Про Van Halen и не только Опции

[Робот-гитарист]

Слушая Van Halen 1978 c одноимённого альбома, у меня возник такой вопрос:
В 60-х 70-х годах было много гитаристов, интересных и менее интересных, хороших и не очень, но был, как бы точнее выразиться, определённый уровень мастерства, выше которого никто не мог "прыгнуть" и звук у всех был не особо перегруженный. И вдруг появляется никому не известный паренёк Эдди Ванхелен и в 1978 году играет так и на таком перегрузе, как потом будут пытаться играть уже в 80-х и даже 90-х. Может я чего пропустил, но был ли до Эдди гитарист, который играл бы такие пассажи и приёмы (или близкие по типу) как Эдди да и вообще который был бы "связующим звеном" между Эдди и гитаристами аля Блэкмор, Айомми, Хендрикс и тд? Кстати вспомнился еще Рэнди Роадс, но первый альбом Quiet Riot 1977 года по моему слишком далёк и от Эдди да и от самого Рэнди, каким он был уже сотрудничая с Оззи. В общем интересны ваши мнения.

[Илья с Баварщины]

The instrumental "Eruption" showcased a solo technique called tapping, utilizing both left and right hands on the guitar neck.

Although Van Halen popularized tapping, he did not, despite popular belief, invent the tapping technique. The tapping technique in Blues and Rock was being picked up by various guitarists in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Steve Hackett from the group Genesis used a tapping technique as early as 1971 on the album Nursery Cryme. Duane Allman from the The Allman Brothers Band and Frank Zappa tapped with a pick in the early 1970s. Brian May of Queen also used the tapping technique, which he picked up in America in the early 1970s, on songs such as It's Late from the News Of The World album. From a Brian May Guitar Player Jan 1983 interview about tapping "I stole it from a guy who said that he stole it from Billy Gibbons in ZZ Top".

Ritchie Blackmore has said in an interview that he and Jimi Hendrix saw Harvey Mandel tap at a nightclub in the late 1960s. From a Feb 1991 Guitar World Ritchie Blackmore interview "The first person I saw doing that hammer-on stuff was Harvey Mandel, at the Whisky A Go-Go in '68". The tapping technique was also known by Jazz guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s. Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel taps a few notes at the 2 minute 50 second mark of this video from 1964.

Early EVH stage photographs, and demo and bootleg recordings from 1976 and before do not indicate EVH using any tapping techniques. In an Ace Frehley January 2005 Guitar World interview, Ace Frehley says that EVH probably started tapping in late 1976/1977 after seeing him tap using a pick with Kiss just before the Gene Simmons Van Halen demo tapes were made. Ace Frehley had been tapping with a pick (similar to Frank Zappa) from at least 1973 as early Kiss television appearances show such as Kiss performing She on The Midnight Special television show in 1975.

EVH's comments about how he came across the tapping technique vary from interview to interview. This is one interview excerpt.

"I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off to an open string, and I thought wait a minute, open string ... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around?" ... I just kind of took it and ran with it."