Van Halen "Eruption" REACTION Video | mom & daughter first time hearing this 70's rock guitar solo 

RIP eddie..you are badly missed here...

The bar, is referred to as a "whammy bar". It's connected to the bridge of the guitar, and when pressed bends the bridge, altering the sounds of the strings. 😊🎸 Rip to Eddie. The guitar goat!

BTW..."Eruption" is a guitar solo performed by Eddie Van Halen and the second track from Van Halen's self-titled 1978 debut album. It's an actual song, but the live version is different than the album.

As a child, Eddie was taught classical piano, and you can hear that influence throughout eruption, and much of his playing in general. He really did change the instrument at the time, as there was nothing even close to this when Van Halen came on the scene.

He said he didn't have money for effects pedals when he was starting out so he figured out ways of reproducing sounds with the way he played.

He is legend! There will never be another Eddie. Genuine and love what he does. He designed his own instrument. RIP rock god

You left your legacy and you will remember. You inspired thousands of musicians.

There's a section in the middle where he's using a 'hammer-on pull-off' technique with his left hand, while manipulating the volume control with his right. He almost makes it sound like a cello at times.

Ladies, what you just, was one of the VERY greatest guitarist ever to walked the face of the Earth! He was on a different level a legend in his own right *MORE* Van Halen please 😎

The look of shock on your faces was beginning

When I was a teen in 1978, we had guitar heroes like Hendrix and Clapton etc...We loved them, but they were all from the generation before us having gotten famous in the 60's. When Eddie Van Halen came along, not only was there no one like him playing a guitar like he did, but he was from the 70's just like us and it was like he was ours.

He was a Master of the Guitar :D

Great Family!! I wish you were there in 78!! This was 86. Thank you!!

On early Van Halen records these are titles to his guitar solos: Eruption off Van Halen 1, Spanish Fly off Van Halen 2, basically soloing all over Women and Children First and Fair Warning! Cathedral and Little Guitars 🎸 on Diver Down. Keyboards 🎹 intro on 1984 that leads into Jump.

Greatest smile in Rock n Roll. He always looked like there was no place he'd rather be than right there with his guitar. RIP Edward, you changed my life.✌️❤️🎵🎶

I Cry every time I watch this. And I watch it Every Day. RIP Eddie. When and I get to Heaven, once I see my Animals and Family I want to Jam with Eddie!!!

I love that he was self taught.and went by sounds..❤️🤙👍😎

Absolutely phenomenal!

The metal bar hanging off the guitar is a tremolo or whammy bar, and it’s used to change the tuning or pitch of the guitar strings by either increasing or decreasing the string tension with the movement of the bar.

The King..💣💣....innovator, Pioneer, Legend......r.i.p. man😢❤

(R.I.P.) EVH...what a beautiful soul.

I was lucky enough to see VH five times back in the day. Always amazing. There is one aspect of this Vid that is how perfect the stage lighting changes with the mood of the solo. R.I.P. to my guitar hero.

A tremendous musician, gone way too soon 😢

I had the same reaction the first time I heard Jimi Hendrix back in 1967. Eddie Van Halen was one of a kind. However, Hendrix is the Godfather of Rock electric guitarists to most of the best in the game. If, perchance, you are reading this I recommend any live Hendrix performance and to really see what he was about in the studio, you must listen to "House Burning Down." I sincerely hope you do. 👍

A Composition. As a pianist and guitarist he is the !Greatest!!!!!!!!!!

It was fun going to concerts in the 80's.

Eddie defined guitar playing for a generation of rock musicians, and his influence is still felt today. Even classically trained acoustic guitarists players like Marcin have incorporated techniques that he pioneered or popularized. RIP, Edward Van Halen.

If I am not mistaken, that was originally Eddie’s sound check routine when checking the audio for the sound engineer before a concert. The an engineer recorded it and it became part of the play set during the concert.

Eddie was a self taught guitarist who became the GOAT(greatest of all time) when he completely revolutionized the way that people played the guitar. When he came onto the music scene in the late 70's no one had ever seen anyone play as fast or the way that Eddie did and it left people both in the music career and people just listening leave flabbergasted after watching one of their shows. He taught himself how to play after already learning to be a concert pianist and approached the guitar from his that way of thinking and that is h😢 he taught himself the technique of "Tapping" that you called finger picking. He didn't invent the technique but he did invent the 2 finger picking that he played with and he was so poor when they started their band and he could not afford to buy all of the expensive tricky equipment that the other guitarist had so he taught himself how to play and make interesting and crazy types of sounds from his guitar. Thar is the why guitar world magazine named Eddie Van Halen "The Guitar God!!" He was humble and kind and never saw himself as anything other than "a kid that plays a stupid guitar ". The music that he played after he jumped on to the first level after he threw his pick into your audience is the "Eruption" guitar solo and the part that sounds like he was playing the violin is a piece that he called "Cathedral " that he created by messing with the volume knob on his guitar and when he found the correct time to turn the volume knob it made the guitar sound like a cello. Eddie is and will always be the greatest guitarist that has ever lived. PERIOD!! KING EDWARD!!!!

Fantastic! I saw him live, in Vancouver, May 1st,1984. Blew me away!

Great reaction ladies! I really enjoy seeing you all share your thoughts on these amazing artists and their works. You have a great channel! 🙂 There will never be another Eddie Van Halen. We were so lucky to be witness to his innovation, talent, and artistry. RIP Eddie… your music and your art and your legacy will live forever.

The bar is a Tremolo lever aka: a "Whammy Bar" and is connected through the bridge to springs on the back side that cause different pitch and tonal changes, to all 6 strings, depending on if it is pressed down or pulled up. He used no pedals or auxiliary FX of any kind, he just used the entire guitar (which, in this case was "FrankenStrat" a guitar he built, this iteration had less pick-ups than normal/factory and only one controll knob, theoretically set up as Volume, even though the actual knob says Tone[factory is 2 tone, 1 volume]). He just used his fingers, the strings, tremolo, tremolo springs(as in, he plucked/struck them) the body and neck (torquing and bending), the controll knob, and the entire sound system; speakers, monitors & amps. That's part of why he moves around the stage so much, to create or eliminate different types of feedback, reverb, distortion and echo. So his FX were musical ability, mechanical manipulation and physics. Many parts of this solo were solos from other songs (including the original aprox. 1.5min Eruption) as well as totally made up freestyle additions. And yes, he threw his picks and grabbed a new one, when needed, from the double sided tape on the guitar. He was one of the first to do that but it became common to guitar players of the day, now days the make pick holders for your guitar &/or mic stand.

Thank U so much 4 doin' this 1First reaction!

effing loved it so much. insane musical content. Really cool band, super talented, pretty eclectic 🔥🔥🔥

He actually throws the pick into the audience after each section, and then grabs another one when he needs it. He kind of pioneered that 'tapping' technique, and his agent used to tell him to play with his back to the audience so no one could see what he was doing and copy it.

I am a 67 year old music junkie and have been watching music reactions by the many that present their opinions on you tube. I came across the two of you the other day and I find you both delightful. I love your mother daughter discourse as I'm very close with my son. I took him to his first concert which was Jethro Tull when he was 8. I am very well versed in music and just find you both refreshing and I'm so fglad I happened upon you. I will be you fan for ever. Look forward to seeing you again. Another group who falls in the symphonic Rock category is Delain. I think you would enjoy them. Marco is often their guest.

The king !!!! EVH rules man...

Eruptions is one solo from Van Halen's first album, and most famous hence why this whole solo is called that, but rock guitar was never the same again. But the rest of the solo is from other solos, or parts of other songs, connected together with a lot of unique improvisation, and pieces never heard before. He never played it the same twice, though similar, he let the emotions of moment flow through his playing, so the audience that day would get a unique version.

You got to witness greatness😊😊😊

In addition to his musical talents EVH was one of the finest showmen to ever live.

You don't know the grin you put on my face when I saw you were reacting to this. Favorite band for the longest time. Sadly we lost him a few years ago...RIP GOAT. The pics are double sided taped to his guitar and he did throw them as souvenirs. The bar you are referring to is a whammy bar, it distorts and elongates a note. I'll shut up now and watch as I see the jaw dropping looks on the two of you as I sit here knowingly giggling.

I was fortunate enough to see this solo performed 3 nights in a row on this tour. His solo did differer from night to night. This performance started with a track called 3:16. At the time of this performance it had yet to be put on a studio recording. His pants are parachute pants they were very popular in the late 80's and early 90's. RIP EVH.

That metal bar is called a whammy bar. As you push down on the bar, the more you push, the lower the pitch.

Excellent reaction video - the sheer disbelief on your faces was priceless - 70's though?

I love it when real talent gets passed down from one generation to the next...This is the kind of music I grew up with & after seeing literally dozens of reaction videos where such expressions of flabbergasted delight when seeing stuff like this is so gratifying. Shaking your heads in disbelief as in, "how is this even possible?" sort of thing. If ever there was anyone existed that could be referred to as a Guitar Wizard, Eddie was the *Arch* Wizard. BTW, some of his guitar picks were getting tossed out into the audience. I've counted at least three distinct times when it was a gesture he made clearly & distinctly; there could be more that I missed, depending on camera angles & zoom factors. "Eruption" is the perfect name for a song where the artist can & does go absolutely *volcanic* with it. Eddie did expand & develop new pieces to be played in the song, but a shorter, original version was studio recorded for inclusion on their first album, simply named "Van Halen." If you listen to the studio version & then listen to the live performance again, you can definitely pick up much of the "original" material as he played it during concerts.

Eddie was so intoxicated he later said he didn't remember his performance. This is just him on auto pilot.

If it hasn't already been mentioned, he also plays the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It".

I saw Eddie do this live in ‘81, about a decade before this show. Before that I had no idea guitars could make these sounds.

The thing dandling on his guitar is calledl a whammy bar or vibrato bar.. drops the music cord/ note... lots of fun.

That metal piece is called a "whammy bar" It is connected t the bridge. The bridge is where the strings are connected to the body and secured up the neck on the headstock where the running pegs are. When you pul up on that bar, it cases the bridge to lean back and tightening the strings making them higher pitched and when you press dow it makes the string have less tension so they are a lower pitched. Hard to explain but is another way to get some vibrate bt many use it like this to where the strings are so loose that the really don't have souund then releasing and getting the sound back.

The bar on the body is a tremolo bar, also known as a "whammy bar". One of the effects that many guitarists used over the years, but if it was used too frequently, it would basically de-tune the guitar. Ed created/invented what is called the locking tremolo, which wouldn't de-tune the guitar as it was used. It was one of many patents that Ed held. He was always much more interested in the sound that he wanted a guitar to produce more than the sound that a particular sound that a guitar would produce. It was why he built his own guitars for the vast majority of his career.

I loved the stink face awesome reaction

Congratulations you have just seen the greatest musician to walk the Earth since Mozart. He definitely had a gift ( and he was married to Valerie Bertinelli).I was lucky enough to have seen them 4 times (all with Sammy Hagar). I hope you will take the time to check out the rest of their catalog you will be in for a treat.

That's his Brother Alex on drums. RIP Eddie. Eruption was a prelude to "You Really Got Me".

Eddie was voted number 1 guitar player and he is completely self taught, Eruption is on Van Halen's first album, it started out as him warming up in the recording studio, the engineer recorded it and it was added to their first album and the rest is history, you ladies should check out more of their music, you will love it

Great volume on your channel. Great reaction.

First off this solo has been dubbed the greatest guitar solo of all time. Little history on Eddie. He's a classical trained pianist. Originally he wanted to play the drums. He could not read sheet music therefore he learned by watching others. When he first started playing guitar he couldn't afford any extras like a wah pedal to make special sounds so he had to be creative and learn how to make those sounds with just his hands as seen at 8:51. Eddie couldn't find a guitar with a sound he liked so he made his own guitar out of a few different guitars. This guitar was nick-named "The Frankenstrat" used in this video and was recently sold at auction for over $3 million. Because Eddie couldn't read sheet music and he's self taught the music industry had to rewrite sheet music for guitars due to Eddie's unique play style. All the above is directly from Eddie himself from an interview he did few years ago.

This is from a concert film called Live Without A Net that came out in 1986.I remember renting it out from Music Plus in Anaheim. I was 20 years old. Good days

It's called the whammy bar. It relaxes the guitar strings , to give out distortion of sounds tone.

One does not simply listen to Eddie play.... u bare witness to greatness. Seen this show for 24 bucks. Great reaction ladies.

Eddie Van Halen was the G.O.A.T. Eruption is a guitar solo on their first album. Alex Van Halen his older brother is the drummer. My favorite band forever. Please listen to more of their music. It's just the best

Love watching attractive mother daughter duo reactions. They seem to be honest with their reactions

Eddie built that custom guitar too, he played Les Pauls early for humbucker tone but liked a strat body, and insanely hot pickups. He was an innovator, even invented the D-Tuna bridge system. RIP GOAT.

Seen Van Halen 6 times and EVH is the best ever IMO

I don’t believe for one second that this is the “first time hearing” Eruption for either one of these gals.

The GREATEST EVER. RIP, Edward, you are missed. You guys should check out "JUMP" and "RIGHT NOW." You'll love them.

Just a guitarist? Eddie is one of the best. There are other, technically great, guitar players, but his innovation is unparalleled. Eddie’s solos include solos from songs with improv added in. The pants are called parachute pants. You should watch the entire “Live: Without A Net” concert. An interesting fact is, Eddie has said he was so drunk during this concert that he doesn’t remember the solo.

9:36 Notice that he's actually playing the guitar using ONLY his left hand...as his right hand is controlling one of the knobs on the guitar.

EVH used metal picks, and those were magnets on the guitar with alot of picks on there, and yes he would throw them to the audience. And it's called finger rolling or tapping when not using the picks.

Came to America as a child after WWII. Couldn't speak English when he came. And never learned to read music... I'll send a link to his own story in his own words... Eruption Solo is just a mixture of a lot of solos from different songs

Eruption was the solo before a song on an album

He is using a lot of techniques, Double tapping, and dive bombin with the whammy Bar on the guitar that wobbles the brid ge of the guitar . It is also called a tremelo bar, to add tremelo effect (like waves). He has a delay pedal that adds echo and repeating qualities, and a good reverb pedal making it sound like he is playing in a concert hall. The tapping, is a series of hammer ons and hammer offs with the fretting hand. He needs fingers for both hands for this so he Throws hi pick to the crowd and gets another one off the stand or guitar when he needs it.

The metal thing hanging is a tremolo bar, or commonly called a whammy bar. It's used to stretch the strings to alter the sound to make a dive bomb sound. Basically the typical weird stretchy sound rock guitars make. Eddie Van Halen just used the guitar in ways that nobody had ever used before. A once in ten generations talent that has never been seen before and probably never will be seen again in the near future. Being alive to see him play is equal to being alive to see Mozart or Beethoven play. He is that instrumental and important to music. The only did he play his guitar, he also built them by hand. He hand wound the coils of his pickups and hand wax dip them into old coffee cans. That's how involved he was. He was instrumental in the design and production of amplifiers and heads today. His designs are used the world over and his mark is so thoroughly made in music that his techniques and designs will be used probably as far into the future as possible. He was an innovator, and a musical genius in every sense of the word. He went far beyond a mere guitar player.

• October 6 2020 • (a humble guitar teacher chose to 'air' this 1986 concert in its *1hr 51min* entirety) *Michael Palmisano* ○ risked YT the varied probable flagging notices *&* as he and his heartbroken Chat 'worked out the feelings' ◇ choosing (appropriate enough) passionate expletives at times while drinking a few ~ 1986 'Live Without A Net' in New Haven (merely in a spare leisure time moment ○ no camera necessary) Thank you for this vid posting • .cheers.

The best there ever was. RIP Eddie

Ladies Eddie and his ex-wife, Valerie's only child, Wolfgang Van Halen learned tapping technique from his late father because Wolfie has a new single from upcoming new album with his tapping.

This is just Tuesday for Eddie .For what this means to you two,Drunk as hell,and played and embodies this.Very accomplished players are still trying to figure this out.

Eddie was the best . God now has you in heaven you are loved and missed.

I don't know if it has been mentioned but the drummer playing with Eddie is his brother Alex Van Halen.

Cool reaction, Eruption was a song,, 2 or 3 minutes, this was Eruption + 3:16, Cathedral, Mean streets and a few more... would love to see you guys react to AC-DC Thunderstruck, live at River Platte

Eddie was blacked out drunk when they film this concert. Years later he said he didn’t even remember playing that solo. He tried but was never able to play it the same again. In Eddies defense I was blacked out drunk the first time I heard this solo back in the day. R.I.P. Eddie

You guys have great taste in music and you're absolutely cute too

He’s not finger picking, he’s tapping….and he is throwing picks to the audience and then grabbing another off his guitar, etc…..and that’s called a whammy bar.

Those pants were known as ‘Red Rockers’. It was a clothing brand designed by Sammy Hagar, the lead singer. And yes, they were really comfy. Ain’t gonna lie, Ed wasn’t perfect. He had his demons and struggled with alcohol addiction for most of his adult life. But was indeed one of the greatest guitarists ever. When he performed his solo during their live shows, he was just having fun. I was fortunate enough to see them many times and loved every show. His death was incredibly sad for me and for anyone who started playing guitar because of him.

Hey those under 50 ....... This is called TALENT. NOT the DJ and pre recorded music you rob people with in " Concert " nowadays. 99% of younger people today can't do much of anything that's not on a phone or computer

The Whammy Bar changes the tension of the strings, one of the rock guitarists of all. He brought a lot of techniques to rock guitar playing such as the tapping of the strings and so forth, not widely used in rock at that time.

His therapist bills for his guitar must have been insane. No thing in existence should be put through such abuse.

Watch Gary Moore play Red House at the Fender 50th anniversary gig, amazing cover of Jimi Hendrix song only one to get a standing ovation that night that is how good it is.

It is amazing how you can get lost in it. If you really pay attention you can hear his classical piano training in it. It is very mathematical like Bach.

I'm sure this has been answered but the hanging metal bar is called a Tremelo bar or whammy bar slang term ,, It bends the strings to give it the dive bomb sound... By the way.. Your faces are the exact reason i watch every one of these Ed VH solo videos

At auction, it would not surprise me that eddies guitar would bring a much larger amt of $ than one of hendrix guitar

His brother is on the drums in this piece

Y’all need to check out Stevie Ray Vaughn’s performance of “Texas Flood” live at the El Mocambo.

the bar is called a whammy bar but he hardly ever used it he's a Rick god right up there with Jimmy Hendrex

Married to Valerie Bertanelli for decades

Synapse are burning lol

If you go back and listen to the albums every one of those Tunes he is playing those songs that he's playing now came from every album they produced that they produced they will never be another Eddie Van Halen

This why Quincey Jones and Michael Jackson asked him to be on his song BEAT IT.

Well, seeing all the great comments, I don't have anything to add except ... I still love you both 🥰🥰❣❣❣ Edit: Ok, seeing you say that you haven't listened to Van Halen, I would like to let you know, there were actually two (2) versions of the group ... 1 with David Lee Roth as the lead singer, who was incredible for that band at that time, and 1 with Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist. The 2nd version was good, but NEVER as good as the original lineup. I would recommend you going down the "1st lineup" rabbit hole, which IS where Eruption originally came from (debut album). Songs you would most likely be interested in would be, from the 1st/debut album, Runnin' with the Devil, Eruption (the 1st version is better, IMO, but not as long), You Really Got Me (The Kinks cover), Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love, Jamie's Cryin', Feel Your Love Tonight, Little Dreamer and definitely, the David Lee Roth special song, Ice Cream Man. The personnel for that album was: David Lee Roth - lead vocals, acoustic guitar on "Ice Cream Man" (credited as "David Roth") Eddie Van Halen - guitar, backing vocals, electric sitar on "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" Michael Anthony - bass, backing vocals Alex Van Halen - drums From the 2nd album (same personnel), I would go for: Dance the Night Away, Beautiful Girls (they MUST have been talking about you), Somebody Get Me a Doctor, D.O.A. and Spanish Fly. Luv ya, mean it 🥰🥰❣❣

Whammy bar hanging.