My ultimate Rock Hero, guitarist, and favorite band. When I needed a lift, I'd slap on some Van Halen, and away we'd go. Saw them 6 times over the years, with all 3 singers. Lou, Bob, now Eddie.....2020 can kiss my ass. Life's getting short. "When's the last time you did something for the first time?".....David Lee Roth
That first VH album was a true game-changer. No one had ever heard anything like it, and it inspired just about everyone who played guitar.
I was an Eddie Van Halen fan too. His inventions for electric guitar made as much money as the band did. He was special.
Kramer Guitar Company in Neptune, NJ was a customer of ours in the 1980s. I had just moved out here from Ohio in 1979 and was a young service tech on an assignment at Kramer one day when EVH was there. He was a devoted Kramer customer in those days. Someone else posted this photo of him with the owner. I wonder if this was the day I saw him there.... not sure.