Eddie Van Halen vs. Jimmy Page

bryguy2524 · June 1st, 2005, 10:29 PM

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr

unchainedguitars · June 2nd, 2005, 12:31 AM

I friggin' love Jimmy Page, he is the epitome of cool & a musical genius, but still, Edward is my main dude!
No one can even approach the unique way in which Jimmy orchestrated his guitars, or write better riffs.
eddie rewrote the vocabulary for rock guitar, and unlike Page, he was a true virtuoso on his instrument. "Spanish fly" still sounds like the man had hands made out of steel.
Bottom line, is i love them both!

al sobrante · June 2nd, 2005, 02:18 AM

I think that Jimmy Page is an excellent guitarist, although I think he is best known for the riffs, that he wrote in comparison to his theory. Edward is a songwriter, he knows exactly, what he wants. Besides, "Everyone knows that Edward's main influence, was the material that Clapton, wrote with Cream." B)

evh_rules · June 2nd, 2005, 03:44 AM

In football (soccer) terms:

First half:
Jimmy vs. Eddie: 1-0

Second Half:
Jimmy vs. Eddie: 1-3

Man, it's hard to choose between those two ! They are both my guitar heroes and i agree with Unchained that Eddie is a true virtuoso on the guitar. If i had to choose, it would be Eddie.

btw, this picture says it all .....

Cathedral =I= · June 2nd, 2005, 08:25 AM

I always have to put live performances up against live performances if asked to choose betwixed one person or another.

Jimmy Paige is awesome, but very sloppy live, so that lowers his overall average with me.
It doesn't however shake his total influence on the masses. No matter who he is jamming with, his style is always identifyable and the number of artists that have that going for them is nominal.

Edward Van Halen is also very sloppy live, but i think a large part of that is due to his own need to experiment live, as if he just goes with the flow, but is for the most part, spot on.
He is another one of the rare breed where you hear one, maybe two notes and you know it's Edward.

The conclusion is that they are both equal in my mind.
I honestly can't say one is better than the other, they are just different in their approach to creating kick ass music.

unchainedguitars · June 2nd, 2005, 12:40 PM

See, i don't think eddie is sloppy live, at all. I mean, unless he's completely hammered, he usually nails everything.
I watch the Largo DVD, and he plays all this complex stuff like "Hang 'em high" and "Romeo delight" perfectly.
Sure, he improvises and changes licks here and there just to keep himself interested, but a sloppy player he is not. At least, to my ears.

Simon Ribeiro · June 2nd, 2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by evh_rules@Jun 1 2005, 08:44 PM

Man, it's hard to choose between those two ! They are both my guitar heroes and i agree with Unchained that Eddie is a true virtuoso on the guitar. If i had to choose, it would be Eddie.

The same here. I love Eddie's playing a lot and I also appreciate what Page did on the Led Zep's records. Nice picture, EVH.

Mean Street · June 2nd, 2005, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by unchainedguitars@Jun 2 2005, 04:40 AM
See, i don't think eddie is sloppy live, at all. I mean, unless he's completely hammered, he usually nails everything.
I watch the Largo DVD, and he plays all this complex stuff like "Hang 'em high" and "Romeo delight" perfectly.
Sure, he improvises and changes licks here and there just to keep himself interested, but a sloppy player he is not. At least, to my ears.

I always thought the same thing about Jimmy Page live, at least from my limited experience. I thought most of his sloppiness came towards the end of Led Zeppelin when he was on heroin.

Sikester · June 2nd, 2005, 07:39 PM

I agree with Mean Street. Jimmy got really sloppy from Heroin. I thought he played some really impressive stuff early on and then got really nuts later. He's one of my top five fav's, but Eddie definately gets the nod. I always have this argument with my other friend who plays guitar. It always ends with a dirty look.

unchainedguitars · June 3rd, 2005, 12:52 AM

Don't know about that! "Rain song" is pretty complex, and a completely moving composition. Page deffinately is a superior songwriter (Kashmir, Blackdog, Achilles last stand). He combined so many genres in his writing, and they really sounded like nothing else. His stuff was a little more ambitious.
Having said that, I agree with everything else you said in the thread before that one.