Modern Guitar Pioneer: EVH RIP

I met Eddie Van Halen when I worked at Electro-Harmonix in the 70s. He came in to the 23rd Street offices for something that has been lost to the mists of my memory and I delivered it to him. He was, like many brilliant artists, smaller than you imagine, their talent giving them a stature in your mind that they don’t possess in real life. The encounter was brief and affable. He had already changed the face of electric guitar.

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