Hootie And The Blowfish’s Mark Bryan shared his opinion on the late guitarist Eddie Van Halen, saying that Eddie Van Halen was an underappreciated guitarist.
He said:
“I wanna say this because everybody puts him on the top with the guitar playing (makes fingers on the fretboard impression) and he is but he’s also one of the all-time greatest riff masters.
”He came up with these song riffs like Jimmy Page did with Zeppelin where you’re like, ‘What a f*ckin’ riff,’ you know? And so Eddie is, I think, underappreciated for that. His songwriting riff ability, it blows me away.”
Bryan bid farewell to the Van Halen guitarist when he passed away. He referred to him as ‘Shredward’ and noted that his influence on the music world will still be talked about 300 years from now.