At some point during his 1990s obscurity Van Halen axe-man Eddie Van Halen supped from a false goblet and rapidly transformed into a fret-shredding skeletor.
Thanks to Ruairi Burns
Eddie: Got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan
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