Eruption 77'.

[Samhain]

 

[Rick Lee]

I got that bootleg LP when I was in junior high, put it onto cassette and listened for years. I found it on CD a few years ago and it's on my iPhone now. Never gets old.

 

[SpiderWars]

Minds blown.

I was just watching a Sunset Sound Dweezil Zappa interview where Dweezil says Eddie's playing went thru a massive growth period in 76-77 (so he would have been 21-22). And the tapping came in somewhere in that time. Some cool stories in that interview.

 

[Rick Lee]

The tapping came after the demo with Gene Simmons. So just imagine what VH I would have been, had Gene gotten them signed right there when they were all in NYC and they hadn't gone back home to continue the club gig grind for another year. That's when Ed and George Lynch went to see Terry Kilgore play and Ed picked up the tapping from him and really incorporated it into his own style. VH's history is one of those that had to happen just the way it did for us to get the product we got. So many tiny detours would have made it totally different.

 

[Rick Lee]

Go to 18:45 here and check out the original version of Somebody Get Me a Doctor. Solo is ridiculous.

 

[psychodave]

I remember a bootleg of this around 1988. A friend and I would laugh during the end of the solo when Dave yells “Ed” since it sounds like Eddie extended his solo from the usual and Dave was getting mad. Hahaha

 

[311boogieman]

Good stuff. Fucked up notes and all.

 

[Beyond Black]

What a beast. Can you imagine seeing that in 1977?

 

[Rick Lee]

This show was done right after the first album was complete, but not yet released. By this time everyone knew VH was on its way. So you can imagine the excitement, knowing this would probably be the last time they played a small venue where most of the folks in the crowd had been seeing VH in the bars for years.

 

[MrDowntown]

I keep this queued up on SoundCloud for when I'm On the road with work. Just fucking kills!

Was ed into the infamous Marshall at this point? I'm assuming so...and that he'd somewhat perfected his travel gear/live tone by this last Pascedena show. It absolutely smokes I know that....