To the legions weaned on his playing, it's a given that van Halen wrote the book on contemporary hard rock guitar. But those who cut their teeth on late-'60s and early-'70s rock are also in Eddie's debt; he redefined the mechanics of heavy guitar just when screamin' solos had ...
In an effort to summarize Eddie Van Halen's impact on music, the Sabbath co-founder gushed, "He's had probably one of the biggest influences that you could have on people, from his generation onwards. He came up with something completely different. How hard is that, to come up with som...
Eddie Van Halen striking a pose at the Kouseinennkinn-kaikan in Tokyo, June 1978. Photo: Getty Images Buried in Alex Van Halen’s new bookBrothers(he spends a lot more time psychoanalyzing David Lee Roth) is a passage that at least in part explains how the lateEdd...
After every performance,Wolfgang Van Halencan be found pointing to the sky. He says that's a salute to his late father,Eddie Van Halen– and he has an emotional reason for continuing this tradition. The younger Van Halen now fronts his own solo project, dubbedMammoth WVH, after a stint ...
The late rock god didn't just transform the guitar forever—he even patented his game-changing innovations. Here's how he redefined music, in his own words.
Van Halen's only Gary Cherone-fronted album was studiously ignored by longtime fans, becoming their first ever LP that failed to achieve platinum status in the U.S. Eddie Van Halen did his best to prop up the enterprise, providing guitar (of course), but also bass, some drums and even...
"What we did was applied our live show, our live performance, to plastic – whereas people like Boston and Foreigner, they do it the opposite way," Eddie Van Halen told Jas Obrecht. "They work it out in the studio, and then when they have to go out on tour, they have to rehearse...
Eddie Van Halen: February 28, 1987 NBC Eddie Van Halen: February 28, 1987 Though the band Van Halen never officially performed on 'SNL', fans got to see Eddie Van Halen make an unexpected stop on the late-night show in 1987. The host that evening was Valerie Bertinelli, Van Halen’s ...
and felt like a boundary pushing record for its day. Van Halen kept that spirit but incorporated some “take notice” riffs from Eddie Van Halen, making it a fresh sounding cover that also sparked some boundary pushing of its own. In the years to come, Van Halen would also see success ...
Eddie Van Halen: February 28, 1987 NBC Eddie Van Halen: February 28, 1987 Though the band Van Halen never officially performed on 'SNL', fans got to see Eddie Van Halen make an unexpected stop on the late-night show in 1987. The host that evening was Valerie Bertinelli, Van Halen’s ...