I just saw Eddie Van Halen at the Hollywood Bowl.....He's a Zombie.
Posted on 10/08/2020 8:02:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rest in peace. I was never a big Van Halen fan, or a fan of that rock music. But people have said how his guitar skills were a cut above any others, and for that, you have to credit his commitment to excellence. He will have his place in rock music history.
Go look now on iTunes, VH is dominating.
I've never heard of "Eruption." I've probably listened to a total of 9 seconds of "hair metal" and "guitar shredding" in my entire life -- I can turn it off in a hundred milliseconds. I credit it with keeping my reflexes sharp for these past decades.
As great as his solos were, VH was damn good on rhythm as well.
Just listen to this
I’m the One - Isolated guitar track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd68eSet6jc
Saw the very first tour, they were warm up for Ozzie Osborne and black Sabbath....when Van Halen left the stage we left the arena.
The changing of the the rock n roll old guard to new was obvious and inevitable.
Eddie revolutionized how the guitar is played and how it can sound. I recommend giving some of it a listen.
Ahh...bummer man...fk. ok this is a serious drag for me. Eddie....i dont care Eddie is still awesome. 1984 sold out in 2 hours in Albuquerque so they did a 2nd show that also quickly sold out.
Some trivia...The coolest part of Michael Jacksons mega hit song Beat It was the guitar solo done by Eddie. I knew it was him the first time i listened to it closely.
What a drag it is getting old.....
It wasn’t so much Eddie’s playing as his composing, you could imitate the licks, but nobody could duplicate his composing style.
The other guitarist on Beat It, was Steve Lukather of Toto. It's amazing how many songs he appeared on outside of Toto in the 80s.
I just saw Eddie Van Halen at the Hollywood Bowl.....He's a Zombie.
I liked Eddie, thought he was a very good guitar player.
But changed music? Jeff Beck and Ritchie Blackmore were doing this stuff in the 1960s, and Hendrix broadened it. I never found one thing VH did that was novel. Excellent guitar playing, but following others and standing on the shoulders of giants.
Not a knock, just reality.
One of the best rhythm players I ever heard was Angel South of “Chase.”
WTH? Is that really Eddie?
The one and only time I saw Van Halen was at the 1983 US Festival in CA. They say that David Lee Roth was drunk at that concert but he and the rest of the band still put on quite a show. I thought both Eddie and the bass player were incredible. The guy on drums was pretty good too. But I remember David Lee Roth the most, he was constantly shouting out at the audience, talking trash about The Clash, and bragging about how many arrests there were outside the venue before the show (”We have way more arrests this year than last year, man! You guys ROCK!”).
<> I was in my early 20s and it was a fun time. Today, that kind of music mostly gives me a headache.
I have a number of friends who have toured and played with Ed. one of the things not mentioned much is the fact that he could play pretty much any music instrument you handed him, and well too.
That’s not EVH. That’s Bill Murray.
I was at that show with the band Triumph. I was filling in for their normal Monitor Engineer on that part of their tour.
I was never a big fan of Eddie’s, and I honestly prefer Van Hagar over the early stuff.
That being said, I’d be a fool to deny the impact Eddie had on rock music, particularly metal. (My personal guitar heroes are along the lines of Clapton, Page, and Jeff Beck.) I was very sad to see that he’d passed.
LOL, no. Bill Murray with a line from the movie “Zombieland”.
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