Ha ha ha ha ha now that's funny . That's a great idea , then I'll walk outside and say OK ladies line up there's enough of me to go around for all of you.
Tell you what.. You hit the nail on the head.. Everyone always says Eddie was a master shredder, which he was no doubt. But he was every bit of a legendary rhythm player and riff maker!🎸🔥🤘
I’d rebuy every album all over again if they were just Ed’s isolated guitar tracks. He’s got such a groove of his own going on that there doesn’t need to be much more.
If you do not like Eddie's tone on this record, you have an ear made of concrete!! The man embodies rhythm and melodies! R.I P. Mr. Edward Van Halen, you were taken too early and NEVER to be forgotten!!
i recently watched a video about the "scale" that eddie loved playing and its amazing because if you played it out slowly, some of the notes would sound sour. he just played it so blisteringly fast and started/ended on the right notes within the same scale that you literally couldn't tell
That tone is easy to do. a lot of stage pedals. Tom Scholz of Boston designed a lot of those. However EVH designed all guitars and affects and amplification to match his personal style. His amazing technique and classical training hasn't been matched and in my opinion never will be matched. people try. nope. not happening.
Sadly it's not heard here but the rhythm guitar under the solo is my absolute favorite part of this song. So simple yet so perfect... Eddie had a swagger that in my opinion will never be matched.
Nobody will ever match Edward Van Halen's talent and innovation as a classical trained pianist and a guitar designer and amplification designer and lucky to be in the beginning of anti-disco which I certainly did not like. He nailed it all. RIP Eddie. You way more than ever deserve it.
@Liberty AboveAllElse Yes. I'm getting jaded with a lot of the guitar tones that were the ones that I once loved. Especially hearing it this way,..out of the mix.
@@stricknine8623 But if you were to listen to isolated tracks from today’s popular rock songs, you!d realize that they damn sure knew how to make a guitar tone fit properly in a mix back then. Great guitar players like Edward Van Halen had a unique voice. Today’s crap is cookie cutter tone. Can’t hardly distinguish one tone from the next. I guess you could say I’m jaded by listening to today’s cookie cutter digital sing album processing where they all sound the same.
@@TheAxe4Ever Well I'm certainly not exhausted with today's music. Its just not my thing at all, so I keep periodic tabs on things just in case but routinely stay disappointed and uninterested. I was figuratively emersed in the guitar rock of late 70s and all through the 80s. Not just a listener, a player. I spent all of my teen years locked away spending several hours a day learning to play from Eddie Van Halen, Rhoads, DeMartini, Lynch, Vito Bratta, Clapton, Collins, Rossington, Carlisi, Page, Gibbons,, ect,...In most cases, note for note on the leads. But I was REALLY into the DeMartini sound and Van Halen sound...The style and phrasing was a big part of it but so was the tone. I still love those guys but I'm beginning to not like the tone anymore. Of course isolated is one thing but even in the mix.
It's very clear this man had a brilliant sense of rhythm his dynamics, feel and playing are well advanced for someone his age at the time of this recording....
Always thought this was one of THE BEST tunes on VH1 - and the solo is so ridiculously good , the change and modulation it goes thru is like it’s own little song to itself Simply Amazing rest in peace, Ed
That big wet reverb in the right speaker and dry in the left gave this album such a far out spacey feel, like fire it up dude, like wow man, far out, haha. I can smell some good bud in the air right now...
Dear Lad, hello I am Ann . I am in my late 90s and what happened to you Lads. I love your music? And this is just beautiful. You have a spiritual side, good for you. Youngsters today don't believe in God and I am so glad you do. I hope you both will sing together real song. My favorite is Classic. I wish you Lads the best. 👵🙏
It all began back in 2016 when I listened to Eddie for the very first time back then I was 17 and it had been being 2 years since I started learning the guitar I was more into grunge and alternative But when I heard "panama" and "ain't talking bout love" I was speechless I thought to myself "this is not a human being made music this is magic" How can anyone extract such sounds from an instrument? I started listening more and more to their songs and I was constantly amazed Then, I decided that from now and on I should be putting all my efforts into guitar so that I'd become a true guitar player not even as half as Eddie was but at least I'd do my best I wish I could meet him one day But not all our wishes come true He left us When I heard his death announcement back in last October I felt like a piece of me died with him But I promised myself that I'll keep on going with the same will until I reach my dream I wasn't born in the 80's or the 70's like most of his fans but I know that he's the ultimate pinnacle And yes he's the one who inspired me to pick up the electric guitar and go forward RIP Eddie
The original fan's were born in the 60's. Just saying. I was 17. In 78. I had the pleasure of watching VH blow Sabbath off the stage that year at the Philadelphia spectrum
Hope it's still going for you. Two years after Ed's passing and I'm still listening to his greatness. The difference between Eddie and everyone else is the humour in his playing. He was having fun and it always shows.
Crisp,,,Immediate,,,,Never missing a beat despite all the delightful ad lib detours.....Just FANTASTIC.....Didn't even need more than one guitar track...Although I think on this one they may have placed his rhythm guitar behind the main solo.
this tone is different from the rest. cant even say the perfect brown sound like this is in any other song. would kill for the tone on this song. love this song and it is by far my favorite for that reason.
Just insane tone from hell!!! That ending F bar 5 chord just screaming out of that cranked Marshall with the feedback harmonics!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While he's holding the B... you hear a 100% dampened pick scrape across all strings (twice in the song) and you will NEVER hear this on the album through all the Bass, Drums and Vocals, etc... he actually does it THREE TIMES in this song... and so many, many open string "ticks" between notes, just for timing.... and that squealing guitar picking right after the main solo which is melodic to the two chords, his tone REALLY shows there.
On balance, this has always been my favorite examples of Eddie's playing. That first ripping fill he plays is almost impossible to play because of his feel/swing.
One and only ......... God must have created him .... Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger was to Bodybuilding coming from Austria Eddie was the same of Modern Rock.....
When the first album was done, Eddie didn't know how to do overdubs, so he begged Ted Templeman to let him do all of his guitar parts just like he played them live, switching from rhythm to lead. That makes him even more of a virtuoso to me, he didn't know how to do studio tricks.
I’ve been trying to nail that guitar lick at 57 sec the last few days and I’ve had the Tab Book for about 30 years and because of this isolated track, I can hear that the Tab is not accurate and Eddie is playing it differently. It sounds easier than the tab. Can’t wait to try it when I get home from work.
It sounds like a punch-in played over what you hear on this track. But you are right, that lick on the album is unbelievable and no one tabs the other part.
Not sure about that - there was only one working pickup in the Frankenstrat (the bridge humbucker). The single-coil neck pickup didn't work, it wasn't wired up.
One of the hardest things I have to grapple with as a musician is that you need to have your own unique sound to be a great musician, because there's nothing I'd like more than just sounding and writing like Eddie Van Halen.
I believe this might be the return feed from the echo chamber. Sunset Sound had a pretty nice one, I've heard. So this IS an iso track but doesn't sound like like much, if any, of the direct mics.
rythm with ibanez destroyer korina wood solo one of his first frankstrat. practically all of his first album was recorded like this, where there's not vibrato bridge it is ibanez
