You should check out “Mean Street” by Van Halen. Great guitars, bass, and drums

I got the joke. Hilarious! I was thinking the same thing! Hhahaha

Ty for giving respect where its due!

Ozzy's I don't know, crazy train, anything off Blizzard of Oz cd with Randy Rhoades playing guitar before he was cut short too soon.

Singing guitar: that's the way this mans hands sound when he feels emotion. Crazy shit when think about music like that.

Ture artist

Kinda really beautiful way to explain it!!! Well done

He definitely had his own unique style with such a class of imperial excellence.😎.He wrote all his own music for his solo's and songs. Truly miss him

Yeah that's a hell of a great description!

🎨🖼🎸🎶🎵🎶🌈🕊💋

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Exactly

😂😂😂😂

Just...bam!

Eddie: Yes

@@anoldfossil that’s awesome. A memory forever!

I envy you sir..

@@utubewatcher1 seeing him at least 3 times (I lose count lol) it was big impact on me and how I looked at music. Thanks for watching him! His son is doing a great job carrying on the name.

@@desmit6 I miss rock n roll sooo much like the 80s....instruments n talented musicians who were great

I was in my mid 30's during this period. The older generation was the best rock generation.

I grew up in Motown from my older sisters. I still listen to everything. At Woodstock at 11 years, A hippie told me that music "feeds the soul!" and I still believe that.

you don’t know what i’d do to be alive back then these guys were my dads hero’s and now they’re mine

@@carterboaz7876 was a great time to be a rock fan. Hell, it was just a great time to be alive, period!

@@Marco-fi6gv you got that right !!! we truly knew what great music and musicians were about back then ....our Rock N Roll was the freaking best ! They don't make music like that any more. he will be truly missed

@@SCRAPPYDOO62 amen brother!!! Rip EVH, guitar god and music legend!

if he thinks this of eddie, i wonder what he would think of Hendrix.

@@DusteyeMC One step at a time. Let's not frighten the poor lad. :-)

That is precisely how I felt when I first heard this song almost 40 Years Ago!

Seeing him on the first tour was life altering...

My first ever concert in 1991, age 18 - I saw him do this right in front of me, 23rd row on the floor. Talk about a great first band to see live (Alice In Chains opened so I guess they were technically though...). No one like Eddie...and that grin.

listen to allan holdsworth sometimes

@Eddie if you watch more of his reaction videos, Jojo gives the best analogies in the history of the world. Taylor Swift is like grilled chicken. The Righteous Brothers are like smoked ribs with macaroni and cheese and yams. If he had to pick a band to open a jar of pickles, it would be Ram Jam. Best. Analogies. Ever.

Yes, that was a great way to describe his classical talent.

You said it looked like he was playing the piano. As a child he took piano lessons. He said the guitar is like a piano and piano lessons helped him to learn the guitar. And this solo was written and performed by Eddie Van Halen over and over again. It's the greatest guitar solo ever. RIP my Guitar Hero.

Very astute, he is...

No kidding.

Impressive

Yup, he later said in an interview that he didn't even remember playing this show.

His eyes are closed because he's not actively doing anything... he's just feelin' the flow, man.

Perfect comment. Watch the documentary. Mike Anthony (the bassist).. said he was so hammered one concert that he thought that he couldn't pick up a guitar..let alone play it. They did 2 hours and he nailed it..lol

Add to that fact that he couldn't read music..he was just blessed IMO.

And it was David Lee Roth that said it'd be a cool idea to name the band after them

And His son Play bass Guitard in the Côme back tour till Eddie's death

David Lee Roth is the only Great signer if thid band history

@@manyskbigbear sammy hagar was pretty goof too tho

Well he said van Halen. It is the guys name. But pipe up just to be relevant. Smh.

And Eddie would be so proud about that

And the jaw always drops, the eyes wide in amazement. That's the effect Eddie has :)

Been playing 30 years, I will NEVER COME CLOSE TO THIS LEVEL! I want to throw mine into the firepit all the time, but there's one thing that always stops me, and that is the sound of eddie's voice in this video clip when he looks into the camera and says "dont ever stop playing man. Never stop. Music is all there is. And if I hear that you, I will come and find you." R.I.P. EDDIE 🤘💔🙏 THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MUSIC AND INSPIRATION!!! I MISS YOU EVERY GOD-DAMNED DAY!!

And 100 years later the bar will still stand tall

Ummm..Eddie could count...you have 10 digits on your hands....grab that guitar and use them digits!!!!

I cried for Eddie and Neil Peart

I cried when Charlie Watts died. My favourite drummer 😭

I was driving my car and had to pull over when I heard the news. I was stunned. It was like a piece of my childhood was disappearing from me. Eddie was that impactful to the world of Rock. I guess you just expect your heroes to be immortal. RIP 🙏

I didn’t cry. I think I just stood in the one spot for like 25 minutes, numb

And he couldn't read music believe that! His father was a famous violinist.

@@lorigroen7071 clarinet

Slash was anther that was famous for sticking his cig in the guitar neck.

I'm 54 years young, I smoke. I been smoking since I was 17. But I am trying to quit. It's not easy after smoking for so many years, but trieing.

@@rogerbyington5640 I started when I was 6. Quit when I was 15. Started back up when I was 16 and been smoking ever since. Tried to quit several times, the longest since I was 16 was 3 months. I’m 38 now.

I guess I quit when I'm six feet under.

Correct

Did you watch the TV appearance where the cameramen were told to only shoot Elvis from the waist up? Man, what he did back then was so tame compared to today.

I can’t wait to watch him see Jimi and WOw you met him! Amazing

I couldn't agree with you more! Music education is lacking everywhere nowadays. It's been pretty much destroyed in the entire public school system everywhere... It's horrible that we have to depend on charity to get kids instruments and lessons. This stuff needs to be part of every school's budget mandate permanently.

@@FloridaManRacer why spend money on the arts when you can spend it on sports where most students won't even make it to the college level let alone the majors? (Sarcasm)

@@RyanConnell5150 EXACTLY

he actually only played the solo for beat it.

Can't say he's the absolute only best, just cause there's a few others I'd have up there also tied for 1st

@@tropikilla same here. There are better technical players but Eddie's strengths were his innovative playing and the technical end of the equipment.

@@CaseyFraysier Fun Fact: The main riff was played by Steve Lukather (who also did bass) while Steve Porcaro played the synthesizer on it and Jeff Porcaro played drums. All of those mentioned were members of the band TOTO.

@@liamfitzgerald7217 yes they were.

The guitar holds his cigarette just fine thank you

Lol yup!

Eddie came up with tapping on his own...he discovered it on his own

Fuck the Grammys....

It wasn’t written for an album. He in fact didn’t want to record it, but it was recorded secretly during a sound check

@@Silver_Bullet1999 OK, maybe it wasn’t “written for the album” but nonetheless regardless of how it got there, it appeared on their album.

@@leebassa1545 Most of this solo isn't free-style (improv). Eruption, Spanish Fly, Cathedral, the intro to Mean Street ...are all large portions of what he's fused together here. I saw them twice on the Diver-Down tour and once for the 1984 tour and his solos were mostly repeats from show to show, which to me is way more impressive than just standing there spacing out, playing whatever for 15 minutes. Still looking for clips of the solos I saw him do. He did stuff I've never seen in any of the more popular youtube vids of him. For instance, in the middle of his solos back then there was a point (i hope i describe this correctly) where he moved his guitar into a position where it was oriented "lap-style" and he played it overhanded, like a piano, with 8 fingers doing hammer-ons/offs, piano-style, and every note coming through loud and clear.

@@leebassa1545 Edward was warming up before they were going to record VH 1. Ted Templeman(producer) walked by and heard Edward and asked Edward, what was he playing? Edward responded, nothing I'm just warming up. Ted then says, we have to put that on the album! Eruption was born. Shred in piece! EVH

@@chrisw647 Correct its ore a smash up of solos fron numerous songs. Not freestyle.

And he never "cheated" the fingering. There are no blurred sounds, no sliding of the fingers. His sound is precise and clear and perfect.

Fun fact: Early in Van Halen's career, when they were still playing in the clubs, Eddie would do his solos with his back turned to the audience so as not to give away the tricks and methods he used.

God made a show with eddie van halen and jimmi hendrix playing the guitar and michael jackson singing

@@spiff2268 I think I read that somewhere and that his brother Alex Van Halen was the one to suggest that because in those days everyone would steal ummmm I mean copy someone else tricks late 70's early 80's were some competative days consider they were following Led Zepplin Jimi Hendrix Janicice Joplin Lynyrd Skynard and on and on. Your tricks of the trade were your everything but noone could of even come close to his fingers other than Hendrix but.......

@@spiff2268 True story!!

Same here bought my tickets off a scalper! Watched him play this between his legs

my dad went to 4 van halen concerts in dallas and he said he never regretted going at all he said it was one of the best band he’s ever seen

Couldn't have said it better.

Welcome to the wonderful world and works of Van Halen!! Start with their first album, Van Halen I and work through each one. You will not be dissatisfied. I first heard Eruption on the radio in 1981 as an 11-year-old and it was over after that. I begged and pleaded for my parents to buy any VH material I could listen to. I shoveled snow, got a paper route, lied, cheated, and stole. Anything to feed my thirst. The rest is history and I’ve never been disappointed until their last album. Nobody’s perfect right? You watched the solo from VAN HALEN, LIVE WITHOUT A NET. Arguably one of Eddie’s most memorable performances ever recorded. I hope you enjoy the ride!! RIP EVH 5150. 🙏

Jimmy Page is only the greatest guitar player in the world today because EVH is dead.

Nah man. He's left the world in a net positive. Every guitarists in metal or rock will forever be in the shadow of his bag of tricks. He lives on in everyone who ever plays a eddie van halen lick

Eddie himself would tell you it is Eric Clapton

Eddie loved what he did and it showed.

eddie could read music.. he was a classically trained pianist before picking up the guitar... won a bunch of contests in high school. but to your point... no better EAR existed than eddie van halen's...

@@bach5150 THE REASON EDDIE VAN HALEN NEVER LEARNED TO READ MUSIC By Elif Ozden - August 12, 2021  Eddie Van Halen is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished guitar players in rock music history. In 1972, he co-founded Van Halen with his brother and appeared in the band as the primary songwriter and guitarist. He had played actively with the band since 1972 and produced several commercially successful albums. Eddie inspired many musicians, collaborated with renowned artists, and popularized the two-hand tapping guitar solo technique. His collaborations featured Gene Simmons, Brian May, Sammy Hagar, Black Sabbath, Roger Waters, and many more. On October 6, 2020, Eddie saddened the rock music scene with his tragic death after his battle with cancer, which lasted over four years. Following his death, Van Halen could not continue without him and disbanded. However, the fans and rock world still cherish and preserve Eddie’s legacy, and stories from his career influence the readers. Some of them are hard to believe though, like the one claiming Eddie never learned to read music. EDDIE VAN HALEN’S PIANO TEACHER MIGHT BE THE REASON HE COULD NOT READ MUSIC  When Eddie was still a child, he learned to play the piano starting at the age of six with his brother Alex. Eddie’s father was a jazz pianist and encouraged his sons to learn the piano. So, his interest in playing music started with a classical instrument rather than with drums or guitar. In an interview by Rolling Stones, Eddie recalled those days. He said that his father found a Russian piano teacher to teach them how to play the piano. The teacher did not know English, and the language barrier between them might be why Eddie could not learn how to read music. Moreover, Eddie claimed he fooled his teacher and everyone who listened to him for six years as he didn’t learn but just watched the teacher’s fingers before playing the piano. Eddie also revealed in the same interview that he never learned how to read music. He argued that his musical talent might be rooted in his gift for music and claimed he just had good ears back then. In the interview with Rolling Stone, Eddie confirmed his musical talent is entirely natural: “I think I have a gift. Things come easy, but then again, I’ve got to work at it, too. But at an early age, it was obvious that I had really good ears because I never learned how to read music.” The interviewer asked him if he still hasn’t, and Eddie responded: “No, and I fooled my teacher for six years. He never knew I couldn’t read. I’d watch his fingers, and I’d play it.” Eddie won first place in a piano competition at Long Beach City College three years in a row, despite not reading music. Contrary to what his family expected, Eddie then shifted towards rock music and learned to play the electric guitar. Thanks to his growing interest in rock music back then, he became the iconic guitarist of Van Halen.

@@bach5150 agree he knew piano as well but still didn't know how to read sheet music.

@@bach5150 Some others who don't know how to read music that may surprise you. Eric Clapton, Prince, and Elvis Presley all learned by ear.

YES!!! That’s a concert I’d give up my Harley to see…or my house…or maybe even my first born…😂 But seriously, I’ve seen all of them separately but all of them on the same stage?!?!?! I’m all in…

Yep.....and they're all waiting for Ozzy to arrive.....then the party will really start

Yep, I read that somewhere too. He did it in like 2 or 3 takes and he said he didn’t feel right taking money for something that only took him like 10 minutes.

He also rewrite the whole song for MJ, And MJ loved it.

Yeah I think Steve Lukather said Ed was supposed to do the whole record but something happened and Steve did all the rest of the guitar work on that record.

He did solo for "Beat it" as a favor to Quincy Jones, didnt get paid for it, or take any writing credits. Took 2 takes and 30 min to record it. One of the reasons he didn't want writing credit is because the agreement in his band was no outside projects. As you can imagine as soon as everyone heard the solo, they knew exactly who was playing it.

@@StevenRiseNYC yes sir! He was the BEST!!

America's cutest couple

Everyone knew who Eddie was married to.

He was on the local scene long before 78

@@RyanConnell5150 Yes, he was - back when Van Halen was "Mammoth", playing the Valley Teen Center across from Birmingham High in Van Nuys. Must've been '73.

Correct, and originally he did it as a warm up (I read he said this somewhere, but I can't remember). I remember seeing them at Gazzarri's in 75 or there abouts. Man I miss those days. RIP King Edward.

"I could have played it better". That's such an Eddie thing to say. He probably listened to this very performance and said the same thing. He was always his own worst critic.

When you see someone experiencing Eddie for the first time, you realize how lucky we as rock fans were to see and hear him throughout the years. “What. The. Fuck?” Is the only appropriate reaction for most of the stuff that man could do with a guitar.

If I recall correctly, Ted looked over at Donn Landee to tell him to roll tape, but Donn had already started recording.

I was glad I was able to at least see them one time

He added bits of songs as they were released.

Ya it was a Christmas gift from their dad. But they switched after getting them and playing for awhile. They still had Dutch accents and music was their way of fitting in.

Yes he did build the Frankenstein, but this is not it. This guitar is one of many made for him by Kramer for this tour. It's the 5150 model

@@jeffdavis6715 yep you know guitars

He actually only wrote the bridge/solo riff and guitar solo i think.

He put that guitar and Dimebag Darrell casket he was Dimebag Darrell's Idol

@@terryhodges9393 the black and yellow guitar from Van Halen 2 is buried with dime bag

Yes Jan was with Focus right?