Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 guitars from his personal collection to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. The program divvies out the guitars to low-income schools.

Van Halen talked about the importance of music education in public schools saying, “It’s a must. It has to be taught. My whole life has been music. I could not imagine anything else. It really hit me when I graduated high school, you sign everybody’s yearbook and everybody asks you, ‘So what college are you going to?’”

You can check out the interview below:

 

https://youtu.be/ebM1lQ1B02Y

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