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  • fuck pedro

  • eddies a monster with da gutiar

  • yeaa... i actually am eddie halen

  • Eddie rules!

  • Dreams is the best van halen song

  • I think my hands would fall off trying to play this...

    EDDIE FUCKING ROCKS!

  • he is using drill in som parts :)

  • LOL AT 0:12 xDDD

  • Anyone who comes here and insults eddie in anyway shape or form is a idiot. This man knows how to play more instruments and has forgot more about things then anyone that would dare insult him. The guy is a wiz and very smart. Behind that rocker image lies a brilliant mind. Most agree eddie was the man of his time hands down. Peace

  • i agreed

  • AWSOME!!!!!!!! I LOVE VAN HALEN!!!

  • amaizing...

  • more and more beautiful every time.

    Oh and for those who oppose Van halen...

    I just barely heard this song, and i think he is a god at guitar. Now, lemme explain this to you... A: try playing this. Ok? just try, hell, record yourself and listen to yourself FAIL. B: Just ESTIMATE how long it took him to get that good. You couldn't poor your whole life into something like that with half-ass determination. Imagine the pure focus, k? So do me a huge favor and appreciate that which you are jealous.

  • he is one of the best guitarist out there, and that song wuz his warm up to every concert, and his producer listened to it and sed damn, we need 2 make that a song

  • You can be the #1 guitar player in the world, skill wise, but still suck ass when it comes to actually sounding good.

    I can't play this now, and probably never will, or want to. Cuz suck ass it does.

  • WTF

  • Okay, let's put this in layman's terms. You need to have two qualities to be an awesome guitarist- You have to have skill, and you have to produce a sound that is pleasant to the ears. Mr. Van Halen here only has one of those characteristics, and it isn't the latter. Now, don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for his ability to play. I just cannot stomach the music he plays.

  • you cant say that everyone is jealous of eddie ppl come here to expressabout there opinion and what they think are eddies pros and drawbacks now if u cant accept those comments gtfo! ur probably jealous of him and worship him in ur room day and night......and dont get me wrong i rly like eddie...

  • van halen tried cello cool i play cello that cello is awesome

  • Eruption is awfully overrated, any experienced guitarist knows that it's rather easy to learn once you know what's involved. I see it as more promotion of his style, it shouldn't be used to get an opinion of skill. He is an amazing guitarist, but not because of this.

  • yeah but he improvised eruption

  • vincentvangoria me too! xD

  • sweatybowfin: no emotion? What about joy? EVH poured THAT into every note. You could see it on his face as he played.

  • Just curious, have you ever HEARD "Always With Me, Always With You" by Satriani, or "Dreams" and "Love Walks In" by Van Halen? You honestly have no argument here. Of course those guitar players aren't going to play a rock song like it's a ballad. But when they ARE playing a ballad, they play "every note out of their soul"!

  • most ignorant comment i have ever heard.

    and you could have picked a better guitarist to make an example of. Satriani plays with the most soul of any shredder i have ever heard of.

  • ur just some noob who thinks he knows everything, but doesnt know shit

  • i half-agree with u dude :)

  • pssh i could own him :P.

  • o:58 at 1:25, awesome

  • this style is fucking awesome!!1 and eddie is the master of it...

  • Eddie is perfect. (But John Petrucci is better. I love Dream Theater, sorry guys.)

  • its that you like it but is not better.

  • i listen to this every morning

  • EVH is GODD!! =D

    hahahaha van halen \ô/

  • dopo hendrix il massssssssiiiiimmmooo...con satriani e vai e poi la quiete guitar  lory51

  • VAN HALEN RULES!!!!!

  • EVH using a freaking Les paul custom?! eh, he sounds better with his frankenstrats :)

  • Finally some one on youtube understands how to record a song LOUD ENOUGH !

    Love it.

  • lol :12

  • Gotta love the franken-strat

  • Lol, i came here because some idiot said this was better than michael angelo batio, HAHAHA, yeah ok. though from 0:58 - 1:23 its pretty bad ass

  • Great intro, great shredding. Eddie is the greatest guitarist who ever lived!

  • 0:58 - 1:25 ---> cosmic sound!!

    By the way how does he use a drill to play?

  • its not a drill in finger tapping instead of strumming you hit other notes with your right hand look up a live version

  • It is a drill...and I think he is not talking about the tapping thing...eddie used...or still uses a drill, he go that idea from paul gilbert

  • not reall he picked it up first in poundcake,maybe it was gilbert but then it must be fro hobying or somthn.

  • yea i kno what tapping is but look at the pic. at 1:28

  • no im not denying he doesnt use a drill im just saying for this song he doesnt

  • wath is you problem man this is no joke friend

  • who do you think is better Eddie or slash

    (my opinion eddie is better)

  • eddie is better

  • Slash is bullshit compared to Eddie.

  • eddie

  • 0:31-0:38 = best part lol. greatest guitarist ever!

  • na 0:58 - 1:25

  • yea i suppose, the whole is amazing tho

  • definitely

  • for some reason i can play the tapping part of this pretty easy tapping doesnt come to hard to me but the rest of it isnt real easy lol

  • can n e 1 play the tapping part

  • i can play most of it just not 1:22-1:25, its not difficult just tires ur wrist out quickly

    i honestly dont kno how EVH did this, and then played other songs after it

  • bullshit u cnt even play a guitar could ya

  • if your talking to me, i can play guitar, ive been playing for 2 months actually, and ive learned some pretty hard songs too, i play day and night and never quit practicing. im even starting to get parts of this very same solo your listening to on this video. so yeah, i can play.

  • um are u talkin to me or brandon, cuz both of us guitar

    idk who the fuck lies about being able to play guitar

    but i hope u feel smart starting an argument over the internet

  • no man, im not talking to you. but im not lying, i really do play.

  • i was talking to the queen dude, but i guess he was talking to you.

  • practice, ive practiced this song so much, i cna play it ten times in a row and my wrist doesnt get that tired

  • im in the procees of learning this though, but it will take a while since im not too good on tapping.

  • ya tapping took me a while to get good at, just takes alot alot alot of practice. and i dont mean just for this song.

  • i know, i ve only been playing for 2 months anyways. i may be able to master playing this song in like a few months anyways, well it works with me if i do one song like this for tapping and all that then i can try it for other songs. im really dedicated for getting good, i hope someday i can make something as good as this but different.

  • this is music not that jungle jiggaboo shit

  • aaaah... the reason I and many others decided to pick up a guitar (besides getting women). This shit never gets old, always sounds new, and blows the doors off of anything that has made the radio airwaves since. As I've read somewhere before, if aliens invaded and there was a guitar battle for control of the earth, Eddie would kick any alien's ass back from whence it came. Rock on.

  • yeah boi!!! the only good part was tapping for ten secondz....i bet chu dat any rapper would TAP for a lot longur than 10 seconds...stupid shit bags

  • shut up u stupid fuckin bubba lip fuck nigga

  • haha, a rapper cant play guitar worth of shit!!! so stop trying!!!

  • i agree with you but whabout beastie boys

  • idk i dont like em that much, i guess they are ok since they actually have guitar and all.

  • why? guitars just another instrument they can still suck even though they do use the guitar, i dont think there to hot

  • well i dont like em at all really either, they suck. and anyways, alot of the music uses guitar nowadays either, and they still suck.

  • haha i love the beastie boys

    but i like rap just as much as like rock so that prob. helps

    and b4 anyone says "all rap is is talking about cars and women and money."

    so is '80s hair metal and ppl seemed to like that

  • and yeah you got a good point but when the 80's hair metal bands do it, they are laso adding in their talent as well, just b/c i dont like rap though doesnt mean you shouldnt like it, i respect anyones music tastes but when some guy comes and comments a video like this saying rap is better than rock and screw this crap, it makes me mad, i was talking to some other dude though that did.

  • yea that true

    and yea thats ok, because whoever says "screw this crap" on a VH video gets whats comin to them

    and gettin back on topic to VH, at 1:28 lol i wonder how he figured out that drills + guitars = good ?

  • haha yeah. but i didnt know he used a drill, i thought it was the whammy.

    lol

  • yea it was def. a drill

    and at Colasgrippa, he would just turn it on and put it on the strings over the pickups, acting like his strumming hand

  • oh yeah. he did, i remember seeing him use one in a video, it had the frankenstrat design on it too. its cool.

  • it wasn't a drill.

    When he recorded this it was done as practice, and you think it was a drill?

    I doubt he would use a drill in warming up, but hey, that's my honest opinion.

  • no im not talkin about the song

    the picture at 1:28 shows EVH with a drill

    all i did was try telling and a joke and now ive gotten like 10 comments with ppl telling me that he didnt use a drill in the song

    i know that.

    theres a picture of him with a drill. thats all i meant to say

  • That's sad, the only good part of that was about 10 seconds worth of tapping.

  • well I CAN! =]=]=] too easy

  • weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeee

  • and that crap you call rap is called talent?

    haha, talent is what eddie van halen had, lets see one of the talentless rappers try to play eruption. and i think we both know how that would work.

  • Amen :)

  • Learn how to spell.

  • wtf rap is good i agree especially :lolly lolly lolly lolly let me se you pop that body"

  • Rap

    Retarded and pathetic

    :)

  • exactly rap=gay

  • yeah lets listen to a bunch of rich black guys scream lolly pop and mili over and over.

  • rap will fade in time you piece of shit :)

  • WELL SAID =]

    the only rap i like is the old 90s stuff.nowadays most rap is completely similar.

  • true

  • Amen

  • agree..what rap did to rock. the other music will do to it.

  • holy shit, this is fucking sick

  • van halen rocks!!!!!

  • wow ur stupid Van Halen is the best

  • he uses so many harmonics

  • Hendrix is GOD! jk (at guitar he is!)

  • Back then, i was an Al Dimeola nut & i did not go ape shit like my friends about Eddie, it would never pop into my head to think he sucks, overrated maybe, but, i would not say so myself, besides originality & innovation, he also influenced the design of electric guitars & amplification, showing off is not necessarily bad as long 1 has the songs & showmanship, funny, 1 being so serious about how performers R & R not suppose 2 be, lighten up guy, plenty of different kinds of music for everybody.

  • It is great,believe it or not,some people love those "Pointless guitarsolo's",it defines him as an artist you douchebag. Van Halen Rocks!!

  • ur a fucking joke who knows nothing about guitar and i hope u die in the worst way imaginable☻

  • Not a very Cristian thing to say...

  • lol nice

  • if u think he knows nothing about guitar i want to see you play this i bet you cant even play so stfu

  • you can't talk because you have no videos and you couldn't do any better

  • and y that hell do he have to transmit a massage man this is not hip-hop ur shits liek that this is God WTalking

  • and the rest of the song was from Etude Kreutzer No.2... Got influenced by 2 songs to make this song: Let Me Swim and Etude Kreutzer No.2... Just for people who didn't knew...

  • Beginning is so awesome, but it was not original, Van Halen did it for a tribute for Cactus - Let Me Swim, same intros!

  • i knew god was on earth lol

  • lol

  • ? Let's hear you play.

  • dude he is way better than you are even in your dreams ... post vids of u playin and we'll see how bad you really are

  • if he's so bad, why did you bother watching the video?

  • shut up u stupid person eddie is the best and ya right ucan do that song how about u make a video about u being better than than van halen

  • fuckin badass song, i never get tired of it. its like cake and the tapping part is the frosting, it just makes it better....

  • what the hell why is the comments section turning into an unrelated arguments section? lol

    awesome song :D

  • thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yay,I hope that one day I'll be able to play the guitar like that.

  • ok well since u guys are all fucked im just gonna say that eddie van halen is amazing because these coment are for the video not for fucking taking shit to eachother

  • Holy shit! Hes good ;P

  • god i love it it doesnt even sound like anything on this planet anyone who doesnt like Edward Van Halen should seriously go die in a fire

  • And michael angelo batio and yngwie malmsteen are more talented in the technical aspect of guitar playing, but they lack the attitude and and balls out heaviness that eddie van halen had in his music. EVH rules.

  • Fragilis- you just said yourself that MAB and YM are better, right? (not that it wasn't obvious in the first place)

    So you give me some of those bullshit lines like "He had balls in his music!!" - wtf does that mean? .. exactly, in terms that a non-pot-head can understand?

    ps: Bob sapp had alot of attitude and balls (he challenged mike tyson) But he definitely wasn't a good fighter lol. Your points are terrible.. and crack head.. like

  • Eddie van Halen was not the first guitarist to incorporate tapping into his music. There were several before him... even Ace from Kiss. However, Eddie van Halen took it somewhere no other musician had up to that point. And the tapping is not even the part that impresses me in this song; the licks he's doing prior to it are amazing, and require a lot of skill.

  • No this is a great piece of music Tilaron. Its called guitar Solo bitch. Eddie wrote it and its an amazing solo.

  • technically he made it while warming up so its not really written. and this solo is way too overhyped.

  • 0.57 seaconds!

    fucking awesom!

  • We can all talk about how easy this is to play in 2008, but, this song was released in 1978. Eddie's guitar playing inspired an entire decade of ridiculous guitar soloing- featuring tapping and divebombs- things that were not a part of guitar solos prior to Eruption. Yeah, it's easy to say that, 30 years later, someone can play a solo on guitar that might be more challenging than this, but the real question is: would it exist if Eddie hadn't set the precedent in 1978? I think not.

  • oh and I just realized you also said you like the MCR guitarist better HAHA

  • lol why would you learn avenged sevenfold. Big blow on your Ethos. EVH plays GOOD MUSIC, while playing fast, whether it's hard or not is irrelevant to how good a piece of music is. Tyler knows whats up when he's talking about Stevie Ray Vaughn and EVH having their own styles. Of all the great guitar players, each one has their own unique style which is what makes puts them on the list of best guitar players.

  • oh ps: if you want to see something GOOD, Watch Michael angelo Batio- No boundaries ("Speed kills")

  • go ahead and enjoy your simple minded music, and when you pick up a guitar for the first time in your life. And realize tapping is VERY easy. You might just realize how terrible EVH is. Stevie ray vaughn is better than EVH could ever be. Yngwie malmsteen and MAB are more talented than EVH could ever imagine to be. He would admit it himself

  • If tapping is so easy pick up a guitar and show it tap the eruption solo i mean sure tapping is easy in some cases but i mean how EVH used it its not THAT simple

  • tapping is easy i can play this hole song no sweat and im 12

  • uhm, this solo is easier than some of the Avenged Sevenfold solo's I've learned. And the tapping, especially in this solo.. is beyond easy.. you obviously don't play guitar either, and considering your user is guitarhero, I bet the closest thing you've touched to a guitar is RockBand or something.. And it's funny how you use the words "not THAT simple" your already implying you know it's pretty easy. Chris Broderick is an example of difficult tapping.. not.. this crap.

  • You are an idiot... YOU CAN'T COMPARE 2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSIC. Stevie Ray Vaughan is Texas blues/ blues rock, Eddie Van Halen is heavy metal. Dude they BOTH changed the music world, they both had there time.. The fact that Micheal Angelo Batio is fast DOESN'T mean hes good. Speed is not beauty. That said... Yes I realise Eddie is ALOT of speed, but in most of his music he clearly didn't throw random notes in like Batio does MOST of the time... Batio is still good, but in my opinion, hes no Ed

  • okay Ride, so It's written in stone that you cannot compare two different music types? What if I'm not comparing the music styles, but the guitarist ability? Have you even listened to MAB? he doesn't play random notes, he can play fast, one of the fastest guitarist ever, if not THE fastest, but you haven't even listened to any of his songs if you think that he throws random notes together. And to say in MOST of his music he does? you have no idea what your talking about, go pick up a guitar

  • After you, you seem to think that because he can play fast that means he's somehow better? Speed and technicality have nothing to do with music, music is all about feeling. Comparing musicians on something like the guitar is ridiculous as neither are masters of the guitar, there is still much that every musician can learn from their chosen instrument.

  • wow Tilaron, "Speed and TECHNICALITY have nothing to do with music" that's probably the dumbest quote ever. lmao, 'you have to FEEL those directionless notes' your such a pot head dude. okay, so I should get high, wince and squint in the sun, on every bend jerk my body around. and even though it sounds like crap. I'm "feeling" the music. right, geez you people are so gullible. And idiotic. and just. wow, these are EVH's fans? just as predictable and despicable as I thought

  • You're clearly a moron, go and kill yourself you ignorant little retard. That, or learn what music is before talking about it you dumb fuckhead.

    Cya niglet.

  • wow Tilaron, my point made, you call me a moron why? I should kill myself why? And I'm ignorant how?

    Buttt.. unfortunately you little prick, you still have no point.

    You don't even know the guitarists I'm naming. So you use what I would probably bet is your "Conversation finisher" By repeating sorry insults your mom used to tell you during your childhood.

    Right?

    Right.

  • Pathetic. Again, go and learn what music is before speaking.

  • To be honest, your the one in the wrong

    I mean honestly trying to offend somone over the internet?

    What kind of sad sedistic tosser are you?

    Your comments make me laugh in real life, mainly due to the fact that you sound like a hyperactive 10 year old with an obesity disorder

  • "obesity disorder", "your the one", "sedistic"

    I'm sorry, but how am I the 10 year old when you can't even spell simple words? Good job you stupid person, now please, go kill your family members so we don't have to put up with any more of your kind.

  • Omg i am so sorry, i never thought you would be such a nerd in real life, oh well, i guess i was wrong.

    I don't take that much care when i am typing, i mean how pathetic?

    You actually trying to offend me because of my spellings, Ha?

    And also, maybe you should go out side for a change? Instead of sticking your fat finger up your mothers pussy?

    Owned fatty?

  • Offend? No, not really, I'm just pointing out to you that I'm much more intelligent than you are. Stop projecting you silly fat child.

    Be quiet now :)

  • Tilaron your an idiot, and I'm more than willing to bet that I'm not the only one who think so, anyways. my point is. I know much more about music than you do. You haven't told me that you play guitar, your only defense is, "go and learn what music is" which is no defense, because anyone can say that with no further support- like you.

    I know what music is.

    I'm sure as far as glitches and games goes, you have me beat, but sorry bud.

    That's about as far as your gonna get

  • rofl, you would've believed me if I said "I play guitar" ? Of course you wouldn't, you would've asked for proof, something I don't respond to.

    Now shhhh, stop getting in a rage.

  • Because you don't play guitar, you would have said something by now that would at least lead me to believe that you do, and instead, your leading me to believe you don't.

    Now, I play guitar, rather well, Vs someone who doesn't play. And your going to argue with me about guitar techniques, what's easy, what's not? And tell me who's better than who?

  • I would have thought telling you to learn what music is was a pretty big fucking indication that I play the guiar. Duhr.

  • Sorry about the late reply, i'm not on the computer all day like you are.

    I have something called a life, something i am afraid you will never seize to have.

    And don't try and "project" that you have, or will ever be smarter than me, because it's obvious that will never happen.

    I agree with WeBelieve2008, everyone obviously hates you, I find it hard to believe that you haven't grasped that in yout chubby head of yours

    And don't fantasise about me being a "kid" i mean.... Peadophile or what?

  • Hahaha, another moron!! Enjoy your failure in life, dumbfuck.

  • Yes, i understand.

    You ran our of offences and you are just trying to get the last word in

    It must be hard for you to watch people like me and WeBelieve2008 outwit you.

    You tried i guess,

    Now why don't you crawl back to your trailer park? And hey! look on the bright side, if your quiet and don't wake your dad he might not rape you like he does most nights.

    So yeah, thanks

  • Outwit? Hahahahaha, you two are just as dumb as eachother, you can't even tell the difference between 'wit' and 'ignorance', let alone back the right person.

    Enjoy your AIDS. :D

  • Wow!, once again another shit comment that made no sence

    It;s obvious that your beaten, now your just making things up to try and look cool?

    I mean seriously, pathetic

    You just truly proved to me what a kind of person you are.

    It's ok, the world is full of people like you, wait! i know who you remind me off!

    Gary glitter!