Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Why Eddie Van Halen is Uncopyable" video.

You'd have more credibility if you gave it a break with Eddy Van Halen. He was a diddler on guitar, playing one-note riffs, all boom-boom bombast. He had custom guitars built so he could play the same finger patterns and be in different keys. And as ordinary reality, George Benson had a back-up guitar player in 1972, a New York session player. Mr. Benson featured him for a solo, sitting on the front of the stage. He tapped with three fingers with four on the frets, sounding like a violin trio or quartet with the odd Jimi Hendrix influence thrown in. In the world of symphony music, violinists are seen as being between sixty and sixty-five years old before they can be considered a virtuoso. Eddys' drug habit ruined him while he was alive, and it kept him from achieving a real musicianship. He isn't the greatest of all time.
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