Van Halen "Intruder" & "Pretty Woman" Isolated Guitar Track

[eliizme]

Holy SHIT,I love these isolated tracks!

[arrdvarks]

A living GENIUS. WOW! GREAT SONG IN ISOLATION!

[racecar06]

Fantastic btw is that Gene Simmons in the background?

[craziesthorse]

did you guys catch Eddie's talking guitar at beginning ? It was pretty woman Valerie calling for Eddie, "Eddie? Eddie? Ehhdieee . . ?" I think Im the only one who has ever noticed this.

[giuliopoli69]

Eddie=Genius

[wizzzeeee]

Eddie Van Halen is one of those ingenious "Inventors Of Sound" that musicians have to back themselves up with. Knowledge makes us all grow in our learning about sound...in music of course, and without the great balls that Michael Anthony gave to their sound, Dave wouldn't probably have gotten the DLR FLASH that goes with ALL of their greatest songs! ...in my opinion, that is.

[laiosto]

Listening to the raw guitar tracks like this has actually cheered me up greatly.All these years of trying to get the EVH sound like the albums frustrated me ,because I thought it never quite sounded right.It turns out I was playing and sounding pretty darn close to Eddie after all.The trick is to use a dry sound and not too much distortion.

[boocho1]

...wow...my favorite guitar player speeds up and slows down too !!!....cool now i don't have to practice TOO hard to get it..thanks, Ed...

[bsouthe]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[andrewroudny]

Do you know that lots of guitarists (particularly punk guys) doing recordings today will actually wrap the high 3 strings (e,b,g) in electrical tape to keep them from ringing out?!?! They don't even know how to keep an electric guitar quiet! Useless.

[bach5150]

i can't believe after listening to the isolated track that anyone in their right mind could ACTUALLY believe that a frikkin "beer can" was used to create those sounds. it is incrdibley obvious that it is the springs of the trem that are being manipulated to create those sounds. as a guitarist of over 30 years myself, i can attest to how those sounds were created. if ya got a trem guitar, simply scrape the springs with a pick and you can hear as plain as day the SAME SOUNDS.

[Icepacalapse]

The volume in that room must have been insane.

[Tat2Dragons]

That was great! Thanks for sharing.

[andrewroudny]

His timing IS technically "off", but it works in the song, and that's what makes it sound a bit more real. Today, you would try to fix that either by splicing together multiple takes or using software that would fix the timing. And that's why today's rock sounds dead. Like it was played by computers, because it is!

[frankenstrat25]

@andrewroudny exactly dude. everything today sounds boring and perfect in a bad way. everything is worked so everything is perfect. i dont like it. they should all go back to the 8 track tapes and maybe theyll sound better lol

[144wychwood]

@frankenstrat25 , agreed. Whatever the genre of music, today everything is contrived and over processed. No soul or spontaneity.

[rd80schild]

never heard this .... I have fallen,and I can't get up....This is off the charts..........

[raremountainbear]

His timing is NOT off, it's the way this track was isolated which created that.

[emailflyers]

Drill is on Poundcake

[philosovitz]

damn THIS is what I wanted to hear all those years ago---back in the cassette days!!!

[scat311]

the universe conspired a creation for all to behold. It first took the form of an electric guitar and then a human by the name of Eddie Van Halen.

[nuve9]

I would LOVE to hear the isolate drum track too! Alex kills it with this beat

[MrMegaFredzeppelin]

EDWARD "VAN HALEN" IS A MUSICAL "GENIUS"!!!!!!!!!!

[MrMegaFredzeppelin]

"AWESOME"!!!!!!!!

[kchamz]

Roy Orbison had to have approved! Diver Down - Eddie's least favourite album because of the covers. Like most perfectiionists, way too hard on himself. What a tone.

[sonitusdeus]

his timing seems off in quite a few places...weird...

maybe it's just me though

[zer0dahero]

@sonitusdeus Yeah, i never noticed until i hear the isolated guitar track. There's a lot of places where it sounds like eddie lost his timing but left them in anyway. It tells me that there were few takes during the recording sessions and that there were no "punched in" segments as its the unfortunate norm in today's recording sessions. Today, artist digitally splice their crappy music from hundreds of small pieces since they can't play thier own songs all the way thought without f-ing up.

[ckr1231]

@vSupaSonic2051 This is not a drill gun. That came much later. Longracing25 is correct !!!

EVH is GOD

[MrMostaza1]

@ckr1231 No, no, no. EVH is the HARD ROCK GOD!!!!

[ckr1231]

@MrMostaza1 EVH is GOD and that is all there is to it !!!

[bach5150]

you're all wrong...i remember when this came out. what he did was mike up the actual springs in the trem and scraped the springs themselves. that's why it sounds so odd. what you are hearing is him picking the springs in conjunction with depressing the whammy bar. reall cool sounds only eddie would think to do something this pshycotic.

[motleycrue24]

@bach5150 he used a beer can and scarped it against the strings eddie did a whole interview about this album track by track

[Jim21680]

Randy Rhoads was his only equal.

[thisgirlalexaa]

@Jim21680 very close but to me Randy Rhoads came a close second...(:

[longracing25]

funny thing is...a lot of the high pitched squeels...were not done how most thought, he just pushed the string down onto the pickup at a high distorted sound level. It had nothing to do with bending strings up to raise the pitch. He did use the trem toget a few of the squeels though

[dokken447]

@vSupaSonic2051 he doesn't use a drill for this

[motleycrue24]

@vSupaSonic2051 lol he didnt use the drill till poundcake i think been playing too much guitar hero ive read his interviews where he stated how he used a beer can and even went as far to say what brand

[t3hPoundcake]

Is this the original or is it re-recorded by Ed recently?

[gargano3000]

his timin is off on the riff at some points

[Chillybeef123]

@gargano3000 many people notice this in several of his isolated tracks . . .from what i can tell though, it's him making slight adjustments to stay in balance with alex . . . cause sometimes they get a little off, and need to re-adjust to be in time with eachother . . . 

[darkknight91]

@gargano3000 He's not off. Whoever made the tracks did them off Guitar Hero and the timing has been a problem. People have figured how to do it without those issues now.

[tkrjpn]

i realized how other instruments are important!

[GTA1234565432]

THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN LOOKING OFR THIS FOR MONTH'S THX

[ByrdWhiteMovie]

The tone here is unbelievable.



[codyjt5150]

@Cliner98 he's also using either a coke can or a beer bottle on some parts from what i've heard lol

[kb7010]

@codyjt5150 trust me.. do coke or beer bottle.. just simple Floyd Rose bar tricks...

ie: you pull the string off.. G string @ 2nd and 3rd fret in this case ) then grab the bar and PULL up... to make the noise... I think after playing for 30 years I can say I can hear it...

BTW: NO slam at all..!!!!! HONEST..!!!!!!!

just explaining is all...

as a FYI.. the "other part " .. he is using a old keyboard to make "those" sounds.. the man did come up with some killer stuff for sure.. lol

[motleycrue24]

@kb7010 believe it or not dave did the keyboards and of course ed did the guitar dave stated it in a interview the reason this track was done was because the video they made for pretty women was too long and dave decided to make a instrumental up so they wouldnt have to cut any out.

[roneelynn1]

@motleycrue24 oh ok mr know it all

[motleycrue24]

@roneelynn1 oh you know it

[garbeaj]

@codyjt5150 Schlitz Malt Liquor

[myway43]

What did you use to isolate this? I would love to be able to do that. Thanks'

[batesy200]

I love intruder, he uses a power drill to get the sound! amazing

[frankenstrat25]

@batesy200 no hes said in an interview that he used a beer can

[codyjt5150]

@frankenstrat25 yea i heard that too.

[JTripper]

Thanks for posting this. I believe Ed ran a beer bottle up the fretboard to get the high pitched sounds. My favorite moment is 1:21, great filler. The distortion at the beginning sounds like old Hendrix, especially "ESP" at the beginning of the Axis-Bold as Love album.

[skirbyr]

so fucking sic

[jhop5150]

He doesn't play in perfect segmented time, but more like a pianist who plays with feeling for each note. Part of how he sounds so good, I think, because he listens to it as he plays instead of just hoping to get it perfect.

[SAMMARTINO68]

My day I had to put a couple of quaters on the record to slow it down also changing he pitch.I see now alot of Ed Heads including myself missed alot of nuanses.Back to the drawing board for me Fuck you Ed LOL...

[SAMMARTINO68]

Damn guitar players today who are learning have it easy.Not only can hear just Ed you can snatch these up convert them to mp3 to make it easier by playing these on Windows media player and slowing down the tune without effecting the pitch

[dkitty8124]

my best friends little brother thought that the sound of intruder was puppies run over by mac trucks

[seasmoke5151]

'Intuder' sounds like something out of a Science Fiction film done with computer generated technology, but he was only using an electric guitar!!!! Sounds like the speakers are ripping apart. I love it!

[MrPsychokid11]

@seasmoke5151 he used a drill to make that sound

[motleycrue24]

@MrPsychokid11 he used a beer can brotha

[gingerguitars]

@seasmoke5151 he also used a drill

[stusixtyone]

@seasmoke5151

sounds like star trek. where that ship is trying to communicate with the whales.

[MrBobbyhill5150]

@seasmoke5151 Nahh it wasnt the speakers it was just our ears from the awsomeness

[equipt4sound]

ahhhhh

rOck On

[aldomania]

So sick

[johnnybeane]

I used to play guitar along to these 2 songs when i was 14.

Man wish i had this then!

[ritter89]

Yeah, me too. I learned to play by ear from copying RECORDS becasue we doidn;t have a tape player when I was a teen( in the 80s). I had to literally take needle and repeatedly place it over the parts I wanted to learn. Today, I think that a person almost has to be slow or something to not be able to at least develop some skills. I mean, players can now download entire songs with isolated tracks and tab to learn how to play. None of that was available to me when I was starting out.

[johnnybeane]

Same here.

I played along with the LP.

[johnnybeane]

"Diver Down" has the coolest LP sleeve too.

It's a collage of photos from the 81 tour.

I haven't bought the album on cd since the late 80's so i don't know if the new cd's have those photos in the insert.

[SpaceBear77]

buy it! the sound quality is awesome, much better than on the old 80's cd's

[johnnybeane]

the remastered version?

[SpaceBear77]

Yeah. It's clearer and it has more punch.

[johnnybeane]

cool

[jhop5150]

@SpaceBear77 I don't know if they're any better, really. If you look at them side by side on an EQ, the "remastered" ones are just louder. All you have to do is turn up your old ones.

[x170063]

@SpaceBear77 i agree 1000%