VAN HALEN - ERUPTION Guitar Solo - Musician Reaction & Analysis

[@MillieMochiTunes]

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[@robertswain8313]

I'm loving your reaction. I would have loved to take you to see that show.

[@robertswain8313]

He built that guitar and it evolved over the years into what you see there. That was the end result. He called it a Frankenstrat. Now you can actually buy one from Fender. Just Google Frankenstrat. He was always searching for what he called the brown sound. No guitar had it so he took old parts and throw away bodies from Fender. Put a double coil humbucker in the bridge position. The pickup near the neck isn't even hooked up.

[@sharkkiller1]

the fact that he was blind drunk when he did this makes it more impressive

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

Eddie for me, wasnt the most technical player or even the cleanest but instead to me Eddie represented the pure JOY of electric guitar.. i dont know how to explain... but his guitar always sound like it was having fun.. i saw him live twice once with david lee roth as the front man and once with sammy hagar

[@jsaitzyk]

Eddie didnt make sound effects for moviea but he did do a few songs for soundtracks. Twister is one of the most notable with "Humans Being" and "Respect the Wind." This performance was one where he combined a lot of his guitar solos from different compositions into one performance. Eddie laid the foundation for everything Steve Vai did (I'm a huge fan of them both as well). When David Lee Roth left Van Halen Steve Vai became the new guitarist but at the time he was quoted as saying "only a fool tries to compete with Eddie Van Halen." as Vai knew he was essentially tasked with filling the same role. Eddie hit and plucked every area of the guitar to get different sounds from it. No body since has ever made the guitar as versital spunding as Eddie Van Halen. He was self taught and didn't follow the "by the book" approach that 99% of the guitarists have done so his imagination really shined through.

[@andrewfarkus2732]

Steve Vai is a talented guitar player, but when a guy like Steve looks to EVH as one of his inspirations you must take notice! RIP Eddie, you are the GOAT and your music will live forever!

[@BigOleMatty]

i prefer eddie to jimi and i love jimi!

[@akfreed6949]

Steve Vai is a very modest person . He was one of the very very few guitar players that can duplicate Eddie's playing .

[@G_Demolished]

@@akfreed6949 What Vai was never able to duplicate was playing virtuoso guitar parts that were catchy enough for the masses. Vai was always more of a guitarist’s guitarist. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a total badass. But Eddie was making better music.

[@akfreed6949]

@@G_Demolished He could go note for note on any Van Halen song , just can't duplicate Ed . Almost no one could . Steve Vai is better than most guitar players .

[@kenkonwick6660]

Yeah, steve vai learned most if his techniques from Edward. Steve us excellent, but doesnt even approaxh the creative talents and technical accuracy of Edward. I wish God hadnt taken Edward away from us so early......

[@jmsdeco]

Keep in mind, Van Halen's debut album came out in 1978. Every guitar player since then has been influenced by Eddie Van Halen since. He was a living legend. No one had ever guitar playing like that before.

[@chrislegner4816]

Well said. Completely new musical territory. As debuts go, it was hugely important.

[@nmt2k2]

The true sign of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete and everything after you bares your fingerprints

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

@@nmt2k2hear, hear!

[@Blackdog06019]

Yes and no. They way he played yes.... but tapping had been around for years before Eddie used it. Nonetheless he innovated the everyone looked at how to play guitar.

[@MillieMochiTunes]

That's true 💜

[@correctlyrics]

Millie, you're the ONLY reactor I have ever seen who noticed that he was turning the volume up and down with his right hand during that "cello" section. Good job.

[@GoatSimpulator]

Same!!! I have only seen one other person in reactions notice that and he was also a guitarist... *If you know, YOU KNOW!!! lol*

[@GoldTopSlinger]

Same. That impressed the hell out of me.

[@akfreed6949]

Yeah , I quickly noticed that with her too . That's how he described the way he did Cathedral in guitar magazines .

[@rickb.4168]

Then look to Jeff Beck, volume control and whammy bar and playing simultaneously. Both are legends. ❤

[@Limited_Light]

Do not listen to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Don't do it.

[@simoneemiliani5782]

There's no other like him.......Legend, innovator, infinite talent......r.i.p man❤🤘😢

[@HEAVYMETALmovie1981]

Except for his Son Wolfgang Van Halen - he has major talent on guitar and the way he plays, his father told him everything he knows. The legacy of Van Halen lives on 😎

[@carltonpittman4398]

Eddie Van Halen by far is the best guitarist someone once asked Aldanova how great was EVH he said he would have to play since being born and still wouldn't be half as good

[@fredwerza3478]

@@HEAVYMETALmovie1981 sorry I like Wolfgang as a person but he doesn't have 1/20th the talent of his Dad

[@Arif-e5o3r]

And she noticed this as Blues as Eric Clapton's minor blues scale too, she's amazing right.😅

[@williammolina9792]

When Eruption came out. It was out of this world. Very unique

[@tonycampbell4982]

I wished more realize his brother's awesome drum set in this video and that Alex was just as talented as Eddie was.

[@johnwilson2414]

All the solo's on this tour were epic. I was fortunate to see them 3 nights in a row on this tour. I had not seen a show that good before or since. These were 4 very accomplished musicians in their epic prime. RIP EVH!

[@akfreed6949]

All the ORIGINAL fans always knew this . Just as Mike being a great singer as well as a bass player .

[@TheAgentAssassin]

@@akfreed6949 Ed is on video record saying there wouldn't have been VH without Michael. I think it was a very sweet comment and one I'd like to show Michael one day. It's floating on you-tube here somewhere. People give ED flak for saying this or that , but watch that video Ed says it plainly how important Michael was to the band.

[@akfreed6949]

@@TheAgentAssassin Ed played bass on a Sammy Hagar song for Over The Top . While promoting , Ed lied when he said he was new to bass and he praised Mike's bass playing .

[@jamesragsdale8202]

Alex was great. Smooth jazz locomotive drumming but he was not "just as talented' or revolutionary. Knew how to drum around Eddie's busy compositions and constant fills. No other drummer could take Alex's place or do as well.

[@jamescooper2618]

Eddie built that guitar himself from a body from the seconds bin and parts scrounged from other guitars to do just exactly what he wanted it to do so he knew it inside and out. The paint job is the result of 3 or 4 separate different paint jobs. Up close, it looks like hell but its been through world war 3 and is one of the best ever played. RIP Eddie. You gave a 14 year old kid a bunch of great rock and roll! Something I could live for!

[@jeffmanny8246]

Wrong guitar. This is the Kramer 5150 built for him by Kramer

[@bowhuntr6825]

I always thought this was the Frankenstrat

[@robertswain8313]

Amen to that. He kept me alive in my youth. I started playing because of him and just when I thought I had him figured out, he did something new that was insanely incredible. RIP the the GOAT...

[@robertswain8313]

@@jeffmanny8246 actually it's just a Kramer neck on this one. If you really look you can see it's a strat body that was a little thicker than the Kramer body. The actual original Frankenstrat is the one he's holding on the 1st album and the paint job changed from year to year. When Fender started making them they were so close that he took a sharpie and wrote this one is the shit on the back of the neck. Lol. He said he burned up a ton of double coil humbuckers getting the paraffin wax hot enough to hold it at the slight angle to get the tone he wanted. An innovator from every aspect of the guitar and music in general. God Rest the king...

[@jeffmanny8246]

@@robertswain8313 yes but in this Live without a net he is playing the Kramer 5150 model guitar 1 of 4 built in 1983 by Paul Unkert. The 1984,5150, the Panama and the Neptune guitars

[@MetalMcfly]

Edward was a once in a century talent. I was fortunate to see Van Halen 8 times and I was able to meet Ed once. I took my dad with me to see VH on Nov. 1st 2007 for the DLR reunion at Verizon Center in Washington D.C. I purchased the 5 star VIP package with backstage access. There were 125 of us out of 19k people who were lucky enough to get that deal. They allowed us entry into the venue 3hrs before the doors opened to the general public and I will never forget hearing him play Cathedral to an empty arena while doing soundcheck as we entered. They split us up into 3 separate groups and we took a backstage/stage tour one group at a time. We were each able to peak our head into his makeshift guitar hut on the side of the stage (where his guitar tech would change strings/tune etc..) and laid our eyes on the original Frankenstrat hanging on the inner wall. This was the first tour he brought that guitar back out to play since the 1984 tour. Eventually, we were able to shake Ed's hand and chat with him for about 90 secs each (there were alot of people for him to get through before showtime) and luckily, he autographed my Ibanez RT650 guitar and took a pic with me. Make no mistake, IT IS my most prized possession and I am so very thankful that my dad and I have that memory of Ed. He was such a nice guy and very humble. We had front row and Valerie Bertinelli stood next to me on my left with her fiance' at that time to show support to her and Eddie's son Wolfgang who was playing bass for the band. Incredible experience I will forever cherish.

[@timradabaugh5846]

Ppl forget that not only was Eddie self taught, but by his own admission, he couldn’t read music and was also a self proclaimed tone seeker. Eddie was, is, and will forever remain the greatest. We love and miss you Ed.

[@TheAgentAssassin]

He and his brother Alex had classical piano lessons as a children but Ed could not read the music so Ed memorized by ear and watching the hand movements of his piano teacher. Ed won quite a few piano recital contests as a child. His Father was a trained musician , piano , sax and clarinet. Ed was in fact classically trained on piano. Both of his parents were musically minded and surrounded themselves with musicians.

[@bertjones3067]

He was classically trained his father and mother were both musicians and moved to California from Holland or somewhere so was alex

[@kenwelch198]

He was definitely intimate with his guitar. He knew everything it could do!

[@geoffreyfletcher9426]

Actually, Eddie could read piano music from his childhood.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

Back in the early 80's, Van Halen played a concert in my hometown, Tucson, AZ. USA. They were riding high on their third LP release, and one of the local TV stations interviewed Eddie. 90 percent of his answers were just guitar licks, and it was crazy. He made his guitar talk like a child and scream like a baby. Then an elephant. It was great.

[@akfreed6949]

That's how he communicated nthe beat . He even said " That's MY voice . " That's why his marriage to Valerie lasted as long as it did . He really was playing all the time . The guitar was his mistress in a way . He laughed in an old interview that one of his girlfriend's said he loved the guitar more than her .

[@fredwerza3478]

I loved when Eddie did the "horse" --- he'd go "whoa, Trigger!"

[@coryluman7885]

In high school in the 80's there were arguments on who was the best guitarist. Some people said Randy Rhoades and some said Eddie. In an Interview They asked Randy if he had his own style and he said no Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton had their own style.

[@thejelico]

Eddie is just Mozart and Paganini in one person on the guitar ... there is nobody else who can create those sounds like him ... and every guitar player after him wasnt able to reach that level ... i love Steve Vai too, but Eddie is another level, always was ! RIP5150

[@thejusticeization]

you can create those sounds if you train. the techniques are not unique to evh

[@thejelico]

@@thejusticeization You can do anything .. the point is, nobody did it, apart from Eddie .. copying something afterwards is not inventing and is no creativity.

[@charlesroberts8803]

He built a famous guitar they call The Frankenstrat. You gotta look it up to see everything he did to it and how he built it. He also played through a Marshall amp turned all the way up but had the voltage turned down with a Variac. It was a secret for many years.

[@fkops2773]

everyone thinks this is the Frankenstrat but it's a custom Kramer

[@charlesroberts8803]

@@fkops2773 I never said that was the Frankenstrat.

[@bach5150]

eddie came along and showed everyone how to play the guitar to it's absolute maximum. guys like Vai and Satriani learned everything they could from him and they (like many) were huge fans of eddie techniques.. eddie wrote two music for two films.. Twister and the wild life. his playing was famously featured in the bedroom scene in Back To The Future where it was portrayed as music from outer space...

[@TheAgentAssassin]

Gotta admit all the guitarists around me back when Vai and Satch first hit the scene we were all like "snooze" here's two more EVH clones. But Vai and Satch really stepped it up so they eventually earned my respect. I don't either one can write hit songs like Ed does though. They both have noodley songs that are awesome.

[@nodayatthebeach]

Don't forget that he did the amazing lead in Michael Jackson's "Beat IT". The guy was amazing. RIP with SRV, and Jimi !

[@flaviopugliese6360]

also for "the legend of the pianist on the ocean". music by Ennio Morricone, lyrics and vocals by Roger Waters and guitars by Eddie Van Halen. Extremely beautiful

[@badvikingable]

He played for the movie top gun

[@davidlauter1622]

They All learned from The master - JIMI HENDRIX !!!!!

[@DB-zp9un]

Why do I watch these reactions... I get teared up every single time.. RIP Mr Van Halen..

[@markavell7111]

He is tapping Harmonics and the Neck Vibration and turns it into a Concerto!! This is and was and will Always be The Greatest Guitarist in the World.

[@jimmyraidjames]

Steve Vai's idol is....Edward Van Halen 'Goat'🎸🎸👑👑

[@mikefetterman6782]

Eddie and Steve Vai share some qualities like the double tapping, the Floyd Rose tremelo bridge (whammy bar) the delay and distortion pedals, and a variety of other pedals to create spacey, and or repeating sounds (the cello, or )violin sound was a delay pedal repeating each note played more than once. The big difference was Eddie's ability to make more fan friendly melodies, and more cohesive mainstream, relatable tunes.

[@TheAgentAssassin]

VAI is a straight up clone of Eddie. You gotta understand VAI survived the massive onslaught of clones out the 80s. Vai held his ground but every part of his style was ripped from EVH. When ED first came to the scene , nobody sounded like that but Ed.

[@Jeff_Mares]

I absolutely love watching younger generations watch in awe, smile, cheer, wonder, and ultimately raise a glass to a man I grew up listening to (and yes, saw him live 4 times).

[@A187-Ken]

This one too?

[@michaelpaz5052]

I have gone to ten Van Halen shows and the thing I associate with the live show more than anything else is the shaking of the concrete at the show venue.

[@fredwerza3478]

My uncle was at the infamous Tangerine Bowl show in 1980 when VH opened for the Stones --- he said the whole stadium was shaking!

[@robertswain8313]

I'm glad you noticed that he's rolling the volume knob up and down during the Cathedral part of the solo. There's a reason he was awarded the first EVER Guitar God Award. He changed the way sheet music had to be written though he couldn't even read music. He was and will always be the GOAT that changed everything about rock and roll in 1978. I saw the 7 times and was always blown away. RIP Ed. Thanks for the memories...❤

[@kenwelch198]

I'm so glad we have these videos of great musicians to preserve forever just how talented they were , cuz words can't describe their ability.

[@robertclymer6948]

Hi Millie! Also, Eddie was an accomplished piano player raised on playing classical music. In his guitar solos, he throws in classical pieces. His guitar, early on was called the Frankenstrat, a totally reworked Fender Stratocaster with his electronics and his paint job, tape etc he put on there. It will be many many years for another Eddie Van Halen to explode on the scene. RIP Edward, we love and miss you!! Oh, Millie, In the movie back to the future, Marty McFly went into his father's bedroom as an alien and played Eddie's riff to scare him and convince George McFly to take his future Mom to the Prom so they could fall in love and not mess up the time line and cause a paradox. lol Check it out. Back to the Future 1. in 1985. Thanks and cheers from Motown.

[@paulrt3]

Love how much fun Eddie always had while playing the guitar! RIP

[@georgereid2369]

Unlike a lot of guitarists who use blues scales, he incorporated a lot of classical music scales into his playing.

[@edwardq6697]

His father was a classically trained musician (playing the clarinet on the Diver Down album) and he also had some training on classical piano before he switched to guitar as a teenager.

[@AstroCe1971]

Agreed

[@michaelpaz5052]

Out of all the people I've seen watched this video, you're the only one I've ever heard call it a cello. Good job.

[@byransaul4325]

I’m 78 this was so mind blowing and introduced the finger tapping style. Eddie is the GOAT!! Such a great solo!!

[@osullibr]

Sorry bro, the OG tapper was Harvey Mandel, back in '68

[@byransaul4325]

@@osullibr wasn’t aware of him. 👍🏼

[@drummerboy2834]

There’s a great 10min video on origin of tapping, there’s some Italian guy that was doing it in ‘65… Definitely worth the watch if you haven’t seen it 👍🏾

[@bradfordpalmer2795]

I guess maybe what you were saying is that Eddie introduced it to the mainstream audiences.

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@osullibr Saw a little Italian dude doing it on an acoustic in Italy about 1962.

[@ZippyThePinhead]

Seeing the joy on your face experiencing EVH for the first time brought joy to me. I guess you're jealous of me 😁, I saw this tour when they played in my city, and your are correct, it was pretty epic. Even though the tapping thing had been used in the past Eddie, took it and ran with it. In 78 when their first album was released he blew everyones minds. Again you are correct he was a genius, he spent hour upon hour experimenting trying to make different sounds with his guitar, and every album had something new he created. It was a special time in music history, and I got to live it.

[@hikerstephen2669]

Rip the king. Missed so much. The goat. Eddie never had any guitar training. Eddie didn’t have to learn the guitar. The guitar had to learn Eddie.

[@mrgraham5521]

"The guitar had to learn Eddie ". Probably the best comment I've ever heard about him.

[@TheAgentAssassin]

He was a classically trained pianist as a child and won many contests. He couldn't read the music sheet but learned by ear. He was trained. But when you see most of his songs they have a piano-like structure.

[@kevinmarshall854]

Steve Vai was incredibly fascinated by Eddie's amazing ability to make the guitar sound like so many different instruments and Eddie's incredible finger speed when he was playing. Steve Vai is a great guitarist but he doesn't come close to King Edward. That is why Guitar world magazine named Eddie "THE GUITAR GOD! of all guitarist that has ever picked up a guitar. Dive into Van Halen's extensive catalog of music. He even has a song that he used an electric drill to play his guitar. "Poundcake" by Van Halen. Eddie was a true musical genius when it came to the guitar.

[@billywix7313]

EVH made this guitar called the Frankenstrat. He combined different parts from other guitars. He added a humbucker pickup and a Floyd Rose tremolo system with locking tuners to accomplish dive bombs. Basically he was experimenting to find different sounds because he couldn’t afford to purchase an expensive guitar in his beginning years.

[@shanleyoutdoors1631]

Eddie never stopped asking, "What if..." that's his greatness. He didn't just play guitar he explored everything about the guitar.

[@Ednerd]

not just the guitar. any instrument. he was about the music. if you gave him any instrument he would blow your mind. :)

[@GT-mq1dx]

Glad I was able to see them around 94-95 in Sacramento, California. It was a killer concert from what I remember😁 I may have had one too many beers at the time, but it was a killer performance. Also Steve Vai transcribed some of Eddie’s playing, which he could do, Vai is an awesome guitarist in his own right, but he said he couldn’t play what Eddie was playing. Eddie later confessed and I’m paraphrasing, that he was so bombed drunk out of his gore that he didn’t even remember playing that solo.

[@gliv2]

I saw him (Van Halen) live 7 times going back to the early 80's. RIP Ed, The Legend Lives On. There will never be another Eddie Van Halen.

[@JeffMeyers-zm2lh]

Jimmy Page used an actual violin bow. Eddie used his volume knob and Alex Lifeson of Rush used a Morley volume wah to achieve that violin sound. Eddie put that together. It was kind of beat up and he just started taping it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat. A lot of parts on this are bits and pieces of intro/outro's of songs over the years. Listen to the original Eruption from 1978 Van Halen debut album. The violin/cello bit is from 1982's Diver Down album and track is called Cathedral which leads into Secrets. Another bit the fast kind of slapping is from the intro to Mean Street from 1981's Fair Warning. And then a bit from Spanish Fly from Van Halen II. Great reaction.

[@bruzanhd]

The guitar in the vid is not the frankenstrat, it's the 5150 kramer.

[@veritasaequitas8441]

Saw them. I've seen him do this. On stage, Capital Center, Maryland. Absolutely amazing. No sound effects in movies, just music. Legendary.

[@jeffmanny8246]

I was at this show both nights😊

[@dt90891]

I still get chills no matter how many times I’ve seen this. It never seems to amaze me. Always hear something new in this performance. 😢Rest in Peace legend. You were a king among men. The world lost something beautiful here. Dime and Ed are jamming in the heavens now. And I’m sure it’s heavenly.

[@dedododo48]

I was there, both nights. Van Halen played two nights in New Haven Connecticut. They recorded Van Halen Live Without A Net. Amazing!!

[@ThePrivateer1]

Eddie was an inspiration to all guitarists in the world! RIP Eddie, you're not forgotten, dude!

[@konowd]

I saw this tour, I was 14, had been playing guitar for a bit over a year, and to see Van Halen onstage playing was just mind blowing. Guitar was a big mystery to me then, I had no idea how to play anything like this, so it was something else to see it live in person. Ed was a brilliant player, a real game changer for the instrument, any guitar player worth their weight in soap back then worshipped at the temple of Ed.

[@davidboivin7996]

The original solo Eruption was on the first album in 1978. It was under two minutes long and everyone who heard it the first time can tell you exactly where they were.

[@williamhopkins1625]

301 E. 5th Street, Winner, SD. I was 8 years old. It was like nothing anyone had ever heard and changed music forever.

[@TerryVonCannon]

This is Terry VonCannon. Love your reaction. Eddie is on the Mt Rushmore of guitarist. His guitar is called a Frankenstrat. He started with a Fender Stratocaster and modified it himself until he was able to achieve all those incredible sounds. Keep reacting to hard rock and heavy metal videos. 🤘🤘

[@unklebacon44]

You mentioned his improvisation. When they put Van Halens songs to sheet music, it needed extra notations for what he was doing. He rewrote the book, lol.

[@akfreed6949]

And I think they didn't do it RIGHT . In some guitar interviews , he would see people trying to duplicate his playing , and he said they did it WRONG . So I'm guessing the sheet music isn't correct 100%

[@TrojanRabbit521]

Few guitarist are innovators most of us are traditional no matter how fast or wild our techniques it’s been done. Hendrix, EVH & Tom Morello found new sounds and tricks. RIP Hendrix and Eddie

[@dougevans826]

Yes Thats our Amazing Eddie R.I.P. miss & love you Edward VanHalen !!!!!

[@robertskae]

I had the pleasure of seeing 3 shows on this tour

[@jeffdugger3276]

First time seeing your channel appear on my feed, and feeling genuinely grateful that it did. Love your reaction to the late, great Eddie Van Halen's stellar playing. Subscribed!

[@williamburton307]

I'm so happy you got to see this 💓

[@mikemiller3069]

There is a jazz guitarist named Stanley Jordan who uses a little different tapping technique where he taps full jazz chords and incorporates a melody into it. There is even video of him playing two guitars at once. He has multiple videos on KZbin. I haven't seen them all but the ones I have seen have all been amazing. You will enjoy his playing.

[@12floz67]

Stanley is phenomenal!!

[@rodsnrounds]

EVH designed and painted the guitar. He had another guitar with a similar design that is black and yellow (The bumblebee) from VH II. It is buried with Dimebag Darrell from Pantera.

[@Sledge72au]

RIP Eddie, VH music will live on and its great to see this music is hitting a younger audience.

[@robertcook792]

The look on your face is priceless! Imagine what guitarist thought in 1978 when he blasted on the scene. I have to comment again on the way he thanks the crowd after the mean street portion of the solo. He don’t have to speak, he does it with his hands. Thanks for the video.

[@SecretIdaho]

Yes he was in this eruption he played many of the sounds in movies, videos and Van Halen songs.

[@SecretIdaho]

Remember he created all this in the 70s and early 80s all analog without digital sound inputs!

[@gregsilver8312]

If you know the first 6 Van Halen records (David Lee Roth era) he plays all the instrumental pieces here that are on the first 5 albums

[@robertknapp8328]

I have seen him like 6 times he is THE KING

[@stephenwilson1804]

Banger!

[@davevannatta985]

One thing to note,EVH was completely self taught. All the extraordinary things he did on the guitar came from his own mind.

[@corbinclardy5709]

Saw him and Van Halen, seven times, including this "Live without a net," performance

[@boki1693]

"Was he making sound effects for 80's movies?" Not that I know of but he did have a solo in the movie "Back to the Future." I was actually at this concert. It was the last night of the tour in New Haven Connecticut. Not far from Yale University. My buddies and I, minus the gf's and wives , had a night.

[@diymicha2]

I've seen VH live 2 times. Ed was such a great gutarist. RIP. Ed did indeed 'design' the guitar himself, back in the 70s by experimenting with different pick ups and tunings. The line design in red white and black is iconic Ed style. The Singer is Sammy Hagar, also a great musician.

[@demonhoopa]

I didn’t even bother watching Eruption. After seeing that opening clip I immediately searched The LimeSublimes, subscribed to the channel and added “To Work it Out” to my Spotify playlist. I really like that song

[@csedrivers2850]

That's his unique design.

[@mavericknonconformist69721]

THIS is the pioneer!

[@pinstrps]

I was at that very show! It was my first time seeing evh live and I was blown away!

[@edzeljereza8234]

That volume turning, cello sounding segment is actually another instrumental song from their album Diver Down called Cathedral....Eruption which came out of their debut album in 1978 was heard in the first few minutes of his solo. All other parts were improvised but the structures and styles of those parts you can hear in various songs from their catalog.

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

So good to see you listen to Eddie Van Halen. I am also thrilled that you actually love Steve Vai . Vai and Van Halen are my two favorites bar none. Eddie is the innovator, and Vai took it to another level.

[@petesenior6542]

The moment during "Cathedral", when she saw EVH was using the volume knob.........GOLD!

[@steveg5933]

Absolutely stunning to watch this live! (On the 2006 tour, I took my sons (19 & 14 at the time) to their first Rock concert- Van Halen. Nearly needed to take the boys to the emergency room to get their jaws picked up after this 20 minute shred fest! They were completely blown away by EVH

[@MrC_5150]

One of the best "Reaction" videos for this Edward Van Halen solo video!! I applauded several of your observations while watching!!! You're a rockstar!!! 😘🤘

[@70skid33]

I was fortunate to see him live 6-7 times....his solo's never got old. To see your amazement is priceless...Everytime a new album came out I'm sure I looked the same way.

[@NoblePhantasm23]

The "volume swells" are usually paired with a delay effect. It sorta randomizes the notes being heard in different moments. A good example of this other than in this solo would be "Echo Etude" by Yngwie Malmsteen.

[@crowolf4869]

eruption has been my alarm clock ringtone for over 10 years and I first listened to this song in 1978.

[@frankaq3951]

Saw them live in '84 , in Vancouver. Great concert!

[@brianedelen7694]

Yeah that guitar design is iconic one of the best designs ever love it 🤘

[@UncleD153]

Greatest guitar player in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. RIP Eddie 🎸

[@7777loquillo7777]

Somebody may have put it already but just incase he Van Halen played a Solo in Michael Jackson's Song Beat It

[@bigoz1977]

I’ve loads of reactions to this video, maybe 30-40 and your only the second person to notice his using the volume control 👏👏 fantastic 😊

[@romeorice583]

YES! Eddie was aaaaall over the 80’s, 90’s etc - Back to the Future - his guitar playing is what Marty plays to his dad (Darth Vader scene when he puts his Walkman headphones on him) - Bill & Ted’s Excellent adventure - etc etc etc

[@edwardgirard6983]

There will never be another Eddie! RIP.

[@akfreed6949]

And that's sad 😞

[@davidoconnell1680]

Greatest rock and roll guitar player ever. Period. RIP Eddie

[@Bizzybug-s4k]

I saw Van Halen first at 17 when I was a biker in the UK, and that album and EVH's guitaring just blew me away, it still does and I am now 61. His home made guitar was known as the Frankinstrat and you can buy replicas, EVH Guitars.

[@FredRios-wk9ys]

No words.... Talent from something ...God given

[@brianchristen7735]

Hi Millie, greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada. The part of the solo he played that sounds like a Chello is a song called Cathedral. It's on the Van Halen album called Diver Down. I was lucky enough to have seen Eddie play live many times, and each time was fantastic.

[@jonlate4581]

Hes THE master of all guitar playing. He figured it all.

[@karenfindley3791]

Every time I see reactors watch music from this era, I am reminded that I grew up with the best music of all time.

[@tammiesavage1311]

You're critiques are spot on. You're awesome!

[@bukeksiansu2112]

Unfortunately, there are no more live guitar solos on rock stages like this anymore. The era of the great guitarist has come to an end. RIP EVH

[@seanmc7128]

Millie is a freaking baby doll!!!! Omg I've got such a crush on millie! 🥰😍❤

[@atbgaming8342]

That first solo was 316 off of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. It's a cool first tune of his to learn to break into. Great Vid! Edit: The "cello" tune is called Cathedral. He used a delay effect and used the volume knob to take the "attack" of his hammer-ons out to make them seem more organ-like. He built the original of that guitar himself using a Boogie Body (what became Charvel) and neck with a P90 pickup (I think, but definitely a Gibson pickup). It originally had a Fender style tremolo, but he ditched it later for a Floyd Rose free-floating style. That neck was also a Kramer, so it may have been a different iteration of his "Frankie" or Frankenstrat. He was arguably the first to dip his humbucker into paraffin wax to cut out unwanted feedback from sympathetic winding vibration which is now industry standard.

[@robertmedrano2768]

So glad you can appreciate Eddie’s talents-he is/was a genius- May He RIP- you spoke on the sounds he can have his guitar make and -as He has said many times, it was out of necessity because he couldn’t afford all the “ bells and whistles” when first started out so he has to expire immediately “ destroyed” many guitars trying to find the sounds in his head and transfer to and through his guitar AND also he built that guitar and I love the way you picked up on slot of his signature sounds and his own style of playing - well done on spotting his “ freedom” on playing 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@jaybabel9360]

I saw Van Halen live 3 times including Eruption live. Epic

[@zaz4667]

It was just a Sunday walk in the park for Edward Van Halen! I seen him live more than a handful of times.

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

You should watch in whole the 1982 live Largo show here on you tube. That is the true mighty Van Halen. Please give it a shot. He is an animal during his guitar solo.

[@studley2436]

Wonderful reaction Millie. Eddie made that guitar himself. He admits to making ones that didn't work out, but that one is famous and you can buy a copy of it today. Eddie even vouched that copy is really good. If you want to paint something that way just start with a base colour and lay tape in lines over it and spray a new colour over the top. Then lay new lines of tape over it and spray a new colour on top. Take all the tape off and you get lines in different colours. Your imagination will make it be what you want.

[@ThePloppy]

I saw this concert live in 1986 in Rockford, Illinois. It was my first rock concert and it WAS epic! I've probably seen between 100 and 200 concerts since then (I lost count), but this was my favorite!

[@boki1693]

You mean you saw them for this tour in 86 in Rockford because this video and this concert was filmed in New Haven Conn. The last night of the tour. I want to say in August but not positive about that. It was probably the same set as this tape. Just the one you saw wasn't filmed.

[@ThePloppy]

@@boki1693 You are correct, Boki. This was filmed in New Haven on two different nights of their tour to make this full-length concert DHS tape. I wasn't there. My Rockford experience happened earlier in the tour but was much the same as the tape. I bought that DHS when it came out and wore it out! Ha ha!

[@boki1693]

@@ThePloppy I was I think at the second night. What a great night overall that was. I have a friend that looks a lot like a young Keanu Reeves that went with us to the concert. Needless to say, he was very popular with the ladies. But he didn't count on my special super power. We are from Long Island but for whatever reason, whenever I go to Conn. women just can't resist me. I have no idea why this is and I really am not making this up. And believe me when I say it ONLY happens in Conn. But it happens every dam time. LOL. Watching my good looking friend being by-passed on three separate occasions, by rather good looking women to hang with me instead was even better than the concert. 1. In a diner before the concert by a amazing looking waitress who gave me her number and totally snubbed my friend when he tried to talk to her. 2. In the concert with the three girls sitting in front of us chatting me up. 3 in a bar next to Yale University after the concert when one girl invited me home and my "friend" sabotaged it by saying we had to leave. He drove. He was actually very annoyed and angry about it and had a little tantrum by the end of the night. The memorable thing from the concert you don't see in the video is when Sammy Haggar went on the catwalk he started swinging his legs over a bar at the end of the catwalk. Well, one time when he came back with his legs, he hit the bar and he came pretty close to falling off the catwalk. In the video for the concert, you can just see him sort of stumble for a half second after it happened.

[@ThePloppy]

@@boki1693 Sounds like you had a great time other than your "friend" C**k blocking you LOL. About the Sammy incident, I don't think he was wearing a harness either. He did that at my show, too. It reminds me of when I saw Pearl Jam at Alpine Valley in their early days. Alpine Valley is a huge outdoor pavilion (it's where Stevie Ray Vaughn died). But Eddy Vedder climbed a scaffolding to the roof of the venue and hung from his hands from the rafter and started doing pull-ups. I'm guessing it had to be between 75 to 100 feet from the stage floor. About a seven to ten story building. I thought, this has to be the craziest guy I've ever seen in my life, because he wasn't wearing a harness either! Anyway, thanks for the story. Glad you got to witness history in the making.

[@boki1693]

@@ThePloppy I have no idea why he was like that because he got any girl he wanted back on Long Island. I think it was a competition thing with him. When we first met he wanted my best friend to be his best friend over me and we had a rough start of it with each other. Mostly because he kept trying to put me down in front of him and his wife. But all that did was piss my friend and his wife off at him. Then when he stopped trying to "steal" my best friend, all of us and our wives and gf's all became very close. And he became one of my best friends. Wow, you mean he almost fell off the catwalk at your show too? You would think he would have stopped doing that. Wasn't Eddie always climbing up on things? I never saw Pearl Jam live, but I wish I could have. I bet they were amazing. Isn't it funny how many memories we have from concerts besides just the bands playing. Thanks, it was fun being reminded of it. I had the VHS of the concert but one of my daughters when she was young decided to unspool the tape. :(

[@ericmyers5003]

Great reaction!✌🎸🤘🙏🙏👍👍👍❤❤❤

02:25 - this first bluesy part is indeed another piece , played originally on acoustic guitar, -> 316, from the album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and i'm proud tosay it was played during my wedding religious ceremony. almost no one knew they were hearing van halen inside the church!!!

[@sorensmith9873]

The part he was using his volume control, a guitar instrumental song called Cathedral which is on the Diver Down album...fantastic album if you get a chance to listen

[@johnwilson2414]

I saw them 3 nights in a row on this tour. This is just 1 of 3 epic solos and a singer who was all over the stage and lights. Without a doubt one of the very best shows I've ever seen.

[@aerialarboreal9005]

I saw this tour live in Toronto in like 1986? I'm thinking?? It was a long time ago but I can always say I saw Van Halen!!