Eddie Van Halen has died

Post by scns » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:34 AM UTC

fratajcz wrote: post #113

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #85

His music wasn't really my style, but I remember the Heavy Metal effect pedal from Boss that my cousin owned had a booklet in it with the setups of various professional musicians - to show off how they used Boss pedals in different combinations. Everybody had complicated setups with multiple pedals. Van Hallen's "setup" went something like this: Heavy Metal --> cable --> jack --> amp

I think that was just a way of the manual showing you how to have a sound "inspired by" Van Halen, since he famously got his distortion sound not from a pedal, but from a Marshall amp that he ran at a low voltage using a variac (as an aside, the boss heavy metal was famously used by Swedish death metal bands turning all the dials up, not really a Van Halen sound). He also used multiple pedals, such as the Echoplex, M…

Post by ct-1111 » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:37 AM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #147

ct-1111 wrote: post #109

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I got the same feeling as brtkdotse when Chris Cornell of Soundgarden died. "They aren't making them like that anymore". And if they are, I haven't found any. Can you give us an example (like a YouTube link) of a modern guitarist (from the past 15 or so years) that approaches Eddie Van Halen's level of talent or innovation? An uplifting thought is that, like Cornell, although we have lost him, we still have his music…

This is absolutely insane. Modern metal has been pushing so many boundaries since its such a hard genre to get into. Some obscenely amazing guitarists have emerged in the last decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y275DyRjfjE&list=PLThcv0otcW... And 15 years? Dream Theater has been around for 20 years (with modern lineup), and nobody in their right minds would not put John Petrucci at the top of any guitarist list…

Post by quinndiggity » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:42 AM UTC

mhh__ wrote: post #114

caseyohara wrote: post #83

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That's not a record player though, that's a DJ controller. Very different.

The parent comment was comparing DJ equipment to a record player (to this patent), which I feel is a poor example because modern DJ equipment almost always has different equipment too rather even if you could technically do it with a fader and some record players (as in at a gig, I'm aware people still mix on vinyl - pretentious as it can be). The patented guitar thing is literally played the same way but in a differ…

Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

clairity wrote: post #149

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Post by ipiz0618 » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 5:33 AM UTC

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #137

ct-1111 wrote: post #109

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I got the same feeling as brtkdotse when Chris Cornell of Soundgarden died. "They aren't making them like that anymore". And if they are, I haven't found any. Can you give us an example (like a YouTube link) of a modern guitarist (from the past 15 or so years) that approaches Eddie Van Halen's level of talent or innovation? An uplifting thought is that, like Cornell, although we have lost him, we still have his music…

My immediate go-to answer for that question would be Guthrie Govan. He can shred with anyone, but also can do incredibly delicate picking work, and can play in the context of almost any genre you could name - blues, folk, jazz. His blending of techniques goes way beyond EVH (but undoubtedly bears some debt too). This is probably Govan's most famous single-take solo, but he has oodles of other work at this level (thou…