Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan: are they liars?

Dennis knows a lot about tone... after all he makes great pedals! So something must have rattled his cage when he posted this one:
Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughn are liars!: I've never met either of them- but I saw Stevie play with Jeff Beck just a few weeks before he died. Either way... I've never met them, I'm sure they're both cool cats, but lets call a spade a spade here: Both SRV and EVH are famous in part for their legendary use & abuse of booze and cocaine.

But whats this got to do with anything?

For years we've been force fed the myth that SRV can hear the difference in the chip used in his Tube Screamer and that EVH can hear the difference in short cable lengths... I call bullshit!
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