[atlantaprog] Re: Stumbled across this essay...

I think his main claim was that EVH was the  influential one who brought a 
style to the masses, including two-hand  tapping but more than that.  
Unfortunately Hackett is in the camp  with Otto and Meucci, and EVH is more 
like Ford and Bell.
  
  The EVH/Lifeson connection is a stretch, but there's no doubt EVH was  hugely 
influential in rock and metal generally.  Lifeson wouldn't  be the one I'd use 
to make that case though.
  
  Brian

UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx wrote:        So has this supposedly knowledgeable guy who 
claims there was no  fingertapping in prog prior to Eddie Van Halen never heard 
"Return of  the Giant Hogweed"?  Am I the only one who hears no particular EVH  
influence in Alex Lifeson's guitar work, post Permanent Waves or  otherwise?  
It seems to me that the major stylistic shift in  Lifeson's 80s guitar work was 
marked by an Andy Summers fixation, not  an EVH fixation.
   
  CH
   
   
   



                        
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