, Whoops? VanHalen ain’t no California Cover band! ( oddly enough thats all they played in the beginning) certain bands, people come along at the right time & place, history is made, RIPower Edward Lodewijk VanHalen..
I’m so glad bands strayed off the path. Miss you by the Stones and Shandi by KISS are 2 of my favorite tunes.
Cool interview Jeremy 🤘
Nice to hear some honesty. Great interview.
It was a cool little chat... thanks for the kind words David! Hope you subscribe 🤘🏻
Your interviews are the best. Love your channel!
Ayyyyy 🤘🏻🔥
I really enjoyed this. Paul seemed very honest and sincere. Home run on this one.
Buddy doesnt even have 3k subscribers and Paul Stanley is on? Im scratching my head
Keep scratching n maybe you'll find something
It doesn't matter to a real star . It just means a little more publicity .
Jeremy very kool to hear Paul's perspective on the Almighty Van Halen. Kiss were asskicking too in thier way out there. I had the great pleasure of seeing the Original Kiss a few times and also both great versions of Van Halen. 😊😊😊🎸🎸🎸🎶🎼🎵😎😎😎💙💜🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧👍👍👍👍👍
You could easily argue between Dave and Paul being the greatest American rock and roll front men of all time.
Paul is one hell of a SINGER HE'S a great. Songwriter and love his guitar chops. LICK IT UP ! TURN IT UP MAN YOU'RE GONNA REMEMBER THIS TEXT YEESSS 👍
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Great segment Jeremy!
Wow I just found this channel by accident. Great interview!
Jerry!!!!.....you ask great questions,thank u!!
All the respect in the world to Paul for admitting he wasn't down with his manager/Gene getting distracted by taking on another band, it makes perfect sense and like he said, they got signed anyway, they were gonna be huge regardless, it was the right move for the sake of Kiss.
Your one smart fish !
I really enjoy Paul. I wish there was more of this Paul when he spoke at Kiss shows instead of the Showman Paul....... only speaking. I love the showman Paul during music.
"All right people now listen"
Don't forget now I know!!!!!!!!
WILD ANIMALS!!
Paul is a humble man with tons of class
Paul is my favorite front man. Love his voice.
Great channel... No fluff, straight to the point.🤟🏻
Haha cheers Even! Hope ya subscribe 🤘🏻
Eddie VH and Randy R "exploited" their unique talents. They never tried to copy/compete with each other. I always respect that regarding their confidence. 🎸🎵🎶🎸🎵🎶🎸🎵🎶
great interview
Amazing there was fracturing in VH when they were first starting. Glad they stuck it out.
Hey man, great video. Been watching more n more of your videos, I really dig em! I like how you present. I do have a couple serious questions for ya though, if you wouldn't mind answering? Thanks dude, keep it up! 🤟
Paul speaking the facts.. love it !
I'm just imagining seeing this awesome band opening for any other band and they're thinking damn... I gotta follow that!
awesome ==== thanks 4 sharing
To me the most fascinating and impressive thing about EVH was that no matter how technically blistering his playing was at any time, he was just playing what fit the song. It doesn't seem like he was trying AT ALL to play something impressive, it just happened to be so.
Effortless.
Listen to this story. This story is just epic. Paul is hanging out with Lita Ford and going to a club and saw VH and Randy Rhodes like it's just a regular night out. I mean for him it was but I'm sitting hear thinking "man are you kidding me?" Why couldn't I have been there?
It was just another regular night out for me at that time 👍 and there were a lot of other talented people that didn't get their due .. just sayin' ✌️
watching Paul and Gene in interviews had made me like KISS even more...ACE and Peter just as honest interviewees, as well
New sub. Great stuff. Keep it up, young man. 🤟
EVH is a player no one can touch his playing was insane
All his solos sound the same Eddie is one dementional and his style is out dated.
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CVS called, your meds are ready.
@@hotblonde9882 Really? Listen to the solo on Running With The Devil, Ice Cream Man and then Push Comes To Shove. If they sound the same to u then u have hearing damage plus how can it be outdated he literally pioneered that style and others followed. He's a better player than all the guitar players from KISS combined lmao
Randy Rhoads was much better at finger tapping and using major and minor scales. Eddie relied mostly on pentatonic and blues structures. Good guitar player but nothing like Randy was. He was the best
You can compare players all the live long day and say who is better than who and blah, blah, blah. The point of EVH is that he (by himself) reinvented, and reinvigorated how guitar rock was played and perceived. He totally turned the blues rock playing upside down. Now, Randy was a different animal altogether. Randy was the guy who introduced that neo classical sound and integrated it into guitar rock. While Randy’s playing was very polished and smooth, it did follow the “rules” if you will, of classical framing , While Eddie’s playing was sort of all over the place with strange sort of half bends, oddball tunings, (probably to make it easier on Dave) and just very unorthodox, outside the box framework. Eddie also was an innovator, coming up with wax coating pickups, using a variac to “power soak” his amp and inventing what is now known as the “brown sound”
Eddie was a once in a lifetime person/talent! I truely miss Eddie.I miss the good days of music ! maybe somebody will come along after we all are gone that reinvents an instrument (tis possible guitar haa reached the limits of its true useage). One day, years from now a hot kid will come along a do something unreal. I hope to see it
I saw Eddie twice and Randy once, only 2 weeks before the plane crash. I don’t believe anyone was really intelligently processing what we were seeing at the time.
Great video! Love Paul Stanley! New subscriber.🤟😜
Van Halen Forever!
Good interview Jeremy, you ask a (good) question and let the guest answer yet you still participate. I'm gonna look at more of your interviews. I think with some time, you will be more of a success.
Your channel Rocks! awesome content ❤️
Thanks so much for the kind words! Hope you subscribe 🤘🏻
Paul is a great songwriter/performer ( Soul Station is awesome! ). In most cases I've experienced, unless any interview features Paul or his recordings/works exclusively then Paul tends to not talk about other bands/musicians very much. But, this is a nice interview from him. Best wishes for him/Soul Station!
It was nice to talk to him about this, our full interview is coming out closer to the album release... album is fantastic! Hope ya subscribe 🤘🏻
Very cool. Loved it
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Paul. Very clearly sees being a rockstar musician as a job. That's a cold reality of the music BUSINESS. What your dreams were become secondary to supporting yourself. Being an adult trying to appeal to youth. Juxtaposition, anyone?
Sooo many frontmen emulated David Lee Roth. From Ratt to Bulletboys I know there were others! Dave brought his martial arts skills to the stage doing the craziest flying kicks ever! And his famous mic stand twirling!! Great entertainer when he could remember the lyrics or keep time!
I was there for it all.
Eddie upped the ante for a lot of guitarists. The Gunslinger was in full effect at the time. I got wrapped up in it like many others. I would eventually abandon a lot of it and go back to my strengths as a player, but once Shrapnel started up and Malmsteen, Gilbert, McAlpine and all thos rocket ships went into orbit I once again started woodshedding. I am just not a left hand guy. I do it OK and can ape styles, but my influences were pre Eddie. DiMeola and Sanatana were the guys that I was already copping. I ended up being a picker more than a legato guy. To this day I pick 85% of what I do. It is just who I am. Playing covers for 2 decades made me more vesatile no doubt, but in my own little world of my music I am a picker.
But the entire Gunslinger thing was fascinating. I bougjt GW and GP magazines every month and the industry was humming with gear like never before or since.
I am forever grateful to have been born in the mid 60s. I got to see and be a part of what will be considered the best times to be a musician and music lover. It was an embarassment of riches.
So ultimately Rocked
While I admire Paul's kindness and flattery, I can't help but think that one of the reasons he wanted Kiss's management to pass on VH is the fear that they would overshadow them.
Absolutely. Paul knew first-hand how a game-changing band makes a lot of the competition suddenly look out of date - KISS did that by redefining showmanship and marketing for hard-rock acts.
I’m sure his initial reaction to Van Halen was, “these guys have an awful lot going for them, topped off by the fact that they have one thing we do not - a god-level guitar player. We’d be crazy to give those guys a helping hand, they will probably be selling more records than us in a couple of years, why should we risk accelerating that timeline?”
Paul is super great guy but vanhalen was a notch above
Alright, I'm digging this channel!
Ayyyyy 🤘🏻
Paul is looking amazing for his age.
He looks like a grandma
I could be wrong but I don’t think he’s wearing a wig. Either way he looks good. Sur
@@toastoftowne1076 it's a Hair system
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So" true"
@@alissadesigns89 and he hasn't gone gray! Lol
Eddie van halen and kiss my 2 best band ever thanks for sharing this
Thanks for watching man! Hope ya subscribe!
Thanks man! Hope ya subscribe 🤘🏻
Van Halen and Kiss: Two bands who blew away the headliner.
OH YEAH MAN! GREAT
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I do remember Paul during other interviews about bands not wanting KISS opening up for them during their beginning run. They had the makeup thing and characters. Plus, great songs and Paul has always been a great frontman himself. Plus, KISS had 3 different guys, during the early days, singing lead vocals on different songs. Later on Ace started sing some lead songs like Shock Me and New York Groove. KISS opened up for Blue Oyster Cult during their first run and Blue Oyster Cult ended up opening for KISS like a year or 2 later. Kind of things like that happen in Music. Guns N Roses came out and it wasn’t long before they became a headliner and were basically kicking every band’s asses on rock scene. Obviously like Paul says in this interview is that they had to adapt to the hairband thing.
Except ac/dc, everyone else was an opening act for them. Including the mentioned bands.
@@johnalexander3629 Pretty sure AC/DC was an opening act for KISS as well.
@@paulfrehley7352 they definitely were, ac/dc supported them early in their American foray and I've read that they were pretty good mates. After back in black, they were always the headline act.
@@johnalexander3629 Maybe I misunderstood or you mis-worded your previous comment.
VH was so important for rock in 1978 when everything was soft and bloated. I was only 10 but remember that time of Foreigner, Boston, F Mac, etc, and rock needed a kick. In 78/79' I bought TP Torpeados, both Police albums and Steve Millers greatest hits. I also bought all 4 of those Kiss individual albums. Kiss was like a starter band for boys becoming rockers in the mid-late 70s, where Zep was more for older kids, and IMO 1970's Rush is musical talent that's just off the charts, however I never bought a Rush album after Moving Pictures 1981.
Thursday was the second anniversary of the Eddie Van Halen appearance as a contestant on the October 6, 2020 episode of Celebrity Bucket Kickers.
good questions.
Great stuff
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Eddie Van Halen...Guitar pioneer...Eddie didn't have the effect pedals. He played like no one else. 1978 the bar was raised. Eddie set the benchmark. VH was the baddest thing on earth. Then they "Jumped"
When we heard eruption. That blew our minds
I loved kiss at one time then I turned 8 years old and that was that!
Haaaa damn bubba!
still waiting for the next... VH to come out, just miss the fun
Good interview
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Ed and Jimi were the only real game changers.
Good questions.
Paul Stanley is in a class by himself. You could have changed all the other members of Kiss, but as long as you had Paul Stanley, you'd still have the 'Kiss sound" No disrespect intended to Gene or anyone else in the band.
I agree 100%! Paul is the sound in many ways
One of the few enjoyable interviews with Paul
Not a Kiss Fan post 77' but great Paul Stanley interview!!!
Dude! You have to bust out that hat for a Paul Stanley interview! Never seen this show, but this is a big interview! Not a fan of Paul, but big props about getting some information about Van Halen!
Thanks man!! Lots of great interviews on the channel. Subscribe and check ‘em out! 🤘🏻
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