65. Cancer.
His playing like his smile was infectious and full of character unlike a lot of his imitators. That impish ability to endow a guitar lick with such bluesy innuendo is often missed and understandable when his technique was so blinding.
For me that is demonstrated as well in his mirroring Roths louche delivery in, Ice Cream Man, as in any other Van Halen song.
A million air guitarists were still not be able to keep up.
RIP Eddie.
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