Rappers React To Van Halen "Mean Street"!!!
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3 жыл бұрынOn this segment of Rappers React, Smokey and Hollywood ask each other what took us SOOO LONG to get to some Van Halen!!!. Any suggestions, send them our way!!!
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@michaelkogut7661 3 жыл бұрын
California Girls is a David Lee Roth song. Eddie doesn’t play on it
@happrah 3 жыл бұрын
Steve Vai plays for that solo record....
@michaelkogut7661 3 жыл бұрын
@@happrah don’t think so. Steve is on Skyscraper and Eatem and Smile
@michaelkogut7661 3 жыл бұрын
@@happrah Steve does not play on Crazy from the Heat EP
@Hollywood6IX 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for info and suggestions. AMAZING SONG UNC
@veevamm3642 3 жыл бұрын
And its a Beach Boys song
@jimtatro6550 3 жыл бұрын
This is the most underrated album in the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen. Every song is 🔥🔥🔥
@kevinc6916 3 жыл бұрын
Underrated yes but it is the favorite album of hardcore VH fans like me!!
@jeffreycherep8264 3 жыл бұрын
It's their best,in my opinion.
@kurtsaxton823 3 жыл бұрын
It's not underrated at all to true VH fans, it's always been my favorite and to me Ed's best work.
@burningbeard9478 2 жыл бұрын
underrated by who.......????????????fuck them fools
@stephenpetrovich2383 2 жыл бұрын
Underrated? I dont think so...I have heard almost every song on this album on the radio many many times....its still one of the best albums ever released
@scottpollack1007 3 жыл бұрын
This is why Eddie Van Halen is the Best Rock and Roll Lead Guitar of all time……………….PERIOD! AMEN BROTHERS!
@stephenpemberton85 3 жыл бұрын
Rhythm too dude!✌💛🤘
@YaHKaB_WaRYaL_YaSHaRaL 3 жыл бұрын
Rock & Roll wise...yes!
@npkrn6764 2 жыл бұрын
ONE of them anyway! ❤
@jeff9ish 2 жыл бұрын
Steve Vai said he had the best right hand in the business
@isopropyltoxicity 2 жыл бұрын
Nah
@frankguzman19 Жыл бұрын
This one of the most criminally underrated songs from the David Lee Roth Era of Van Halen
@markhagerman1837 6 ай бұрын
Agreed. I think it’s my fav VH album.
@matthewdrake4385 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen had Eddie and Alex Van Halen as the main founding members of the band. Eddie on guitar, Alex on drums. Had David Lee Roth from their club days to about mid 80s. Sammy Hagar joined for about a decade from mid 80s to mid or late 90s. On the last Van Halen album, Eddie's son joined as bass player, replacing long time bassist Michael Anthony.
@tomtomthebear 3 жыл бұрын
I always loved the fact that Eddie placed one of his guitars to rest with dime..!!!! Vinnie said that if you had said to dime when he was young that this would happen he would be like “take me now” 😂😂😂😂
@benjaminz2523 2 жыл бұрын
Yup it was EVHs black & yellow homemade strat
@jeffthejinjer 3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget their song "Hot for Teacher" every boys dream 😆 Alex Van Halen is a great drummer check out some of his solos he is great!!
@kevinc6916 3 жыл бұрын
Alex is so underrated because Ed blows everyone away. Sad bc IMO Alex is 2nd only to Neil Peart
@mikeshaffer4912 3 жыл бұрын
Watching Alex play that live was mind-blowing.
@HardRockMaster7577 2 жыл бұрын
"Everybody Wants Some"
@bernardcarpenter6949 2 жыл бұрын
Alex on Girl Gone Bad...killer track.
@19chucki74 3 жыл бұрын
The album Fair Warning is said to be Van Halen's dark album. Highly underrated. Check out songs from the first two in 78 and 79, also the third release Women and Children First. But the pinnacle of Eddie's skills is in the concert Live Without A Net. The clip of his solo is said to be one of the greatest live guitar solos in rock music history.
@MRCATL3 2 жыл бұрын
DOA
@gerardovivanco5631 2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree with you more! "Romeo Delight"
@romeorice583 2 жыл бұрын
It is said bc it is so 🤟😎🔥
@MRCATL3 2 жыл бұрын
Actually, Diver Down is highly underrated too. Some incredible songs
@robtech341 3 жыл бұрын
In Hockey, there's Gretzky and In rock and Roll guitar there's Edward Van Halen.
@davida6889 3 жыл бұрын
And in basketball theres michael Jordan 😁
@griffturkltek9933 3 жыл бұрын
In bakeries there's cakes and in tire shop there's tires
@michaelkogut7661 3 жыл бұрын
Alex Van Halen on drums
@JTCox 3 жыл бұрын
You picked the right VH album. This whole album is a banger! Check out Unchained from it next.
@donaldriddle230 3 жыл бұрын
There is a live version of Eruption that is incredible. California Dream in is The Mama's and Papas, David Roth covered the Beach Boys California Girls in a solo project. Jump is a great song. Running with the devil, Panama, Try to find Eddie doing Eruption live. You will be amazed
@TheBlackQueen 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen was the Jimi Hendrix of the 1980s (and late 1970s). He reinvented the concept of shred solos and popularised the Tapping technique, which is where you use your picking hand to press the hammer on the strings to make it ring without picking the string. He built his own guitar and it was a brand new sound to the world and everyone picked up on it. Jimi Hendrix introduced new ways to shred and how to use distortion at its max. Jimmy Page introduced unique chords, progressions, and techniques and mixed cultures with different tones and styles. David Gilmour introduced new guitar effects and experimentation along with proving you don't need to play a thousand notes to deliver the same message. Brian May introduced the concept of multilayered guitar harmonies and invented his own guitar with its own unique tones. Ritchie Blackmore introduced classical elements to guitar solos while demonstrating how to break out in fast riffs. Tony Iommi introduced the thickness of distorted and downtuned guitars that eventually gave birth to Heavy Metal. Eddie Van Halen explored and popularised tapping and proved you could make almost any sound you want with the instrument. Tom Morello explored the potential of guitar effects and the kill switch technique. Jack White introduced clip gain distortion in the digital age. Currently, the Internet has allowed for much more innovation, however, the traces end up becoming so blurred that we can't pin point which guitarists discovered any new techniques. But it's more than just how much you cam innovate new things, but how you can incorporate said innovations into your own music. All the guitarists above did exactly that.
@negsterarchive7911 3 жыл бұрын
Have A Cigar, Paranoid Android and Mean Street all in the same week! loving the diversity
@samuraijacques952 3 жыл бұрын
You can't overstate the amount of soul that David Lee Roth brought to the band
@Fakename70 Жыл бұрын
And swagger
@begrackled 11 ай бұрын
David Lee Roth was the nephew of the infamous Manny Roth who ran the Cafe Wha? In Greenwich Villiage in the 60's. From a very young age, Dave saw some of the wildest beat poets, rappers, musicians, and intellectual weirdos. Musically, what's going on raised the bar to heights that no one saw coming like Jackie Chan, but the lyrics are beat poet royalty. Only a guy like that could sketch a story like this.
@mookyyzed2216 9 ай бұрын
Flamboyance yes, soul no
@jasonrichardson1208 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen's FAIR WARNING album has always been my favorite VH album.
@hesh8367 Жыл бұрын
Their debut is probably top 5 all time releases in the genre, but I agree, Fair Warning is likely my favorite.
@alexbernhardt56 3 жыл бұрын
If you guys wanna watch one of the best live guitar solos ever performed you need to look up Eddies eruption solo. The video should be around 13 min long. Would be great to watch during the best guitarists of the 80s tournament
@phillipg1331 2 жыл бұрын
Live without a net. Watch the whole set.
@ericmyers5003 3 жыл бұрын
✌🎸🤘🙏. If you've heard Michael Jackson's "Beat it" Eddie Van Halen played guitar the solo for free!
@workingman6681 3 жыл бұрын
I had seen Van Halen in backyards parties in the San Gabriel Valley/Pasadena area (California). David Lee Roth-Singer Eddie Van Halen- Guitar Michael Anthony- Bass Alex Van Halen- Drums Eddie built his own guitar, FRANKENSTRAT!!🎸🎸
@unklebacon44 3 жыл бұрын
We're forgetting Van Halen was just as good with Sammy Hagar after Roth left.
@cabansinleaf8867 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie was all about the ' Sound '....the brown note! He was forever in search of that elusive tone and just before he passed he admitted that he had finally been able to get that {or as close to it as possible} with his signature guitar and amps. His guitar is unlike any other, like Hendrix, he literally crafted his work from scratch. Van Halen are big as big can get, in terms of rock'n'roll sound signatures.
@karyntheboss 2 жыл бұрын
Brown sound.
@mikekean5902 3 жыл бұрын
California girls was a solo project by Van Halen’s lead singer David Lee Roth. No way would Eddie and Alex Van Halen would ever associate themselves with that song. The band also hails from Pasadena, California.
@billdivine9501 3 жыл бұрын
It was David Lee Roth’s idea to call the band Van Halen.
@TheBlackQueen 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen were the borderline of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. They would often go into both sides while staying loyal to everyone. They were such a widely beloved band that all the commercial fans loved the melodies and the singer, while all the harder and underground fans loved the heavy shredding guitars. They in a sense brought Heavy Metal to the states. They were responsible for the rise of Glam Metal and Pop Metal which largely kicked off in LA. While the band and half of the members were from LA, the Van Halen brothers Alex and Eddie were from the Netherlands.
@timwirasnik5878 3 жыл бұрын
They are a 70's band, thir biggest selling Album ( Well one of them anyway) was their Debut which sold 10x Platinum! They are from Pasadena, california
@mikethemotormouth 3 жыл бұрын
Two albums at the tail end of the 70s does not a 70s group make
@kitoyobeni1 3 жыл бұрын
@@mikethemotormouth A lot of their songs from their first 4 albums were demos from before the 1st album. Regardless, whichever decade you put Eddie in he should win, 70s or 80s (or 90s, or....)
@timwirasnik5878 3 жыл бұрын
@@mikethemotormouth When they started does which was in the 70's
@jamzales 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen was the ultimate 80's party band.
@kdm71291 3 жыл бұрын
I just can't bring myself to think of VH as an "80s band"......since the first two albums came out before the 80s started and were immediately popular....and their sound and music is simply....."Van Halen"! They are their own genre. That being said, I have heard and agreed that their music could be called "California Party Rock".
@krkhns 3 жыл бұрын
@@kdm71291 "California Party Rock". LOL. That's a new one for me and I grew up in the area during the period. It fits. The main reason they lump Van Halen into 80s metal is because Van Halen and Randy Rhoades are pretty much responsible for the bands that followed in the 80s. As teens in LA during the early-70s, going to extremely large (200+ people) backyard parties was the thing to do. And you could pretty much bet Van Halen would be playing at most of them. Except, they were called Mammoth back then. By the mid-70s, Van Halen and Quiet Riot (with Randy Rhoades) were the top local bands. And every other band was trying to imitate their sound. Once Van Halen released their debut album, every A&R man in the record business was trying to sign wannabe Van Halen bands. It got so bad, one of the main clubs the record people would hang out at went to pay-to-play (Gazzarri's). Rather than the band getting paid, the band paid Bill Gazzarri to play on his stage. Van Halen, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Guns 'n Roses, and Poison were all bands that paid to play there. If you played Gazzarri's, the chances were pretty good you'd get signed by a label. It was funny, when ever Bill Gazzarri would show up, he would be dressed like a 1940s mobster. They gave him the nickname "Godfather".
@przemekz4 3 жыл бұрын
Check out their songs House of Pain and Girl Gone Bad. Both from 1984. Both phenomenal. RIP Eddie 🎸
@mattharvey968 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been trying to get all reaction channels to review both of those songs!! Great songs! Hidden gems!✌️
@roscoepcoltrane23 3 жыл бұрын
Girl gone bad rips. Killer stuff.
@stephenpemberton85 3 жыл бұрын
Nice fn heavy struttin s- - t brother ✌💛🤘
@philstone3859 2 жыл бұрын
@@mattharvey968, good luck with that! I’ve been trying and trying too. It’s majority rules, not who knows what they’re talking about. Don’t give up man. Somebody’s got to teach the kids.
@mercedogre 3 жыл бұрын
Suicidal Tendencies- You cant bring me down, garauntee you will love this band
@jeffthejinjer 3 жыл бұрын
"All I wanted was a Pepsi" 😆
@rabe7217 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffthejinjer This ain`t Mr. Rogers neighborhood........
@deanskipit8220 3 жыл бұрын
Gene Simmons of kiss found van halen in a bar or club in 77 and helped get their foot in the door
@mikeelko8527 3 жыл бұрын
Great, early VH track. Soooo underrated. Unchained and Running with the Devil great also.
@k_spats 2 жыл бұрын
I saw them at Madison Square Garden - in their prime! We had 3rd row, center, seats! At the break, in "Eruption" - my friend and I screamed, "Eddie, we love you!!!" He smiled and winked back at us!!! We lost minds!!! Man... Just thinking how great that concert/experience was bring backs the BEST memories!!! They were each firing on all cylinders! 🔥 David Lee Roth was a spectacular front man! 💜💫✌🏼🎵
@SuperDoomspoon 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie VanHalen…..Best ever……MIC DROP!!!🎤👍
@paulhabat7746 3 жыл бұрын
Batta Bing !!!!
@thenashvillemasterclass5639 3 жыл бұрын
Eruption- Live without a net. Is far and wide regarded as Eddie Van Halen at his best and one of the best performances on guitar ever. It will melt you guys faces off
@truckerdave2060 3 жыл бұрын
You can't make a list of great guitarist without watching that video... it's gonna blow your minds
@dipsydoodle7988 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@MacPro8CoreMan 3 жыл бұрын
Eruption Solo Hollywood Bowl 2015 is so much better than Live without a net! An older and sober Eddie makes for much, much better playing. R.I.P. King Edward... The GOAT!
@jom7604 2 жыл бұрын
Saw VH 4 times live...the absolute best. Never disappointed an audience. Amazing, their music got me through my teens. RIP Edward. 🤩
@scottslaboda781 3 жыл бұрын
Their 1st album set the world on fire
@HardRockMaster7577 2 жыл бұрын
It was a jaw-dropping experience to hear that LP in 1978.
@yankeerepairs 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen ... Would need to be on ANY list of 'greatest guitarist' - period. He created sounds & styles, as well as the actual equipment... Such a kind soul, and loved his craft. *RIP 🎸 EVH*
@rothed16 Жыл бұрын
My #1 by has to be in Top 5
@metaphoria3 3 жыл бұрын
Just like Dime and Vinnie Paul RiP Legends
@anacrobat89 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen’s brother is the drummer; Alex Van Halen. It’s their band hence the name. Also, the song you guys were singing “California girls” is NOT a Van Halen song.
@alwaysengines 2 жыл бұрын
It was actually David Lee Roth’s idea to name the band “Van Halen”
@donjackson5522 2 жыл бұрын
Eddie wanted to name the band Genesis, not realizing there was already a band called that. Then the ultimate front man David Lee Roth stepped aside and suggested the name Van Halen.
@TheBlackQueen 3 жыл бұрын
As Mike the Music Snob put it: Guns N Roses couldn't figure out whether the singer or the guitarist was more important. Van Halen found out that the guitarist was more important.
@mikeelko8527 3 жыл бұрын
You should watch the documentary “Metal Evolution” starts from the early days through the 2000s and goes through the different genres.
@PowderedToastMan420 3 жыл бұрын
This song is pure ROCK N ROLL. ✌
@smir421 3 жыл бұрын
Aint talkin about love is a must VH reaction.
@billdivine9501 3 жыл бұрын
I just love it when people who have never really heard of this band put on a jam like this and get blown away by it! I love the reactions and the look of shock in their faces. It’s like, they just saw the light.
@dannyworten5876 3 жыл бұрын
You need to hear the eruption for eddies guitar solo!
@rebeccarockchik6704 3 жыл бұрын
We can tell you all day long what is was like back in 78 the first time we heard Van Halen but unless you lived in that time you will never fully understand how they, particularly Eddie, changed music forever. ✌❤
@joshreiners5284 Жыл бұрын
sound like my dad nice
@jeffsayle5316 Жыл бұрын
truth
@rothed16 Жыл бұрын
Yes girl!❤❤❤ it is me DavidLeeRoth
@rebeccarockchik6704 Жыл бұрын
@@rothed16 haven't seen you around lately. Hope you're good! 😄
@NewbieInOttawa 2 жыл бұрын
"You can't park there." lol Enjoying your work guys! Also - lovin' Smoke's Queensrÿche T-shirt - epic!!!!!
@jenniferfoster1692 2 жыл бұрын
Van Halen, Little Guitars, Runnin' with the Devil, Little Dreamer, so, so, so many great songs
@FreeMTrider 3 жыл бұрын
I can't wait until you guys hit 100k subs. Man, you deserve it! Thanks brothers
@Hollywood6IX 3 жыл бұрын
Same here. Thanks alot brother
@jefferycomer860 Жыл бұрын
Love both of you ❤️, look forward to seeing your review s
@lancerx1759 2 жыл бұрын
These Rappers reaction was a genuine Delight
@ErikDeSart 3 жыл бұрын
In my opinion Van Halen's most underrated album. It slays front to back. They were at their best. My favorite!
@rickcain4736 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen became huge right from the release of their debut album in 1978. They are from Los Angeles. They made 6 albums with singer David Lee Roth who then left the band in 1985. His first solo release was cover of California Girls. VH brought on board Sammy Hagar to become new singer. They made 4 albums with him up to 1995; all 4 albums went to number 1 on charts. Hagar left in 96. Gary Cherone was brought in as singer for 1 album and then Roth came back in 2006 and one final album was recorded. Sadly Eddie Van Halen passed away last October...a HUGE loss to VH fans...R.I.P. Eddie!
@metaphoria3 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie was really well known for tapping (guitar technique where you also play notes on the fretboard with your right hand as well as your left in essence as if you had super long alien fingers on your left hand) to the point where he’d turn his back to the audience so no one could see how he was doing it but alas he was like the Steph Curry of guitar but anyways other ppl had tapped before Spanish guys jazz guys on the acoustic but never like THAT before..
@progolf95 2 жыл бұрын
Van Halen brothers were born in Holland and moved to the USA while Eddie and Alex (drummer) were kids. Eruption live from the video "Live Without A Net" is Eddie at his absolute best.
@mmartinez9764 8 ай бұрын
Every band was playing disco according to the record companys. That's why it's so refreshing
@Itelkner 3 жыл бұрын
Great reaction guys
@joespradley2323 3 жыл бұрын
This is my most favorite song of Van Halen’s followed by the very first song that made them rock stars from the beginning, “Running with the Devil”. Thanks for doing this song🙏🏼
@bgray625 10 ай бұрын
I imagine a monk in a remote mountain monastery in Nepal, meditating on how Buddha-nature is expressed in the sublime perfection of DLR-era Van Halen
@drewschrep 7 ай бұрын
I love watching these guys rock out like I did when this album came out in the mid 80's! That's right, I've been loving VH for over 40 years! So don't be too surprised when you see a 55 year old rocking out in the car next to you at the stop light! Once a rocker, always a rocker.
@michaelwheeling8427 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen and Randy Roads brought an amazing sound to rock in the early eighties. Randy Roads added classical guitar to rock.
@robertskae 3 жыл бұрын
This is a great album so many good tracks
@gneric85 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie used to be the singer when they were a 3 piece band and right before Michael Anthony joined. They used to rent David Lee Roth's P.A. system and they finally hired him as a singer to avoid paying him the $$ and they really blew up shortly after that.
@efriamantoniogarza9388 Жыл бұрын
So glad you guys liked this song so much. It’s one of rocks greatest and most important songs. Van Halen changed and revolutionized rock music. What he did for music, for guitar manufacturing, guitar amplification, music stores, clubs, arenas. What they did for music and a generation in impossible to quantify. They were the sound of 80’s rock. 🎸🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼
@Megadeth1921 3 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen is the reason there’s so many killer guitarist today. OG Van Halen is some kick ass rock/metal
@poppyleon_6275 3 жыл бұрын
Ugh my heart just sunk. The VanHalen brothers are Eddie and Alex VanHalen! Alex plays drums, amazingly...
@cccheeks8819 3 жыл бұрын
This song is "MEAN" and "GROOVALICIOUS" from Beginning to End! With a little Magic Eddie Dust Sprinkled In to complete the Recipe.
@lest3170 3 жыл бұрын
Great job!
@jamesdaves2169 3 жыл бұрын
VH!!! Unchained…maybe the best opening riff? Early VH is raw!🤘🤘
@darinhusk366 3 жыл бұрын
Probably my favorite VH songs of all time. The backing vocals are from bass player Michael Anthony, and Eddie. Alex Van Halen is the drummer. In my humble opinion, VH is the most iconic rock/metal band from the US. Check out Hot For Teacher, can't go wrong. Thanks for what you do!
@johnyenick8144 3 жыл бұрын
U clowns are one of the best reactionaries ever. Love it.
@romeorice583 2 жыл бұрын
This album has FIRE on it - “Hear About It Later” - “Dirty Movies” “Push Comes To Shove” etc
@rebelfrog3 Жыл бұрын
Mean Street is one of those songs that makes you feel like a complete badass just by listening to it.
@JVMultiProds 3 жыл бұрын
According to some stories I've read, EVH was usually very self conscious of his own guitar playing. He knew he was good, but he never felt like he was good enough to jam with other guitar players. Steve Lukather, another amazing guitarist, asked EVH to jam at a show, and he had a hard time convincing him to actually do it.
@LA80sMike 3 жыл бұрын
Love that you mentioned BBQs, Hung out with some old friends, finally, this weekend, BBQ’d and had this album “Fair Warning” playing in the background…Good Times!!
@supertal6074 2 жыл бұрын
Oh - you boys picked a good one! Yes, the MIGHTY VAN HALEN!!! There will never be a guitarist or a band like them again. A complete shame that the band is over but at least we have their music!!!
@toddvandell85 3 жыл бұрын
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his older brother drummer Alex Van Halen formed Van Halen. And have been its only consistent members since their debut from 1978. (And they started out playing each other's instruments. Eddie was originally the drummer, and Alex was the guitarist. But while Eddie was out throwing his paper route, Alex started playing Ed's drums. And when Eddie heard Alex play his drums? He realized Alex was the better drummer, so Eddie picked up the guitar. And the legend was born.) Eddie was the first to play that finger tapping guitar thing. Well, on electric guitar. Some other guitarists did finger tapping many many years earlier on acoustic guitar. But Eddie was the first electric guitarist to do it. His screaming dives you mentioned were not exactly unique to Eddie. Finger tapping was. He was the first. And Ed's equally amazing on acoustic guitar, too, and does the finger tapping there, too. Singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony rounded out the first few years. Yes, I know almost every Van Halen song. (Except for the songs on Van Halen 3. Not my favorite.) And "California Girls" was David Lee Roth's first solo album. His guitarist, Steve Vai, is still an Eddie Van Halen acolyte, all these years later. Oddly enough, Alex and Eddie are Dutch. "Van" is Dutch. (I'm 3/4 Dutch myself, even though I was born here.) And they were born in Holland, and emigrated here. Their father was a clarinetist, and played clarinet on one of their songs on Diver Down. On their cover of "Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now." But the band got together in Los Angeles, California. Started out playing all the clubs on the strip. They have always had a badass groove. (And yes, the Mama's & Papas did California Dreaming...but way back in the 1960s. Not the Beach Boys. The giveaway is the female harmony vocals throughout the song.) Oh. Back many years ago when Eddie and Valerie Bertinelli were still married? She was trying to lose some weight, and her trainer said: "You want to lose weight fast? Dance to nothing but Van Halen songs. Knock the weight right off you." So she did, and it worked. True story.
@heathercrabtree5006 3 жыл бұрын
I sooo love this, welcome to van halen!!
@PDXguitarfreak 2 жыл бұрын
As someone that has been a Van Halen fan since the early 80s, it was certainly fun watching you dudes listen to this song for the first time. :) By the way, to all the guitar players out there, if you want to learn the guitar solo for this song, I have a lesson here on YT :)
@georgemobley5913 7 ай бұрын
This shit is hard. Love it guys. Thanks.
@davidc.cassidy6837 Жыл бұрын
The band was actually named by the lead singer, David Lee Roth. He told Eddie it sounded great and they decided to go wth it. The rest is history. RIP Eddie, you were the greatest.
@srt8rocketship241 3 жыл бұрын
Great job guys. The genious of this band. Amazing still.
@thaking16201 3 жыл бұрын
Ain't talkin bout love from van Halen is a great suggestion!
@thermann9 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. 40+ years old and still holds up.
@metaphoria3 3 жыл бұрын
And The Cradle Will Rock
@chopperdeath 2 жыл бұрын
"You can't park there!" Brilliant.
@jacobg8707 3 жыл бұрын
Van Halen is the ultimate garage band - just a bunch of guys you'd hire to play at your block parties and park events. David Lee Roth was on Joe Rogan a couple years back and was talking about Van Halen's early strategy when they played - traveling the different Southern California neighborhoods and playing different melodies to the different ethnic neighborhoods. The Hispanic neighborhoods who wanted quicker beats for their birthday parties like Carlos Santana would do, the surfer guys out on Venice Beach who wanted to hear faster guitars and lyrics like Aerosmith would do, and the working man from San Bernadino who wanted to hear ZZ Top and more bass rhythm. Dave even exampled that 'Dance the Night Away' and 'Jamie's Crying' had the Hispanic flavor because they had the Rumba and Cha-Cha beats to them. They just knew what all kinds of people wanted to hear versus playing what the band wanted to make and hoping an audience would find them.
@shannonlaskie6254 3 жыл бұрын
Great reaction
@tilemonkee5510 2 жыл бұрын
Ohhh Yyeeaahh!!! So glad you gentlemen( ; ? ) enjoyed that!! Awright,awright....in chronological order.....Titus Oneals finisher was Clash of the Titus! ..... Eddie's brother Alex was the drummer......they didn't grow up on the mean streets,they were middle class at least, but I would say the street cred came after the stardom. Keep 'em comin, boys!
@timwirasnik5878 3 жыл бұрын
The Lyrics to this track were written about a Street DLR lived on for a short time
@paxonearth 2 жыл бұрын
This might be my favorite VH song. SO GOOD!
@christianbelena Жыл бұрын
Don't forget the solo on MJ's "Beat It" from Thriller. Eddie killed another one!! RIP
@cheenu711 2 жыл бұрын
His sound. It's a unicorn us guitarists have been chasing for decades.
@salemtrials7432 3 жыл бұрын
Titus’ finishing move was “The skull crushing finale”. It has been dubbed the worst finishing move of all time. Love the reaction boys! Keep it up!!!
@skinnybuddha74 3 жыл бұрын
And yet he has the greatest Royal Rumble entrance of all time, "Titus World Slide."
@garylagstrom3864 2 жыл бұрын
I remember what a VJ (Video Jockey) said on MTV back in the day: Any song that starts with a certain sound I can always tell it’s a Eddie Van Halen guitar 🎸
@recabitejehonadab2654 3 жыл бұрын
When Eddie came on the scene he raised the bar through the ceiling for all the other guitarists. They went home and tried to duplicate his sound but they couldn’t. It’s because Eddie was an innovator and he altered his pickups( through many a trial and error )to create the tones he wanted to hear. No one ever did that before! That’s what made him special besides being a great guitarist.
@kitoyobeni1 3 жыл бұрын
The Van Halen brothers are from Amsterdam and moved to the States as kids (Pasadena, CA). Eddie actually started on drums and Alex on guitar and the swapped early on.
@jaykirkley1570 2 жыл бұрын
Edward Van Halen: guitarist, Alex Van Halen: drums, Jan Van Halen:(Father):woodwinds, inspiration, David Lee Roth: vocals,Michael Anthony: bass guitar. They started out as Mammoth,before David Lee Roth.
@bostonwhofan 3 жыл бұрын
The next one you need to react to by Van Halen: "Everybody Wants Some". BTW, did you know after David Lee Roth left the band he went on to become an EMT in New York City? I always wondered what it must have looked like after you got hit by a car in NYC and when the ambulance pulled up, out walks David Lee Roth!!! But it's true, he did become an EMT.
@dipsydoodle7988 3 жыл бұрын
For not knowing much about VH you two sure did step in it picking Mean Streets, as it is one of their best. Lucky you. I agree with other posters saying you MUST react to the Eruption, live without a net solo.
@robertcook792 3 ай бұрын
This is my favorite album by Van Halen. My favorite album period. This is a great song to start it off to. Awesome beginning!
@danarchuleta1154 3 жыл бұрын
FINALLY! Mean Streets is a masterpiece, but you really have to hear the album in it's entirety and a few times before you hear all the guitar nuances. The first album, "self-titled," is one of the best hard-rock albums of all time. If you do the entire first album, you'll have an "Eruption" of views! For my money, Eddie is the GOAT Peace Talkers
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