FVCK 2020.

Screw this year. Eddie Van Halen died. I was about to finish my post on current events and then this news. One of the best musicians and composers of a generation and simply just all-around cool dude, who brought so much joy to everyone.

Eddie Van Halen, grinning guitar god for a rock generation, dies at 65

Only 65, an age of maturity in the 21st century, but not being old by a long shot. You guessed it right--cancer. That, not the Covid-19 BS, is a real pandemic which mows down and takes away so many best and brightest, or simply just good people. RIP Eddie. Rock In Peace. 

Right now we just lost one of the greatest.

Listen To Him While He Is Still Alive.

My favorite guitar and music genius of all time, incomparable rock, jazz and fusion maestro--Allan Holdsworth. He defies definitions, he creates magic out of nothing and yes, he is still better than you:

        

He is a creator of a brightly lit spaces. If you want to hear Allan rocking out, listen to his famous, probably first ever, shred on Soft Machine's Hazard Profile--it was 1974. And yes, he played with everybody from Eddie Van Hallen to Steve Vai and they bowed to him as Steve Said "in being completely humbled". Here is one of very, very many favorite pieces by him--a magic. What you hear here as keyboards--they are not, he plays Synthaxe. 

     

He influenced everybody.