Eddie Van Halen & Allan Holdsworth -FIVE G(Hell's Bell's) Jam 1982 (Good Quality)

[@danielcorn1434]

So sad the world has lost two of the greatest!

[@daneprat]

That’s the most straight ahead I’ve ever heard Holdsworth play actually. Eddie himself said he couldn’t comprehend what Allan does and he regarded him as the best guitar player alive. Eddie is a hero of mine and inspired me to learn to play, but Holdsworth is on another level entirely. What I love about them playing together is they each created new languages for the guitar, and you can hear that distinctly in this jam.

[@ariantohp5221]

RIP Maestros

[@Flying_turnip187]

Holy shit.......Un fuckin real. Plus Jeff Berlin and Gary Husband......This is pretty much the best thing on th net.....

[@144wychwood]

Huge a fan of original Van Halen that I was, after Dave departed I wouldn't have minded if Ed bypassed 2nd incarnation of band and played & recorded other genres of music with other musicians. In Noel Monk's book he recalled during an early tour, Ed feeling homesick and saying "I just want to go home and play jazz & funk". Not knocking hard rock stuff, but I really believe Ed could've explored so many other styles of music and just be at home with any of them.

[@DaveManleyguitar]

Wish there was video

[@ScottCarr-gy2fw]

Truly 2 of the greats, different, but at the same time in their greatnesses

[@aurepac3]

God only knows the crazy awesome album these two are working on up there

[@stevemiller1999]

I would like to hear a cleaned up version of this oh my God it's priceless

[@danids591]

Los últimos grandes innovadores de la guitarra electrica., juntos.... Un hito!!

[@biorythmicshifter]

I’m sure this blew a hole in the space time continuum at the time...

[@MoisesMartinez-uu6pn]

The BEST for ever.

[@jamesalllan7806]

MORE NOTES!! Can you even imagine the sounds coming from these 2 and Hendrix right now? WOW!!

[@nicholashnatyk4470]

Was thinking the same thing, plus what a difference Hendrix's continued presence would have made to guitar music, fusion, jazz, & rock. I mean for starters, this likely wouldn't have been in some shitty little club on a mono portable cassette recorder if he was with them. Hendrix was that significant & he likely would have pulled so many struggling musicians like Allan up w/him. Thanks God, you jerk, for letting him die too soon - jackass.

[@orbital14]

To think these two GIANTS are gone leaves me with a sense of emptiness that's impossible to compensate

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

Wonderful piece of history here! It’s interesting to hear where Eddie got some of his fusion-lite inspiration from However it’s also clear how ahead of him Allan really was It’s easy to sound clever when you’re grooving over a two chord vamp or a pedal tone But Allan had the wonderful ability to sound chaotic whilst skilfully slipping in and out of chord tones No criticism of Eddie (RIP) but just an observation

[@DestinMcWhorter]

What a rad contribution, hats off for posting this!!!

[@MrFy2013]

No, this isn't Five G, or Hells Bells. It's a tune EVH made up and showed to Jeff and Allan. This is according to Holdsworth himself.

[@nicholashnatyk4470]

Yeah, it isn't, but it sounds very much 'based on' Jeff Berlin's original funkslap 'running' bass line intro of Five G. Hells Bells starts with a programmed DRUM MACHINE beat plus synth lines by keyboardist Dave Stewart (meaning NO guitar) you memory-challenged dogans😆.

[@osiruskat]

The opening riffs are definitely from the Bruford track "Hell's Bells."

[@Swayzeo]

Thanks for the tip Dweezil

[@ProbableCauseBluesBand]

Awesome!

[@thekingslayr8542]

legends RIP

[@custosnocte1528]

In perhaps the next fifty years of **This timeline** during a random point of intersection in the void of space and time, the Band of all bands will form up, with Jimmy Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen Allan Holdsworth (IOU), Steve Lucather (Toto) and David Gilmour pulling the strings Leads and Rythym (alternating back and forth, stepping up and down, fusing together the greatest harmonies and melodies man would come to hear. The spirits of these legendary guitarists would be backed by legends of their' own instruments, such as Jazz and Blues musician Joe Sample on piano, with Jan Hammer on Keyboards and MIDI... on Drums and percussion, and with no explanation required, will be two more musical geniuses, Neil Peart and John Bonham, who's omnipresent dual beat is backed by two more legendary musicians of the here and now, Billy Sheahan and Geddy Lee on dualing Bass guitars... Now all we need is the best singer of all time, and I don't know where to start ? Italian Opera ? Rock ? Jazz ? Progressive ? Pop ? Man ? Woman ? Different singer for each tune ? Or a bit of all, or none perhaps... Call me crazy, I want to see a Mega-Group formed from Super Groups, formed from the greatest men and women of music across time. Of course, producing all of this music in the sky, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Lennon and McCartney, Harrison, Page and Plant, Henley and Frey to name a few.... I'm just paying my respects to the greats from yesterday and today. Tip my hat to Rick Beatto of KZbin for his 13 minute video about Allan Holdsworth's guitar work on "City Nights" Thanks, Rick. Allan Holdsworth and EVH, and all the GREATS, God Rest Your Souls. Thank You for the gifts of music you gave this Planet. Custos Nõcte` ²9⁷ ❤️🎼🎸🎹🎷🎺🎤🎶🎵🎻

[@minnihapy2722]

*Jimi *Lukather *Sheehan *Beato .... horrible

[@WhiteBucket]

@@minnihapy2722 pedantic uptight a*hole

[@joezullo6361]

I think I was a young 16 year old at this exact show. The Roxy theater in Los Angeles?? Allan Holdsworth and iou.

[@tvdirectormarcus]

It is. It was a great set of shows. I was lucky enough to have been Allan's sound engineer for these shows, with the great Don Landee next to me giving some good advice. Wish we could do those nights again!

[@davidseverini9714]

I happen to have a 77 Marshall 50 watt 4 input head that belonged to Allan . Even has his signature on the chassis.

[@davidseverini9714]

@@tvdirectormarcus do you remember what amp Allan was using?

[@ryansouthard4929]

Badass

[@andrewshortt4338]

Mannnnn. ......

[@jimfagadore231]

Alan and Eddy. Are the best, and they always be,!!!!!!

[@doctorgarbonzo2525]

I Envy the dead!

[@saelloly]

Eddie master!

[@devilshark6694]

Women in love at beginning

[@simeonmaximofernandez3364]

Time and space torn apart by these two haha.

[@rafaeljenner508]

...trading solos with Allan is never a good idea! ;)

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

@Andy Butler hmmm... you have me thinking it may be time to pull out MVP: Truth In Shredding again. My Holdsworth friends seem to think it's too "straight ahead" or "square" and Holdsworth of course outshines Gambale (though I do enjoy his contribution) but I dig the album, a lot. For one thing, I enjoy the kind of hyperactive rhythm section, which reminds me of the JL Ponty band(s). And THAT'S what irks me... that Allan apparently never played live with Ponty. Probably Ponty wanted live solos etc to be exact reproductions of the studio recordings which probably would bore Allan (as I recently read was the case with U.K.). Just a guess though. Oh well. (I do very much enjoy Scott Henderson filling in on the Individual Choice tour (I think it is) though).

[@MegaHogzilla]

As soon as I read this my mind went straight to "Truth In Shredding" with Gambale/Holdsworth. Here it is, buckle up... kzbin.info/www/bejne/l16wp2qZpJihjrc

[@MegaHogzilla]

@@ElrondHubbard_1 I thought it was so interesting of Varney to pair a legato master who very sparingly used a pick, with a guy who stubbornly held on to his and even invented his own "speed picking" technique when everyone else was trying to master two handed tapping. Love that album.

[@ElrondHubbard_1]

@@MegaHogzilla I should have put a link. Thanks! That first track burns. That's a funny thought about Gambale working on his speed picking while everyone's tapping and Allan's doing his thing.

[@MegaHogzilla]

@@ElrondHubbard_1 What's really funny is how I wound up here. I was watching a reaction video to Babymetal's "Kami Band." One of their guitarists (Mikio Fujioka) died in a fall. The rest of the band did a fundraiser to support his family. They used video and audio recordings during the show as if he was there. The surviving guitarist (Takayoshi Ohmura) played Mikio's guitar (gifted to him by the family) and cried through the whole final song "Hill of Wisteria" which is what Fujioka means in English. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nNdJKsg7uChM0 Someone in the comments said he's probably happily jamming with Eddie right about now. Someone else added added that he loved and admired Holdsworth. So naturally, I posted a link to this Eddie/Allan jam.

[@custommusic2433]

Seemed like the bass solo was longer than theirs lol 😂

[@shable1436]

It's 82 man, coke, and drink break while the others solo, it's what happens

[@bls8959]

Hells bells?

[@nicholashnatyk4470]

@@bls8959HB - First track on Bill Bruford's second solo album 'One of a Kind' - 1977; UK's Eddie Jobson also guests with a violin solo on one track. (For decades everybody thought it was Holdsworth on violin, but a mid-2000s reissue CD finally gave credit to Jobson.)