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 ...
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...
” and Van Halen’s “personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love… [It’s his] love letter to his younger brother Edward (maybe ‘Ed’ but never ‘Eddie’), written while still mourning his untimely death.”
"It's like his guitar playing came from a different place. He reinvented how to play guitar. But they also wrote great songs, that's the main thing that I took away from Van Halen. The songs were just so fucking great." Decades later when Armstrong had the chance to finally meet Van...
maybe the best-sounding Van Halen. The Hagar era shows another side of my father's playing as well. I like how he leaned more into the melodic stuff - some of the most beautiful melodies he's ever written have been in the Hagar era with things like 'Dreams' or the song 'Not Enough...
The songs were just so fucking great." Decades later when Armstrong had the chance to finally meet Van Halen in Kansas City, the first thing he noticed was how big the guitar legend's hands were. But as they started talking, the interaction took a significant turn....
Scott Legato, Getty Images Wolfgang Van Halen (Mammoth WVH) •"Don't doubt yourself. Sometimes the biggest thing that gets in the way is… you!"(Source:Music Radar) •"I found out that what I enjoy most is writing songs."(Source:...
that offset any synth cheesiness. Roth took a cassette into his 1951 Mercury convertible and blasted the recording over and over for an hour while he wrote lyrics and came up with a melody. It took about an hour, and when Roth was done, Van Halen had officially written their biggest-ever...
READ MORE:All 75 David Lee Roth-Era Van Halen Songs Ranked Worst to Best “I was with him from day one,” Alex was quoted as having written. “We shared a record player, an 800-square-foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. ...
With his book “Brothers,” Alex has written an elegy to Eddie, and their complex dynamic that was tested by drug abuse, power trips and all the other common traps that befall megastars who once shared the same bedroom. “This is a happy-sad moment for me,” says Alex abo...