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I always wondered how he did this. I would have never thought it was the volume knob - "Eruption" ( Eddie Van Halen Guitar Solo) Live In Charlotte, NC 9/11/15 https://youtu.be/EpM3AI46VX0
YourIceCreamMan
Hello Boomer! 60 years old in 2015. So can we dismiss him because he was a Boomer?
iQuitlmgurAndNeverLookedBack
Just because I didn't know it was the Volumne is no reason to call me a Knob!
plingplinggoesmydingding
Who dislikes EVH??!! No wonder you guys deserve Takeshi crap
kyzentun
Wow, I've never heard the original before, just the electronic remixes that destroy the beauty of the sound.
Lickstein
Since I started playing when I was 12, 17 years ago, he’s how I remember the string tuning. Eddie Always Does Good Because, Eddie.
ZebraThree
PlesiosaurWithElementsOfAnIdeaOfTheLochNessMonsterBoy
Makes me think of Jordan by Buckethead and how he has a killswitch
Mcknizzle
He was pretty good
madcatii
That is why we NEED Eddie Van Halen!
And THAT is why we need a triumphant video.
folded13
I have never seen anyone have more straight-up fun doing anything as Eddie did playing onstage. Love that smile.
drakkaris12718
Fuckin 2020... It has been the appocalipse for many things
DemonFluffer1000
Is that Paul Young?
NotifweJammit
The rock that happened in the 80’s was pioneering unlike anything before it. Technically and Artistically.
hotrodny
I saw him for the first time on Van Halen's "Live without a net"
Djtheftones
That’s what they call a swell effect. Or digitally an auto filter/swell
RealBernieSanders
It's really beautiful music.
Hemelsblauw
If you close your eyes it also sounds like a cello being played in a classical piece. It's amazing.
jakeinthehood
Also sounds like a clown horn in different keys
afterdarkart
The man could make a guitar do things I didn't think possible.
Appel99
My brain doesn’t understand playing notes with plucking strings
tumantorak
SiriusXM ended his tribute channel yesterday. I wanted it to last at least through the rest of the year.
dieinagoddamnfire
Phil Keaggy in Glass Harp was the first group I heard to play with the volume knob in a way that wasn't just adding an echo like effect.
WeirdAlisMySpiritUserName
Phil Keaggy is just plain awesome.
RhinosRfatUnicorns
Cue the inevitable “he wasn’t that good” comments from the amateur guitarists.
Popspoppingit
I came home that day from work, and my dad was melancholy all day, and week for that matter. He spent the last few months learning by
Popspoppingit
replicating what was in their songs. So his death was quite salient compared to if he had not been actively learning from him that way.
Ploty
Amazing how he can guitar sound like a violin without modernday computers
FlyingTigerRose
What a master of his craft.
DaneBrass
This is still far from the peak of his technical abilities. Still hard to believe he's gone, even after all his cancer scares in the past.
Seanspeed
Heavy use of a delay pedal is doing much of the work. The volume knob just kind of muffles the normal picking noise.
Etrigan77
Well... could not do that with my cheap ass guitar.. the volume crackles like a bitch!
DWGifWrecker
Knowing how he did it doesn't make it less fascinating
AbeFromanPartyOf3
Isn’t that Cathedral and not Eruption??
MasTequila
Yes
WeirdAlisMySpiritUserName
The 9-minute solo covers quite a few snippets.
nothingtodoandalldaytodoit
Well, where IS the 9 minute solo? Huh?! Just fucking with you. Thanks for this.
ItsWaluigitime
This specifically is Cathedral
awesomesaur
So it's a mix of hammer-ons and pull offs. He's playing with the volume knob and also has a delay pedal
TheCauseTheKidTheCourseTheCharm
And cutting the volume as he hits the notes, then dialing it back in so you just get the tone and can't hear him pressing on the strings
CptRobotNinja
Thats what it looks like. Nice combinations of various techniques and effects
J1m8ob
He's also using a reverb pedal. Michael Anthony uses similar in his solos too.
JustSomePersonThere
I agree, really just not that big a deal. People acting like if he invented tapping. Fact is, without DLR, VH would’ve been forgotten by now
jrmcnugent
Kind of agree. DLR was the man, hagar was a travesty
thefunnestguyatparties
Dlr is what the rubes gravitated towards. Everyone else was trying to pick their faces off the floor when they heard Eruption in 78. It /
thefunnestguyatparties
wasnt just dlr, thats absurd.
jrmcnugent
But it really was dlr who gave the band a face and entertainment value. Many many folks can shred. Its like slash without axel, never happen
Luthierfer
Then you gays are probably really disappointed nowadays that DLR is a tone deaf shell of his former self.
JustSomePersonThere
Oh don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate DLR as a person. But as a charismatic frontman for a rock group? He was in his element. And he made VH
Luthierfer
I would agree with that.
Psymbionic
I think this is colloquially referred to as “tapping”, except one handed in this case.
torillatavataan
Never heard it called that. The pick hand taps are why it's called tapping; it would be like using "hamburger" to mean a burger w/o ham.. oh
Wolfos
I've seen it referred to as violining.
DeviousByNature
Tapping is when using you're picking hand (usually), this would be 'hammering on' and/or 'pulling off'. The description is largely arbitrary
DeviousByNature
I've seen these types transcribed as 'pull off(s) from nowhere'. A+
asm80dfa8sdfj
Nah this is definitely tapping. Hammer-ons and pull-offs specifically are a strum modification. A hammer-on is when you strum then press >
asm80dfa8sdfj
a string, and a pull off is when you strum and let off a string. Tapping is when you activate the string with no strum.