van halen- with jan hammer

[markboccaccio]

Tony Levin makes every musician better

[markboccaccio]

G. Gordon Liddy !!! Best Utube comment EVER!

[FastJohnnyNardGard]

This is simultaneously hilarious and rad.

[mindstormsabrewin]

G. Gordon Liddy's an amazing bass player.

[mindstormsabrewin]

George Costanza really ROCKS the keytar!

[mvalentine59]

Awesome collaboration.

[MyBoss351]

Who is this bass player? That dude can play. Eddie's at his best here.

[eddievhfan1984]

@MyBoss351 Tony Levin. Another player to keep one's ears on.

[bobguitkillerleft]

This is the live version of "Cathedral"[Diver Down] followed by "Hot for Teacher"[1984] and a semi "improv" boogie jam,U yanks really should have known! Ive been a serious VH nut since hearing "Eruption" blaring from a buds car stereo[doors/volume WIDE OPEN! back in 81, finaly saw THE MAN in 98 when they toured for the first time in Australia.They opened with "Unchained"[Fair Warning,My ALL time favourite!SERIOUS EXCELLENCE! They are touring again in Oct with DLR!Counting the Days!Cheers.

[shawnphase]

at like 3:10, they break into paperboy for a second. if you donno what paperboy is, you probably do.

[EVERXSTREET117]

what is the name of this song 0:30

[jbr9029537]

@EVERXSTREET117 "Cathedral" from Diver Down

[yutubenchile]

and Tony Levin in Bass!!!!!

[61jamman]

Obviously not the bass-sludge of Michael Anthony. Tony Levin's performance here is so blistering, that M.A. could only aspire to come close to Levin's tone and feel, even after 35 years as a pro bass player. Mike's great, but Tony breathes rarified air.

[yourallstoopid]

hey eddy pretty good with guitar byhimself i didnt know

[crunchem7399]

my brother painted his guitar like that...lol....

[nudist0885]

Hey 'downincognito76",

No, Tony Levin was never with Triumph, he started out with King Crimson. You're thinking of Mike Levine.

[downincognito76]

ive heard this mixed differantly? r there two versions? tony levin is he the guy from TRIUMPH?

[Hellchoir]

Wow...

[duppydoopy]

this trio shoulduv made an album........that woulduv been priceless material

[surrealillness]

van halen with jan hammer and tony levin

[sonicplayg]

love this!!..I know Eddie must have been freaking out with these fusion legends, I'm sure he was a bit intimidated too....Fusion legend, Allan Holdsworth was Eddie's main guy for a long time..and Eddie took his legato influence from AH...pretty awesome jam..Eddie is rocking out, awesome chops, eddie knows these guys are jazz wizards...Jan Hammer is incredible, but not really able to go off too much here..

[DoctorPatient]

how nice to hear Eddie with a real bass player backing him for a change!!

Tony can make any group sound better!

[Tengent]

How can you go from Mahavishnu Orchestra to Van Halen? ;)

[manuelergcruz]

@Tengent Maybe Jeff Beck did it..lol

from John McLaughlin to Jeff Beck to Eddie Van Halen..who's next?

[demofactory]

Looks like Tony Levin on Bass. He plays most of Peter Gabriels gigs.

[pam101dalmatians]

lol which 1 is jan hammer?

[chuckbyf]

@pam101dalmatians the keyboardist, he wrote the theme for Miama Vice.

[zkc666]

@pam101dalmatians : the keyboard virtuoso next ti the guitar hero ..

[Tedericoe]

@userjoe1020 I thought the exact same thing when I saw this. Tony Levin and Jan Hammer.

[userjoe1020]

Is that Jason Alexander on keyboards??

[cdale5150]

@userjoe1020 Hahahahahahaha lmao hahahahahahaha

[MKyd]

Eddie Van Halen - the man; the machine.

[5150mario]

Thanks Eddie for waking up the guitar world.

[skink5150]

Outfreakingstanding .

[ps2beck]

holy crap.

[hankhill1995]

WOW

[chaplan76]

Sweet jesus, i hope for the sake of these guys the 80's never ends. Oh wait... encept Tony Levin he's cool.

[mulford1]

love that "cathedral" opening..

[Elcerritogooze]

Holy Sheet! is that Tony Levin on Bass? Wow what is this from?

[q13ert]

I think it is tony, he does the same "bass" poses ^^

[progolf95]

It was from the special on HBO for Les Paul.

[Niitroshark]

Is that Mike Portnoy in the drums?

[megasam10000]

cant.. stop ... turnig up the volume

[olekt1000]

and 4:12

[olekt1000]

3:53 is very good!

[pigletized]

Shit Dino! Now that's some EAR CANDY!!!!

[Nicar526]

Sure would be nice to hear something besides guitar in the mix.And the drummer just gets the gas chamber.

[blitzstratx100]

BAD HORSEY!!!!!!!

[samarigil66]

3:17 is so godly!!!

[RobLeveille]

Cathedral\Hot for teacher

[bigchickenfu]

That's the bassist who toured with Peter Gabriel

[hambone8080]

the bass player is Tony Levin

[Sonnetalex]

i love the beginning so much so spacey and mysterious

[PSNgregiskool]

@Sonnetalex It's called "Cathedral" and is made up of a complex combinatin of finger tapping and volume swirling techniques. Second song is " Hot For Teacher".

[GeorgVanHalen]

Love this video. To bad it's late here... I wanna turn up the volume :D

[explodingpenguinn]

I don't care what anyone says.....this FREAKING ROCKS!!!!

[minjoem]

This song/video smokes!!!

[billideaux]

yessiree, that was hot stuff. hot-cha-cha-cha-cha!!!

[lpp911]

This proves that its time for another G3. Joe Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Lifeson and Tony Levin on bass. Tony Levin should go on tour with Van Halen.

[IamBenWah]

That's Bill Bruford on the drums. Like Levin he's a former member of King Crimson.

[littauer]

LOL, sorry, that's no Billy Boy. He's looks nothing like that dude. Don't know who it is, tho.

[folkyphill]

crazy bass player.

[bassist124]

What a great video, Levin is loving it.

[Blaze1071]

This might just be the most kick-ass jam-session ever. I know VH, Levin, and Hammer, but who is the drummer? Also. when and where did this take place?? Oh my god.

[zapizda]

Looks like Rick or Jerry Marotta - my guess is Rick.

[fumaidavide]

tony levin is everywhere!

[77Fortran]

G.Gordon Liddy?!

[handyhesh]

vh is fast but does match up to Jeff Beck's version in WIRED

[bigbadbob58]

How can anyone compare the 2 in just pure skill? Jeff Beck does not even match up to Jimmy Page technically. Yes EVH's hammer-ons get a little tedious, but still his skill level is on another planet...

[beatlesfan1972]

Jeff Beck's got more feel.  Less notes, but does more with 'em.

[nodestudio]

Look, they're different. How each feels to you is how you feel about them. In my opinion it's good that any of you feel anything at all. The fact is that each of these guys listen to and learn from each other. Don't think for a second that Eddie's not a huge Jeff Beck fan and vise-versa. I just read somewhere that Brian May lists Edward as one of his top influences, and you KNOW that Edward built the Frankenstrat because Brian May built the Red Special. By the way, Edward digs Angus Young, etc.

[GeorgVanHalen]

Eddie did introduce AC/DC to his son Wolfgang :)

[blitzstratx100]

Word!

[angelickmx]

drummer is jerry marotta

[amazedandamused]

Bitchin'! VH is a true guitar god, and JH is no slouch on keyboards, either. Yes!

[imboredchoosinglogin]

What's that ghost with a keyboard in the background? :)

[goldniner]

By Jove, They've still got it!

[leongaer]

The drummer is Rick Marotta.

[mvunit3]

HOLY !!! Van Halen, Jan Hammer and Tony Levin!!! my God! now who is the Drummer? -MAVIII (prOgulus. c o m)

[leongaer]

The drummer is Rick Marotta.

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

Volume control!

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

When and where was this? 80s?

The array of sonics halen gets out of a guitar

boggles me. That toggle switch thing in the beginning, what a sound. A true master.

[cvjucla3]

1988 to be exact. It was part of a tribute to Les Paul on Cinemax.

[johndouglasmurray]

The artist on Keys is JAN HAMMER (who played with Jeff Beck, guitar, numerous times)> Can't say I wasn't a little disappointed that Beck & Van Halen weren't jamming on this... That would have been WILD!!!!

[ArekElo]

whats the name of that solo thats end at 1:30?

[blsnewreligion]

hot for teacher ; )

[cvjucla3]

The solo that ends at 1:30 is called "Cathedral" off Van Halen's "Diver Down."

[Back2TFuture]

Hansen woz ere

[Aleciano]

Massa

[megadave73]

god damn that kicks ass! all these guys are top notch...all we need is Dimebag up there going nuts with them!

[kpl1228]

Gotta be from some NAMM show

[tekniko54]

How come these dudes are playing together?

Van Halen/Jan Hammer/Tony Levin...

what years is this?what show is this?

this is weird..must be still in the 80's..the y sort of did weird things in thoes days...

[JDSquire]

It's from an HBO special around '88 ... was a birthday bash for Les Paul ... AWESOME show.

[gbtayc]

in the intro part it sounds like an appegiator

Is he playing all the notes?

[thunderinblack]

yes its a delay pedal and volume swells by the volume knob

[janhammerrules]

JAN HAMMER is just too cool. Wish more of his keyboard instrumentals were on cd. I have everything commercially available. His music for the MIAMI VICE tv series was incredible!

JAN HAMMER certainly is underrated.

[limaq]

TRUE!

[brassabacus57]

I agree. Here are some other recordings featuring Jan Hammer: Elvin Jones(John Coltrane's drummer)"On the Mountain" ,Al DiMeola "Elegant Gypsy", John Abercrombie "Timeless", Mahavishnu Orch. "The Lost Trident Sessions",Billy Cobham "Spectrum".The Jan Hammer Group "Oh Yeah?", Jan Hammer "The First Seven Days". There are a few. Oh Yeah? Did you also know he plays drums and once toured with Sarah Vaughan?

[OBJuan666]

Was that Michael Barryman on bass?

[sakowihe75]

Tony Levin

[remoman]

Tony Levin.. man.. just... TONY LEVIN!!

[chevpowr]

umm jan hammer fucking rocks...van is o

[frenchy5150]

what,ed van halen is 0.are you high or something.eddie's an institution wolrd wide full stop

[chevpowr]

i think i meant to say van is ok... jan is a better musician hands down

[GeorgVanHalen]

Eddie Van Halen is a GOD!

[tedperkins]

IMO, I don't think this is really one of Eddie's best. Up until about 1:30, he was basically doing a thing that Steve Morse does much much better. After that, it gets better, but still not that great compared to some other stuff I've seen him do.

[kawtoom]

Thanks for posting the real video, I'm sick of seeing the "shreds" everywhere.

[frenchy5150]

holy shit...i can watch it over and over again,eddie's the king.sorry satch and vai,you can try as much as you want but ed is so cool.bye...

[oldphoque]

These guys need to be in the same breath. You can`t put one over the other. Sucess, Eddie kills them all. Better at this point is just a preferance. You can`t disqualify all the bluesmen that laid tracks for these guys. I`m pretty sure Walter Trout could pull off eddies riffs and viseversa. But yeah, Eddie is a guitar God! Probably all around the best.

[tuffdoug]

hammer has played with Neal Schon and John Mclaughlin just to name a few...Eddie is good but he is not up with those two guys!!

[zepfan1000]

Eddie kicks there asses

[Raymasaki]

when was this filmed?

[flammaster]

I like the EVH shreds version of this video!

LOL

[forkhead]

I'm sure Eddie was thinking how honored he was to be jamming with Tony Levin and Jan Hammer. Eddie's no slouch, but holy moly... Levin and Hammer are demigods.

[higman12]

This was off a tribute show for Les Paul on HBO. I used to have this recorded. Thanks for putting it on, mcpharter. You see Les get up at the end. I can still remember Les saying something like this next kid has taken what I invented and brought it to a new level. Classic footage.

[fenderpeavey]

that intro is friggin sweet!!!!!

[CFKMAN]

This is a cool jam by all these virtuosos.....

[whitkey]

"Wolfgangs a better bass"?.....that's Tony Levin I believe playing in this vid. Your a jackass

[thedivinechemical]

Horrible mixing job. Typical 80's mixing: bury the synth parts, even though Jan Hammer is just as talented a keyboardist as EVH is a guitarist.

[mixmastermonte]

this is cool. I never saw eddie jam with anyone other than vh. He should do this more often. Why not share the wealth. Its cool to be alive at the same time as the greatest gtr. player that ever lived. Some won't get the chance 50 yrs. from now.

[stonescourt3]

eddie van hamster rules

[pizdohan]

tony levin on bass!

[kissrmy75]

Bob Kulick on bass!! LOL!!

[coffeeintheface]

That's Tony Levin.

[DoctorPatient]

and how!

playin' the bass the way it should be played: without a pick!

Levin's remarkable for all the different styles he fit right into seamlessly

thanks to the poster!

[rocketrob73]

Eddie blows these guy's away

[Soul74]

How?

[pbanders]

Eddie's lucky to be playing with such gods, and I have no doubt he knows that. He has a lot more respect for other musicians that his fans seem to.

[Anayo]

In the first 90 seconds he's playing Cathedral and after that Eddie is playing a fully instrumental version of Hot For Teacher

[Trev1138]

I tell you what.... this is why the arabs hate us!!!! What do they have that can match this? Holly molly.... I just figured it out. Wolfie is just a fill in. MA wants to see if Ed and Dave can get along... My money is on a new album and a full tour with MA after this fiasco...Ola

[Shamino1]

Wolfgang's a better bassist anyways

[Frisbieinstein]

It is a little known fact that Eddie's real name is Hassan Malik El Shabbaz. He also has three more wives parked in Brunai.

[DMCpro6944]

Are you crazy Eddy van Halen is Dutch all the way!!

[touringkayaker]

Wow, the Republican Party wants you for a job in this elective cycle. ;-)

[michael36105]

eddie should do a instrumental crossover album with jan hammer, pat metheny, or someone of like stature. remeber jeff beck's album blow by blow? deeply funky stuff there.

[ski271]

It's Tony Levin, Jan Hammer, and Bill Bruford

[MikeHF]

It is not Bruford,Portnoy or Ward. It is Jerry Marotta on drums. He plays in the Tony Levin band as well.

[tenchimouse]

Damn!!!! That's Tony Levin on bass! Super band here with Portnoy and Hammer. VH was lucky to get these guys to play with him.

[leadguitarteddy]

Eddie Van Halen One of the Guitar Gods of All Time

[dieselyeti]

That was from the Cinemax special with Les Paul many moons ago. I taped it on VHS... Geez I'm getting old...

[luckyvet]

lol, love it. Eddie outclasses these guys 10 to 1.

[d3w4yn3]

rather interesting. Edward plays fairly lightly here, but is still yet so entertaining. much more enjoyable to me than even some of the current world's fastest thrashers, because they have to work just too hard for me to enjoy it. Eddie..... where are you man? we're waiting for you to come back and pick up your crown!

[HarmonicMinorJ]

hahahaha levin

[bowiemott]

Actually satch boogie sounds like hot for Teacher which predated SB. Even Joe openly acknowledged HFT as an influence for "Satch Boogie".

[ATOMICBIGFOOT156]

this sounds like satch boogie

[ThexScreamingxHead]

hahahaha. look at tony levin.

[TampaRed]

That backup band is not very good. That performance could have done a lot better without that keyboard. Egads.

Ed was awesome though, as usual for that era.

[Soul74]

That backup band is not very good.

Never has there ever been a more false statement.

[TampaRed]

Nope, they sucked all right. Ed was spot on though.

[Soul74]

That's Jan Hammer from the Mahavishnu Orchestra and TOny Levin from King Crimson. They have played some of the hardest music in the world. Seems EVH is more open minded about music than you.

[TampaRed]

*shrugs shoulders, continues not to care what a stranger on the internet thinks

[Soul74]

Burn.

[touringkayaker]

Huh? Kids, comments like these demonstrate the dangers of drug abuse ;-)

[scottbos68]

jan hammer was one of the best guitarists ever lol

[oakley1234567]

i like ou

[munzoman]

i don't know who that drummer is, but he sucks hairy balls, check out how he tries and fails in the beginning, he's way way off

[scutfargas]

Van Hammer - COOL. That Les Paul tribute show was incredible!!

[LuxAlchemist]

its not sloppy, it's just weird, hes actually meant to play all those notes, they sound fucking weird sometimes, but thats not sloppy at all, that's why it's so hard to like eddie van halen, his sound is kinda raw. This video was awesome!

[careypeak23]

Eddie calls it falling down the stairs. Him and Alex would fall down the stairs and land on the 1. Imitators cant mimik the human emotion eddie puts in. pefrect balance of emotion and technique. the original!!!

[peacedog76]

OMG! This is awesome!

[miracledrug5150]

EDDIE!!! EDDIE!!!!EDDIE!!!!!

[jberry106]

eds playing is mad sloppy. people say hes too technical but its the opposite. this is a classic vid.

[leadguitarteddy]

eddie van halen rocks.... this is a great performance.... its kinda sad that legends like him get old and later die

[drkam6]

Superband - Hammer, Van Halen, and Tony Levin on bass - who was the drummer?

[Wisec4g]

gotta luv that 'Cathedral' riff

[wanker6957]

its a shame EVH didnt do more stuff like this. i think it would have made him stretch a little further out of his comfort zone.

god, remember the late 70s and early 80s when eddie was coming up with some new concept or angle on every album?

[sickphil71]

cciemail, I take it you have nothing better to do than to try to spread lies? Eddie did not star in a gay porno; he went out with a former porn actress and did a soundtrack for a porn video. You can't have HIV removed from anything, dumbass; he had tongue cancer, which was apparently removed. You are such a douchebag. Admit it--you have a crush on him and you're jealous that he's not with you, right?

[theratfarmer]

thats interesting? you talked to eddie?

[jonsilence]

Funny to see this...before VH were signed Eddie I were talking about the song "Quadrant 4" by B. Cobham, which I remarked had one of my favorite all time guitar solos from Tommy Bolin. Eddie said "Yeah but all the coolest shit ain't even Bolin...it's Jan Hammer playing synth!" Then, some 8 years later VH ripped the intro from Quadrant to use on Hot For Teacher. In this, Eddie and Jan get to revisit an old favorite....

[chevpowr]

fuck halen...CHECK OUT THAT KEYTAR!!!! jk...but jan hammer is ridiculous too

[wurlybird9]

jan hammer is a great player, but those silly casio strapons make anyone sound ridiculous....no tone. listen to hammer with mahavishnu and then say "ridiculous"

[chevpowr]

ummm that IS why he is ridiculous...I am a HUGE mahavishnu fan.... and he still rocked the shit out of keytar more than anyone else i have ever seen.

[wurlybird9]

k, just checkin, some people just know Miami Vice and stuff like that

[jppineau]

Casio ? FIRTS, it i s called a Controller... and guess what ? It was hooked on a MINIMOOG ! No controllers will emit any sound : they will only be "controlling" other remote synths.

[wurlybird9]

dude, I know this; I grew up on MIDI. It doesn't sound like a Mini to me, sounds kinda thin....but if you say so....

[vanhalener]

Eddie Is The King

[blitzmaster]

this is one is nice to say the least! fresh look! evh will be evh no matter what happen! still the best of all time!

[Bigmk2002]

Check out my guitar Solos....Jump, Hot for teacher....

Eddie is the King

[exchangemode]

Eddie at his best.... He could play with anyone. It is bullshit when he says he has no social skills!