Eddie Van Halen Solo 1977 - Live at the Whisky

Van Halen: New Years Eve, December 31, 1977
Just After the first album had been recorded but not yet released. Hard to believe it's been 30 years! What a great show this must have been. Enjoy! Track 11 of 13

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[orange70383]

@747RocksJax In the late 60's and early 70's Ritchie Blackmore was shredding with incredible speed, tone and just plain awesome.

[dhjet2000]

I love how you can hear the echoplex and the same EXACT tone from the album coming thruogh that marshall tube head with the variac makin the brown sound. the thing I love about this solo is the very end, the trail off. You can literally hear how hot the amp is running. It is amazing how a 20 year old KID can redefine the electric guitar and how it has been played. That silly litttle paper route cahnged music.

[malmhalen]

great version of eruption!

[CatchinProjection]

@closetdarts so whats the story told here?

[closetdarts]

@IntoVariety247 shred slowed down is like speeding up blues - altered original intent, therefore nonsensical result.

[IntoVariety247]

@VioletDeliriums when I hear endless tapping and scales played I can't help but think of farting in water, which is what it sounds like to me rather quickly. When I played guitar, improvising, I'd use it to make noises until I figured out what else to do. Shred slowed down to single notes is oft so completely mundane and without a story to tell. Eruption was dangerous, new and fun, but found its way into Jump, allegedly glued together by someone in the studio.

[VioletDeliriums]

@faktastic But the reason why he sounds like he does is because of his picking -- or non-picking in the tapping techniques. Where Yngwie gives a sense of complete control through the clean articulation of sweep picking, Eddie gives a sense of being in a dangerous situation, because his articulations are slurred and there are noises and mistakes and wild whammy bar bends everywhere. Yngwie is rationale. Eddie is wild. Yngwie was serious. Van Halen was about fun.

[VioletDeliriums]

@EVHHurdleRunner The problem EVH solved was not just tapping. Listen to the people that followed him with the tapping and you will understand that tapping alone is not necessarily musical. What Eddie did was find a way to use tapping and other techniques and sounds to create a sense that he was a daredevil and a wildman with awesome powers. A big part of that was refusing to clean up the mistakes, just like Page didn't. Who cares about tapping? What people want is music that moves them somehow.

[VioletDeliriums]

@CatchinProjection Hmm. While you might argue that Eddie inspired what became gimmicks in the hands of many players who umped on the bandwagon, I have to differ with you. "Downstrokes only" picking comes from some America hardcore punk bands of the late 70s and 80s. There it isnt just a gimmick but a means of producing a heavy chunky sound, as compared to the thinner sounding upstroke. Any metal band that used downstrokes only probably learned it by fusing British heavy metal sounds w/ hardcore.