According to the dudes and dudettes at Guitar World Magazine, Eddie Van Halen has been named the greatest axe master of all time, beating out the likes of Brian May, Clapton, Hendrix, Paige and many others, all worthy of being deemed the cream of the guitar crop, if you will.
While I don’t necessarily agree that Eddie should rule the guitar world roost, (or the fire dangling from his mouth until about :24 seconds in) there’s no denying he’s one of the best and if you check out this vintage video, you can see the pure pleasure he gets from playing and play he does.
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Add a commentMark de Boer
October 17, 2012
5:54 pm
Overly impressive!!! Eddie can sure play man! In some parts, his playing reminds me of some stuff Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme would do. It would have been understandable if Nuno replaced Eddie, but Gary Cherone replacing Sammy or Diamond Dave was a bad idea – Gary should have kept Extreme going. An Extreme album was released a few years ago though. I don’t know how good it is since I never listened to it – at least not yet. But actually, even though Nuno comes close at times, NOBODY can fully replace Eddie Van Halen for Van Halen – NOBODY!