Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens dazzles fans every night with a nylon-string guitar solo that ever-so-slightly teases bits of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven” and Van Halen‘s ...

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"Oddly enough, the way that I ended up doing a nylon [string] guitar solo was that I was in Vince Neil 's band, and we did about six weeks opening for Van Halen [in 1993]," Stevens recently told UCR.

His father bought him a classical guitar for his 11th birthday and the two learned together, playing duets. Later that same year, Henry brought home a Segovia 78 and that was it for both of them.