For Arcadia teenager Chuck Black, it was the opposite of nails on the blackboard.
Black listened as one of his local buddies recreated Eddie Van Halen’s famous “pick scrape,” a guitar technique in which the edge of the plectrum, or pick, is dragged along the guitar strings to create a metallic, scratching sound.
“It was like when Spiderman got bit by the spider,” said Black, who is now 59 and living in Summerfield of Lakewood Ranch. “That was it. I was on fire.”…