Van Halen YRGM solo study

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There is something in this solo that has never been acknowledged, much less placed in its proper context: the bends are just fucking wild! They have such a youthful vigor that just trying to replicate them makes one feel like the twenty year old genius Ed once was!!! A buddy of mine just gave me a copy of a video made back in 78 of "You really Got Me". Its lip-synced but, just watching that wicked little Edward playing along with the actual album blew me away! -You can see just how loose and dexterous his technique was. Anyway, here is my rather stiff interpretation of that under-appreciated solo. Note the bend that starts on the G sting, seventh fret, yet bends all the way up five steps to the high G. -Very cool Edward shit.