Positive EVH comments only!!!

[tanpsi]

For the past year I've been listening to the DLR VH albums alot (great for drinking before going out!)

I'm 43 so I was around when they first came out and while I loved them, just in the past year I've really started to appreciate how amazing the guitar is while still enjoying the music as great rowdy party music.

I know there's alot of disappointment about where that band is now, but I'd like to hear positive comments about Eddies playing:

[paris is burning]

Whats to say he was and is a King..I'm 46 and I remember when no one else played like that.Seeing him live was scary at how good and fresh he was..Long Live Eddie.....Side comment ...To see pepole bash him today hurts because when he came out man he could play his ass of

[guitarsjb]

Eddie was revolutionary to guitar playing. Man rocks!!

[neilli]

EVH is a legend. The end.

However, I think most of the negative comments have been about Ed the person, not Ed the guitar player.

[Newc]

To see pepole bash him today hurts because when he came out man he could play his ass of

What's that got to do with it? You don't get Absolution for playing guitar.

[petedz]

Along with guys like Hendrix and Segovia, Eddie belongs to an elite group of players who wrote the dictionary for the guitar. I don't enjoy listening to Hendrix even though I recognize his genius. (I shudder when I hear anything remotely psychedelic.) Similarly, future generations may look down on Van Halen's songs, but nothing will ever diminish the impact of Eddie's contribution to the instrument.

[TrendkillDBD]

simply incredible guitarist who can still rip the living hell out of 99% of the guitarists out today.

[charvelguy]

Everthing from self titled debut to Diver Down was great energy, fun with tone. Cathedral really blew me away with the simplicity of the concept but the execution required practice and coordination. To me, it was the sound. Many of his solos were aptly named. (concept elaboration of Les Paul, Brian May-Brighton Rock, Ronnie Montrose-Razor King)
Eddie was always striving to reinvent and expand, but there was great songwriting and rhythm playing too.

[LastInLine]

Eddie was always striving to reinvent and expand, but there was great songwriting and rhythm playing too.

I agree. There was (is) so much more to his playing than just the tapping and the "pyrotechnics".

[CharvelRocker]

I agree. There was (is) so much more to his playing than just the tapping and the "pyrotechnics".

A perfect example of this is the main riff. To panama. Very simple, but very awesome.

[quiksilver]

EVH's playing throughout the DLR era is powerfully inventive, musical, spontaneous and inspired. It has this falling-down-the-stairs-and-landing-on-your-feet feel that is so loose and exciting, it's amazing.

David Lee Roth has his own spontaneous, wild, swaggering energy, and is the perfect foil for Eddie. When you put the two together, the result is magic. I am extremely thankful for every song on VHI to 1984, together with Can't Get This Stuff No More and Me Wise Magic.

EVH is the King.

[livebiz]

Ed invented the d-Tuna! That rocks too.

[Nuclear Vampire]

The beginning to Unchained. The tone, the riff... that is fucking awesome rock and roll bitches.

[slashrox]

Eddie Van Halen was an Awesome Guitarist back then I'm 17 (Although Influenced by Slash & Steve Clark), First Time I heard eruption I, was thinking "Fuck that was amazing! Wish I could play like that"

Im slowly learning eruption

[Endrik]

hey it's not cool to talk good things about Ed.

there's a new trend, you have to think that you are actually better than Ed and post "this tour will never happen" in every friggin' thread.