The guitarist Jimmy Page said was better than Van HalenThere are legions of guitar players who are still trying to figure out what Jimmy Page did in Led Zeppelin. Because if you listen to Page, it was more about making one classic lick after another. Although Zeppelin did have some brilliant guitar hero moments throughout their career, you could feel the temperature shift in the guitar community when Eddie Van Halen took the stage for the first time. He was clearly indebted to people like Page, but the tapping licks that he pulled off were enough to make any other guitarist throw out their set of rules and try to copy every single lick he was playing. It’s not like Page wasn’t thrown for a loop by Eddie’s playing, either, but that was only one flavour of virtuosity that he loved.