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Now I have never been an avid consumer, though my brother was a big fan.
I remember this, back in the day
no wonder it makes some people soooooooo jealous.
they were a great rock band.

Out of all the bands that effected me when I was young this one made the biggest impression on me. Eddie's note choices were and still are so unorthodox in main stream music. This guy really changed how rock music was played! When remodeling my music room last week I found my 1983 Guitar Player Special Edition magazine. That entire issue is dedicated to the guys that changed music Jimi/Eddie! I was NEVER jealous of Eddie I emmulated and wanted to be just like him. I am still working toward that end. Though I know it will never happen the bar was raised by him and I am a better musician for having tried!

J-HALEY wrote:Out of all the bands that effected me when I was young this one made the biggest impression on me. Eddie's note choices were and still are so unorthodox in main stream music. This guy really changed how rock music was played! When remodeling my music room last week I found my 1983 Guitar Player Special Edition magazine. That entire issue is dedicated to the guys that changed music Jimi/Eddie! I was NEVER jealous of Eddie I emmulated and wanted to be just like him. I am still working toward that end. Though I know it will never happen the bar was raised by him and I am a better musician for having tried!

Greg Ginn probably had just as much influence on music as EVH.
But, I doubt he'll ever get the credit.

Black Flag- Depression
http://youtu.be/oxyEvWP7jHA

Mike Nobody wrote:

J-HALEY wrote:Out of all the bands that effected me when I was young this one made the biggest impression on me. Eddie's note choices were and still are so unorthodox in main stream music. This guy really changed how rock music was played! When remodeling my music room last week I found my 1983 Guitar Player Special Edition magazine. That entire issue is dedicated to the guys that changed music Jimi/Eddie! I was NEVER jealous of Eddie I emmulated and wanted to be just like him. I am still working toward that end. Though I know it will never happen the bar was raised by him and I am a better musician for having tried!

Greg Ginn probably had just as much influence on music as EVH.
But, I doubt he'll ever get the credit.

Black Flag- Depression
http://youtu.be/oxyEvWP7jHA

You are kidding right? Back when I was first learning guitar I could have learned to play that CRAP in 5 minutes! I listened to that entire song though it was VERY difficult. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

her axe man made his dent as well


it was this

http://youtu.be/7qUFZwJb9GA

For a little while (1980) VH and The Police were the two most influential bands around for guitar players. They both put out some good records but declined rather quickly, mostly because of internal fighting but also because the music changed. We're doing "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" and "Synchronicity II", but one song by each of them is enough for the whole night

LOL, comparing Black Flag to Van Halen is like, well hell I cant even put it into words.

Van Halen changed the way people looked at rock guitar and what was possible, and they did it in a pop song format. I think most of the 90s hair bands were inspired by Van Halen, either Roth as a frontman or Eddie as the axe man. Plus they inspired all the pyro tech guitar players for a couple of decades.

I remember me and another guy I grew up with listening to the first album the first time and we just looked at each other like, WTF???? I thought they had a couple of guitar players.

I think many of you that are a bit younger than me, dont realize the impact they had on music, they were huge, as big as it gets, and at the time some of the older bands such as Zep and Aerosmith kinda went downhill, they brought heavy rock back to the masses.

They were a huge influence on me. If you happened to catch them back in the day, you would have been totally floored, thier concerts were just like no other, plus unlike many groups of the era they had a sense of humor about them.

And I know I may go against the grain, cause they have lost a little step, and also lost thier vocal harmonys when Michael left, but they still can rock as good as anyone.

I personally like Black Flag, Greg Kinn, and Henry Rollins, but comparing them to Van Halen is just stupidity in my opinion. There is no comparison.

I saw van halen 1st when they opened for ted nugent at the cap center's last general admission concert.
they played in their street clothes, if you know what I mean.


http://youtu.be/Un35T2TQ0EY

jw123 wrote:LOL, comparing Black Flag to Van Halen is like, well hell I cant even put it into words.

Van Halen changed the way people looked at rock guitar and what was possible, and they did it in a pop song format. I think most of the 90s hair bands were inspired by Van Halen, either Roth as a frontman or Eddie as the axe man. Plus they inspired all the pyro tech guitar players for a couple of decades.

I remember me and another guy I grew up with listening to the first album the first time and we just looked at each other like, WTF???? I thought they had a couple of guitar players.

I think many of you that are a bit younger than me, dont realize the impact they had on music, they were huge, as big as it gets, and at the time some of the older bands such as Zep and Aerosmith kinda went downhill, they brought heavy rock back to the masses.

They were a huge influence on me. If you happened to catch them back in the day, you would have been totally floored, thier concerts were just like no other, plus unlike many groups of the era they had a sense of humor about them.

And I know I may go against the grain, cause they have lost a little step, and also lost thier vocal harmonys when Michael left, but they still can rock as good as anyone.

I personally like Black Flag, Greg Kinn, and Henry Rollins, but comparing them to Van Halen is just stupidity in my opinion. There is no comparison.

Henry Rollins - Van Halen
http://youtu.be/O5mGVjcSt1M

I saw VH in 1980, Eddie was good but Diamond Dave annoyed the crap out of me. He kept interrupting the songs to gush on and on about how he loves Detroit, thank you so much, blah blah blah. I bought "Women and Children First" but I was mostly done with them after that.

I liked a handfull of songs. still do
it's rock & that's all that counts

I'm not naturally a "Fan" of anyone really

http://youtu.be/Prqk9_SF_h8

I remember going to my local guitar shop in 1983 to get strings. They also taught lessons their I took some. Anyhow when I was checking out at the register you could hear someone in the lesson room playing Eruption. The owner was the one checking me out he looked at me and said if I have to hear that song one more time I'm going to LOSE IT!

J-HALEY wrote:I remember going to my local guitar shop in 1983 to get strings. They also taught lessons their I took some. Anyhow when I was checking out at the register you could hear someone in the lesson room playing Eruption. The owner was the one checking me out he looked at me and said if I have to hear that song one more time I'm going to LOSE IT!

Is that before or after the "No Stairway To Heaven" sign was put up?

well "pop"
dose have that effect.

Mike Nobody wrote:

J-HALEY wrote:I remember going to my local guitar shop in 1983 to get strings. They also taught lessons their I took some. Anyhow when I was checking out at the register you could hear someone in the lesson room playing Eruption. The owner was the one checking me out he looked at me and said if I have to hear that song one more time I'm going to LOSE IT!

Is that before or after the "No Stairway To Heaven" sign was put up?

Just after! They would shoot you for playing Stairway!