How Many People Here Love Eddie F#@kin Van Halen?

Anyone seen these shred series ?
some pretty funny shit there .

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pdFJTbaFcZ0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA&feature=related

Holy crap I almost fell off the chair, that was the best I've seen in ages.

:razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

FWIW, As of 3 years ago, EVH hadn't bought a new album since Peter Gabriel So. Eddie's the shiz.

EVH vs Vai. a perfect example of one of my "philosophies":

there are musicians you want to play like, and there are musicians you want to listen to.

And there are people you want to be able to play like, but then exercise discretion and taste when the time comes.

It's interesting to witness the careers of musicians who start off lacking chops, get better, play to show off, mostly, and then get to the point where they realize they don't have to prove anything anymore.

A "gentleman guitarist" is someone who can play all of Steve Vai's solos...

...but doesn't.



Keith

[quote author="SSLtech"]A "gentleman guitarist" is someone who can play all of Steve Vai's solos...
...but doesn't.


Keith[/quote]

Haaaaahahaha! :green:

I love Eddie but not much after 1984. I was like 15 when EVH came out and it floored me, he was so uninhibited! I watched the video of him at NAMM this year and it was sad, he looked about sixty and was wrecked. Then after he got out of rehab he was on the cover of guitar world and he was *hot*, buff and really looking gooooood.

Some of my favorite shredders are really very or kinda unknown/underated... Fernando Miyata is my fave:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3vp8dTKWk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0MQmUyQrGa0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=El2DUntbavE

and his friend Kiko Loureiro (a major babe).

and I love Jake E. Lee, more than Randy Rhoads who I do like but Jake is such a cute badass:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nWAohdmCl4o

No whammy bar!

'acourse I also love Jimi and SRV but compare Jimi's Voodoo Child with SRV's http://youtube.com/watch?v=hlDP_easS9Q -- I mean Mitch and Billy Cox (thank God for Billy!) are just driving that train!

Love Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Knopfler, Neil Schon, Mike Bloomfield ( who showed me a bunch of stuff), all the Kings, Albert Collins, gah! Too many great guitar players to remember.

Kiira

http://vhnd.com/articles/08/0430-01.shtml

well I think he's back. fluidity, tone, I love it. "mean street" is off the chizzain!! the band sounds real tight. a few miss cues, but there is nice pocket and groove. classic VH for me!

I prefer Ritchie Blackmore. Why? Because he was a GREAT TEAM player, that included musicians and composers... I prefer to hear a symphony, instead of one drum in the orchestra... More: I like to hear an orchestra in a real nice reverberating environment, not just a loud fart reflected from walls...

[quote author="Wavebourn"]I prefer Ritchie Blackmore. Why? Because he was a GREAT TEAM player[/quote]

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Having engineered a couple of Deep Purple albums, I feel obliged to mention that I would never use that phrase to describe him!

Whenever Ritchie has been in the band, the atmosphere has ALWAYS been strained as a result of his ....em... "singular behaviour".

When Steve Morse joined after Ritchie left the band (mid-tour... actually mid-gig... just walked off the stage and told everybody to go f#%@ themselves... -How's THAT for being a team player!!!) the band were considering putting the next album out under the name "everything but the c*#t"! (the name was actually suggested.)

Here's a joke that Roger Glover shared with me a few weeks after Ritchie left the band:

The legal term for killing your mother is "Matricide".
The legal term for killing your father is "Patricide".
The legal term for killing your brother is "Fratricide".
The legal term for killing yourself is "Suicide".
...So what's the legal term for killing Ritchie Blackmore?

..."Countryside"!!!



"Ritchie Blackmore" and "team player" belong in the same sentence just about as much as "George Bush" and "Skilled International Diplomat"! :wink:

Keith

I don't speak of his attitude; I speak of how he sounded in the band I agree that his personal problem was, he wanted to lead the band to different direction, but he never played alone (at least from records I heard).
He never went calmly to play "Allah Akbar Super Star" alone, another guy did that... He argued with the band, because he was disagree with what they were doing. He was deeply emotionally with the band, with the music.

End results matter, not intentions.

[quote author="SSLtech"]
..."Countryside"!!![/quote]

:grin: Now THAT is funny!

I do know what you mean wavebourne. and i do know what you mean SSLtech. I too was there ( on the sidelines) for some purple, you were on the field!! the band sounded together, unbeleiveably,

and EVH actually came and fawned over Richie one weekend, so even he prefers Richie!!!!

but the new EVH/ VH video is refreshing. Having grown up with VH as THE band in my high school, I just love his style, and I see again. I went to show#2 in greensboro, cause I had to, and it was great nostalgia, but a little loose. Having seen Fair Warning in middle school and being blown away, it was not the same. In their Heyday, they too flubbed alot, forgot words, etc. but the VH groove was unmistakable and incredible. Now to see it again on "the youtube" was sweet.

[quote author="Wavebourn"]I don't speak of his attitude; I speak of how he sounded in the band.[/quote]
Fully understood...

...I just step around the term "team player" like I'd avoid an unexploded claymore mine, because it can far too easily be misunderstood: -Basically hearing those words about Ritchie is like hearing someone say "monumental dumbass" about Stephen Hawking... Maybe some people DO think that, -who knows? -But it makes my eyebrows rise! :green:

Keith