Vai's admiration for Eddie's musical prowess was more than just admiration for his technical abilities, he even respectfully admitted that he couldn't touch Eddie Van Halen's level of playing.
"Of course, I could never play like him. I never tried. Only an idiot competes with Eddie Van Halen. But I knew that going into it. But when you're playing that stuff and you're a guitar player, you see the infrastructure of it. It's just so beautiful"
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