Eddie Van Halen Helped a Young Black Kid Find Meaning in Rock and Roll
For this kid from Gary, Van Halen redefined hard rock at a time when it really needed reinventing
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4 min readOct 12, 2020
For a newbie musician, the sound was mesmerizing.
Falling somewhere between the energy of a plane on takeoff and the noise of a steel girder ripped in half…
