Tru words my friend

Greatest of all time? No

The GOAT...YES!

@@terrym681 one in every crowd

So true. Eddie lived and breathed his guitar.

...and if my math is right, this is probably being noodled out at the same time they're recording 5150. Just imagine, this could have been on 5150 instead of Balance.

If you saw the 1998 interview with Eddie at the 5150 studio, you’ll find out that he was sitting on so much music he recorded over the years that got turned into songs as time went on that there was still plenty when he died that hadn’t been made into full on songs. In that same interview he said he found a tape of “Right now” labeled 1983 on it, long before it made it to For unlawful carnal knowledge, apparently he wrote most of it even before “Jump”. Same thing with “316”, it was just a riff he played around with long before Van Halen was even signed and used it for Carnal knowledge after Wolfgang was born on March 16, he wrote “316” for him.

Easy, he was a perfectionist.

@@gameroftheyear1000 This is true. I have an old vhs tape of EVH noodling. And on it it said he wrote eruption long before he had a whammy bar. And he said that most of his hits were made from riffs that he found listening back to noodling. RIP Eddie. Thanks for sharing. 🤘

thats what he did for a living he jammed out perfected it

What ppl dont realize is ALOT of VH2 and Carnal was written and demoed before their 1st tour. So arguments like this are just dumb, who cares if its old or new or whatever if its good you know?

He's an artist he's working

No shit! A different kind of truth is amazing for so many reasons. It’s way better than diver down

It's probly Sam's fans repeating his whining and bitching . What a whiny little rat "Van Halen brothers were mean to me , boo hoo hoo !"

@Stephen Allsman A Different Kind of Truth is phenomenal, but Diver Down is classic, if only for Hang 'Em High, The Full Bug, and Little Guitars.

Every day! He's just magic. I'm gonna get my old les paul out and learn everything he's playing in this video. RIP Ed!

The tone is killer, im back weekly as well🤘

We all are, he was incredibly charismatic...no one can top his acrobatics let alone guitar playing and that Smile 😁

🙏🏼Amen🙏🏼

Honest to God….Never thought I’d miss him SO bad either…catch myself crying to some of his videos often …

Can't believe your comment because I'm the same way. I cried like a baby the morning after he died. Never happened to me before. Put it this way, I'm a HUGE Rush fan since I was a kid, but when Neil Peart died... not a tear from me. Don't get me wrong, It hit me hard, I just didn't cry? Knowing that I'd never see Ed's smile again tore me to pieces. Sorry to ramble.

I still weep when listening and watching videos...

I live in LA, so when my brother texted me that he had just passed, I told my boss that a family member just passed and I had to excuse myself from work for the day. I then drove straight to Sunset Sound Recording and listened to the local rock radio station playing VH nonstop and I was parked outside where all that music was recorded years earlier. Although we all knew Ed wasn’t well, it me harder than I thought it would.

I didn't cry, but what I did was worse, I felt hollow and devastated. If I had cried, I would of cleansed a lot quicker.

​@@hyperdog67same here Tom Petty did for me as well

This one as well kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ba1poteJyNfbqmQ.html

If someone edited hours and hours of video of just Eddie noodling in the studio, I’d pay for it…

@@codywilliams3789 same

@@codywilliams3789 Thats would be pure gold.

@@codywilliams3789 why would you want someone to edit it? kind of defeats the purpose.

I'd be just like that dude in the corner. Watching. Kinda like when McCartney was churning out incredible works between Let it Be and Abbey Road.

We miss you Eddie. But your gifts to us throughout your beautiful life will be our blood flowing through out veins till we have our front row chairs in heaven. RIP

RIght on! As a kid in the 80s and totally amateur guitar player, I was into the riffs and solos and EVH had the best. But as an adult I realize that his rhythm, along with the riffs and solos, is what sets him apart from the rest. He just did his thing, both musically and with his gear, and he will live on forever because of it. RIP EVH

Absolutely. Everything he plays just sounds so big, sweet, accurate and groovy.

So it is older eddie...eds creative peak was 86

@@bls8959 No, meaning thinking the song was written in 1995, not 1985. It's a full decade younger than you would think. And, I'd argue the peak was 1984, maybe even earlier. He wrote DIFFERENT stuff for 5150, but none of it really rivaled anything from the 78-84 years, at least musically. Though, to hear what Dave would have done with Summer Nights would be great since that song was written while he was still in the band. Ed wrote some radio-friendly pop rock with Sam, yes. But, his musical peak was certainly pre-Sam. His songwriting became more polished, yes. But, musically it had become more predictable. That edge was largely gone by 86-88.

@@e.l.norton actually I changed my mind..eds peak was 81...84 is overrated and just as poppy as any van hagar stuff ..not a van Hagar guy btw..that's what I meant 86 was the end

@@bls8959 I'd agree Ed's playing peaked with Fair Warning. But, as a total band, production, etc. I think I still lean toward 1984 being the band's peak. Not Eddie's, but the band's.

@@e.l.norton oh man van Halen 1 had such an impact idk friend

Doubt that. I think he hadn't played it in a while so he was trying to remember.

​@@rodbhar6522 nah he was definetly tryin to find the notes he wanted. I think it was a combination of remembering what he'd already wrote and he wanted to add in to finish it off. Either way I'm just glad we got him for as long as we did. Panama is an awesome song!!!

​@@MainPrismHe's not writing Panama here

@@fawder1014 yea idk why I put Panama instead of Amsterdam. I didn't even notice it til you pointed it out lol

sorry, autoplay.

No it isnt.

@@donDonau Thank you for your very valid opinion.

Production on Balance was very good.

My brother and I dig Balance and reach for it more often than the others, yo! And. . .Van Halen 3. And. . .we are legitimately cool people, and we like cool music. Peace.

I definitely wouldn’t call Balance underrated or a masterpiece.

Me too brother... somewhat of a shrine!!! His music was so heart felt its almost like you knew him and hung out with him !! Never felt like that with any other musical artist... extremely special!

It's sad that too much coke cost him his wife and band.

Mansion 😆 It was an ordinary house.

Don't forget the Lambo!!!

Don't forget that he broke his ass to get all of that shit......and he gifted us with all of his music.

@@familiardave6540 that. Crap sucks. Hurt so many people. . They made it sound great in early 80s

Agreed, can you imagine? There has to be hundreds of awesome riffs. I would love to hear him just noodling around ‼️👍

Everything Wolfie does is stolen from Eddie's back catalogue. So just listen to Wolfie song and you're hearing Eddie's writting.

The tone he has going here is much better than the version he did on Balance!

@@josharmoogam6696 Balance is 1 of my favorite albums

Construction.

Yeah, no lyrics

needs Sammy, bro

Alcohol too. Both in combination are even deadlier.

@@UptempoMusicLessons hmm, you don’t say. Alcohol didn’t give him cancer on his tongue. Id say it was cigs, but maybe it was his guitar pick theory. Maybe both. I don’t think that alcohol gave him lung cancer which spread to his brain. Sure he drank way too much booze over the years, but i don’t think it caused his cancer. Which cancer is what ended his life.

@@UptempoMusicLessons which product literally had pictures of people dying of cancer. Never seen that or a surgeon general warning on the on a bottle of Heineken beer.

I wish he would’ve keep like this for “Balance”. He’s the boss man tho. Rip King Edward

@@DKH35 maybe not but when you think about the amount of Coke, the amounts of heroin and the amount of alcohol that went in his system, read his death report cancer was only one problem, and he didn’t die of that. He died of a stroke.

I'd cash in a winning lottery ticket to have access to the 5150 vault for a month. C'mon Wolf...c'mon Al...go through those tapes!!!

Song could have been way better with DLR lyrics and singing

I love Sammy Hagar but a lot of his lyrics were really cringe to me.

Eddie hated the lyrics Sammy came up with for this. He said this piece of music meant a lot to him and Sammy crapped all over it. This was when I knew they were going to break up. Right before the Balance tour commenced. What a thing to say on live radio lol!

@@UptempoMusicLessons Eddie said a lot of mean shit to just about everyone…. Look how he tried to shit on Jimmy Page’s live guitar skills….. said he plays like a 2 year old….. like whaaaaaaat

@@emmanuelleroy2915 but it’s true

Yup lol

Me too.

I saw in an interview once that they have hundreds of tapes of his at the studio, that were all numbered and then indexed with a computer from the early 80s. Then, 25 years later, that computer's hard drive died, and now they dont know what's what anymore. So there's just a huge pile of unlabeled tapes waiting to be listened to.

@@manbeezis man I would love to hear it!!

Jake is criminally underrated. Absolute beast

My old guitarist from my Death Metal band played an old white Charvell (as I played drums) and it sounded SICK! IMPO. He ended up stripping it all down and had me prep, prime and paint it with single stage Urethane BLACK automotive paint. After he assembled it, he then retired it! I was like 🤔 "Dane man. I kinda went through ALL that work cuz I wanted to SEE and HEAR you play that black SOB!"... But , he went through a couple different Ibanez guitars and finally, a BC RICH Chuck Shuldiner model. But yeah, I STILL missed hearing that ol Charvel! 🎸

And yeah! JAKE E LEE..!!!!? 😳 🙌 I mean, WHAT else NEEDS to be said?🤘🎸🔥🤘 I'm gonna HAVE to go on the record and vouch for Sharon Osbourne picking Jake E Lee OVER the almost near secured Rhoads guitar replacement, George Lynch. And obviously, I love Lynch's guitar playing and all but?.... I'm gonna HAVE to bet that Jake IS/was responsible for Ozzy's CONTINUED success through the better part of the 1980s. And as much love I had/have for Bark and Ultimate Sin? I think Jake's band BADLANDS was/IS on a whole other level! JUST an UNBELIEVABLE band 😏 Just too darned horrible that the whole grunge garbage overshadowed it (among other factors then).....ROCK the funk ON!!!🤘🔥🤘

In the 80's, Charvel was a hot rodded custom guitar that was the sign of a serious rock guitar player. Wayne Charvel used a different neck/headstock (the hockey stick style) not the Fender neck like they do now. I wish there was a closeup of the guitar in this video.

@@familiardave6540 Cool guitar story: I purchased my Charvel from Focus guitar store on LI 1991ish. At the time Kevin Moore who was a family friend was still working there. I went in one day for guitar lessons and he said he wanted me to check out a used guitar that just came in. It was so beautiful (metallic Dark green) EMG active pick ups legit Floyd rose. SOLD!! this was literally weeks before Pull me under rocketed them to much deserved legendary status. Crazy almost 30 years ago.

Preach!

My book too. I always had Jimi as one and EVH as 2, but no, EVH did it all. Way better at rhythm guitar and his leads were much more concise and clean. He also didn’t use many tracks and would solo on his rhythm track, nobody did that now or then. Maybe in the 50-60s when all was live. EVH is the true King and cannot see anyone replacing him. Then of course his innovation and tech creations. EVH was and is the true Master on the 6 string.

How is that going to work for you? the man is dead, and he was cremated. That magical Sky Wizard you think is real, is all in your mind.

@@standingvertical3048 youre in for a rude awakening when you pass away asshole lol.

Some sort of charvel

​@Gina Chiaverini Not buying that at all. His greatest creative period tho seems to be after Roth joined up until the '84 album. Gotta remember they were still doing mostly covers till about '76.

😂😂😂

It's a good song

😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂..Sammy is a great singer but his lyric sucks... check out the song from OU812 which is very similar to Sinner Swing..fucking Hagar couldn't come with some lyrics to Eddie music in other hand Sinner Swing kicks ass.

@@wilfredfreytes9384 - Dude lyrics like "Crossing Over" are amazing.

I’ve tried to figure it out. Too sophisticated for me.

i managed to always watch his fingers and figured it out and im no music nerd bc i cant read music but its easy once u see it and slow it down

Agreed.

It's not his singing. It's some of his lyrical decisions. That line from "Why Can't this be Love" has always cracked me up.

Edward had a work ethic second to none. Sammy? Not so much.

@@anc5150 He certainly wasn’t lazy though. The band should’ve stayed on a break instead of going into Twister and everything else they’ve done since then. Sammy just got married and had a kid, he had all the right in the world to stay home and enjoy that.

You sound rather stupid. Children get cancer from birth, did they have a drink in there hand and cigarette in there mouth?

Absolutely Absolutely I heard Eddie say that Randy copied him. Bull shit. Randy was a classically trained musician he knew more ways to chord notes and different voicings. Eddie should have copied Randy. That would have been cool.

Well in dkot you know those demos. They were whole songs . Lyrics to. Most of that album was way back in the day . And you can tell . I think like Chinatown was written when they got back together. To me that song didn't have that vh feel to it . Maybe a couple of others. I personally don't think they had much else to speak of in the vault. I think if they had something good. They would have put it out . Not that second album with David. Tokyo live album.You got to admit. David did sounded HORRIBLE. If you to be upset that it took 10 years to put words to it . Just work in progress. Me myself. I would want to hear. What words David would put to this riff. Or any of Sam stuff with Edward. Those riffs were gonna be what Edward was hearing. No matter if David was there or not.

@@scottmcclure4153 I agree with you Dave sound horrible on Tokio live album... but I disagree with what you said about China Town...that song is what VH is all about....ironically for me Why cant this be love,Love walkin' in,Feel So Good dont have that VH feel...

@@wilfredfreytes9384 totally agree on any love song or ballat from Sam. Can't stand a one. Except feeling. There are 3 or 4 songs on that album are not Van Halen. Chinatown is one of them. To me that's stuff that him and wofe work on together. Kinda speed metal. To me it doesn't have the Edward jazzy swing to it . Like the rest of the album feels. .

@@scottmcclure4153 - Those ballads are beautiful

@@sirkayda7205 might be. But so soft. Marshmallow stuff. Cream puff stuff. Just to

Dirty Water Dog from 3 was from 86 as well.

This would have been huge in 85. Honestly, how was this NOT on 5150? I can think of 4 or 5 songs that made the album that Amsterdam was better than.