Love the "other room" bleed nature on the right side. Sounds like what you'd hear standing outside the arena during sound check. Nobody reaches Ed's level even decades later. Sorry haters...
By for the most overlooked part of his playing. Ed is the most solid, creative and harmonically interesting rhythm player in rock music IMO. Perhaps Steve Lukather is number two? Hetfield has metal covered rhythm-wise.
Agreed! I’m convinced; Thanks to his Dad playing swing and boogie woogie. What other rock guitarists played with a boogie woogie beat? Pat Traverse? Who else??? I can’t think of any. It’s almost impossible to listen to swing/boogie woogie and be angry. Rhoads had a classical background. Van Halen had a boogie woogie background.
One of the hippest and most unique opening riffs to a song. The improv licks throughout the song show why EVH is separated from the rest in the genre. No one more innovative in the history of the instrument IMHO.
This song is the actual proof that king Edward has the pick off destiny. Fucking rhythm is incredible. Separates him from all the other guitar players of his generation!
Man just listen to that feel and groove of his playing. Pure genius. Eddie's playing will always be imitated but rarely duplicated. To be able to play like that comes from within.
I was going to say exactly the same. I think years of classical piano training also gave him some sort of huge musical advantage, but indeed, something from within too.
jesus, this is whats missing from modern music. With all this dj shit and machine made production if there ever was a 3rd coming of this type of rock and roll, id die a happy man.
The song that introduced me to Van Halen -- Chicago radio did not play VH I at all. VH II was the first album they played. I remember it to this day, summer of '79 paining my then GF's house listening to the radio. Saw the next 3 tours! Changed my life forever!
People who categorize Ed as a shedder have no clue what they're talking about, and are totally missing his true genius. A half attentive ear and a good set of headphones will open up up a whole new sonic world while listening to ANY VH album ! Fair Warning especially !
He IS a shredder, sometimes - but so much more on top of it and can do basically anything. "He has no feeling" - this comment always leaves me puzzled.
Eddie can shred, but there are so many nuances and dynamics to his playing, he clearly sets himself apart from the crowd. Listen to Dance the Night Away. There is no mind boggling solo. The tapped harmonics are just beautiful and add so much to song. It is simply a rhythmic and melodic masterpiece.
i pictured a beautifull girl walking down the street hip's swaying back and forth the first time i heard this song, Eddie painted a picture in my mind with his guitar, a total genious, the greatest as far as im concerned;
This was one of DLR's all-time favorite riffs from Eddie. He once said in an interview "I heard the tape and the very first thing that entered my mind was Beautiful Girls... The song wrote itself"
i’ll never forget 2019 my junior year of high school listening to this over and over in class. It was right in the time of football season and this music totally captures that time for me. I was getting heavily back into the rock music i was raised on. what a great time it was. i’ll hold those memories close forever that’s forsure! long live rock and roll babyyyy
That less-than-9-second guitar solo. The best "under 10 seconds" guitar solo I've ever heard. Although I can't think of too many songs that meet this criteria, if someone knows of a better solo of this length, could they please tell me? I'd wager this is going to be difficult to find!
it's the mans ability to play to the lyrics........................"chord voicing's" along with his rhythm playing is unparalleled ! then throw it in the mix with diamond dave and, well it's just plum awesome.
If you want to hear the revolution, you don't need to wait for the solo , for tapping, just the rhythmic parts. How many so much beauty ?? Everthing else is merely an extension of this beauty
I fuckin' love how bluesy a lot of his riffs are. This one's no exception. That's why it's so timeless and remains exciting. Rock 'n Roll is the bastard child of the blues. Thanks for the reminder Ed.
One of the coolest aspects of the first 4-5 albums is Eddies guitar cost him about 150 dollars!!!! The white and red one and also the black and yellow ones were homemade junkyard dogs!
If I only had these isolated tracks when I bought every album and spent the next month trying to figure out just what the hell he was doing. Embarrassing now to find out - no tricks- he was just an fu$#ing alien. #TheyAreAmongUs
Ah. The good old days of just playing guitar in the studio. Not thinking of overdubs and shit. When you write a rhythm groove so good that you don't need to add anything else. What killed rock n' roll? Over produced lifeless music with no groove. Overcooking the meat. Lost the human touch. You can hear the evidence here.
to all the guitar players out there who want eds sound...well here it is...I had to retire due to health issues but its all in the midrange...no no no...don't boost it...cut it all out...all of it, and the oldr marshalls were made for both bass and guitar...one is an ice pick in the forehead tone and the other is too warm soo...patch those channels together, and vary your tone with the volume controls...and thats about it..and forget the variac bullshit..eddie lies for fun...aspen pittman, seymore duncan among others lie for profit....just sayin....
