VAN HALEN - Running with the Devil + Eruption | WIFE REACTS for FIRST TIME

VAN HALEN - Running with the Devil + Eruption | WIFE REACTS for FIRST TIME | COUPLE REACTION

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2 ай бұрын

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@greggibson33 2 ай бұрын

This album changed the earth's axis.... nothing was ever the same again.

@jdbroders64 Ай бұрын

I was a 14 years old Rock guy (Zeppelin, The Who, Clapton, Beck etc.) when this album came out. My head exploded. Van Halen inspired me to pick up a guitar and I've been playing ever since. Rest in peace Eddie. You will never be forgotten.

@j.c.a2872 2 ай бұрын

I was 16 yrs old when this came out and it was like nothing we'd ever heard before, literally the beginning of everything that would follow

@BromleyBoy2611 Ай бұрын

Yeah man I was 10 years old picked up this album at the local record store blew my mind next thing you know I got my Van Halen baseball shirts you know the ones LOL

@BromleyBoy2611 Ай бұрын

There is only one Diamond Dave Sammy can keep driving 55 once Dave left Van Halen cease to exist for me my opinion for what it's worth probably nothing LOL you gotta hit mean street or hot for teacher

@rong2912 11 күн бұрын

Eddie was the second coming of Hendrix.

@tonyallen9035 2 ай бұрын

This was the first rock cassette I ever owned. I was 14. I'm 55 now. I became an instant fan. RIP Edward Van Halen, the greatest guitarist to ever walk this planet!

@douglasg.9271 2 ай бұрын

I remember the first time hearing eruption. I was 14 my brother was 17 and would crank up his stereo when my parents weren’t home. I went to his door, and pounded on it. He angrily opened and said “what !?” (Thinking I was going to complain) I asked, “can I come in and listen?” He smiled, and said “sure…” I got a lot of my musical taste from his album collection. ❤

@NicknLex 2 ай бұрын

I love this! Thank you for sharing with us. This is exactly what we love to read in the comments. :)

@michelfroggy56 2 ай бұрын

If you read the story of Terry Fox who had Cancer and lost a leg to it and decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research , Running with the Devil was one of the theme songs played by radio stations when Terry was forced to stop his endeavour about halfway through. The Cancer had reappeared and Terry eventually passed away at the tender age of 22. Each time I hear this song I think of him.

@joebarrera9741 2 ай бұрын

ILOVE VAN HALEN PLEASE ENJOY

@mjm5081 2 ай бұрын

🙏 ✌ ❤ Terry

@WineSippingCowboy 2 ай бұрын

Sir Rod Stewart and Bernie Taipin wrote Don't Give Up on a Dream based in the Terry Fox story. I remember it when I was visiting Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 as a young boy 👦. About year 2000, I heard a Vietnamese 🇻🇳 priest talk about him in a homily. The only congregants who knew the story were me and 2 Canadians 🇨🇦.

@crucify40 5 күн бұрын

I remember watching the HBO Special movie they made about his life. I think it was well done.

@richarddobson815 2 ай бұрын

Van Halen 1 was a worldwide phenomenon. It had to be. In 1978 I was living in a sleepy corner of South Africa, but I was still able to access the album and get my mind blown. I remember recording the LP onto a cassette, shoving it into my cheap car stereo and driving the deserted country roads of the Eastern Cape with 'Eruption' blasting out!

@ronjm945 2 ай бұрын

Steve Hackett performed tapping on electric guitar in the early seventies. But with along with Eddie they didn’t create the maneuver just made it more contemporary.. Eddie was a great guitarist and musician and wish he was still among us!!!

@mikefetterman6782 2 ай бұрын

This song was most of the country's introduction to Van Halen. It sounded SOOOOOOO different than everything else, it gained popularity quickly. Originality is the key for success.

@tudeflaming4355 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for some amazing memories! I'm 60 years old, and I remember hearing this when it was brand new and it was on top of the world for us kids. Music for most of us was a little different back then, you couldn't always just play the song that you want to hear so when something this awesome hit the radio, it got the volume blasted. The good times. Thanks again

@scottanderson8420 2 ай бұрын

I remember when this album came out vividly. Our garage band was practicing on a week night and the lead guitar player brought this album in and said you guys got to hear this. We put on the record and we’re all blown up and impressed by Van Halen’s guitar tone and skill. Our lead guitar player went absolutely bonkers and his new mission in life was to be Eddie #2. This was our guitar players kind of music the guitar God in the spotlight, arena rock, etc. etc. The hard part as a high school cover band was nobody could mimic Eddie Van Halen for a while or very well and nobody in high school could match David Lee Roth’s energy, screams and machismo. I could play the Michael Anthony’s bass parts no problem and our drummer was great so we just couldn’t pull off the Roth vocal extravaganza. The downside for me was in high school at that time I was a jazz fusion fan mostly listening to Jeff Beck Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, and Steely Dan. That music was all centered around more complex, compositions, chords, structures, rhythms, and bass lines that were fun and challenging to play. Very different kind of music from Van Halen. So Van Halen has never been my favorite type of music but I remember and totally respect the change it brought about that reshaped rock music. RIP Eddie. Nick I absolutely agree with you that Van Halen’s rhythm guitar and groove sync is extremely underrated. Great reaction. 👍👍❤️❤️

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

There were bands that once in a while play during lunch in front of out auditorium (Nogales High in LaPuente Calif.). Many were good, but there was a band that played a couple of VH songs, and the guitarist played them to a T. I wish I knew who the band was, and what happened to that guitarist.

@scottanderson8420 2 ай бұрын

@@mvunit3 I knew many guitar players that flamed out trying to be Eddie V. and a few bass players that crashed hard trying to be Jaco Pastorius.🤣

@joeallegra556 2 ай бұрын

Eruption segues directly into "You Really Got Me"

@paulburton5150 2 ай бұрын

They were recorded back to back in a single take. Amazing

@bostonwhofan 2 ай бұрын

When I was a teenager there used to be a thing called "Columbia House". You would literally tape a penny to this form which you got out of the Sunday newspaper, and pick 10 albums out of a catalog which they sent to you for that one penny. The catch was, over the next year, you had to buy 10 albums at the regular price from Columbia House. When I sent in the form with the penny attached, one of the albums was the Van Halen debut. I didn't know much about VH yet, but "Running With The Devil" and "You Really Got Me" were being played on FM radio stations often. I was blown away the first time I hear "Eruption". And the rest is history. Hopefully you'll react to the VH song "Mean Street" next!!!

@moonwoman 2 ай бұрын

I didn't want you to stop! lol, that next song is so damn good!! 😆

@bean11441 2 ай бұрын

Van Halen is (was) a party waiting for someplace to happen!

@johnknee1403 2 ай бұрын

By the way, the sound at the beginning of running with the devil that’s the band members car horns recorded then played backwards.

@davidmolina3520 2 ай бұрын

The first time I heard "Eruption" was live in '78 when they came to town. I was totally freaked out ! ... Incredible tone 🎸

@padresteve619 2 ай бұрын

I was in high school, 15 years old. Usually took the bus home but one of the older kids gave us a ride crammed in the back of his light blue VW square back. Santa Ana winds, windows down, next to the ocean. Jensen 6x9’s cranking. This album was instantly etched into my memory.

@markferrett700 2 ай бұрын

I took a year out of university and worked on a kibbutz in Israel when I first heard this and a Dutch guy I was working with said " you gotta hear this". I was blown away....Rock music was changed forever...a whole generation of guitar players were born when this came out.

@mk21965 2 ай бұрын

I graduated HS in 1978, went to college that fall and a friend introduced me to VH. Things were never the same, I saw them live 5 times, all before Sammy joined the band. Eddie was incredible and they all kicked ass. They changed what rock was and stood out in the disco era carrying the flame for hard rock and roll. So fortunate to have been there

@alexhamilton4084 2 ай бұрын

I was into heavy rock and metal back in the 70s and got this album and couldn’t believe anyone could play this fast and like this. Totally blown away. 😃

@simoneemiliani5782 2 ай бұрын

By my opinion, Eruption is the most iconic guitar solo in Rock Music......miss you Eddie🎸💪😔❤

@justme7185 2 ай бұрын

Yes, this album's impact cannot be overstated. Many attribute VH with bringing rock to the forefront in radio airplay, music videos, and album sales, and that the entire 80's rock scene was everyone trying to catch up to VH. They were bombastic!

@redfishradical Ай бұрын

I was already deep into keyboards… BUT! As a sophomore in high school we went to see Black Sabbath only to have a band we’d never heard of BLOW SABBATH OUT OF THE ARENA!! Van Halen was a THERMONUCLEAR SONIC EXPLOSION and changed the entire landscape! 👊🎉🍻

@johnstarace8369 Ай бұрын

I was 16 when this album came out, I had just starting to play guitar 6 months before and I was literally blown away by Eddie’s guitar playing. Even though he wasn’t the first to finger tap (which Eddie always said, he did not invent finger tapping) he took the skill and turned it on its head, and then spun it around, flipped it over. Eddie’s contribution to the electric guitar was his unwavering attention to the electric guitar and the things that could be done with it. He took the electric guitar and literally squeezed every sound it could make out of it, then he’d take that sound, or that skill he learned, or whatever he discovered he could do with it and would bring it to its maximum potential. It’s like Eddie looked at the guitar and said to himself, what can I do with this thing to make it do something no one else has done. For someone who never took a lesson on guitar he mastered the instrument to its highest potential. RIP Eddie, If there’s a stage in heaven I’m sure on it 24/7 playing guitar. Stay Cool 😎 and… \m/ Stay Metal \m/

@dsfddsgh 2 ай бұрын

You play Eruption you have to also play You really got Me those two songs just go together like We will rock You and We are the Champions despite being separate songs.

@williamreiser3118 Ай бұрын

Tell you what guys at 16 years old.In 1978, these guys were touring O.P.Ening up for big name groups And that was the last time they opened for anybody.You know why?Because they were so tight on stage.So high energy so kick ass Yes they blew away the headliners

@kevindarrell3500 2 ай бұрын

OMG you are making me feel so old. Thank goodness you guys are listening 🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥

@DanielCastillo-cn3pp 2 ай бұрын

Because of King Edward. Millions of guitars were sold.

@ricardojanet686 Ай бұрын

In 1978 I bought this LP at 15 years old, now I'm 61 and still remember that first listen with my brother ... it was electric!! Playing it at full volume earn us both our first and only dad scold because he heard it really loud from the garage. Now you can imagine the volume we had in our room with the door closed ...🤯🤯🤯!!!

@scuppernog1 2 ай бұрын

I was fortunate enough to see them in West Texas on their first headlining tour. Their second album was about to be released so they played most of both albums. When they took the stage David comes running across the stage wearing sheep skin chaps, a fringed red leather vest with no shirt and a giant white cowboy hat. He was running around the stage with a huge Texas flag on a pole. We knew then that we going to get a hell of a show and we were right. One of the best rock shows I ever saw.

@stevenm.6886 2 ай бұрын

I was 17, my buddy picks me up for school. I jump in his Gran Torino, he says just listen. It’s 7:30. BAM! We had never EVER heard such a thing. What is this? Now it’s cliche, we’ve all seen the tapping.But that morning was forever engrained in my soul. Thank you EVH

@NicknLex 2 ай бұрын

You had me at Gran Torino 😍😍😍

@davidhess8049 2 ай бұрын

I was 12 going on 13 and I was blown away, I fell in love with Van Halen that day and I have never looked back, he was my idol, my hero, Eddie is The Master, The King R.I.P. EVH

@MonsterSound 2 ай бұрын

In 1978 this LP album (CD's don't come out until '82) exploded and I, like many others, started to learn tapping. Eddie made it popular like you said. In 1980 I took my Strat to the guitar techs at Steve's Music in Toronto and asked if they could put a Floyd Rose system on my guitar. They said yes, but only if I signed a waver that if the neck broke while they did the nut replacement/cut, they would not be responsible. And it's still as solid as ever. 🤘😎👍🍁

@penelopehornswaggle102 2 ай бұрын

I first heard this when I was 12 or 13. It was so fun to hear this and all the 70s music at such a young age because it stays with you and we can remember it so much better.

@garylagstrom3864 2 ай бұрын

FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!! VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE My favorite Van Halen tour shirt is from this tour-Fair Warning. The band on the front with Worldwide Tour on top and 81 with a circle ⭕️ around it on the bottom and world tour 81 on the back with the VH LOGO and Van Halen written in the logo! My second favorite Van Halen tour shirt after Fair Warning in 81. Band on the front World Vacation Tour 79 on the back.

@jflago 2 ай бұрын

Imagine when the other guitarists in rock at the time heard this for the first time!

@timwhitnell7145 2 ай бұрын

Nick and Lex, I am 61 now but I was 15!! when VH's debut album was released. I bought it not long after and still have the original LP. It blew my frickin' mind. I had never heard anything like Eddie's playing. I still think Jimmy Page overall is the best rock guitarist ever and the king of the riff but Eddie, Alex Lifeson and Angus Young are right there with him. The first three are also very underrated rhythm guitarists; Malcolm Young, Angus's brother, might be the best rock rhythm player ever. You can't fake physiological responses so I will tell you without a lie that when Eruption started on your reaction, despite the fact I have heard it many, many times, I got chills and even started to tear up a little later. They are separate reactions, one for the genius musicianship and the other thinking of Eddie no longer being with us. Nick, you are correct when you say that almost all VH songs, at least with David Lee Roth, my much preferred lead singer of the band, are memorable. There are so many Roth VH tunes you need to react to but start with the bluesy Ice Cream Man from the debut. Other great Roth/VH songs are Beautiful Girls (Dave is so cheeky), D.O.A., Dance the Night Away, Bottoms Up, And the Cradle Will Rock, Unchained, Mean Street, Cathedral/Secrets, Intruder/(Oh) Pretty Woman, Little Guitars (intro and main song of the same name) and the seldom heard but outright supreme rocker The Full Bug. Can't wait to hear/see you react to some of these. Enjoy.

@davidhess8049 Ай бұрын

Eruption turned a lot of heads, guitar players and us fans were blown away, guitar players were saying, how do we compete with that, how do you even do what he's doing.

@mattpobursky850 2 ай бұрын

It was 1978... I was working with my buddy Kurt in his auto shop and we were rocking out to the radio while we were working. All of a sudden Eruption/You Really Got Me came on. My jaw dropped and I said to Kurt - "Who the hell is THAT?". I can see that day as if it were today. There's only a handful of songs that have had that effect on me, that are literally etched in my mind.

@KarenGoike Ай бұрын

I was in Nursing School when this came out. Friday after clinical, go back to the dorm, hair down, put some nail polish on, crank up some Van Halen on the stereo on vinyl! Oh ya

@MacPro8CoreMan 2 ай бұрын

There no Floyd Rose when this was recorded in 1977. This album saved Rock music from Disco and Punk. Perhaps the most important debut album in Rock history. It was important to Van Halen to make music you could dance to in order to draw the girls in.

@robertmarcotte276 Ай бұрын

It's about time you get into more van halen. There is one word to describe this song powerful! Thank you. I'm going to crank that sucker up in my car right now.

@michaelgray5100 2 ай бұрын

Van Halen’s first album so darn good. Love all the songs. These two stand out. My favorite song is “Ain’t talkin ‘bout Love” on their first album.

@kenmohan2637 Ай бұрын

I remember my first restaurant work experience at 14 and this record had just hit and was in constant rotation in the kitchen shortly after it’s release. We all thought this was the best lead guitar playing we had ever heard.

@bmac1205 Ай бұрын

I remember I first hear this on WXPN, a college station, before it was big, and I was just amazed.

@johnmavroudis2054 2 ай бұрын

Steve Hackett should have got a lot more credit for introducing tapping into rock... but can't deny Eddie's talent. If you want to hear Hackett's tapping at its best, check out Hackett's first solo album, "VOYAGE OF THE ACOLYTE"... The song "Shadow of the Hierophant" is a brilliant song with Hackett's sublime guitar work and tapping. He did it earlier than that (listen to the song "The Musical Box"). I remember buying this debut Van Halen album when it first came out... and blasting it on my car speakers on the way to high school. Superb.

@joebarrera9741 2 ай бұрын

When this album came out i was 10yrs old i got scared i had never anything like in my life

@iKvetch558 2 ай бұрын

YT deleting posts...anybody else having issues? Let's try adding to a post they leave up? See if it gets deleted then too... OK...you two absolutely MUST check out some of David Lee Roth's "solo" stuff from after he and Van Halen split ways...it is ridiculously amazing. I put "solo" in quotes because David went out and got himself some incredible musicians to help him continue his own kind of madness in music for the two albums he made in the 1980s...Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper. He picked up Billy Sheehan to play bass and Greg Bissonette for his drummer...and he grabbed Steve frikken Vai to be his guitar player...how unbelievable is that lineup?! I recommend you look at the first song from the first album...Yankee Rose...it is an awesome show from them all. I suggest the full official music video version that has some funny stuff going on before the music starts, which is over 5 minutes long.

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

It happens to me VERY randomly. But more often if I try to link something (random), and for some reason, if they react to Rush, any comment I leave with a link goes POOF! :/

@williamreiser3118 Ай бұрын

I was 17 years old with this album.Was released smoke in columbia gold Put the headphones on, put the record out of the turntable and drifted away.The sound of that first Van Halen album just blew me away.Finally a band That wasn't right and all about love and wish

@dorkmier 2 ай бұрын

Hey Nick N Lex, this has been a lot of fun watching you two react to these. I was lucky enough to see them 8 times, 80', 84', 86', 92', 95', 07', 12' and 15'. You two should definitely watch Eruption Live Without A Net. You'll enjoy seeing how he does what he does. Still here jamming with you both. Keep up the good work.

@annewoodard6803 Ай бұрын

I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in St Louis in 1978. Everyone had this album! I worked for Dave 20 years ago, he’s a riot.😁

@rodjohnson2632 2 ай бұрын

I saw Van Halen on their 1st tour in July 1978, at the Oakland Coliseum "Day on the Green". It was about 5 months after their debut album was released. I think this was their 1st Bay Area appearance. The headliner bands, Aerosmith, Foreigner, and Pat Travers were fine, but the bands with the lowest billing, AC/DC opening the day, then Van Halen, stole the show. I can't remember for sure but I think Van Halen played every song from their 1st album. It got so much radio play in the prior months, the crowd was familiar with every song, and eagerly awaited each one. They played them all as good or better than the studio recordings.

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

Man . . . I WISH I saw Pat Travers back then with Pat Thrall, and VH too! Never saw either live :(.

@mightyV444 Ай бұрын

I think it was in '79 when my Big Bro brought 'Van Halen I' home with him one day (I was 9, he 23), raving with excitement about this incredible guitarist who "plays without picking the strings" and stuff like that, before putting on the album: And sure enough, I was blown away, too! 😄 But my very first VH impression was actually the song 'Jamie's Crying'! Because my Brother had accidentally put on the album's B-Side! 😁 (That song then became an earworm for _all_ us 4 siblings 😊) I was just getting into learning to play instruments at that time, too! So Alex Van Halen straight away became an influence on my drumming 😀 By the way, Eddie was still using a standard Fender vibrato bridge on VH's first two albums (and possibly also on the third)! I remember ads by the German guitar company Rockinger from Hannover in 1982's muso magazines, with Eddie as the big name to make the World aware of their 'Tru Tune Tremolo': They were super-disappointed when Floyd Rose came along and snatched Eddie from them, understandably.

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

Jason Becker played on the David Lee Roth album "A Little Ain't Enough" (1991), but it was when they were preparing for the album, Jason started to feel numbness in his leg, he was then diagnosed with ALS :(. He wasn't able tour but was able to finish a fantastic album that I didn't discover till a decade later (imagine having to take "Steve Vai's" place, but Jason had his own style and tone). Eddie Van Halen had also visited Jason years later at his home :). I think the reason people like Roth soo much is that R&B/Soul he has in his vocal style. It worked for that "Party" attitude the band had. I enjoy Sammy too though, but you can hear Eddie was starting to focus more on the "song" and slightly subduing his pyrotechnics. But if you ever get the chance to share with Lexi; the "Live Without a Net" version of Eruption, where Ed also includes an extended version of "Cathedral" with his echo/volume knob swells that sound amazing. It's weird, I don't remember what I was thinking or where I was when 1st hearing the debut track "Running With the Devil". I got the album as a gift (birthday or Christmas) with other albums (that I can't recall), but I do remember trying to figure out what he was doing, on a guitar that had no business _sounding_ like that :P. It took a few more years to get a guitar that was a bit better but I destroyed that guitar re-routing better pick-ups, a better tremolo bridge, and trying out stomp boxes. Yngwie!? "Icarus Dream Suite", "Now Your Ships Have Burned", "As Above, So Below", "Blackstar", "I Am a Viking". At least his debut album made a HUGE impression on me (and previously with Alcatrazz), along with Randy Rhodes w/ Ozzy. Even when Eddie debuted, his version of "Metal" (yes! I'll stand behind that, if it was "Heavy Rock" at the time, or if anyone used the term "Heavy Metal" then) in 1978 was FEROCIOUS. It was heavy but you could hear clearly everything he was doing, and thanks to Ted Templeman producing. Steve Vai would be the next in line during the period of shredders to come, as he debuted as a solo artist for "Flex-Able" (1984) and "The Attitude Song" freakin' blew me away . . . I played if for some older guys at a Music shop, and they actually thought it was all "manipulated in the mix" and that no one could play like that live :p. But Eddie revolutionized a new way to play, and inspired almost every kid to pick-up a guitar, including his peers that started to try their hand at being more flashy. But Eddie was a great song writer as well. - This was awesome guys, and for Lexi to understand why Eddie was so important :).

@iaminvictus 2 ай бұрын

Love your channel! Keep up the awesome reactions! I saw Van Halen in 1978 ( I was 16). They opened for Sabbath who were celebrating their 10th anniversary. Mostly went to see Iommi who was my guitar idol. Needless to say, Van Halen was amazing! When Sabbath came out, Ozzy was totally trashed and sounded like he was asleep lol. Audience started booing and chanting for Van Halen. It was a riot... Almost literally! :)

@NicknLex 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing and for your support! :)

@scottmacdonald1826 2 ай бұрын

I'd just turned 16 when this came out. A buddy of mine got it (he always got the newest and best stuff). I still have my vinyl. It was was, and still is, pretty amazing stuff.

@johnnieangel99 2 ай бұрын

Love The Diamond Dave era. Much more of what rock music was shaped on. hard rocking guitars thundering bass and kick ass drumming.

@johnprice6066 Ай бұрын

I got this album from a friend of mine for Christmas 1978... It was a game changer.

@gregmoran1801 Ай бұрын

It’s so reminiscent looking at these comments. My story was that one of my pals had offered me a ticket to watch Black Sabbath at the local venue in my hometown for£1:50. I really never got Sabbath, but went anyway. My first, ‘Oh my God’ moment at far as a support band went. I went mental. Stayed for the first chord of Sabbath opening song and ran home, wrote Van Halen on my school bag in massive letters, just underneath Rush, and couldn’t wait to tell my pals at school.

@jonfazzone5125 2 ай бұрын

Game Changer of an Album A Frontman’s Frontman in David Lee Roth. Guitar Virtuoso Eddie Van Halen. Wonderful Bassist & Backup Vocals in Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen Crushing the Drum Fills

@hasltisl 2 ай бұрын

I was 22 when the first Van Halen album came out. I gave up on the guitar. 😂

@NicknLex 2 ай бұрын

noooo!!

@bmac1205 Ай бұрын

If half the viewers who watched this subscribed, this lovely couple would be getting their YT Plaque!

@sixslinger9951 Ай бұрын

I first heard Van Halen as a kid in 1978 when a neighbor kid played eruption out his window. I didn't think it was a guitar when I first heard it. NOTHING was like it at the time and really still nothing matches it. I saw VH the following summer in 79. incredible time to be alive.

@ChrisLegner-qp1yh 2 ай бұрын

First time I heard this was as a teen getting up at 4AM for my summer golf course job. Even on first listen, it felt like new musical territory. Nothing sounded like this at the time.

@mikefetterman6782 2 ай бұрын

Dave, then Sammy, and finally Gary Cherone was the THIRD singer for Van Halen (he was from the band Extreme). He made on album with them in the 90s.

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

Funny too that Bettencourt is a HUGE Eddie Van Halen fan.

@kdm71291 Ай бұрын

The thing about Eddie was that he could do it all; he could be as technical as anybody but was more inventive than just about anyone…..he spent thousands of hours getting the guitar to do what he heard in his head….including customizing/building guitars and tweaking amps etc. Eddie made sure his guitar work fit into the song but make no mistake, he did grandios solos, too……like the the 13 minute version of “Eruption” from their live concert video when Sammy Hagar was lead singer, “Live, Without A Net”…..at the time of this video it seems as though you haven’t seen it, so I highly recommend you do!

@theplanetruth 2 ай бұрын

Hooooooolleeeyyyyyyyy moley!!!

@flyingardilla143 2 ай бұрын

Van Halen, Gilmour, Page all are great guitarists because they do what serves the song best.

@masapell Ай бұрын

God I wish I could have heard and appreciated this album when it came out!! It must have been mind blowing!

@davidhess8049 Ай бұрын

the first time I heard this it was on a cassette tape, 1978, right after it was released

@Emlizardo 2 ай бұрын

"Eruption" was a solo Eddie would perform live, but he didn't have any intention of including it on the album. Producer Ted Templeman heard him messing around with it in the studio and essentially told him, THAT IS GOING ON THE RECORD. And the rest was history.

@penelopehornswaggle102 2 ай бұрын

I can remember all the words after 45+ yrs. ❤

@bostonwhofan 2 ай бұрын

After David Lee Roth (DLR) left Van Halen for the first time, he went to school to train to become an EMT. DLR eventually became an EMT in New York City. I always wondered what it would have been like to be a pedestrian in NYC who tripped over a curb and broke their leg, and then when the ambulance showed up.....out jumps David Lee Roth! I think I would probably have just had a heart attack and died. BTW, DLR is a 3rd degree black belt in either judo or karate.

@mjdaniel8710 Ай бұрын

I graduated in '81 and the first 2 albums were at all the good parties back when I was in high school

@billc.5861 2 ай бұрын

I was a Junior in high school when this album hit First time ever hearing VH and this song was at my buddies house. He put it on and ran into the room and said everyone be quiet and just listen. Very cool. Saw them a few months after that at the Oakland Colosseum were they were one of the opening acts along with AC/DC for a Aerosmith show.

@larrycarew9122 Ай бұрын

u guys NEED to see ERUPTION LIVE WITH SAMMY HAGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

@EddyMetal60 Ай бұрын

I was 15 when this came out, and it rocked my world. It changed rock music forever.

@ALDJUAN Ай бұрын

Eddie accompanied as well as he played solo, a rare quality among high-level quitarists.

@NCNelz 2 ай бұрын

You guys need to React to “Litlle Guitars” with intro …which is Ed’s take on flamenco guitar ….this song shows how brilliant of a rhythm player he was

@mvunit3 2 ай бұрын

Yup! Nick & Lex will have their socks blown off that Eddie was soo d@mn talented and skilled. "Spanish Fly" too!

@steved1135 2 ай бұрын

Nice. No lie, this album changed my life. God I miss Eddie. Naturally, everyone talks about his soloing, but his rhythm playing is genius.

@GStrongRAW 2 ай бұрын

Game changing LP! Mark Anthony, such an underrated bassist!

@floydcarver4338 Ай бұрын

VH opened for the Rolling stones in the louisiana superdome. I was in 9th grade playing guitar. When they played they blew everyone away. We said what was that. My God .I sold my Gibson les paul. Got a strat. From boogie bodies. Then theirvalbum came out. Everything changed

@sirandrew2 Ай бұрын

I saw them supporting Black Sabbath at The Hammersmith Odeon, they blew them off the stage!

@Embur12 2 ай бұрын

There is a live version of Eddie playing eruption livev and a bunch of his other classical riffs in about a 10 minute jam session mid concert. It's worth reacting to.

@buddinganarchist 2 ай бұрын

The groove and the riffs. The solos are cake but the other two are the bread and butter. Steve Vai did work with Roth.

@Nightrelic Ай бұрын

This is one of those albums, if you were around when it came out, you know where you were and what you were doing when you first heard it. It was so different from anything else out there. Eddie Van Halen’s guitar work just grabbed you. Roth’s screams too. I was at a German Club party. I don’t remember how I ended up there. I was not in the club. The teacher was pretty. I ended up in the other room with an upper class-man where the turntable was. He was putting a record on and explained he’d just gotten it and it was going to blow my mind. I was thinking, yeah right. But then, he was right. Mind totally blown.

@andrewgarin2486 2 ай бұрын

I was 8 years old in '78 and bought the album for my older 14 year old brother. He was so happy to get the album because all of his friends were saying it was sooo cool. We would listen to it very loud downstairs playing pool before supper! Even my mom loved it❤❤❤

@TheColdrush22 2 ай бұрын

Oh man, "Unchained" live 1981 at the Oakland Coliseum, is huge and shows off the absolute energy. (BTW: "I am a Viking", "Evil Eye" "Black Star", I'll See the Light Tonight", are all great and memorable Yngwie songs). VH has been one of my favorite bands since 1980 (yep, and old here), and is the reason that I started playing guitar, and that is why while I love that people love his live "Eruption", it always is a little disappointing because it isn't Eddie at his best or cleanest playing. Don't get me wrong it is great and for non-guitarists I love seeing heads explode, but to guitarists it's a little different. I think you would both really appreciate "Little Guitars" by VH. Also if you like Al DiMeola I would love to hear you check out Al, Paco DeLucia, and John McLaughlin Live in San Francisco. My guitar teacher in Jr High and High School was Captain Beefheart guitarist Bill Harkleroad, aka, Zoot Horn Rollo (you should check out the history of Beefheart's Trout Mack Replica and then check out that album, btw), and he made a cassette tape for me of the Live in San Francisco album when I was a kid and it is still one of my favorites.

@joshcomedy1521 2 ай бұрын

He does some Holdsworth stuff on the solo for You're No Good.

@moonwoman 2 ай бұрын

I was 17 years old when this came out, and this album was so amazing to me back then. I got into hard rock because of this band. I love David Lee Roth's singing in this album.

@melissadambro8873 Ай бұрын

You should have shown Alexa him playing Eruption live - I saw it in 1995 in Memphis. Amazing performance!

@diverdown631 2 ай бұрын

V.H. 1 dropped like a bomb. My best friend vacationed in California and brought back their album before they broke on the eastcoast and played it for me the second he saw me, and he was so hyped I thought he was exaggerating, boy was I wrong.

@AW11-e4h 2 ай бұрын

This is when everything changed 🤘🤘

@penelopehornswaggle102 2 ай бұрын

Now I have to go find "You really got me" and play it.😂

@davebochenek6898 Ай бұрын

I was 18 when this broke the waves. I was into my Zep and Rush and Floyd and Genesis. I was an art rock junkie but the change was already evident in the direction rock was heading with New Wave and Punk already breaking. Zeps writing was changed as well as Rush heading out of their epics. But that was exactly when the Van Halen bomb dropped and put a little halt to the sudden shift. This album was so refreshing after disco finally being buried and hard rock bands shifting for survival. Interesting note...Eddie actually was a drummer and Alex played guitar. Thank God they lost interest in their original instruments and flipped! This album will always be my fav! Thx for doing it guys!❤

@steverakes6182 2 ай бұрын

Me and my buddies bought this album on 8-track in our high school book store back in the day and it changed our lives. Later that year (1979) they came to our small town, they played the entire first album and the second which wasn't even out yet, that ticket is framed and hanging in my bedroom. It was Van Halen from then on baby.

@davidhess8049 2 ай бұрын

Michael Anthony the bass player is the backing vocals, the greatest backing vocals ever and Eddie of course

@davidhess8049 Ай бұрын

they didn't record this album in individual booths, they recorded this album in one large room, all together playing it live, that's the way they wanted to record it

@simulcop Ай бұрын

3 singers.. Gary Cherone (from Extreme) was on VHIII

@johnanderson290 2 ай бұрын

Great reaction Nick ‘n Lex! 🔥🎶 Van Halen’s hooks were the best. So catchy, so memorable, so fun and infectious! There’s so many good songs, but I’ll recommend Drop Dead Legs from 1984, the last album with David Lee Roth. It’s got a killer groove, killer lyrics, and an absolute killer outro section with a face melting guitar solo.