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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
I see where he's coming from with that statement (About U2 and VH being reliant on their guitar players). The Edge's shimmering, echo-y guitar parts are a giant part of what gives them their sound. Van Halen was one of the earlier users of guitar tapping and techniques not really in the mainstream at that time. Jump for sure took them in a snyth-heavy direction but his style of playing is what makes that band what it is.
If you took either of those two out of the equation, they'd sound completely different. It's like hearing The Edge play without any of his effects, it's very....underwhelming.
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Like, say, take Richie out of BJ and it sounds different?
Richie is no EVH (on his prime) but a certain girl can play one if his hardest solos in Beat it (copy pasted from three different solos leading to one damn hard transition) better than EVH himself ever did live. And Edge - WTF. Richie is at least as important to BJ as Edge is to U2.
It was and it is guitar driven rock. Like I wrote earlier Richie is not in discussion of who is the best guitar player in the world. EVH might be - right or wrong - but Edge is certainly not. It is not about that.
It is about being the right guitar player as in being a part of the band, it's evolution and sound as well as song writing.
The comment from Jon was down right rude and not even nowhere near true at least as far as Edge is concerned. In fact I struggle to think any other succesful band than VH that was so dependent on guitar work and even VH - and this is the gist of it - even VH was more about the style and sound of EVH. Just like BJ and Richie.
Sheesh. Sorry, I am getting a bit agitated, but venting that really helped
