Eddie Van Halen coined rock guitar with tapping and tempo. We honor him with 20 legendary solos – from “Eruption” to “Panama”.
It’s hard to imagine what rock ‘n’ roll would sound like without Eddie Van Halen. Like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton before him, he single-handedly (or in his case perhaps more like a double act) changed the vocabulary of the guitar for an entire generation. His pyrotechnic finger tapping, elastic dive bombs and melodies have…
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