EVH, I don't get it...

[Rogue]

I love this song. Ranks as one of my all time favorites. That intro is pure guitar coolness, and in typical Eddie fashion...very hard to get all the nuances down that is what makes it so cool.

I like the solo on this more than the solo he did on the album.

 

[Meathead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPLXF-lWOQ - 2:36

That outro groove is one of my favorite guitar riffs ever. 1984 is probably my favorite EVH cd. IMO, Eddie's peak in his oneness with a guitar.

As another reference from 1984....

Just some cool rhythm work and I love the solo. It's just another example of how Eddie pulls something out of his ass to get it done.

Top Jimmy is great! Never learned it, but I believe that isn't standard tuning either.
1984 would be the Van Halen CD I'd own if I could have only one.
I love the two last songs on that album...Grl Gone Bad and House Of Pain. I wish Eddie would have pushed more in that writing direction, really cool writing. I like when he's just writing what he wants and not trying to write a hit.

 

[Anonymous]

So which VH album you guys recommend I buy first?

Fair Warning

Yep...and I'll get flamed for this, but 1984 is really under rated IMO.

Nuh other than the 2 keyboard tunes that' a bitchen album.

Girl Gone Bad.

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

This is a bit off topic but I always thought that DLR wasn't that great of a singer and was just more of a personality/frontman. Then I heard Doug Pinnick of Kings X (my all time favorite singer) sing "Light Up The Sky" on a VH tribute album and was left thinking that Roth was a bad ass because Pinnick as great as he is didn't really do the song justice, and that floored me.

Listen to the raw vocal track for "Runnin' With The Devil" that is floating around. Motherf'er could sing! Dude had personality...

Steve

 

[Meathead]

This is a bit off topic but I always thought that DLR wasn't that great of a singer and was just more of a personality/frontman. Then I heard Doug Pinnick of Kings X (my all time favorite singer) sing "Light Up The Sky" on a VH tribute album and was left thinking that Roth was a bad ass because Pinnick as great as he is didn't really do the song justice, and that floored me.

Listen to the raw vocal track for "Runnin' With The Devil" that is floating around. Motherf'er could sing! Dude had personality...

Steve

It's like trying to replace Gibbons vocals with someone else on Cheap Sunglasses...not gonna work.
DLR had a character beyond singing that I thought was really cool, impossible to imitate.

 

[Anonymous]

So which VH album you guys recommend I buy first?

VH II

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shows every bit of why EVH was the king of r-n-r guitar at the time. First and foremost - best TONE he ever got. THAT is what a cranked Super Lead means to me... The ferocious rhythm playing on "Light Up The Sky". The insane nylon string solo "Spanish Fly" - hell I just saw Paul Gilbert playing it on nylon string and saying he was running out of "finger power" towards the end. Now THAT is saying something! The tapped harmonic intro to "Women in Love" with that amazing harmonized/delayed sound. In fact the whole song is fantastic! The ZZ Top boogie on steroid of "Bottoms Up!" with that one trippy galloping solo section. Th iconic riffs and solo in "Somebody Get Me a Doctor".

Fucking glorious... 28 minutes that just slayed me. I ruined prolly 4 vinyl copies trying to pick out stuff I thought was cool... Made me completely re-evaluate my abilities on guitar and practice my ass off for years.

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPLXF-lWOQ - 2:36

That outro groove is one of my favorite guitar riffs ever. 1984 is probably my favorite EVH cd. IMO, Eddie's peak in his oneness with a guitar.

As another reference from 1984....

Just some cool rhythm work and I love the solo. It's just another example of how Eddie pulls something out of his ass to get it done.

Top Jimmy is great! Never learned it, but I believe that isn't standard tuning either.
1984 would be the Van Halen CD I'd own if I could have only one.
I love the two last songs on that album...Grl Gone Bad and House Of Pain. I wish Eddie would have pushed more in that writing direction, really cool writing. I like when he's just writing what he wants and not trying to write a hit.

Tuning is D A D A C D

Steve

 

[TalentlessIdiot]

So which VH album you guys recommend I buy first?

none of them? you don't like VH. why would you start listening to something that you dont like? just because other people like it?
a lot of people like raw oysters and cow's brains and mussels. there's no way in hell i'm gonna start eating them just because someone else says that its good. actually, i have had mussels, and i didn't like it. so why would i eat it again?
i tried Saki once. didn't like it. why would i try it again? just cuz someone said its good?

 

[Rogue]

Top Jimmy is great! Never learned it, but I believe that isn't standard tuning either.

Yep. I sat down with my 1984 book to learn it one day and found it was some bizarre tuning. I decided I didn't want to mess with it anytime I wanted to play it, so I said screw it.

1984 would be the Van Halen CD I'd own if I could have only one.
I love the two last songs on that album...Grl Gone Bad and House Of Pain. I wish Eddie would have pushed more in that writing direction, really cool writing. I like when he's just writing what he wants and not trying to write a hit.

I enjoy all of Eddie's mainstream stuff he's done. I mean hell, writing a hit song isn't easy. Typically I like the not so mainstream stuff more though. Even on later albums there is still some great writing.

But I agree, 1984 had something cool going on with it.

 

[megamike]

Even Mayer likes EDDIE

 

[hawkeye17]

Like many things you have to put it into it's proper prospective. Imagine you're 16, it's 1978 and you've just started playing guitar and the coolest thing you want to learn is a KISS song or something by Clapton. Then a buddy gives you an 8 track tape of this:

A year or two later you get this:

Then you hear this off Diver Down and your friend tells you..."no man, that's a guitar not an organ"

And that is just the solo showcase stuff. Add in the great tunes and enough said....

 

[gibson5413]

Nothing I can offer that hasn't already. VHII, WaCF, and Fair Warning are my favs. Personally, One of my all time favorite tunes is Drop Dead Legs. To me, the outro portion of that tune (the solo) is a magical moment for VH:

 

[rsm]

I posted my long winded perspective earlier on the influence of EVH. As to the topic shift of which VH to get...

If I could have only one VH album, it would be VH II. Light Up the Sky is still my fav VH tune.

 

[supersonic]

Even Mayer likes EDDIE

Wow that's bad! He's even got the $25000 guitar.

 

[irondeth21]

Yup you summed it up pretty well lol, it's not just my favorite vh albums it's one of my fav period.

So which VH album you guys recommend I buy first?

VH II

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shows every bit of why EVH was the king of r-n-r guitar at the time. First and foremost - best TONE he ever got. THAT is what a cranked Super Lead means to me... The ferocious rhythm playing on "Light Up The Sky". The insane nylon string solo "Spanish Fly" - hell I just saw Paul Gilbert playing it on nylon string and saying he was running out of "finger power" towards the end. Now THAT is saying something! The tapped harmonic intro to "Women in Love" with that amazing harmonized/delayed sound. In fact the whole song is fantastic! The ZZ Top boogie on steroid of "Bottoms Up!" with that one trippy galloping solo section. Th iconic riffs and solo in "Somebody Get Me a Doctor".

Fucking glorious... 28 minutes that just slayed me. I ruined prolly 4 vinyl copies trying to pick out stuff I thought was cool... Made me completely re-evaluate my abilities on guitar and practice my ass off for years.

Steve

 

[gkinsingapore]

HUGE EVH fanboi here. Have the sneakers, have the guitars, even have the little tin with the EVH picks in them.....

If it were me I'd start with VH1 and 1984 first up and when your done then VHII and Fair Warning but its all good!

Love his rhythm playing in Hot For Teacher, you can get the isolated guitar track on youtube.....awwww man....

 

[Robotechnology]

My EVH moment was when a friend put on a song I'd never
Heard before and asked me who it was. I kept answering Paul Gilbert! He kept saying no. And I'm like listen dude that's Paul Gilbert and stop messing around! This goes on for a few minutes
UNTIL I think about a song on Get Out Of My Yard called 3 E's for Eddie (This happened the year that CD came out). So I said EVH and he said right!

I'd only listened to the 1st EVH Women & Children 1st OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge at that point. Needless to say I paid more attention to EVH from then on and am still amassing the entire EVH catalog and drop everything everytime I hear EVH on Sirius!

 

[marvcus]

So which VH album you guys recommend I buy first?

Fair Warning

Yep...and I'll get flamed for this, but 1984 is really under rated IMO.

Nuh other than the 2 keyboard tunes that' a bitchen album.

Girl Gone Bad.

Steve

Best solo on the record, bar none. One of my all-time fav. solos

I still can't play the main riff right.

 

[Klark]

..i always thought and still do think that Randy Rhoads was a better musician and guitar player..

..I'll take CLiffs Of Dover over anything Eddie ever did, or Hendrix..

It's good to see that EVERYONE in this thread has completely ignored your two posts. Evidence proving that most Rig-Talk members are mentally well, and/or not smoking crack.

 

[mentoneman]