Michael Jackson & Slash - Beat it (Live At Michael Jacksons 30th anniversary Concert).

[MrRoachMusik]

slash is amazing! :):) R.I.P. michael :(

[leaba]

what a disappointing solo, so unlike slash and nothing like van halen

[vonroggen]

I think the fighting dancers are meant to distract the ear from Slash's horrendous playing. Eddie is the King!!!

[Coolrockndad]

All the clowns dancing do nothing for me. Just give me Michael and Slash.

[OutlawRisingOfficial]

Eddie is better. I personally think god killed Michael for that reason. NOT to be insensitive or anything, but God was rocking out to beat it with Eddie on guitar, then Jackson replaces him... with slash. so god said "i'll wait it out, he should see the light" then for this is it, he highers Orithani and god said "ok, SLASH is one thing but a girl! Ok! im pulling the plug"... the moral of the story is God may be a douche, but he's a Eddie fan.

[ruffles272]

slashs shirt doesn't really compliment his curves

[xXMeTalZXx]

SLASH FUCKING SUCKS!!!

[Iglamable1]

0:28 holy shit

[mrxmrxmrxmrx777]

i guess slash had bad day?

[TheKyOutlaw]

Who gives a fuck whose playing with MJ, 2 best friends rockin out on stage.

[Tonechase]

slash ain't shit to eddie and he knows it, that's his idol.

[EkonEzung]

Eddie's Better no doubt .. but Slash is also unique and cool :)

[adidasbooi]

hm.... solo = MESSED UP

[zemkam1951]

Slash is a MUCH better guitar player than Eddie VanHalen

[adidasbooi]

@zemkam1951 lol halen is a legend, slash is, nah, random....

[AlexanderTalenss]

Fuckin Slash.. so useless

[thomasg2488]

Everyone knocks Slash for not tapping like EVH did in the original. News flash, he isn't EVH, he doesn't tap on guitar. Oh and MJ chose him for a reason.

[inferno0666]

The solo is out of tune, obviously. It sounds like it is being played by a guy who just started playing the guitar. Horrible.

[thomasg2488]

@inferno0666 Then you play it in front of thousands of people and see how well you fare. By the way, in case you didn't know, Slash has his guitars tuned half a step down on his guitar in Eb, so, yeah, it's not going to sound like the original. . Also, Slash doesn't tap on his guitar like EVH does, two completely different styles of playing for crying out loud. And MJ chose him for a reason, he's great.

[inferno0666]

@thomasg2488 So then he should not have tuned down half a step. In any case that is not an excuse, he should have taken care of that bit before stepping on stage. The point is that the solo sounds OUT OF TUNE and amateurish. Michael Jackson chose him because he is a big name guitarist, that is the only reason.

[thomasg2488]

@inferno0666 So he didn't chose him because he didn't helped him work on some of his songs such as "Give In To Me" or "Black or White?" MJ had worked with Slash way before this if you don't know that. Have you actually ever tried to play a solo like that? Your fingers have to be incredibly fast to do it and MJ chose him because he's a well known guitarist? Then why didn't he chose Eddie Van Halen again, or Joe Perry, or another well known guitarist? You have now basis to credit your claims.

[inferno0666]

@thomasg2488 Look, I can understand that you are a Slash fan and I respect that. It does not change the fact that this is a lousy performance. All the background information that you are bringing up is irrelevant to the discussion. I am talking about THIS PERFORMANCE. What Slash did here is BELOW AVERAGE. Again, I am talking about THIS PERFORMANCE. It sounds out of tune.

[TokesTV]

@inferno0666 Yep, have to agree with u man. A few bars into it and I'm like.. "Hang on .. this is not very good at all"

[crackernumber2]

@inferno0666 shut up and enjoy the music... all these so called experts like you need to just shut the fuck up and enjoy... as if you are any better.

[thomasg2488]

@thomasg2488 And as further reminder, Slash didn't play the solo that EVH wrote so of course it sounds out of tune, because it isn't the original! Or do you not now that either?

[assasain02]

rip Michael Jackson rip

[TheGibson5150]

Slash's solo is a pile of DOG SHIT

[xMegadethFTWx]

Slash: Hey Micheal wanna do a live show?

Micheal: Yeah sure! :D

Slash: Yeah lets tune half step down :D

Micheal&Eddie: -.-

[kingjr180002]

my gosh tht was a sick solo.....no need for all tht shredding!

[gregnice25]

MAN, I MISS MJ....

[s1ckness1]

46 people... oh, wait. I have a life.

[axemadness333]

:( where's eddie?

[SlayerPJO]

MJ died now

[glivee]

Since Slash is one of the biggest Eddie Van Halen fans out there this must have been a friggin' honor for him playing one of Eddie's most famous solos ( Ofcourse Eruption is his trademark ).

Im a Van Halen fan to the bone but throwing this of in the way he did just makes him more valuable in my eyes. I love them both.

[mesarock2vh]

I like slash but that was lackluster compared to EVH!

[anippani]

Slash without a les paul, that's new for him.....

[narfire214]

@anippani not really, he's used that guitar a lot, in gnr he used on the Use your illusion albums (but not on all the songs)

[anippani]

@narfire214 wow, i didnt know that, since im not a big GNR fan after all that crap happened with slash and axl.

[thomasg2488]

@anippani hope that was sarcasm, considering he recorded "You Could Be Mine" with GN'R with this guitar.

[anippani]

@thomasg2488 Yeah, actually that is. uhh, sorry for the inconvenience?

[marinosNirvana]

slash without empiphone!!!! :0

[DocBrewster]

Michael Jacksons ad-libs never make sense

[DocBrewster]

Dude gets a handful at 0:29!

[Rodrigo93020]

Vão se fuder

[OneTrillNigga07]

mj looks so wierd here is he high? tight performance though

[sh00tb4death]

@OneTrillNigga07 yea and his voice sounds so much different.

[ZelgadissGreywords]

3:13 being shocked by Beat It solo not having any tapping, Michael tried to add it by himself. Yeah, Slash is nice, but where's that mindblowing barrage of sound by EVH?

[metalscorpionSkater]

Slash is sick but Eddies solo was better...slash probably just improvised the song

[rlpp]

@aFilmbyJordanNeves  that's correct....

[bentleybrain]

The solo is not bad at all, I understand that most of you prefer Eddie's solo but MJ told Slash to come up with something new, not play Eddie's version. That's why Slash was MJ's favourite guitarist. MJ and Eddie made music but MJ and Slash made ART!

[oggel33t]

what the fuck is slash wearing ?!

[romaggot]

michael should have gotten buckethead to do the solo...he would have been infinitely better

[ramsypak]

I love Slash - his phrasing, musicianship, ability to build some great solos, the lot - but this was just off - he was kind of lost in the big awful cavernous stadium sound. If you were introducing Slash to someone who had never heard of him, this recording would be about ten thousandth in the queue. Still love him, just not really a great moment.

[fstarRocka]

hehehe - most of those pps were prob like - "who is that dude in the hat? never seen him b4" - found out later and became rockers!!!

[MrMatbri]

he raped that solo shit

[redwanalvi005]

EVH's solo on beat it is one of the best in history...Slash has done absolutely no justice with his solo towards eddie's awesomeness.

[vithaj92]

Slash is the least technical popular rock guitarist by far. He is only famous for being cool.

[diaraam]

Voila kids,

never drink before 'playing' a attempt to try the master's solo...

[XXCharlesxxXXxx]

awww man i was on my earphones and when the vid started the sounds startled me :|

[Jrdaprince88]

Slash is the muthafuckin MAN!!!!! just listen to how he make that guitar talk

[romaggot]

@Jrdaprince88 he didnt do the solo justice at all actually, you just have to listen...he is way overrated.

[Glenniiee]

slash is da goddd !@!!

[hks20psi]

classic to see them together on stage.

to the haters: u cant expect SLASH to completely imitate Eddie. that's would suck major donkey balls.

if it were someone singing a cover, i wouldn't enjoy witnessing a complete imitation of style. id want them to create their own twist. same goes for instrumentation, and i think SLASH hit it dead on! i can say eddie's studio solo is epic as well, obviously!

[hks20psi]

sick sick sick!!!!! mj & slash

[letswatchstuff2009]

To me (and it may just be me) but Michael doesn't seem to be going 100% here. If you look at the dancing from 3:35 and Michael's face ... he looks a bit bored and of course despite that he's still pitch perfect and doing moves that i can only dream of

"Michael Jackson better than you even when he isn't trying"

[thefungarian]

This video would have been way better if it was concentrated more on Michael and Slash. Who gives a crap about the dancers and close up footage of audience members?

[fourzero7268]

This. I do like the extended solo and the harder edge of the song. The dancers should have been in the background.

[wagemeister]

Slash's solo was TERRIBLE compared to Eddie Van Halen's!

Eddie's solo was SO PERFECT and integrates so seamlessly into the song, that anything else just detracts from the song!

[chayanknightheart]

Lip-sync!!!

[NZMW2nurdxbox]

some one msg me back but i though eddie van helen played the solo not slash!

[rokstr3]

@NZMW2nurdxbox on the thriller album it was Eddie but Michael and Slash over the last 2 decades had developed a professional relationship and a good friendship and so Mike asked Slash to perform. Besides Slash had sobered up at that point in his life we couldn't say the same for Eddie.

[NZMW2nurdxbox]

@rokstr3 thanks!

[jetsz132]

The first time i saw slash not using his les paul goldtop

[hardcoreoma]

that solo sucks

[bjmm1993]

slash without a les paul? :S

[Thanatiphoros]

The bad thing about this is that probably at least 50% of the people who have watched this video do not know who Slash is.....

[licksakshit]

if slash would have used have a floyd rose guitar it would be much better

[ShaunChin95]

@licksakshit haha he used this because it has a sharper lead (:

[gigaman3]

@licksakshit It has a floyd rose.

[ravenwda007]

lip sync. But hey he doesn't need it.

[MzVoCaLz11]

RIP Michael Ur no longer in pain!!!

[marjdb2005]

Although I like Slash, he's NO EDDIE! No comparison. Slash is a tad out of tune also. Quincy coined is perfectly by having Eddie come into production to Rip this tune. With all due respect to the other great axe players, past and present, Eddie is by far the best natural guitarist and guitar/effects innovator to date.

[Mindfreakfan11]

@marjdb2005 its not out of tune, its in half step down, which is Slash's standard tuning

[EddieRevenge]

@marjdb2005 Eddie??? laughs... way to far from SLASH!!!

[liambarker12]

@marjdb2005 ever heard of a guy called Randy Rhoads?

[danrocks1000]

@marjdb2005 he cant be out of tune because the backstage set would make sure the guitars in tune

[Napiidiva38]

@marjdb2005 Slash was not in the least out of tune. Mind you, he had to follow one of the most well-known guitar solos of all time. And at the same time, he had to make his own mark, as he is his own man. That was an incredibly well done rendition. So, please, stop comparing Slash to Eddie. Before I remind you that there'd be no Eddie without Bo friggin Diddley.

[1959GibsonLesPaul1]

@marjdb2005 i gotta disagree... although i like both of them i personally think that slash has a more natural tone and licks... i think tapping sounds amazing too but i can only take so much of it after realizing how easy it is. haha but yea man he did sound a bit outta tune. i love them both though!!! LONG LIVE ROCK

[ShaneFord2010]

@marjdb2005 big call lol. You have no idea but

[Barcslay]

@marjdb2005 I think Slash is more expressive....and I think Les Paul is by far the "best natural guitarist and guitar/effects" innovator

[anippani]

@marjdb2005 Your actually right in my opinion, Eddie is The Creator man!

[TheMadRabbi666]

LOL @3:14 Slash is prolly thinkin "If he starts fondling my balls, Im gonna kill him."

[lone1980]

Slash is really out of tune on this one... even after the vibratos are done, the strings take quite a punishment to not stay in place...

[newyorkyanks22]

we lost the greatest performer of all time and an even more remarkable person.....i feel like shit for hating on him while he was alive.....those lies are just that!!!

[txt7]

No me gustó el solo de Slash...no se ve ningún trabajo en el. Eddie y Greg son mis favoritos en este tema.

[chuckb1991]

slashs solo epic

[BlackKnight016]

Is the first time that I see Slash without a Les Paul :D

[arachnodenet]

@BlackKnight016 You could be mine.

[frostylynxx]

that might be the worst version of Eddie Van halens solo I have ever herd. WOW !! it sounds nothing like its suppose to.

[Rasha5377]

@frostylynxx That's because's it not Van Halen's solo at all, dummy. Slash did his own thing with it.

[xlph]

Sorry slash i liked eddie's solo much better

[Ithlin101]

Playback ftw.

[benthj]

That girl at 3.52. Wow she's hot.

[jon1490]

this is a great song and slash is brilliant but doesnt seem right him playing in a van halen style solo. but yes slash is so cool

[53basketballplayer]

ur right he does

[choke1312]

Slash is the coolest motherfucket ever!

[cheezecakeboy]

i love mj but i wish he wouldnt lip sync so much={

[HardFacktor]

0:49 faggots in my eyes so beat it!

[jennah0213]

R.I.P. M.J.

[mpalak0921]

ohhh..Slash or Eddie van helen..whatever

it's MJ here and all

and he is GOD

[geno059]

Slash won´t be as good as Eddie Van Halen. Don´t be a retarded

[999m4em]

first time in my life seeing slash playing on a bc rich mocking bird instead of a les paul.

[TibetCorporation]

Why this sucker Slash is so popular :( ?

[hellookelly]

@TibetCorporation he is one of very few famous guitar players who is not only tasteful, but also highly musically educated as well as versatile. He plays multiple genres of music very well and 99.99999% of all other guitar players of the modern era cant do this.

[geno059]

@TibetCorporation because people are stupid

[chuckb1991]

eddie is a great guitar player and the solo is great but slash put solo into the solo

[chuckb1991]

i think eddie solo is a great solo for beat it but slash put soul in to it

[gregalabama]

Slash has NOTHING on Ed. Sloppy crap.

[TibetCorporation]

Eddie doing solo >>>>>>>> Slash doing solo.

[metalligimp]

This needs more Slash and less Michael Jackson.

[Koriel007]

@metalligimp agree

[motocarlo81]

Slash is awesome, especially for a player who never uses the whammy bar I think he sounded wicked. Id like to see Eddie try and play slash's style

[zooyorkcrazy]

Eddie Van Halens is so much better. No disrespect to slash, hes pretty good.... Eddie is so much better

[Cloqwerks]

I like the original solo more than both Slash and Eddie Van Halen's solo's put together.

[takitezy7]

@Cloqwerks The original? who wrote that...

[Rattlehead15]

@Cloqwerks Wow, what an absolute Fail!

Also, Slash sounds incredibly sloppy here!

[Cloqwerks]

@Rattlehead15 You're saying I'm fail for liking the original more than both put together, and then say Slash is incredibly sloppy? You fail harder.

[Rattlehead15]

@Cloqwerks EDDIE VAN HALEN IS THE ORIGINAL YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!

[Cloqwerks]

@Rattlehead15 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LIVE SOLO'S VS THE ORIGINAL SOLO FUCKING IDIOT!!!!! It's not hard to follow, stop playing with your boyfriends dick and pay attention shit face.

[Rattlehead15]

@Cloqwerks EDDIE VAN HALEN PLAYED THE ORIGINAL YOU FUCKING RETARD!!!!!!! And as you said "It's not hard to follow, stop playing with your boyfriends dick and pay attention shit face." FUCKING OWNED!

[Cloqwerks]

@Rattlehead15 How the fuck do you not understand what I'm saying? Is it the gigantic cock in your ass and mouth that distracting? I LIKE THE STUDIO VERSION MORE THAN THE LIVE SOLO'S, dumb fuck. Pay attention, stop letting your bf's dick hit you in the head, it's killing off too many brain cells, you can't comprehend common sense. Studio means on the CD, live means in concert, it's not hard to follow, I promise. They did the solo different live than in concert, and I don't like the live version.

[Rattlehead15]

@Cloqwerks YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER FUCKING MORON!!!!!! EDDIE VAN HALEN RECORDED THE STUDIO GUITAR SOLO! FOR FUCK SAKE!!!!!!!!

[tizioincognito95]

@Cloqwerks well, the original studio solo (the one in the cd and in some rare live) is van halens' solo.

it seems that he just jacked in and improvised that beatiful solo. amazing.

[McLovin6191]

As far as Slash goes, he did a good job, i would not expect him to copy Eddie Van Halen's solo, who by the way is much more overrated than Slash is, if not the most overrated ever, anyways, Slash did just fine.

[tonycorea]

Compare the two is ridiculous, but I never saw a land so dirty and so terribly ugly technically HERE.

[jwracing77]

Slash sux ass, why is he so popular? where was the hammer on and pull off's? SO DISAPOINTED!

[Imthegrffitymen]

OMFG !!!!

What the hell is doing slash !!!

common !!! where's van halen !!!

and im sorry but the doesn't know

the original solo ........

[bentleybrain]

@Imthegrffitymen dude, slash is known for an entierly different solo style than van halen. He just makes the solo his way

[MrEinstain]

@Imthegrffitymen -Ahem- He died.

[RiKaRdO956MetallicA]

Oh common!

That solo is from Eddie!!!

Were is he???

He would've done it a hundred times better

[thatsafreakbaby]

Fuck all you dickheads that obviously know nothing about guitar playing...yea no shit eddie van halen is amazing and did a great job as the orignator but Slash is a good fucking guitar play and did a great job doing is "own" solo and not copying eddie note for note...go fuck yourselves!

[kirix27]

guitar solo was good but definitely not great unlike the original. too bad this was his time to be compared to a great guitar player and be at the same echelon, unfortunately he fell a bit short.

[eddievanhalen10000]

The SOLO; KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK was ridiculous!

[justicevue]

for the record. in my next life i want to come back as Slash. Amen.

[Vesta20]

slash sucks ass. what a way to chop up a fucking solo.

[RigoStar]

a good proof that Slash is not that great...

[radmac76]

Settle down, people. Slash has his own style... and it's fine. Eddie Van Halen's, however, is irreplaceable.

[IhelpU4XBL]

Slash like destroyed the song, like anal fucked the shit out of it. He sucks soo bad someone needs to facepalm his fucking ugly face.

[jeeiioo]

Woow!! I really like this!!

Slash rocks!

[monicaleja1]

hola mi michael lindo hermoso

[Crey1394]

Mj woooooo ain't nobody gna top the one king of pop he murders dis shyyitt lol R.I.P mj

[thiagorodi99]

I like slash's solo :D

[Targaxel]

Slash, either you had a really bad day - you blew the lead - or you possess remarkably inferior technical skill to Van Halen. Those who disagree are douchebags.

The billed artist was M Jackson, not Burl Ives.

The great one was spot on,,,except for tbe lead.

What is that twaddle you're playing???

The song is distinct, it carries a specific sugnature.

Watch the audience they sing in perfect time, meter and sound,,,,

What if MJ sang Auld Lang Syne instead then what you you say?

[glendi92]

@Targaxel Inferior technical skills? Who are you to say that? This solo is technically harder than the one Van Halen did. You're the douchebag, douchebag.

[ERFABIUSS]

ma che assolo è? !! pfff niente in confronto a quello di van halen...poi tra tutti proprio slash che non sa nemmeno cosa vuol dire fare un allargamento con il mignolo sulla tastiera!! l avrebbe potuto suonare steve lukather tranquillamente :)

[JustJustin0415]

I actually liked Slash's performance. If you carefully listen to it, it's not that huge of a different from the original Eddie Van Halen version.

[thatsafreakbaby]

@JustJustin0415 Thank you! i thought he did a hell of a job

[clocktime11]

slash does improv..ok......it sucks...ok...hes usually drunk...ok...its rock, so its ok...!

[szabobalas]

Infack, Toto's Steve Lukather wrote the solo, Eddie Van Halen only played it on the recored, and Slash played it live:D

[whitepowa]

EDV ALLL THE WAYYYYYYYYY WHat's this shit?? for christ sake....

[ultimatemanofwar]

slash made his own solo ...........a crappy solo that shows what a lame guitar player he is......where the fuck was Eddie Van Halen ???

[marcuskonge]

r.i.p mc

[mAdcDonMuang]

slash made a own solo, i guess most of you cant make a own solo and only play it exactly like the album version

[naguitarhero]

@mAdcDonMuang its called at least do the solo justice and keep to the original motif.....not make it something totally different and nowhere near the same calibur as Eddie Van Halen

[WilsonFb4u]

Wow. Slash without a LP.

[pflo99]

Slash clearly was out of his league...but hey, he got to play with a pedophile at least.

[Torres09Soad]

0:29 that guy touching her ass

[jbassman666]

@Torres09Soad would you blame him though?

[IMmoreRANDOMthanYOU]

@Torres09Soad Dood. About to comment on that. Nice.

[TheMrdhennywall]

solo péssimo hhooooooorrrrriiiiiiiiiiivvvvv­veeeeellllllllllllllllllllllll­l acabo com a musica

[TheMrdhennywall]

solo péssimo hhhhhhhhooooooorrrrrrrrrrriiii­iiiiiiivvvvvvveeeeelllllllllll­llllllllllllll acabo com a musica

[jositoxxx1]

Slash simply ruined it!

[QuistTV]

not slash's greatest moment, but he still rocks - in his own way. There is no better way than your own way :)