He's the only one of all those hot shit players of the 80's who was funky. All the Eddie wanna-be's that came after him seem to miss that. Until Nuno anyway.
Listening to Eddie's rhythm playing is just as exciting and challenging as his lead work. His guitar work carried the songs. And combined with Micheal's bg vocals, you have VH magic!
A great, great player. A fabulous rhythm guitarist. Why? Because he grooves. And he has the maturity to play what the song calls for instead of using the song as an excuse to showboat every five seconds. He leaves room for everyone else, yet makes the song sound lively and spontaneous. Ed proves that "heavy" doesn't come from stupid levels of gain, it comes from groove, phrasing, and note choice. That is mastery. That is what elevates Edward Van Halen above and beyond everyone else. If you don't hear it, you've got plenty of growing up to do.
Agreed..You eloquently laid it out.....can you use the term 'eloquently' when referring to Rock and Roll? Nice and concise.... I think that's why Ed had a hard time with Dave...Dave wasn't the best singer in the world, but he acted like he was.... and Ed seems to have an affinity for humility, after all, Ed was one of the, if not THE best guitar player in the world at that time, but he never acted like it, as affirmed by exactly what you stated. My only addition is that I like the way the VH brothers stood together...all the way...through thick and thin and everything in between. The way it should be.
Ed and Dave are two different personalities. DLR is the ultimate rock star showman whereas EVH just wanted to make music. I think that's what made it work so well.
I have always LOVED that diminuendo, minor key section (at 2:18)... but after hearing it isolated... naked and fearless, for all the world to hear...tears... just tears. Rest in Peace, Eddie.
I was 14 when this came out- rocking the cassette in my Walkman, hanging out at the mall, playing Pacman at the arcade, cruising for chicks on my BMX. Simpler times.
I was born in 71- so I also have those same memories from that summer! Diamond Back also- but light Grey with Hot Pink Diamond Back logos and white Skyway rims! I thought I was the shit! Too funny!
This is a masterpiece, literally. Rhythm and lead parts played to perfection, perfect phrasing and nuances. Like someone else said, you don't even need a band here. Rip Eddie!! May the Lord grant you everlasting life and peace.
That’s because he didn’t just do a pick slide. He would start off with a pick slide then transition to a finger slide. The combo was awesome. Eddie was a Genius.
@@sunsgettingreallow8318 indeed, my favorite on that album, love they used it in yacht rock. have to say girl gone bad would be a top contender for me too. but for a guitar rock single in the 80's or ever it may not get better than Panama
@@JohnAPrescott I don't hear it as sloppy as much as I hear it as raw, untouched, not over-edited or over-produced. To me, that is why it sounds so rich and amazing.
I’ve listened to this, no exaggeration, probably between 1000 and 2000 times or even more- and every time, I hear something new. His playing wasn’t just loud, but incredibly full and musical
The boss of them all in my opinion. So many great consistent songs, so many riffs, solos, rhythm style, his own and perfect tones, musicianship-even his keyboard playing-songwriting, etc etc VH had it all. Alex and Ed together as 2 brothers....Alex an important part of Eddie's playing and sound. I am a fan of many many guitar greats, but Eddie takes the crown for me
I agree. This groove is the smoky sexy break from the full on attack... like a war movie that goes into slow motion for moments while the battle rages on - then back to the full frontal assault.
I'm not trying to sound like a snob here but this is an incredibly easy song to play......which is why it's so badass. Just another example of what set EVH apart from all the other virtuosos. He had a groove and a rythmn that no one else could match. Yeah, he could play all the fast and technical stuff but none of that has soul. And the way he hits triads and keeps them in tune is just amazing to me. He understood better than most what made a song sound good to the ear and enjoyable. Doesn't have to be flashy. EVH was one in an entire lifetime.
Plus, you can slow the track down to your desired setting! I've definitely taken advantage of the new technology now, but if I had this in the 1980s...
I remember back in the late 80's or early 90's....I can't remember the company , maybe Tascam ?? Anyway ...they made a cassette player that actually slowed the song down to almost a crawl and wouldn't change the pitch .....back when I was on the road I used it A LOT because back then Brent Mason , a country session player broke on the scene and he had some of the fastest chicken pickin licks youd ever heard..... saved my butt on A LOT of tunes u had to learn....
Among everything else, he was a master at volume dynamics. You can hear him turn up the volume at the end of the verses and also the dynamics after the end of the solo. Masterful.
The rawness, energy, passion, feeling, imperfections, the tone. This is the one and only isolated guitar track that really gives me the chills. It truly shows what an amazing rhythm player Eddie is. I really love the imperfections the most. Makes much of what is produced today. Sterile. Not bad, just too 'perfect' or rather too polished.
This is the perfect Rock and Roll song. Takes me straight back to 1984 and the 6th grade immediately....and probably a million other awesome memories associated with the greatest American Rock and Roll band of all time.....Van Halen.
If I could pick one song from Van Halen to know perfectly how to play on the guitar I think it would be this. Imagine being Eddie and knowing how to perfectly play this and be playing in front of thousands! Long live EVH!
@Frank Lopez Yeah true, I would probably classify Van Halen and Motley Crue as heavy metal, similarly to Scorpions, or Dokken, although they obviously aren't the same as 90's Pantera or 80's Metallica. It's almost impossible to objectively declare someone the best, and that's not the point of rock or any art for that matter.
@Frank Lopez I don't know as much about grunge but I think some people use it as a generalization for a ton of bands in the 90's, similar to calling every 80's guitar band from Bon Jovi to Skid Row 'hair metal'. When you say hard rock with metal elements, what factors do you consider to determine that?
@Frank Lopez I don't think grunge as a term is ridiculous, I just don't fully understand it. I agree that the bands you named as metal seem like metal, I just don't follow how you qualify a bands sound as metal or not when it's as blurred as Skid Row or Motley. Metallica, for example, is widely considered a metal band, but Nothing Else Matters and Unforgiven are slick power ballads, and I'd say a lot of their later music isn't as heavy as the other 'metal bands' of the time, such as Pantera. Some would argue they slid from thrash metal to hard rock as their career progressed.
This shows just how clean Eddies guitar tone was, a bit like with AC/DC lots of peeps think there’s way more gain than there actually is. I’m sad he’s gone 😢
I wonder what kind of reverb...after some googling, looks like an EMT Plate Reverb so it's something that would have to be emulated for the bedroom guitarists these days or maybe there's an impulse of this out there).
He adds a lot more root/bass notes than I knew he did before, explains how one guy can fill out a wall of sound like this one as a single guitar track. Definitely part of Eddie's mad scientist genius. You can also hear him masterfully manipulate the volume control with great accuracy and smart dynamics, all part of his next-level playing and song writing.
From this isolated track, we can hear Eddie wrote some of the best guitar rock parts ever put on wax. This is a full blown perfect blues-based rock composition. Other lead guitar players came along who could play circles around Eddie, but NONE OF THEM could write rock songs like Eddie. You can only tell how truly strong the momentum is on this composition.....when it stops.
+chris c Yes! Isn't surprising how many of these great classic tones that people chase after have so much less gain than you would think? Also it strikes me how important it seems to dial in tone so that sits in with the rest of the band. Not so that it sounds great all by itself.
The trick to his tone is that it has a lot of scratch, BUT not a lot of gain. There's a difference. You can hear it at the beginning when he does the harmonics.
EVH had a certain controlled aggression in his playing that is rare. Nuno has this to a degree but much of that was learned through imitating Edward. There is awesome energy and attitude in this classic.
One thing about listening to Eddies iscolated tracks .... He runs thru the entire song in one shot lead & all, Nice & Raw and doesnt doctor the track up trying to make it perfect, its one solid rocking track.
I am 49, live near Phoenix, and saw the first ten tours. Of the 187 shows I have seen in my life, 1978 and 1979 are the first and third best shows I have ever seen. They were beyond exciting back then.
This is such a classic! He was so smooth and it just came easy, or it seems to anyway! Long Live King Edward RIP!! I have tried playing this note for note and as of right now I’m two weeks into it and still can’t nail it! He just had the fingers and ear that no one will ever fully have again!
you can really hear how relaxed his feel is in this track, he does not scrape the pick across the strings with very much speed, it gives a very smooth feel to his riffs here
Good stuff. You can hear his "feeling" and dynamics as he playing. You can hear him turn his volume knob up going into the chorus. Plus Ed has been such a influence on me on tone and the use of "open" chords. Strum the chord (whatever one) and let it ring and if your tone doesn't suck it's a huge addition to the dynamic of the song/riff etc.
AWESOME! Thanks for posting this. I was skeptical that is what some jerk off playing pretending this was Edwards track. But that is 100% HIM in 1984 ('82-'83 in the studio). I'm a guitar nut from the 70's I know those fingers, that tone, the tunes man. lol Love these videos! I had to figure these licks out by ear off the record/tape back then. This would have been a dream to have in the 80's. Kids today are so damn lucky!
Don’t get me wrong here, Eddie’s an amazing lead guitar player, but damned if that ain’t some killer rhythm guitar playing right there! No dragging, no speeding up, just keeps right in time with the beat of the song!
This is great because it shines a spotlight on Eddie's rhythm playing which is often overshadowed by his soloing. I love the dynamic rise and fall and the way the lead/rhythm lines blend organically rather sounding compartmentalised in the way cut and paste multi-track guitar parts do - very Hendrixian in that respect.
Yep. I don't care for most of his solos (Eruption and Beat It are amazing, among others), but hearing this isolated made me realize his rhythm guitar work is better than his soloing. Nobody else sounds like this. The complexity reminds me of Pete Townsend but of course I prefer EVH's sound to Pete's.
his rhythm playing is phenomenal. Even on 5150, songs like the title track and Summer Nights with the Steinberger are some crazy ass shit, way way beyond bland power chords, hes like hendrix in the way,
@@chazboner7041 No, I wasn't. I was rather clumsily (an inadvertently pretentiously) trying to describe the way that the line between rhythm and solo is blurred in EVH's playing which to me has parallel to Hendrix. It wasn't - and wasn't meant to sound like it was - about me.
When I started playing guitar,I had the early albums on vinyl. Such a pain in the a$$ to slow the record down to piece this track together. Didn't have videos,internet,CZcams,none of that sh!t. Us older folks had to learn it the hard way. God this fool made it sound so easy....JEEZ!!
Everyone raves on about his leads, but Eddie's rhythm playing is always what made him special, in my opinion. So much balls.
very good point, so true. I never though of that, but it's very true.
And you see the transition of the rhythm to solo and back! just like a hot knife in buttler!
He's the only one of all those hot shit players of the 80's who was funky. All the Eddie wanna-be's that came after him seem to miss that. Until Nuno anyway.
Listening to Eddie's rhythm playing is just as exciting and challenging as his lead work. His guitar work carried the songs. And combined with Micheal's bg vocals, you have VH magic!
so much Pete Townsend in his rhythm playing.
hearing this is like getting to go thru the box of lucky charms and eating all the marshmallows. This is gold to hear the guitar track
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its like getting a box of lucky charms with nothing but the marshmallows in it lol
Almost like eating all the raisins in you raisin bran.
holy christ this is perfect
Jeez, this doesn't even need a band.
@@pkdude5334 Yes!
Indeed 🤘😁
I just learned Hot for Teacher on guitar, and realized i don't even need the other instruments. amazing.
True!
Exactly..everything he does is so melodic and musical
A great, great player. A fabulous rhythm guitarist. Why? Because he grooves. And he has the maturity to play what the song calls for instead of using the song as an excuse to showboat every five seconds. He leaves room for everyone else, yet makes the song sound lively and spontaneous. Ed proves that "heavy" doesn't come from stupid levels of gain, it comes from groove, phrasing, and note choice. That is mastery. That is what elevates Edward Van Halen above and beyond everyone else. If you don't hear it, you've got plenty of growing up to do.
well put, man. this recording really exposes his musicality
No one needs to comment after that. Says it all!
Agreed..You eloquently laid it out.....can you use the term 'eloquently' when referring to Rock and Roll? Nice and concise....
I think that's why Ed had a hard time with Dave...Dave wasn't the best singer in the world, but he acted like he was.... and Ed seems to have an affinity for humility, after all, Ed was one of the, if not THE best guitar player in the world at that time, but he never acted like it, as affirmed by exactly what you stated.
My only addition is that I like the way the VH brothers stood together...all the way...through thick and thin and everything in between. The way it should be.
Ed and Dave are two different personalities. DLR is the ultimate rock star showman whereas EVH just wanted to make music. I think that's what made it work so well.
Could not have said it better myself, spot on.
these isolated tracks make his genius even MORE obvious...
I have always LOVED that diminuendo, minor key section (at 2:18)... but after hearing it isolated... naked and fearless, for all the world to hear...tears... just tears. Rest in Peace, Eddie.
Agreed, I’ll play this in my head over-&-over & just in awe…sets him apart from everyone else. 🎸🤘🏾
Especially the way he effortlessly transitions from an amazing solo, into that. A true savant.
His sound and his feel blows everybody else out of the water.
Raw, wild, accessible and melodic
Even his rhythm has so much going on it's fucking nuts.
I was 14 when this came out- rocking the cassette in my Walkman, hanging out at the mall, playing Pacman at the arcade, cruising for chicks on my BMX. Simpler times.
+biffbyford Reading your comment just brought back all sorts of memories for me.
+biffbyford Had to have a Mongoose!
+dsvet I had a Diamond Back! Red & Gold!
+dsvet damn... I only had a Huffy.... :(
I was born in 71- so I also have those same memories from that summer! Diamond Back also- but light Grey with Hot Pink Diamond Back logos and white Skyway rims! I thought I was the shit! Too funny!
This is a masterpiece, literally. Rhythm and lead parts played to perfection, perfect phrasing and nuances. Like someone else said, you don't even need a band here.
Rip Eddie!! May the Lord grant you everlasting life and peace.
Man, Eddie did the best pick slides.
Don't forget his pinch harmonics bro
copper picks
That’s because he didn’t just do a pick slide. He would start off with a pick slide then transition to a finger slide. The combo was awesome. Eddie was a Genius.
The man is simply a genius. Those chords. Here's a guy who sweats music.
It's pretty cool how he uses the volume control to clean up his tone instead of switching channels or whatever
dynamics.. it's everithing
I love that too
That's how people did it back then.
you dont listen to this, you feel this
That riff changed my life
RIP Eddie - I share this vid all the time with people so that they can understand his genius.
😥
Musical scientist!!
Eddie's best riff, right here.
Mine would have to be Unchained
Panama kinda has it all
I’m the One for me
@@sunsgettingreallow8318 indeed, my favorite on that album, love they used it in yacht rock. have to say girl gone bad would be a top contender for me too. but for a guitar rock single in the 80's or ever it may not get better than Panama
Uh..mean street....c'mon guys.
Sounds like he did it all (rhythm, solo, outro, etc.) all in one take-amazing
This tone..... The Greatest
An engineer told me once that this cut was a first complete take for the band when they laid it down at 5150, in 1983. . .
ONE take. Man. . . .
You can hear him nail ones takes constantly. Runnin With The Devil is one take AFAIK.
I can tell, its sloppy.
@@JohnAPrescott I don't hear it as sloppy as much as I hear it as raw, untouched, not over-edited or over-produced. To me, that is why it sounds so rich and amazing.
No. Just no.
@@JohnAPrescott
I assume you’re joking
1:28-1:30 i never picked that chug pattern out in a million years without this! Super cool!
Really?
The solo doesn’t sound like it’s been dropped in, so this was recorded in one take? Incredible!
Rumor has it that Eddie would always play the whole track all the way through until he had a clean take
@@TrashHeapCustodianthats just not true theres a lot of over dubbing in the studio songs
I’ve listened to this, no exaggeration, probably between 1000 and 2000 times or even more- and every time, I hear something new. His playing wasn’t just loud, but incredibly full and musical
RIP Eddie, facemelting song and my absolute favourite!
I was sixteen when this record got released. It blew us all away.
It's kind of crazy how much the mix ISN'T missing when you drop out everything but Eddie's guitar.
Gets the headlines for the solos, the reason he's a legend is his riffs/rythmn. A world class player by any objective or subjective standard.
So original, so great comp, so important, so unique solos, so fun onstage, so interesting, Ed is Ed.
The boss of them all in my opinion. So many great consistent songs, so many riffs, solos, rhythm style, his own and perfect tones, musicianship-even his keyboard playing-songwriting, etc etc VH had it all. Alex and Ed together as 2 brothers....Alex an important part of Eddie's playing and sound. I am a fan of many many guitar greats, but Eddie takes the crown for me
I agree. Just very fluent and creative, so much happening. i love these guitar only tracks.
He is the greatest, no doubt about it. The rest can't rock like EVH.
These tracks really show the raw talent, no mistake about it. The confidence, the skill, it blows your head off.
2:18 thru 3:05 is the reason why i love this song
Me too. :47 of VH's best music.
I always thought it sounds like Coverdale or Sykes were inspired by this and incorporated it into the bridge of Still of the night
Im gonna kick the seat back...
absolute testosterone raising sounding
I agree. This groove is the smoky sexy break from the full on attack... like a war movie that goes into slow motion for moments while the battle rages on - then back to the full frontal assault.
This is the definition of dynamics......genius rhythm playing
I'm not trying to sound like a snob here but this is an incredibly easy song to play......which is why it's so badass. Just another example of what set EVH apart from all the other virtuosos. He had a groove and a rythmn that no one else could match. Yeah, he could play all the fast and technical stuff but none of that has soul. And the way he hits triads and keeps them in tune is just amazing to me. He understood better than most what made a song sound good to the ear and enjoyable. Doesn't have to be flashy. EVH was one in an entire lifetime.
Such a sweet tone
Man, how easy do kids have it these days? I wore out tapes figuring this out.
+rsvp9146 No shit, right?
+rsvp9146
AH!....I had VINYL !!!!!!!!!!
Plus, you can slow the track down to your desired setting! I've definitely taken advantage of the new technology now, but if I had this in the 1980s...
I remember back in the late 80's or early 90's....I can't remember the company , maybe Tascam ??
Anyway ...they made a cassette player that actually slowed the song down to almost a crawl and wouldn't change the pitch .....back when I was on the road I used it A LOT because back then Brent Mason , a country session player broke on the scene and he had some of the fastest chicken pickin licks youd ever heard..... saved my butt on A LOT of tunes u had to learn....
Marc Robinson I remember that. But I never bought one for myself, Can't remember the reason why. Most likely I had no money...
Among everything else, he was a master at volume dynamics. You can hear him turn up the volume at the end of the verses and also the dynamics after the end of the solo. Masterful.
What a riff, Man Eddie was on fire from 76-85
love these isolated guitar tracks make you appreciate the work these guitarists put in and the quality.
Ben Bradford I can appreciate it if I like it.
those arpeggio harmonics, has anyone ever done that? Absolute genius.
I fucking LOVE the interlude after the solo.
The rawness, energy, passion, feeling, imperfections, the tone. This is the one and only isolated guitar track that really gives me the chills. It truly shows what an amazing rhythm player Eddie is. I really love the imperfections the most. Makes much of what is produced today. Sterile. Not bad, just too 'perfect' or rather too polished.
Underrated comment - you hit the nail on the head dude. 🤟🏻
I’m hearing little things I never heard before and it just make you appreciate his genius even more. Standing Ovation!
When you take everything else that's going thats going on in this song and you strip it down the guitar your gonna hear things you never heard.
I've always loved how his pinch harmonics sound like David Lee Roth squeals
This is the perfect Rock and Roll song. Takes me straight back to 1984 and the 6th grade immediately....and probably a million other awesome memories associated with the greatest American Rock and Roll band of all time.....Van Halen.
Often imitated, never bettered. We should all feel priveleged to have witnessed the King at his best. RIP EvH xx
This is the quintessential VH song right here. It has it all, the name, the dirty sound, the great riffs, the feel of its time!
If I could pick one song from Van Halen to know perfectly how to play on the guitar I think it would be this. Imagine being Eddie and knowing how to perfectly play this and be playing in front of thousands! Long live EVH!
The most amazing right hand in music.
R.I.P.
thank you for rocking us through the years ❤️ I’m 54 and am still in ❤️
A shockingly powerful tribute to the power of arrangement. This is one guitar track...basically symphonic level composition ...AND IT RAWKS
isolated guitar track is amazing...what a feeling, spontanous and dirty groove...R.I.P. Eddie...your music is legendary
Eddie Van Halen is the best guitar player in the history of rock!
He is absolutely right at the very top
I might give it to Jimi Hendrix but EVH is right up there
@Frank Lopez Yeah true, I would probably classify Van Halen and Motley Crue as heavy metal, similarly to Scorpions, or Dokken, although they obviously aren't the same as 90's Pantera or 80's Metallica. It's almost impossible to objectively declare someone the best, and that's not the point of rock or any art for that matter.
@Frank Lopez I don't know as much about grunge but I think some people use it as a generalization for a ton of bands in the 90's, similar to calling every 80's guitar band from Bon Jovi to Skid Row 'hair metal'. When you say hard rock with metal elements, what factors do you consider to determine that?
@Frank Lopez I don't think grunge as a term is ridiculous, I just don't fully understand it. I agree that the bands you named as metal seem like metal, I just don't follow how you qualify a bands sound as metal or not when it's as blurred as Skid Row or Motley. Metallica, for example, is widely considered a metal band, but Nothing Else Matters and Unforgiven are slick power ballads, and I'd say a lot of their later music isn't as heavy as the other 'metal bands' of the time, such as Pantera. Some would argue they slid from thrash metal to hard rock as their career progressed.
Stunning. Top five Van Halen riff and solo. Damn, all my heroes are passing. RIP EVH.
The hardest thing to play in this song is the sliding 4ths. So hard to make it sound as tough as Eddie did. Like a growling tiger!
This shows just how clean Eddies guitar tone was, a bit like with AC/DC lots of peeps think there’s way more gain than there actually is. I’m sad he’s gone 😢
You nailed it with that comparison. Isolated it doesn't sound as good as modern guitar tones, but in the context of the song it's so f'in good.
When you just be content to hear all the parts of a single guitar, you know you got something of excellence
RIP EVH
👑
🎸
Never realized how much of the room mic'd sound was in these tracks.
+Neuronicism A lot of it is outboard reverb though.
I wonder what kind of reverb...after some googling, looks like an EMT Plate Reverb so it's something that would have to be emulated for the bedroom guitarists these days or maybe there's an impulse of this out there).
This is a composite mix of several mics, including distant ones.
Beautiful. You will never be forgotten, rest easy in peace Eddie.
2:18 if cruising into the sunset in a convertible sports car has a soundtrack, it's this.
AWESOME!! Crazy how clean his tone is....less is more!!!!
He adds a lot more root/bass notes than I knew he did before, explains how one guy can fill out a wall of sound like this one as a single guitar track. Definitely part of Eddie's mad scientist genius. You can also hear him masterfully manipulate the volume control with great accuracy and smart dynamics, all part of his next-level playing and song writing.
From this isolated track, we can hear Eddie wrote some of the best guitar rock parts ever put on wax. This is a full blown perfect blues-based rock composition. Other lead guitar players came along who could play circles around Eddie, but NONE OF THEM could write rock songs like Eddie. You can only tell how truly strong the momentum is on this composition.....when it stops.
Its not how much gain you can get but the least amount you can get by with
+chris c Yes! Isn't surprising how many of these great classic tones that people chase after have so much less gain than you would think? Also it strikes me how important it seems to dial in tone so that sits in with the rest of the band. Not so that it sounds great all by itself.
The trick to his tone is that it has a lot of scratch, BUT not a lot of gain. There's a difference. You can hear it at the beginning when he does the harmonics.
+Dillon McAuliffe Dime's tone only worked since he EQed it to be tight af.
chris c hes what happens when you have to make do
Dillon McAuliffe Dimes tone worked because of the how much the mids were boosted like crazy in the back
Sad day folks! Awesome human being. Guitar Legend!!!
So very cool! I, up until three years ago, came from the classical world. Always totally loved rock, now I wanna play! peace, Jake
RIP King EVH...my music man forever....💙💚💜💖
And he gets even better as he gets older. RIP the king! 🙏
The Dutch Guitar Master.
We've witnessed greatness in our lifetime...Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Van Halen...
EVH had a certain controlled aggression in his playing that is rare. Nuno has this to a degree but much of that was learned through imitating Edward.
There is awesome energy and attitude in this classic.
6 years old heard this and blew my mind like no other sound on earth I'd ever heard 1984
R.I.P Eddie! Thank you for exploring your talent!
One thing about listening to Eddies iscolated tracks .... He runs thru the entire song in one shot lead & all, Nice & Raw and doesnt doctor the track up trying to make it perfect, its one solid rocking track.
That break is my favorite Eddie invention... so mathematically perfect, speaks volumes, effortless, brilliant contrast
Genius him and Randy were mind blowing honestly
I'll learn this one just for you Eddie
RiP Eddie , Thanks for all the great music and great times growing up listening
I am 49, live near Phoenix, and saw the first ten tours. Of the 187 shows I have seen in my life, 1978 and 1979 are the first and third best shows I have ever seen. They were beyond exciting back then.
You’ve seen 187 shows??? Whoa. Hope you’re getting paid some how for your financial health. I’m curious - What show was the second best ???
@@jdecarlo99 I think 203 now. Number Two was NIN in 2005. Show list here. Needs updating: petedelorean.tumblr.com/
This is such a classic! He was so smooth and it just came easy, or it seems to anyway! Long Live King Edward RIP!! I have tried playing this note for note and as of right now I’m two weeks into it and still can’t nail it! He just had the fingers and ear that no one will ever fully have again!
Eddie is one of the true masters.
what the fuck !!! he does not need a drum, a bass, a singer , he is all at once. R I P Eddie.
I'm always amazed at how the lyrics come from this.
you can really hear how relaxed his feel is in this track, he does not scrape the pick across the strings with very much speed, it gives a very smooth feel to his riffs here
The greatest ! So fortunate to have seen him play many many times
Good stuff. You can hear his "feeling" and dynamics as he playing. You can hear him turn his volume knob up going into the chorus. Plus Ed has been such a influence on me on tone and the use of "open" chords. Strum the chord (whatever one) and let it ring and if your tone doesn't suck it's a huge addition to the dynamic of the song/riff etc.
AWESOME! Thanks for posting this. I was skeptical that is what some jerk off playing pretending this was Edwards track. But that is 100% HIM in 1984 ('82-'83 in the studio). I'm a guitar nut from the 70's I know those fingers, that tone, the tunes man. lol Love these videos! I had to figure these licks out by ear off the record/tape back then. This would have been a dream to have in the 80's. Kids today are so damn lucky!
I just shed a tear, it's so good.
W@W His composition and with smooth rhythmical ease which he plays, his unique sound are beautiful pieces of music on their own. ❤️🙏🏻❤️
The king Mr. Eddie van Halen!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t get me wrong here, Eddie’s an amazing lead guitar player, but damned if that ain’t some killer rhythm guitar playing right there! No dragging, no speeding up, just keeps right in time with the beat of the song!
This is great because it shines a spotlight on Eddie's rhythm playing which is often overshadowed by his soloing. I love the dynamic rise and fall and the way the lead/rhythm lines blend organically rather sounding compartmentalised in the way cut and paste multi-track guitar parts do - very Hendrixian in that respect.
Yep. I don't care for most of his solos (Eruption and Beat It are amazing, among others), but hearing this isolated made me realize his rhythm guitar work is better than his soloing. Nobody else sounds like this. The complexity reminds me of Pete Townsend but of course I prefer EVH's sound to Pete's.
his rhythm playing is phenomenal. Even on 5150, songs like the title track and Summer Nights with the Steinberger are some crazy ass shit, way way beyond bland power chords, hes like hendrix in the way,
Paralysis by analysis. You’re trying really really hard to sound important, Bruh.
@@chazboner7041 No, I wasn't. I was rather clumsily (an inadvertently pretentiously) trying to describe the way that the line between rhythm and solo is blurred in EVH's playing which to me has parallel to Hendrix. It wasn't - and wasn't meant to sound like it was - about me.
listening to the solo you can hear how tight the space was where the amps were isolated
I'm headbanging to this, and there aren't even any drums.
How many were singing lyrics in your head..how can you not...RIP. Eddie
He really played his soul out! His personality onstage was like a personiication of his playing!
Man what a great groove!
It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Dat is geweldig!
Right? I've heard this tune hundreds of times since high school 82-86 and never get tired of it
Love the dynamic shifts without actually using a clean tone. All in the touch (pick vs fingers) and volume knob
When I started playing guitar,I had the early albums on vinyl. Such a pain in the a$$ to slow the record down to piece this track together. Didn't have videos,internet,CZcams,none of that sh!t. Us older folks had to learn it the hard way. God this fool made it sound so easy....JEEZ!!