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  • DeadOrAlive
    Veteran
    • Jul 2004
    • 1683

    Looking Back

    I just spent about 3 hours watching guitar solo after guitar solo from various artists.

    I watched the best, including Steve Morse, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, with a never ending list.

    To my disappointment, these gutiarists are all great, but grew bored a little from time to time.

    As soon as Eddie Van Halen took the plate, nobody sounds better nor is more entertaining to watch play the guitar quite like him. The sounds he generates, the motions of his fingers, all so smooth but incredibly entertaining to watch.

    You never know what he'll do, what innovative technique he'll perform. From the introduction of Mean Streets to the flat-out artistic Cathedral, Eddie reaches all realms of the guitar world, using tapping techniques and crescendos/descrescendos.

    Edward Van Halen is by far the best sounding and the most entertaining to watch play the guitar. I remember going back three years wanting to play guitar like him. Now I can do some of his tricks. It's totally radical.

    Eddie wrote some of the most memorable licks. He is a guitar god and a guitar hero. Too bad he's slipping on his act these days.

    Ed probably has one of the widest ranges of moods in his solos, which always caught my attention. He's number one on my list dudes.
  • philouze
    Banned
    • Mar 2004
    • 2171

    #2
    Jimi, Ed and Vai are fucking Gods to me. And when I say Ed, I mean 74-84..

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    • Eddie's Booze
      Head Fluffer
      • Apr 2007
      • 326

      #3
      Re: Looking Back

      Originally posted by DeadOrAlive
      I just spent about 3 hours watching guitar solo after guitar solo from various artists.

      I watched the best, including Steve Morse, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, with a never ending list.

      To my disappointment, these gutiarists are all great, but grew bored a little from time to time.

      As soon as Eddie Van Halen took the plate, nobody sounds better nor is more entertaining to watch play the guitar quite like him. The sounds he generates, the motions of his fingers, all so smooth but incredibly entertaining to watch.

      You never know what he'll do, what innovative technique he'll perform. From the introduction of Mean Streets to the flat-out artistic Cathedral, Eddie reaches all realms of the guitar world, using tapping techniques and crescendos/descrescendos.

      Edward Van Halen is by far the best sounding and the most entertaining to watch play the guitar. I remember going back three years wanting to play guitar like him. Now I can do some of his tricks. It's totally radical.

      Eddie wrote some of the most memorable licks. He is a guitar god and a guitar hero. Too bad he's slipping on his act these days.

      Ed probably has one of the widest ranges of moods in his solos, which always caught my attention. He's number one on my list dudes.
      Slipping???? He lost the fucking plot over 20 years ago...

      http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...moking_dog.jpg

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      • letsrock
        Veteran
        • Mar 2007
        • 1595

        #4
        Watch Zakk below.

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        • letsrock
          Veteran
          • Mar 2007
          • 1595

          #5
          Looks like thor playing guitar. Love it.

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          • VanHalener
            ROCKSTAR

            • Nov 2006
            • 5451

            #6
            Zakk

            That was righteous!!!!!!!!!!

            Love the dose of EVH he threw in there.

            Eddie Van Halen is King, but DAMN there are some great guitarists walking the earth!
            ~Only you can prevent low volume~

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            • binnie
              DIAMOND STATUS
              • May 2006
              • 19145

              #7
              Originally posted by DeadOrAlive
              I just spent about 3 hours watching guitar solo after guitar solo from various artists.

              I watched the best, including Steve Morse, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, with a never ending list.

              To my disappointment, these gutiarists are all great, but grew bored a little from time to time.

              As soon as Eddie Van Halen took the plate, nobody sounds better nor is more entertaining to watch play the guitar quite like him. The sounds he generates, the motions of his fingers, all so smooth but incredibly entertaining to watch.

              You never know what he'll do, what innovative technique he'll perform. From the introduction of Mean Streets to the flat-out artistic Cathedral, Eddie reaches all realms of the guitar world, using tapping techniques and crescendos/descrescendos.

              Edward Van Halen is by far the best sounding and the most entertaining to watch play the guitar. I remember going back three years wanting to play guitar like him. Now I can do some of his tricks. It's totally radical.

              Eddie wrote some of the most memorable licks. He is a guitar god and a guitar hero. Too bad he's slipping on his act these days.

              Ed probably has one of the widest ranges of moods in his solos, which always caught my attention. He's number one on my list dudes.

              I think that adequately captures my feelings when I first got into Van Halen: the energy from Ed was unlike anything I've ever heard or felt, and still is when I put on the six pack.

              Magic is the only word
              The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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              • Eddie's Booze
                Head Fluffer
                • Apr 2007
                • 326

                #8
                Originally posted by letsrock
                Watch Zakk below.

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jI41KbedP4
                this is really good guitar playing....

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                http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...moking_dog.jpg

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                • chi-town324
                  Crazy Ass Mofo
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 2618

                  #9
                  EVH...in a class all by himself

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                  • thome
                    ROTH ARMY ELITE
                    • Mar 2005
                    • 6678

                    #10
                    Originally posted by letsrock
                    Watch Zakk below.

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jI41KbedP4
                    Damn, Rarely will I let a ciggy burn away, like I be hipmotize.

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                    • LstLkly2Succeed
                      Groupie
                      • Jun 2007
                      • 91

                      #11
                      Originally posted by letsrock
                      Watch Zakk below.

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jI41KbedP4
                      I love the look on the people in the crowd's faces as they proceeded to get melted off by zakk. I still think that, back in his prime, no one compared to EVH, even just in terms of energy he was amazing, nevermind skill.
                      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

                      ~Oscar Wilde

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                      • MUSICMANN
                        Sniper
                        • Apr 2004
                        • 837

                        #12
                        Zakk sounds like shit. Just because you can run sclaes at a million miles and hr, doesn't mean you are great. I compare his sound to a cat pissing on a hotwire. Ed played fast but with a touch and feeling. The only other players that had that, was Hendrix and Vaughn.

                        Why do so many younger players think that playing at light speed means great. Playing fast for fast sake doesn't equal to being a really great player it's just playing fast.

                        Hendrix changed the way the whole world played guitar, then Ed did the same thing when VH hit the seen. No other guitar players have come out since, to do that.

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                        • DeadOrAlive
                          Veteran
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 1683

                          #13
                          Originally posted by binnie
                          Magic is the only word
                          Perfectly stated.

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                          • Antman
                            Commando
                            • Jan 2004
                            • 1261

                            #14
                            Yngwie sucks.
                            When the shit hits the fan, close your mouth and duck.

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                            • ELVIS
                              Banned
                              • Dec 2003
                              • 44120

                              #15
                              Originally posted by MUSICMANN

                              Hendrix changed the way the whole world played guitar, then Ed did the same thing when VH hit the seen. No other guitar players have come out since, to do that.
                              Yngwie did...

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