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  • merry christmas...

  • yeah ,we want more videos like this one...creepingnet rules....lol

  • I wish mom bought me a guitar and I beat rocks

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  • no comment.

  • Hey man, I came back for another listen. Don't listen to the naysayers, I like hearing people playing this tune in their own way. I just posted yet another version of the song, this time with better audio quality/video than my last one. I'm using Sony Vegas for video editing these days and it makes vids look fantastic (I have superimposed me in front of a Van Halen audience going crazy at one point LOL). Anyway I hope you enjoy it! :)

  • You play well. How long have you been playin for? 

  • Please dont do any more Van Halen songs.

  • @Cusjus Okay sir, more Van-Halen coming up, bwahahahahahahaha!

  • Nice job man! I just posted a version too... but beware you get to see a glimpse of me on the toilet LOL

  • way better to be in two bands than worry about this. glad to hear you're out gigging.

  • you're close on the opening lick. you need to go back and listen. the second part changes. nice job though.

  • Not my best van-halen song I'll admit. I've kinda-sort a quit playing Van-Halen as much as of late because I have too much going on in 2 bands.

  • Right On !

  • Re this Jaguar for/against nonsense: It ain't what you play, it's how you play it. Anyone who thinks otherwise knows nothing about music. Rock on dude.

  • And that was the point (besides me just having fun goofing off).

  • 99.99% of guitarists on YT are crap. 99.99% of people passing opinion have no idea and are fucked up in their thinking. I spent a lot of time trying to "educate" but it's a thankless task.

    In your case, if someone thinks Jaguars are crap, and you don't, leave them to it. One of you is right. But not caring saves you hassle and, most of all, what they think is none of your business. Your life then becomes a lot easier.

  • You are right that it is a thankless task.  These videos are used for more than mere posting on this website though.

    I use them on guitar related forums to put down a point (and admittedly, occasionally to show off for the fun of it). And if someone does not get the point, I will get understandably pissed, so I will say something, even if it does not help, at least I did what I could.

  • Friendly advice:

    You say to people don't watch if they don't like but they have to watch to SEE if they like it. And they have every right to watch what people put up.

    Also, you can't post to the world via You Tube, invite comments, and then bitch at those who point out what they do.

    If you put yourself in the firing line, expect all kinds of comments.

    YT is just an ego trip, for everyone who posts and that is why when valid comments are made, people get pissy and defensive.

  • That is true, but the complaints I'm making are towards a specific group of people who deliberatly go onto my videos just to flame. You know the type, the elitist alternative guys or van-halen elitists who believe that a Jaguar or Van-Halen should not go hand in hand. It's fairly obvious witiout viewing that I'm playing van-halen on a Fender Jaguar. Also, I'm aiming that kind of pissy-ness towards people who say things like "fucking god damn you suck shit go fuck your momma fag" types.

  • And you always get elitist pricks. Always will.

  • As far as the playing mistakes, I only bitch when people say "god you suck", or don't give a REASON as to why I suck. To me, "you suck" is not valid without something to back it up.

  • I know what you're saying but no one *has to* explain themselves. And "you suck" is pretty self explanatory. And if they did explain, could you accept a list or get defensive?

    Here is the best piece of advice - hard to adopt - but is priceless: "what anyone thinks of you is none of your business".

    If some guys think you're a nerd, girls think you're a dick, guitarists think you're lame - it is none of your business. They can think what they want. And you can stop worrying 'bout their opinion.

  • Defending ones-self does have it's merits though.

  • Quick question, if I don't care what someone thinks, then does that not make this advice hypocritical, as it's pretty much an invitation expecting me to heed it, which I do already, albeit selectively.

    It's an endless catch 22, you're either not going to care, then someone with more clout than you is going to cause trouble and drama, or you are at least going to appear to so people will leave you alone if they want to waste their breath on you...(cont'd)

  • (cont'd) Yes, these vids are up for public critique, I actually like criticism if it is constructive, which is why I ask someone to back up their opinion, or it does not mean jack shit (i.e. "You Suck" with no explanation), and it get's deleted.

    I hate wading though video comments full of stupid shit, and I'm sure others do too. Scary part is this is possibly the most worthwhile debate on this whole video's comment bay. Sometimes it pays to put your foot down and say HEY, this is how it is.

  • please,you have nothing to do?

  • Apparently you don't

  • music is not a sport...please open your ears...

  • When did I ever say it was?

  • Strange pickups.. what kind are they?

    (srry if my english is bad..)

  • Seymour DUncan Cool Rails. They're an earlier version that was designed like amini humbucker.

  • Hey man, that was cool - I liked how you made the tune your own. Very cool improvisation. Please check out my version - I just posted it. =VH= forever!

  • ummm...yea..U blow me away. Nuff said! Peace D...

  • Jag is 1 of the greatest guitars ever built/desingned, even when some say it's just Strat's ugly stepsister. Rock ON!!!!

  • the main riff is off

  • How many times must I go over this...

  • Im sure they're saying it just so they can act like they know loads about guitar

  • Way wrong..

    Do I have to do dis shit too?

  • What A Deph Dumbass Obveously Cant Hear This Guy Kicks Ass.

  • Well, I admit the tone is a little off, and I'm missing a little of that swing feel here, but it was also one of my earliest videos too.

  • I know this is a delayed entry but calm the fuck down. It's real good except for the slight mess up at the beginning and anyone can see that it is not suppose to sound exactly like the original.

  • It's easier to mimic and imitate than it is to 'tribute'. I really like what you've done with this tune. Definately ROCKIN'!

  • All you fuck nuts who knock this guys playing-post your own version for us to grill....that's what i thought, beotches. This guy smokes so if you can't do better, put up or shut the fuck up.

  • i like it when someone takes a song and makes it "theirs" by NOT hitting every single note. Dude, you rocked this mo-fo song out. Great job. Love the pups. I have those on my Vanguard, they sound great. keep playin'.

  • Nice guitar! I don't necessarily prefer those pups in there, though. This is a nice version, but it is of course not note for note -if that was intended that I respect that!

  • Huge VH fan. That was great. You made me realize how much I love that song. By the way you don't want to copy anybody exactly. Make it your own and you did.

  • I agree you can get great sounds out of that guitar. Keep on keepin' on man, sounds good.

  • just goes to sho u how many sounds u can get out of a jaguar, i luv those guitars, got me a special edittion HH

  • Where did you get that backing track?

  • I don't want to be a dick, but here's what your missing: It's played with a solid swing rhythm. You're playing it more with a straight rhythm. If you listen to Ed he's swinging it, but very fast! It's very hard to do. But keep it up!

  • sounds great man! dont let all these wankers tell you off. i love how everyone says "oh thats b grade, not accurate" and shit. if they are so good why arent they in their own fkn band? keep going!!

  • Hey there,

    Why does your video come up when checking the site out for Van Halen?!? You have nothing to do w/ them! I don't like people uploading stuff as fakers!!!!!!!!!

  • Maybe because I'm playing the song, and that's who it's by. Why are so many of you Van-Halen fans such pricks. I mean, really, about half the posts I get from you guys are bashing me or calling me fake or going on random personal attacks. That's not saying much for Van-Halen's fanbase.

  • Yep there are some hard core van halen loyalists out there. Seriously, anybody who tries to deny that you fucking ripped this to shreds is out of their mind. This is top notch playing - any self respecting Van Halen fan should acknowledge and respect it.

  • It is for that reason, I'm not covering anymore Van-Halen material. Not because I give up, but because I don't want to be associated with a group that so many that surround it act so elitist and pumped up about because someone does'nt don a B&W frankenstrat, used a cheap crappy camera starting out (this is one of my OLDEST videos), and pretend to be another Wannabe Eddie. I mean, jebuz, it's just music. If you don't like it DON'T FUCKING WATCH IT! There, end of my rant.

  • you shouldnt stop covering van halen because of those pricks man, even if its not 100% accurate (what broman2235 said), it still sounds like it and is an awesome cover. I mean, come on, who can get EVH 100% accurate? Only 1 person can, and thats him. Really good cover man, 5*.

  • If you can't accept criticism maybe you shouldn't post it.

  • it's B grade and it's not accurate. it's a not a personal attack but this guy posted it on youtube so we can respond.

  • ok and can you send me a mail with the backing track please?my adress mail is : rockerfoudu03(a)hotmail(p)fr (a)mean @ (p)mean . thanks

  • can you tell me how or where you got the playback?

  • I got the backing track off guitars101, the message board a year or so back when the video was made. AS far as how I got it on the recording, I had a full-duplex sound card that allowed me to record the CD-ROM inside the computer playing back the backing track along with my guitar. It can sound great if done right, but it does take a few takes to E.Q. first.

  • Really nice!

  • that's totally wrong

  • How is it totally wrong?

  • not bad dude.

  • Very cool I like how you did the Eddie "one string" lick instead of the double hammer-ons at the key change first solo. 5/5

  • well, you got about half the notes correct. timing is way off.

  • Even though its off sync, it still sounds sweet.

  • That was ace.

    I used to rock a Fender Bullet , and one of my favourite guitars ever was my 1982 El Degas Les Paul copy. It's not the pool cue it's the shooter. Good shootin!

  • Good stuff

  • Cool rendition.I wish my guitar was working so I can jam to this! haha

  • ya dude wrong guitar for the job and was alittle sketchy

  • Well, I'm one of the few apparently on the internet who can come to terms with the fact that I"M NOT EDWARD VAN-HALEN. Jebus. Edward plays striped strats, I play Jaguars. I'm as big a Van-Halen fan as the next guy, but I don't see all the holy worship of candystriped strats. Yngwie Malmsteen can pull off that sound, and he uses a STRAT with what are Single Coil Style pickups (and here we have a Fender Jaguar with SINGLE style pickups).

  • looks like its got mini-humbuckers to me. but nice playing definatly better than me!

  • well said!

  • I've had trouble with divx sound being out of sync. Mpeg 2 always works best for me.

  • good guitar its the guitar! good!

  • Wrong guitar for the job, its a surf guitar

  • I bet my so called "Surf Guitar" can kick your metal guitar's ass.

  • That was awsome. i cant wait till i do my jaguar up be so cool. have you got a tune-o-matic in yours?

  • It used to, I took it off and installed an Allparts Jaguar bridge to the machine instead, mostly because it gave the whammy system more range, and stopped cutting my high E strings in half.

  • Awesome! I was singing along.

  • too many people here copying shit PLay SoMeThing OriGinaL

  • so you can copy it bro.

  • Dang you good man!

  • how come ur not showing ur face...unless ur really eddie huh..just admit it lol ...rock on!

  • lol, I'm not Eddie, I don't even think I sound much like him. I don't show my face because it's impossible to put that AND the guitar into frame and still be able to reach the play button on my CD-ROM drive for playback of the backing tracks, plus I noticed most people on here don't, and I would like to remain somewhat anonymous, I'm doin' this all for fun anyway.

  • cool

  • Not really any adjustments, unless you want it like mine, which uses 500K pots instead of the 1MEG ohm pots on the lead circuit. The pickups install like the old ones pretty much without the cover and claw, though I'm about to adapt those two things to "Jaguar-ize" those pickups more.

  • Yeah i thought so. My friend has one of those that he is trying to sell me for my jaguar. Is it easy to install or are there any weird adjustments i'd have to do to make it work?

  • what pickups are you using??

  • An unmatched pair of Seymour Duncan SCR-1B (Bridge) Cool Rail pickups. And yes, that's the stock Fender Floating Tremelo I used, with a Tune-O-Matic.

  • guitar pro 5???

  • Nope, just a midi backing track re-recorded to MP3 format, burned to CD, and played back using the hardware play buttons.

  • Just bend that note on the main riff. It is flat. Listen back, you will see what I mean. nice go at it! Peace.

  • your intro is definently wrong.......your playing the same line over twoce where the second time the last note is lower....how do you not notice that?

  • sorry, I'm not perfect, I'll do I'm the one this weekend, There are alot of things your doing wrong on your versuion too, My intro is played like the live version from 1980

  • I heard it, just I did not play it cause I screwed up on the first two bars there, and it still sounded good so I said "what the heck". This is actually maybe the 5th timne I've even attempted to play this one anyway.

  • I need thode backing trcks!! where can I get them? ~~ BTW Very Nice job, See my vids when you get a chance, I have 5 so far

  • I got the backing tracks at the hard rock guitar boot camp forum(http://gbc.ezcommunities­.com/index.php). I get some of my others from. I saw your videos, you sound damn good, you must have been playing awhile.

  • Very nice! I'm impressed and inspired. Listen, how would I go about taking a music track and playing it back without the guitar being heard? i.e. Drop out EVH playing so I can play along without hearing me AND Eddie? I hope you know what I'm talking about. Is it a software program? A sound editor of some sort? Thanks!

  • What I used was a backing track I downloaded from guitars101.com. These backing tracks are usually made by taking midi's of the partiular song, and re-recording the sound as an MP3. The one of Unchained sounds more like a Van-Halen tribute band made it though.

  • Ok thank you! And I just downloaded the demo of Guitar Pro and this kinda does what I'm looking for also. I will tell you young guys one thing: YOU'RE VERY lucky to have all this techonlogy today! I learned back when I was 18 (I'm 51 now) and back then you had to slow down albums on the turntable to learn songs! IT SUCKED! This Guitar Pro makes it super easy! Wish I would've had all this tech. back then. Dammit!

  • LOL, I'm in the same boat with you, I used to play everything to cheap record albums as I was a poor teenager in the mid-90's (The Cars records were $1 back then, that's right, $1 for an official 1979 copy of Candy-O on LP). I also used to hack tape decks to slow the motor down. This was stuff I dreamed about having in the 90's.

  • thats really awesome .the sound syncing thingamajigger is messed up.. but aweseom.

  • Yeah, I know it's out of synch, I just looked back at the original source (an 800MB file), and it seems to have something to do with the video encoding. I'm going to have a look around tonight and see what I can do to fix the problem on future videos.

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