For you guys into that VH1 thing, check this dude out

[Samhain]

sounds just like eddie. i dont understand the total obsession with trying to sound like someone else but this guy does it well

For $20K i know where you can get a guitar body that Ed once puked on.
That's showbiz.

 

[311boogieman]

Def among them, not watching the vid but listening, it felt almost like listening to the real deal... wicked playing and tone. Sure maybe more of this, less of that but it's pretty spot on for my ears if you consider there is no console magic or studio " treatment"

Pretty much my thoughts as well.
I hate to critique too much because
I certainly can't play like that.
But I prefer Al Estrada.
This guy in the OP could actually loosen up a bit to get closer to Ed and add a little bit of what I call Ed's slop into it.
I know. I know. How dare I.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Pretty much my thoughts as well.
I hate to critique too much because
I certainly can't play like that.
But I prefer Al Estrada.
This guy in the OP could actually loosen up a bit to get closer to Ed and add a little bit of what I call Ed's slop into it.
I know. I know. How dare I.

Yeah Estrada has the goods for sure!

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

sounds just like eddie. i dont understand the total obsession with trying to sound like someone else but this guy does it well

I think it is just a hobby for this guy. Mentioned he had a career in music and did some touring just was always a huge Ed fan and loved the tone and material so he nerds out on it. Prob doesn't use that as his sound I don't think. Then again, that tone playing non VH tunes maybe doesn't turn heads..the writing and the riffs were just so insane for the time.

 

[311boogieman]

for the time....it was the whole package
Ed's playing
Dave as front man
the songs
the tone
the chorus' (Anthony)
the studio magic
the newness of it all
and it was one hit album after another
as soon as you caught your breath - boom. new album

 

[Samhain]

I think it is just a hobby for this guy. Mentioned he had a career in music and did some touring just was always a huge Ed fan and loved the tone and material so he nerds out on it. Prob doesn't use that as his sound I don't think. Then again, that tone playing non VH tunes maybe doesn't turn heads..the writing and the riffs were just so insane for the time.

More like "obsession", not "hobby".

 

[panhead]

sounds just like eddie. i dont understand the total obsession with trying to sound like someone else but this guy does it well

Back in the day like metroamp forum everybody obsessed and that was in the early 2000`s. I didnt get it then. I heard vh1 couple weeks after it was released on a very expensive stereo / turntable. Eruption first song and I honestly didnt know if i liked it or not, Music in general grows on you cause it has a hypnotic affect. At the time I thought Powerage AC/DC was a better album.

 

[CarlF]

Some people copy, others create. By the time you're a grown man and all you got is that you are a Parrot of somebody else, that's pretty sad.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

for the time....it was the whole package
Ed's playing
Dave as front man
the songs
the tone
the chorus' (Anthony)
the studio magic
the newness of it all
and it was one hit album after another
as soon as you caught your breath - boom. new album

That's it 100%. It was all of it. Remove one of those parts and maybe you don't have the magic. The Hagar stuff becomes more about the songwriting and less the riffs..definitely not the leads. They were all sort of played out by then. They were good but nothing mind blowing.

 

[glpg80]

He needs the mic preamps and to finish the signal chain in the studio if he is going to call it a studio exact replica. I agree with others, without the post processing part, it’s not what’s on the album. The album has less gain, less hair, and isnt as unpleasant spectrally. Is he on the right track? Yes. Is it the album tone? No. Is his playing damn nuts spot on and badass? Yes ?

 

[RaceU4her]

for me trying to nail david lee roths coke fueled screams while doing spinning somersault air kicks is much more fun and rewarding

 

[Donnie B.]

for the time....it was the whole package
Ed's playing
Dave as front man
the songs
the tone
the chorus' (Anthony)
the studio magic
the newness of it all
and it was one hit album after another
as soon as you caught your breath - boom. new album

Yup. And it hit at the perfect time.
Between punk, new wave, and disco, it seemed like good ole arena rock might be dying.
VH1 righted the ship.

 

[coffeedrinker71]

Sounds amazing!!!! Great playing too!!!

 

[Rick Lee]

I'd rather hear the later album tones, but that was pretty cool.

 

[John 14:6]

Very cool!