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BY THE TIME Steve Lynch burst onto the scene with Autograph, he was nearly 30 — a relative dinosaur compared to some of the young bucks he was up against. But no matter, Lynch’s style — which includes a dizzying array of arpeggios, triads and intervals — stood out from the pack.
Lynch was so slick that by the time Autograph’s 1984 banger, Sign In Please, was released, his greatest foe was Eddie Van Halen, who happened to be Lynch’s brother in two-handed tapping heroics.
“When our tour with Van Halen started, I was asked by their management, ‘Are you Steve Lynch, the one who wrote’ [ The Right Touch: The Art of Hammering Notes with the Right Hand]? I said, ‘Yes, I am,’” Lynch says. “I was then aggressively informed, ‘That’s Eddie’s technique; you’re
