Dana’s note: So, I was on Youtube watching clips when I came across this gem. According to the description it recorded at the Oakland Coliseum Stadium on June 12th 1981, which would indicate it is the band’sFair Warningtour. The clip included three songs:Hear About It Later,So This I...
Alex Van Halen on his 'Brothers' memoir: Rocker talks honoring Eddie Van Halen, avoiding "dirt.'
After some tense moments, Alex agreed to back away from the project. Post doesn't specify how manyVan Halen 3songs feature Eddie on drums. Happily, Alex was able to work through his issues in time for the band to tour in support of the album. "It didn't take him long, it took him...
Van Halen died on Oct. 6after what his sonWolfgangdescribed as a "long and arduous" battle with cancer. Roth was one of many from the rock world topay their respects,posting a pictureof himself and his longtimeVan Halenbandmate with the caption "what a long great trip it's been." Rot...
YouTube 1996: Alex Van Halen / Eddie Van Halen / Michael Anthony / Mitch Malloy It ended up being more of a footnote than anything else, but our list of Van Halen lineup changes would be remiss without a mention of Mitch Malloy, the impressively maned singer who once seemed destined to...
Throughout the episode Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison remembered Eddie Van Halen and played some of their favorite Van Halen songs. The Ozzy Speaks episode, which premiered on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard on Thursday, October 22, is available On Demand on the SiriusXM app and will ...
5150, constructed in 1983, allowed the guitarist to work on songs at home. All of the vault's contents were initially numbered and itemized on a computer, but as Van Halen detailed in a 1998MTV interview, that information was lost because of a hard drive malfunction. "The computer took a...
David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen perform onstage at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on Aug. 13, 2015 in Wantagh, New York. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Solters Following the death of Eddie Van Halen on Oct. 6, his namesake band’s catalog of songs were streamed over 31 million ...
Hot on the heels of their first tour with Hagar, Van Halen quickly got back to work and released perhaps their most diverse collection of songs ever. The epic Led Zeppelin-esque "Cabo Wabo" is one of the best things this lineup ever recorded, but there's some filler here for sure. ...
Van Halen's Mark Stone Mark Stone, (far left) who played in the pre-Van Halen groups Genesis and Mammoth, died Saturday (Sept. 26) according to the musician's brother. Brad Stone kept his message brief on Instagram, stating, "My beloved brother Mark passed this morning. #markstone #va...