I'm the one, Van Halen!

[pistache7]

cool dude !!

[maxwellph]

Shit man! You can play your ass off.

[crazykid13131]

everyone went into this video thinking it was eddie at home or something not some random guy

[oldschoolrock4evr]

I never understood why people cant nail this song of all the videos iv watched there s only one that can do the rhytm and the feel right , that just shows eddie van halens unique tallent , shure its hard to learn, but i guess people dont hear the difference

[PDXguitarfreak]

Dude I love it that you have three VH frankenstrats representing all three color combinations :) Please check out my latest vid - I did another "I'm the One" cover, perhaps we used the same backing track. I'm playing mine on a PRS Custom 24 though... yeah, I know that not very conventional LOL... I hope you enjoy it! =VH= rules!

[12345678ix]

Ive been playing for 4 years and have had the same ibanez 35o dx lol im gonna get a new guitar because the bending on this guitar is though and the floyd rose is giving me alot of problems i want a guitar that preferably has a maple neck and is strat style also that it has a good bending radius neck and hss pickup alignment any suggestions

[6stringsbrainfingers]

Nice job on a very diffucult song! Also I know it was a lot of work creating the backing track.

[TheShadyiPhone]

addicted to van halen?

[guitarguy10000]

Hey man, You've got to SWING the main riff.

no one can do it...Ed can't even do it anymore.

Good job on the rest though,

[southbaydog12]

Dude you fucking rip nice job!

[5150RDH]

Awesome job man! Hands down the toughest VH tune...took me the longest to get down well anyway. Love watchin' your vids. Keep rockin' man!

[8324724376]

Excellent ! BPS is a little fast.

[justfine77777]

BOOYA!!!!! Big time "money" homie!!!!

[jwd7]

money.

[ipsofacto297]

Good job! Bop badda shooby doowah...

[frankenstrat25]

didnt have the better sound quality and ur playing is off a lil i love ur rig frankenstrat#1 franky #2 and the bumblebee. love that marshall

[armenchik619]

dont each of those guitars in this vid easiy cost over twenty grand? DAMMMMMMNNNNNNNN

nice cover too :P

[rok420]

I think they're a video on youtube that shows how you can paint your own guitar to look like that.

[rok420]

Wow...

"I think that there's a video on youtube..."

That's better.

[armenchik619]

lol. maybe

[toneboy2000]

Those are modified Fenders.

[JManGuitar5150]

No, they are home-made. The one's you are thinking of cost just over 2 grand. The Frankenstein replica is $25,000.

[armenchik619]

oh ok :)

[powerbunZ]

I like the unique drum and bass back up tracks, and your awesome original lyrics at 2:46. You rocked this song with your own style, and frankly, you played it better than EVH on any live video I can find on youtube. Probably cause you're halfway sober and he isn't.

[bubbabubbabooba]

isn't this Slash auditioning for Chickenfoot? bwa ha ha ha!!!

[fretworx]

Man, you're really fast, but you're missing the groove and feel of Ed's playing. There's also a 5th/7th fret open-string pull-off lick on the intro that you copped using your pinky, but it's not that complicated, & sounds much better doing it like Eddie! You're definitely technically good enough to pull this song off, but I'd give it another listen from a new perspective.

Unless you're just doing "your own thing" - in that case, disregard everything I wrote. You are a fantastic player.

[Smartskaft2]

Awsome! But the video fucked up for me, around 0:40, the video was before, or after the sound. Bah!

You're evil, teasing us with all those frankenstrats! Grrr!

Really nice playing, but how about a little smile? Isn't it fun to be able to play like that?

[g99se9]

I'm going with Gene Simmons.

[RobRicoh5150]

I think he's got Gene Simmons' face and Slash's hair, and some EVH talent in his fingers, how about that!!!!

[SixxKitty66]

damn man... you're awesome!

[Zavrick6969]

NICE PICKEN MAN IM TOTALLY SHOCKED

[guitartec]

Ed's hardest song

[PDXguitarlegend]

Hey man, that ROCKED. I like how you took the main boogie riff and made it your own - very tasteful sounding. I just posted a version of this song too, please let me know what you think! =VH=

[Rockmanzzzz]

You bastard. 3 frankenstrats??

[guitaristaad]

it's not fair that you have all three charvel guitars and I don't even have one...

[DoktorDum]

they aren't Charvels, it says Fender on their headstocks

[guitaristaad]

well doesn't really matter now cause I got one now.. mwwhaha

[phallystorm]

Be original, why Clone someone else! Yes, you have the chops, timing, speed, etc..But where is your original footprint?

[spacecowboy5150]

Its a cover why should it have to be original?

[iamthewalrus3264]

alcross 11 - a top hat would suit you

[vbak]

You play the riff in wrong rhythm....

[ricanpup]

u look like slash with a giff hair cut

[arnoldvld]

it's good, after the intro... that intro is played with a shuffle feel to it... but non the less, it's great! :D

[alcross11]

You are right, but I had to adapt to the backing track, wich is not well made, and thats why it sounds off. It was a bitch to adapt to it. Harder than playing on a good decent b/track.

[ONEOVER99]

@alcross11 Cmon bro, no excuses. The track has a double kick ride that IS a shuffle. You're the kind of player that can probably shred Ozzie or Dio like paper, but this is a perfect example of being a technically good player with no soul. Listen, please don't be offended either. I don't mean to offend. I'm the opposite. I have a ton of soul and can run blues all day, but technique wise, can't play smokin fast runs at all. So what... Keep jammin'.

[BryarTheFire]

i just love how they want your guitars, i can build all three of them for maybe 2000$ and im rounding up. how much did you build yours for? or did you be lazy and buy them? becuase theyre way freakin overpriced, its cheaper to do it yourself.

[alcross11]

I just bought american fender necks and bodies on ebay and put them togheter. Guitars are not painted w/ stripes, it is just duct tape all around guitars so I can take 'em off when I get bored. Lol. Crazy, uh?

[tshorts]

dude can i have ur black and yellow EVH guitar? PLZ! =D

[pango14762]

i cant wait till my frankenstrat is done probably end of summer

[ayreselee]

its a good video. out of sync but very good playing. and you not only that but you look like slash lol

[Spoo2]

sounded great but hard to watch because it was so out of sync.

[atith1]

cant u see hes fakin

and there frankenstrats

[sixxthunderbird]

He's not "fakin". The video is just out of sync. And they aren't actually frankenstrats. I suppose you could call them that, but they are not the $25,000 Fender or the EVH Art Charvels. They look to be just regular strats done up like Ed's. Nice playing by the way dude!

[atith1]

rite kick ass collection

[PDXguitarlegend]

Nice collection!

[lamschuchart]

the video is out of sink with the sound

[SgtPeppers17]

LMFAO Out of what?

[DaColt88]

a true Van Halen fan, with 3 nice VH axes

[ibnz93]

cool. vh rocks

[brownsound5150]

you are really good! i'm trying to learn this its so hard! hahah nice custom frankenstrat

[gbomberfan]

how much were those FRANKENSTEINS?

[bilmure666]

the offbeats in the intro is a bit off otherwise its a sick video

[jwblom4387]

very very nice. no one can ever do eddies stuff like eddie but this is as close as it gets!

[gmick49]

Hey. Very right on the money. Excellent job. Nuff said.

[diegoescolochog]

Dont listen this guys.. Its perfect .5/5. I dont know why people are saying that. Very nice.

[yohendrix]

you look a bit like Slash! nice rig!

[imtehjuggernaut]

god you rip

[touffmorrison]

Where did you get your guitars???

[powerage1]

no offense, but stick with your Black/White.....It looks and sounds beter to me.

[ohpoepoe]

pretty good, but i think the drums in the background kinda ruin it...

[roadcommander132]

i dont know what the fuck those other guys are talkin about. your fuckin good

[bulseye111]

dont start that riff off with a flanger....otherwise nicely done!

[martythemartyr]

The opening riff is away off, it should have more of a swing bee bop feel, but the

rest isn't to bad. check out guitarwannabee he's the closest I've heard.

[theratfarmer]

slow it down down just a bit. very cool. i love that album.

[EddieWannabe1984]

Very nice!!

[SmackerfanBoi]

ahah you kinda look Like Slash.

nice playing bro.

How much you pay for that stack?

[MartinBogusz13]

what marshall is that?

[TuscaroraTed]

what are your effects and amp and why don't you paint the banana head right for your 5150?

[199191]

its not the 5150 its the frakenstein

[mdskewes]

i saw them at gazzari's in 77 and all the time in burbank right down the street where i lived. they use to rehearse at a place called visions. dave was a dick back then too! eddie was cool though,he rules.i ran into eddie at a tom jones show at the house of blues the night after dimebag was killed,he was still cool,and he gave me mom a kiss!

[saugusg16]

Awesome Job Man! That is probably one of the closet and cleanest version i've seen on this site. Also, Rollertransport seems like a jealous F.

[alcross11]

Thanks alot, sauqust16. You have a very good ear. (lol)

[mannybird]

I saw Van Halen (original) play this song back in 1980 - eddie was so drunk he missed half the riffs - you nailed it though - rock on!

[alcross11]

I wish I had seen 'em back in the day. Lucky you.

Thanks for the comment.

[oldschoolHalen]

lol ur not eddies evil twin u look like slash's twin lol go buy yourself an LP and do some guns n roses

[vanderbilly]

You're Eddie's evil twin! Now go buy yourself a new video camera for Christmas and put an end to all this confusion. It's obvious to me that you're playing (and well) but dude, your camera sucks ass.

[CFMPmadSfX]

Dude... theres no way a digital camera gets that out of sync without the sound or something fucking up... at least the video cams ive seen

[bienorama]

You're bad ass man. Totally clean.

[TOOH]

Hey man, I DO believe this is you playing... you're amazing and very talented.

[jawbreakerjo]

I'm with 199191, you look like Ashlee Simpson of guitar. Either that or there'e a real problem with your video. Trust me, I've been playing for 27 years

[199191]

sure ur playing?

[Fleg]

Man you got the sound, you use the MXR phase 90 or the EVH one? And good job i'm only 1year of playing and i still can't do the speed legato thing at the beginning, shit i need to see

[jawbreakerjo]

only a year playing and you can tell just from ear, an MXR from a DOD, Digitech, ART, Boss etc etc???? Hmmmmmm

[Timoteisdead]

Your hair reminds me of Slash LOL, great playing! Keep it up.

[CudBucket]

Nice job on one of the hardest VH tunes to play. Parts seemed a bit out of time though. Phaser is too intense. It's a much more subtle effect in that song.

[alcross11]

You're right! The backing track is not well made and I had to adapt to it. That's why it sounds out of time.

And I used as little phaser as I could and still sounded that way. Thanks for the comment!

[CudBucket]

Got it. I didn't know there were backing tracks for VH stuff. Did you make it or did you get it from somewhere. I'd love to have a copy. Keep playing! Dave.

[JakeELee]

man i love that one, and the guitar is like heaven, look at my vids, and the guitar =)

[alcross11]

There tons of VH tribute bands, but we are the only one with the name Van Heaven. So, I don't know. You remmber the name of the tribute you saw?

[sergio121]

shit no but Van Heaven is probably the best how mny guitars do u own?

[sergio121]

yea they were doing this show on a bunch of tribute bands and they were showing the van halen tribute band unless theres another van halen tribute band do u know if there is?

[sergio121]

yeah on tv they were doing this show on a bunch of tribute bands and i saw the van halen tribute band

[sergio121]

ur good can u post a vid of u doing eruption

and ur in Van Heaven right the tribute band

[giantsno1]

the verson Im seeing the guitar is out of sync with music???

[diverdownup5150noho]

awesome!