I’ve been a guitar player for 8 years now. Through my time in bands and as a music instructor, I’ve built a fairly comprehensive mental encyclopedia of music’s hits across the past half century. Or so I thought.
A couple of weeks ago on October 6th, 2020, Eddie Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 years. In the days following I came to an ugly realization; I had no real basis for my “grief” at his passing.
I could name, maybe, four Van Halen songs. For some mysterious reason, I had never bothered to dive deeper into the hard rock titans’…
