Jason Becker

Jason Becker is a virtuosic American guitar player and composer who went from child prodigy to hard rock/heavy metal luminary via both his solo work and his collaboration with longtime friend (and fellow prodigious six-stringer) Marty Friedman in the guitar duo Cacophony. He eventually went on to follow in the footsteps of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai as the lead guitarist for David Lee Roth in the early '90s, playing on 1991's A Little Ain't Enough, but a devastating diagnosis of ALS, a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disease, ultimately forced the talented and determ...