Hey Eddie,Listen To This!

[JBL8863]

Amazing guitar player...thanks to Ed!

[stevepvaughan]

Where were they playing? An AARP convention???

[flyhi94]

Is that a CAA that he is using?

[Sean2592]

Only thing that you were missing was the zebra jumpsuit. Otherwise i would be calling you Edward Van Halen

[XxANDY2047Xx]

This is what EVH gear can do for you

[fredobonasas]

Yummy !

[1977BanditTransAM]

6:10 is that DAVID!!??? 6:12 Hell no!!

[1977BanditTransAM]

I like the way he has a picture of himself on hs shirt!

[DickLodge68]

Where was the crowd? This seemed like a party for some guy in his basement and they wanted to hear Frank Sinatra! For the guitar snobs, don't think this guy is some Van Halen tab freak....I'm sure he can play just about anything! Lots of work and sooo many hours of practice - and I don't know this guy from Adam! Great covers...if you don't like it tell me why or go back to playing Guitar Hero. This guy is good, like so many are.

[Mothor1995]

@Lucicsux Well it sound a lot like him.

[Mothor1995]

Omg, that seriously sound like Eddie himself!

[Lucicsux]

@Mothor1995 youre kidding...right?

[takeuchitb007]

this guy is fukn good!

[Eliteguitarschool]

Thanks!

[tneatrour]

NICE! Love the early era guitar too.



[GibsonGuitarsForLife]

too good.

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[shreddinjoe]

hell yea...Ed would be proud

[speedmaxr1]

Frank "my way" would be better recieved!!

[kozykoop6969]

Gotta love the drummer's head at 0:53'ish... lol

[pucka1]

is it a nursing home looks like it good jod keep it up

[njw46]

Absolutely flawless.

[TheCODmasterCHRIS]

This sounds exactly like Eddie. If I closed my eyes and heard this I would swear that this was Eddie!!!!

[derekRTK]

i think its the dude who shot cirus in the warriors movie .

[OGchizzase]

It must be a real bummer playing all that so fucking FLAWLESSLY and getting almost no crowd response. This guy plays Ed's stuff better than Ed himself nowadays.

[Ericclapton325]

good but atomic punks are better

[opensore80]

what a waste of talent in an eddie costume

[RNRDOLL]

I just realized they're playing at Tone Merchants...they sell high end amps n shit. Those are the dudes you see with those sick ass Bogner videos

[RNRDOLL]

Hey..its Joey Belladonna of Anthrax on guitar!

[longwhip]

We all inspired to be Eddie on a guitarist level, then we saw the demise of his marriage to Valerie, and his decision to oust the best bass player ever to support him, Michael Anthony, in favor for his son, who could not fart a musical note if he was forced at gunpoint, to the battles with David Lee Roth and frankly, I haven't played Eruption because it has been done...over, and over and over and over and over and OVER....Will the next_____please stand up and play something ORIGINAL???

[KILLERDYNOCRUISERS]

@longwhip You need to listen to Al Estradas own catalogue.... you will like his solo stuff. This guy RIPS and can play all the way around the best of 'em.  He does his thing very well and will make your ear stand-up and pay attention.

[Micker97]

The guy is great for sure but the audience cracks me up. Im waiting to hear crickets at the end.

[attributionerr]

nursing home...lol love it, guitarist is sick

[muddypuddlerules]

this easly beats fan halen

[neverscared92]

31 people are jealous as fuck of this guy

[Burke68]

LOL @ the nursing home comment :) But yeah, he does stumble through the cathedral part huh. This guys picks it, Ed does not...maybe that's why it's a bit messy?

[1Wanu1]

Cathedral too slow.

[bettset]

great stuff...does this guy have any original stuff like evh, or is he just a cover player

[BradSpead7]

@bettset search 'Al Estrada' on youtube, he's got some stuff up.

[VanHalenWorshiper]

amazing!

[dansan54321]

look at the drummer at 47 secs, hes like, ya ur the shit buddy lol.

[DreamWarrior87]

This is awesome, you could do something for today's lame metal scene. Thanks for sending man, keep it up \m/

[lolahavasuaz]

dude shreads 4-sho ....

love the highest rated comment here lol

nursing home setting ?

[guitardjoe]

bravo .

[Itachi31]

At 1:14 he's wearing a shirt of himself lol. Nice playing though.

[Variax1100]

Eddy would be so proud!!!!.....another style leach....lol

[EddieMan2222]

This is Fan Halen Cover band isnt it ?????

[evh7775150]

Theres only 1 EVH! But this was cool. You can tell he really practiced his ass off. Not quite edwards relaxed feel and tone. But still thumbs up! If you had the coveted brown sound out of a nice crunchy fat sounding old Marshall, that would make you that much better. ==== I don't know how you can stand that flat ass neck BTW! lol I like the round old baseball strat bat. Flat makes me play sterile. But to each there own. Still better than most I have seen.

[Vandekamps01]

Pace is good.. Pitch is off most of the time.. You end pretty strong.

You've worked hard and it shows. I'll give you a 7 on tech, 6 on pitch, 7 on musicality, 7 on continuity and style, 8.5 overall you can hang with the best of them sir.

[theShowStopper321]

All that time mimicking something thats a complete copy when he could have spent time on his own thing. Non knocking the guy, he's got amazing chops.

[wisertym]

I messed up and read the nursing home comment and couldn't stop laughing the entire vid. Great playing but really, where are they?? lol

[frankenstrat25]

man this guy cud jam with eddie and give eddie a run for his money it wud be so cool to see a vid of him jammin with ed

[TachoSJ]

that was pure awesomeness!!

[BlackBrick77]

weedley weedley weeedley... snor.

[Fuelsterister]

this it the best ive seen in a long time!!

[PJHAIGHT]

Bet you it took a long time for him to perfect that tone.

[ramsay42]

Wow...this guy's a fu&*(n Rock star!

[PJHAIGHT]

Love his tone.

[naguitarhero]

@PJHAIGHT This guy has is spot on. I can't even believe what I'm hearing

[stevoinator3122]

anyone can play eruption with a little practice. even i can . this punk ass didnt make this solo so wats so great about it

[dmohr7]

@stevoinator3122 i agree a bit but this guys pretty good im around as good as eddie himself i know well a decent amount of his tecniques but anyways u need alot of practice for eruption i learnt that myself lol

[crinkpopinac1]

Very awsome, and a little sad too.

[jordytuipable]

F*KKING INSANE

[travislpuff]

These guys are too good to be doing gigs at nursing homes! haha

[yougotmikelopez]

Best Eddie clone Ive seen on YT... Licks and the tone are money minus the tapping in Eruption missed a few stretch segments but apparently no one on YT can play that part for some reason... baffles me

[thekidwithastrat15]

@yougotmikelopez you should check out my video. i got the tapping part right =]

[guitarmaster573]

best Van Halen impression ive herd!

[5150RDH]

Hands down, the absolute best take on Eddie's playing & classic tone that I've seen on Youtube so far. You rock man!!!

[guitarmaster573]

@5150RDH your right dude

[nutterkid345]

fukin amazin!!

[rockgtrman]

Wow Dude you fucking Kick serious ass

[archenemylover1]

incredible...

[dakingdml]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!

[vandermaas76]

Very impressive !!!!

[KranksterOnMaui]

Where did you get that shirt? I want one....

[ten8goa]

...my statement. SATCHBOOGY has an extensive VH library and he's consistently unreal. You are the first guy ive heard that lays it down like he does. You guys should hook up and do a split screen jam. That would be cool. He's done it in a few vids. You 2 could trade licks of devastation

[ten8goa]

I dont mean any disrespect by my SATCH endorsement, In your case i may have tp retract

[ten8goa]

Dude, your tone is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING, PERFECY , MIND BLOWING ETC.

[ten8goa]

Nicely done. Best VH impersonator, in my opinion, is a dude named SATCHBOOGY. As i wrote this, this dude got more and more impressive every second. Killer. Cehck out SATCH.

[rm125511]

fuckin sweet

[BugLegss]

The part I love is the gray haired man watching in front of him, I wonder whats going thru his mind at that moment?

[roccotanto]

nice SUHR you got there! and very awesome playing!

[DarthSimian]

It's Eddie's stunt double circa 1982.

[NawlinzCajun]

To bad we already have the REAL Eddie Van Halen!

[Huskymotard88]

I think the best Van Halen cover i've ever seen...... Astonishing

Best wishes to you!!!

[cgnusx1]

One word: This guy is fuckin good and he is havin a boat load of fun. Awesome tone and nice axe! Kudos.

[thedog98mauser]

i dont care what yall say hes fucking rocks

[VanHalenWorshiper]

wow this has alot of evh live solo elements in it from things eddie has played over the years this is true skill

[ronin2167]

You're scaring the old people....:O) Rock out man!!!

[masten12344]

your freickin beast!!!!!!

[spmandmtgr]

mem he started to suck at 3.24 but besides that he sounded ok I herd better 3 stars

[BrianMorrison71]

LOL

[daverunner]

I see alot of haters but no video responses. Do it better and post it or stop hating!

[mjbernardi78]

You have to give the guy credit for the dedication to his craft, the hours and years it took to learn to play like this is

[vakeromty]

in some parts is like a bad soprano breaking glasses...thumbs down!!!!!!

[REDSOXNYG]

This guy plays as good as Eddie did in his prime, the only thing is, is that Eddie made all this up. Awesome playiing, I wish I was at this show this is great!!!!!!!

[alcondragon]

All jokes aside, this guy had Eddie down pat. This goes to show at a time 30 years ago how incredible Van Halen was to create guitar music like this, everyone and I mean everyone dropped to go see him play because there was No one like him. This guy is a Fantastic Musician, but shows How Incredible an Artist Van Halen had to be to Create such things. Za7 is right, It takes an Artist to create, and a musician to copy, but give this guy his due, he is awsome!

[drupa99]

Isn't that Reggie Peterson's basement?! You guys really did a good job with the props and lighting!

[TheGuitar7man]

I'm sure this cat can play anything he wants.He's doing a tribute band.Any of you doing one?DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO PULL IT OFF?

yes,do your own damn thing,but if your doing a tribute band,do the best friggin' carbon copy you can!looks,licks everything.the money's out there if you dare.I think EDWARD would give him an A+ for this tribute!ROCK ON!

[drunkattheparty]

good video, your skill is great... however, the look man, come on, it was a little over the top in the wrong direction. otherwise, wonderful mucisianship, great playing!!!

[Eliteguitarschool]

Are they at a nursing home?

[piecrust8]

It looks like it.

[thekidwithastrat15]

@Eliteguitarschool that resulted in a snot rocket...

[evh7775150]

@Eliteguitarschool lmfao!

[scottrap]

@Eliteguitarschool lol...nursing home... They are at Tone Merchants in Orange County which is an amazing amp/guitar shop that the general public doesnt really know about...

[REDSOXNYG]

nasty!

[lapinman]

Hours of practice, great playing, extremely impressive...still only Eddie is Eddie...and the looks and attitude spoils everything. I guess your grand pa in the front row was very proud even though he shure didn't understand a thing...

[MINISLASH0]

ha ha tell them.

[Za7a7aZ]

With all respect, this guy got his EVH down but the difference between a good guitarist and a great one is the one that comes up with the shit.

[666patrickbateman666]

Amen to that!

[Za7a7aZ]

Does the hair come with the guitar?

[hogluvr1]

Very impressive.

[b4rf3r]

THis guy is the shit. His vibrato at 0:20 something rocked. But it feels stupid that the band just stands there end looks at him. They can get off the stage and let the guy rip solo

[barkleyspider]

Congrats...... You've copied something original

[drServitus]

He took an original frame work and painted a new picture with Eddie's paint.

STILL KICKS ASS

[drServitus]

That was wicked cool.

[RayPluton]

Dude's freakin' SICK...! FAVED! Thanks for posting!

[rockerryan18]

this guys good..but some of u dipshits r sayin evh copied stuff from ppl...let ME SAY THIS IF U R NOT A FAN OF EVH DOT SAY STUFF!!!EVH WAS THE ONE TO START MOST OF THESE TEQUNIQUES...SURE HE COPIED A LITTLE BUT KICKED ROCKS ASS HARD..SO STFU....FOR THOSE OF U WHO DIDNT SAY STUFF LIKE THAT THANK YOU!!! some ppl are stupid. great vid tho

[Metalzilla2007]

hes probably the best eddie imitator ever

[brumerman]

EDDIE VAN HALEN IS THE KING

[jem888888]

all rock star have they are own technic just can't compare ,they all good to me , depend what kind the tast you like to play. like this guitarist he play very good ,compare the sound set up with eddie the distance like hole 9 yark : )

[iornmaiden666]

this guy is incredible his representation is immaculate not a single fault and those pieces require serious skill

[chromeboy579]

Looks like the poor folks are playing in a milk crate it's tiny !!

[BSlash24]

I have a 1977 bootleg and his solo sound identical. The tone is amazingly just like it.

[Labtec86]

this guy's tone is sick.

eddie was great back in the day for sure.

[blesseddisciple]

Long live Eddie Van Halen... pure musical and guitar genius...

Excellent rendition of some of EV's best stuff... I am impressed.

Peace.

[netiaz]

I don't know very much about the kinds of things people are leaving in the comments, but I found this mesmerizing while sober.

[Sean2592]

u guys think eddie is good go and watch michael angelo batio ha ha ya go to the one called rain forest

[gibsonguy86]

wannabees.....

[revchild]

dude i'm the one is totally a great song but it is taken from ZZ's deguelo just faster...not saying eddie is a rip off just that his riffy style is very similar to ZZ. Bottoms up is totally ZZ top...the influence is there..eddie's soloing tech was like nothing heard before but believe me the riffy style was..they just added the kill attitude that made it timeless and influencial still today..they are one of my fav bands I was just throwin out an opinion..hell I own two eddie guitars W/B and Y/B

[revchild]

sound is dead on..technique is dead on..funny people say eddie hates copy cats well listen to the first rec and tell me he didn't copy ZZtop licks for songs and he said himself he used to try to copy clapton as an early player kinda wierd when ya think about it. hes not tryin to show eddie up hes showing how much he influenced his playing so he wants to emulate him to a tee out of respect for the player..

[ray8888888888]

dude trust me in interveiws he says he hate guys that copy. and his biggest influence was clapton, but the only song i can think of that is even close to clapton is when its love solo. and btw i would disagree about eddie sounding like zz top the 1st album by VH sounded nothing like anything ever played .. example listen to I'm The One

[chillichomper]

Any guitarist that says he doesn't copy if full of shit. Thats how you learn and how you are inspired. EVH also copied shenker riffs too.

[krootman12]

tone sounds pretty similar

[chillichomper]

I think his tone is dead on.

[Cedrictheheadric]

plays faster than ed the notes sometimes the notes arent the same he doesnt stay true to the little guitars intro at all he plays the solo too technical you miss out on the rough warm playing that ed had there wasnt soul presented except for divebombs and squells at 2:04 mark which were unique and kicked ass the intro of spanish fly and the first shred part were beautiful he played it better than ed when he went into the tapping of the instrumental it was wrong, skipped a lot of the sequence

[juanleiden]

probably this guy has a better technique, but eddie invented this shit..that's all

i mean..it's like hendrix..maybe there's 2000000 guitar players out there..but hendrix was hendrix at that time..that's the fucking difference.

[JoyGrenade]

Featuring Harry Dean Stanton on drums!

[mrscary6669]

I have seen VH a few times and I have to say

Bravo.

you got the old school eddie down bro.

keep up the good work.

[stormchaserr]

playing at a senior home-- wow!

[ray8888888888]

if eddie saw this he would spit on the guy, cuz in interveiws he says he hates when ppl try and play like him and copy him, just saying he would more likely sack you then to give you a handshake

[deapwavelio]

Who cares, his job is to make songs. That´s it...

[Cedrictheheadric]

i learned how to play every par of eruption correctly so i can compile all of it into a 15 or so version havent taped it yet still tryin to get a good tone out of my marshall im pretty sure if he finds out that i put it up on youtube in the future he'd get pissed off

[giggy5150]

there can certainly be no denying this player has studied EVH and replicated his playing like a star pupil. 9.5/10

Everything I can hear that is lacking... is made up for in almost every other way possible as far as covers go.

Release more please... surely there is

[JacqueShredo]

Simply amazing

Great playing

[vanhalen2626]

no way would this guy be better than eddie :P. He certainly has a technique. but its not as clear cut as eds is. not even close. good job though man!

[JamesWaton]

Man he knows how to throw all that tone out.

[vanhalenman3434]

anyone see the vid of dweezel zappa playing eruption? way better than this guy's version, so i dont think anyone who said that this guy is better than eddie is really credible.

[ninjarockerinc]

this guy might be better than the real eddie

[SkippyJJ20]

I love grandma and grandpa in the front row getting their heads shredded off, awesome vid.

[csblack33]

thats actually awesome

[gibsongold1970]

first of all,eddie is a genius.this is arendition in the style that eddie created.

then everybody tried to copy.eddie can

fan pick a hell of a lot faster.

[yellowraven8]

AL ESRADA IS WAY BETTER THAN EVH

[damien345]

at 3.32 anyone knows how to play it i searched the tab like crazy but everyone keeps showing on the same cheap 3 min version of the eruption solo:'(.

[Dustinmfd]

you mean the intro tapping riff to Spanish Fly which he does at 3:32?

[damien345]

yup

[Dustinmfd]

just google the spanish fly tab

[damien345]

thanks

[rocknrollman1234]

AWESOME!!! Is that a Diezel that you're plugged in to?

[Sander2927]

No, it's a glockenspiel.... Of course

[fender51503]

Wow! He even played riffs from the 1976 version of eruption,this guy is amazing!

[TheRockNRollFan]

utterly stupengous.

[samborac46]

Great sound, man!!!!!!

[Oliverto1]

wow nice copy man :-)

[coulsonsam87]

fantastic!

[justin0185]

wow... eddie would be really impressed. great job you sound just like him man. he would be like "really?"

[sumtruth]

I can honestly say this solo is what the young ones call "rockin" or "Blazin"

[decapitatespammers]

I have to add that the video and audio fidelity of this recording are utterly superb.

[billyfan8305]

why does everybody CONTINUE to keep playing this outdated guitar solo?? thousands of decent players can play this just as good..........no, better.....stop it..

[decapitatespammers]

billyfan8305, you are clueless. I have actually listened and watched thousands of hours of music in my life - and the performance above is utterly flawless, one of the best I've seen or heard. If Eddie reads this (like the title asks ;) ) and replies, I'm confident he'll concur.

And I don't even LIKE Van Halen. At all. My [rock] heroes are Santana, Jeff Beck, Hendrix, Allman, Buchanan, Moore, Timmons and others. But I have to speak honestly - this performance is one of the best you'll find.

[webvidseek]

it doesnt matter if how old it is dumbshit! this is a classic that will never get old! eddie's solos are go above and beyond what others can play and the sound is perfection and beautiful! it doesnt matter if you can play faster or better or louder. its how it sounds and eddie gets perfect sound EVERY TIME!

[MadisonMaine]

ok what kind of pick-up is in that ax? and what are u plugged into? You have the tone and the skill.

[conjering]

Get a real audience, and make your own riffs. Was that bingo night.

[stonerman000]

only for play very faster you aren´t the best guitarrist

[TheSnerdNergler]

Seriously what a fucking shitty audience, the only thing i can say in their defence is maybe they're so blown away by the steamy Al Estrada they are speeechlless. So dominant, i can't emphisize enough how much you really caught the sound and feel of mighty edward, I'm speechless myself. GREAT JOB!

[wheeldeal]

Just on raw talent... MAD RESPECT !!!!

[fender51503]

That was so damn amazing!!! What a shitty audience,u deserve better!

[alexl1001]

This is REALLY good! The only difference between this guy and EVH is that one of them is selling out stadiums, making multi-platinum albums, getting his own line of guitars (that others copy), getting all the babes he wants...... and the other guy (in this video) is playing Eddie's licks at local Bar MItzvas at a whopping $60 a pop.

He's still a good guitar player, though.

[EZrhythm]

MOSTEST amazing personal touches I have EVER heard!