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This week has been a rough week for the music industry. There are only a handful of people that we can call true pioneers of the music industry. There have been legendary guitar heroes throughout the years, but the one that stands out to many of us is Eddie Van Halen.

It saddens me that this last Tuesday, October 6th 2020, he passed away. I wanted to talk about what Eddie meant to me because of how impactful he has been throughout his life to not only the music industry but to me especially.

As a little kid, before I learned to play guitar, my dad gave me a guitar. I was so excited and wanted to learn right away. I remember that I would go to this guy’s house, Niel Louis, and he played guitar. The first thing he put on was Van Halen 1, Eddie’s first album. He played the album and I was in shock. At the time I had no idea what I was hearing, it was alien to me. Eruption, any guitar solo that Eddie performed on that first album was a whole new experience, it was indescribable. The riffs, the solos, it was all creative genius.

In my eyes, Eddie created ‘shredding.’ He took what I saw from all the best skills from every guitarist I knew growing up, Allan Holdsworth, Brian May, Steve Hackett, and put it all together. When Eddie did what these other legends have done, it was absolutely nuts.

At the time people thought Eddie’s tapping was a keyboard, but the album didn’t say any keyboard parts, it only said guitar played by Eddie Van Halen. It was such a huge deal. That first record Eddie put out just blew my mind.

When I was 15, I started really getting into playing the guitar, which was a few years later. Because of Eddie, I already had that inspiration inside me. At the time I was really into Hendricks, Jeff Beck’s Blow By Blow, all this stuff but there were 2 people that I just couldn’t get enough of - Bryan May and Eddie Van Halen.

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