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RIP EVH
Oct 6, 2020 19:15:10 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 19:15:10 GMT -5
::shuffles his feet:: Not a huge Emmanuel fan...
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RIP EVH
Oct 6, 2020 20:23:41 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 6, 2020 20:23:41 GMT -5
I had a guitar teacher who told me of his trip in the late 70s to Berkley School of Music with a student friend. He said he saw a class full of guitar players who could play everything. Technically very proficient. They could replicate anything (as could he). He chose not to attend.
There is something to be said for bringing guitar-centric rock and roll music back in vogue, energy, originality, fun, and popularity. Songs like "Panama," "Jump," and "Hot for Teacher," were original in their energy, originality and fun factor. And I think Eddie helped put a few folks onto the harmonic tapping trail, maybe even Tommy E.
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RIP EVH
Oct 6, 2020 22:46:10 GMT -5
Post by Tamarack on Oct 6, 2020 22:46:10 GMT -5
My condolences to his family and friends.
Never cared much for his music, but I guess I never heard much of it. I was quite immersed in folkiness by the time VH came around.
EVH briefly attended Calvin College, my wife's alma mater, a Dutch Reformed college a few miles from where I now sit. I understand he spent most of his time in his dorm room playing guitar.
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RIP EVH
Oct 7, 2020 6:05:42 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 7, 2020 6:05:42 GMT -5
Just discovered this: youtu.be/1cOosnkWj2gIn an absolutely bizarre bit of serendipity, Rick Beato put out a video talking about EVH the day before he died. What's more, the video deals with a hypothetical: What if EVH, Peter Frampton, or Eric Johnson had done the solo on Stairway To Heaven? Almost eerie. Phil X covers the EVH part. Does a good enough job, but as good as he is, he's no EVH. Impossible task, really.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 7, 2020 9:59:33 GMT -5
Randy Salas · Oct 6, 2020 Minnesota Public Radio
Eddie Van Halen, who has died from cancer at 65, blazed trails with his band Van Halen as one of the greatest guitarists in rock history. But he never forgot his classical past, and it started with his name and upbringing.
When Van Halen was born in 1955 in the Netherlands, his musically minded parents (father Jan Van Halen was a clarinetist, saxophonist and pianist) named him Edward Lodewijk Van Halen in honor of Ludwig Van Beethoven. (Lodewijk is the Dutch equivalent of the German name Ludwig.) But that was just the start of his classical childhood.
After the family moved to Pasadena, Calif., in the early 1960s — with "$50 and a piano," he said during a talk at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History — his parents enrolled Van Halen in formal lessons for that piano at 6.
But he never learned to read the sheet music, he later explained. Instead, he would mimic the instructor's hand movements and play by ear to realize works by Beethoven and Mozart. During recitals and competitions, he would use memory recall and improvise, earning praise from judges for his stylizations.
While his parents might have wanted a classical career for Van Halen, the lure of rock music turned out to be too strong for him and brother Alex, who also had to take piano lessons. Eventually, they formed the band Van Halen, with Eddie on guitar and Alex on drums, and the rest is rock history.
But Eddie Van Halen's classical sympathies never really went away.
His band's second album included the 1-minute nylon-string guitar solo "Spanish Fly," providing a dazzling display of Van Halen's incredible musicianship and technical wizardry.
In a ranking of Van Halen's 20 greatest solos, Rolling Stone said:
An inspired piece of music, "Spanish Fly" was also a warning shot fired to remind the legions of hard-rock guitarists who were beginning to imitate his playing style that he could transcend the genre at will. Future Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, for one, got the message. "The first time I heard 'Spanish Fly,' I remember thinking, 'How can anybody get that … good?'" he says in Abel Sanchez' Van Halen 101. "It was beyond insane."
On the band's 1986 tour, Van Halen offered a rock version of his namesake composer's Für Elise — with his trademark flourishes, of course.
Another classical connection hit closer to home. When Van Halen and then-wife Valerie Bertinelli had a son in 1991, they named him Wolfgang in honor of another great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Rest in peace, Eddie Van Halen — the heart of a rock legend, the soul of a classical great.
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RIP EVH
Oct 7, 2020 10:03:59 GMT -5
Post by sidheguitarmichael on Oct 7, 2020 10:03:59 GMT -5
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RIP EVH
Oct 8, 2020 21:41:07 GMT -5
Post by John B on Oct 8, 2020 21:41:07 GMT -5
EVH, session guitarist:
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RIP EVH
Oct 8, 2020 23:36:41 GMT -5
Post by david on Oct 8, 2020 23:36:41 GMT -5
As a nascent guitarist, I just love it when the guitar can share the spotlight with the vocalist.
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