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TIL Dimebag Darrell once asked Eddie Van Halen for a copy of his guitar “Bumblebee” from the cover of Van Halen II. Eddie said yes but forgot, but after Dimebag was killed he turned up at the viewing with the original and it is now buried with him.

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