The Story Of Van Halen: The Early Days Part 6

[MrVHWolf]

"They sucked once they got Sammy. After that, they sucked bad" - I love that part!

[9funn]

tremendous bio! thank you for sharing

[zeizee]

Eddie aint no underrated. He was best hardrock quitarist of 80's. And he's in top 3 of best quitarist of all time, perhaps number 1... Technically he is best. This is MY top 3 quitarist list: 1st eddie van halen, 2nd angus young, 3rd ace frehley. And i would preciate that no one would start bitchin about that list and who should be number 1 or 2. Eddie and angus are best, i know that some people would place 10 guitarist before ace, but he is my idol and th reason i started play quitar. And he a

[bgandjsco1]

In my oppinion eddie is under rated,he came after clapton beck,paige hendrix,he was influenced by them and then some how managed to sound totaly origional .They asked les paul back in 1977 what he thought of the current crop of players,and he said that although they were good nobody really stoodout.That all changed 3 months later. Frank zappa said that he reinvented the guitar,which was right He literally advanced the sound of the instrument 10 years overnight.

[blica1]

Alex's flaming gong wasn't originally his idea..it was one of his heroes and probably his biggest influence, which was the master himself, John Bonham's..

[lovemaker1972]

I dont like the bodyguard i think this dude ate way too much steroids.like a shaped butthead with a mouth.i shoot him anytime

[co5bass5]

Very cool! Thanks for posting all of these!

[kolokidi]

1984 came out on dec 31 1983......

[roblarosa]

1984 was the first Van Halen show I'd ever seen. It blew me away and made me a fan forever. I damn near froze my ass off waiting to buy tickets too!

[Sirscorps]

Is Ed a meth-head?

[drinkspecials]

Great documentary! Its so cool hearing the stories from the roadies and seeing all the souvenirs they kept and all that. very neat.

[SuperGravityFilms]

cannot wipe the shit-eating-grin off my fucking face, watching this doc...

[bergalini]

What's with the Teen Wolf scene at 5:33?

[DeMarkieSade]

Eddie is a dick period! He fucking thinks he is God. all he did new and inovative with the guitar is the ftreboard finger tapping; name something else that he did dynamic that every other great guitar player before him did not do: Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Blackmore, Jeff Beck, The guiatr players from Skynerd; Allen Collins and Steve Gaines, Gary Rossignton, Metcalf, etc. Go ahead, name one thing!

[JakkoWilko]

@DeMarkieSade I've never heard him claim that he is as amazing as he clearly is.

People know that all these late 60's Blues Rock guitar players did a shitload of noises but Eddie does his own thing with it.

[HeavyMetalVagabond]

@DeMarkieSade he didnt exactly invent tapping either, i prefer george lynchs early tapping stuff

[ozzyhead73]

@DeMarkieSade name 1 thing? ill name 5 or 6, every guitar you see with the bridge pick up slanted diagonally? that was eddie, before him no guitars had that! oh and by the way he lost out on millions of dollars on that idea cause he never pateneted it! guitars with the pick up screwed straight into the body of the guitar? YEAH EDDIE DID THAT TO! before that all guitars had floating pick ups on springs! eddie was the 1st gitarist to really screw around with the volume knob to.......

[ozzyhead73]

@DeMarkieSade nobody ever used the volume knob to create sounds before him! eddie installed a fake pick up in the neck position cause he saw the big companies selling axes modeled after his guitar with just 1 pick up in the bridge position, so he put the fake one in and sure as shit the manafacturers started selling copies with the neck pick up even though IT DIDNT WORK!!! before eddie nobody used the whammy bar like him because before eddie you couldnt use the whammy without the guitar........

[ozzyhead73]

@DeMarkieSade going way the fuck out of tune, cause floyd rose wasnt around then, so eddie put stronger strings in the back and then ADDED an extra 1 so it would bounce back better! ad of course the finger tapping, yeah i know he didnt start it, blackmore did, but before eddie guys like blackmore would just tap a note here or there but eddie used it like he was playing a piano and even blackmore admits he was blown away, check out an interview with him in guitar magazine in 1988,...........

[ozzyhead73]

@DeMarkieSade he rewired his marshal head so he could add extra tubes so the amp was way more powerful and had longer sustain! hes the only guitarist ive ever heard of that had the SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM in washigton DC ask for his guitar to put in theyre museum cause they said that guitar has been deemed CULTURALLY AND HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT!! i dont see them asking BLACKMORE, CLAPTON, or any other guy for something like that!!! THATS JUST THE START, YOU GOT NO CLUE WHATYOR TALKING ABOUT!

[DylanEVH]

9:44 its Steve Vai!!!!!!!

[restlessr84]

5:25: Wow, Alex is a very humble man.

[metemi]

How come these documentaries never have any actual music from the bands? Too expensive?

[MeanStreet1981]

@metemi Too many lawsuits!

[theShowStopper321]

@metemi I don't think they had copyright permission. Ed is a dick about that stuff, and he would always decline VH1 requests, so thats why VH1 left them out of 7 stages of rock. Van Halen and Eddie's guitar molded the 80s, everyone copied him, and VH1 never mentioned Van Halen at all.

[mpjrdldn]

@metemi Yes, I would like to have heard more tunes, especially "You Really Got Me" since Ray Davies liked it, too.

[coltsuperocean10]

@mpjrdldn ..you fucking retard!! Ray Davis wrote this song!! How stupid are you?

[mphrdldn]

@coltsuperocean10 Ray Davies liked VH's rendition of his own tune. Please save your outrage for more important issues and appropriate targets.

[bosoxyaz8]

one word....epic.

[Andoni666]

my dream is so see van halen live with dave and michaelanthony,  sammy hagar suck dick.

[bosoxyaz8]

well said . preach the truth and they/we will follow !!

[mkgh3]

you noob sammy hagr was the best but not that im saying DLR sucked they were both equally good so SHUT UP! NOOB

[iamprov]

It would have been nice to get some copyrights to use VH songs... I notice that even VH1 doesn't get to use it sometimes.

[phrydoom]

"We are filming you tonight"...without film...LMFAO...good one DLR

[phrydoom]

5150 was intimidating to Roth...5150 was the code for the LAPD for the "criminally insane", that is my understanding. These guys have it wrong.

[contabilidad03]

LOL!!!. David Lee Roth was in Peru. I'm a peruvian fan, yeahhh. Well, Pinga is a brazilian drink. In Peru, Pinga = penis. Plop!!!. VAN HALEN RULES!!!

[phrydoom]

Rock on man.