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deepblue

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I didnt mean to piss anyone off. lol

 

When youve been hearing Eddie "doodle-e-oodlng" for over 30 years it loses it shine. The ear grows weary of it. Im not saying hes not a guitar God, that goes without saying.

Look at Hendrix....if he were still alive today do you think hed still be pulling these musical guitar gems out of thin air? not a chance. Hed be playing casinos.

What lifted Jimi high was his talent. What put him into the guitar God stratosphere was that he died young and in his prime.

 

Clapton was God once, but the novelty wore off over time.

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i whant you to go outside with a camera and yell van halen sucks and is overrated and i wanna see how many people beat the crap out of you including officers

 

Im betting nothing will happen, nothing at all.

 

Do us a favour "dude"...go sleep it off.

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bluesguitar65

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Why is the Eruption solo considered so good? I thought a majority of you guys care about feeling not speed, I love both to!

 

 

When Eruption came out, no one played like that back in the late 70s and not to mention the guitar tone Eddie had. Let me ask you this or anyone else. "Who does Eddie sound like"? These days, very shredder I hear sound like Yngwie but at different levels of arpeggio speed. Eddie has the most tasteful sounding leads and chord progressions that you can easily identify it is him not anyone else.

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Im not saying he wasnt an icon in his day, im saying the style is old and dated now. [He needs to reinvent himself, but I truly believe theres no more gas in the tank.

 

I respect him as a guitar player, but he bores me now.

 

 

What?? Who are you to say that? Eddie doesn't have to answer to anyone regarding his contribution to music and to the guitar playing community. How old are you?

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Anyone who says EVH is overrated is either ignorant or not a real musician. Same can be said for Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, etc... Before these guys did what they did, no one even imagined what could be done. Without Eddie, there would be no Randy Rhodes, no Dimebag Darrell, no Buckethead, etc.. Without Jimi, there would be no Eddie. Without Chuck, no Jimi. And so the story goes. You cannot build the what is considered to be the most beautiful monuments of the day without the basics and innovation of the Egyptians... To downplay the pyramids in light of today's skyscrapers is ridiculous and truly ignorant, at best. If even a modicum of thought is given, and the same response given, then obviously only jealously and true stupidity is revealed.

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I always liked Van Halen, not so much Van Hagger....

Actually, I'm a bigger Sammy Hagar fan.

I was PUMPED when he hooked up with Van Halen.

 

But BOTH acts went downhill.

 

Sammy's still done some okay solo stuff since splitting with Eddie.

 

What about Eddie?

1984 was the beginning of the end for me - all the synth stuff.

Nothing he's done since excites me like the early albums did.

 

Sad, isn't it?

 

[crying] :unsure:

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deepblue

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Anyone who says EVH is overrated is either ignorant or not a real musician

 

Im neither. Jeff Beck still amazes me after over forty years. EVH while talented, bores me now after thirty seconds. Dont take it personally, its my opinion.

Eddies a handful of parlour tricks. Cool at first, but stales quickly.

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NeoConMan

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Eddies a handful of parlour tricks. Cool at first, but stales quickly.

Well....

 

I'm of a similar mind.

 

In no way do I seek to minimize Eddie's contributions to rock guitar, but yeah, a little goes a long way for me.

Preference-wise I rank him above Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani, Eric Johnson, and all the other instrumental Shred-Gods.

 

The fretboard gymnastics is exactly that in my mind.

Anybody ever sat in a gymnastics event?

The things those talented folks can do are amazing, but half an hour of that is enough for me - I'm ready to go.

 

Sure, others' tastes may vary from mine - that's cool with me.

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...1984 was the beginning of the end for me - all the synth stuff.

Nothing he's done since excites me like the early albums did.

 

 

I hear ya, but what about 5150? I thought that was an awesome album. I love the Diamond Dave stuff, but I really think the song 5150 is probably my favorite Van Halen tune.

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Golem

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i whant you to go outside with a camera and yell

van halen sucks and is overrated and i wanna see

how many people beat the crap out of you including

officers

OK, done.

 

Results:

 

Camera - Snatched by several punks on bicycles.

 

Yelling required line - Somebody said something like

"It's some white guy yelling 'why heaven what ' .... ".

 

Beating crap out - Nothing. But some crackhead sold

me back my camera for $20 !

 

Officers - Accused me of trolling for rent-a-poosy. But

now THEY took my camera ......

 

Analysis: Yelling is risky bidnez, but nobody gives a

ratzazz about Van Halen. They don't care sux or great.

Nobody ever heard of him. So much for "revolutionary".

 

Please notice the two underscored phrases above,

cuz those put this post back onto the thread topic!

 

 

 

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BigKahune

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... EVH while talented, bores me now after thirty seconds. Dont take it personally, its my opinion. ...

 

Sure, I don't take it personally. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, regardless of how stupid, ignorant and asinine it may be. [flapper]

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Look at Hendrix....if he were still alive today do you think hed still be pulling these musical guitar gems out of thin air? not a chance. Hed be playing casinos.

What lifted Jimi high was his talent. What put him into the guitar God stratosphere was that he died young and in his prime.

 

spot on there blue [thumbup]

 

p.s eddie is special B)

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First vinyl I ever bought as a little kid from Record Bar...Van Halen I. Went back a week later and bought Van Halen II. Then I started drawing logo on everything around. There you go. Those guys will always be rock gods in my book.

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How can someone say this person is very talented and yet cuts him down saying he's just parlour tricks? That's whacked.

 

What I meant was, that as cool as it was back then to hear Eddie noodle up and down the fretboard, after a while it became boring and repatitious.

 

I think you knew thats what I meant, youre just being argumentative. I was going

to call you a ****** but decided to rise above it. [flapper]

 

I too was blown away in '78 when I first heard Van Halen. I was 15 and just beginning to play guitar. Its been said before, not since Hendrix has a player taken the world by storm.

 

On a side note...

 

Remember when you first saw a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat?

Watch him do that same trick for 30 years. Does it still give you the same thrill?

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