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    Eddie's Top 10 Solos From Teamrock.com

    The Top 10 Greatest Eddie Van Halen Guitar Solos
    Features / 2 days ago / by Al King


    The crowning moments from the king of shred

    If you’re compiling a list of the world’s greatest guitarists, then Eddie Van Halen should be at the top. Across the course of his band Van Halen’s 40-plus-year career, he took what could be done with the guitar to a level not see since Jimi Hendrix. Such is his importance in the evolution of the instrument that some guitar courses divide their syllabuses into pre- and post-Eddie eras. But which solos are his best? We’re glad you asked…

    10) One Foot Out The Door (1981)
    Squeezed into the last two minutes of 1981’s Fair Warning album, this is an overlooked gem of a solo. It wails in like an ecstatic ghost before Eddie’s fingers dance around the fretboard, his enthusiasm obvious and contagious. The second half of a solo takes things up a notch, before some funky sliding power chords take us to the fade.


    9. Chinatown (2012)
    From the woefully underrated comeback album, A Different Kind Of Truth, this was a searing return to form for the band and a reminder that Eddie remains the Dutch Master of the guitar. Fast, aggressive and in your face it’s like receiving multiple roundhouse kicks from Bruce Lee.


    8. Beat It (1982)
    From the biggest selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, this jaw-dropper was recorded in one take and given to Michael Jackson gratis. Eddie manages to showcase everything that makes him great in almost demo-like fashion, before the high note crescendo that almost sets the fretboard on fire.


    7) Hang ’Em High (1982)
    A gritty Western-inspired track demands a lightning fast gunslinger style of solo and that’s exactly what Eddie delivers on this track from Diver Down. The man himself describes it as “loose, fun and crazy.” Yup.

    6. Outta Love Again (1979)
    This Van Halen II track is easy to miss, but the solo is a clear and deep display of Eddie’s blues roots. Featuring practically all minor pentatonic based phrases, Eddie brilliantly stitches together a series of vibrant and aggressive licks, which effectively tells the story of the electric blues from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton.

    5) Push Comes To Shove
    Eddie shows extreme control, taste and mastery of harmonic pacing in this track from Fair Warning. A dazzling combination of tapped fretted notes and “bounce tapped” harmonics, his solo is deftly controlled and beautifully phrased.

    4) Mean Street (1981)
    The opening track on Fair Warning showcases Eddie’s revolutionary harmonic sensibility, employing extensive use of the Floyd Rose here in his signature mix of tremolo and harmonic pitch change with the bar. The final ascending phrase (clearly worked out with great thought) is designed to give the driving and simple figure played by the rhythm guitar and bass underneath a perfect icing.

    3) You’re No Good (1979)
    A hit for Linda Ronstadt a few years earlier and covered on Van Halen 2, here Eddie grabs it by the throat and tears it a new arsehole. Lazy bends and descending harmonic runs begin the solo climbing up the neck into a tapping sequence before finishing it off with an outrageous bend and tap.

    2) I’m The One (1978)
    Van Halen’s debut album is positively crammed with stunning guitar work, but this is a deep cut for the more finely-tuned ear. Here, Eddie serves up two solos – the second is the killer, building intensity through a series of ascending phrases and and blues licks over a key change. The real treat is how the solo continues after the jazzy doo-wop vocal interlude, Eddie winding up his axe to the point of splitting.

    1) Eruption (1978)
    The pivotal moment in the evolution of rock guitar playing. In 1 minute and 42 seconds Eddie completely redefines the sonic and technical capabilities of the instrument forever. The introduction is standard enough with a big glissando and opening power chord and some high speed runs. But when Eddie reveals his series of rapid two-handed tapping triads, jaws dropped, listeners said WTF and guitarists everywhere thought "Shit I gotta up my game." It’s as if Bach himself has beamed in from the past, plugged his harpsichord into an FX rack and Marshall amp, blown our minds and then fucked back off again. Genius.

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    Personally, I think "Hear About It Later" is one of his best as it breaks down the song almost like a bridge with a searing, sweltering crescendo that almost sets the fret-board on fire!

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    Sorry, I was trying out to write for Teamrock.com!!

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    All great picks, but I would add "Cathedral" . It still gives me warm feelings to hear him play it live. Something haunting and bittersweet about it.
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    Atomic Punk sounds, well.... nuclear. Or like a "nitroglycerin truck crashing into a eating utensil factory."
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    Hot For Teacher is worth mention, was hiking about that the other day...

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    It's pretty clear that TeamRock prefers the Dave era: Every Van Halen Album Ranked From Worst to Best

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    Funny that after all these years, I don't think I ever saw anybody refer to Outta Love Again as a "blues song". Oddly enough, now that I think about it, it fits - despite the tempo - lyrically and the guitar. Maybe Dave & Ed wrote it as a blues song and Alex got bored with it and kicked it into a different gear?
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