Hard rock Styx helped further cement heavy rock in the Midwest as a form of stadium rock. In 1978, Van Halen emerged from the Los Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen. He popularised a guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping, showcased on the song "Eruption" from the album "Van Halen", which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while also redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar. The opening years of the 1980s saw a number of changes
Hard Rock Medical Hard Rock Medical Hard Rock Medical is a Canadian medical drama television series which debuted on TVOntario in 2013, the first original drama series for the public television network. The series also began airing nationally in Canada on APTN in 2014. The series concluded its five-season run in 2018. The series was filmed in Sudbury and North Bay, Ontario and revolves around a group of medical students attending the fictional Boréal Medical School, loosely based on the real-life Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Internationally, the series also aired on Australia's National Indigenous Television (a channel operated by the Australian Special