Eddie Van Halen

It was long after my first concert but I saw Eddie play during the original David Lee Roth days in Buffalo.?ÿ I have no idea when, probably the eighties.?ÿ Aside from his ass kickin' guitar prowess my most vivid recollection is him standing on and in front of what appeared to be a bank of speakers as he played.?ÿ I have later learned that those speaker cabinets at concerts may just be props.

@dms330 It depends... Sometimes they're props, sometimes they're backups, sometimes a guitar player will use A/B boxes to switch between amps to get different tones - a good example of this is Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the Traveler tour where he had three amps on stage and would switch between them. Pretty safe to say that if he had four 8x12s he probably wasn't playing through all of them at once.

Eddie was a great talent - a prodigy, really - and was a huge influence on an entire generation of guitar players. Personally I wasn't a big fan; I like some of it, especially the first album. This is going to be an unpopular comment but personally I think he was bad for rock & roll as a genre because he cloned a thousand copycats and most of them didn't have the talent to pull it off. But I have a ton of respect for Eddie, may he rest in peace.

Wendell is a die hard Van Halen fan. Loves them almost as much as he loves Boston. Guess what he was playing all day long yesterday?? In the car, at home, at work, etc...?ÿ ƒ?®ƒ?¦ƒ?®