Very similar but Ed was more simple and Vito was more melodic, but EVH could get sounds out of a guitar that no one would ever think of, a true innovator. EVH composed his songs to be more powerful and memorable. I love both their playing, imagine a band with EVH and Vito on guitar…WOW !!!
This guy is a decent guitarist, but he is completely ripping EVH off throughout this entire live performance. It's far more obvious live than it is on records. It's not even the really hard stuff that he's "borrowing."
@@licensetoshred he's playing all of EVH's riffs, and then he adds a couple of softer sounding melodies, so that is supposed to make him more melodic than EVH? He's playing like he is in a VH cover band.
Vito is my new favorite guitarist I want to play just like him. He looks like he's barely trying and just having a good time on this amazing performance 🤠🤠🤠🎸
Vito got that "barely trying and just having a good time" look from Eddie Van Halen, who was doing that "look" live since the late 70's, a decade before this Bratta performance. Additionally, about 95% of the extra cool, "no effort" guitar fills he added to this live performance were lifted right out of EVH's trick bag. I "studied" EVH's playing intently since I started playing in the 80's, and I love playing EVH's music, just like Bratta obviously does. However, I'm not up onstage, with my own band playing "original" tunes, essentially saying, "Look how cool I am with all my clever guitar work!" If I we're up onstage playing these riffs, I would behave more like Dweezil Zappa does when he plays Van Halen riffs. I would talk about how great EVH and his playing was before I started playing it. Or, I would be playing in a cover/tribute band.
The barely tryin look is thinkin of my next 5 to 16 next moves on the fly on the guitar,..like Chess,..But on the guitar once you've not necessarily mastered your craft,..but for sure Mastered your tune. IMO
Agree. However, these players did rely heavily on 2-hand tapping. Tapping is a very easy shortcut used to achieve blistering speeds. I loved this stuff when it first came out, but today, I'm more impressed with the slower, more molodic phrasing of say David Gilmour who relies more on precision bends and finger vibrato..
😲 What A Clean Playing & Sound Recording !! Holly (Lion) 🙏 It's More Better Then Studio Take. Lucky To Find All Those Performance Of '88 / Feeling Like EIDDAY 💙 ♪ ♫
Vito is King 👑 Now !!!! And no one can take that away from him !!!!! Even though the era of the screams echoed and Rang out !! And I'm sure he isn't even 🤔 of looking back !!! Not even to claim it.. and that it self is what separates him from the rest !! God bless Vito Bratta and the great music he's given us !!
He didn't give up playing. He just quit from the entertainment industry to be there for his father who was having a 5yr long illness and after that he had an injury on his arm or wrist that made him difficult to play guitar properly like he used to but as he said b4 in an interview that he still could play classical guitar without discomfort.
Ahh a White Lion gig...blazing fretwork from Vito, solid rhythm from Greg and James...and an out of breath Mike skipping over, cutting short, or letting the audience sing, every high note lol.
What's up with Tramp in this one? He's one of my favorite vocalists and the studio version sounds so much better than this performance. First time hearing them live to be honest. Sounds like he's constantly out of breath here
even this early, mike can't sing this one properly. he's speaking the words, not singing them and he's going around the best parts coz obviously he won't hit the notes. so sad.
The comparison of this guy to EVH is not warranted, unless you are comparing how closely this is copying EVH's live riffs. There are plenty of guitarists out there who were as good as or better than this guy who were able to be influenced by EVH without directly copying so much of EVH's note-choice and phrasing.
Vito is slightly out of tune and yet it still works - kind of makes his guitar sound a bit rude, in a good way. That palm-mute harmonic trill at 2:08 and that look on his face at 2:12 - dude was on fire in the day.
Vertuoso, no doubt. Saw them @ the "Switch" in Raleigh, n.c. 1988, before first came out. He lifted his strat up and on the back had a bumper sticker that said "who farted"
I don't know where the original band members are now, but - if they ever see this - i want them to know something. I first heard this track whilst driving in my best friends car when i was about 11 years old - would have been about 1989. It blew our world apart. I remember us leaning out of the windows of the car singing along, without really knowing the words. A reaction to music i had never felt before. I'm 46 now. And I can attribute my entire musical history: megadeth, metallica, pantera, Soundgarden, Alice in chains, led Zeppelin, allanah Myles, the black keys, the blue stones, filter, faith no more, machine head, etc etc as all starting from that day, in that car, with that track on the radio. If you see this: thank you. It was the seed to the last 30 years of my musical enjoyment. I hope you are all living like kings.
I remember watching this when it first aired; I was 12. I'm still blown away by Vito. Mike Tramp's performance here, leaves a lot to be desired...just awful.
I wonder if these guys look back on what they wore and how they looked with the same amount of cringe that I have right now as I watch this video?? Some really great music came out of the 80's and these guys are a part of that. On the other side of that coin, some really ridiculous "fashion" trends showed up in the 80's and these guys were definitely a part of that as well.
@@Windof Vito is not better than EVH. All those cool live licks he was playing were taken almost verbatim from Eddie Van Halen's live trick bag. The Floyd Rose dives, the harmonic squeals, the muted panning harmonics, the distinctly EVH tapping flourishes. This is what I would be doing if I were up on stage. I would be playing a bunch of EVH licks. He plays a little different than EVH sometimes, but not here. Most of that playing originated from the mind and fingers of Edward Van Halen.
@@jeffbrewer8887 may be that Van Hallen created the technic, that is not completely true becouse other invented many years before, but Vito created the melody, that Van Hallen don't have.
@@Windof Van Halen didn't "create" the technique of tapping. He also didn't "create" the technique of dive bombing with the tremelo bar or the use of harmonics. I don't mind if Bratta taps sometimes, or uses his bar sometimes, or uses harmonics sometimes. The problem I have is that Eddie came along in the late 70's and combined many different techniques into his own style and came up with some very memorable and iconic guitar work that is instantly recognizable by guitarists (certainly by Bratta) as Van Halen riffs. If you want to think Bratta is "more melodic" than Eddie Van Halen because he incorporated more major thirds in his playing, or some of his solos sound more "pleasing" to your ear, that's fine. Bratto's solo in "Wait" is very "melodic," and I don't think he's ripping EVH off just by tapping. However, in this video, he is blatantly ripping off a bunch of riffs Eddie used to specifically play, especially in concert. I saw him play them live plenty before Bratta was on the scene, and you can find clips on You Tube all over the place. It's fine if Bratto wants to incorporate some of the techniques Eddie popularized, and it's ok if he wants to play more "melodically" than EVH, especially in his songwriting and recording. What he shouldn't do is show up on stage and throw in an EVH impersonation without attribution. That means, if he wants to play exact EVH licks on stage, he should be informing his audience of his "homage," or he should save the licks for VH cover band gigs or tribute concerts.
Vito is/was a good player, and on White Lion's albums, he doesn't always sound like EVH, but in this live clip, he is going full "EVH clone." From the concert opening to all the little extra guitar fills, he is putting on a demonstration on how to pretend you're EVH without letting his audience know. At least he didn't bring out his "Vito Bratta Signature Series" striped guitar.
