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Location: Detroit area | So many, so many. Personally here is my favorite:
- Right Now. Great "fit" for the song, lots of expression and some tasty speed. |
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Location: SoCal | I hate to admit to ignorance (altho' I'm good at it and do it all the time), but who or what is EVH? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | EVH?
The luckiest man in Rock-n-Roll?
Married to Valerie Bertinelli?
Made David Lee roth look palatable? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Eddie Van Halen? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I would have made him work for it! |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | I have two:
1) Eruption- The solo intro to You Really Got Me from the first album. Incredible tapping technique with elements of J.S. Bach. I still turn the car radio volume up loud every time it comes on.
2) Beat It - From Wacko Jacko's Thriller. One of the best selling albums in history and I think EVH's solo was a factor. This was a ground breaking solo for a pop record. |
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Location: Detroit area | Good call on "Beat It". What a great lick! I remember some of my head-banger friends buying that album just for the guitar on that song. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Beat it would be my choice. . it was a great solo. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Let us not forget the part in Bohemian Rhapsody where we all start nodding our heads to the speed up beat.
Rock on Wayne! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | There's this VH tune called "Secrets" from their Diver Down album. It wasn't a popular song, but the solo was awesome. The song (and the solo) are a bit more mellow than most VH songs. I'm more impressed by melody than notes per second. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Hard to pick an EVH solo for me. Hot for teacher was kind of cool...especially in the video when Ed's walking down a long stretch of library table tops wailing away with that s**t eatin' grin of his. Cathedral off of Diver Down was interesting too...not hard to play, but interesting and different for him. Mean Street off of Fair Warning is one of my favorite VH tunes. The Van Hagar era had some of his most melodic playing, but I enjoy the fire in his playing during the Roth era a bit more. The Spanish Fly solo was interesting too, since it was on a nylon string acoustic.
By the way, he and Val are no longer married.
The Beat It solo was recorded in one or two takes. From what I've read, Ed wasn't even paid for it, he did it as a favor for his friend, the producer of the tune. Bummer, since it became such a huge hit. |
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Location: N.J. | Some of his shining moments:
1.Eruption.Changed the way "modern" rock guitar is played.(the banjo version of this is pretty cool too ;) )
2.Spanish fly,Harmonic tapping highlights,done on a nylon string.
3.Little Guitars (intro) innovative at the time.
4.Catherdral. Another innovative one done with delay.
5.Beat it. Made me do the moonwalk onstage! :p
I know some of these have been mentioned already and theres a few more i'm sure, but these were really the ones that stood out to me for one reason or another. I also have to mention that Eddies sound on the first 2 albums is one of the most sought after sounds among rock players. I should point out though that he was a player that could play thru anything and still sound the same. Not many rock players are comfortable with that. "Hey, wheres tha Delayyyy.... " :D |
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| I don't like the whole genre that EVH plays in - I especially would like to take his vocalists outside and issue the coup de grace. However - EVH is simply one of the all time great guitar players - I have never found a jazz musician who didn't think EVH was the bees knees as a musician (and you'd be staggered to know how many old time sax players know about EVH). When people put him together with jerk-offs like Vai and Satriani and the rest of those silly scale players it makes me want to weep. I don't klnow how musically educated he is, maybe it is absolutely natural born genius, but his music is a trillion times more complex than Hendrix's ever was. Whether you like it or not.
That piece I can never remember the name of is almost certainly the one someone thought was Bach. I assumed it was Bach and just a piece I didn't recognise the first time I heard it. The chord (although he plays them all as endless arpeggios) sequence would do the brain of any living classical composer in. Like Hendrix, Coltrane, Pass,Tatum, Ellington - an absolute force of nature. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I think I read that his father was at least a semi-accomplished musician and even played on at least one of their tunes so I do think Eddie had some background in classical arrangements. That might explain some of his musical logic, which I love regardless how much I loathe DLR. |
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| Live Without a Net --- Filmed in New Haven Col.. Love the main live Solo he plays by him self with all the tapping harmonics.. I Played at senior talent show.... IT WORKED hehehe |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Ed's father was an accomplished clarinet player and had a huge influence on Ed's musicianship. He played on a tune or two on Diver Down. Both Ed and Alex (VH's Drummer) were brought up learning classical piano. |
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Sub topic: EVH's best solo?