Eddie Van Halen has been posthumously honoured with The National GUITAR Museum's Lifetime Achievement Award. .
The late Van Halen axe-slayer has become the first guitarist to be recognised with the accolade in memoriam for his contribution to the history of guitar playing.
It is perhaps fitting that we don't need to explain why Eddie is deserving of such an honour, everyone who has ever heard his guitar playing knows. Eddie certainly would have received this award at some point in the future, as it seemed that he still had a lifetime of guitar greatness to give, The National GUITAR Museum said in a statement:.
Several of the people we've honoured over the past decade have left us in the years since we presented them with the award. In this case, however, the sadness of Eddie Van Halen's passing is somehow harder to accept, The National GUITAR Museum said in a statement:.
Thanks, Eddie. We only wish we could deliver this in person, The National GUITAR Museum said in a statement:.
Previous recipients include Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and the late B.B. King and Glen Campbell
