Floyd Rose: "Many people ask if this would have happened without Eddie Van Halen and I think it would have, but certainly not as quickly"

Floyd Rose, inventor of the locking tremelo system for guitars appears at The NAMM Show on January 23, 2015 in Anaheim, California.

Back in 2010, Guitarist magazine's Simon Bradley spoke to Floyd Rose for a rare interview about his achievements and legacy in the world of guitar. He spoke about the development of the system from its very first incarnation, how he felt about the licensed version of his design and the impact a certain Eddie Van Halen had - both on his business and on music itself…

Les Paul, Leo Fender, Seth Lover  Marshall's Dudley Craven and Ken Bran – the catalogue of inventors who have genuinely altered the course of the electric guitar and its associated music is, if you actually chew it over for a while, a fairly short one. However, any list that doesn't include the name of Floyd Rose is incomplete.