[Rick Lee]

There's a story going around that George Lynch and EVH were in a bar in LA and saw Harvey Mandel tapping around 1977 and that's almost corroborated by a bootleg of EVH doing Eruption before then sans tapping. And Steve Hackett did it in Genesis long before too.

So much folklore around EVH's methods. I stopped trying them out at boiling my strings. And, as much as I'd love to try out a Variac on a dimed Marshall Plexi, those amps are just too precious to risk such a thing.