You might not have heard of him, but you certainly heard him.
That guitar riff at the start and throughout Michael Jackson's Black and White song

As for the tapping technique. He may not have invented it, but it was Eddie who glamourised it.

Like the late great Eric Roche, Eddie re-imagined guitar playing, and after him you played with the knowledge that the guitar could do things previously unthought of.


All kinds of players could be heard incorporating (or at least trying to incorporate) tapping into their playing - jazz, folk, the so called 'shredders' of course, air head pop

By the way, when ordinary musicians without being ordered by a formal set of rules adopt a technique - its called 'the folk process'.its the stuff that rises like smoke from.
sweaty gigs in unimportant places.

You don't dig into the folk library for it. You dig into your soul. Hoping one day to uncover the treasure.