Super Strat Latest about Super Strat Here’s Why Eddie Van Halen was a Guitar Gear Pioneer By Christopher Scapelliti published 30 March 22 A master of technique and tone, the six-string innovator turned us on to the Strat ‘bucker and Floyd Rose. Guitars Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1“Ozzy requested a remote switch so he could turn the pedalboard off from the next hotel room.” Randy Rhoads’ constant practice drove Ozzy Osbourne crazy. The solution? A tiny pedalboard designed to please them both 2“I cried for two years. I blamed myself.” Don McLean on the “unspeakable” death that haunted the writing of his iconic acoustic hit “American Pie” 3“They said, ‘Play something dumb!’” The Journey single that became “the Biggest Song of All Time” thanks to TV, baseball and Bachman-Turner Overdrive 4“I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on his 1960s contemporaries — and the guitarist whose playing he thought was “good fun” 5“Even though he says he wrote it, I wrote it!” Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page disagreed about who composed the world’s “first heavy metal riff”
Here’s Why Eddie Van Halen was a Guitar Gear Pioneer By Christopher Scapelliti published 30 March 22 A master of technique and tone, the six-string innovator turned us on to the Strat ‘bucker and Floyd Rose.
