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Rare video – Eddie at NAMM, 1987

March 16, 2009 16 Comments

Here’s some little-seen footage of Eddie Van Halen playing at the Anaheim Convention Center during the NAMM show, January 30th, 1987. He’s jamming with Steve Stevens, Michael Winslow, and others at the Kramer booth. This was just two months after the 5150 tour wrapped up, and just before he went into the studio to play bass on Sammy’s I Never Said Goodbye album.

Songs: “Superstitious” & “Whole Lotta Love.”

Filed Under: Eddie Van Halen

edrulez

eddie that was killer!!!!! stevie stephens was pickin a fight i think, and ed was just funnin around. i think ed should have let him have it!!!! please VHND some one post the solo from some get me a doctor off of the bootleg atomic punks……i swear that is the baddest ass eddie solo ever….i mean ever.it is a extended jam that makes my skin crawl. please post it!!!!!
http://michaelquinn.com.au Michael

Very cool. And kinda sad, cos I just can’t see Eddie doing this sort of thing today.

(surprised he didn’t sack himself from the band for playing with other people….)
Big Al

edrulez,

I AGREE! He was trying to pick a fight. Like ED says, music is not a competition!

Plus when EVERY GUITARIST that comes after you, sounds EXACTLY like you, Well you have NOTHING to prove!!

ALL HAIL KING EDWARD!! especially those who TEACH!!!!
Big Al

Michael,

You’re aloud to JAM with other people, not START NEW BANDS!!!

get it RIGHT!!
Erick

EVH, Steve Stevens, the guy with all the sounds in Police Academy. I would call this another SUPERGROUP.
Jor-L5150

man – there ia ALWAYS something ” new ” to see/hear.

just when i thought i knew of every bootleg/clip etc.
billy

The backwoods of Appalachia called, they want their rat tail haircut back.

Jesus Christ. Ed looks like a carnival ride operator.

That was a great time, though. Ed was happy and healthy and Sam hadn’t discovered fried cheese cake bites and Hawaiian shirts just yet.
http://vhnd JCN

I don’t think Steve Stevens was trying to start a fight.

Whats he supposed to do just fall over and play dead cuz it’s Eddie next to him. Hell no.
JoePhishVH

Great clip, new to even us VH vets that thought we’d seen em all, keep em comin!!!! Stevens wasn’t pickin a fight, a friendy duel maybe, its part of the all star jam thing, its cool no biggie, they were all havin fun, crowd dug it, leave it be. Nice Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge on vocals in the first clip, classic, great to see the ‘old’ Ed rockin out and having fun, wish we can see that again dunno if its possible….cheers!!!
http://www.501stlegion.org skutch

That mullet is terrible. Great playing though.
http://photos4u2c.wordpress.com/ Dave

Ed was awesome during the cocaine years. Played good, looked fit, and jumped around a lot. What happened?
bigfoot1141

Really cool to see some bootleg stuff!

I don’t think Steve was starting a fight, he had said many times before that Eddie was a big influence on him. I think he was just showing Eddie all he had learned from him.

One thing that was dissappointing was to hear hear Eddie jamming the same solo licks he did at every other jam. He really got stuck in a rut around that time, solo wise. Not that it was bad, but “been there, hear it too many times”.

It did prove once and for all that Eddie is an AWSOME rhythm player. He is WAY TO UNDERRATED in that department!
http://www.bellapop.com Bran Halen

Very cool! Please keep this stuff coming!
ER

Great time era for Eddie! Thanks for posting!
http://none J5149.5

steve’s trying to push eddie.that’s all.eddie got real laid back at this time and was more into songwriting than soloing. and if you notice he just rips right here as good as he had ever did.
Steve

It was an amazing evening that I will never forget. I was there as a photographer and got many amazing shots. This was also the same day that Steve Stevens recorded the Dirty Diana video with Michael Jackson. This brought back a lot of good memories of those days…Thanks for posting.