Mayer rips a god damned guitar too, but I wish he took a cue from Eddie and never opened his fucking mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig
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Mayer rips a god damned guitar too, but I wish he took a cue from Eddie and never opened his fucking mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig
First week of freshman year in college I heard 2 albums that really got me, Van Halen and Never Mind the Bollocks. I hope John Lydon is doing well these days, and RIP Eddie.
Johnny's just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Wait, what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tri-Ungulate
HPVQuote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Don’t worry, you eat ass so you should be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
I see what you did thereQuote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Hey, it's right next door.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
https://youtu.be/QrFxKY6aFrQ
Sweet riff will live forever
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett: Eddie Van Halen ‘Blew Open Everyone’s Minds’ https://nyti.ms/3jEcFGp
Never really a Van Halen fan (the band). The music while entertaining was a bit shallow.
Eddie OTOH was unmistakably original for his tone and mechanics much like Hendrix or SRV or BB King, when you heard him play you knew who it was. RIP.
Yeah that's about exactly here I am. Never a huge fan of the band but EVH was something else entirely, especially early on when nobody else could make those sounds at all.
Big Van Halen fan here.
Listened to every song and solo he ever made at 1/2 speed on my old record player so that I could learn how to play them.
He was my idol till I turned 18.
Sammy was the best thing that ever happened to that band.
Sammy kept them human, acted as a bridge for peace between new and old and between band members.
He was revolutionary in the guitar scene.
RIP.
Missing a few stubs but these survived...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...aaa051b459.jpg
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To be really honest, I just didn't hear anything new from him after 5150 and he seemed to just rehash the old hash.
Sammy, Mikey and even DLR have still got a smile and passion for music and being goofs.
The same just can't be said for Eddie.
Today I esteem many other guitarists as just better overall musicians, and even listening to 1970's and 1980's other artists, I'm not sure anymore just *how much* Eddie's playing was as novel as it is made out to be.
There was a vibe in California rock in the late 1970's and mid 1980's that just doesn't exist today because
destroying hotel rooms, fucking chicks and boozing and boozing on stage
just are not so cool.
It is sad though, he was so young and a guitar hero to many, at some point, in our musician lives.
In my post Van-Halen years, I finally learned to play rhythm. To FEEL the rhythm.
It was learning rhythm that convince me that slowing down the solos and playing more strategic notes,
was a good thing for everyone. Pink Floyd, Clapton, Triumph, Queen!, Jimi Hendrix, The Sultans of Swing, even the sixties and 70's hippi music,
all had great licks too. There are Eddie-like sounds and riffs that are similar even before Eddie.
I really appreciate Van Halen's bomb-track, of constant beat and drive (the drums, the bass, the DLR screams), and if you swapped any other talented guitarist into those songs, they would be just as catchy and good. Eddies *sound* was unique.
His brown sound and gear setup enabled a lot of harmonics and feedback to drive the sound even browner.
I modded my first 100W head with a varister so I could crank it to 10 without it being so loud.
My first Les Paul (Epiphone) got hacked, new strat neck and new pickups and new whammy installed, just like Eddie,
... soaked in Dr. Zoggs Surf Wax to reduce the squeal when the volume
was loud enough to jiggle my underarm hairs!
Good remembrances.
Oh yes, and playing Van Halen records, at half speed, to learn the solos.
Good remembrances.
Sammy is still sounds amazing for his age - When It's Love - Sammy Hagar & The Circle (with Michael Anthony)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHLG2P-7_M
This is about where I'm at. RIP EVH. You were far too young.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
Come on guys, Hot for Teacher was a deeply metaphorical song in which the protagonist embarks on a spiritual journey at an impressionable age. A Bildungsroman of sorts. :fmicon:
It will blow you away by how much the start of eruption sounds like this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdp3FtLYjvE
A Holden Caulfield for the masses if you will?Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
I was never a Van Halen fan (the group), but alwas appreciated what a great musician Eddie was. I grew up next to Pasedena and heard them at backyard parties and always hated Roth. He really couldn't sing back then. Since he couldn'tsing on the albums, just imagine how bad he really was. Eddie, on the other hand was already great.
Too bad he and a local kid I grew up with, Tommy Gerven, never got together, they would have been awesome. Unfortunately they were in battling bands back in the day. Ah, good times, high parties, cheap, but shitty weed and soCal bands trying to make it big.
lots of good stuff in that clip, wow. Dave puffin butts, ha. Lee Marvin and Johnny I wouldn't have minded hearing. Eddy sounded great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rideski
Lights down low, first time checking out an EVH solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFPdfq112Qs
Just skip the Eruption solo at the start
... and get to the learning Japanese song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALtC8r-kp8
Just reading this thread now.Quote:
Originally Posted by AdironRider
Heard this recently.
EVH blazing away
RIP
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I spent a summer in West Covina back in like 1980 and my older cousin would take me with him to parties.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
I was 15 but looked older. We were at a big keg party and I am pretty sure the band was mammoth. Wasn't really paying attention until a crazy guitar solo and someone put a small plate of blow under his nose while he was ripping. I think it was eddie but can't be sure. I was like, whoa. Not too long afterward, the cops broke the party up. Tons of people, it was loud. Southern California was crazy back then.
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So. Fucking. Awesome. Almost 5 minutes of straight-up shredding.
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Yes. Awesome sauce galore. Can even hear the drums blead through from the live recording.Quote:
Originally Posted by powbmps
Don't stop half way.
Be amazed to the very endly end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPLskZJzeA
DLR managed to put lyrics to that.
Not exactly the most complicated lyrics, a few repeats here and there and it all worked.
Somewhere, he lost it in a turn
Now trouble seems to fit him like a glove
First come, first served, he's serving it back
He travels light, without a pack, without love
Leather cross his thighs
Blasting out the night, his cap hides his eyes
One eye on the road, price upon his head
One ear to the ground, he's listening to the dead
Blind to himself, and he's laughing up his scheme
Looking back in anger, the city is relieved
Vision of light, child of the night passing by
He comes from nowhere and he turns on his own
Late for the hanging, yes he's headed for the moon
And hang 'em high
Rolling Stone on Ed. Didn’t make it all the way through yet, gonna need a few more beers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ibute-1081034/
Thanks for sharing that. Reading ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rideski
thanks. keep it coming
Loving these isolated tracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by puregravity
Thanks for the link!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rideski
Listen to this!
One man band. Great guitar and the bass, drums, singing and mix all hold together nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSP3jcoMMpY
Pretty cool stuff.
https://youtu.be/K7iBo0XYnrE
And I don't what is going on here, but he's shredding.
https://youtu.be/xP0PRR-S0Dk