Eddie Van Halen - Eruption Guitar Solo - 1986

 - Rock and Roll Guitar Legend - Eddie Van Halen passed away on October 6, 2020 @ the age of 65. RIP Eddie and we will Rock on in your honor. I am a huge Van Halen fan. Back in my teens and early 20s, Van Halen was the bomb. Awesome concerts. We went to them all between 1978 and 1986. I prefer the David Lee Roth era and was very disappointed when he left the band. It took quite some time for me to warm up to Sammy Hagar, but I did.

They came to Connecticut a lot in those days. Usually, the New Haven Collesium. New Haven, CT is the city where Yale University presides, for those not familiar. The New Haven Collesium was a great place to see a concert and so many great Rock Concerts in those days. I say was, because unfortunately it was torn down in 2007. One of the other really cool things about this venue was the parking garage. The parking garage, you ask? Believe it or not, I will tell you why. It was about a 6 level parking garage with a corkscrew onramp. I will include a picture below, so you can invision it. First of all, imagine a car full of alcohol and marijuana inebriated teens, that just drove 1 hour from Hartford, CT to New Haven, CT Now they are trying to drive up a 6 story corkscrew onramp. I say 6 stories, because we always got there 3 - 4 hours early, so we could get to the roof of the parking garage before it filled up. That is where you wanted to be, before the concerts. That was the tailgate party to end all tailgate parties. Most cars were muscle cars with great stereo equipment. Everyone would open their trunks, all tune in to the same local New Haven Rock radio station that would feature whatever band was playing that night at the Collesium, and crank it up. A couple hundred cars, outside on the roof of the garage, you could hear it all over downtown New Haven and then some. What a party, what a good time, those were the days!

Here is my tribute to Eddie Van Halen. I was going to post just a video of a great tune at aconcert with David Lee Roth singing, but I also wanted post this really great quality video of Eddie playing his signature guitar solo - "Eruption." This is Sammy Hagar era, but it is great quality because it was being filmed for the 1986 VHS concert release - "Van Halen - Without a Net." Also, it was filmed at the New Haven Collesium and I was there.

New Haven - Colliseum - Parking Garage

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