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? INQUIRER ROB CAGGIANO

“When you start to copy other people, you’re really chasing your tail”

My early influences…

here were two main guys for me; Eddie Van Halen and Angus Young. Angus was the first to get me really crazy excited about the guitar when I was a kid. I got a copy of Back in Black when I was about 8, and it really hit

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