
View Poll Results: What is the most technically and musically brilliant VH solo?
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Sinner's Swing!
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Hot For Teacher
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Summer Nights (LWAN)
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Year To The Day
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02.22.07, 11:49 PM #1
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Greatest Van Halen solo (technically)
Excluding instrumental wonders such as Spanish Fly and Ed's live solo from LWAN (which deserves special mention), which do you think is Ed's best solo WITHIN A SONG - based purely on technical and musical ability (not personal favourites).
I've put up 4 songs on a poll that spring to mind, but feel free to suggest others that I haven't mentioned, and if they are popular I'll see if there's a way to edit the poll and put in a few more options.Last edited by IntoTheEther; 02.23.07 at 12:04 AM.
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02.22.07, 11:57 PM #2
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Spanish Fly and even Cathedral really are impressive along with a lot more but for some reason the ferocity of the solo from One Foot Out The Door has always moved me.
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02.22.07, 11:57 PM #3
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in the hagem high solo theres a little rythm break in the solo seems very hard to play.he hits double palm muted notes between each power chord, kind of like the beginning of light up the sky.i love it when he does that.
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02.23.07, 12:09 AM #4
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He's liked by some still....that's cool....
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02.23.07, 12:49 AM #5
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I've always loved the solo to "Hear about it later", another good one off Fair Warning is "Push comes to shove". Soooo many to choose from but those are a couple I like...
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02.23.07, 01:00 AM #6
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Edward is at his best during the Summer Nights solo from Live Without A Net. It is ridiculous.
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02.23.07, 06:59 AM #7
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I STILL believe the most jaw-dropping piece Ed ever committed to tape has to be ALL of "I'm The One". That one STILL eats my lunch and I've been bangin' away at learning that one for over twenty years...
The stuff in "Girl Gone Bad" is pretty wicked, as well..."20 minutes (late to work)? Shit. Last year I woke up three weeks too late.My advice is to go for the alien abduction story. Look bemused, dishevelled and on the verge of tears as you recount your story of intrusive and degrading medical tests.Worked for me anyway. I still have colleagues asking me what it is like to fuck a green womanoid with seventeen breasts.Alternatively just walk in and inform everyone that alcoholism is indeed a disease and that they should be less judgemental and perhaps a little more supportive."- graeme on the addiction to this place.
"something tells me that after the nuclear holocaust, there'll be twinkies, cockroaches, and a dave vs. sammy argument going on somewhere".- han valen, 6.11.04
"in my best "saw" scary movie voice: "oh, yes, there will be beagles."- hatchetforce, 6.7.06
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02.23.07, 07:52 AM #8
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I gotta go with...
Ice Cream Man. It moves me.
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.- Isaac Asimov
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02.23.07, 07:55 AM #9
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While on the topic of jaw dropping solos, I had to post this:
I thought this solo was one of the best I have seen Eddie pull off - effortless, technically awesome, certainly one of my favorites, and def at a point when he was 'on'. Solo starts at 3:00, goes on for around a minute-twenty.
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02.23.07, 12:23 PM #10
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02.23.07, 06:29 PM #11
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Yes I was blown away by that live solo when I saw it on YouTube a few months ago. I always thought that solo on Feelin' was probably Ed's best in terms of technique on Balance, and if its possible, he has done even better on the live version.
BTW, Is there anyway I can edit a poll once I’ve posted it, so I can add some of these suggestions?
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02.23.07, 07:29 PM #12
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Always liked the lead work Mean Street , not very long but nasty as hell !
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Year to the day.
VAN HALEN FOR LIFE
Bands I've seen:
VAN HALEN X2
Rose Hill Drv.
Aerosmith X2
Cheap Trick
Motley Cru
The Who
BB King
Velvet Revolver
Three Days Grace
Robert Plant
The trews
Heaven and Hell
Megadeth
Roger Waters/ Best concert EVER
Ozzy
Rob Zombie
In This Moment
Proud Threetard
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03.01.07, 12:31 PM #14
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Sinners Swing!
Originally Posted by POJO_Risin on a Hagar fan calling Us Roth Fans Mullet Freaks.
The Only people Who Put Iced Tea In Jack Daniels Bottles are SAMMY HAGAR FANS BABY!
"See the Aryan bozo with the red guitar
Parachute on the White House lawn
Gonna bomb the commies with his air guitar
So dumb he can't drive 55
Like Bing Crosby before them
GOVERNMENT MUSIC
Too idiotic to be real
GOVERNMENT MUSIC
You want it loud?
We'll make sure it goes nowhere
So you won't get ideas
Triumph of the swill (X4)"
-Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime For Democracy" 1986
"DLR Band means Dave, Lowery, and Ray. I named it that because it sounds more like a band than David Lee Roth, which just sounds like a person. When you hear David Lee Roth - you think of a person. When you hear DLR Band - you think of a band. Just like when you hear Eddie Van Halen you think of a person, and when you hear Van Halen - you think of David Lee Roth!"
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