I gotta disagree about the Satch being better than Eddie Van Halen comment.
I don't buy it for a second. No way, no how. Even a drunkard Eddie on stage blows away the Billy Corgan looking dwarf. Technical ability? Does it matter how fast you can play if you're in small coffeehouses and bars playing vs arenas and ampitheaters?
If you're into a guy noodling around on a fretboard playing the pentatonic scales faster than a hummingbird's wing flaps...whatever. All the weedle-weedle-waa-weedle-weedle-wee gets on my nerves after 2 minutes.
Eddie picked up the Guitar God mantle where Hendrix laid it down. There haven't been a slew of weedle-weedle guitarists where Eddie is still chasing the "brown sound".
Satch taught Vai, and I think Vai is a better guitarist than Satch. To compare Satch to Van Halen is a downright travesty. True both of them have/are playing with Sammy Hagar (a fate worse than a slow death!), but I don't hold it against either too much. It's wasted time.
Which cd's do you listen to the most? Van Halen's self-titled release through "1984" or Satch's weedle weedle cd's with the exception of G3 where Vai cooked the hair off Satch's head!
