Van Halen - Studio Sessions 1983 

Ha ha!! Same here!

Love it!

He is still here ... Don't you hear ..? ...

Thank god I’m not the only one, I literally cannot sleep without hearing Van Halen first

@@acezoviet976 don't worry dude .. as Hendrix said in an interview once. . When he was asked how he would like to be remembered. .. just keep listening to the music

Agree 100% Can you imagine how solid Mikey had to be to put up with Ed’s gymnastics?!,!! Haha

Which he played 99% of the time, since it was a 3 piece band.

Absolutely. He was a riff meister. Incredible musicianship.

What separated the great Eddie Van Halen from everybody else was. He wasn't restricted by the type of music that he played. And what I mean is such as were most rockers of the day played blues licks. Some such as rainy roads use classical music in his guitar playing. Therefore resulting in they had to follow the rules majority of the time of the major and minor chords and scales of that type of style that they were playing. Eddie Van Halen did not follow any of these rules. He could not read sheet music. Only took a few short lessons and was profoundly self-taught. Therefore resulting in a freelance style of plane such as Jimi Hendrix but a little bit more open and broad scale to New horizons. Not only did he change the way that guitar players played since his debut. But even sheet music has been changed resulting in what is called tablature. Which is what they had to come up with the music industry that is to compensate with what Edward Van Halen was doing. At the time he didn't even have a clue what they were doing lol. But besides music itself as far as reading and writing and following rules. He did not like what they had to offer on the shelves at guitar stores. He didn't even like the amps. He had a certain tone in his head that he kept hearing. So he changed them all together. Resulting in a new way that all manufacturers make guitars nowadays. If we're Van Halen not only change your tar and not only the way that music is written and played but he change the course of rock and roll such as Elvis Presley started and many after. But just the whole approach to playing guitar in stage performance in itself. Adds off to this man we are where we are today in music in general because of this man. And I would like to say thank you to Edward Van Halen for an inspire me to play guitar and to inspire others.

His phrasing and natural relaxed sense of timing...

Me too. The whole thing is really sad. Why did he have to leave us? God's timetable is not our timetable, that's for sure. Hopefully he's starting over in a better world where he'll bring them guitar greatness like they've never heard before...

Me as well, brother. Eddie took a piece of all us with him.

I know how ya feel I've been listening to old Rush lately Neil has been gone a year

so do I

Same here still..can’t stop playing the songs on this album especially and playing it on guitar and just missing the guy...

absolutelty and house of pain which was written for the demo tape

Great tune! But Romeo's Delight serves as my favourite unheralded VH tune

I'm not sure why they held onto it for so many years before putting it on an album. Great tune. It's neat to see how it evolved over the years.

push come to shove is one very underrated

@@iamtheliquor9400 that as well as sinners swing are 2 that I really like.

Yes, indeed. Sorry for this, but when I first heard about his son Wolfgang, I thought how would he named his second son? Ludwig... :D R.I.P. Eddie

@@szunabass Maybe!?!

Agreed! 💗🎶

You did good raising a awesome young man,Eddie. You would be so proud to know,yes he too is a genius. Like father,like son. What you'll never know is that beautiful young man,created out of love,is so full of love for you,his eyes well up w tears talking about you! Father/ son bond was very strong! He misses you with all his heart & soul & it'll be a long time for his heart to heal.....💔💔🦋🦋🦋🦋🎸🎸🎸🎸 The Circle of Love includes processing / dealing w losses.

@@tiffanyroseangeles7517 Thankfully, Eddie absolutely knew how much he was loved by his son, family, friends & fans. I think Wolf is overwhelmed at just how much love there really is for his father! But no doubt, Eddie knew his son loved him deeply. I saw a very touching IV w/one of Valerie's brothers. He was visibly broken up about Ed's passing. He said Wolf was the last person he saw alive before he went to sleep that night. He died the next morning. 💔

David Harris Yup...totally just did that, lol

very much…thats pretty funny…

Eventually there will be a Sirius XM channel of 24-hour-a-day Eddie Van Halen practice tapes.

Yeah, EVH is down in MY basement just messin' around! lol If you have a loud stereo down there..

No one gets close.

Yep, one of the best tracks off that album that rarely, if ever gets played on the radio.

Thanks!

Agre, is impossible!!! 🤘

Maybe Jimmy page but I think Eddie is the best rip 🪦

Wrong. A lot of people sound like this. This isn't Eddie but Kurt Mitchell. Look it up. Besides , I have the tape

I think that's his secret. Everything is so in lock-step with Alex, it's disgusting. I remember him saying about Wolfgang, "Oh, thank God he's got rhythm." Without it, you have no career.

@Whip Lash All I am gonna say is to each their own it's only my opinion

Tapping has nothing to do with rhythm. You are the one who is not a guitarist. Maybe you do play but must suck.

if you can't play rhythm guitar u basically can't have a career in music - unless of course you're so good at lead you get hired regardless

Clifford Amey Eddie did everything and carried this band to be the best melodic hard rock band ever!!!

probably ... when Eddie dies and the van Halen brand explodes

Luis Luna Moon the time is now

@@willparker547 who would say that my words came true :( Now it's only up to wolf and alex to do things

Luis Luna Moon man you called it

@@21LuisLuna21 Irzoff has said that they will go through the vault now that EVH has passed and see what we can get..

@@andydavis9963 I go to where ever that is with you man and kick that dumbass's teeth in. Eddie Van Halen is the greatest to ever do it, he better show some fucking respect

That man lived life at 1000 mph. I know it’s Def Leppard and all but. Better to burn out. Than fade away.

that is true everyday... still.

Always chasing it!!!!🎸❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸

Not sure he was using his beautiful old Marshall here. The gain is too high. He was experimenting with other amps at this time. Still… it’s beautiful.❤

Yes I wish Ed put out an instrumental album like satriani Kinda line his extended solo at his concert.

The methods of madness and craftin' masterpieces! 👍

Me too, 13 - 51yrs ❤🤍🖤

I’m 28 and have been a Van Halen fan since I was 11.

He was as good at rhythm as he was lead.

Where you been? (You just finding that out) Just kidding. Rock on!

@@shawnstarks1743 I didn't have the time because of the life I was living to really play anymore. Now that's behind me the guitar is in front of me again and I'm learning all the songs I always wanted to play. Still wish my fingers were 2' longer though. RIP Ed x

@@mickweall It’s all good man. Never give up.

Good for you that's a badass riff

…and Michael Anthony’s high pitch voice was always a great backup..

Right you are.

That's the thing about the bass; in the hands of a master, you hardly notice it. But the moment it's gone, nothing sounds right. Without a rock like Mikey, Eddie would have not been able to reach out as far as he did and still stay grounded.

That's cuz his Bass Solo Sucked Total Ass!!! It's a Bass Guitar and he's making it squeak and squeal very high pitched notes 🎶. If I was the Van Halen's I would've told him to play something that's not Oxymoronic!!! But nope all effects pedals and strobe lights. I'm sure I'm not the only VH fan to think this cuz somebody else somewhere along the way will like my comment too prove so. Thank you and I do love Mike's background vocals and he serves every song with purpose albeit said Solo.

@@johnpoertner1361yea his bass solo did suck.

Brotherly Love.

And now Alex is alone, without Ed, for the 1st time in 65 years. I am heartbroken for him. I heard an IV recently where Ed said, "I don't think I could ever play without Al"... I imagine Al feels the same way about Ed. 💔

That's the secret of all the greats..I have played with many, and could never get something like that going. They wanted to move on to the next hole.

Ed said they had a bond because when they got here as kids, they didn't know any English. They only had each other to talk to.

that was my first thought that hit me as well.micheal anthony as well.al and mike both do minimal residual noises or continuations .its quite amaing and i dont remember a band of member thag all will go down in history and are in the hall of fame of special musicians and are both beyond superstars in their own right.but here are a drummer maybe the goat.i would never pick another ahead of him.and the same cor a bass plar who may be the goat and i would never pick another ovdr him especially when you realize and consider that mike anthony is probably the greatest vocalist and singer to also play the bass..again i know there have been some really technically wonderful drummers same gods for bassists.the greatest ones numbers are exponentially reduced when you speak of the gdeatest bassists and vocallist in one human and i just feel incapable of picking,putting,declaring,for that matter even i find it hard to mention some of the other greats names much less putting anyone of them ahead of these 3 dudes.i really would love to know what brought about these 3 guys in a band,in a studio,cutting,chipping striking of the parts that arent what they wanted to be left in the making of a masterpiece.adding to,using parts that ended up discarded but used as a scaffolxing,or a bridge to get to the masterpiece and its such a genius approach in the way these 3 have ended up and are on a cleary magical,mythical,unatainable by many who search fof it,a golxen highway,a set method that is and has proven to be at least one oc very little formulas to achieving im.ortality and achieving master works of music. was it unspoken?and the bass and drums just by simple the order of the genius of music and the natudal evolution of things that magically fall in place.was it that they were listening to such a inovagive genius of a creator with a masterful ear for sound and what sounds right and they were almost hipnoticed or under ghe control of that specially thing.that thing that everyone really xoesnt expirience and hear and witness fifst hand.i had a best freind growing up.his dad was always trying to have him follow his footsteps and be like him and like the things he did.he waz a succesful entrepanur and buisnessman who owned several thriving compaNys.he developed land and built commercial buildings.but my freind billy did bax in school,bad i math,science,undiciplined ,always getting bad grades and failing.he had some attention in class problems.his mother was an acentric artist who had some mental izsues that worsened and split the parents up and the dad took both brothers and raised them mostley by himself.mother lived across town in and out of mental homes never too involved with the kids.and a real hatred of her from billys dad was alway there and mutual from her.his xad hater her for ber eccentric artistic qaulitys.extreme mood shifts,etc.and billy was like moms adtistic brain.his younger bro was like dads brain.but billys dad tried to not accept that his mind was like hers.and want him to be like that since she ruined the family and they butted heads. one day his dad realised that you cant change a artistic minded brain into a mathematical minded brain.there are only a rare amount of people born with ability of both.Leonardo davinci is the biggest example.interestingly i have both.i can paint like davinci and im an engineer and architect.and musically inclined. as well. but the day billys dad gave up,he went down to his best creind growing up c.b. lacy and bought a guitar from him that lacy said was good.in fact lacy was in the band stillwater and just left the studio to record their 1st and most famous album and needed some extra cash to get the al um promoted sold him a gibson explorer mahogony or stained body ,with the drop neck style with lear dialz.anyway brought it home for billys bithday.paid i think 3 thousand dollars ,alot in those days,and billys dad always had money invdsted in new ventures and had money but not livinv a rich lifestyle.that was his ztatement to billy that i accept you the way you are.billy picked it up plugged in the marshall amp he got with it and after never having a guitar before, began to play by ear anything he herd or remembered .which he femembered things he didnt know he had herx before.i wdnt to my car took the brand new cassette tape of van halens album with hot summer nights out of my radio and left it for billy to listen to .the next day i ame to his house and he played the entire album both sides every song,every note exactly.exept he actually mimiced the same sound as eddie but it was better.billy was a onece i a lifetime genius with music.his ear was beyond amazing it was actually scary and he would ripp off a 30 minute classicall masterpiece from some freaking musical orchestral piece piece that him or anyone had ever liztenx to.his mother was pregnant with him and its said she listenex to that type of musi way too loud angeri g his dad who thought it was to loud for the baby i sixe her sfill.it was magic type of gift.and he could and would combine the world of everything together into his own creation.he would start tipping these epic jamsolos that would never stop or have to think.only pauseing at the perfe t moment the session creation required to be ep ic. and he would scream the most perfect soundi g electic guitar sound that was so similar to the eddie sounds on this recording but more warmish and epic.thats hard to say that it was betfer than evh.but it is a true story.his jams would go on for an hour ,then 2 hrs.sometimes he would incorporate intthe jam seemlessly the entire eruption solo...an hour later you would realize hes playi g the entire scene both guitars steve vai in the movie crossroads.every part exept way better adding his mixtures into improvment.he could mix in flameco spanish,style s and we would have these huge parths in 9 10 11 12 grades making tons of money charging 5 dollars to get in.a giant barn or open field.i set up a way to get power ran o a marshall amp connected to a pa system amp and speaker and after the first time it bappenex i knew big things were gonna happen.billy would just be in the big spaces and start to rip. people would hear the sound and would start to make a circle around him to see him and see what was making the magic sounds.it didnt take long for everyo e there in a 25 foot ircle trying to be near billy standing on a speaker .people would see random adults and kids at the quickie store while they were vettin beer and like they had seen bigfoot or amaing thing and tell everyone shat was haPpening and where at .next thing i know the circle is 50 feet deep.then 75 feet.cars lights in the distant fields like a highway comming....from then on we would have a party every week or two and the numbers of people was scaring me.adults parents kids ,elderly people even.were all trying to hear and see.billy would play fof hours with out stopping making it all sound as if it were 1 massive song.no drums no singing no bass.just billy.his fingers would be so swollen and fingertips with bistered spots next to giant callusez like leather.he couldnt hold his pencil in a way that you could read his handwriting and would get f on tests due to handwriting legibility..the shit was so surreal then and lookin back anx bringing back those memorys.so billy stafted to change .he was always so cool and normal and sense of humor.after high school billy move to atlanta to work on reroofing company our other freind started.i would go visit and go to falsons games but billy would more and more be off unrea chable when not working.then i asked about him latef and he had deteriorated more into a scitzophrenic behavior lime his mom had when close to his age.i was watching antiques roadshow one day and saw a ghitar that was identi al to billys.the appraiser pointed out that there are a cuople ways that that year was easy to identif since gibson only uzed the combination of clear epoxy dials with that body sthle and that color of stain body.it was identical when i looked at old pics.they priced it at 96000$. in the lesser qaulity one on he show.but this one of billys had re corded a famouse Album as well.i made some calls and the value above that price was just gu estimated by a couple of people at more han double.and would by it for double.so i try to get ahold of billy.who was broke,and to paranoid to come out of a camoflauged treebouse he was living in centenial park.nobody even knew he lived there e,pt our freind who would take him water and food.i ad go tell billy the ood news that he was practically rich back then values.my ffeind alled me back next day.....he said billy didnt have it.he idnt ave any guitar.he pawned it2 monthz ago for 40 dollars and was to paranoid o go get it.he hought it was an fbi setup .....my reind said e had he money to .be auzd e brought is mail that ad cash from his dad in it.wow....his mild pot smoki g and rinki g,and maybe some acid use turned billys life into insanity.he killed iself a few onths later they say rom pure malnutri ion,not hydrating or taking baths and just got thin they found him dead in park somewhere. but this tape reminds me of billy .sorry for the fucking short novel here.but back to he subject.did eddie tell he guys to limit your playing and just listen and follow and et e lo ate he direction.or did hey know without being told.or as it he producer or studio manager that got hat going.be ause it so smart and it couldbe a producer like they had at those times.who was sitti g in or rdcording with hem in his session?.if you know that

I was just about to comment this

Everyone knew this. I’m sixteen and known this since I was 7

@@keeganjones924congratulations you’ve know it since you were 7 want a cookie news flash no one gives a fuck about your bullshit no one really knew until they played with Sammy stfu clown

@@thebullshitchannel1762 bro stfu. What’s the disrespect for. U can obviously hear the same riff

Hearing this now, seems like he fit the riff into jump because he didn't know what else to do with it at the time. You can hear him trying to make a song out of it but it wasn't clicking in yet.

I have been drooling over that stack of bodies for years!! There is an interview with Kurt Loader from like the mid 90s that shows a bunch of them hanging on the wall in the stairwell of 5150 also. Wolfe? Just one? Pretty pretty please??!!

He used the double neck Kramer for songs like Secrets and Cathedral.

@@kingzriot976 Eddie used a Strat to record Cathedral

And Standing on Top of the World

Spot on comment. I've played for 33 years and Ed is the final mountain.

Very well said. Chills

That sound had been around since 1978...

​@@rmp3648Not THIS sound. His tone changed on every damn album. This is pure ferocity. It sounds better than the album. It just blisters with electricity and this warm, woody, unbelievable power. It sounds like he's taming lightning or something.

@@e.l.norton he is!!

Me! I Turn 50 next month. Still playing VH riffs in my little studio every day. Only picked up a guitar because of EVH. RIP to the King

Me. 42 now, started at 12. Saw Eddie once live. Amazing show

He was the man who first made me take notice of the guitar at age 6 in the late 80's, when I heard "Beat it" on the radio. I was just blown away, and that same year my mum bought me an accoustic guitar. Music is my life, and Eddie's the man who inspired me to be the guitarist I am today at 41. R.I.P Edward 🤘

I was already playing for 3 years when VH1 came out - I was blown out of the universe by his playing and still am - I could not comprehend what I was hearing and at the same time I was ashamed and sad about my own playing - I feel extremely lucky to be alive during his time on earth. Sure there are other rock electric guitarists, but since 1978, every one of them is influenced by EVH - he was the king. RIP EVH and Jeff BEck

@@joerectifier Amen brother. Makes me cry today to think of Eddies passing even today.

"Al hand me another beer."

Yeah that's the dream ...just to see

A mistake, Say What!? It’s Eddie, there are No mistakes just alternates!

..yes, and that's what they always said about Jimi Hendrix also...

Greg Allman died? 🤔

He did tons of cocaine and booze

Kieth Richards is still going strong

dude was a dedicated smoker, drug & alcohol abuser. Amazing talent & frightening demons. Gone far too soon.

If you’ve got the bad “gene” with a propensity to develop cancer, then toking on a cigarette for 50 years, much of it spent chain smoking, is going to unfortunately catch up. RIP Eddie! I put 32 years in the cancer sticks and dread the day, and people in my family get cancer from looking at a cigarette. The young version of you doesn’t think about these things or dwell on your mortality. 50 year old me is acutely aware that I may one day pay.

Lol

Their dad played a lot of jazz and they basically apprenticed under him, besides whatever else,first. .

also there's an earlier version played in January 1983 in Sao Paulo

Yep

Your part way there, you can be as loud as him.

All his best work was done on Marshalls, bottom line.

Well said!

LEGENDARY! DDL- MASTERPIECE as is all of his work! 👍

I agree. Even in '84 he was still great but not quite as good as here. '86 and forward he was good but not as precise in his playing. I like him the most from the mid 70's to early 80's because he was better at playing aggressively.

Aw, man! Don't be hating on Sammy. He's so cool! I agree, Eddie's playing had an edge when Dave was in the band, but his songwriting didn't diminish at all. What we hear after Dave left is what Eddie wanted to do. Sammy had to be on board with that before he joined.

Yes he did in 1978( Detroit ), and I became an Addict.

Yes, he had been listening to a lot of Alan Holdsworth around this time, and the influence is very obvious. If you haven't heard of Holdsworth, check out some of his recordings. He passed away last year, but his music lives on as Eddie's does.

@@ichikaba I heard an interview with Eddie where even said Holdsworth was the best guitar player ge ever heard and Eddie was stunned that Holdsworth was about to go work a factory job so he helped Holdsworth to get a recording contract.

@@fazole True. I've heard that interview as well. I was fortunate to see both of these gifted musicians many times between the late 70's to the mid 2000s.

Same here. 1984 era tone can’t be topped.

Hello India, Here's some Eddie for ya

Thanks for sharing these GEMS on a daily basis

Wow!! It's like a secret peek into the mind of a genius.

@@VANHALENARCHIVE hey how is the song Panama a tribute to ACDC and I think that you are a member of Van Halen leaking the stuff

Dave couldn't do a lot of Sammy's songs because of the range difference, and Sammy couldn't do some of Dave's songs because of - get this - the range difference. Both guys had different vocal characteristics that suited the music Van Halen was recording during their tenures. What makes this whole thing tragic is that both Roth and Hagar, along with Michael Anthony and manager Noel West, got kicked to the curb because they weren't part of the Van Halen biological family. Both Eddie and Alex drove away the people that were genuinely trying to help them. If that's not the very definition of social maladjustment, it comes close.

Ethan Henderson - Eddie got rid of long time engineer Don Landee because Ed was jealous of any control in the studio. Don was part of the sound of the classic records, I don't know what he did to make Eddie part ways with him, but you don't get rid of an engineer that good. Ed probably hated that Landee was part of the characteristic sound they had in studio.

@@henderson023 you're socially maladjusted. Family always comes first.

@@Fretfeeler Whatever you say, man. Whatever you say...

Sammy could sing ANYTHING!!!

Yep

it was a preview to girl gone bad just before 1984 the album dropped a pure tease to the audience and the band knew it

Yep.

It STILL DOES. Long Live Edward.

Yes, but you CAN hear the talent

@@noleadmons and THAT is why we call it talent. Eddie could channel anything he wanted, dude was fking magical.

🤣

@Vito B lmfao

I believe that was Top Jimmy

No, it was Girl Gone Bad.

It was Hang Em High according to The Van Halen Saga

@@maximusfrank2835 www.guitarworld.com/artists/eddie-van-halen-looks-back-van-halen-1984-album-5150-studios

These may be the earliest takes of that riff to be made public. I feel like I was looking over a mad scientist's should as I listened to this. RIP, EVH.