Thanks for showing the king of 10 fingers and six strings the love man! Everything you said was spot on!

I can remember hearing this in 78. It still amazes me that he was able to play like that. The equipment back then was not good. For him to basically make a guitar from scratch, with parts from different guitars is astounding. I still have my vinyl records from then. I listen in amazement how Eddie created all those different sounds. He was a genius. Way ahead of his time! RIP Eddie

But imagine...he had to have invented tapping (Eruption) when he was a teenager. Just nuts.

@e.l.norton

Жыл бұрын

Nah, he was older. He got the idea from seeing Page live, probably sometime in 75. It doesn't really show up in Edward's live playing until about 76 or so.

@rklewis2

Жыл бұрын

He didn't invent tapping. Others had done it before him. He just made it an integral part of his style.

His fretboard is a maple fretboard not a rosewood, that is why it is a light color

There’s a version of Eruption on KZread from 1976 (audio only), that features no whammy bar and no tapping. Just fire. Before he came up with the tapping section at the end, he used to play a pentatonic lick that he chromatically moved up the neck fret by fret until he couldn’t go any higher. It’s interesting to hear because he hadn’t come up with the tapping yet, but it still rips your head off. Then there’s an audio version of Eruption from October 77 (the same month the actual studio version was recorded for the 78 record) taped at Pasadena Civic Center, and that one is closer to what we hear on the record. The version here that you are reacting to (first known video footage) is from their first World tour, opening for Black Sabbath in 78.

@yesthisisvic

Жыл бұрын

He recorded the entire first album without a whammy bar. Eddie didn't have a Floyd Rose on his guitar until '79

@rklewis2

Жыл бұрын

@@yesthisisvic Please don't tell me you believe this? Of COURSE he used a standard trem, and recorded MOST of the first album with it. It's on the guitar pictured on the first album. Guitarists used standard trems all the time before Floyd's ever existed. For crying out loud, Jeff Beck used a standard trem right up to the end of his life. There are ways of keeping them in tune. It's a pain, but it can be done. I remember reading an old interview with him talking about it. Strings tend to get caught up in the nut, or the string trees on the headstock. Lubricating both spots allows the strings to move freely through them. For a little while. I had a Strat back before Floyds existed, and I could keep it in tune. I saw Van Halen in 1978. He used the black and white striped guitar, with a standard trem, and played most of the first album with it on the tour, with the exception of You Really Got Me, which he used the Ibanez Destroyer on, and there are no whammy licks in the song.

People think that the black and white guitar was a different guitar, but it isn't. It's the same guitar that he used to record the first 6 albums. He changed the color to brown with yellow stripes for II and then to red with black and white striping. The neck was only changed because he kept breaking them until Kramer came up with the last neck that he used until switching to their guitars for the '84 tour. And, of course, the Floyd Rose didn't exist in 1978 and the one he added to his guitar a year later was a prototype.

@RiderVilly

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the bumblebee was separate from the frankenstrat and was buried with dimebag

@rklewis2

Жыл бұрын

The black and white guitar is the same as the black/white/red guitar for sure. He repainted it, and put the Floyd on it. The bumblebee guitar was made for EVH by Charvel, and, as has already been pointed out by RiderVilly, is buried with Dimebag. Charvel, after giving him that bumblebee strat, started churning out guitars like that without permission. I know this for a fact because I bought two of them back in the early 80's. One was stolen from me. The other, I traded in for another guitar. Foolish of me, in retrospect, because they're pretty rare, and worth some money. EVH put a stop to that. Not too long after that, he endorsed Kramer guitars for a while. They provided him with guitars that looked like the frankenstrat. He used them on the 1984 tour for sure. After leaving Kramer, he ended up with Peavey for a while, then Fender, who he has the EVH brand stuff we see now. I've never once read or heard of him breaking guitar necks. He used primarily maple necks. Solid maple. Pretty hard to break them.

The early bootlegs from 75/76 that are on KZread are prob my favorite versions, he plays a lot of shit that I've never heard him play and I'd argue it's better playing than his later more "refined" versions. There's also a home recording of him jamming and figuring out riffs when he was real young, I only recognized one riff that ended up being a VH song.

Just practice it and you’ll get there.

Thanks for showing us your build. I'm curious what kind of pots you're using since you haven't put it all together yet. Did you know that Eddie customized his pots to turn easier to pull off those volume swells so easily? They're in the EVH line-up now for guitar parts. Reasonably priced. When I learned that, I noticed my guitar knobs were more solid feeling, his has a nice swivel action to it when you turn it with your fingertips. It's a subtle and affordable change that makes a big difference. Rock on!

@wg1294

Жыл бұрын

Clarity: I'm referring to the volume knob. I believe he left the tone a little tighter, but I'm not sure about that.

@DatWay520

Жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what’s in there the evh 500k pot I have the same one on my telecaster I’ll never use a regular pot again