Two words: Mean Street. 😮 when the man gets the intro sound from flap tapping the fret like a mad man… sheer genius. Sounds like a guitar trio. Nope. Just Edward. I think that’s also the song where he gets sound from tapping the back side of the fret, right? Who does that?!?!?!?! Mind blown.

@walterevans2118

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Ed was a genius because he refused to play the guitar according to a set of absolute rules and conventions…So he would do things to the guitar with his hands which were just totally ‘outside the box’ With the Meanstreet intro he was actually playing it in his live solo in spring 1980 one year BEFORE he put it on Fair Warning a year later…In an interview with Jas Obrecht in Jan 1980 Ed said….’First I did Eruption, then Spanish Fly…but they were both the same kind of technique . So what could I do this time ? I didn’t want to just put on another solo sounding like that again. I wanted to wait until I HAD FIGURED OUT SOME NEW KIND OF FINGER THING ON THE FRETBOARD WHICH IS JUST TOTALLY DIFFERENT’…and difficult to copy of course. Because ED knew that Randy and others had been figuring out and copying the more obvious of his techniques he had to come up with new originality again..He said -‘ I try to be different and I like to turn the corner on people who try to latch on to what I’m doing. So what did Ed invent within 4 months of this interview ? …The MEANSTREET Intro. Never before or since has a guitar sound submerged it’s own technique by which it is created…People thought it was push button effects but it’s just Ed’s hands on strings thru unmodified guitar ! They would wrongly assume that it was a magic black box only to find out there WASN’T ONE…lol…and if ERUPTION had other guitarists scratching their heads at the vinyl turntable in 1978 then the MEANSTREET INTRO in 1981 left them UTTERLY DUMBFOUNDED 😮

@ritarollins6664

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@@walterevans2118 yesss!!!!! Incredible. Nobody like him ever. Listening to him now. Still awestruck.

@walterevans2118

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@@ritarollins6664 yip. Ed was and always will be ….YEEE - HAAA !!!! …my sentiments entirely Rita. ….lol

That poster you have on your wall of Eddie doing the "flying split jump" is the same one I had on my college dorm wall in 1990 LOL --- glad to see the younger generation diggin' Halen!

A GOOD COMPREHENSIVE video on Ed’s incredible history by so many others who understood his contribution to expanding the instrument and his musical creativity.❤. We all miss him so much.

Everything Randy Rhodes new on the guitar he learned from The GOAT Eddie Vanhalen. Eddie said so himself. RIP Eddie

I'm grateful to have seen Van Halen live many times and I'm even more grateful that I caught not one of Eddie Van Halen's guitar picks but two of them and a couple years ago I caught his son Wolfgang's guitar pick which I proudly have displayed with his dad's

I agree I took 2 lessons from randy Rhoads, I met him through my friend nick menza.. rip drummer from megadeath. We were friends from Jr high! Randy was my 2nd favorite guitarist, all the top guns in the 70s all said Eddie was the king and randy was the prince! Eddie played out of the box and did numerous other things for guita was no one was even close not randy either! I love randy but Eddie is the GOAT period! RIP to both with love Eddie Rock is my name, love your love for EVH!

I love your idea of him doing different genres because it would have been amazing he was actually a concert pianist before he learned the guitar. That would have been absolutely phenomenal!

My man listen to its about time , it's one of the new songs in 2004 on best of album.EVH THE GOAT !

@walterevans2118

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The muted STUTTERING sounds ? …’Tht-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta’ just before the solo ? …lol

@tommitchell4570

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@@walterevans2118 LOL or what about "How Many Say I" on VH3 --- Eddie's vocals are nothing to brag about

@walterevans2118

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@@tommitchell4570 Well, ok,,,,Maybe they're NOT Luciano PAVAROTTI ...lol...but in a basic earthy way they are quite SOULFUL

@tommitchell4570

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@@walterevans2118 call it what you want --- VH 3 was just a terrible record and should've never been made --- Cherone has even admitted that

@walterevans2118

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@@tommitchell4570 I don’t think his voice fitted VH as well as Roth or Hagar but VH 3 was an interesting ‘ Experiment’….At the time of its production ED described it as -‘the deepest we’ve ever gone’…But I didn’t think fans from the high velocity Roth days were going to buy it.

My 1st concert was at los Angeles coliseum, 1979.... ted nugent, toto,eddie money, april wine,Aerosmith, ufo, and MIGHTY VAN HALEN I WAS SO EXCITED VH CAME IN ON A TANK FRIM BACK STAGE AND STARTED SET WITH LIGHTING UP THE SKY AND LITE IT UP ALL SET ! THE CINCERT BEFORE I MISSED YEARBEARLIER THEY PARACHUTED INTO THE STADIUM AT ANEHIEM STADIUM PLAYING WITH BOSTON....EVH THE GOAT LUV EDDIE ROCK.....

@walterevans2118

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Actually the Anehiem stadium parachute thing was faked…. lol…It was stuntmen coming down and landing god knows where while Ed, Alex, Dave and Mike came out of a van and went into the arena dressed in the same skydiver clothes….Poor Alex broke his ankle going out onstage and had to play anyway…The parachute stunt was DLRs idea .

@kerzytibok3211

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@@walterevans2118 it figures Dave came up with that stunt --- he always had the coolest ideas for the early years of the band

Most people don't realize that the beef between Eddie and Sammy was mostly about money --- Sammy and the VH brothers originally were founding partners of the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico, but Sammy bought out the brothers' shares and then it became very profitable and so did the Cabo Tequila --- Eddie and Alex were PISSED because they thought Sammy used the Van Halen brand to sell all that tequila and they wanted a cut of the profits, but Sammy kept it all for himself --- so now you see why Eddie and Sammy never resolved their issues

You are so right Sammy would definitely have still been there if that manager didn't get in the way. Gary great job for being put in that position but I still wholeheartedly believe Sammy would have still been the lead singer of Van Halen. Sammy is a real good guy I have a mutual friend with him and I was given the opportunity to write him a letter and he was so kind and gracious he sent me a ton of autographed pictures and all sorts of memorabilia. Not many rock stars would take the time to read a letter and actually respond back. He must have sent me like five or six different autographed pictures a bunch of guitar picks an autographed copy of his cocktail book

@kerzytibok3211

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Most people don't realize that the beef between Eddie and Sammy was mostly about money --- Sammy and the VH brothers originally were founding partners of the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico, but Sammy bought out the brothers' shares and then it became very profitable and so did the Cabo Tequila --- Eddie and Alex were PISSED because they thought Sammy used the Van Halen brand to sell all that tequila and they wanted a cut of the profits, but Sammy kept it all for himself --- so now you see why Eddie and Sammy never resolved their issues

I feel really bad about what happened to Gary cherone because you're right if they didn't have a falling out Edward and Sammy would have been together to the end and the fans might have been more embracing of the direction that Edward wanted to take his music in unfortunately they made Gary the Fall Guy even though Edward wrote the music. Edward wanted to write more serious subject matter in his music and the fans didn't like it at all but personally I loved it! You should check out more of it, dirty water dog, a year to the day and fire in the hole are bangers!!!

Sammy shouldn't have said or did something to piss off Ed and quit then lie and say he got fired . No-one bothered to hear Ed's side of the story . Ed said himself the new manager ( @ the time ) Ray Danniels witnessed Sam had this cocky/bossy attitude towards Ed and started bossing him around . Ray asked him why Sam treated him like that . Only a fool would believe Sam's lies without checking form the other side of the story . Never forget , in the VH3 promotion issue of THE INSIDE MAGAZINE ; Al , Ed AND Mike all said Sam quit . And in the individual interview with Mike the interviewer told him Sam himself said he didn't want to do the greatest hits album . It wasn't his decision it was Warner Bros that DEMANDED a greatest hits album . Sam used and abused his POS book RED to use it as a smear campaign against the Halen Bros .

@kerzytibok3211

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I agree with all your points --- I read Sammy's book and it's full of lies --- like when he said he was "as big as Van Halen in 1984" which is a total clown statement

Damn dude, adjust your volume levels. We have to turn up our volume to hear the video you're watching, and then you say something and you come booming in. It doesn't make watching your video a pleasant experience.

@DatWay520

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I noticed I had KZread volume down sorry

@walterevans2118

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@@DatWay520 not to worry bud.

As to the Randy R thing…Of course EVH was doing the techniques first and Randy (like everybody else) was just copying them ….But not taking them as far to make the instrument sound so different from other players….Ed had a UNIQUE approach to the instrument to break the rules with how it is physically played which enabled him to invent new ideas and sounds like sparks off a Catherine Wheel…The other players like Randy , Scholtz, Derringer, and the others didn’t have this unique approach to the instrument so they could only copy what Ed was already doing…Randy was a good player though…But he didn’t have Musical Institutes like the Guitar Institute of Technology inventing new notation symbols to explain to other players how Ed did what he did…NO ONE else of Ed’s generation did….That’s how revolutionary Ed really was….Take it from someone who knows…I bought VH1 in 1978 when it first came out when I was 15 …I had a guitar in my hand at 16 in 1979 and I remember hearing his revolution on other players as it was happening in real time…I remember who was first playing what and when…I remember scratching my head as a teen at how he made a electric guitar sound like a Bach Organ (Eruption 1978)…and acoustic sound like a harp (Spanish Fly 1979),,,an unmodified guitar sound like an Alien Demented Machine (Meanstreet intro 1981)..and a guitar volume knob sound like a Church Organ (Cathedral 1982) …Made guitars sound like horses, monkey chatter, crickets, prop planes being revved up, elephants, …There was NOBODY like ED , believe me. ❤❤

@ritarollins6664

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Could not have said it better

@michaelpalermo354

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AND! He did it all while singing back up harmonies!!! Eddie never gets enough credit for his harmony contributions!

@walterevans2118

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@@michaelpalermo354 yep…Years before VH were signed to Warners when they played clubs Ed even sang LEAD vocals before Dave and Mike came into the band.

@walterevans2118

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I think that may have been in the days when they were called MAMMOTH as a triumvirate of Mark Stone on bass, brother Alex on Drums and Edward on guitar and lead vocals.

@michaelpalermo354

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@@walterevans2118 I did know that he sang lead for a short time when they began but I was talking about him He singing harmonies, which he did until their last show at the Hollywood bowl in 2015.

Roth was the singer of VH. Thats when VH was the best. Hagar IMO not as great with VH. Hagar was excellent solo and with Montrose. I grew up with Roth being the lead singer of VH and that is VH to me. Truly nobody could take the place of Roth. Long live EVH in memory never to forget.

@ritarollins6664

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I urge you to listen to Balance and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. You are depriving yourself of some of Eddie’s best guitar work with that mindset. Peace bro!

@kerzytibok3211

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@@ritarollins6664 I've listened to Balance and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge many times but his work with Roth was simply untouchable