TAP CODE

“I’d been playing guitar for only six months or so when one day we got a call at the house saying it was some guy named Eddie Van Halen and he wanted to talk to my dad,” Dweezil Zappa recalls of the first time he met Ed, circa 1982. “He came over 20 minutes later, and he brought this purple Kramer guitar, but no one was supposed to know what it was. There was a piece of black electrical tape over the logo, but it was a two-humbucker Strat-style guitar. What I remember is that, when he started playing it, I just looked at all the places on the neck where he was playing, and the way that he was playing — how he would attack the strings and how he was holding the the pick… All of that stuff. Because I’d never seen that before.”

Soon after, Eddie entered the 12-year-old’s life. He would have a profound impact on Dweezil, and the two remained friends from