RIP EVH

One clip that I really liked of Eddie Van Halen was from 1988 at a Les Paul tribute when he expressed effusive praise for Les Paul, in his 70s at the time. What I liked was the generational deference and realizing the unbroken line from Django Reinhardt, Les Paul’s main influence. 










The power of generational influences in music began to become more diffuse in the 1990s with Remix, in