Van Halen-La Grange(Live Recording)

[MrTjmaxx5150]

Great song, great pix, great post-nice work!!!

[SuperJoshwilson]

I have always thought this song was the inspiration for "Hot for Teacher". Anyone else?

[vanhalenDLRera]

this is fuckin awesome

[Theo80126]

HO-LEE SHIT! Absolutely Nasty and Sizzling! Epic posting, Thank You. When was this from? Gawd Damn this is Smoking Hot. Replaces the live Beer Drinkers as my favorite VH cover. Fender51503, Thank you for posting this Gem.

[tdogthepainkiller]

Have Mercy!

[eddiehalenvan]

keep finding more and more awesome covers by van halen everyday

[steelpanther831]

Eddie is keeping up with the guitar but Dave caint hang with Billy Gibbons voice.... nobody can

[wcmi92]

HOLY SHIT... 

[coltm4c]

Oh yeay

[JohnAllanification]

yeah,fender brother. thanx for sharing. ps. no surprize what evh can do.

[rivermandan9]

THey covered Waiting for the Bus pretty good. This cover is lousy

[veeaitch]

gotta love eddie's old jump suits, great post

[RonBurg92]

This song probably influenced Bottoms Up in some way, no?

[PowerMetalEuphonist]

@RonBurg92 They actually do sound kind of like each other. I never thought of it that way before, though.

[fuckutube12344]

where the hell does he get that sound not the distorted shit but the clean stuff in the beging

[LawFirmJBC]

@fuckutube12344 roll the volume knob down on your guitar

[fuckutube12344]

@LawFirmJBC actuly right after i posted that i jamed for a little wile doin my own shit and found the the one after the brige pickup works not realy shor what its calld but i like it

[adlakhz]

thanks, a classic, the best group ever

[DillonBerkley]

There is a chord progression at 0:46...does anyone know what the chords are by chance?

[H057IL3]

Two of the greatest bands ever, period.

[scottrap]

Fucking awesome VH cover!

[supatones]

could win a war with Eddie's sound here

[supatones]

All Hail the Fender51503!!!

[shearn666]

what a brutal guitar sound

[19VanHalen84]

Dave could've learned the lyrics before doing this cover. But whatever. Awesome upload, Van Halen are the BEST!!!

[astrox13]

They did ZZ Top proud.

[DarthKazi]

His tone is unbelievable!

[stolenpantsproductio]

good days in '76

[144wychwood]

Great cover of a great song!

[gadlo49]

Simply F'n Incredible. . .My life is now complete. . .thank you

[pwpstudio]

what amazes me is eddie bout had his whole style figured out even back then

[lefty99riffs]

yo show stopper cool bro where did you read that or see that I have been telling people for years like decades about the ZZ Gibbons and Van Halen connection and most tell me evh sounds nothing like gibbons...and that I'm crazy....not knocking EVH at all bro the guys my top all time..pretty much and I have seen alot of eddie stuff where he mentions clapton and page mostly

[DarthKazi]

@lefty99riffs Those were early influences. But he and Alex had somewhere near 300+ cover songs they'd worked out, so "influences" were abounds. He's also cited Brian May, Billy G, Jeff Beck (the first guy to do dive bombs with a tremolo), Allan Holdsworth and others. He, like most people, absorb influence from every song you learn.  That, and coupled with his classical training, is why his rhythm playing and song composing is to diverse and complex.

[lefty99riffs]

@DarthKazi cool like the info on EVH and the fact the info was put on here to be informative as recently I stopped making comments cause I was bombed by people who want to argue....or tell me I don't know what I am talking about etc...etc....also when your talking dive bombs and crazy trem work don't forget about the obvious guy Hendrix Peace out Darth.....

[DarthKazi]

@lefty99riffs Yeah Hendrix did a ton of tremolo things, but I don't remember hearing the "open-string dive bomb in the middle of some noodling" thing that Beck did in the early 70's. But whatever.

Van Halen had a 300+ song repertoire, so Ed's "influences" were much wider than he usually admits.

[theShowStopper321]

@DarthKazi So Jeff Beck did the open G-string dive in the early 70s like Edward?

[theShowStopper321]

@lefty99riffs Bottoms Up is almost arranged exactly the same as this tune, even the double bass drum fill Alex does is just like the one in La Grange. The verse riff is a little more intricate and the intro finger pluck part is a little different, but the same ideas and motives

[scottrap]

@theShowStopper321 Yep, that's totally Bottoms Up in the making....

[MusicMedic5150]

Eddie has that underlying "swing" in his playing that few guitarist have. The master.

[Sadiesexy]

@MusicMedic5150 He has one man above him and that is The Reverend. The man that taught Jimi Hendrix to play the guitar.

[br4ndxn3w]

@Sadiesexy please jump off the nearest bridge

[Sadiesexy]

@br4ndxn3w After you, my dear.

[lefty99riffs]

cool rocker MR. EVH got alot of influence and ideas from doing these zz top covers...this one he got hot for teacher, bottoms up, and alot of his solo phrasing and delivery over the years from the big bread wearing, big riffin' rockin' hot rod driving Billy Gibbons the forgotten rock and roll guitar hero....go check out Heard it on the X from zz top then check out Mean street.....by the way this ending is the same ending as bottoms up on VH 2.....

[theShowStopper321]

@lefty99riffs Ed said himself that a lot of the times he'd play a ZZ Top riff and they would write off that

[zer0dahero]

Wow, on 5:42 you can see the frankenstrat on the table when it was b/w.  You can still see the (fender) non-locking tremolo still on it but the interesting thing is that the neck is totally out of alignment to the body, its way off and the nut seems to stand a little too far. He must have been battling a lot of fret fuzz on it. I bet the action was very high on it. Its amazing to see old pics like this and see the process behind the music.

[zer0dahero]

Wow, on 5:42 you can see the frankenstrat on the table when it was b/w. You can still see the (fender) non-locking tremolo still on it but the interesting thing is that the neck is totally out of alignment to the body, its way off and the nut seems to stand a little too far. He must have been battling a lot of fret fuzz on it. I bet the action was very high on it. Its amazing to see old pics like this and see the process behind the music.

[contabilidad03]

Bottoms up!!!! from VAN HALEN II album sounds like this song.

[Guitfiddlejase]

Hard to argue with that!

[colleencharlie]

@contabilidad03 not even close

[BigTroubles]

I THOUGHT i RECOGNISED IT.

[Zepster77]

From 2:11 until 2:32, Eddie is playing the same end-of-solo-jam as Mark Farner did in the Grand Funk hit "Footstompin' Music". Cool !!!

[REDSOXNYG]

awesome, is this from the first tour?

[lisannhodges67]

Thanks so much for posting!!!

Rockin!

[fender51503]

ya, no problem dude!

[cole0311]

badass

[rick0000122]

AWESOME!!thank you:)

[blasty5150]

This must be from 75-76 ish!!! Holy shit!!

[Phil5150rocker]

Where do you find these rare recordings of VH? Very sweet!

[dudewinky]

which boot is this from??

[ChRiZzYaNdKaY]

wow really cool!!!!!

aweeesoome pixx!!!!!! ;)

[fender51503]

I know!! Thanks!

[zackvanhalen]

Cool post.

[guns1rose]

sweet! i bet thats a rare recording! ps. send me the cat meow thing. (he knows what i is talking about...)

[fender51503]

Yea,no problem! Thanks!

[GuitarCrazyManiac]

Sweet dude! I love how you put on things like this on YouTube!

P.S. I know everyone says this, but.....

FIRST COMMENT! :-)