Top 15 solos by Eddie (any era)

[EddieFan4Ever]

Well....this is a ever-changing list, and i figured i'd make it a Top 15 since top 10 and 20 are so overused...that and it's hard to narrow down!....anyway here's mine at this moment:

Spanish Fly
Eruption
Pleasure Dome
Feelin'
Push Comes To Shove
One Foot Out The Door
House of Pain
Mine All Mine
One I Want
Hear About It Later
Summer Nights(Live version from LWAN)
And The Cradle Will Rock
Sinner's Swing
A.F.U.
Drop Dead Legs

[DR CHIP]

My favorite Ed solo's are the one's he can still remember to play...now which one is that...

[guwapo_rocker]

Originally posted by DR CHIP
My favorite Ed solo's are the one's he can still remember to play...now which one is that...

That would be the Woofin' My Cookies Blues.

[EddieFan4Ever]

Originally posted by DR CHIP
My favorite Ed solo's are the one's he can still remember to play...now which one is that...

He did fine with I'm The One at soundcheck recently, on 2 occassions that i saw....hasnt let me down yet.

[bru87tr]

come on, "beat it" has to beat out something on that list.

[tjvhou812]

ed can still play w/the best of them

[Terry]

Are you shitting me with Mine All Mine? That's just a bunch of whammy bar/pinched harmonic nonsense.

Here's your fuckin' list:


Eruption
Ice Cream Man
On Fire
Atomic Punk
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
Spanish Fly
Romeo Delight
Sinners Swing!
So This Is Love?
Secrets
Cathedral
Little Guitars (Intro)
Hot For Teacher
Girl Gone Bad
House Of Pain


Honorable Mention:
DOA
You Really Got Me
Push Comes To Shove
Running With The Devil (sometimes less is more)
Unchained (" ")
One Foot Out The Door

[DLRdelight!]

Id have to hear so many solos before i can choose 15 but sum that automatically make it are

spanish fly, eruption, ice cream man, little dreamer, feel you love tonigt

i can go on and on

[tjvhou812]

lets not 4get judgement day ed does a kickass solo on that

[EddieFan4Ever]

Originally posted by Terry
Are you shitting me with Mine All Mine? That's just a bunch of whammy bar/pinched harmonic nonsense.

Here's your fuckin' list:


Eruption
Ice Cream Man
On Fire
Atomic Punk
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
Spanish Fly
Romeo Delight
Sinners Swing!
So This Is Love?
Secrets
Cathedral
Little Guitars (Intro)
Hot For Teacher
Girl Gone Bad
House Of Pain


Honorable Mention:
DOA
You Really Got Me
Push Comes To Shove
Running With The Devil (sometimes less is more)
Unchained (" ")
One Foot Out The Door

No, i wasnt "shitting" you....it's a cool lead that mixes tricks, flash, and melody well. Chill.

[Rikk]

Okay, I'll list my personal favorite solos. This in no way changes my view that Hagar ruined many of the songs listed here with his typically horrible singing. But there is still some inspired guitar work in all eras (although the good era definitely has Eddie at his peak by far)...this is also in no real order.

1) Push Comes To Shove
2) Loss Of Control
3) I'll Wait
4) Everybody Wants Some!!
5) Feelin' (great solo on this one)
6) Mean Street
7) Spanish Fly
8) One I Want (again, an incredible Eddie solo...wasted by Cherone)
9) Judgment Day (amazing solo...too bad about the singing on this)
10) Top Jimmy
11) Hang 'Em High
12) Me Wise Magic
13) Girl Gone Bad
14) Amsterdam (no, don't laugh...this is a great solo)
15) Humans Being

[DaveTheSoulOfVH]

a french guy favorite ed solos :

1-Eruption
2-I'm the one
3-Ice Cream Man
4-Spanish Fly
5-Take Your Whiskey Home
6-Fools
7-So This is Love
8-Sinner's Swing
9-One Foot Out The Door
10-Dancing in the Street
11-The Full Bug
12-Jump
13-Girl Gone Bad
14-House of Pain
15-Beat it

[Terry]

Originally posted by EddieFan4Ever
No, i wasnt "shitting" you....it's a cool lead that mixes tricks, flash, and melody well. Chill.

Mine All Mine is typical of Eddie being stuck on autopilot.

Almost like he was parodying himself by that point in his career.

Archetypal Eddie solo post classic era:

Tapped harmonics (the same three notes, regardless of the song)

Whammy bar dive

Sped-up blues pentatonic scale

Pinched harmonic coupled with tremolo bar dive

Periodic accidental stumbles into a semblance of melody.

[DaveTheSoulOfVH]

"Periodic accidental stumbles into a semblance of melody."

i don't care about melody (like in neoclassical style), i just want Classic Van Halen rock'n roll !!!

[EddieVHfan]

Hey guys...you're all forgetting an awesome solo. "The Dream is Over" off F.U.C.K.