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  • One of the rare clips on here with him in standard tunning before the post 1982 era. Unless some used pitch correction on this old recording and put him in E natural. In any event, that was a superb performance!

  • That is how you properly make love to a guitar

  • BRB I'm Gonna Change My Pants...................

  • he is absurde....fantastic guitarman

  • @rscaneut Epic.

  • No one had ever played the rock guitar like Eddie in those days. No one. No Page no Hendrix Iommi Frehley or Schenker you name it. He was King in 1978.

  • @ajaxrules1975 Hendrix wasn't alive. Can't even believe you and i both typed hendrix's name on a van halen video. It's a shame honestly.

  • @TumisHumis I know, but you get the point.

  • the tremelo on the high 21 kind of sounds like a helicopter 0:49

  • Ed's meth days. I guess he thought the glory was worth the health issues he might encounter 20-30 years later. Which he has.

  • my favourite version of his 1978 version :D

  • EDDIE MONSTER!!

  • saw the van halen 1978 world tour in philadelphia pa. the spectrum. nobody past or present could touch van halen from 1978 to 1988 and i do mean NO ONE! even now 32 years later no one still cant!

  • damn... love it.. just love it !

  • at 0:25 thats feeling for ya

  • His first solo's are epic... i think they are the cleanest out of alll

  • ED FOR PRESIDENT

  • hey man no disrespect,but eddie hated the bridge on a les paul.he said it sat to high for him,plus he needed the tremelo on the strat.eddie has said he had no problem with the neck on a les paul or any other guitar.not trying to be a smartass.thanks for the vid.

  • ediies kewl :D

  • This is wild... I was born on this very day in 1978.

  • OH MY DEAR GOD! Theese 70's eruptions are WAY WAY WAY WAY THE FASTEST :P

  • hahhahaha i kno the drugs and shit slowed

  • do my eyes decieve me or did i see eddie with a lefty guitar?

  • holy shit  he did play lefty

  • actually the picture you saw was flipped, so it seems that he's playing lefty. lol

  • its a reverse pic

  • This Rocks!!!

  • 150% All Eddie at his absolute best!!!!!!

  • that was so fucking awesome! i think this is one of the best versions i've heard.

  • yea, i would have to agree with you there, check out 5150EVH5150's videos, he has some old stuff too.

  • Wow never knew Eddie played a Les Paul at all...guess that just means it is the GREATEST guitar ever.

  • long time for this reply lol. ed actually hated the les paul, he only liked the sound because of the humbuckers. he liked the feel of the strat, but hated the sound of single coils. cross breed a gibson's humbuckers in a strat body and the rest is history.

  • @5150Frankenstrat I wouldn't say Eddie "hated" the Les Paul. In fact he loved them, but his tiny half-Indonesian body did not really "fit" the large and cumbersome Les Paul. I think he also liked the playability of the strat, especially in terms of the access to the upper frets...

  • @garbeaj tiny Page managed a Gibson double neck...

  • @Adnoydall Page is not tiny. He is over 6 feet tall...Van Halen is a very short and small guy...

  • @garbeaj Page weighs, what, 120 lbs?

  • @garbeaj page isnt the subject here, but celebheights com says hes 5'11'

  • @Adnoydall I met him in 1988 and he seemed taller, but then I was alot shorter then. Still, he is one hell of alot taller than Eddie:)

  • @garbeaj I caught Zeps second last concert in 80 and Page looked small and frail.

  • @5150Frankenstrat Yeah. He much preferred the tone of Frankie over anything he'd played... otherwise, why would it be his #1 for so many years? He had Les Pauls.. but only used them when his Frankie was out-of-tune toward the end of the set, back when it still had the old Fender tremolo. Once he got the Floyd Rose trem, you never saw a Les Paul again on stage. He did, however use a '58 flying V on Hot For Teacher on the main rhythm track.

  • UN F ING BELIEVABLE EDWARD!!!

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