In 1978 every guitar player on the planet had to go practice.

@steverherb

3 жыл бұрын

...or they took up another instrument 😄

@seagullpoet

3 жыл бұрын

The bar - had been set !

@noahseifried6495

3 жыл бұрын

@@steverherb Yes i know, i began to play bass!

@gneric85

3 жыл бұрын

At 10 years old, hearing EVH for the first time (Eruption) in '78 made me want to learn how to play guitar. :-)

@chasegraceland5118

7 ай бұрын

Mmm....not really

Gosh I remember Gary Hoey when I was a younger fella! I remember your first radio single Hocus Pocus.

He would proud of your tribute to him!! You rock Gary! You’re so incredibly thoughtful and talented!

Gary, You signed my EVH vans out at the Guitars under the stars. Thankyou for being so cool & down to earth. A truly humble guitar god. RIP Edward…Love ya Gary Freakin Hoey…

What I love about this is it is the perfect mix of inspired unique guitar playing with solid replication of the originals…obviously no one can do it exactly like Eddie but this was an awesome tribute!!!

I don't care who you are, he touched us all.

It's been almost two years since Eddie past, but the way Gary pointed to the heavens and the guitar faded out brought a tear to my eye.

That was awesome. Mr. Hoey you have not disappointed anyone with your salute to Mr. Van Halen. Thank you.

I LOVE the album covers you have hanging above the EVH amps! I was 12 when Animal Instinct came out, and it rocked my world!!! Still get chills from "Hocus Pocus" to this day!

A tribute in a level that Eddie deserves!

My Gosh! You are simply amazing! I've been binge watching your videos and listening to your music! True talent! Thank you!!!!❤

Oh I asked my step dad if he remembers your song Hocus Pocus and he said smiling right away yes!!!! Then he told me you're from Lowell Massachusetts!!!! Love the song I just heard about you today and love the fact you are a Massachusetts native! I was born in Boston and currently reside in Worcester brother!

@dennisperin2989

3 жыл бұрын

Love that story, i too was all in after hearing Gary’s rendition of Hocus Pocus the first time, seen him 4 times. Really humble & helpful musician, i’m from the other end of the country, Oregon, & equally as big of fan of this man

Oh Gary! Bestest tribute to Eddie ever! Love it! You rock bro!

Awesome Gary that would have made Eddie smile for sure, also very glad to your gigging again.

Wow....vintage Hamer! Outstanding!

As a guitarist and musician myself I will never forget the day. I was there when it first hit the radio waves. Eddie's eruption sent every guitarist worldwide back to the drawing board how in the hell is he playing like that and how does he get that tone. That one guitar solo catapulted Eddie straight to King status. To this day there's not a guitarist you don't see that hasn't been influenced by Eddie even Jeff Beck attempts Eddie's double taps. It was the shot heard round the world. And that's not even mentioning what other talents he graced us with. And Gary, that was a very moving tribute. I remember learning about you in the 70s. Focus is some of the best musicians in the world including you. I've always been in awe of your playing you are amazing talent. Thank you for this God bless you 👍

@dennisperin2989

3 жыл бұрын

Feel exactly the same, i remember where i was when Runnin With The Devil played over the radio, it was like, Whoa,Whoa, Who the hell is that? Another British badass of some sort? No, there called VanHalen out of S California. Finally we had somethin for those Brits! Lol. I play as well. Just a few years, picked it up late. 57, seen everybody who was anybody. Best live performance, easy, ACDC 81’ FTATR tour, Loudest band i ever saw easily. Saw Ed & the boys in 84’ Jump tour, phenomenal as well. That freakin tone live is a beast!

@iggyfritz7150

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennisperin2989 I have too many favorite shows to label anyone as number one. Although I did get to see the Beatles when I was six years old and I remember it like yesterday no pun intended 😀 yes I've seen everyone from Aerosmith the ZZ Top everything in between I miss them all the best times of my life. Although I only got to see Van Halen once the date I took got sick and threw up right in the middle of Eddie's guitar solo and I took her outside for some fresh air and they wouldn't let us back in 😠. And worse yet I didn't get any after the show. The loudest show I recall was Yngwie Malmsteen at a small club on the Eastside of Detroit. For 3 days I could still hear Yngwie 😂 owned a mountain of equipment over the years share some of your equipment stories with me if you get a chance. Thanks for your experiences to. Rock on brother!

Excellent stuff as always Gary 🙌🤘🏽

Just subbed! Thanks for this!! Sick guitar and gear. I love your playful and loose style. R. I. P EVH

excellent tribute Gary really enjoyed the selection you chose

Thanks. I needed that. One legend pays tribute to another.

Amazing tribute. Thank you

Hi Gary! Great tribute....Eddie would be proud of you. You have the heart on the point of your fingers. Hugs from Brazil!

Johnny Winter photo in the background is nice🤘🏻

Awesome Gary! Great to see you ripping

Met you last night at Rock n Roll Fantasy at Johnie Brown's Delray Beach FL. Super cool, great show. Thanks for taking the time to take a photo. One of my first albums I bought when I moved to Florida in 1994. 💯

Great playing and great sounding amp. 👍 🤘

Nice tribute and I love the Johnny Winter pic!

Beautiful Gary, thank you 🤟

Great Tribute Man! Ive been a Fan of VH since day one in 79 at there 1st show at Cobo in Detroit ! Seen them while I Worked there Shows 48 in all ,I got to hang with Eddie for a whole Show in 1998 I was down in his pit area I lit many Cigs for him during that Show it was the VH3 Tour got many guitar picks from that show that he used .I took some killer photo's ! will have to scan and post them He was always so nice and down to earth and always laughing ..Gone to soon ! He was always my guitar hero ! I still remember when I first dropped the needle onto the record and was blown away on what I heard!

@drdave971

3 жыл бұрын

Yes so true when I first heard eruption , for that matter all the songs on first record Me and my fellow guitar player friends were mesmerized , then the practice was really on without KZread , lots of slowing down turntable on record player wow what a time

@dennisperin2989

3 жыл бұрын

@@drdave971 This generation has no idea how hard it used to be to learn that tech stuff without visual aids? I remember where i was when that song, ( Runnin With The Devil) broke over the radio, we were at a Tasty Freeze, me & 3 buddies were in an 66 impala. We lost our minds, then to find out they were an american band, & he was an american guitarist, we knew we had something for the British invasion

Grew up with GH, great kid, amazing talent he turned out to be 👏👏👏

I loved this nice work Gary

Nicely done man🤘🎸 RIP king Edward

That was sweet, Gary!! Rock on, brother!

great tribute RIP EVH

Awesome demo!! I remember that guitar!!

I had to give it another look bro. It's so weird the memories I get watching this video. Like, you were the first guy I saw rocking a Hamer. I got into Hamer's cause you were playing them. I also think it's cool how you're playing obscure Eddie songs. The coolest part is you sound like yourself playing them. 🤘🤘

You’re an amazing talent! Excellent tone, Edward would be proud by your tribute!!!👍👍🎸🙏

@jpcervoni

3 жыл бұрын

This is the worst I ever seen someone trying to sound like Eddie! Please stick to what you know!

@albertdimatteo531

3 жыл бұрын

@@jpcervoni It was a tribute. He wasn't trying to sound like Eddie!

Thanks for sharing

I love Gary Hoey! I saw him in Lubbock Texas, it must have been around 2000 or so, it was life changing. His bass player, I don't recall the gentleman's name, but anyways watching him slap on stage changed my bass playing ability overnight. My musical talent increased from just having watched them perform! P.S. would love to hear the intro to VH "Mean Street" 😊

that hamer is still one of my favourite guitar ever.specially when you used it on animal instinct album.still sound amazing.my hero.

Gary is so dope! One of the best.

Thanks for that!

Thanks Gary ~~ love it!! Any chance to see you in Northern California in 2024?

Thanks Gary. Incredible!!!🎸

That felt good, plenty of ear worms and candy brother. He left a whole lot of music and tone, for sure. The stealth guitar is pretty incredible as well. Cheers

Phase 90 turned up to 11!!!! Eddie is smiling from heaven.

Great playing, man.

Awesome, GH channeling EVH!

Just subscribed. If I knew this Chanel existed I would have subscribed sooner.

💥💥Bro, I've been listening to your stuff since I was in the 11th grade.🎙️ Shotgun Ken Shepherd, blues axeman Kenny🎸 Wayne Shepherd's dad was the DJ 🎙️for the radio station📻 I listened to in Shreveport and Shotgun started playing Animal Instinct all the time. He was obviously a fan. Not to mention the musical tastes of the city I lived in were extremely guitar oriented. They always played this mix every Christmas that had you in it. It was groovy. Anyway, I really love how you tipped your hat to Eddie but you remained true to your style☢️. BRAVO!!!!

Thanks Gary👍

Wonderful eddy tones my man!

Cool playing gary very nice axe too goes WELL in your man cave 🤘🤘🤘🤘👏👏🔊🎵🎵🎶

You still got the chops!

Most Excellent. 😎!!

Awesome Gary!

Kickass man! Eddie would be smiling!!!

AWESOME Gary!

What's Gary , seen you on headbangers ball and recorded you when you were on rock line on the radio years ago,. Keep up the great playing !

just 'wàw'.. blown away by his skills😳

Total kickass, Gary!

Great tribute to EVH WOWWWWWWW

I saw gary do a clinic at the Concord Ca. Guitar Center and he was fantastic, 1st became aware of Gary back when "Endless Summer 2" soundtrack 1st came out a very under rated guitar player, showing his love of King Edward !

Yes. Very cool. I have 3 wolfgangs and they truly are great. Love his amps too. Thx Gary. Very cool. Hammer makes cool stuff too. 😎

@jmartini8875

3 жыл бұрын

Correction. Hamer. Ha. Talk text Typos.

Very nice

AWESOME!

My old Stoner neighbor lady got me into you. You play really well

Cool stuff, Gary. It's never a bad day when there's a Hamer involved!

@dennisperin2989

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when he has been playing that Fender nowadays. pretty much a blues player anymore, i love when he pulls that badass Hamer out & goes Gary Freakin Hoey! I am more of a fan of his Drive live days with that beautiful sounding axe of his

Respect!

Love that Hamer guitar 👍🏻

Very nice! Love the Roth-era riffage

Thank you, Gary. =VH= FOREVER

Freakin phenomenal

Also, his hair was about the middle of his back! I definitely agree on the tribute! I was lucky enough to see Van Halen on Halloween night in 1982 at the Hampton roads coliseum. And I saw them in Richmond on the 1984. Crazy thing is a ticket was $7.95! To the first show, also general admission, so I was about 30 feet from Eddie.

When he played with Heavy Bones, the only video they made, he's sporting a Hamer. The video is '4 AM'

I love it

Awesome

EVH would be proud!!!

Well said.... You made that axxe talk

I think my favorite was when you and Dug Pinnick did Welcome To The Machine. Nice Eddie tribute.

Great that your stepping in for Mike Zito at this time, he wants to be there with y'all so bad.

SUPER BADASS!!!!

Is that a johnny winter poster?

@GaryHoeyband

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!! Loved Johnny

@MultiTaz333

3 жыл бұрын

@@GaryHoeyband as did i,I, I saw him live

@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812

Жыл бұрын

I saw him live at a place in West Virginia.

A little bit of the Mutha intro from Extreme thrown in for good measure. Very nice tribute!

Sweet Mr hoey

RIP King Edward

Badass

Cool ..... 😎

I’d love to hear you do a version of Ice Cream Man 😁👍🏻🎸

Pretty cool

💟

Nice 👍🏻😁

Miss the Gary Hoey Hamer advertising in the guitar pubs....Those guitars were money.

🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Your a guitar god man! I was Dick Dales roadie when you and him recorded miserlou for the MOM cd. I miss him. Eddie was an amazing guitar god too. Like you all, so many amazing memories and moments in my life being able to meet ant hang with all of you. I was able to meet Eddie at NAMM. Just brief. But I remember it like it was yesterday. Same with meeting you and Dick too. Keep playing and smiling man!

Nice amp

Ha,poster behind you of the sunset...I have that in cassette...low rider!

Van Hoey Lan! You rock Gary!

I miss your old stuff/ Original record. Can we please jam some time??

Good job buddy! I love the hammer btw! Also question about all your heads? Why so many 5150s? I see 2 x 50 w on left and 2 x 100 w on right definitely looks like different variations. Like for example on right bottom looks like 100w EL34 top is 100w stealth? On left looks like a 6L6 and possibly also a EL34. Why so many lol? Honestly it is cool AF bro but overkill much lol? What is the story in all those?

@GaryHoeyband

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been endorsing EVH from when Fender started making them. So I have collected several as you can’t have too many EVH amps bro 🤘🙏