For instance, Sgt. Peppers was recorded by the Beatles before Jimi got huge, The White Album posted Jimi. You hear a lot more jamming and distorted guitars on the latter. Eric Clapton, The Who, and others also changed their sound after Jimi.
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Anyone who ever picked up an electric guitar after 1978 has been directly or indirectly influenced by EVH. From a mechanical aspect or a technical aspect or a sonic aspect. He affected all of it. I’m not much of a Van Halen, the band, fan, but even I know how important his skills with a guitar were to music and how his riffs still ripple through the music industry today. I have a few people I’m going to have to comfort at home today, namely my Mom.