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fucking hot ass guitar sound!! "Beautiful Girls" fucking rocks! All you brothers wondering what a "good guitar sound" is, thats it!
juststartingout said:And Eddie just was having a great time and sounded as awsome as ever.
ampd said:fucking hot ass guitar sound!! "Beautiful Girls" fucking rocks! All you brothers wondering what a "good guitar sound" is, thats it!
juststartingout said:Still, EVH has survived where other guitar heros are forgotten because he is also an absolutely brilliant rhythm player. If you threw out all of his solos, he's still be considered one of the greats. And I don't even like Van Halen's music . . .
Agreed. His rhythms set him apart from the crowd.
I like his old guitar sound much better than the newer processed sound.
It'll be interesting to see where Ed places on the greatest guitar player list in about 20 years. Most current rock players I talk to don't like him at all. What a shame.
Aaron Cheney said:And gvarko... you are insane! His tone on Van Halen 1 and Mean Streets was all about his technique. Even playing through the exact rigs he used on those albums there isn't anybody else on the planet could have sounded like him. Now the later stuff....
gvarko said:If not than perhaps you are insane....
Aaron Cheney said:I agree that Eddie had a tremendous, unprecedented impact on popular guitar, but he is nowhere near the mythical proportions of Hendrix. Not only has Hendrix transcended his band, he has transcended himself as a guitar player. He is a public icon recognizable to people of all generations and walks of life. People don't even need to see him with a guitar to know who he is - just a head shot is enough. You can walk into a novelty shop anywhere and find tons of Hendrix merchandise... keychains, posters, stickers, t-shirts, black-lights, insence burners, etc, etc, etc.Same with Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Marilynn Monroe, James Dean, etc.
I don't think that 30 years after his death EVH will have that kind of public awareness, and in all seriousness...I think the reason is because his novelty wore off before he checked out. In 30 years I think you will see a greater SRV legacy than EVH legacy.
It's kind of funny how that works. It's sort of a Star Trek phenominon. You have this enormouns cult following for a 30 year old TV series that was never even that popular during its initial run. Somehow the thing just snowballed.
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17) How can I get the "Brown Sound"?
Step 1) Die and re-incarnate as Eddie.
Step 2) Visit your local Peavey® dealer (must complete step one first).
Step 3) Whatever you do, suppress any impulse to be creative and original.
he played with so many gadgets when you seen him by his self he sounded like shit ......from a guitarist for 41 yearssampd said:fucking hot ass guitar sound!! "Beautiful Girls" fucking rocks! All you brothers wondering what a "good guitar sound" is, thats it!
gvarko said:Take a nice humbucker equipped strat and plug into a Peavey 5150 and you will sound like EVH. I have a Peavey Transformer amp and it has some kind of 5150 emulation that gives me an EVH sounds nicely....
Light said:Not even kinda. NO ONE sounds like Eddie, except for Eddie. His sound is all in his hands, and without his hands, you can not sound like Eddie.
I read a story in Guitar Player back in the early eighties by Eddies then guitar tech. Van Halen was tour as a support act for Ted Nugent, and he was so impressed by Eddies tone that he came to sound check and asked to try Eddies rig. He tried it, and then asked what they had left out, because he did not sound like Eddie.
It is all in the hands, and without the hands, you ain't gonna get it. Period.
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