Guitar Geek 001 : Getting Eddie Van Halen on a Standard Stratocaster

You can usually tell a fellow guitarist at a gig. They hang around at the side of the venue so they can get a good look at what you're doing on stage. They usually look quite passive and stare at everything you do. You know the kind of guys I'm talking about… they don't tend to tap their feet, get animated with the music. They're looking at something else, taking in detail. I do the same. There's an unwritten code with guitarists - we all want to be better at what we do, and we hate to think that we can't do what the performer is doing on stage. It sends us back to our practice room, whether that be the lounge, the study, the man shed or the room in the attic. We don't like to think we are inferior to each other…