Wolfgang Van Halen SHREDS at Taylor Hawkins Memorial Concert!

hey everybody i'm rick beato so this past weekend they had the taylor hawkins benefit concert over in england all these friends of taylor's got up on stage and played there were some amazing performances one of them in particular i was thinking about talking about and then i got an email this morning and i want to read it to you and the email was titled was wolfie a little too perfect rick if you had a chance to see the video of the taylor hawkins tribute it was pretty amazing and as a huge evh fan seeing wolfy play there was pretty cool there's no shortage of players on youtube that are happy to show off their eddie licks but i can't recall one that had the exact same sound watching wolfie and specifically a solo for hover teacher that sounded so good but yet too good would it be possible for you to line up the guitar solos from the album and the concert love your channel and all your content okay wolfgang van halen started playing in van halen in 2006 when he was 15. he's a multi-instrumentalist he plays every instrument incredibly well if you listen to his new record his his project mammoth wvh where he played everything and sang it's a great record he's known for being able to play everything he's played hot for teacher probably hundreds of times in van halen okay did you notice that his vocals were exactly dead on well maybe it's because he sang the background vocals with eddie when he was replacing michael anthony i mean this is you know he was in van halen he played hop for teacher on base with his uncle alex many many times the thing about is that people are not used to seeing him play these leads like that well if you go back on youtube and look around or on instagram you can find him playing an eruption there's a short clip of it here it is [Laughter] my now he's playing it and it sounds like his dad right well of course it sounds like his dad he played guitar with his dad all the time and there's something interesting about this that is unquantifiable about eddie van halen's style and it's his time feel and i think this is what the guy that wrote to me why he can't believe it sounds so much like van halen especially the lead playing it's eddie's time feel well wolfgang has this there's this whole nature versus nurture issue that i when i started my channel i made some videos about this the nature part is it genetically do people have genetic abilities in music for example that make them natural players well yes time feel is one thing you can improve your time feel but some people just have great time no question about it some people have great natural dexterity and have chops without having to do a lot they can just play things that other people can't play or they have unusually large stretches paul gilbert allen holdsworth whoever they have huge hands they're easy for them to get around on those are genetic things but instruments don't play themselves there's just nothing you can do you can't take a pill you can't just be naturally gifted at something and automatically play it it takes coordination it takes many years of playing i mean some people can learn really quickly wolfgang is probably one of those guys that can learn that did learn really quickly he started on the drums his uncle gave him a few little lessons and everything but he's pretty much self-taught and i'm sure his dad showed him things too but he played in the band and he was pro enough to play in the band when he's 15 and he's a fantastic player not only that i've gotten a chance to meet wolfgang and talk to him uh one time back in 2020 and he's the nicest guy in the world on top of being this incredibly great musician from this family dynasty he's a super great person let's take a listen to what we're talking about here to his performance on hot for teacher okay so this is josh playing the drums on here justin hawkins [Music] so [Music] he has such great natural feel when he goes into the dome it sounds just like his dad well that's the that's the thing that you just can't learn that's the part of it that's the nature part that's the genetic part of it which is why he can nail that let's listen hey guys [Music] i want all the teachers to look like this year okay that's justin hawkins they're talking he has a youtube channel justin hawkins rides again and he gave me a shout out last week or so about talking with him on his channel justin if you hear this let's do it man [Music] [Music] for wall [Music] okay this is a similar thing with dave grohl right dave grohl is a phenomenal rhythm player because he's a great drummer this is the thing i just did a video on phil collins these guys that are drummers that go and play other instruments they have great time if they're great drummers it's no problem keeping the groove like that [Music] let's go to the solo next i think that's kind of what freaked this guy out that wrote to me he couldn't believe how much it sounded like eddie [Music] wow wolfgang fantastic i'm really that was that was really amazing that blew me away that was one of the most fun parts of the whole tribute concert i just wanted to say something about taylor hawkins i never did a video after taylor's passing he passed at night and i didn't know what to talk about with with the video i'm really glad that these these concerts have happened i had mentioned in one of my episodes that the only person that i met from the foo fighters was taylor hawkins for 10 seconds i went to the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony last uh in cleveland i did a live stream about it but never really made a video about it but before the show taylor and dave came out and talked to people that were hanging out in the front part of the auditorium there beforehand and i went over to tower and i just said congratulations i shook his hand that was it that was it that was uh and he was incredibly nice i'm talking to other people and uh it's hard to to say anything that other people haven't said especially people that knew him and i don't feel like it's that i have anything to add to the conversation other than being a really big fan of his playing and his musicianship and his musicianship went far beyond his drumming he was a huge music fan listen to him talk about any of his favorite bands like queen his thing was about music appreciation he just loved music he loved other bands he loved to play and you can hear that you see the great outpouring for him at this event that's all i wanted to say today thanks so much for watching if you're a first time viewer here hit the subscribe button if you watch a lot but haven't subscribed yet do it now thanks so much

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Length: 9min 18sec (558 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 06 2022