One reason for Van Halen's success

[Wolfstrike]

so Van Halen was making a name for themselves in the local area.

by the time they got a record deal , Eddie had re-written or scrapped the songs they were known for.

Who does that?

 

[JGalt]

I think the reason they were successful was Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. Nobody had perfected the fret-hammering technique before he did.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I think because there was a lot of sugar-poppy teh suck right before they burst onto the scene. I mean, the "best guitarist" the year before Van Halen was Rick Springfield. Yah. True story.

Good from 68-76, disco, crappy pop rock, Van Halen is the time progression, IMO.

It only took a couple years of crap.

 

[sparky]

Eddie Van hasbeen used floyd rose locks, was a Les Paul student ,and basically fell into a gig with the right people at the right time ~S~

 

[Marion Morrison]

Eddie Van hasbeen used floyd rose locks, was a Les Paul student ,and basically fell into a gig with the right people at the right time ~S~

I really never heard any Les Paul influence in his work. Speedball influence, maybe. Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

 

[sparky]

Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

no......

 

[Marion Morrison]

Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

no......

O my, a Kahler 1 ..and 2..derp!

 

[sparky]

Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

no......

O my, a Kahler 1 ..and 2..derp!

Kahler's are a tremelo bridge system aka-whammy bar, not to be confused with a locking system ,or which FR is one make/model

Stew Mac's top luthier might be worth a gander>


~S~

 

[Marion Morrison]

Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

no......

O my, a Kahler 1 ..and 2..derp!

Kahler's are a tremelo bridge system aka-whammy bar, not to be confused with a locking system ,or which FR is one make/model

Stew Mac's top luthier might be worth a gander>


~S~

Go Fuck Yourself. Kahler 1> Anything Floyd Rose, boy.

You ever had an '87 Jackson Strat 24-fret with a Kahler 1? No?

I bet you can't play shit.

PS: That action was the sweetest! I put EMG active humbuckers on it, too.

 

[JGalt]

Eddie Van hasbeen used floyd rose locks, was a Les Paul student ,and basically fell into a gig with the right people at the right time ~S~

Eddie Van Halen used alot of different guitars, but he favored Kramers..

Edward Van Halen's Guitars

 

[MarathonMike]

It was the soaring vocals and Karate kicks of David Lee Roth.

 

[JGalt]

Do you know what's better than a Floyd Rose lock?

no......

O my, a Kahler 1 ..and 2..derp!

Kahler's are a tremelo bridge system aka-whammy bar, not to be confused with a locking system ,or which FR is one make/model

Stew Mac's top luthier might be worth a gander>


~S~

Go Fuck Yourself. Kahler 1> Anything Floyd Rose, boy.

You ever had an '87 Jackson Strat 24-fret with a Kahler 1? No?

I bet you can't play shit.

PS: That action was the sweetest! I put EMG active humbuckers on it, too.

Kahler and Floyd Rose tremolos were "new-fangled" back in my day. I was partial to the two-point fulcrum tremolos on the Fender American Standard Strats. The 6-screw tremolo tailpieces on the older Stratocasters were a bitch to set up and keep in tune, I don't know how Hendrix managed to do that with the old-style Fender 6-screw tremolo, especially when they're set up to float so you can use the tremolo bar to go sharp or flat.

Van Halen was probably using a .009 or .010 high E too, that lets you play riffs alot faster. I always favored a .0.11 high E, which gives a fatter tone. But then, I'm no Eddie Van Halen, I was more of a "Hendrix wanna-be"

The strings they used back in the 60's were like fat steel cables more than anything else.

 

[sparky]

Floyd Rose came out in the late 70's , it is more than just a whammy system which had been out for some time

The dif betwixt a FR and a plain old whammy system is it LOCKS the strings on both bridge and nut

This allows for strings to 'fall off the fretboard' , which EVH elevated to fame with his 'diveboms'

This would be an example of the nut>>>


An example of it's use>

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I think the reason they were successful was Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. Nobody had perfected the fret-hammering technique before he did.

Check out Frank Zappa on the Mike Douglas show circa 1975. Eddie was battling teenage zits while Zappa was tapping "Black Napkins" on national tv

 

[Mr Natural]

The strings they used back in the 60's were like fat steel cables more than anything else.

What we would do is get a set of Black Diamond strings and move them down a string. Use the e for a b, the b for a g, and so on.

 

[JGalt]

I think the reason they were successful was Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. Nobody had perfected the fret-hammering technique before he did.

Check out Frank Zappa on the Mike Douglas show circa 1975. Eddie was battling teenage zits while Zappa was tapping "Black Napkins" on national tv

I never got Zappa and the MOI, but in retrospective, he was way ahead of his time. I believe his political views were also somewhat libertarian.

 

[JGalt]

The strings they used back in the 60's were like fat steel cables more than anything else.

What we would do is get a set of Black Diamond strings and move them down a string. Use the e for a b, the b for a g, and so on.

True. Once you got rid of that pesky wound G string, you were rockin'.

 

[JGalt]

Floyd Rose came out in the late 70's , it is more than just a whammy system which had been out for some time

The dif betwixt a FR and a plain old whammy system is it LOCKS the strings on both bridge and nut

This allows for strings to 'fall off the fretboard' , which EVH elevated to fame with his 'diveboms'

This would be an example of the nut>>>


An example of it's use>

Being old-school, I hated those locking nuts when they first came out. If you broke a sting, it was break time while you searched your gig bag for the set of allen wrenches that were supposed to be in there but never were.

 

[Harry Dresden]

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[Snouter]

EVH is a great musician. The second best musician in VH was the bass player/backing vocalist Micheal Anthony believe it or not. The drummer sucks and the lead singer was obviously replaceable multiple times.