EDWARD VAN HALEN: A HEAVY METAL GUITAR GOD DISCUSSES GUITARS

It's New Year’s Eve and the party at producer Ted Templeman’s is going strong. There’s a lot for Eddie Van Halen to celebrate. The first Van Halen album had exploded on the scene. The answer to who would be the next hard rock heroes was on everyone’s lips. It had the familiar ring of his last name. More than that, he was catapulted to king-of-the-hill status among electric guitarists.

Drunk as he is. he drifts toward an acoustic guitar and starts playing. With a sound that had stopped many a backyard party just a few short years ago, Eddie, stripped of electronics, lets his electricity flow through a nylon string guitar. The most sensitive ears in the house cannot ignore it. “So you play the acoustic guitar too!” Templeman exclaims.