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THE SIXTH STAGE OF GRIEF

WE’RE ALL IN the process of working through the first five stages of grief. They don’t completely cover what we’re trying to deal with here, however. So from this day forward, there is a sixth stage: Celebration. Apologies to all who wanted to provide an Eddie Van Halen remembrance that we couldn’t include in this sidebar. That would have made this issue 1,000,007 pages long, and that’s tricky in this day and age. Just know that we are all in this together. Here are a few members of the EVH tribe who did chime in.

STEVE STEVENS

“There are very few examples of an artist or group’s debut signaling a

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