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==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar Player April 1980==
GP: Has seeing other guitarists ever inspired a change in your playing?
EVH: Allan Holdsworth -- that guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him. He’s got a rock sound. I love his solo in “In the Dead of the Night” on the U.K. album. I love the solo in “Hell’s Bells” on One of a Kind. (Drummer) Bill Bruford plays hot on that album. Holdsworth is the best in my book. I can kind of play like him, but it doesn’t fit our style of music. He’s a real artist. He plays a guitar like mine, too. He wears it up high, like a jazz guitar. I could play all that stuff, too, if I played with my guitar up that high, but how would a rock and roll kid look with a guitar up like that? I do have to sacrifice the amount of movement I do onstage for the way I play. I like playing much better on a stool. I don’t do it, though, not even in the studio, because then it would sound like I’m sitting on a stool.
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==Excerpt from Guitar World Jan 1981==
==Excerpt from Guitar World Jan 1981==
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https://www.guitarworld.com/features/eddie-van-halen-first-guitar-world-interview-1981
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/eddie-van-halen-first-guitar-world-interview-1981
==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar Player April 1980==
GP: Has seeing other guitarists ever inspired a change in your playing?
EVH: Allan Holdsworth -- that guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him. He’s got a rock sound. I love his solo in “In the Dead of the Night” on the U.K. album. I love the solo in “Hell’s Bells” on One of a Kind. (Drummer) Bill Bruford plays hot on that album. Holdsworth is the best in my book. I can kind of play like him, but it doesn’t fit our style of music. He’s a real artist. He plays a guitar like mine, too. He wears it up high, like a jazz guitar. I could play all that stuff, too, if I played with my guitar up that high, but how would a rock and roll kid look with a guitar up like that? I do have to sacrifice the amount of movement I do onstage for the way I play. I like playing much better on a stool. I don’t do it, though, not even in the studio, because then it would sound like I’m sitting on a stool.
http://www.vhlinks.com/pages/interviews/evh/gp0480.php
==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar World Januar 1981==
Would you like to be thought of as a great player?
I'd Just like people to like what I play. I don't want people to say, "You're Number One." It's a matter of taste. To me Allen Holdsworth is Number One. Other kids might listen to him and not even understand what he's doing. Older people might think I suck.


==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar For the Practicing Musician, Nov 1988==
==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar For the Practicing Musician, Nov 1988==