Eddie Van Halen - Cathedral - Philips Arena - Atlanta, GA

[herokight]

Gonna see them April 19th at Philips Arena. It's my birthday present to me/surprise to my dad. He's a Van Halen fanatic. He'll shit bricks when I tell him on my birthday. =]

[1977BanditTransAM]

Just bought my 6th row tickets....

[TheEvh68]

still amazing!!!!!

[TheEvh68]

COLME ON STILL THE GREATEST MAN EVH RULES THANK GOD FOR EDDIE

[TheEvh68]

still the fucking best ever..................

[RailbirdFilms]

Cool vid. A bit longer than the Diver Down version, but I liked it!

[JgHaverty]

this tour was right after or before his hand surgery if Im not mistaken. Also a different bout of cancer and a divorce prior to that.

[Sanguillen39ify]

This is an interesting, more subdued version of Cathedral. Not his best, but still good.

[fraroc]

some people call it "sloppy playing" Its really called "Improvising"

[ZeeMan908]

he mixed it with chorus and echo effect to make this sound and he turned the volume louder and softer as he went throughout the song aka volume swelling

[zero7825]

This video does not do the actual experience justice. It was purely incredible.

[Burke68]

Alot of mistakes in this one. Was it him or the guitar screwing up? Or both?

[Yetuset]

This was improvised.

[XxSpyyx]

Oh shit!

I was at that fucking concert!

[Leonardoo69]

Eddie go get back your Kramer 5150 and go rock the world again!

[liquidman2]

that's some amazing killswitching

[1ZOMGWTFROFLMAO1]

He's using the volume knob, not the pickup selector

[liquidman2]

it's still called killswitching -_- killing sound

[James00Hewitt]

no its not...

[Zubirrex]

He's using the volume knob, It's called volume swelling.

[liquidman2]

i was being technical....

[Zubirrex]

So am I. Killswitching cuts the sound completely, instantly. He's raising and lowering the volume gradually, or "swelling" it.

[liquidman2]

exactly

[AthiestChristian]

@Zubirrex and a delay pedal

[ZOOjew]

VAGINASHRED

[rhcpjohn444]

i came when i saw this in concert

[ozzy4pres]

For those of you who don't know how he's doing it, here is the breakdown:

-Amp DIMED for the clean high gain sound.

-Tapping, not picking, or even pulling off, so to have clean, organic, rounded sound

-Very quick volume swells with nob - cleaner, easier, and more effecient than pedal

-ANALOG delay - set to "slap-back" setting

throw in the talent, and you have "cathedral'

[successfully43]

EVH

[msa1985]

BECK.

[JimmyPage7777]

beck sucks

[lespaul702]

for someone who likes jimmy page you should know that beck and jimmy were inspired by each other and adapted similar guitar playing FYI

[strother1969]

i do pretty much agree with ya, but check out jeff becks guitar shop same title only good song i know from him

[veganshred]

i would think you'd need really nice active pickups to do that, he's not even picking

also, there a lots of fx pedals which have a slow attack effect, why not use that?

[carsr4carpeople1]

Because using pedals is alot different. He wouldnt have control over when it fades in/out, and it probably wouldnt sound the same. It's all tapped anyway, if you do it right it sounds picked.

[tyrrath]

So EVH is basically using his fist as a bow on the strings of his guitar? he produces a very violin/cello-like sound when he plays this way... amazing.

[TehGnomeus]

Nah, He is turning the volume knob up and down to give the notes a slow attack, and with his fretting hand he is just playing hammer-ons.

[jer951]

huge evh fan here, but don't see why this has 5 stars...i would expect more out of him if he were sitting on his couch playing in front of the tv. don't know if he's drunk or not but he's definitely not putting anything into this.

[Janutto2112]

edward van halen is by far the best that there is!@!

[warlockshredder91]

he still plays better faster and more van halen like when he is stoned lol

[successfully43]

Van Halen.

[bb97js]

vai has left eddie stuck in the 80s

[daviemun]

What a DUMB thing to say....

Get a clue ok?

[successfully43]

I think we both agreed not a "DUMB" thing to say.

[THALIDO]

Eddie put down the path for Vai and Satriani to follow.

[rockpetrad]

cept satch is better than EVH :O

[ianschecter]

@THALIDO

yeah, joe definitely has some VH in him...as he will atest to himself. vai as well, although vai developed more his own style of playing which is unique to him, but yes vai, satriani, rhodes, and even malmsteen all were influenced by the first VH record, although they went on to do their own unique brilliant thing with the guitar.

[fender51503]

the hammer ons and pull offs added with volume swelling is hard, u got to time it just right

[successfully43]

Eddie conquers the strings.

[successfully43]

Amazing stuff.

In their 50's and still nobody jams like Van Halen.

They have to come back and complete the tour.

VH!

[successfully43]

Was in the pit area this was incredible. Thx for posting this. . .

VH.

[jarred5150]

love the custom wolfy headstock...

ps... did anyone notice he is still wearing his wedding ring... whats up with that...

[sullydigs]

I was at this show. The sound board went out during Eddie's solo. It was pretty cool because he kept playing, then realized it was out and motioned for Horace the sound tech to fix it.

[foxheadspeed]

yeah it sucked at first but he came back with a vengeance!