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  • 3:18 that's Ripley. A very early form of that song at least. He used that riff for the movie "The Wild Life".

  • Is this recorded on a portable cassette recorder with rotten batteries then played back and re-recorded into something more stable? In addition to the fact that EVH used to play with his guitar tuned down half to Eb there are some well known "guitarisms" in there that's hard or impossible to do unless you tune the guitar UP for a MAJOR THIRD from standard tuning!!! E.g check out the "Alex Lifeson" chord a right after 3:25 and the following minor chord shape. Just saying ... :)

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  • so cool!

  • And then I pick up my guitar... :,(

  • @AZEIDJSKSQMM ok we all know you are another Randy Rhoads fan hating on mr Ed Van Halen. 46 Randy Rhoads fans dislike Van Halen. What else is new.

  • @conan4482 I don't like Rhoads more or less than any other guitar slinger, and think Eruption is gimmick long gone stale, thats it

  • @IntoVariety247 i'd like to kindly to ask you to go fuck yourself. Good day.

  • @Murphdogg4 I'll be sure to tell VH so they can send you autographs. With Michael Anthonys too.

  • @conan4482 Lucky for some others who have the open mindedness to like them both!! =))

  • Eddie is the man

  • Eddie Van Halen - Eruption Guitar Solo

  • Spectacular

  • @AZEIDJSKSQMM how does he have no creativity? is it just because he plays fast? let me tell you that he's got immense feel. he's got feel because he plays from his emotions, not because he plays a slow blue scale while making funny faces.

  • el mejor guitarrista , disculpen...

  • @AZEIDJSKSQMM the

  • @AZEIDJSKSQMM the

  • Damn that's fast at 2:30

  • lo maximo... paso en caracas,,

  • Like Roth says "fastest fingers in world Mr.Edward Van Halen"

  • Eddie rocks like no other, period. His melodic picking transition at around 3:14 - 3:45 is great too.

  • he has the pick of destiny!!!!

  • same solo played at Monsters of rock, in the UK in 1984, but with lots of extra stuff. Not a great Van Halen show, but Eddie was on top form

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  • come on ppl we know adnoyall is a freak but why give him the attention he wants are comments on youtube really that important?

  • Io credo che il sangue divino scorra nelle sue vene...

  • this video was posted on my birthday, and know i find out, in 2011, 16 november. EVH is the master at tapping, harmonics, shreding and at making those awesome space sounds or something. yah

  • i never knew that eddie played les pauls too... i thought he didn't play les pauls lol

  • Whilst everyone else here is busy commenting on M. Anthony's sexual preference, or too busy worried about this 'Noyd' guy, I found it fascinating that Eddie played a somewhat modified Les Paul back then. As the late great Carson would say...' I did not know that...That's some weird and wild stuff'...!

  • Lots of hot air here...HUH?

  • like the picture thats showing up at 0:34

  • why all the grief with Eddie? all you Eddie bashers need to put on something you do like, and stop wasting your time here listening to one of the greatest guitars/innovators ever. We can't help it your to dumb and tasteless to appreciate it . Stop flapping your lips, and troll elsewhere.......

  • @detroitlionsfan7 Thats not up to you to decide. Normal adults can respect and appreciate opposing views and live with them. They don't go playing jihadist here, openly wishing folks who dislike their fav videos dead, hacking youtube accounts, trying to get the perceived infidel banned. You signed your own name under youtube's Terms, agreeing to abide by them, now you tell others to STFU fuck off etc cuz ED IS GOD ED IS GOD SO STFU!!!!!

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  • Awesome, it sounds more Classical when He plays it on E-Flat.

  • @Gcon957  sick terrorists, thats Eds jihad alright. I keep responding to Eruption saying its stale wank, his ass kissers go apeshit talking about shooting killing and projecting their own thoughts onto me, changing the subject to "penis anus fallatio sodomy" I've collected all your posts. Again, all I'd say is Eds guitar wank is stale, like a musical ricer car tooting fart pipes and making tires squeal, cranking the stereo to 11 = stale wank. What do you offer in response? Vulgar histronics

  • @Sayno2jihad u mad sonya? Does Molly bite? Ill pick ya up for a Packer home game this year, then after we have a lot to discuss. EVH is God

  • eddie van halen and john bonham together? sounds like a match made in heaven....

  • i'd say this is a wanky guitar suckfest that attracts a certain dim rote asinine male audience fixated on a lot of feces, urine and ejaculate.

  • rocks!

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  • this guy loves himself

  • lol 2:12 alex looks like a midget wrestler

  • he may be god, but he sure pulled a "k-fed" on val bertinelli didnt he?

  • @MetricHotrodsdotcom Well this is obviously a Boys Only Club, after all. Looks like Dave is Ed's wiw cutesy-wootsie again, Sammy is out, and Michael Anthony turned out to be a fag, after all.The boys will make it right.

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  • @Lushsucr "virtuoso" is a bit of a stretch. Most anyone can come up with any number of riffs that even Ed in his coke and booze fueled heyday would have a hard time copying, note for note, but would still sound like shit, even if Ed played them. Thats because guitar wank is just that - wank. And thats why this wankery hasn't aged well in my opinion. Eds almost 70 years old and is gonna get on stage again and wank like a teen boy ogling a ricer car in a Walmart parking lot. Thats not what gods do

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  • @Lushsucr nobodys angry but you, and dimly, rotely so. Which is why Ed locks your type out of his life - the very army of vulgar closet cases his stale old wank attracts. But you're not the subject here, still no comprendo?

    Eruption is a musical ricer car Ed parks at Walmart, cranks his engine into the red, fart pipes toot, tires squeal, stereos cranked to 11, etc. but Ed really doesn't go anywhere Musically he stays parked right there at Walmart surrounded by teen boys agog over noise.

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  • @Lushsucr awww still doing nothing on youtube but talking stupidly to yourself about yourself. The lesson you won't learn after 4 years is that Respond to this Video means just that, and that you rather obviously have no authority to telll anyone what they may think/write about Eruption. Ed's never going to let you huff his geriatrics undies for being so loyal a jihadist.

    On topic Eruption is a musical ricer car. Eds revs his little engine into the red, fart pipes toot, tires squeal, etc

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  • @Lushsucr lol this is pricelss comedy. You couldn't wait to get back home and nuzzle Eds crotch on youtube. You do nothing but project i.e. speak about yourself to yourself, stupidily, asininely. I just hope your kids aren't around to see what captures your dim rote asinine attention most - namely sucking Eds dick on tyoutube. Tsk tsk, closet case Lushsucrs kids gonna be disappointed someday when they read your asinine angry rants sucking off a stale guitar player online. Cruel world kids...

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  • @Lushsucr awww lol back to dimly rotely asininely adoring Ed as God and wishing I had child porn. Ah well shitty wank attracts a shitty audience. Thats the Devils Circle here. Eds forever stuck in Wankyland as his idiotic fans project stupidily about "penis and anus and child porn". Absolutely priceless.

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  • @Lushsucr the topic here is still Eruption, and its one sorry wanky suckfest by now. The best I can say about it is its like a musical ricer car. Ed revs the engine into the red, fart pipes toot, tires squeal but Ed never leaves the Walmart parking lot.

  • @Adnoydall looks like the topic is how long youre going to have an account at youtube LOL The Godfather of rock n roll guitar, untouchable, Mr Edward Van Halen, the king

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  • @Adnoydall do you really think Michael is a fag, or do you think Ed just wanted his son, someone much easier to CONTROL standing next to him on stage and needed something negative to spew about him? be an analytical thinker, not a douchebag.

  • @Adnoydall You are a stupid piece of shit, you need to be shot for saying Michael Anthony is a fag, I ought to find you and rip out your useless guts you fucking trolling ass stupid son of a bitch. EVH IS GOD MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!

  • @cford1992 Your right, Noyd is a pain in the ass. The bottom line is, is that the poor homeless man we call Noyd, is jealous of Van Halen, because they were more sucsessful as little kids than he is as a 46 year old pedifile. Noyd has been making crude and sick remarks about 9/11, as it is nearing the 10th aniverssiary. Im a fireman with NY, so it pisses me off even more. He is jealous of us Americans, and he is a major deadbeat with too much time on his hands.

  • @Gcon957 again, noyds disliking eds wank has eds jihad talking stupidly about pedophilia, ass, anus penis, rape, etc. while he responds to the video on topic and in real English "you are" = "you're" not "your"

    "I'm a fireman and duh 'your a pedifile' "

  • @Sayno2jihad Kendall Kendall Kendall how many usernames do you have in total now Adnoydall/ Kendall Barnes of Milwaukee Wisconsin? Still ogling about homosexuals in all of your posts. blah blah " dim rote" blah blah blah pabloramqueerass blah blah blah lushsucr, same old stale reply, jus your 9th username, nice life kendall, nice life. EVH is God

  • @Lushsucr Kendalls not been arrested by Eds Jihad yet. What wrong you all just insipid blather like Eruption is insipid wankery?

  • @Sayno2jihad sounds like youre a little para"Noyd" kendall, still awaiting the G-Men? LOL Kendall Barnes. EVH is God

  • @Lushsuscr lol thats pretty asinine even by your dim, rote Ed-is-God standards. I'm not denying being anyone but myself, you dim, rote ass.

    On topic, Eruption is one sorry wankfest. Musically its like a ricer car show at Walmart where boys try to impress other boys with loud fart pipes, loud stereos, loud paint, loud tires,etc. "i got a Hooters sticker, XL" Well golllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeee...

  • SonyaJihad blah blah blah Kendall, dim rote, blah blah blah paloramqueerass wimpy blah blah blah jihad Lushsucr blah blah blah Ed is God, blah blah blah. You need a new routine Noyd/Kendall, but your IP doesnt change,postal code address is now logged to a pinpoint.Thanks for posting on my page! O yes, EVH is God, about to release another chapter of the rock bible, within months, amidst your reports he was retiring. wheres your website? whats the holdup? 15000 posts? 4 years? EVH is God

  • @Sayno2jihad

    Eruption is in fact, one of the most expressionist song I've ever heard. Well, music is all basically (in my opinion) about sound patterns and importantly; feelings. You have to express yourself to make a good music, you can't ignore this.

    This Eruption is a revolutionary not only in its cool technique, but how Eddie goes crazy and express all he wants. Like Hendrix, and Chuck. It makes me always excited. Either way, it influenced half of the guitarist, and all of the music world

  • @ANM5150 Now don't get me wrong I love ROCK ANY DAY OVER VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS but I am a musician and find this very poetic. "Lady Gaga- Music is a lie. Art is a lie. You have to tell a lie that is so wonderful that your fans make it true." If you listen to any song so many times in a row you will get bored of it. UNLESS YOU ARE HIGH

  • @BloodShotNow I love how you find art even in commercial music, I do that too sometimes. But no, there's a lot of songs that I can never be bored of (especially rock genres), like Back In Black album, or Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Goode, or 5150. Although I admit that I got bored of Eruption lol.

  • @ANM5150 I thought it was new and exciting when it came out and dutifully learned to play it, but never found much reason to just wank around. Come to find this was Eds live warmup he never thought worthy to record, but his producer thought it a handy gimmick and sure enough its all many want to see or hear from Ed. Crammed into pop fluff song Jump no less

  • @CatchinProjection IT IS new and exciting, and the beautiful thing is that it can never really be learned as you'll just have to be Eddie himself to play it differently, his style, in every live concert. His 'regular practice' is him, expressing his feelings (which is crazy) as a teenager back then. The producer (is it Ted? Forgot) see something that Ed see as regular, as something that is awesome. And apparently, he's right. He's a great producer thou, recording VH1 by live records? Awesome.

  • @ANM5150 Its just not all that awesome to me. I know films are fake, but can easily suspend my disbelief of their being true if the story holds - provided there is one. I never adored any actor enough to threaten those who didn't equally with death. It usually means trouble for the actor when they get typecast in a certain role, and thats the case with Ed. Musically Eruption is Ed showing off his ricer car's fart pipes, fat tires, etc. but never leaving Walmart to cruise or race. No story here.

  • @CatchinProjection what you're calling 'crazy' and 'unacceptable' is what Chuck and Hendrix did. They goes crazy, and its pretty new back then, and yes, some people can't accept it too as it is 'off notes'. But there's one thing they have in common; musician respect them. Even the most arrogant musician (IMO) as Yngwie Malmsteen respect Edward, and treated Hendrix as God. Hendrix's music than is too 'showing off' those 'crashy noise' called 'distortion' like 'racer car that never leaves Walmart'

  • @ANM5150 careful now, I'm not knocking Ed overall, I'm talking about Eruption, specifically, responding to this video, disagreeing that its supposed to be the "greatest solo ever" as it lacks a few key points for that. I find the ricer car analogy 100% fitting. Everything on them is overdone, loud and oft random, and most of them don't cruise/race, which is what I look for in a car, so Eruption's sitting there burbling and screeching isn't my idea of music to enjoy, thats all.

  • @CatchinProjection probably its like when nowadays teenagers hear about rock music. "Its old and wtf, its not enjoyable". Just because they don't really 'get' the music, you know? If you hear to Eruption, it is boring. Like Stairway To Heaven, long and boring and seems like the same. But listen to it, and listen to the Frankenstrat speaks for Eddie's heart. His random feeling. Probably whacky, but it is what's Eddie deep down; whacky. But yeah, I have to agree, it is not the best solo ever.

  • @BloodShotNow aye, a good song will have a solid place in the soundtracks of many lives. I keep asking fans of it whats so hot about Eruption that makes it the only "music" anyone (including females, minorities, non-Americans, etc) should ever want to hear and get nothing but dim rote crude lewd vulgar off topic insults and death threats. Ed is God and therefore ordinary laws and Terms don't apply to his jihad. I just don't buy that.

  • @ANM5150 whats is Ed saying with Eruption then, hm? It say its perfect for ricer car shows, where loud cars rev engines, fart pipes toot, tires squeal, plastic trim chatters and shakes, stereos are cranked to 11, but the show never leaves the Walmart parking lot. No real race to anywhere. WWE instead of MMA, bodybuilding instead of Olympic discipline.

  • @CatchinProjection hey Noyd, err why did you create a new account? Nvm.

    Well, Ed's saying nothing but his feelings. I'm not sure what his feelings are but it sure sounds pretty whacky, as you've said. It is hard to define 'feeling' because as a musician, to have ears that can feel something more than just an ordinary feeling is a gift. It is not a car engine (or whatever as you've always said in every comments) sound. If you know, Al himself said Eddie is pretty random, like his stripe motives.

  • @Sayno2jihad Sick terrorist! Duh!

  • @cford1992 so did you kill anyone to impress your God, Ed, yet? I'll almost bet he just itching to give an autograph to a jihadist brave and bold enough to kill over a bad Eruption comment on youtube. God Bless America.

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  • @cford1992 I love how excessive cussing and childish, poor choice of words is accepted on the internet only when it is in defense and not attack.

  • Why does adnoydall hate Eddie ? Eddie is the best

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  • @scrappercol Nowhere do I claim to hate Ed. I just don't think Eruption/shred, per se, did all that much good for rock and roll, or Ed, in the long term. And I've stated my opinion in sane, rational, even tones, as youtube invites. Fans of this wank are the ones endlessly, stupidly, hysterically, vainly projecting, hurling dim, rote, asinine insults that clearly violate youtubes ToS and force celebs like Ed to hire security around their homes and family.

    Eruption is an old gimmick by now

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  • I just shit myself!!! What a tone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVH is one mean bad ass gunslinger, I've never till this day anyone have just rich, full, raw to the bone guitar tone than the all mighty KING EDWARD VAN HALEN!!!!

  • He learned a lot from UFO, Michael Schenker in particular...

  • cant people like adnoydall comment on my vids lol? then i would get millions of views and id start some sort of ad campaign to make money ... :S really i checked to his first comment, and 123 pages later i arrived here

    hi adnoydall.. people really dont like you and you go on about gay stuff too much. chill out its called music, funnily rated by opinion and that only, so theres no right and wrong so i regret to let you know :D ! your wrong to have a go at any music...

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  • Mosly dim, rote, asinine anus-centered projection where youtube invites normal folks to discuss videos sanely..

    I find Eruption fits the youtube video "1000+rwhp Supra two-stepping it " perfectly. Some guy makes his car's fart pipes toot in a parking lot, and teen boys gawk and drool "Whoa, awesome, two-stepping is god!" Not really. Musically Eruption is the same sonic wankathon as two-stepping yer ricer car. Fart pipes tooting loudly, tires squealing fans gleefully huffing fumes.

  • @Adnoydall Just curious, so what would you put forward musically for us that has merit in your eyes?

  • @Nautilus1972 the topic here is Eruption and its supposedly being the greatest solo ever. While it was certainly influential, new and exciting back when, Eds wankery quickly watered down rock & roll. Focus shifted from classic hooks, storytelling and rhythm to endless wank and gotta-have gear. And Ed himself finally crammed his emasculated wank into pop fluff Jump. This is why I'm reminded of ricer cars, which sit around in parking lots making noises, not going anywhere.

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  • holy fuck, i cant believe NOYD is still at it i told that bitch off 2 years ago hes still here damnnnnn

  • @thatsaneckyo1 my lesson is that you don't tell anyone what to do on youtube. That and Eds still wanking stale in the above video. Getting staler all the time

  • @Sayno2jihad you make no sense at all lol shut up

  • woah. whats goin on at 3:30!!! never heard that before! :) I like it!

  • YES! ibanez first several images haha I love it.

  • Eddie Van NOWAILEN!

    Kramer guitars FTW

    I got a 1983 FOCKIN' Kramer Pacer

  • it amazes me that any1 would critisize eddie V. he has achieved more in his lifetime then every1 of us put together! rock on eddie

  • both you guys STFU and listen.

  • @Lushsucr back to dim, rote, asinine anus-centered projection where youtube invites normal folks to discuss videos sanely..

    I find Eruption fits the youtube video "1000+rwhp Supra two-stepping it " perfectly. Some guy makes his car's fart pipes toot in a parking lot, and teen boys gawk and drool "Whoa, awesome, two-stepping is god!" Not really. Musically Eruption is the same sonic wankathon as two-stepping yer ricer car. Fart pipes tooting loudly, tires squealing fans gleefully huffing fumes.

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