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Old 03-17-2018, 02:44 PM   #20 (permalink)
Chula Vista
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk View Post
Hold up on the bait and switch. We’re not arguing who’s better. It’s whose playing made a bigger first impression.
Hearing them with my guitarist ears at the time they were first released? They were equally as much of a mind ****. I'd already been thru guys like McLaughlin, Dimeola, and Morse before hearing Eruption so the speed was no big thing. The tapping and extreme whammy bar stuff was the mind **** for me.

With Rhoads it was his incorporation of bits of classical phrasing and his intensity and approach to solos that blew my mind.

P.S. Do you know what song inspired EVH to explore tapping?
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