The Guitars of Van Halen: A Short History

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About 18 months ago I made a version of this and last February a photographer contacted me to say that I'd used two of his pics without permission, so the video was taken down. I work hard to give credit whenever I know the source of a pic but frequently they are shared in many layers and it isn't easy/possible to find the original owner.
So I just reshot the video and have spent the last few days editing it back into a story that covers the biggest guitars in Eddie Van Halen's history. There were more of course but these are the ones that you heard on the records mostly and that's what interests me most.
I need to thank Pete Thorn for giving me permission to use his excellent Van Halen inspired track for the intro and outro for the video. Van Halen's influence on Pete's life as a musician shines through.
I need to thank Neil Zlozower, rock photographer of the stars for working with me to get a clean video together and for giving me permission to use four of his amazing shots in the edit. Neil worked with the band from '78 to '84. See his books of photos on the band. They are not to be missed.
I need to thank my script editor Perry McManis. It's been 18 months since we finalized this script together. Two guys from different generations both profoundly affected by Eddie Van Halen's playing.
And I particularly want to thank the friend of five watt on Patreon.
And remember, you're all five watt world, I just make the videos.
Hope you like it.
Keith

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@Em_Dee_Aitch 9 месяцев назад

God bless Eddie. And God bless you for doing this. I’m in tears. I miss him SO terribly.

@davidcraft4919 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, Keith, for this. I was in 8th grade, I had rode my bike to school, and I had a little money in my pocket. I had been playing about 2 years at that point, and I wanted to buy an album that ROCKED. My buddy had a brother that was a senior in high school, and my buddy described this new album... I pedaled over to the dime store, found the album, brought it home, put it on the turntable in my room, and my guitar trajectory changed forever. RIP, King Edward. Again, thanks for all you do Keith.

@MarkCrosson-qz7ck 9 месяцев назад

Exactly what happened to me with the album Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits! I played it over and over and couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

@tonydeaton1967 6 месяцев назад

To my mind, Edward Van Halen was the single most influential guitar player of all time. He represents a complete paradigm shift in how the instrument was played. Outclassing everything before or since in the world of guitar. Gone way too soon, we aren't likely to ever see another like him. Rest in Peace, Edward Van Halen for you, surely, have earned it. Thank you for the inspiration and thank you Keith for the video.

@norseman61 9 месяцев назад

Whenever I listen or read about the biographies of these guitar legends, I’m always curious about the formative stages of their guitar journeys. The stories are always something like “He got his first guitar for his 14th birthday, formed a band with his school buddies, and started playing gigs in town….” You NEVER hear about them learning and struggling with the instrument. It probably doesn’t exist anywhere, but wouldn’t it be cool… just once… to see a legend learning their first chords and their first songs? I just can’t picture a young Eddy fumbling through a barre chord, but I’d love to see a home movie of it!

@TheWackyWorkbench 5 месяцев назад

I mean, with the internet, for all we know the next Elvis could be doing bedroom guitar stuff right bow

@norseman61 5 месяцев назад

@@TheWackyWorkbench Exactly. There are SO many talented people out there. But are there really more than there used to be, or has the creation of social media just made us AWARE that they’re out there? Both, I think.

@marylou5844 9 месяцев назад

Famous stolen Guitars should be next.

@MrMorrisonAF 6 месяцев назад

Randy Bachman, Brian seltzer

@rayfabris2512 5 месяцев назад

that's a good subject to do great idea I'd like to find my Fernandez V I paid 4 hundred for it and found one for 16 hundred my brother was (is) or was a meth head idiot I have a new Gibson les paul standard with a cool flamed top and he doesn't have my address so I'm safe and it's not far away from me my wife and kids know better or 😮 lol

@eddiejr540 9 месяцев назад

King Edward…thank you for all you’ve given us…rest in peace Sir…

@ampman5863 9 месяцев назад

Longtime watcher, new subscriber here. I love the way you do your story lead-ins, like you looking at brother Brian after those first few chords on 'Runnin With the Devil" and him saying, "I told you so." Some things you just need to hear, no explanation will do. My experience was the same; "never heard THIS before." Thank you for your contribution to the music world. Your storytelling talent has grown over the years.

@fivewattworld 9 месяцев назад

Thanks man!

@mariodriessen9740 9 месяцев назад

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Eddie deserves a statue. In my hometown Nijmegen, where Alex and Eddie lived until they moved to the US, we have street names named after the greatest rock bands and important artists. Surely there must be a nice place for a statue somewhere! Around the corner of the house where the Van Halen family lived there’s a square with an ugly statue of two bull horns. Surely nobody will have a problem to replace that thing for a beautiful real life statue of my guitar hero. If anyone deserves it it’s Eddie! ❤

@kerzytibok3211 9 месяцев назад

I think it's criminal that Nijmegen doesn't have a statue of Eddie in the town square --- that is insulting to their greatest hometown hero!

@mariodriessen9740 9 месяцев назад

@@kerzytibok3211 : EXACTLY!!! Half of Nijmegen is named after Nina Simone. She’s great, but she only just lived here for a year. In a hotel room. And for the greatest part of that year she wasn’t even there. I’m perfectly fine with that. But if that’s how you treat someone like Nina Simone, then surely our Eddie deserves more than what he has now: absolutely nothing! It’s a shame!

@SaintKines 9 месяцев назад

I agree... And don't call me Shirley.

@mariodriessen9740 9 месяцев назад

@@SaintKines : 😂 “Joey, do you like movies with gladiators?”

@CrackaBlanco 9 месяцев назад

I think there should be a statue of EVH anywhere that he has stepped foot! We all have our opinions of who is the greatest guitarist ever. Not sure why we have to label who’s #1,#2..and so on but maybe it helps people rest better at night I guess. I’ll just say EVH is very high up on my top 5. I sleep very well

@DreidMusicalX 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for bringing back great memories of the best time to have been alive. Like it or not Van Halen changed life for many and created an entire new era of music. For many of us to this day, it is a lifestyle.

@john.galbraith 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Keith. That was great. I love this series. Another great job!

@curmudgeon154 9 месяцев назад

I totally remember the first time I herd Van Halen it was 1978, I was a freshman in High school in San Diego going to the local JC Friday night football game and my buddy was playing Runnin With The Devil at the tailgate party in the parking lot…Mind Blown🙀

@kenthensley9974 9 месяцев назад

One guitar Eddie had was a custom made Ripley stereo guitar (he might have used it on a song called "Top Jimmy ") anyway, thanks for the video, all his guitars were great but only because he made them that way; he was the best and truly missed by all us die-hard Van Halen fans.

@SombraPiloto 9 месяцев назад

Good call. I still have a copy of Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine from 1985 with Eddie and the Ripley on the cover.

@SV-bg7om 9 месяцев назад

Dear Mr. Williams: As usual, excellent job, but forgive me for pointing out some "mistakes" in there: It was Eddie who routed the Boogie Bodies body and the Kramer guitar shown was not "the" 5150. You forgot to mention some interesting facts, certainly due to time restrictions: the fact that the Frankenstrat's first neck, with the large headstock and brass nut, was permanently damaged when someone tried to install a Floyd Rose nut and ruined it, the "Telecaster-heel" strat neck that was used in the Frankesntrat (and in the Rasta when the strat headstock Kramer neck was on the Frankenstrat), that when Eddie cut the "Shark - Destroyer" guitar, it lost its sound so Eddie borrowed a Destryer from Chris Holmes (from WASP) to record Women and Children First, in which sessions the tele-heeled neck was installed on a superthick unknown strat body... Of course this is only relevant for a niche of EVH nutcases like myself. Lastly, let me say that I really like your videos, and can do nothing less that congratulate you and especially thank you for the time, effort and dedication!

@robertdiehl1281 9 месяцев назад

Very nice video. When Van Halen came out nobody could figure out what the hell he was doing on his guitar. Some people said it wasn’t a guitar lol. His guitar sound his style of playing changed history. Much like Hendrix.

@MichaelDouglasSkewes 7 месяцев назад

My absolute favorite guitar is the black and yellow stripped guitar,my friend and I, my friend Brent Woods, who has played w ith numerous musicians, we just daydreamed of having that guitar,it just looked so cool! After trying to build a few ,I finally could afford to buy an Artist series EVH mod e l,and I have every other DLR era guitar ,and a black Wolfgang. I had a custom Shark guitar made that is probably the best sounding guitar that I have ever heard! My friend Brent and I were both students of Randy Rhoads, so we were both very lucky! I have a large collection of guitars, all the EVH and RR guitars,plus KISS, and just about every thing else you could think of. I hàvè amazing White Anniversary series Marshall JCM 800 modded heads and run them with 5150 or Randall stacks ,wet dry wet, have run that set up since 1987. Good video! I can still remember the first time I heard Van Halen 1. Also I ran into Eddie with my Mom at a Tom Jones show and Eddie loved my mom ,she is half Dutch with a little Cherokee, he called her mom ,and she was always on the list when Van Halen played LA ,I was always the plus one! My Mom,passed away in June of 2020 and Eddie in Oct. ,that year sucked! But ,I still love Eddie and I actually listen to some Van Hagar now ,it's like a different world!

@joeriffanucci 9 месяцев назад

❤That was great Keith. Awesome having Pete on here for intro and outro too.

@RobNY5150 9 месяцев назад

Great video! The first time I became aware of Van Halen was in 1984 when I was a kid, because of the JUMP video on MTV. I believe I received the “single” on record for Christmas. By the time I got to high school, I started to get into the back catalog and that’s when I started getting CDs. I’d say Van Halen is my favorite band, and Eddie is my favorite guitar player of all time. I currently own a Peavey Wolfgang and have a Frankenstrat replica and 5150 replica. I assembled and painted both myself. I think the 5150 is still my favorite Eddie guitar.

@bassangler73 9 месяцев назад

I agree, the 5150 Kramer is just cool to sit and look at, definitely the best looking guitar ever!!

@ocdadd3775 4 месяца назад

Also, the boogie bodies guitar was not routed for a humbucker in the bridge - Ed did that himself with a chisel, hence why it looks so uneven. He also angled the pickup so that the end pole pieces would each be under an E string as the spacing between a Fender and a Gibson were not the same. Other guitars not mentioned: Kramer Ripley used on Top Jimmy which had pan controls for each string; double neck 12/6 string for Secrets; and of course how can anyone forget the 3/4 scale Les Paul used for Little Guitars?

@geraldrauch1701 9 месяцев назад

another job well done, keith!!! cheers brother!!!

@Greg-rd8qr 9 месяцев назад

This was awesome! Thanks!

@SeanKerns 9 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas to me! Thanks for doing this one, Keith!

@stefanlemottee6998 9 месяцев назад

Nice work Keith,. Probably the Unchained guitar is the only iconic one you missed, even though I think it had a fairly short life on the Fair Warning tour. It'd be great to see a follow up on his large collection of odd-ball guitars, like the SG he cut the lower horn off to play slide on Dirty Movies, his carved dragon guitar, the black and yellow double neck he played "Secrets" on live, the "Megazone" guitar, the mini Les Paul from "Little Guitars"

@chrislestermusic 9 месяцев назад

If I had to guess, I would say Ed used a drill on the Destroyer to put holes first in the shape he wanted to cut out. Then probably used a hack saw which left the “teeth”. Can you imagine the damage a chain saw would have done?

@edwardpotter2696 9 месяцев назад

Tgabk you so very much for putting in the work to remake thjs video, it was the first video I watched from your channel and I was devestated when it got taken down.

@wirthwhilemedia 9 месяцев назад

amazing detail, great job as always!

@larrys009 9 месяцев назад

Another Gem !! Keep it up Keith !!

@BlurredOutBoy 9 месяцев назад

My Van Halen introduction happened in almost exactly the same way, same kind of room, same time of day, with my cousins, who said "check this out". Eruption is the standout, but "Running with the Devil" is the track that did it for me. A great memory. great viddie as always

@RamsHeadRepair 17 дней назад

Love that you said jimmy has a “take no prisoners approach” considering that’s literally what “No Quarter” means!

@mikemccourt6225 9 месяцев назад

I was in kindergarten when Van Halen I came out and had a friend who had a high school aged brother who was a drummer and totally into Alex - his bedroom had a drum riser and was a literal shrine to Van Halen. For the next few years I absorbed all of those songs in my young head as we played in the house with the brother's stereo blasting as he practiced all of the songs from the first album up to 1984 (released in '83). It made winters and bad weather not such a bad thing.

@harrykenyon9262 9 месяцев назад

Thanks Keith

@mahler2112 9 месяцев назад

That's great I am curious about that bridge on Bumblebee though. I used to run the battery down in my aunt's 77 firebird listening to VH 1 on 8 track lol.

@nickmizell1141 9 месяцев назад

Keith, thank you very much. This is an awesome series you have going.

@eidetecker 9 месяцев назад

I went and made popcorn for this one. Yeah, man.

@PurposefulPorpoise 9 месяцев назад

Some nerd analyzed the size of Ed's magnet in his original black PAF in Frankie, turned out to be a short AV. Pickup was overwound by Eddie to max, which would put it at around 9k with 42awg wire. I doubt the coils were asymmetrically wound since he seemed to push everything to its limit, so both bobbins would have been wound to full up. Arcane Brownbucker is closest thing out there.

@matthewpaluch777 9 месяцев назад

Gr8 job Keith! I remember at 1 time both Eddie & Randy Rhoads were playing an original DEAN flying Vee live on da strip.

@guaromiami 7 месяцев назад

I've seen a photo of Eddie with Les Paul and a Les Paul guitar with a Floyd Rose. I don't know if he ever used it on tour or in a recording. Eddie also used some sort of special guitar to record Top Jimmy. And he used a small scale guitar for Little Guitars.

@BillCarns 6 месяцев назад

Fantastic video. Thank you.

@KnownBeing 9 месяцев назад

Funny how EVH started out with a 4 pickup guitar and made his mark with a single pickup guitar

@wgnation351 9 месяцев назад

The guitar at 15:30 is the Hot for Teacher guitar instead of the 5150 guitar. He also had a 1984 guitar as a backup to the 5150.

@rickcrotts6673 9 месяцев назад

George Lynch and Guitar World have claimed it was The Boyz (George's band) Van Halen was opening for when Gene discovered them

@CPJ647 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this Keith. I love EVH and your story telling makes the love even stronger

@HKTimbo 25 дней назад

Fascinating. Thank you.

@muziqman100 9 месяцев назад

Another excellent video Keith. Over the years I have toyed with the idea of building my own Frankenstein copy just for fun.

@davidburnett4235 6 месяцев назад

Thank You !!

@jimthecraftyguitarist878 9 месяцев назад

FWIW - The second Kramer neck was a Tom Anderson designed neck.

@tobbebergman7583 9 месяцев назад

I know exactly where I was when I heard those car horns opening to Runnin With The Devil in 1978 ! That day everything changed and still no one has come close ! Coincidentally my parents had given me an Ibanez Destroyer the year prior to that but it would take many many years for me to realize that Eddie used the exactly same sort of guitar on that epic first Van Halen album ! Still have it here by my side in mint condition ! I also met Eddie in Copenhagen May 23 1980 ! R.I.P Eddie

@aminahmed2220 9 месяцев назад

What a fantastic video have a good day Keith also i would like a video of the fender bass vi ❤😊 short history

@nucleargrizzly1776 9 месяцев назад

Sunday, June 10, 1979. New Orleans Superdome. First Annual Day of Rock and Roll. Some band nobody had ever heard of called Van Halen took the stage. Sammy Hagar, Boston, Heart, Nazareth, Blue Öyster Cult. All great. All paled in comparison. Best $13 I ever spent.

@brianseneca3546 9 месяцев назад

Every time I see that burst with the neck pickup missing my stomach drops a little bit!

@adamjolin 9 месяцев назад

YYYEEEEESSSS! Thanks Keith!

@chuckburns9900 9 месяцев назад

That was an excellent video Keith.

@bobilly 9 месяцев назад

Jim DeCola actually designed the Peavey headstock and Ed signed off on it. Peavey retained the rights and Ed/Fender had to change the design for the Fender made models 👍

@shawnhuff3920 9 месяцев назад

I was born in April 1974 so my first indrtroduction to vanhallen was hot for teacher MTV music video then I bought 1984 the best vanhallen I think 🤔

@michaelwhite7876 9 месяцев назад

Just my two cents. The very earliest Ibanez Destroyers had no serial number. Eddie says his was quite a bit lighter than a later ash body one he borrowed from Blackie Lawless, I too have one of these light weight ones, It's tight wood grain is nothing like the later ash ones (Sen). I believe it is bleached mahogany,. Korina is east african mahogany. I have only seen another one of these tight grained versions on line once. Someone before me put EMGs in it, I found period correct Super 70s for it.

@tanneryordan 8 месяцев назад

The wood was ALWAYS sen. Eddie mistakenly thought his was made from a different wood than the later 70s ones. The tight grain is characteristic of Sen. Ed's was Sen and so was every single destoyer from those few years. Eddie proved time and time again that he knew nothing about tone-wood and said a lot of BS about his guitars and their woods. Also, he borrowed CHRIS HOLMES's destroyer, not blackie lawless. Chris' was an identical destroyer to eddies', bought from the exact same store right off the boat in 75.

@asmusicguy 9 месяцев назад

Nice detail about his early guitars! Would have loved to see the Dragon Snake, Mini Les Paul (little guitar), and double neck Kramer featured on this video, as these guitars are excellent and more obscure, while Frankie has been covered up and down.

@philpiercy2588 9 месяцев назад

Well done

@jpbanksnj 9 месяцев назад

Great video but would have liked a mention of the borrowing on Chris Holmes guitar for recording one of the early records.

@philhood4604 9 месяцев назад

Cool video Keith. Pete Thorn awesome as usual

@AmenMoto 8 месяцев назад

Finally letting the beard dominate. I like it. Keep it up. Carry on.

@MrUltraworld 9 месяцев назад

I clearly remember hearing the first record, I was 16 and it changed my life. In an interview, Eddie said the Bumblebee was a pain in the ass to keep in tune and it just didn't sing like the Frankenstein. It wasn't used much and soon after was gathering dust in 5150 when Dime was killed.

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 9 месяцев назад

Goddaamn Pete thorn's tone is incredible in the background music! Where can i get the track he is playing here on its own?

@fivewattworld 9 месяцев назад

See his video on WARM Audio gear.

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 9 месяцев назад

@@fivewattworld Thank you! 👍

@bluesman6873 5 месяцев назад

Superb video! Please do one on the guitars of Steve Vai! 🙏

@artrogers3985 9 месяцев назад

Great job! Please add John Paul Jones to the bass suggestion. Thanks

@maxophone5218 9 месяцев назад

please please do a “guitars of dimebag darrell” 🙏🏻 that would be an awesome video!

@Johnnybananass-_ 9 месяцев назад

It was Hendrix tribute artist Randy hansen that put Floyd d rose onto Eddie van halen after a name show meeting when he was looking for artists that might suit such a crazy new intense tremolo system. As Floyd was inspired by Hendrix he offered it to Randy for touring once Eddie and Floyd met up the rest became the best guitar marketing marriage in history .

@davolk9525 9 месяцев назад

I have 2 Peavey Wolfgangs. They are great guitars.

@50whatnomadtravelnursemtb5 7 месяцев назад

I loved Eddies solos and Van Halen is in my eyes one of the best rock bands if not the best ever....so good

@liambirch21 3 месяца назад

What about the Les Paul Mini from Little Guitars?

@EJH-jn6mo 9 месяцев назад

This one is long long overdue. One of the most, if not the most, influential guitar players of all time. May he RIP.

@kevin23kg6 9 месяцев назад

He had the video up couple months ago but yt deleted it

@blasphemizerr 8 месяцев назад

me who got a free strat from facebook and paintes it like ddies even though i dont know a single vh song, tbh i paintes it like that because it looks really good, i listen to vh sometimes but im not a super fan, i painted the neck except the fretboard, red with the stripes aswell, white yellowed pick guard, hot rail pickups, lol

@CraigHollabaugh 9 месяцев назад

Oh my, which friend is breaking out the Frankenstrat?

@fivewattworld 9 месяцев назад

Pete Thorn did those duties. :)

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 9 месяцев назад

@@fivewattworld His tone was flipping incredible! Where can i listen to the track he did on this vid on its own?

@toms3664 6 месяцев назад

3:17 Eddie's mom She drove him and Alex to those piano contests and lessons

@rolandjgutierrez7737 9 месяцев назад

Your father built a stereo that is one of the coolest thing iv ever heard...WoW FaCtOr 100%...RocknRollflat5

@hyperluminalreality1 9 месяцев назад

I remember hearing Eruption for the first time on the radio in 1979. It was a new dawn in guitar. Nothing like it before. Many shredders after. Eruption bore Malmsteen, and most every other fast player besides Randy Rhoads. They were contemporary. Randy was in a different league than party time Van Halen. Imagine Van Halen releasing something as serious as Revelation Mother Earth. Eddie could never have written a solo that matches what Randy applied there. But Eddie did Eruption.....that is what this is about.

@RustyGunn7 6 месяцев назад

Curious that Charvel routed out the body for a humbucker, but Eddie used a chisel to route out the humbucker. What am I misunderstanding here? Thanks.

@michaelrandolph2493 9 месяцев назад

You forgot the classical guitar used on Spanish Fly. You forgot little Guitars double neck, and the Music Man Double Neck. Also, you forgot the Finish What You Started Guitar, and finally his stereo guitar from Kramer where each string had a volume control.

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

“Little Guitars” was not a double neck. that was “Secrets”

@TedDiabetes 9 месяцев назад

Regarding the Ed and Dime story. Dime originally wanted to buy one of the Bumblebee style Charvels that Eddie was using on the 2004 tour. Eddie told him he'd do sometime special, which he intemded on giving him the real Bumblebee, because he said "An original should have the original."

@Wolf.51.50 9 месяцев назад

For me it was 1988, when my brother in law put Van Halen I on his car stereo and i heard "Eruption" and "Ice cream man" for the first time. Since then, i developed a syndrome called "Vanhalenism". The doctor says it's forever 🤣Thanks for this video ❤

@TruthSurge 9 месяцев назад

9:17 that cannot be right. That would mean he could not play ONLY the bridge pickup and I honestly never heard him EVER play a neck pickup from album 1 onward. ? If he wired both pickups to the output jack in series OR parallel, how would he get the bridge pickup only? To use vol controls, he'd need to wire them to the volume pots THEN to the output jack.

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

the statement from the video is wrong. the neck pickup may have been disconnected, but there MUST have been an active selector switch because of the stutter effect on “You really got me” there is neck pickup on the clean parts of “Hot For Teacher”. That is from his korina flying V. The only other time I can think of is the end solo on “So is this love” although it has an octave effect and flanger on it so it’s hard to tell.

@TruthSurge 9 месяцев назад

@tanneryordan You're right about that toggle switch effect on you really got me. That's exactly how a less paul works too. So yeah he had to have a working toggle switch to do that Or else make something else to do the same thing. I never even Associated those clean parts with a bridge pick up. I'll have to go back. Listen to the isolated track for hot for teacher and see if I can hear when he flips a toggle switch. It would have to be while he's holding that low e power chord. Thx

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

@@TruthSurge yes! the toggle switch is so loud because his flying V was incredibly microphonic… this was made clear by some new unmixed isolated tracks. right before ed starts playing the tapping in the beginning, you can hear him roll up the volume and you hear Alex’s drums through the guitar!

@TruthSurge 9 месяцев назад

@@tanneryordan It might be the drums bleeding into his guitar mic tho instead. If they are in the same room, that is going to most likely happen. Although yes, there can be some sounds picked up via air compression. I've yelled into a guitar pickup and my voice is heard from the amp so yes, I know for a fact that can happen BUT I doubt it happens with drums across the room AND with baffles around the drums to isolate them. Again, I would say it is bleed from drums into Ed's guitar mic and that is just bleed that is there so .... that's my opinion. :)

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

@@TruthSurge you actually hear the “bassier” drum bleed FIRST and then you hear the drums feed through the guitar microphonic’s second, right before he plays the tapping. its a totally different sound as well

@acemcateerguitar 9 месяцев назад

the rasta guitar is my favorite of his probably

@kennethfaron5486 9 месяцев назад

I saw Van Halen in 1982. He played Cathedral on a double neck guitar. That was the only time I saw a double neck. Do you know anything about that guitar?

@hyperluminalreality1 9 месяцев назад

13:43.... A humbucker mounted from the rear?!? Looks like top mounted with a bezel instead of a pickguard.

@hyperluminalreality1 9 месяцев назад

Ron Bergundy moment. Did you read that without question or a flag in your head that what you were reading sounded wrong? Apparently so. Razz. Anyway. Thanks 5 Watt crew. Another interesting video.

@hehemm1174 8 месяцев назад

What’s the song playing in the background at 1:29?

@fivewattworld 8 месяцев назад

Pete Thorn wrote that in a Van Halen like style

@toddpetty5130 6 месяцев назад

I have the same Teisco Del Rey

@Jordan-ku7ot 9 месяцев назад

PLEASE do guitars of DimeBag Darrell 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@jordanlopez1438 9 месяцев назад

Can you do a video on Michael Anthony?

@Nordic_Sky 9 месяцев назад

I wonder what happened to the two bursts he bought from Norm back in the early '80s.

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

he sold them in the 90s

@Nordic_Sky 9 месяцев назад

Really? I'm surprised because at the time he said they were a long-term investment. And he had no shortage of money. The woman who designed my kitchen also did his and Valerie's and they were certainly not on a budget. @@tanneryordan

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

@@Nordic_Sky I can’t find the article, but apparently someone gave him an offer he couldnt refuse. The les pauls and flying V went. it makes sense because we’ve seen pics of a lot of his guitars pop up in the studio since the 90s, but none of those 3

@Nordic_Sky 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Even someone with a lot of money will sometimes part with something if they aren't using it and it is just gathering dust. Maybe Valerie got tired of tripping over the cases. Lol! @@tanneryordan

@johnoakley6696 9 месяцев назад

No one can tell us about the ones in the photo shoot where he had the pink jump suit on......

@chisolm5 9 месяцев назад

There can be only one. ❤

@gibby2951 8 месяцев назад

Eddie is the reason I picked up a guitar

@edwinh7908 8 месяцев назад

Regarding the Frankenstrat-Correction-Edward Routed The Humbucker With A Chisel, Re-freted The Maple Neck All To Himself.

@giornogiovanna5675 7 месяцев назад

Dimebag Darrell mentioned

@hollymartins6913 9 месяцев назад

An incredible and visionary artist with a signature tone that within 2 or 3 notes, you know who it was even if you had never heard the song. He changed the world of the electric guitar. That said, God rest his soul, he was no luthier. As much as I still love the art of Eddie Van Halen, my butt puckers with every photo a beautiful instrument, butchered. But, God could he play.

@fivestring65ify 9 месяцев назад

I feel the same way. He destroyed a lot of fine guitars, but the tone he got was unreal. A lot of good occurred while he was intoxicated. I don't think they would have looked so bad if he had been sober. I guess we will never know. All of my guitars are stock. I refuse to deface them.

@HalJikaKick 7 месяцев назад

Bonnamassa probably has that gold top. 😂

@lawrenrich6419 9 месяцев назад

Ironic … Eddie obviously didn’t care as much about the guitars he played .. famously cannibalizing what he needed to get them to work for him. Necessity and invention and all that… true artist. And now we are the ones meticulously documenting what he played when etc. I’m sure he’s getting a kick out of this.

@MacPro8CoreMan 9 месяцев назад

Boogie Bodies did not route the bridge cavity. Eddie did it with a hammer and chisel.

@tanneryordan 9 месяцев назад

That’s what he claimed, but almost every photo shows a very “clean” route. clean meaning the walls of the cavity were straight up and down which is characteristic of a router. there may have been som chiseling, but most of it was a router

@kanesword9528 7 месяцев назад

I saw them at the Carrier Dome in 1981, David Lee Roth's birthday and he was smashed i think lol

@tato4612 9 месяцев назад

Keith, why not a "Basses of......." series? You could do Geddy Lee, Phil Lesh, Bill Wyman, John Entwistle, even Michael Anthony........ Just a suggestion. AWESOME channel, please keep up the great work, it's much appreciated!

@banditbiker5190 9 месяцев назад

Show us bass players some love

@justinespinosa7878 9 месяцев назад

Bass stuff just doesn’t get the views unfortunately.

@brianpoague 9 месяцев назад

Even Jaco, that'd be really sweet

@malcolmadams2105 9 месяцев назад

On that note.. Geddy Lee has a new show Streaming. It’s called (“Are Bass Players Human Too?!””) or something like that.. 🎉🎉He hangs out with other Bass players.

@realadamnixon 9 месяцев назад

I'd be a fan of that idea. Also, a Guitars of Frank Zappa would be cool, though it might be too much work for the amount of views it may garner.

@Mike-to8hb 9 месяцев назад

I bought the first VH album while I was stationed in Korea in the US Army way back in the day. I'm 68 now. It was a bootleg copy the Koreans had made. I took it back to the barracks not knowing what I had since I had never heard of the band. We cracked open some beers and started to listen and were blown away. Music was never the same after that.

@LAramdog 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service Sir!

@VideosVarious2 6 месяцев назад

I totally agree, my Fellow Veteran Brother! Music was NEVER the same!

@brentmaynes8934 5 месяцев назад

Never!

@commentfreely5443 5 месяцев назад

VH great. this side of paradise guitars steve stevens ric ocasek changed guitar for me

@rdmkeytohwy 9 месяцев назад

Anyone who grew up in the ‘70’s knew who Eddie Van Halen was. He was a true innovator like Les Paul and others before him. He built guitars out of necessity because his family was poor and he wanted certain features that builders were not doing at the time. He, like Hendrix before him, changed everything. And he did it all with a smile on his face and took us all along with him. The first time I heard “Eruption” I thought, “What the hell was that?” One thing that I think is overlooked a lot is Eddie’s rhythm playing. You hear people imitating him and you can hear that they don’t quite have it. Anybody can shred if you practice enough and just work on speed but not everybody can play with the swing and groove he did. Listen to “Drop Dead Legs” on the 1984 album and tell me that doesn’t get the hairs on your arm to stand up. I literally did cry the day he died. I listened to Van Halen so much in high school and college and knew the words to every song and knew the guitar parts on all of the albums. He is so missed. He was the G.O.A.T. for me.

@MainPrism 9 месяцев назад

He's the King for a reason!!! Rest easy Eddie, you're definetly missed but not forgotten. 🤴🎸🤘🔥

@jimjohnson-p6b 9 месяцев назад

couldn't agree more !!!

@kurtbader9711 6 месяцев назад

Top Jimmy too.

@rdmkeytohwy 6 месяцев назад

@@kurtbader9711 absolutely! Top Jimmy was another favorite. I listened to the album 1984 about a gazillion times in high school. Eddie was so great…….now that I think of it 1984 took a lot of heat from some hardcore fans but I think it is one of their best. After I heard Panama for the first time it was game over for me in the guitar hero category. Ed was his own category.

@VideosVarious2 6 месяцев назад

You said it! It's called 'Riffage', and Steve Clark,, Malcolm Young, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Page, they all had it. But Eddie put 'swing' into it. And that's no surprise, since his dad, Jan, played that clarinet in, you guessed it, 'Swing Bands'. And Eddie & Alex grew up hearing 'Swing' all the time. The 'seeds' were planted at a very young age! Copping Eddies 'Swing Riffs' came pretty easy to me, very naturally, because, just like the VH brothers, my younger brother & I grew up hearing our dad play 'Texas SWING' C&W music, professionally, on 10-string Pedal Steel through the 1970s and 1980s. So, that 'swing'-element was 'engrained' in my heart and soul forever. And when I first heard "I'm The One" off VH1, I related to it immediately and after I got my first real guitar, a 1986 Peavey Impact 1 guitar for Christmas 1986, it was NO TIME before I too, was playing Eddie's 'Swing Riff' that runs throughout that song. I took to it quickly. But the more 'complicated' soloing techniques, like the 2nd solo break Ed starts off with in that song, I didn't take to it so easily, but the fast picking I 'did' take to somewhat easily, was a bit 'rough' at first, then built strength in my arm and began 'staccato-picking' like Ed recorded on the records.