Why does Brian Young play, "Eruption" live ?

[WARF]

I love Brian Young and Daves band, but it bothers me a bit whenever Brian Young does Eddie Van Halen's eruption solo. Shouldn't some material be sacred to Van Halen's legacy, rather than cheapen DLR's setlist with a generic version of eruption?

I mean, it was great for the atomic punks coverband.

I just think it's something that shouldn't be done live onstage, unless in fact it's Eddie Van Halen doing it.

I wanna see Brian Young make original music with Dave too, while i'm on the subject. It bothers me to see so much talent wasted on cover songs, when they should be recording kick ass original music!

[guwapo_rocker]

apparently they have recorded a full albums worth of

new material, and it is up to Dave when to release it.

Dave is also planning a world tour in the near future, so

we should probably hear the new material prior to this.

(thanks Carmine and Golden Boy)

[DLR7884]

Dave and his band have had "full albums" worth of material since the '99 tour ended.

DLR7884
I'm not holding my breath.

[WARF]

Maybe Dave can become the new lead singer for the hideous sun demons!

[DLR7884]

Originally posted by WARF
Why does Brian Young play, "Eruption" live ?

Because Dave pays him to play it.

DLR7884

[tomballin]

Brian kicks Eddie's ass currently. He can play any of EVH's stuff he likes and it's OK with me. EVH is a bum and yesterday's news now. Fuck him!

[WARF]

Yeah I know Eddie's a bum...

I'm just kinds scared that the 1998 DLR Band CD will be Dave's last rock album.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I don't think he plays "Eruption" at all WARF, close, but not that close....

Yes, it's "Eruption-esque", meaning it's in the same neighborhood, so to speak, as Eruption....

I think he plays it like that because of the general Van Halen feeling during Dave's setlist, but at the same time not a blatant attempt to play the solo note for note....

And I'm damn glad he doesn't try it.... Although I'm sure he can nail it, I've heard so many people fuck it up, I don't want to hear anyone other than Ed (with the original lineup present) play it again....

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by WARF
Maybe Dave can become the new lead singer for the hideous sun demons!

[rustoffa]

Va nailed it.

Just a "give the people what they want" part of the show.

[Northern Girl]

Re: Why does Brian Young play, "Eruption" live ?

Originally posted by WARF
I just think it's something that shouldn't be done live onstage, unless in fact it's Eddie Van Halen doing it.

Just because it's instrumental, it's a song just the same. He's not copying Ed's whole solo or anything.

On the same note, Sam should NOT be singing Dave's songs live either let alone putting that shit on BOBW IMO.

[academic punk]

Because dave is so drug-addled that his management has told him that he IS playing with Van Halen and he thinks that that's Eddie doing his bit.

If Young were to play anything else, dave would have an aneurysm on the spot.

Just kidding, but it is pretty lame. If I wanna hear Eruption, I can go down to my local Sam Ash and hear just about anyone there play it. For free.

[ashstralia]

Originally posted by academic punk
If I wanna hear Eruption, I can go down to my local Sam Ash and hear just about anyone there play it. For free.

i just throw on vh1.
it's the second track.

[Fabulous Shadow]

BECAUSE he CAN... and these days he does so better than Ed!

[Bad Muthafucker]

Re: Why does Brian Young play, "Eruption" live ?

Originally posted by WARF
Why does Brian Young play, "Eruption" live ?

This has been a subject of discussion since the '99 tour when Bart Walsh was playing "Eruption". People were pissed that he got up on stage and played that song note for note because they were Ed's notes. But on the other side of the coin, was/is it o.k. for Sam Hagar and Gary Cherone (during his brief tenure) to get up on stage and sing "Jump" word for word? After all, those are Dave's words, aren't they? Just like the notes in "Eruption" are Ed's because Ed wrote them, the words of "Jump" are Dave's because Dave wrote them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Turn-about is fair play. If Ed can hire someone to sing Dave's words, then Dave can hire someone to play Ed's notes. All is fair in love and war.