Eddie Van Halen & Tak Matsumoto 1998 interview Part One

[verbotenco]

GAIJIN!

[atlanticstar2012]

yeah, he's spun out... I'm glad he's cleaned up his act... just hope he will stay away from that shit... it kills.

[contact1araya]

Eddie is such a geek, man I bet if he was stranded on an island he would build his own guitar out of coconuts.

[millie8100]

@huntersingle ;) he's the greatest man ever :D

[ebayisajoke]

he ain't cleaned up, he's using again look at the new video on the VH site... this new 2012 tour is gonna be a flop and so is the music. They can't even release the album the infighting has begun!

[huntersingle]

he seems like a pretty cool guy

[wabijou]

テーブルで音を増幅させるのは私もやりました＾＾

[DARRINCONNOR1]

I used to do the guitar resonating trik cauz I didnt hav an amp either.

[ottawadrummer]

The ventures! nice!

[blackakuma]

Two of the greatest guitarists sitting side by side.

[ltcurry]

seems like a down to earth guy.

[eartant]

That's funny- his remark about putting his guitar against the table to give it more sound.

I had a bass guitar as a teen but had no amp, so I'd sit on the floor with the end of the neck against the wall for the very same reason- more sound !

[gittahfiend]

eddies half oriental too.

[Zodibigh]

@gittahfiend I think its odd even his biggest fans forget that, myself included.

[wldntknow]

Tell Me How yuh Learned What you didnt learn.

[pickhot5150]

tak matsumoto plays guitar with steve vai, stevie salas and Aero smith.

and he got Grammy Award with Larry Carlton.

He is one of the greatest guitarist in japan!

[virgoptrex]

I have heard this song he played so many times...I can sing it but donno its name....what is the name of the song he is playing?

[Newzchspy]

He's a great talent always, BUT here he was a complete mess.................and to think Valerie put up with him for over 20 years??

[vmartin96]

thumbs up if you skipped where eddie was talking

[GameJourney]

Wait, how many chords was that?

[Hunkola]

Ed was a full on meth-head here.......SO SAD

[LnWlf3]

lol i love hearing the whole brother took my toy so i took his story, its so classic, i mean seriously what band can say that they play guitar because his bro/sis "kicked" them off of their instrument

[Inzanex1]

why its he moving? its freakin me out man

[elvisdustin]

was he on meth here?

[dwilmer7]

i like cheeseburgers.

[TheMichaelseymour]

look at eddies mouth ....hes moe from the bar -with long hair and glasses.

[1015atk]

he should turn thous 4 courds in to a song

[happyone98]

@mrleadguitar where have you been the last 30 plus years? Waste of talent? He doesn't have anything to prove to anybody. His first 6 albums should speak loud enough. Don't be jealous just because you'll never be as good as him. He's been rockin for decades. He could retire and it wouldn't make a difference and you wanna know why? He's Eddie Van Halen. He's already a legend.

[youknowitsBrad]

Whats the first guy saying

[DickLodge68]

Ehhh...I just question how much he remembers as truth.

[luminositymusic]

Rock glasses.

[mandaclair]

@ColtraneTaylor: sure, I'll buy that definition, as long as you add "above all, intelligent and competent" to the list. I love Eddie, and I love to see him so cerebral in this interview with his nerdy little glasses, xoxoxo

[impellernut]

eddie look busted here

[ColtraneTaylor]

What an uninterested looking reporter.

[jaytea2120]

joo

[TheMrleadguitar]

Eddie Van Halen is a fruit cake plain and simple! such a waste of talent, just a washed up wino! such an idot.

[atomicfile2]

@TheMrleadguitar Hey jackass you cant do shit like him so dont talk shit hes famous your not your just a stupid crap ass whos probably half wasted so shut the hell up and get outta here you retard how bout you actually do something instead of making your shit comments all the time

[MrCjp37]

What song is that hes playing at the end of the interview? dose anyone kmow?

[Maverikk68]

@MrCjp37 Walk Don't Run by the Ventures. That was one of the first songs I ever learned, too!

[TheCottonTop]

Eddie looks like Matt Stone here.

[derekRTK]

hes fuckin od on pcp. heavy shit. still jamz. took my 6yr old son to this tour,7/4/98., san berdoo, glen helen pav.

[EliCurrent]

see i knew evh drank and smoked... never knew he did coke! damn..

[TheMichaelseymour]

" I WOULD PLAY THOSE ......er, {what comes after 3 } {oh yeah ] FOUR- CHORDS FOR HOURS !!!

[winshasky]

@TheMichaelseymour

He played 4 chords actually. The 4 chords of the so-called Spanish Cadence.

[brnrik500]

Eddie is cool as heck! You envious people please stop your attacks!

[mandaclair]

I love what a nerd Eddie is... all the best rockstars are huge nerds behind the scenes :-)

[ColtraneTaylor]

@mandaclair What's a nerd anyway? Someone who doesn't posture, act tough and dumb?

[Sjones675]

thats hilarious that it was just because alex could play drums better, that he started playing guitar. well when he tells it

[guitarsANDcars39]

dude i used to put my guitar head right next to my wall so it would sound louder

[vikingbush]

I am SOOOO gratefull and glad Eddie ('s family) moved to America!

[theratfarmer]

yeah, ed is humble. it's really easy to understand him as a person. he is an aquarius. easy going, like to help people, don't follow the crowd, can put up with a lot of shit, but if you back them into a corner...... you best stand the fuck by, because it's coming. dave is a libra, i have him pegged too.

[Gary2112]

shit i thought that was Ace Frehley at the beginning.

[muddypuddlerules]

0 to 47 was all the word hi.

[spedmental]

i noticed that truly great players are always humble and worldly,eddie seems to be a very nice person.its funny how the noboddys with no talents always think there 40 times better than what they are.

[superspit]

is the first guy on this vid from the 'Iron Chef'?

[klutz94306]

you can tell eds using here check how hollow his cheeks are. I'm glad hes cleaned up his act now.

[Sjones675]

@klutz94306 Yeah no doubt, and his body looks smaller too

[MrAppolo777]

@klutz94306 No dude hes in the beginning phase of cancer, thas why he is so skinny.

[WarmothStrat]

@klutz94306 I was with Ed for this end of the tour. He was not using. He was just very trimmed down from being on tour for the past year.

[klutz94306]

@WarmothStrat really you got to meet ed? ya fair enough that's got take a lot out of you being on tour for so long I remember him saying he did cocaine during the fair warning album, but I guess I just assumed he was at this point to because of how thin he was.

[WarmothStrat]

@klutz94306 No, I was actually with them for the entire leg of the Tokyo/Yokohama tour. If you check my channel I will have a video up about that experience sometime within the next few days. But trust me, Ed was clean and sober the entire time. He wouldn't even drink a beer with us after the show.

[DarthKazi]

@WarmothStrat Ed has really tried hard to kick the booze over the years but it's such a hard thing. I still struggle with it. His dad gave him a shot of vodka and a smoke when he got bitten by a dog when he was 12. That's enough to get a person hooked. Very sad. Hopefully he's still sober and getting that record ready!!

[DarthKazi]

@klutz94306 He got busted with some coke in 2000 with Wolfie on a plane, which was what was Val's "last straw" according to her. Ed never likes to talk about substances, but he was into it long after Fair Warning. Look at some of the early 5150 era interviews... his eyes were totally glazed over from the stuff. It's insidious.

[AC6773]

@klutz94306 I just listened to an interview with Sammy Hagar where he basically said the same thing you did. "You can tell when Ed is using because he loses weight." He also commented how he bloats out when he drinks so he doesn't get why EV gets so thin...

[4eyedCyclopes]

@klutz94306 no, he may have been using but this was after he was diagnosed with cancer and taking treatments.

[tetrabud]

JAPANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEESE! chehchiuchiechooooaawwaaahh!!

[xkev21]

Eddie Van Halen, is just  great guitarist ... period!

[regardingwave]

@xkev21 the best

[MrNebelful]

@xkev21 but this is not the greatest period of this guitarist .. poor dude looks fragile . I glad he's doing much better now

[wldntknow]

if you people dont know what the japanese guy is saying click to :50 thats where the interview starts thumbs up this

[yellofury]

dammit WMG blocked part 2!!!!!

[Emceetem]

damn you eddy !!

i thought i did that by myself...and when i found about harmonics i thought it was something i invented myself...but i was dead wrong.

i can't ever have nothing.

>:(

[legendaryicecream]

legends, :p

me and my friends made a hip hop remake of taks cover of gary moore's sunset, check it out, its interestin:

youtube.com/watch?v=AiC_6ccRwH­M

[CaptainOats124]

Lol 2:53 he has to count the cords he plays :D

[acdczeppelinhalen1]

For some reason I had envisioned Eddy's voice sounding differently ;)

[Moh1Z]

@acdczeppelinhalen1 he's a smoker... listen to some of his newer interviews, his voice is even more different!

[evh7775150]

lol Cool, I've never seen this footage B4. I've always said, "thank god Alex was better at drums"!

[psan72]

Tak said he started playing in middle school (Jr. High) and it was the Beetles that did it for him, then of course, Deep Purple.....and he would just play their chords over and over. ....

[jspartacus]

@psan72 That's not the Beatles or Deep Purple, he's playing "Walk, Don't Run", originally by Johnny Smith, but later made famous as a Surf Rock instrumental by The Ventures.

[psan72]

@ jspartacus..... My reference was what Tak was saying, in his Japanese dialogue. He referred to the Beetles and Deep Purple and how he learned by listening to them and playing by ear. .....

[RR5Rhoads]

:( I wish someone would add some subs for what Tak's saying, I'd love to know. T_T

[kskate91]

Why does Ed look different here?

[youaergay]

because its hefor he cut his hair but in the 90's. at this time he was on heavey drugs and alcohal thats why hes so fucked up.

[ilikesalad1997]

i enjoyed bok-choys intro on this video,because i totally uinderstood that hahah

[rolodexroulette]

@ilikesalad1997 stfu you ignorant fuck. sure he's a nerd, but you don't need to refer to him by race. i hope you fucking hang yourself

[ilikesalad1997]

@rolodexroulette wow, if you have such little of a life to get ina fight with someone on youtube comments, thats sad and stupid, feedom of speech, dumbass....and saying bok-choy has nothing to do with his level of popularity, so the nerd comment made no sense....and your mad at me for making a joke about words that come from a race, while your calling me ignorant, based on one comment, and are telling me to hang myself...yeah, reall nice, you lonely no lifed hypocrite

[7beers]

Really cool to see someone so excited about the simple magic of music!

[TruthAxe]

Ed looks bad here. Hollow cheeks.

[shredder1965]

@TruthAxe Cancer.

[EVHguitarz]

thats what I did for hours...smoke on the water...lol

[xXNeoShredderXx]

What happened to the rest?

[smoothistkid12]

you untill just now o just made a song out orf tho0se chords he was playing

[RyLeeKing]

i think hes still super excited about those chords. i remember the first cool riff i learned like that....ahaha

[RyLeeKing]

i can understand you oriental man.

[Adnoydal]

So, Thirdigeninbred69, how about that EVH mother? She's, like, Indonesian. All dark haired and skinned, slant-eyed, too.

[Adnoydal]

Ed's mother Eugenia is from Indonesia. Do you know where that is, you average Yankee?

Indonesia consists of distinct ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.

It has developed a shared identity defined by a national language, ethnic diversity, religious pluralism within a majority Muslim population.

"Unity in Diversity" literally, "many, yet one" articulates the diversity that shapes the country.

Alex looks ethnic on his early pics. He's a butt-UGLY fag gook.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Your pussy STINKS. Take a BATH for God's sake, you filthy FUCK!..

[Adnoydal]

Yer average good ole boy Comments on this video: shit fuck ass duck pussy lololol.

If Ed were in your neck of the woods you'd probably ask him "Who pickin a banjer here>"

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Take a bath, and learn English. Take your mother off the streets as well...

[Adnoydal]

Your mother lost the Civil War on account of she was sucking off her brothers. You can't even comprehend what Comment on this Video means. Instead you wave your limp Confederate dick around as if thats supposed to impress Ed.

Ed shits in your general direction, you illiterate rube.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You can say all the bullshit lies about me that you want, but you will ALWAYS be a dumb GOOK, and NOTHING will EVER change that...

[Adnoydal]

Anything you say Doyle. Everybody behold the Thirdgeninbred68. Search youtube for

Sling Blade Doyle Loses It

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Every time you post, you just expose your stupidity even more......

[Adnoydal]

Sure, Doyle. Now you're hurting, Doyle an folks know better to fuck with Doyle when he's hurting...

[gmlasam]

Well a stinky pussy to one maybe a bed of roses for others. ^-^

[Thirdgen83]

@gmlasam Yes, that HAS been proven. Can't argue with that one...

[lilsm555]

@gmlasam lol who would like that smell

[Adnoydal]

Lesson to all: gooks come from Holland, except Ed Van Halen, who is Dutch.

- Thirdgen83 (non-gook (= US Yankee))

[Adnoydal]

PS If you checked the above video youd notice Ed talking to a gook. Eds a half gook too,. Fuck them gooks.

A white boy may be too retarded to comment on a video but damn if he loves he Ed hes a member of the master race.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Ed is DUTCH, you fucking GOOK-tard! You're dumber than DIRT, and you're butt-UGLY on top of THAT...

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal And YOUR mother is from Gooktown, where she smokes Crack and has sex with black guys for beer money. And fuck Muslims! It is a religion of SUBMISSION (NOT "peace"), and "Allah" is the god of MURDER...

[Adnoydal]

Funny you sound just like any generic brain-dead Islamist: "Where No 1 an everybody else be quears an need ta die. Kill em all. Gobless Amerikkka"

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Fuck off, you fucking idiot GOOK....

[tannrr]

eddie rockssssssssss

ps check out tannrrs channel !?!

[Adnoydal]

"yo mama, yo mama a bit, yo. lololol" Reeetard.......

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal And your daddy TOO...

[Adnoydal]

PS - just like "dip-shit", a Google search returns no hyphenated spelings of "ass-clown"

I suppose the Internet is a fagot doshbag looser pediphile, too, eh. LOLOL But Ed is God and you so rock. LOLOL

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Oh? Gee, I didn't know Google was the authority on the English language. You apparently have NO clue what the purpose of a hyphen is, and there is no such word as "doshbag". You're obviously one of those Obama-loving, liberal fucks who log onto Google and wait for further instructions. Now go fuck yourself...

[Adnoydal]

It says "Comment on This Video" Is that not English enough for you?

Apparently not for Eds global villager fans, who respond to comments on these videos with dim, rote asisine

"Your a doshbag looser fagot idoit puss bucket diahreah pediphile hermaphradyte jizm terd whish masterbate piss in you're mouth Ed is God. LOLOL"

I'm not on the video, Obama's not on the video, but no, Ed's fans must defend Jesus Van Christ Halen of Nazareth, death to all infidels!

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal And "Spellings" has TWO 'L's, not one. You are the LAST fool in the word that should be be giving anyone spelling or grammar advice...

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You are dumber than DIRT. Totally illiterate, and your mother is a whore...

[Adnoydal]

...bloviates the insipid retard who can't comprehend the 5 simple words Comment on This Video.

And Eds still sucking in this video.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You can't comprehend most of the English language, so shut the fuck UP...

[Adnoydal]

...and yet Ed totally shits on you, not me.

Why don't you show us all how a real badass comments on a video so badass Ed writes them a letter of thanks.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You should seek rehab for your crack-whore mom...

[Adnoydal]

duh, crack whore mama lolol. crack whore mama heheh. crack whore mama.haha. Repetitive, too, are we?

Similarly, Ed's music lacks emotional depth. Ed gets a girl into the sack, theres no lovemaking, foreplay, massage, oil or vibrator. Ed stuffs a 7-11 dildo in her, goes to work with a weed whacker, spills some cheap beer around or "ambience", then takes a few jiggly cell phone pics of the carnage for his real friends, adolescent boys.

Duh check out the crack whore lol High five Ed lol

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Wow! Your mother lets you WATCH her at work??! Unbelievable!...

[Adnoydal]

Wow? Yet more stupid man-loving teenager quips sucking amost as bad as Ed on the video, revealing how badly you obviously wish you could suck Ed off.

Try a Comment on the Video, you stunted imbecile.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You're nothing but a stupid slant-eyed GOOK. Go fuck yourself, loser...

[Adnoydal]

Ho hum. Too retarded to comment on a video you instead try to suck Eds dick online. Ed shits on garbage like you, and rightfully so.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You're STILL a GOOK...

[Adnoydal]

Ed shits on your kind, thats even better. You so rock.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You gooks sure have a fascination with shitting. No wonder you're such nasty people...

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You EAT shit, as well as dogs and cats...which is far worse. Fucking GOOK...

[Adnoydal]

Thirdgen83 says Ed is a gook needs to be shot dead. God bless America..

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Thirdgen83 says YOU are an Internet TROLL and a piece-of-shit GOOK...

[Adnoydal]

Yet ED ignores you. He even buys security, with fans' to keep inbred shit like you away from him and out of his life, why is that? Have a dim, ever so vague guess as to why? Hm?

[Adnoydal]

Thirdgen83 says even half-breed Indonesians are all gooks and need to be shot dead. God bless America.

Hey, Ed is a halfbreed!

[darthvaderyoda]

2:56 what did he play there?

[bartolemeo]

Sounds like maybe a bit of The Ventures?

[Thirdgen83]

I wish those Chincs would speak frickin' ENGLISH...

[michaelteter]

And I wish losers like you would vanish from existence.

[southbaydog12]

@Thirdgen83 I wish bigot pricks like you would die a slow horrifying painful death

[Thirdgen83]

@southbaydog12 Well, you can wish in one hand, and jizz in the other, but at the end of the day, you're STILL nothing but a jack-off. Now go fuck your ignorant self!...

[Juuupa]

Tak should learn some english :D.. that was kinda embaressing.

[FlamingArcher]

@Juuupa he knows some check out the vid of B'z at the rock walk

[Adnoydal]

Eds fans know from English. Don't like Ed? This what they chant:

"Your a doshbag looser fagot diahreah idoit"

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Hey, just because your mother is addicted to Crack and likes to have sex with black guys for beer-money, that's no reason to take it out on Me...

[Adnoydal]

Spoken like yer typical man-loving Ed ass-kisser: no Comment on the Video necessary, just a bunch of lame pimply-assed teen alpha male comeback - "shit fuck fuck shit ass dick suck niggers fag hahahaha shit ass balls LOLOL"

Ed shits on you and your kind.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Shut-up, you damned ball-sack licking CHINK...

[Adnoydal]

wow. Eds gonna send you some free tickets, you complete and total badass alpha male

[rafikimetalperu]

wats wrong with u ?

[Adnoydal]

Ever notice how Ed, unlike his fans, doesn't cuss throughout these interviews?

Irs not non-stop "fag bitch fuck cock suck yo mama inna ass LOLOLOL"

You should aspire to be more like the man you love.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You should aspire to not be a dip-shit. Ed cusses like a truck-driving sailor, and anyone with any intelligence knows this. Oh, and I never started the shit in the first place. Now don't you have some shoes to shine somewhere for someone?...

[Adnoydal]

Well if God cusses then I can too Lets see it says Comment on This Video...

your a fagot looser doshbag diahreah in your fag mouth pediphile hermaphradyte puss bucket idoit dip-shit shit fuck ass cock shite fuck cunt bitch fuck shit shit fuck ass dman Ed is God lololololololoi

I'll bet Ed sends you badasses CDs and autographs all the time. Or maybe he lives in a gated community to keep you away from him.....shit fuck shit fuck shit

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal

Yep, just like your mother after she wipes the filth away and is back on the streets again...

[Adnoydal]

Whoa, no need to comment on no wussy video, dawg, you a gangsta wit da gangsta comeback "Ed is God, so yo mama, bitch. LOLOL"

I'll bet Ed is feverishly scrawling a personalized autograph to you right now, and all the girls in yo hood be spreading they legs to receive yalls demon seed, yo.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal You've obviously been swallowing too much man-jizm...

[Adnoydal]

add "jizm" to "your a looser doshbag fagot idoit diahreah pediphile hermaphradyte puss bucket"

Eds can't spell much less comment on a video

Ed shits on you.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal "Can't spell"?? That's hilarious. You are the illiterate dip-shit here...

[Adnoydal]

lol - now I can add "dip-shit" to the list, too. Its spelled dipshit. I also got a personal message containing "vanhalen your a terd whish masterbate"

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Your spelling SUCKS, and you are an ass-clown...

[Adnoydal]

Mhm. Your Comments on this Video sure are on-point and even stellar.

I watch this crap and say it sucks, you blow teen boy invective around - duh, illiterate dip-shit ass-clown Ed cusses like a truck-driving sailor

"a truck-driving sailor" - thats really deep.

....yet the video still sucks. Ed doesn't cuss anywhere in it. He just sucks in it.

[Thirdgen83]

@Adnoydal Yeah, "deep" like your crack-whore prostitute mother's nasty snatch...