More isolated Van Halen tracks

i think its a little earlier to predict his death
10 years ago i would have put him dead in 5 years
but his wife and son saved his life!

cool.

Not to belabor the point, but any guitar with a Duncan ’59 will nail the sound if played thru a tube amp. Eddie’s original humbucker on his white/red/black guitar came off a 1961 Gibson ES-335. It was a P.A.F. (patent applied for).

Ed’s idol Allan Holdsworth played a Gibson SG with PAF’s then sunk them into a Strat. Upon selling the Gibson he used Dimarzio PAF’s which he said were close, but when he tried the Duncan ’59s he couldn’t tell the difference between them and the Gibson pickups.

I know Ed modified his pickup, but I don’t think it changed the basic bandwidth from the sound of it. I can get VH sounds all day long with my ’59′s (I’m not getting paid to say it). Billy Duffy from The Cult said “I don’t like those Hot-Rails-To-Hell pickups. They’re all raunch and no tone”.

Pickups are for tone, tone-chasers. Amps give you more tone AND some raunch if you push them. Thanks for listening…

no problem chris, you are obviously a great student of the EVH school. I enjoyed the history lesson…again. All of this information was well publicized by Guitar Player magazine over 20 years ago. I do not think the Peavy Wolfgangs replicate that old tone as well. I have two of them. I wonder if the Fender Wolfgangs or the Frankenstrat replicas do?

I personally wrecked quite a few duncans dipping them in surfboard wax in my day. I got the burn scars on my stomach to prove it!

My guitar buddies used to call me “George Washburn Carver” because I was always chiseling out Strat bodies and trying to mod my amps in my quest for the Brown/Plexi tone.

It’s actually way easier than what I was trying to make it…

I forgot one last thing, that Seymour Duncan basically duplicated the humbucker from Jeff Beck’s 1959 Les Paul in designing the ’59. I don’t know if it was the one he recorded “Truth” with, or if it was his oxblood ’53 with humbuckers installed, but I’ve always received a consistant classic blues/rock/jazz tone every time I’ve bought one over the years, and any VH fan will appreciate the tone…

Wait! It’s already out on YouTube with Ice Cream Man! Yeah, baby! Thanks, MasterTracks!

“Remember when music made you smile?”

-David Lee Roth

Great quote Dirty Duck. Makes my earlier point exactly.

I think these tracks prove that we are “very lucky” to have been exposed to such stellar music growing up. Makes you realize how sad it is knowing that kids today have no rock star idol’s and nothing to really “get into”.
I’m a big fan of all music. Sure my love is rock but I’ve always had an ear for good tunes. People say the 80′s sucked musically but I beg to differ. I remember turning on MTV as a kid and there would always be something intresting on. ALWAYS! I’d see a video for michael jackson one min…the next Van Halen….the next The Beastie Boys…the next Duran Duran…the next Pat Benatar. This was also before MTV became a joke and a shadow of itself. Music was fun. It meant something. It was riding around on your bmx bike holding your radio blasting the latest cool song. Making mix tapes….shit, “taping” songs off the radio! I would stay up all night and listen to EVERYTHING on the radio. From rock stations to “rap attack” on WBLS and KISSFM. You became a part of the music and groups were a mystery. YOU DIDNT KNOW EVERY F’IN THING ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE ROCK BANDS AND IT DIDNT MATTER! Where’s the mystery today? Everything is so in your face you dont have a chance to absorb it. Get into it. It’s whatever’s popular and who “looks good” doing it.
This is why I’m very grateful for VH and many other rock groups I’ve grown up with. They had style, attitude, musicianship, and above all, a LOVE for the music.

Being a massive Alex Van Halen fan, it constantly blows my mind how great Alex is. His playing on some of the isolated tracks in others posts are a fresh reminder of Alex’s status as one of the greatest rock n roll drummers. But listening to EVH’s guitar work on Loss Of Control and Feel Your Love Tonight is amazing. Eddie’s rhythmic and phrasing are just out of this world. Someone said on this site the difference between Joe Satriani and EVH. Joe might (presently) have a profound technique and came probably play things more consistence, but he cannot write or come up with what Eddie does. He is true pioneer and innovator, Joe is like the rest of them, behind the 8 ball!! Eddie’s is so far ahead of the rest it will take 100 years from now for the world to really appreciate the musical master of the genius of King Edward Van Halen.

It was cool watching Beck from far away with Santana at Sandstone Ampitheatre, but the close up in the new DVD was almost like being there… I built up a Strat just for playing Beck/Gilmour on… We need one like that of the VH Reunion tour…