TWO SISTERS REACT To Van Halen Eruption Guitar Solo !!! (RIP) 

We LOVED this. This was INCREDIBLE 💕🔥🔥

RIP EVH! Interesting fact: Dimebag Darrell was a big fan of Eddie Van Halen. EVH actually went to Dimebag's funeral and placed one of his original guitars in the casket with DIme saying "an original for an original"

Eddie didn't pass away....God just wanted to learn to play guitar

The greatness of Eddie is that he was very very humble, he knew he was leaving a legacy, but never he felt himself more than other guitarrist. R.I.P. EDDIE, we already miss you a lot.

When I heard Eddie died tears came to my eyes. Van Halen was the soundtrack of my youth.

Eddie played guitar with a pianists mindset, both hands equally as important. I'll miss his riffs as much as his smile.

'Shredding' and 'Tapping' became such a signature of metal over the coming decades, that it's easy to forget they didn't really exist in rock music before Eddie arrived. In his own way, he revolutionized the sound.

Hey girls, This is actually a big medley off his guitar solos, there are parts from Eruption, Spanish Fly, Mean Streets, 316 (which is a kind of lullaby he wrote for his son when he was born) and other songs (I'm not totally familiar with VH discography), there also might be a few improvised parts. The story of Eruption is that he was early in the studio when they were recording their debut album and he improvised that as a warm up, the sound enginneer hear it and was like "hey let's put this on the album !!!" \m/ Also, you probably heard "Jump" as well (at least the intro), it's one of these songs everyone heard but noone knows who it's from :) Otherwise, I highly suggest "Hot For Teacher" which has the sickest intro ever, or Mean Streets which is groovy af. And Eddy was the biggest guitar influence of Dimebag from Pantera \m/ Rip Eddie

Do you understand that he is the only guitarist to ever make uh his guitar sound like a violin or cello with how he used the control knobs on his guitar?? NOW THAT IS AMAZING!!!!!

"How many hands does he have?".......that's hysterical. I have seen hundreds of reactors doing this clip and have NEVER heard somebody put it that way. Faking an ear-gasm is unneeded when it comes to EVH. This "solo" is basically comprised of most of his iconic solos or intros from his entire catalog. The ACTUAL "Eruption" is cut #2 on Van Halen's first album and is attached to the cover of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" (worth a reaction vid, for sure!). Great vid, you guys!

"I'm the One" from the 1st Van Halen album is a must-listen.

Part of Eddie’s mastery of the guitar was his capturing of harmonics. He didn’t invent it but he mastered it. You can hear the use of harmonics in the Don Felder solo on the Eagles Hotel California which came out about 3 years before Van Halen’s first album. But what Eddie did was capture them into actual notes, not just accents on a note. Harmonics are the natural vibration guitar strings always have even just sitting on the table doing nothing. The air makes them vibrate at a very small, delicate frequency. You can’t hear them unless you turn an amplifier up LOUD!!!! And that’s what Eddie did - he was the first to turn an amp up louder than it could go from the factory by using an external power supply to boost the power going into it from the wall. The volume knob goes up to 10, but He once said “when Spinal Tap was going up to 11 I was already going up to 15”. He boosted that power so all those tiny harmonics came through then played with them. It was revolutionary what he did.

The part when the lights go blue behind him is one of the greatest things you will ever witness. He plays the guitar with the volume knob, not the strings. It is manual tremolo, and is one of the hardest things to do well on a guitar.

That’s what pure natural talent , combined with skill gives you. R.I.P. EVH. True legend gone but never to be forgotten.

R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen I'm going to MISS this Man, but we still have the Music☹️👊🙏 So glad I grew up listening to Eddie in those early Van Halen days 🤘

And he always did it with a smile on his face. RIP, Eddie,

Eddie was the best guitar player of all time , no doubt. He was also THE GUITAR PLAYER of all guitar players. Almost everyone mentions him as an influence on their guitar playing , myself included. RIP Eddie Van Halen

I'm 56 years old and have been listening to Van Halen since their fist album back in the 70s. It brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye to see you both enjoy the music I grew up on . Eddie Van Halen may be gone from us , but with help from people like you two his music will live forever. Many thanks to the both of you , and so many other reactors for doing what you do. 🤘🤘🤘

Goosebumps and SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE.. Thanks for the ride E.V.H God Speed.

Loved your reactions and watching this video, which was the first time I watched him play live when I decided as a young teenager that I wanted to learn how to play guitar. Miss my original guitar hero...RIP

When I was in high school, I would watch this solo over and over. Back then (in the 80's)...it was on VHS tape. I watched it so many times, it actually started to damage the video tape. But Eddie, was the inspiration for me to pick up the guitar. 35 years later, I'm still rocking with Van Halen...and always will. Glad to see the younger generation discovering the brilliance of, Eddie Van Halen. =\//-/=🎸🤟🎶🎵

Eddie put his guitar in Dimebag's(Pantera)coffin when he died he said Dimebag was an original #eddiebestever🎸#rip

Whether you like their songs or not, you can't deny the talent and virtuosity that Eddie brought to the table. The man is a legend and in my opinion, is on the Mount Rushmore of greatest guitarists of ALL TIME! It's hard to say this person or that person is the greatest because musical styles and eras of music when one person might be the dominant player can be so different but Eddie deserves to be up there in the same tier as Hendrix, Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn (a few others probably as well). Eddie didn't invent the techniques used in his playing but he damn sure improved and expanded on them and took them to another level. I think that's what separates the great guitar players from the legendary ones; the ability to push the boundaries of the era forward to create a style or sound or technique that no one has heard and/or seen before. Van Halen isn't my favorite band but I did listen to them a lot during my childhood and into my teen years and Eddie always had my attention when I would hear them on the radio or see them on MTV. As sad as his passing is, I'm so glad that it's bringing to light his talent to people who otherwise would have never known just how good this man was. Loved watching your reactions to this!

I love their reactions. I learned every lick he ever played over the course of the 40 years i have played, ill.see you again maestro!

This is a series of solos Eddie recorded on his early albums with exception of 316 (his sons birthday) which was not recorded on an album until 1991. The solos are as follows: 316 - beginning Eruption - when drums come in and on right side of stage Cathedral - middle of the stage Mean Street & Spanish Fly - left side of the stage Outro - middle of the stage

First heard Van Halen in 1978. Went to 4 of their concerts. Eddie always had his moment to shine with his guitar, and was always amazing, just like he is here. Such a loss.

I was very privileged to be able to see Eddie and Van Halen perform on everyone of their tours from 1979-2015… Some of the pieces that are in this guitar solar which was from a show in 1986 are for guitar solos that he did on different albums but it is all put together in one long phenomenal guitar solo along with some other pieces thrown in…. He was amazing to watch and you did use the right word Eargasm… He is one of the best guitarists of all time…RIP EVH

Solos are in the moment and deserving. Also a great moment for singer and other members to take a break and let the one member keep the show going

Did you notice the guitar pic broke and he just tossed it into the crowd and just grabbed another one from his guitar without missing a note!!!!! ROCK IN PEACE EDDIE VAN HALEN.....

Loved this!!! To answer your question, solos CAN be improvised or they can be from feeling and intuition or can be figured out in advance. I think you ladies would really enjoy Spanish Fly or Jump

Simply the Elvis of guitar playing, guitar and amp sound, and guitar and amp innovation! The best there ever was, or ever will be. RIP Eddie...........

The first time her did this, he did it as a complete improve but it so popular that was a prat of every show he was in. Ladies, no shit, he was a guitar GOD

Check out Mean Street...it highlights the band as a whole.

I remember listening to this and other Van Halen songs wile lifting waits and playing high school baseball. The 80s were by far the best ever. Rock on Eddie, Your fans miss you.

In all honesty, I wasn't a big Van Halen fan, but I did know and listen to a few songs. No one solos anymore like this. Nowadays its mostly noise or bits from other peoples songs. This solo is truly unique and inspirational. Long Live Eddie Van Halen. 🤘💜🤘 Rest In Peace EVH!

@5:45 That's respect. Thank you for showing the respect this man deserves. Peace 7 Love

Magic isn't the word. He was well WELL beyond his time. It's beyond incredible what he could do with a guitar. ❤

I took my son to see them live in 2015 as a 12yrold, and he was made a lifelong fan since then! I know you guys will be too.

It is mostly composed. Listen to the studio tracks for "Eruption", "Spanish Fly", "Cathedral"' and the intro to "Mean Street" and you will hear all of the major parts of this solo. The stuff he does between these sections are probably improvised. You will also hear deviations from the studio versions of these solos in his live performances. I grew up with Eddie - I started playing guitar the year Van Halen I came out. Watching you see this for the first time brings me right back to my early teens when I couldn't believe what I was hearing and had no idea how he was playing this stuff. I had to wait for 4 years before I got to see Eddie live. Man, I wish there was RU-vid back then! Loved your reactions!

1 of you said it best when you said it was magic. That man had kept me out of a lot of trouble because I picked up a guitar instead of what other kids my age were picking up. It was an absolute experience to see you play. All hail King Edward. RiP. 🤘🎸

Eddie van Halen rip..........been listen to ur muzic since I was a kid.........from dis day I still listen to ur muzic........I would have to say from dis day it wouldn't been for my dad to getting me into it for sure.........still loving ur muzic.........

You ladies are lovely. Thx for reacting to this legend. Eddie Van Halen. Thank you.

The beginning of the solo was a bit he created on acoustic guitar. This was filmed in '86. 5 years later in 1991 Eddie's son, Wolfgang, would be born and Eddie would play this for him at bedtime every night. He would title it "316" for his son's birthday and would record it for inclusion on the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album later that same year. Right after the opening he goes into his signature guitar solo and the most famous guitar solo in the history of hard rock, Eruption. It was recorded for their '78 debut album and radio stations played it as a lead-in to "You Really Got Me", as it was on the album. The first half of it he plays while still up on the riser; the other half he plays down on the main stage.

Eddie's concert solo is a compillation of various solos he's recorded over the years. Some of the individual solos were recorded for inclusion on albums while others were intros to songs not on that evening's setlist. For example, the opening of this solo didn't have an official name at the time of this recording in 1986. 5 years later Eddie would name it "316" for his son's birthday who was born that year and would also include it on the CD they released later that year. The slap technique you saw was the intro for the song "Mean Street" from the 1981 Fair Warning album. Mean Street is the first track on that CD, so the first thing you hear when you hit "play" is that solo and then the song. The part he played right after this was a freestyle bit that he took from his "tabletop" solo from the previous tour in 1984. Interestingly, he would revisit this solo bit again and modify it to be used for the solo in a song called "Judgement Day" on the '91 For Unlawful Carnal Knowlwdge album. A final example is the solo he played with the volume knob. That's a standalone solo called "Cathedral" from the '82 Diver Down album. There are also other little bits and pieces in this solo, like the few bars he plays of Cream's "I'm So Glad." As for real freestyling, Eddie stopped doing much of that as the years went by, opting instead to just do an extended solo. In the old days, once or twice a show, Eddie and his brother, (drummer) Alex Van Halen, would just stretch out and start wailing for 7-8 minutes during the solo part in the song. They stopped doing that after a while because no one would know when they were ready to get back to finishing playing the song.

I welcome you both to the world of pure genius and god level talent.

Beautiful sisters. Enjoyed watching you reacting to a great solo from a great guitarist

I was 24 when the album 84 came out and You ladies said it magic

It is so fun to watch peoples facial expressions as there brain tries to process it all . Eddie was the first at many new things and a true legend and KING of the hammer ons . I was lucky enough to catch Van Halen twice live in the 80,s and they were SO good ! Just awesome to see younger generations discover this man and his many talents .. RIP Eddie you will be missed Sir ! Great reaction !

Live solos can be improvised or changed depending on the the mood of the guitarist. That's one of the best things about live rock. Live shows can be the same , but different. You two are beautiful. 🤘🤘🤘

In the words of EVH, NEVER STOP PRACTICING

The start of the solo makes me tear up now..

Eddie was like Jimi Hendrix, they didn't just play guitar they made love to it and it answered back. Both true pioneers in their own right. DAMNNNN is right girls you are experiencing greatness. Eargasm is right. Also most if not all of Eddie's live solos came from the heart and soul and he just played to what he felt at the time. And when he looks at the crowd as if to ask "ohhhhh you like that? Well here then....." priceless. PLEEEEASE if you truly enjoyed this then check out Hendrix rendition of The Star Spangled Banner done at Woodstock '69. Truly epic. RIP EDDIE and JIMI.

EVH lives!!!!!!!!!! From 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 (Viva Chile!!) ⚡👊🏻⚡

We will miss you Eddie VanHalen thankyou for your great solos Eruption in my opinion is the hardest ever and thankyou for VanHalen 1 thru 84 that kept America up there with all the great overseas bands VanHalen PorVida !

Spanish Fly, In a Simple Rhyme, Dirty Movies, Aint Talking bout Love....all great Van Halen songs to consider. Great reaction, ladies. Thx for appreciating Eddie. Felt like losing an old friend for many of us,,,,

This may have been said already but he incorporated several solos off his albums during this particular solo. The intro was 316 (which is Wolfgangs birthday), then he freestyled a little before going into Eruption. Then Cathedrals, then the intro to Mean Streets with a little more freestyle. Then finishing with Spanish Fly before ending with the band for the next song. Enjoyed the vid. Thanks for sharing and paying tribute.

Absolutely awesome reaction, ladies! You know it's good when your brain locks up and no words come to mind. I am happy that I got to experience him live in concert waaaaaaay back in the day, 1987 I think. An awesome experience I will never forget. Much love to you for this video. RIP Eddie!

I'm so proud that Eddie and Alex were born in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 😺. They moved to the states when they were teenagers. Van Halen is our biggest musical export product.

Eddie Van Halen he will always be remembered as the Johann Sebastian Back of the electric guitar. Just like back then, he lifts us up to heaven with his musical majesty, and now he does it on the great heavenly stage. RIP: 1955 - 2020 See you forever master😔🤘

2nd time, same video. Love you , ladies, loving on Eddie. Thank you ❤️

Loved your statement "I like it so much he's got me speaking Spanish".

The part of the solo you said sounded like you were in space is called "Cathedral". I recommend listening to the studio version. It's quite beautiful. He's making it sound that way by playing a note on the strings with one hand and quickly turning the volume knob up and down each time with the other.

The beginning slow part when he was sitting is called 316. He wrote this at 3:16 AM and played it to get his baby son, Wolfgang, to go to sleep. Although this is his most famous solo on video, I’ve seen Van Halen live many times and he’s had even better solos. Eddie has said he was so drunk during this solo he doesn’t remember playing it.

This solo is called "Eruption" and the more melodic part is from another solo called "Cathedral" and the third more percussive part on this live version is the introduction of the song "Mean Street" and he improvises and incorporates these three solo pieces of music in this Live version of the Eruption solo...

6:34 When we heard eruption when it first came out we had the very same reaction you two just had. The album version is very different but still makes me feel invincible for some reason when I listen to it. This solo is a compilation of several pieces he played on different albums.

At the beginning is from the CD For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge called 316 and is his Son Wolfgang's birthday What he starts playing at about 12:04 is called Cathedral from Diver Down.

Great Reaction Ladies. R.I.P. EVH a guitar master! You Ladies should react to another music legend/song writer Who just recently passed away also, Mac Davis. The songs “Baby don’t get hooked on Me” or “Texas in my rear view Mirror”

Eddie did the guitar solo in Michael Jackson's "Beat It". There's a video of a live performance of the song and when Eddie starts playing, MJ starts fanboying, chanting "Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!"

I would happy pay the full ticket just to watch this part. Very gladly. Forget the entire concert... aah, beijinhos de lisboa para as duas guapas ☺

This performance is loosely based on a song called Eruption from the 1978 album "Van Halen" and some other Van Halen songs too. (I was 10 years old) Eruption was one of the songs that people back in the day freaked out about because no one had ever heard anything like it. This solo and his playing on other tunes turned Eddie Van Halen into an international superstar and I'm sure you can hear/see why.

Fun fact: Eddie came up with the name for the "tapping" technique, but he wasn't the first to introduce it to the rock scene. 🙂 Steve Hackett brought it in with Genesis in 1971. Then there's of course Ritchie Blackmore with Deep Purple as well as Brian May with Queen. 🙂 When Eddie saw Steve perform at one of his solo shows, he was immediately inspired to develop this technique even further. 😊

Seeing him live is even better. Much of the music you heard was derived from his creation of "Eruption". He has used that as a base for much of this and it is improvised from that. A true genius feels it from the heart and given the tools, they will create on the fly. Glad to have a signed guitar and a few picks from some early concerts. He created so much for all of us to share. RIP EVH.

He truly was among the greatest.

Eddie was a creative genius. Like Issac Newton if he was a musician instead of a mathematician and scientist. Crazy solo aside he built his guitar from parts of other guitars then tweaked them so they'd work together (different guitars have different sized parts) and built his own amps with voltage control knobs he built into them to control the exact amount of electricity to his guitar just to get his guitar to sound like that in the first place. THEN he came up with these insane solos. The really funny part about his style is Eddie couldn't read music, he learned entirely by ear, and they had to invent a whole new method to write what he was doing (tablature they call it) and Eddie couldn't read it to tell them if it was accurate or not! A true original in every sense of the word.

He originally played this way in in 78!!!! Was WTH to people then

When he uses the volumn knobs, its called Cathederal, Intruder is in there as well as the intro toMean Streets.

Sister on the left is absolutely gorgeous!!

This solo is a medley of solos. It contains 316, eruption, cathedral, meanstreets intro and a lot of improvisation.

I sure am glad that I got to see Van Halen live in concert twice, once with Sammy Hagar and once with David Lee Roth.

God bless Eddie and all his contributions to the music world and the Universe.

Eddie used to do sometimes hundreds of recordings in the studio then he would go back and listen to them, string togethe teh best parts, then learn how to play those parts in one recording. What made this so difficult is sometimes how the parts were strung togehter it required him to be all over the fret board. It's fun to see young people enjoying how talented he was. I feel like he was the guitar God of my generation. There doesn't seem to be one in this generation.

I love you girls! You made it fun watching that again :)

This solo is a combination of a handful of recorded works with improvisations throughout. 316, cathedral, and eruption are all a part of this. I think I even heard some mean street in there as well (and a few others). The parts where he picks very fast sound very much like classical music as Eddie was first taught classical piano (though he never learned how to actually read music).

Did you girls catch around the 13 min mark he’s just turning the volume knob up and down real fast to create that sound My hero. Gods speed man.

I’m still saddened by King Edward’s death - but I’m pleased that so many people are awakening to his genius. Not only was he a brilliant musician - Eddie designed and built his guitars to suit the vision he had for what he wanted to play. There are so many talent guitarists around - but Eddie really took a mix of different equipment and blended it all together to give him the tools he needed to play in an entirely new way. Since 1982 I was able to see Eddie at about 50 performances. My last show was his second to final performance at the Hollywood Bowl. All his shows were fantastic and never lacked the excitement of watching him the first time. RIP EVH

You two are GREAT!!!! What a good reaction vid. Yes parts are improvised but his eruption solo appeared on the first VH album.

I had their debut album as a teenager. My parents would yell, “TURN THAT SHIT DOWN.”

When you said that one part made you feel like you were in space, that part always makes me feel like I'm under water.

I still have this concert on 📼. Its called "Van Halen: Live W/O A Net". #ripevh 🎸

I love playing this solo

Of course I know this version of Eruption of one of the greatest guitar players of all time in this whole universe, Eddie van Halen (RIP man! Show áll of them in heaven how to play guitar and how to enjoy it to the max!), but I wasn't aware of this kind of reactions for example as shown in this video from Two Sisters React. It will, no, it must remain such a shame that this 'guitar-god' passed away so early😥 Man, I still miss him on stage, his very virtuous guitar playing, his incredible and typical smile, his very positive attitude and vibe, his whole performance! I'm still crying at this moment for this incredible great loss and I'm afraid that this will remain forever😢 Again RIP Eddie.

honey,it actually depends on the guitarist performing. Eddie had a mastery over the fretboard, but he was schooled in Music theory as a kid. When it comes to solos for either a solo showcase in a concert or within a song the solo's end up a loose composition for the beginning and the end especially for live performances because usually at the end of the solo for whoever is doing the solo the rest of the band has to come back into commonality either leading into a jam or going to a song from the solo. Sometimes like in my case while I may compose a solo for a song it still comes to winging a solo at first to see if that solo will fit with the vibe and timing of the tune. So when it comes to writing songs solos are initially done on the fly and then rehearsed so they just become part of the song, other guitarists though can pull off solos that are different every time staying with the same key signatures and timings of the song. Plus Eddie was a master of certain technics like the first one of fretting up the neck and sliding the palm of his hand up the neck for that first climb you wondered how he was doing that which is either done with the palm of the hand or the guitar pick up the strings, the eargasm part is called a hammer on pull off which you have to have strong fingers to do as well as a working knowledge of scales and timing. Even at Fifty and playing guitar for thirty years I can't do hammer-on pull-offs as smoothly as Eddie because it requires the right amount of rebound of your fingertips hammering the string, without ringing or feedback from the guitar when you do it. He also makes use of great vibrato on his neck to accent notes and of coarse little tricks such as using his tremolo on his guitar with is a tool to bend the body from the neck to gain a different pitch. Also called a whammy bar.

Neat fact about that guitar. Eddie built it up from parts of various other guitars which is why it is called the "Frankenstrat". He also came up with the graphic design and painted it himself. When he was starting out he was very poor and couldn't buy the guitar he wanted so he scraped together parts that he liked and put them together into one of the most iconic guitars that ever was.

it's a showcase of his talents and techniques loosely based on Eruption from their first album

Eddie was definitely one of the best guitarists on the planet and this video is quite a display of his technical skills. Regarding this solo, Eddie played the Eruption solo a little different every night and this is way longer than the recorded version. This makes me sad for his loss, but seeing him incessantly smoking throughout the performance kinda ticks me off in a way because his death was ultimately a result of treatment for recurrent bouts of cancer...directly related to his chronic smoking, which he started when he was 12 y/o (his official death was listed as secondary to a stroke, aka CVA, along with pneumonia and a blood disorder, but the conditions can be traced directly back to his cancer and cancer treatments). He was initially treated for tongue cancer in 2000 (including surgical excision of about 1/3 of his tongue) and he was declared cancer free in 2002, but he continued to smoke and ultimately developed throat and lung cancer which ultimately lead to his untimely death at 65 y/o.

love the fact that eddie played so good it made you speak spanish.... saludos de Los Angeles.... Eddie was/is my guitar hero...

The inoVATORRRR!! love EVH!

The guitar solo is usually based on the music of the rest of the song. For a pure solo like this song, a general riff is played repetitively while each round may be played a little differently. If you check out the first release of this song, side A, second song, of their first album, you'll recognize some of those general riffs in this performance.

There was everybody else.....and then there was "King Edward!" Long live the King and R.I.P. to the best ever.

this is solo has some parts of studios solos and some improvisation. 316 / eruption / spanish fly / and others.