Eddie Van Halen Had the World's Loudest Car Stereo

Blues Saraceno on how EVH made solid-gold riffs with raw noise and took Van Halen to a deeper, textured sound on Women and Children First.
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[@drdave971]

Everybody wants some is awesome , sounds like you are on a boat in the amazon floating somewhere to an epic adventure , keeps you on the edge , not sure what’s coming , but you know it’s coming !!!! Only Eddie , also itvteminfs me of the scene in better off dead , where the hamburger comes to life and is playing the Eddie Van Halen striped guitar!! Awesome 🎸🎸❤️❤️

[@leonskum.5682]

Eddie returned to the Q universe 2 and a half years ago. He'll still be rocking there .

[@dennisperin2989]

Love Dweezil’s love of Eddie. We miss the legend too. Would love to hear John 5’s interpretation of VH’s music too. Rest In Power Edward...

[@jimmyjennings4089]

John 5 has already did a video about Eddie, something about his impact from 40 year's ago, you can Google it I'm sure.

[@dennisperin2989]

@Jimmy Jennings:Thats why i brought him up.I mean’t more of an in depth look at the man from John 5’s perspective. I have seen that piece also. Left me wanting more?

[@bluespig1]

John 5 is not relevant to this podcast.

[@jasonbates2687]

that theme song is awesome!

[@scottbartlett4853]

I want to hear the rest of it!!!

[@ledchickenfpv7164]

Sounds like Jesse Perkins' (Mr. Tiny Whoop) friend, who's done at least one tiny whoop song and whose music I think you can buy at tinywhoop.com - might be able to find the full version there, or at least clues on how to find it. Assuming my ears aren't deceiving me. Sure sounds like a dead match to me...

[@NeverMars]

love the sound quality

[@automatics1im]

Yes. If there were a dollar for every terrible sounding podcast, we’d all be millionaires.

[@GlennJimenez]

Yes it did sound very very well recorded

[@markgabriel5797]

COMPRESSION!

[@bobsmith1965]

It's hilarious to hear Dweezil talk about Eddie just calling or zooming over, they are the best stories it turns him from Rock God into your buddy that wants to hangout and that's all the stories we've been hearing for the last few months about Eddie. RIP.

[@orion681]

Balance has to be the best sounding record they ever made. It sounds so huge...and yes, Al's drums sound perfect.

[@kamspork8408]

Such cool and entertaining stories!!! Thanks and PLEASE keep em coming

[@t.j.fuller9531]

This was so awesome ! Great stuff thanks for sharing !!

[@flappospammo]

Dweezil rocks

[@scotv5099]

Blues imitation of Eddie's voice is spot on!

[@stepitupandgo67]

Thanx Dweez!!!

[@muzikmon2267]

Another thing that I don't know if people know about is that the first couple of albums that Eddie Van Halen did HE USED A STANDARD FENDER TREMOLO IN THE STUDIO!!! He said he only used the Floyd Rose on the road so the guitar would stay in tune in the studio he said the Floyd Rose sounded too bright and harsh that's why he used the standard fender tremolo. what I've learned as a guitar luthier is if you know what you're doing you can get the fender standard tremolo to stay in tune just about every time.. You just don't have as much range.

[@gregorycampagna8138]

correct. in a 1980 guitar player interview, around the time of Women and Children First, EVH explained how he preferred the feel of the fender tremolo bar, and to keep it in tune after a round of abuse he would give the bar 'a quick little jerk' up, and it would come back to pitch (approximately ... by 'in tune' we're talking 'close enough for rock and roll'). the crucial detail omitted from the interview was that the tremolo was set up to 'float'

[@JoeR203]

@@gregorycampagna8138 Just the other day, I watched a video of Eddie visiting Jason Becker. Eddie was holding Jason's guitar and commented about the tremolo being able to pull up. He said he never pulls up.

[@gregorycampagna8138]

@@JoeR203 Right. Well, 40 years ago before locking trems existed that's the method he reportedly said he used to keep the guitar in tune. Also, note that he didn't say he played *notes* while pulling up on the bar, just that he would give it a quick yank to pull the strings back to pitch. It actually works. Try it some time.

[@SvenTviking]

Dave Gilmore had his black strat routed for a Floyd Rose as it was the fashion but it ruined the tone, so he got his luthier to glue wood into the rout and refitted the Fender trem.

[@SvenTviking]

@@gregorycampagna8138 He would oil the nut and string trees with 3 in 1. Dunno what that did to the wood...

[@shrapnel77]

I was visiting my sister in Atlanta and she took me to a bar where they had a wet t-shirt contest. The girl came out to dance to "Everybody wants some." She OWNED that song with her dance. Every time the song plays, I still remember that dance.

[@stephenfiore9960]

….”Rockin’ in Atlanta at the Tattle Tails”..-Motley Crue lyrics to the song “Girls, Girls, Girls”….

[@shadyburnike264]

I remember wanting one of those green flannel patch looking guitars that Blues had back in the day...MISS YOU EDDIE

[@jonlate4581]

The plaid guitar. Dimebag Darrell had a plaid tattoo.

[@nicklebac6753]

The Yamaha

[@caseywilson7768]

That intro song workup of running..... I love it lol...so Zappa

[@brianwood7237]

That theme song is just so...ZAPPA👍

[@joeriffanucci]

This is so great!! Thank you

[@bmorebob6624]

This podcast is great man!

[@Orbrosco]

Blues Saraceno "Never Look Back" big influence too!

[@richardleerodgers5303]

Amazing! What a treasure

[@chavruta2000]

jim hall actually did something similar to that when he used to play st thomas. he scraped the strings at the tailpiece or headstock

[@eikbike]

...yes drum sounds on that album were fukking fantastic!!!!

[@JeffreyRutland]

such a great story. Blues is a hero of mine - the guy needs to be heard more. Transmission OK forever!! :D

[@Gratefulman1965]

Eddie and frank and all the rest of the greats are all around us everyday. Just because they are not here physically does not make them any less tangible.

[@nikospaleologos3907]

Tangible

[@Gratefulman1965]

@@nikospaleologos3907 Thanks Nikos.

[@RandyWillcox]

Blues has always been and still is my favorite instrumental guitar artist, which is so ironic because he doesn't like doing it...sadly. 😔 Met him a bunch of times at Brian Guitars in New Haven, such a good dude. And his EVH impression is killer! 😂 Now I'm going to scroll for all the comments about caller ID from people too young to know that in 1993 nobody had caller ID. 😂

[@graxjpg]

I remember getting caller ID in 2004, I was 6. Before then we had one landline, and my mom and dad had cell phones.

[@johnqpublic2718]

Who?

[@michaelespinosa9168]

Blues is PLAID to the Bone!!!

[@jorgegonzalez134]

Edwards music was the soundtrack of my youth.

[@harrydai1862]

Good Stuff

[@davedecker1725]

Paul Gilbert lost a lotta hearing in Eddie's car when Eddie cranked Balance for him 🔊🔊🔊🔊

[@elitejams]

wish yamaha still made that plaid super-strat that Saraceno used to endorse in the early nineties....i think it was his signature model, not sure.

[@lynyrdskyn-hed1911]

Yep, I own one

[@elitejams]

@@lynyrdskyn-hed1911 nice....I always thought Yamaha's gear was way underrated... I remember playing that guitar in a music shop and passing on it ....biggest mistake I ever made as far as gear goes.

[@lynyrdskyn-hed1911]

@@elitejams Download the Reverb app and keep an eye out because they definitely show up a few times a year

[@muzikmon2267]

What made Eddie Van Halen so amazing is that he came from nothing!! He did everything by ear if it sounded good it was good!! people always fall into the trap of if it costs a lot of money it's got to be good it's got to sound good TOTALLY NOT TRUE!! He also has a good piano background.. When you come from nothing you have to learn to do everything yourself cuz you don't have money you have to have a more creative mind when you can't just buy what you need to make the sounds that you want.. It goes to show you that a $4,000 guitar means nothing and is not better or worse than an Eddie Van Halen parts guitar.. Obviously everyone knows by now the guitar was made from parts because he didn't have money he bought the cheapest stuff and just put it together and learned on his own. Music's about sound not how much something costs. I've played $5,000 guitars I've played some of the best guitars ever How much something cost does not mean it sounds better whatsoever especially when it comes to wood in music. People don't even realize there are subtle differences between a slab cut neck and a quarter sawn!! The quarter sawn is considered a better neck by luthiers. but the slab cut is what all fenders were made back in the day like a 1959 that's probably worth $30,000. But how little Leo spent to make that guitar and how basic it was has a lot to do with how it sounded.

[@muzikmon2267]

@LightSoundGeometry His early tone 100% was not lying. When he started to get money when he switch to Sammy Hagar that's when he started spending money and playing around which is why his sound wasn't even as close to as good as his old sound he should have stuck to the old sound cranked up with the variac in those Old School pedals and that parts Kramer guitar.. ;)

[@2204JCM]

@LightSoundGeometry His parts guitars were made from quality parts. Pickup was from an ES335. Trem was first Fender and then Floyd Rose. The necks and body’s were from quality aftermarket companies such as Charvel. Just cause it looked like junk did not mean it was. His amp was a Marshall Super lead. Easily one of the best amps ever made.

[@jamesball5743]

Love Eddie but this is obscuring the fact that Eddie’s dad was a professional musician, the idea that he’s totally self taught is silly, he had music lessons for years.

[@2204JCM]

@@jamesball5743 He was self taught on guitar. Piano he never learned to read because his ear was so good. The lessons they did take sounded more around performance than theory.

[@muzikmon2267]

@@jamesball5743 FIRST OFF I'VE BEEN PLAYING THE GUITAR FOR 35 YEARS AND THE PIANO IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO KNOWING HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR!! THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE IN TERMS OF KNOWING HOW TO PLAY!! Yes theory is the same in terms of notes and keys in reading music in a way. Eddie never learned how to read music on the piano he tricked everyone and used his ear!! Playing the guitar doesn't mean you can play the piano and vice versa it's not the same dude sorry!! Eddie's family was dirt poor!! Eddie works for everything his family could not buy him anything!! look up the history of what Eddie Van Halen was and how we learned how to play the guitar and everything even his musical background you obviously don't understand any obviously don't get the difference between piano and guitar!! Yeah I'm sure Elton John and Billy Joel can play a great guitar 😂!!! They don't play the guitar because they can't!! and they didn't learn the piano by ear they understand music theory and all the notes unlike Eddie Van Halen!! Yes everybody knows he played the piano in front of people of course he had a musical background start!! But he could not read a lick of music!!. he said he used to fake it to make his music teacher happy he never knew how to read music even piano music he did everything by ear!!! You need to look up more about how he grew up! Being a piano player does not make you a great guitarist dude, being a piano player doesn't make you create the entire '80s music with the style and the heavy metal that he did!! Heavy metals not created from the piano playing jazz music! Playing the piano does not teach you how to try to build your own guitar because you have no money putting things together making mistakes!!. I know tons of piano players that can play the guitar for the life of them if they tried I mean real piano players that can read music inside and out!! Eddie never knew how to read music he never really understood music theory that well.. He took a parts guitar put it together used his ear, could not afford amplifiers or anything like that, worked his balls off in a poor family getting the money for that guitar and his amplifier.. He didn't like how something sounded he just changed it. He could not afford great guitars and amplifiers neither could he afford all of those guitar pedals that made all of those cool noises. He said that's why he use the whammy bar and did all the tapping because he tried to sound like those pedals and make it sound interesting he had to be creative cuz he was poor!! Learned on his own 100% no one taught him how to play the guitar.

[@aquilomanganelli175]

It's odd that he had such a system because I heard an interviewer once ask Eddie what he listened to when he was driving and Eddie replies, "I don't listen to music when I'm driving, I like to listen to the motor, make sure it's running right."

[@energyasylum997]

True. But, it helps when the car is a Lamborghini Miura !!! One of the most beautiful looking and sounding cars EVER! Rest In Peace EVH🙏🏼

[@KC-cl1vr]

Would have loved to have been there when the drill discovery occurred

[@ralphbyers6136]

Dweezil is the Central Scrutinizer :-). Where can I buy this theme song?

[@Me-qp8vz]

I'm guessing it was a CD? Or did EVH have a record player in that car?

[@1jdillafan]

Love the intro!! What's the name of it?

[@juicebaux]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpukkmZ8rtCUpas

[@1jdillafan]

@@juicebaux Thanks!!

[@juicebaux]

Just some talented dudes jamming as it turns out.

[@mwsdh]

they got the idea of the song from stranded in the jungle from the new york dolls

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

Hendrix dit the tremolo springs noises long before.

[@TrumpetsInMy4x12]

I thought this was Dennis from Always Sunny.

[@LD-qj2te]

I thought Satriani was a teacher and mentor too

[@Watergrovey]

That intro sounds like a ZZ Top song. Tube snake boogie?

[@stevenmonroe8652]

Except the VanHalen tune predates the ZZ Top tune by over a year ...

[@russellward4624]

Blues is clearly a Seinfeld fan. Going out on a high note. Lol

[@LucidStew]

Ok, I'm commenting because I'm a big VH fan and also used to install car stereos for a living. No doubt Eddie Van Halen had an exceedingly loud car stereo, but the loudest car stereos in the world need like bullet proof glass and you literally cant sit in the car at full volume.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Click bait. I thought this was going to be about Eddie's car stereo.

[@carloslozada470]

I thought don johnson inspired you

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

I put in an Atari console in my penny farthing

[@audio-video-stereo]

Ride=jungle cruise. Operators telling really awful jokes intentionally. A good way to kill 20 minutes when you’re tired of standing.

[@tbx59]

Back off Dweezil

[@ROOKTABULA]

"How rock and roll is that ......?" that you got invited to go golfing. It's a HELLA cool story Blues but golfing is _def_ not rock and roll. :D

[@AnonYmous-jp8uu]

Jeff Beck was Ed's guitar daddy, which is why he never mentioned JB.

[@SilverSurfer5150]

Total garbage. 😂 If anyone was, it was Eric Clapton. And EVH had Clapton’s solos down note for note in three years, by the time EVH was 12. Eddie has a clip on KZbin goofing around playing Jeff Beck style riffs, a bit tongue-in-cheek but clearly JB’s guitar solos were a piece of cake for him. So EVH’s daddy he definitely was NOT.

[@laurentfargues8113]

I always though Van Halen changed his sound from the brown sound to something else because he quickly became deaf. Really sad in some sense.

[@Ottophil]

Tone tastes change too.

[@gregorycampagna8138]

so awkward, this interview why couldn't these guys admit openly that they suffered physically throughout the experience, hero worship aside? paul gilbert said it straight out: he lost hearing while listening to music with EVH learning that fact didn't change my love of van halen's music, and it definitely increased my respect for paul gilbert y'all missed an opportunity here. thumbs down

[@kcb5336]

@Remote Broadcast Can’t read?

[@iammenotu8483]

Bore...... ING........ Who is the target audience‽

[@bartobruintjes7056]

Intelligent people. That means not you.

[@WMDG3]

People who love Eddie and are willing to pay for the full podcast. This guy trying to make money off Eddies passing. Sad

[@Ottophil]

@@WMDG3 to be fair eddie is a marketing machine. His whole life was spend making coke money from selling random striped shit

[@Gayamongusballs]

Guess you missed the whole thing

[@scottsheehan1513]

Targeting? They aren’t selling free content ,diphthong!