Van Halen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wDwMQVqCc

https://open.spotify.com/track/49KoX0qpXf3wHyP9nfUaqq?si=YT0xcq63T9CyfLCMiphFYA

Dig that steam
Giant butt

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Dig those moves
Vamipra

Nice white teeth
Betty Boop

I get nothing but the *shakes* over you

calstars you've sent me back into this album.... and i thank you

just now noticing that the 'radio edit' of i'll wait trims 30 seconds from the song, bringing it down to...... 4:10 lol

from the wikipedia page for 'i'll wait' it says 'Despite the song being a hit, no video was ever filmed for it.' maybe this is why it's always been one of my favorites. there's an enigma to it. and i think no electric guitar at all!?

also 'girl gone wild' is fucking crazy. like something on zep's presence.

There's a guitar solo on "I'll Wait".

lol

of course - it's pretty swooping and epic too

1984 best album ever

A few summers ago my iPod died and I borrowed an ancient cromagnon discman from my cousin with a copy of 1984 inside. My CD's had long since been packed away into boxes in the darkest recesses of my overstuffed closet and this was all I listened to for 3 or 4 months until I worked up the motivation to dig them out.

Brad otm

It's really a perfect pop record, or whatever kind of record it is. Kind of hard to pin it down.

also 'girl gone wild' is fucking crazy. like something on zep's presence.

haha i'm a mess on this thread

Hot for teacher drag race intro easily the best thing they ever did. All that gorgeous reverb on the first album does not cast them in the best light.

Always considered this like the spiritual successor or something to the bb's I get around, fun fun fun etc

Spiritual not the right word lol

Well damn.

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— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020

so sad...RIP
He was something else.

fuck

No!

michael anthony still lives

Like, as much as everyone knows he was a great player, he was so uniquely great. Probably the second best known great guitarist after Hendrix, and I'm not sure there's even a number three on the list. Clapton?

RIP EVH

RIP

yeah, he was the guitar-god-iest of all guitar gods. the only guy who guitar mags gushed about whose songwriting approached his chops.

RIP

oh man

Also, one of the few flash guitarists whose flash was fun and never boringly technical, imo.

was great with synths too

I'll admit that I never grew into a huge Van Halen fan, I came into music awareness around the time Van Haggar was blowing up with all their radio singles and it was years before I went back to appreciate the DLR years, but I will never forget the first time I heard "Eruption" absolutely blasting in my uncle's Camaro - I can't think of many better settings to first hear it.

RIP

Being of Indonesian-Surinamese background, seeing him and his brother succeed and become so beloved was really inspiring. Thank you, Eddie

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Growing up, the VH logo was the only band graffiti I ever saw.

what a rhythm player he was -- just amazing...listen to Top Jimmy, the transition from that amazing harmonic pattern into an almost R&B/country/hard rock thing no one played like that

so many of the shredders who followed him just chugged 16th note power chords, he was so liquid and fucking crazy on rhythm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d681GuMZj6Y

My guitar teacher is also always showing me just how hard his parts are, not necessarily the speed or anything - he's always told me that the tapping part in Eruption is ironically the easiest part - but just the seemingly illogical phrasing that makes perfect sense the way he plays it. I want to say he also cites the most obvious stuff in Hot for Teacher as particularly challenging, and also ... the Beat It solo, iirc.

This breaks my heart

fuuuuck this year goddammit fuuuuck

still can't believe Robert Zemeckis went with ZZ Top for the town festival band in Back to the Future Part III, after all Eddie did for Marty in Part I

Like Page, he was one of a handful of guys I could listen to again and again, hundreds of times, and never tire of Their tone or note selection, and always noticed some little nuance every time

This story is great:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ejq8NLGXgAEkJAP.png

XPS Well, ZZ Top had the single on the BTTF3 soundtrack, and Billy Gibbons has since claimed the only reason the band appeared in the film was that they happened to visit the set that day, and Zemeckis asked if they'd do a cameo.

xpost - That's a great story, and I love picturing MJ using the phrase "blaze a solo", but I'm assuming that's Eddie's paraphrase.

As I understand it I think they had to redo a lot of Beat It, with Lukather rearranging bits, but that was partly because Van Halen nailed the solo so well they had to rearrange the song around it.

always looked like he was having the time of his life playing.

Not a towering influence on me as a player, but by far the reason I wanted to play when I was 12 years old.

i haven't listened to van halen in maybe two decades so i'm ripe to go back.

Thee local classic rock station, beholden to its corporate playlist, apologetically announced that the Van Halen block will be coming up, but first they have to play all their usual crap