I didn’t realise his genius now I do , let’s enjoy Eddie van Halen together .
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@jakeenan Жыл бұрын
A true genius dancing on a volcano with his amp. The tone, delay and timing....if he's a fraction off the feedback would snowball it into a car-crash in various places. AND all the while rooted in the Blues while flirting with the Classical. It's what all the flashy, faster pretenders that came after could never quite emulate.
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Now ! My friend your description is nigh on perfect 🤩 Bravo 🙌
@TimE_5150 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this and welcome to heaven Allen. EVH may be gone but his genius will live on forever! When I hear about the lack of a tribute for Ed, all I think is every time I hear Eddie play is a tribute to my ears!
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Watch out next week 😊 I think it’s one of my best 😎👍🙏🏻
@mikegoldstein1246 Жыл бұрын
This solo is the greatest live guitar playing of all time. It's a symphony. Incredibly orchestrated and delivered with unhuman precision and feel. The versatility he has and the skill level is so far beyond a Hendrix or Clapton or SRV. And let's not forget that he created all these new sounds and techniques. Tapping was around a bit before but what he did with it was a whole new way to create entire pieces of music with it so that was his invention. No doubt the greatest ever
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Mike , who am I to say EVH was not the greatest , who am I not to realise that this solo ( this performance) rocked the world of music to it’s core 😊👍
@summergivens242 Жыл бұрын
The thing is before Eddie the tapping and speed style wasn't done to the extent that he brought it to. When the first Van Halen album came out in 1978 nobody heard anybody play the guitar like this. This led to the Steve Vai and everyone else who does this style. He was the first.
@Jay-dw8zi2 жыл бұрын
I promise you, the tapping part, is ABSOLUTELY the easiest part of this solo. It's flashy, but everything else is just monstrous.
@Boodieman722 жыл бұрын
Rock and Roll is supposed to be flashy :)
@techguyMD Жыл бұрын
Yep... the harmonic bending and sad section where he played "Cathedral" is simply phenomenal. Extremely hard to pull off. He does it with ease. Or at least he made it look easy!
@claypage1089 Жыл бұрын
@@techguyMD Right? Being tired, middle of the concert, minutes of soloing already, then you have to be in time with the delay and volume knob both.
@user-sv9on2wf9i9 ай бұрын
R..I.P... Eddie. 😞🌹❤
@tankyanker42092 жыл бұрын
The one and only often imitated NEVER Duplicatied God of the guitar. Rock In Peace Mr. Eddie Van Halen🤘
@kevinmalone2218 Жыл бұрын
Every time I see this I'm expecting Eddie to spontaneously combust right on stage. This solo is fire!
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
How does he light the cigarette 😳😊👍
@darrenwatkins69562 жыл бұрын
Eddie is not in a category with Hendrix and Clapton. He is in a category with Amadeus and Bach
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
That’s ah interesting point ! I will think on it , with his classical influence Is a composer in the strictest sense or is it just the genius ability ? Great point Darren , now I need coffee 😊😎👍
@apollorroman5444 Жыл бұрын
Ed and Al were classically trained pianistsTrarting in Holland then California.
@mikefetterman6782 Жыл бұрын
This is amazing. He is riffing off a basic outline. He is also flubbing here and there all over the place. The art is to keep moving.
@mikefetterman6782 Жыл бұрын
The bit where the light is shining over his shoulder, and he is tapping a similar groove to a Bach piece, is about the most impressive thing he does.
@DeltaElites Жыл бұрын
This Eruption solo was part of his backyard party shows in the San Gabriel Valley. I saw him perform it at the Pasadena Civic in 78 before touring the self titled album that came out that summer "Van Halen". I got to see them perform it again in 83 at the US Festival and it's been the same pure work of artistic genius since the first time. Yes, I definitely heard Beethoven influence way back then too.
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
👍 thank you
@Gashouse69 Жыл бұрын
Two guitarist share the spot for my #1 slot of GOAT. Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The section he played where you felt sadness is called Cathedral and is off the Diver Down album. EVH was more than a master guitarist, he was an innovator who created personal guitars. He nicknamed his iconic, signature red and white stripped guitar Frankenstein due to it being built from parts.
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
I’d struggle to disagree with you my friend EVH and SRV but there are just so many amazing guitarists .. Rory Gallagher/ Albert king / Tommy Emmanuel/ soooo many from differing genres .. but EVH and SRV 😎👍
@Gashouse69 Жыл бұрын
@@alan-reacts65 Couldn't agree more. Too many greats to list. Those 2 are just my personal #1's. With SRV I feel you would be hard pressed to find another that plays with the amount of perfection, purpose and emotion combined. I'll admit with EVH I may be a bit biased 😁 as I worshiped him as a young teen. I was hooked the first time I heard their 1st album at around age 12.
@fkops2773 Жыл бұрын
this is not the Frankenstrat guitar , its a custum made Kramer
@deannakitchen5568 Жыл бұрын
GOAT😊
@erics4653 Жыл бұрын
Long live THE KING!!!!
@nflr92 Жыл бұрын
That was pretty good
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
David , thank you 😊 👍
@chrismcdonagh6882 жыл бұрын
I remember one of my friends bringing the first Van Halen album into school on a cassette tape and a few of us gathered round listening to it on an old portable tape recorder. At the time it sounded like something from another planet , so different from anything we'd ever heard before.
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
It was similar for me when I heard exit stage left !
@19chucki742 жыл бұрын
You are right. Eddie and his older brother Alex (drummer) are classically trained musicians. Each could play a myriad of instruments, mostly taught to them by their father. Thus the classical elements in this solo. Your music and influence lives on Eddie.
@mikerichardson89832 жыл бұрын
Nobody can do the things that Eddie Van Halen could do on a guitar. He took parts from several different guitars. Made the sound that he wanted from it. Which he called the brown sound. He made a single guitar sound like 10 other instruments. He was pure genius. There will never be another Eddie Van Halen. RIP We miss you.
@christopherdunn317 Жыл бұрын
I can do one thing ? i can do the picking hand thing and i mean fast !
@PaulRhodes420 Жыл бұрын
The Frankenstrat!! 🤘😝🎸🎶🎶🎶
@PaulRhodes420 Жыл бұрын
I knew a Mike Richardson from Memphis TN. is this you??!?!!
@russellw77852 жыл бұрын
Please watch his interview. It'll explain everything. He was what they call a God given talent
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Thank you Russell , I will watch it 😊👍
@mcasualjacques Жыл бұрын
I stayed with prog rock, blues and jazz and skipped disco and hard rock, then listened to punk and new wave, then the Enya goth evanescence female vocalists in the 90s 2000, then I skipped grunge and rap. I liked some motown. Then in recent years I explored hard rock and found out it has blues an funk in it. I plan to check metal in say 2025 and rap in 2030. Maybe I'll do hip-hop in 2023.
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
😳😎😂👍
@e.l.norton2 жыл бұрын
Ed not only never had a guitar lesson, but couldn't read music. As a child he and his brother Alex were classically trained on piano, but Ed never learned to read. Even his teacher didn't know. He was a complete play-by-ear student. He would watch and listen, and then emulate what he heard. His teacher found out one day by accident while teaching him a piece of music. He instructed Eddie to turn the page for him as he played when he reached the end of each page. Eddie had no clue, and had no idea when to turn. Having reached the end of the page, Eddie failed to turn, and the teacher asked why. That's when Eddie sheepishly admitted he couldn't read music. The teacher was obviously shocked and not too happy. But, Eddie was clearly a prodigy and won numerous classical piano competitions as a kid. So, how angry could he really have been with a budding genius as a student?
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
It just shows prodigy’s are born but hard work produces the amazing music 😊😎🥃
@danielmyers48272 жыл бұрын
Edward Van Halen never took guitar lessons . thats why we have tablature to explain what he does on guitar. that solo was taken from 1986. thank you so much for your interest in him
@nocturnal2772 жыл бұрын
Good reaction Alan. Actually, there are several songs in this solo, not just Eruption. The one that you said sound sad & beautiful is Cathedral. I saw in an interview, he said he made these funny sounds & techniques using his fingers because back then he coudn't afford to buy a wah wah pedal.
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine just how he heard sounds ? I don’t think in the way most people do 😊😎
@nocturnal2772 жыл бұрын
@@alan-reacts65 i think you should check out Van Halen's classics such as Hot for Teacher or Panama to see how he implement those techniques into a song. Cuz he doesn't do those techniques to show off, it's just, that's the way he play guitar. Or check out Michael Jackson's Beat It, Eddie played & arranged the guitar part. Btw, thanks for responding.
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
@@nocturnal277 I 100% will 😊😎👍
@ericmyers50032 жыл бұрын
Great reaction! There's a great video with Ed at the the Smithsonian Museum, where he mentions Jimmy Page giving him the idea for the tapping. You should check it out, he even does some playing.✌🎸🤘🙏👍❤❤❤
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Oh I will 😊😎👍
@barbherrera56132 жыл бұрын
I came on to suggest the Smithsonian interview as well. He explains his classical training (you were correct in hearing the influences... even named his son Wolfgang!) and then how he pieced together his Frankenstrat guitar (built and modified many times until he had the sounds he heard in his mind). As others have said, he never learned to read music, learned by ear and watching others. EVH was a musical genius on many levels. Rock in Power, Eddie!
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
If you look at Matt Bellamy ( muse ) I’m not comparing him to Ed , but he’s had his guitar built purposefully for the sounds he hears 😎👍 he’s also a brilliant guitarist ..
@barbherrera56132 жыл бұрын
On my way!
@ericmyers50032 жыл бұрын
I don't know about you but I don't like the term "best or g.o.a.t." in describing a guitarist. Each one has his or her own style of playing and can play anything you put in front of them. Ted Nugent once said that when he asked Eddie to let him play through his rig, he still sounded like Ted! Eddie is by far my favourite but I recognize there are some great players out there. I was introduced to the 1st Van Halen record in 7th grade (1979) and it inspired me so much that I got my first guitar a week later!😁🤘🎸✌🙏❤❤👍
@PaulRhodes420 Жыл бұрын
You gained a new suby! Eddie =\//-/= has been my Idol since I was 14! I'm 60 now so just a few years! You should check out "Respect the Wind" from the movie soundtrack to "Twister" 🌪 Eddie & Alex did that song for them! It's great!
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Paul 😊👍 thank you for joining and “ respect the wind “ I don’t know it and it’s now my next step 👍😊
@PaulRhodes420 Жыл бұрын
@@alan-reacts65 Hope to see the reaction video! I love it! Not sure if you knew 316, that's a song Eddie did for Wolfgang when he was still in Valerie's belly. It's Wolfgang's Birthday, 3/16/91. Eddie has been in my music collection since practically day 1! Enjoy and have a safe & happy time(s)
@vanwylde9993 Жыл бұрын
Just one point, it's a sin to listen to Van Halen with ear buds. Get a nice set of cans. Please.🤘 R.I.P~EVH
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Update 😊 new headphones engaged 😊
@bencurti76932 жыл бұрын
I believe it was Steve Vai who once said....paraphrasing here, that the two biggest game changers in the guitar world were Hendrix and EVH. Can't argue with that one...
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
They were an evolution in playing the guitar incorporating actual physical change to using the whole guitar ! I agree with you Ben 😊😎👍
@bencurti76932 жыл бұрын
@@alan-reacts65 I remember when my really cool, older sis brought home Are You Experienced, and it was like an alien landing from another planet...10 years old, but my late mother was a music professor, so we were exposed to everything. Then she brought home Zep 1, and I remember the sonic impact of Page's playing...can't totally ignore his contributions...but then VH1 came out when I was in college...gee-zuz, that had close to the impact of Hendrix, but if you were alive in 1967 and old enough to digest everything going on with music, Hendrix, IMHO, was still the trailblazer, especially at that point with the music scene. All I can say is, what a time it was to be alive!
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Page was building on others and EVH ripped the book apart and made them all think again 😊😎
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
@@bencurti7693 I’m jealous 😊😎😂👊🏼😮🍺
@thannaske53712 жыл бұрын
The first Van Halen album was like lightning in a bottle! They struck on a sound with David Lee Roth on that record that was never duplicated (by them or others). The Sammy Hagar era is kind of a sad postscript to Van Halen's peak. With David Lee, the songs were stoopid, sure, but at least they were self-aware. Sammy wrote some REALLY embarassing songs with Van Halen (look no further than "Pound Cake!") Keep up the great reactions, Alan! I'm still hoping to see you react to Morphine "All Your Way" one of these days!
@aland40922 жыл бұрын
Eddie was great. No doubt ! But there's another who's name is synonymous with the guitar . And is on most people's guitar god list. Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughn, if you haven't seen him do Texas flood live at El Macombo that's a must
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Alan thier is an extensive SRV on the channel he’s got a playlist my friend 😊👍😎
@aland40922 жыл бұрын
@@alan-reacts65 I gotcha. Today is the first time I've seen Alan reacts. And I figured if he didn't really know Eddie he didn't know Stevie. So...
@alan-reacts652 жыл бұрын
Alan 😊👍 that’s a great point , and tbh I knew SRV a little but not in depth , and your first post about pink Floyd tool etc , because of a request for tool ( I had no clue ) I’ve now been to see them live in Manchester uk on the 2nd May , did a giveaway of tour T shirts and I’m going to see Nightwish in November ( same reason ) and Beth Hart next March ( again sane reason) so keep giving me ideas and my friend I will follow 😎😊👍
@simoneemiliani57822 жыл бұрын
What a lost.......Rip Legend
@charlenemariecoraninmemory5130 Жыл бұрын
Check out my guitar work you'll find it totally different
@alan-reacts65 Жыл бұрын
Your guitar ?
@DragonPhlyy2 жыл бұрын
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