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Vai OR Eddie
Who do you think is better? Steve Vai, or Eddie Van Halen
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Main Entry: [1]David Lee Roth
Pronunciation: Day-vid Leee Rah-th
Function: Noun
Etymology: HIS PARENTS
Date: October 10th 1954.
1: To be a Womanizer
2: To own a stage.
3: The art of humping a microphone.
4: see (legend)
5: MOTHER FUCKIN WOMANIZER
6: To be a legend unbelievable performing and be replaced by a pussy. -
Vai, is good. But he's a Eddie copy-cat.http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8...19yc8872wu.jpg
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Originally posted by fuckhowardstern - dude - you sounded cool as a cucumber - totally relaxed and spoke with authority - must say I was a bit surprised but you sounded really at ease - super cool-like.
Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra - nate, you are the fucking attention whore of the day and you DESERVE it
Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise - BTW, bravo NATE! Soon Dave will mention the Army by himself!
Originally posted by franksters Have you heard Nate properly, We now moved up to an ''Organisation'' Awesome man!!
Roth army....more than an army....it's a gr8 Organization!!
Originally posted by Northern Girl
Nate, so cool. I'm listening to the Dallas feed, so it'll be coming up in a while. Can't wait! -
Vai kicks Ed's ass...period
Jordan was no Magic copy cat, he was just better...
Nicklaus was no Arnold copy cat, just better...
Ed was no Hendrix copy cat, just better...Comment
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HOW THE FUCK DO YOU CALL VAI AND ED COPYCAT? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKIN MIND... VAI PLAYED WITH ZAPPA BEFORE VH WAS STARTED... HE IF ANYTHING IS ZAPPA INFLUENCE BUT YOU HAVE TO BE OUT OF YOUR FUCKIN MIND TO CALL HIM AN EDDIE COPYCAT!! VAI IS 2 A FUCKIN GOOD A EDMY ROTH DICTIONARY
Main Entry: [1]David Lee Roth
Pronunciation: Day-vid Leee Rah-th
Function: Noun
Etymology: HIS PARENTS
Date: October 10th 1954.
1: To be a Womanizer
2: To own a stage.
3: The art of humping a microphone.
4: see (legend)
5: MOTHER FUCKIN WOMANIZER
6: To be a legend unbelievable performing and be replaced by a pussy.Comment
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Hey Steve Vai0911, chill out man! Fuckin' A..it was just my opinion!http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8...19yc8872wu.jpg
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Originally posted by fuckhowardstern - dude - you sounded cool as a cucumber - totally relaxed and spoke with authority - must say I was a bit surprised but you sounded really at ease - super cool-like.
Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra - nate, you are the fucking attention whore of the day and you DESERVE it
Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise - BTW, bravo NATE! Soon Dave will mention the Army by himself!
Originally posted by franksters Have you heard Nate properly, We now moved up to an ''Organisation'' Awesome man!!
Roth army....more than an army....it's a gr8 Organization!!
Originally posted by Northern Girl
Nate, so cool. I'm listening to the Dallas feed, so it'll be coming up in a while. Can't wait!Comment
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guitaristicly speaking, evh is an innovator and not vai...but vai is a great musicianComment
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Ed ruled his time and generation...he sucks ass right now...
Vai has moved on and is just better...
Old subject though!
However, Dave is THE greatest frontman ever...period.Comment
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Yoda says -
He who forget how to play own song...he will bring on himself "unchained" amounts of scorn...
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The point is quite moot indeed. Stylistically however, Eddie is better..
Vai's skill approaches "mutant".....but his style revolves very much around that skill and precision. I believe that if Eddie hadn't become a drunken loser madman then at his best his skills were nearly equal to Vai, and could've gotten better. As I said, the point is quite moot.
Eddie "coulda been a contender".....but he lost it by becoming a loser.
He needed Dave to be at his best.I like Van Halen more than Dave's PA Rental.....which means I like Van Halen more than you
"YOU JUST BUILD BIKES!"Comment
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Ed for sure. Vai is flash and speed. Ed is more technical and is a proven innovator."FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKIN' BITCH! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ANYWAYS? TALK TO ME LIKE THAT? FUCK YOU. DRAG QUEEN LOOKIN' WHORE- YOU AINT SHIT. YOUR THE FRECKLE TO THE LEFT OF MY BROWN EYE. NOW GO MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL...OH, PUT DAD ON THE PHONE"Comment
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This question has been beaten to death online since the first day guitar players discovered the internet.Keep on Rothing in the Free WorldComment
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Vai bores me... Ed, at his best, is pure passion and magic!!Comment
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DITTO!!!!!Originally posted by stilleddiesangel
Vai bores me... Ed, at his best, is pure passion and magic!!HEY NOW!Comment
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Ed!!
Ed used to play kick as rock
and roll!!!
Sometimes I don't know what
the fuck Vai is playing. Fast
does not always mean good.
And I preferred Ed's tone.Comment
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Ed had technical ability in spades, but the guy never let it overwhelm his sense of rhythm and riffs. Least not as far as CVH went. I never got the feeling that the tunes were running second to his solos, or that he wasn't putting the same amount of thought into what was gonna be played underneath the verses and choruses as he was his solos.
Vai, to me....I mean, no doubt the guy is an astounding player. Still would have been even if he hadn't made his contributions to EEAS and Skyscraper. He probably gets tagged as an EVH imitator just as much for being the first guitarist Dave played with after the 1985 split then for what he actually played. And as kick-ass as EEAS was and is, on tunes like Elephant Gun and Big Trouble, it totally sounds, to me, like Vai was putting less effort into the songs vs. the solos.
Vai post-Dave doesn't really compare to EVH, since Vai solo isn't really going for the same type of vibe as Van Hagar was. Wouldn't be astonishing for anyone to say they believe that Vai is technically capable of playing more differing styles of music than Ed is, or play faster, etc.
In the end, Vai's tone just bugged me (sounds way too plastic and overprocessed), as does his conscious effort to come off as a guitar hero. He and Satriani definitely have made an effort to show everyone that they are bitchin' guitarists, whereas Ed just WAS one. I mean, that whole premise of Crossroads, early on in Vai's career, in that Vai was the best guitarist, throughout his tenure with Roth and Whitesnake, where he's continually mugging and making those 'rock guitarist' faces (you know, where his OWN mouth is wide open because what he's playing is so jaw-droppingly good).....Vai just comes off like he wants to be the best rock guitarist ever, and that's not what it's about. That's the vibe he gives off, anyway.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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