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He built that guitar and it evolved over the years into what you see there. That was the end result. He called it a Frankenstrat. Now you can actually buy one from Fender. Just Google Frankenstrat. He was always searching for what he called the brown sound. No guitar had it so he took old parts and throw away bodies from Fender. Put a double coil humbucker in the bridge position. The pickup near the neck isn't even hooked up.
Eddie for me, wasnt the most technical player or even the cleanest but instead to me Eddie represented the pure JOY of electric guitar.. i dont know how to explain... but his guitar always sound like it was having fun.. i saw him live twice once with david lee roth as the front man and once with sammy hagar
Eddie didnt make sound effects for moviea but he did do a few songs for soundtracks. Twister is one of the most notable with "Humans Being" and "Respect the Wind." This performance was one where he combined a lot of his guitar solos from different compositions into one performance. Eddie laid the foundation for everything Steve Vai did (I'm a huge fan of them both as well). When David Lee Roth left Van Halen Steve Vai became the new guitarist but at the time he was quoted as saying "only a fool tries to compete with Eddie Van Halen." as Vai knew he was essentially tasked with filling the same role. Eddie hit and plucked every area of the guitar to get different sounds from it. No body since has ever made the guitar as versital spunding as Eddie Van Halen. He was self taught and didn't follow the "by the book" approach that 99% of the guitarists have done so his imagination really shined through.
Keep in mind, Van Halen's debut album came out in 1978. Every guitar player since then has been influenced by Eddie Van Halen since. He was a living legend. No one had ever guitar playing like that before.
Yes and no. They way he played yes.... but tapping had been around for years before Eddie used it. Nonetheless he innovated the everyone looked at how to play guitar.
Millie, you're the ONLY reactor I have ever seen who noticed that he was turning the volume up and down with his right hand during that "cello" section. Good job.
Except for his Son Wolfgang Van Halen - he has major talent on guitar and the way he plays, his father told him everything he knows. The legacy of Van Halen lives on 😎
Eddie Van Halen by far is the best guitarist someone once asked Aldanova how great was EVH he said he would have to play since being born and still wouldn't be half as good
Steve Vai is a talented guitar player, but when a guy like Steve looks to EVH as one of his inspirations you must take notice! RIP Eddie, you are the GOAT and your music will live forever!
@@akfreed6949 What Vai was never able to duplicate was playing virtuoso guitar parts that were catchy enough for the masses. Vai was always more of a guitarist’s guitarist. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a total badass. But Eddie was making better music.
@@G_Demolished He could go note for note on any Van Halen song , just can't duplicate Ed . Almost no one could . Steve Vai is better than most guitar players .
Yeah, steve vai learned most if his techniques from Edward. Steve us excellent, but doesnt even approaxh the creative talents and technical accuracy of Edward. I wish God hadnt taken Edward away from us so early......
All the solo's on this tour were epic. I was fortunate to see them 3 nights in a row on this tour. I had not seen a show that good before or since. These were 4 very accomplished musicians in their epic prime. RIP EVH!
@@akfreed6949 Ed is on video record saying there wouldn't have been VH without Michael. I think it was a very sweet comment and one I'd like to show Michael one day. It's floating on you-tube here somewhere. People give ED flak for saying this or that , but watch that video Ed says it plainly how important Michael was to the band.
@@TheAgentAssassin Ed played bass on a Sammy Hagar song for Over The Top . While promoting , Ed lied when he said he was new to bass and he praised Mike's bass playing .
Alex was great. Smooth jazz locomotive drumming but he was not "just as talented' or revolutionary. Knew how to drum around Eddie's busy compositions and constant fills. No other drummer could take Alex's place or do as well.
Ppl forget that not only was Eddie self taught, but by his own admission, he couldn’t read music and was also a self proclaimed tone seeker. Eddie was, is, and will forever remain the greatest. We love and miss you Ed.
He and his brother Alex had classical piano lessons as a children but Ed could not read the music so Ed memorized by ear and watching the hand movements of his piano teacher. Ed won quite a few piano recital contests as a child. His Father was a trained musician , piano , sax and clarinet. Ed was in fact classically trained on piano. Both of his parents were musically minded and surrounded themselves with musicians.
Back in the early 80's, Van Halen played a concert in my hometown, Tucson, AZ. USA. They were riding high on their third LP release, and one of the local TV stations interviewed Eddie. 90 percent of his answers were just guitar licks, and it was crazy. He made his guitar talk like a child and scream like a baby. Then an elephant. It was great.
That's how he communicated nthe beat . He even said " That's MY voice . " That's why his marriage to Valerie lasted as long as it did . He really was playing all the time . The guitar was his mistress in a way . He laughed in an old interview that one of his girlfriend's said he loved the guitar more than her .
In high school in the 80's there were arguments on who was the best guitarist. Some people said Randy Rhoades and some said Eddie. In an Interview They asked Randy if he had his own style and he said no Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton had their own style.
Eddie built that guitar himself from a body from the seconds bin and parts scrounged from other guitars to do just exactly what he wanted it to do so he knew it inside and out. The paint job is the result of 3 or 4 separate different paint jobs. Up close, it looks like hell but its been through world war 3 and is one of the best ever played. RIP Eddie. You gave a 14 year old kid a bunch of great rock and roll! Something I could live for!
Amen to that. He kept me alive in my youth. I started playing because of him and just when I thought I had him figured out, he did something new that was insanely incredible. RIP the the GOAT...
@@jeffmanny8246 actually it's just a Kramer neck on this one. If you really look you can see it's a strat body that was a little thicker than the Kramer body. The actual original Frankenstrat is the one he's holding on the 1st album and the paint job changed from year to year. When Fender started making them they were so close that he took a sharpie and wrote this one is the shit on the back of the neck. Lol. He said he burned up a ton of double coil humbuckers getting the paraffin wax hot enough to hold it at the slight angle to get the tone he wanted. An innovator from every aspect of the guitar and music in general. God Rest the king...
@@robertswain8313 yes but in this Live without a net he is playing the Kramer 5150 model guitar 1 of 4 built in 1983 by Paul Unkert. The 1984,5150, the Panama and the Neptune guitars
He built a famous guitar they call The Frankenstrat. You gotta look it up to see everything he did to it and how he built it. He also played through a Marshall amp turned all the way up but had the voltage turned down with a Variac. It was a secret for many years.
Hi Millie! Also, Eddie was an accomplished piano player raised on playing classical music. In his guitar solos, he throws in classical pieces. His guitar, early on was called the Frankenstrat, a totally reworked Fender Stratocaster with his electronics and his paint job, tape etc he put on there. It will be many many years for another Eddie Van Halen to explode on the scene. RIP Edward, we love and miss you!! Oh, Millie, In the movie back to the future, Marty McFly went into his father's bedroom as an alien and played Eddie's riff to scare him and convince George McFly to take his future Mom to the Prom so they could fall in love and not mess up the time line and cause a paradox. lol Check it out. Back to the Future 1. in 1985. Thanks and cheers from Motown.
I absolutely love watching younger generations watch in awe, smile, cheer, wonder, and ultimately raise a glass to a man I grew up listening to (and yes, saw him live 4 times).
Eddie is just Mozart and Paganini in one person on the guitar ... there is nobody else who can create those sounds like him ... and every guitar player after him wasnt able to reach that level ... i love Steve Vai too, but Eddie is another level, always was ! RIP5150
@@thejusticeization You can do anything .. the point is, nobody did it, apart from Eddie .. copying something afterwards is not inventing and is no creativity.
eddie came along and showed everyone how to play the guitar to it's absolute maximum. guys like Vai and Satriani learned everything they could from him and they (like many) were huge fans of eddie techniques.. eddie wrote two music for two films.. Twister and the wild life. his playing was famously featured in the bedroom scene in Back To The Future where it was portrayed as music from outer space...
Gotta admit all the guitarists around me back when Vai and Satch first hit the scene we were all like "snooze" here's two more EVH clones. But Vai and Satch really stepped it up so they eventually earned my respect. I don't either one can write hit songs like Ed does though. They both have noodley songs that are awesome.
also for "the legend of the pianist on the ocean". music by Ennio Morricone, lyrics and vocals by Roger Waters and guitars by Eddie Van Halen. Extremely beautiful
There’s a great 10min video on origin of tapping, there’s some Italian guy that was doing it in ‘65… Definitely worth the watch if you haven’t seen it 👍🏾
EVH made this guitar called the Frankenstrat. He combined different parts from other guitars. He added a humbucker pickup and a Floyd Rose tremolo system with locking tuners to accomplish dive bombs. Basically he was experimenting to find different sounds because he couldn’t afford to purchase an expensive guitar in his beginning years.
Eddie and Steve Vai share some qualities like the double tapping, the Floyd Rose tremelo bridge (whammy bar) the delay and distortion pedals, and a variety of other pedals to create spacey, and or repeating sounds (the cello, or )violin sound was a delay pedal repeating each note played more than once. The big difference was Eddie's ability to make more fan friendly melodies, and more cohesive mainstream, relatable tunes.
VAI is a straight up clone of Eddie. You gotta understand VAI survived the massive onslaught of clones out the 80s. Vai held his ground but every part of his style was ripped from EVH. When ED first came to the scene , nobody sounded like that but Ed.
He was a classically trained pianist as a child and won many contests. He couldn't read the music sheet but learned by ear. He was trained. But when you see most of his songs they have a piano-like structure.
I still get chills no matter how many times I’ve seen this. It never seems to amaze me. Always hear something new in this performance. 😢Rest in Peace legend. You were a king among men. The world lost something beautiful here. Dime and Ed are jamming in the heavens now. And I’m sure it’s heavenly.
I saw this tour, I was 14, had been playing guitar for a bit over a year, and to see Van Halen onstage playing was just mind blowing. Guitar was a big mystery to me then, I had no idea how to play anything like this, so it was something else to see it live in person. Ed was a brilliant player, a real game changer for the instrument, any guitar player worth their weight in soap back then worshipped at the temple of Ed.
Jimmy Page used an actual violin bow. Eddie used his volume knob and Alex Lifeson of Rush used a Morley volume wah to achieve that violin sound. Eddie put that together. It was kind of beat up and he just started taping it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat. A lot of parts on this are bits and pieces of intro/outro's of songs over the years. Listen to the original Eruption from 1978 Van Halen debut album. The violin/cello bit is from 1982's Diver Down album and track is called Cathedral which leads into Secrets. Another bit the fast kind of slapping is from the intro to Mean Street from 1981's Fair Warning. And then a bit from Spanish Fly from Van Halen II. Great reaction.
Steve Vai was incredibly fascinated by Eddie's amazing ability to make the guitar sound like so many different instruments and Eddie's incredible finger speed when he was playing. Steve Vai is a great guitarist but he doesn't come close to King Edward. That is why Guitar world magazine named Eddie "THE GUITAR GOD! of all guitarist that has ever picked up a guitar. Dive into Van Halen's extensive catalog of music. He even has a song that he used an electric drill to play his guitar. "Poundcake" by Van Halen. Eddie was a true musical genius when it came to the guitar.
You mentioned his improvisation. When they put Van Halens songs to sheet music, it needed extra notations for what he was doing. He rewrote the book, lol.
And I think they didn't do it RIGHT . In some guitar interviews , he would see people trying to duplicate his playing , and he said they did it WRONG . So I'm guessing the sheet music isn't correct 100%
The original solo Eruption was on the first album in 1978. It was under two minutes long and everyone who heard it the first time can tell you exactly where they were.
The look on your face is priceless! Imagine what guitarist thought in 1978 when he blasted on the scene. I have to comment again on the way he thanks the crowd after the mean street portion of the solo. He don’t have to speak, he does it with his hands. Thanks for the video.
Few guitarist are innovators most of us are traditional no matter how fast or wild our techniques it’s been done. Hendrix, EVH & Tom Morello found new sounds and tricks. RIP Hendrix and Eddie
There is a jazz guitarist named Stanley Jordan who uses a little different tapping technique where he taps full jazz chords and incorporates a melody into it. There is even video of him playing two guitars at once. He has multiple videos on RU-vid. I haven't seen them all but the ones I have seen have all been amazing. You will enjoy his playing.
First time seeing your channel appear on my feed, and feeling genuinely grateful that it did. Love your reaction to the late, great Eddie Van Halen's stellar playing. Subscribed!
I didn’t even bother watching Eruption. After seeing that opening clip I immediately searched The LimeSublimes, subscribed to the channel and added “To Work it Out” to my Spotify playlist. I really like that song
I saw them 3 nights in a row on this tour. This is just 1 of 3 epic solos and a singer who was all over the stage and lights. Without a doubt one of the very best shows I've ever seen.
Eddie came out in the 70's and No One has been Nearly as creative as he. Eddie...the most Creative, Innovative guitarist in decades! Dare name another!
I saw Van Halen first at 17 when I was a biker in the UK, and that album and EVH's guitaring just blew me away, it still does and I am now 61. His home made guitar was known as the Frankinstrat and you can buy replicas, EVH Guitars.
I've seen VH live 2 times. Ed was such a great gutarist. RIP. Ed did indeed 'design' the guitar himself, back in the 70s by experimenting with different pick ups and tunings. The line design in red white and black is iconic Ed style. The Singer is Sammy Hagar, also a great musician.
EVH designed and painted the guitar. He had another guitar with a similar design that is black and yellow (The bumblebee) from VH II. It is buried with Dimebag Darrell from Pantera.
"Was he making sound effects for 80's movies?" Not that I know of but he did have a solo in the movie "Back to the Future." I was actually at this concert. It was the last night of the tour in New Haven Connecticut. Not far from Yale University. My buddies and I, minus the gf's and wives , had a night.
So good to see you listen to Eddie Van Halen. I am also thrilled that you actually love Steve Vai . Vai and Van Halen are my two favorites bar none. Eddie is the innovator, and Vai took it to another level.
One of the best "Reaction" videos for this Edward Van Halen solo video!! I applauded several of your observations while watching!!! You're a rockstar!!! 😘🤘
I was fortunate to see him live 6-7 times....his solo's never got old. To see your amazement is priceless...Everytime a new album came out I'm sure I looked the same way.
That volume turning, cello sounding segment is actually another instrumental song from their album Diver Down called Cathedral....Eruption which came out of their debut album in 1978 was heard in the first few minutes of his solo. All other parts were improvised but the structures and styles of those parts you can hear in various songs from their catalog.
Absolutely stunning to watch this live! (On the 2006 tour, I took my sons (19 & 14 at the time) to their first Rock concert- Van Halen. Nearly needed to take the boys to the emergency room to get their jaws picked up after this 20 minute shred fest! They were completely blown away by EVH
YES! Eddie was aaaaall over the 80’s, 90’s etc - Back to the Future - his guitar playing is what Marty plays to his dad (Darth Vader scene when he puts his Walkman headphones on him) - Bill & Ted’s Excellent adventure - etc etc etc
Eddie had a thing for stripes. Many, if not most of his guitars are striped. In his earlier years, so were his clothes. The guitar in this particular video, he and the head luthier at Kramer made it together. The paint job was Eddie's brain-child.
sounds of the instruments that Genius Eddie RIP, plays with his Guitar. -Pipe and Church organ -Violin -Harp -Cello -bass -whale ,dolfin There's probably more. To this day I hear new sounds, close your eyes listening to Eruption, and imagine everyday sounds tv sea air etc, and then you realize how many sounds this music has 2024 - Açores-Portugal. RIP eternal Eddie
Futuristic is the word till this day! Hell it was normal in that year in 86 in the guitar scene but Ed was forever the king... (maybe not to randy fans hehe), but in 1978 when people heard that tapping segment of eruption they wouldn't have even realised that the man of the 80s was already there, but man they would've been mind blown lol. He genuinely invented what I consider 80s lead guitar, except of course no one but him did it, and the calm bridge section with his crazy effects is again so out of this world like the entire solo and his style in general, words will never explain his vaporwave 80s alienlike futuristic guitar playing. His lead playing, his style in general, and even his rhythm playing just changed everything in rock and metal, his guitar playing is the definition of cool, revolutionary, precise, and true creative genius. Long live Eddie Van Halen, the God of the Electric Guitar... even though he would be to humble to ever accept that title
I was at 3 of their concerts. He is missed by all of us fans. I recommend looking at his son’s music. His son Wolfgang has Eddie’s technique down perfectly. Super talented musician also. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
I saw this concert live in 1986 in Rockford, Illinois. It was my first rock concert and it WAS epic! I've probably seen between 100 and 200 concerts since then (I lost count), but this was my favorite!
You mean you saw them for this tour in 86 in Rockford because this video and this concert was filmed in New Haven Conn. The last night of the tour. I want to say in August but not positive about that. It was probably the same set as this tape. Just the one you saw wasn't filmed.
@@boki1693 You are correct, Boki. This was filmed in New Haven on two different nights of their tour to make this full-length concert DHS tape. I wasn't there. My Rockford experience happened earlier in the tour but was much the same as the tape. I bought that DHS when it came out and wore it out! Ha ha!
@@ploppy9943 I was I think at the second night. What a great night overall that was. I have a friend that looks a lot like a young Keanu Reeves that went with us to the concert. Needless to say, he was very popular with the ladies. But he didn't count on my special super power. We are from Long Island but for whatever reason, whenever I go to Conn. women just can't resist me. I have no idea why this is and I really am not making this up. And believe me when I say it ONLY happens in Conn. But it happens every dam time. LOL. Watching my good looking friend being by-passed on three separate occasions, by rather good looking women to hang with me instead was even better than the concert. 1. In a diner before the concert by a amazing looking waitress who gave me her number and totally snubbed my friend when he tried to talk to her. 2. In the concert with the three girls sitting in front of us chatting me up. 3 in a bar next to Yale University after the concert when one girl invited me home and my "friend" sabotaged it by saying we had to leave. He drove. He was actually very annoyed and angry about it and had a little tantrum by the end of the night. The memorable thing from the concert you don't see in the video is when Sammy Haggar went on the catwalk he started swinging his legs over a bar at the end of the catwalk. Well, one time when he came back with his legs, he hit the bar and he came pretty close to falling off the catwalk. In the video for the concert, you can just see him sort of stumble for a half second after it happened.
@@boki1693 Sounds like you had a great time other than your "friend" C**k blocking you LOL. About the Sammy incident, I don't think he was wearing a harness either. He did that at my show, too. It reminds me of when I saw Pearl Jam at Alpine Valley in their early days. Alpine Valley is a huge outdoor pavilion (it's where Stevie Ray Vaughn died). But Eddy Vedder climbed a scaffolding to the roof of the venue and hung from his hands from the rafter and started doing pull-ups. I'm guessing it had to be between 75 to 100 feet from the stage floor. About a seven to ten story building. I thought, this has to be the craziest guy I've ever seen in my life, because he wasn't wearing a harness either! Anyway, thanks for the story. Glad you got to witness history in the making.
@@ploppy9943 I have no idea why he was like that because he got any girl he wanted back on Long Island. I think it was a competition thing with him. When we first met he wanted my best friend to be his best friend over me and we had a rough start of it with each other. Mostly because he kept trying to put me down in front of him and his wife. But all that did was piss my friend and his wife off at him. Then when he stopped trying to "steal" my best friend, all of us and our wives and gf's all became very close. And he became one of my best friends. Wow, you mean he almost fell off the catwalk at your show too? You would think he would have stopped doing that. Wasn't Eddie always climbing up on things? I never saw Pearl Jam live, but I wish I could have. I bet they were amazing. Isn't it funny how many memories we have from concerts besides just the bands playing. Thanks, it was fun being reminded of it. I had the VHS of the concert but one of my daughters when she was young decided to unspool the tape. :(
Late for the show I am again, Eddie (RIP) was a classically trained pianist who could not read music. He started by playing drums but switched to guitar early on while his brother Alex played drums for the band. Eddie built or modified his guitars to suit his playing and the sounds he discovered they made. He made the "tapping" famous playing many of their songs, it's almost as if he's playing piano on the guitar neck
Hey lady I just subscribed and hit the notification Bell. Was that you at the end? Or was it just an ad? If it was you rocking out it wouldn't surprise me at all man that was a cool reaction and I just subscribed like I said, I don't know why you haven't popped up in my feed before but anyway I saw Van Halen several years before this in like 1978 or maybe it was 1979, I was in junior high and they play that what you would think of is a very small venue nowadays, it was called Century II in downtown Wichita Kansas. It was a very hot July here in Kansas and people were doing all the normal things like shooting off firecrackers and smoking bongs and passing around fifths of whiskey and stuff that you could never do a concert anymore and then somebody escalated up two bottle rockets and then from there it escalated to Roman candles shot off inside this tiny hot place where Van Halen was just going nuts. Wow that was Sammy Hagar In the later version that we saw just in this reaction, this was the original real Van Halen in my view, and anyway I think David Lee Roth met his breaking point because once those Roman candles started flaming down and landing on the stage, he literally took over as bandleader and stopped the song and it was a really good one like super blazing like I'm on fire, check that out if you haven't heard it I think it's odd that first album but it might be out there second one and at any rate, he just said alright the next motherfuker that shoots one of those Roman candles off, I invite you to the front of the stage, and everybody that's already down packed in there, please make way for this person because I want to personally kick his ass. And he also said a whole bunch of other things that probably aren't repeatable on the current political climate on RU-vid. But suffice it to say, it was one of those head-banging balls to the walls hardcore fucking shows. It was wonderful.
When you asked if he was detuneing the the guitar he was actually playing the strings between the top end of the start of the frets and the tuning nuts
That first solo was 316 off of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. It's a cool first tune of his to learn to break into. Great Vid! Edit: The "cello" tune is called Cathedral. He used a delay effect and used the volume knob to take the "attack" of his hammer-ons out to make them seem more organ-like. He built the original of that guitar himself using a Boogie Body (what became Charvel) and neck with a P90 pickup (I think, but definitely a Gibson pickup). It originally had a Fender style tremolo, but he ditched it later for a Floyd Rose free-floating style. That neck was also a Kramer, so it may have been a different iteration of his "Frankie" or Frankenstrat. He was arguably the first to dip his humbucker into paraffin wax to cut out unwanted feedback from sympathetic winding vibration which is now industry standard.
I got to see EVH live twice (R.I.P.) The man was the greatest ....he loved playing for the fans and you could see and hear the love he had for us and it was awesome to see him live.
So glad you can appreciate Eddie’s talents-he is/was a genius- May He RIP- you spoke on the sounds he can have his guitar make and -as He has said many times, it was out of necessity because he couldn’t afford all the “ bells and whistles” when first started out so he has to expire immediately “ destroyed” many guitars trying to find the sounds in his head and transfer to and through his guitar AND also he built that guitar and I love the way you picked up on slot of his signature sounds and his own style of playing - well done on spotting his “ freedom” on playing 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The part he was using his volume control, a guitar instrumental song called Cathedral which is on the Diver Down album...fantastic album if you get a chance to listen
everybody thought I was a weirdo for worshiping Eddie back in 1981 when I first started playing guitar. I just couldn't believe any human being could do this with a guitar. People were like, oh he's just another rock star. And I was like you don't understand!! He made his own guitars, cause he didn't like what was available to buy. he also, didn't like the way the guitar was designed. he said it was stupid. that is a prodigy there, when you say the instrument is not designed correctly. I remember thinking how thankful I was to be alive when he was. To me it was like being alive when sombody like Motzart was alive. BTW I was fortunate enough to see him live 3 times. Diver Down, 1984 and 5150 tours. Blew my mind! and my ear drums! :)
VERY cool react Millie! It's really enjoyable to watch a true musician react to this masterpiece!!! Steve Vai and EVH were friends in real life and they hung out together for a time... LOVE them both
EVH CHANGED rock guitar for a generation and beyond... all your observations about his experimentation are SO TRUE...true innovator of technique and hardware too! that guitar is probably the most famous and VALUABLE electric guitar in existence... totally home made cobbled together from several guitars and odd spare parts and parts he custom made.!@!!!
In the olden days we had Monsters of Rock Concerts. It was a all day event. I seen Van Halen in Cleveland l think it was 79 or 80. They was one of the best bands to play. Miss those days. All day concert with several bands for $15.00. The beer was .50 cents and like any concert back then "DON'T TAKE THE BROWN ACID!!!!"
Eddie Van Halen truly was the one and ONLY guitar wizard. No one else like him and his musical genius, and you can tell that he truly loved what he did, always with a huge grin on his face as he made musical fusion. RIP to the Master.
