Eddie Van Halen - Solo (Eruption) - Live Without A Net REACTION & REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING! 

And Eddie said he was SO wasted when he did this Solo that he doesnt even remember doing it !!! That says a TON in his abilities !!

Eddie explored the guitar like no one else ever before. He literally took it and got it to do things no one ever could before, then he literally turned it upside down and found new things to do with it and get new and different sounds from it. When you say Eddie Van Halen studied the guitar, that is the very thing he did with the guitar, studied it, explored it and squeezed things out of it no one ever did before. No one like him, Rest In Peace maestro, you were indeed the master of the guitar, miss you man. Stay Cool 😎 and… \m/ Stay Metal \m/

Like a lot of others, I've watched many(MANY) non-musicians react to this and miss out on a TON of nuanced and non-nuanced things. A really breath of fresh air hearing a musician's reaction on it.

you can walk into any bar in America with a red/white splinter pattern guitar and say "anyone know how to play this?" and you will get a bunch of people jumping up - thats all down to this guy. Legend .

On of my favorite reactions so far. I'll be honest when I requested it I was expecting to see you tell me you had already seen it and ask if I wanted to swap it out. Hearing you tell why you hadn't seen it until now was very endearing. Ironically, starting your own channel finally led to to watching it after 20 years. That's pretty damn cool. I'm sorry to hear about your family member. I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer at a young age. Prayers go out to your family. I'm sure they will beat it! You're the best. Can't wait till the channel hits 20k. I still remember watching the video and how shocked you were when you hit 500!!

Eddie, pioneer of the finger tap. He inspired so many guitarist. (RIP)

That was the greatest guitar solo ever. You can't diminish THAT. The World has spoken. Edward Van Halen is the greatest Guitarist ever and you know it. Admit it.

He makes it sound like A violin!!!!😲😲😲

I'm a sucker for reactions to this solo! Well Done, sir!!!

There will never be another EVH. RIP to the GOAT🤘

Great and kind of sad at the same time. Knowing he's gone and seeing him still young and top of his game. It's nice how he improvised on the 78 original, and he said never really played it exactly the same way, twice. Great reaction!

This is one of the best reactions of this solo I've seen. I love your breakdowns, plus you're around my age so it was cool seeing a fellow 80s dude react to EVH.

When I first saw this 35 fricken years ago my mind was blown then. You've got the best reaction on RU-vid.

I saw them at that same venue in 1978, it was an amazing show!

KING EDWARD 👑

I've watched this solo over 100 times easily and I never caught that he was pulling on the trem springs to make the sound. I always assumed based on the orientation of the guitar that he was pulling out the body rest that he had patented, so that he could be standing up but have the guitar essentially laying flat in front of him. One of several cool guitar patents Ed had. But I definitely hear the springs being plucked now that you said it.

Loved your reaction…. Thank you for taking me on a journey about the guitar and Eddies contribution to this art. I loved your spontaneity and enthusiasm about each motion and each technique. The guitar, Frankenstrat now hangs in the Smithsonian. There is a wonderful video of his interview with the Smithsonian, here on RU-vid. You should watch it. He was a genuine humble guy with a kindness about him. I am aware he could also be a supreme a-hole. But the interview would interest you because he details his journey with the guitar. One thing you didn’t include in you reaction…. His face. This man had such joy with that guitar in his hands. His smile, his inner peace. That guitar was an extension of his soul. I agree 💯 with your comments on smoking. Let’s be honest the alcohol and cocaine did not help either. But there is one note that most don’t know or relate to Eddie’s early demise. When he was tapping, and not using the pick, he often tucked it in his mouth under his tongue. What he didn’t realize was the toxic level of lead in the pick. It is that exact location where the cancer started. Lead is so lethal. So many of my rock heroes have left us as older people. As I am aging as well, it makes me sad that they have left us behind. But gosh can you imagine the reception we will get in that concert in heaven with them all waiting there for us? RIP Eddie. Your leaving just broke me. 💔

Best reaction hands down to this solo, very insightful!!!

Miss him so much. Rest in peace Eddie

I still have the official Live Without a Net VHS. Eddie was the best. RIP

Thank you so much for this reaction my my man🔥🔥🔥🤝🤝❤️

Kick ass music. Period. Sounded so fun. RIP Eddie VanHalen!! Neil Peart just turned 70 today.

This was the best description of the styles and techniques and the most knowledgeable. I've seen quite a few. Loved them and had seen them at least 4 times. Being 60😊😊. Great job👍👊👍

He could do it with his eyes closed!!. That's from the heart

Great reaction to not only a great guitar player but an artist. As a guitar geek i love the technical/mechanical insights of this melt your face off work of art. Eddie had a lot of stage presence and charisma. Not to mention he was smiling the whole time and saluting the crowd and just loving what he was born to do.

I was at this show.The New Haven Coliseum!!! Awesome show and so many other great bands played there.RIP Coliseum RIP EVH

Finally Dave!! Ive seen this reacted to 100 times and you are the first to catch the Spring pluck and the tone knob work. Awsome!! By the way, I just bought myself a Bass to go with my 25 guitars. Im gonna actually learn to play the bass. I got a 62 Fender Jazz Bass. Cant wait to get started. Great job and great Reaction!!

Really loved this reaction you got my sub. You pointed out a lot of great things!!🙂

I loved your review. I watched alot of others review this. They know nothing, you know guitars and techniques. I knew this stuff since I was young in 80's

Thank you Dave for the insight on EVHs techniques, timing and everything else....well done👍

It was great to hear comments from real rock musician. I also agree with you on "Cancer Sticks". It saddens me to see old photos of Eddie with cigarettes.

that's an hell of good review!

2020 will not be remembered because of COVID ..it will always remind me that this is the year we lost Eddie Van Halen .BTW.. Meanstreets intro is my favorite EVH intro..EVH will never be duplicated ..replaced...it's just not humanly possible to emulate the man's talent..🤘✌️🖤🎸🎙️📀😎💫🎧🖤💋

32:15 - Man, since you recognised all the solos/songs, I was hoping you'd recognise this one too! Spanish Fly is such an underrated song, one that shows that Eddie's tapping abilities were not limited to electric, distorted, amplified guitars, he could also do it on an acoustic guitar with nylon strings.

A few years prior to the concert, David Lee Roth, around the beginning of a concert in ‘83, referred to Eddie Van Halen as “king of 10 fingers and 6 strings.”

The repeated / delay sound is Eddie using the volume control as a kill switch. There might be a small added delay but most of it is Eddie. He used his hands as he couldn't afford effects when the first album came out so a lot is just Eddie.

Great reaction as usual, and amazing PSA regarding cigarettes.

Eddie was the best and made his own guitars!! He made his own sound he was worshiped by the best guitar players..F*ck, why does greatness have leave us..

I saw a Documentary about Eddi. He said he opens up Amps and tampered with the Electronics and it blew regulary bleup and electrocuted him multiple times. He just wanted to find out new Sounds^^

I didn't know about this solo UNTIL RU-vid lol so it's wild knowing I watched it like a decade before you lol

Glad ya came around and listened to the G.O.A.T.

You are guitarist in 1986 and listen to this...an alien with guitar....

Nice breakdown of what he was doing.

OMG! Thank you for highlighting the spring plucking, and the volume knob manipulation. Countless views of this video and you are the first to point that out. Kudos!

Awesome reaction

Good reaction ❤️

Love the psa man, I smoke. Enjoyed the post

Hey brother l don't remember the year l saw an advertisement on commenting on the negative aspects of long cigarettes. Somewhere around thirty give or take a few years, but it went like this, "in cigarette smoke theres known to be 103 known carcinagins, that's a 100 more known to be in rat poison."

Love Ed, he was so great

Your knowledge is so impressive David! I’m about to have my first ever guitar lesson but everytime I see this video of Eddie I have no freakin clue how he did these things 😂 it’s just mindblowing to me how talented people can be in music. Learning a lot from watching your reviews. Could you maybe do some reaction to Dimebag/Pantera? Personally Dimebag is my favorite guitar player (and his favorite was Eddie) and I’m really interested on your thoughts about Dime

Wanna try to emulate Edward and fail miserably? Give I'm The One a shot. I think this song is the most difficult rock song to play. 1 guitar, no overdubs, insane rhythm with impossible swing feel & ridiculous fills and solos. Pure genius. RIP GOAT.

I saw Sammy when he warmed up for Boston's 2nd tour in Springfeild, Mass...

Let’s all take a moment to realise he was drunk af during this and just played with such fucking perfection.. 👏👏

He was exceptional..agree with you...

No interest in watching a Eddie Van Halen guitar solo? Not even once? I’m a bit baffled and confused. You’d figure of all guitarists he’d be one to watch and listen.

You sounded like santa! Loved it

The best ever 🤘

The intro to "Mean Streets" sounds like a drum pattern played on guitar.

This guy is Psychotic...Love it!

Everyone has a way to explain everything he was doing. But he said he didn't know and we weren't alive when he couldn't explain it

Like Yngwie Malmsteen he is the greatest guitar player in the world. Dear DH please add more Rammstein video)

The opening part of that solo was a small bit he calls "316" he came up with that when Wolfie was born. Hence the name "316" signifying Wolfgang Van Halen's date of birth. Consider that my little piece of "Red's useless trivia" just saying :). Great review my brutha !!! miss you tons man!🐔

The first guitarist I saw 'drumming' for want of a better word, his fingers on the back of the neck in conjunction with operating the tremolo arm up and down rhythmically was Jimi Hendrix during a performance on film, I can't remember the song.

"It's Van Halen but it isn't Van Halen." Nope, it's Van Halen. The name of the band is taken from the brothers Alex (the eldest of the two) & Eddie Van Halen...Eddie doing the guitar & Alex doing the drums. It *IS* Van Halen in the most true sense of the phrase. 😁 When you first mentioned seeing Eddie toss his pick into the audience...Paying attention, it's easy to see that he did that multiple times during the solo. In general, the way Eddie's gestrues & facial expressions go when interacting with the audience, he absolutely loves what he's doing...That's how anyone can eventually get good at doing whatever they do. It's called "practice." But from this video I get the general impression that Eddie is sending a message (beyond the point of taking the audience on a mental/emotional journey of his own making), like "I've taken the time. I've put in the work. I know what I'm capable of doing. I'm glad to have this time to show you what that is." For instance, when you see him tapping with both hands up along the fingerboard, his hands are spaced apart just right to take advantage of the overlapping harmonic scales between different strings; he's using the harmonies of the instrument to play sequential notes faster than one hand can do... When you were talking about how Eddie plucked the springs in the back of the guitar...Well, Eddie not only built many of his own guitars from pieces that he wanted from other guitars, but he experimented a lot to create as many new sounds as he could discover. Then he worked to turn them into melodic harmonies. One thing that many of the newer generations miss when they listen to the older stuff like this is that, back then there were no auto-tuners, there were no sequencers or computer-controlled compensators. Many bands made use of distortion pedals to alter modulation but that was about it. Heck, keyboard synthesizers were still just barely coming into their own as musical instruments in their own right, as we've heard with the Edgar Winter Group. During much of Van Halen's earliest gigs, Eddie couldn't even afford the foot pedals so he figured out how to make that kind of sound by just *play the guitar* itself; even during this concert & his solo, he wasn't even using foot pedals because *he never needed them.* So, overall, in general, does Eddie make you a little more interested in listening to guitar solos than you have been up until now? Even just a little? Jimi Hendrix has done a lot with his guitar too, & others who "did their own thing" instead of trying to copy others. 🤗

If that is the Camp Crystal Lake, Run for your life, I have the same shirt. Awesomeness !!!!!!!

🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼

Ha! Feeling old.

Thank God I got off the cigarettes back in 2005 after 27 years. I went cold turkey, just like when I quit drugs and alcohol in the 80's. It can be done it is a move i will Never Regret!

I have my coffee and the Van Halen album now I want to drop the needle and crank it up to ……..11. 😆 🤘

Awesome, Outrageous Confessional David...to ffwd EVH all them times!!! :-)) Yeah, EVH didn't just play the guitar his own way...he CHANGED the electric guitar and amps to meet his expectation of what he wanted them to do (hence his 'Frankenstrat' guitar creation and also patents to his name). The tricky bit, volume knob/delay, is 'Cathedral' and amazing he plays this stuff while drunk as a skunk (allegedly). Then intro to 'Mean Street' (gotta recommend that album 'Fair Warning'...some piece of work!!). Two outrageous facts; 1) I heard Eddie had said it was the years of holding metal picks in his mouth that caused the cancer...despite the chain-smoking...go figure!! 2) Despite being proclaimed 'best guitarist in the world' 7 years in a row, being widely influential and many might regard him as their GOAT of electric guitar...he more recently still seemed to regard himself as primarily a 'pianist' (he and Alex where taught classical piano as kids in Holland). It always seemed obvious that his 'tapping' and classical style arpeggios, rife amongst his superb riffs and solos, were due to him attacking the guitar like a pianist. I think being trained in classical piano gives the advantage to play anything like EVH...for example Kanami from BAND-MAID also learned classical piano first (as did MISA and Akane) and she's pretty good at the old tappies...and a prolific riff-machine (a good example is 'Onset'...David already reacted). GREAT message man: "Kick The [shit] Sticks"...the past is the past and what seemed cool then (drink/drugs/booze) shouldn't be copied...RIP; EVH, Lemmy etc... I love this interview with Eddie where he talks about rock n roll 're-invention'... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yb26D8bBZB8.html Peace mate!!

Van Halen - 5150 Extremely high energy.

A+ and ill subscribe and like

Sounds like Dime may have written or performed the end of "Floods" to that part at 25:00

Enjoyed this reaction , you explained a lot of things we had never been able to figure out & how he did this etc. I invite you to check out Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Boogie , Classical Gas & Stanley Jordans Style !!

I've been binging on Van Halen - these are their best from the Sammy Hagar era: 5150, In 'n' Out, Runaround, Feels So Good, Judgement Day, Poundcake, Not Enough Extremely high energy. Honorary mention just for fun: Van Halen Amsterdam "Naughty Version"

Just curious-who would you give a higher score to, for an actual guitar solo?

Way After Him

R.I.P. Edward van Halen 🎸🔥🤘

Living in paradise is my fav from him

Eddie the Grandmaster :)

Lol you got it man

Have you seen Buckethead tapping? He's the only one I'm aware of that uses all his fingers instead of just one or two on the right hand. The guy from Psyopus is also insanely good at it and has a few instrumental songs that show his skills off.

Cancer had also mastastized to his back….and in the end, it was a stroke that was the final blow.

like you said he is self taught, so no one ever said you shouldnt/cant do that

Waiting for another lovebites reaction...

Dammit now I know I'm old....Damn VCRs

Tapping the back of the neck is an old Hendrix technique

14:37 jesus i bet women loved that hand movement lol

It's funny that you would FF past this; I would FF past the Bass solo. Yes, I've seen it a few times, and it WAS entertaining but I didn't care for it musically. Of course, my favorite solo was Alex's. Specifically the overtone he would get at the end while playing the triple-stroke roll across the two perfectly tuned, electronic, floor toms. 🔥🤘🏽🔥 I wore out two VHS copies of this concert and now have it on DVD. 🤪😁

Cigarettes didn't kill Eddie Van Halen different kind of cancer got him but in the end he is the king all you have to do is watch and listen yes now that we older we really appreciate it Keep On Keepin On long live the king Eddie Van Halen wow what a journey what a talent God sent

i saw KISS on the creatures of the night tour with vinnie vincent... he comes out for his solo and plays eruption.. at the time i thought "what a hack"... can't even come up with an interesting solo of his own so he just rips eddie's solo. but then i realize that it can be difficult to create a 10 to 14 minute solo that is interesting and not just wanking. which gives me all that much more appreciation for what eddie created. vinnie was a good shredder...but... if that's all ya got..well it ain't good enough... gotta be musical as well.. gotta play something with feeling and emotion that can send the listener on a journey... which is exactly what eddie could do... his solos will always be a 10 for me cause they sound like songs but display such unreal technique... the benchmark for any good live solo...

Yep 25:10. That sounds like a violin.

How about Bata casets

Every time I watch this, I think “Wow…this guy is an artist with his instrument.” My next thought is, “Oh shit…he’s gone.” Time is so unkind. To see him clown with the cigarette, you feel like yelling STOP, knowing what they did to him.

RIP

Bet you're kinda bummed you didn't watch that until now huh? Got to be the World's GREATEST friggin' SOLO EVER!!! Although there are a couple that could give him a run for his, 💵💲💰Like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and maybe another one or two. But EVH WAS definitely in a class ALL HIS OWN! RIP Eddie!

Lol! I use to have this on tape too. I actually thought you were Sammy Hager 🤔 going back stage and getting blown by groupies whilst Eddie did his solo and this is why you had to hear his solo for the first time... I can understand. ( this is somewhat true by the way)...😆

Because of making much more albums/cds; not as sad as Guns N Roses. But stiill sad that Van Halen members couldnt work out their disagreements. This band left a lot of gas in the tank & great music uncreated & unrecorded. Your right! Not fun watching my father who smoked 2-3 packs of Lucky Strikes daily wither away & die. (( Cancer is despicable. As a boy; in the summers I worked on my uncle's small farm. Tobacco was his money crop. My job was taking a hole & cultivating around each tobacco plant. Which were taller then me at the time & endless rows of. I hated that task & was very angry at my uncle. But after growing up & seeing people I knew lose their love ones to cancer; I realized he did me a favor. It caused me to hate tobacco products & never want to use. There was no peer pressure that could change my mind. In to many ways he was still a major asshole. But I thank him very very much for that.

There's a major difference between playing the notes and "Making the Music"!!!!

O and another pearl jam song i adore is i am mine