I grew up in the 1980s, and was obsessed with the guitar, and playing guitar, as a little kid. Van Halen wasn't my favorite band, but I had a couple of their records, listened to them a ton and was as blown away as everyone else by Eddie's playing. As of the time I'm writing this, it's been two weeks since he died, and I've been thinking a lot about a lesson he indirectly taught me, about modding guitars. I remember, way back then, seeing an article in one of the guitar magazines about the Frankenstein guitar, how it was...
