Hagar and Roth are worlds apart, stylistically, as singers and what he brought to the table during his time in Van Halen is more than worthy of recognition in its own right — every "Van Hagar" album was certified multi-platinum in the U.S., ushering in a new and influential chapter...
Van Halen, who formed in the mid-1970s, are widely considered to be the first Glam Metal band, due to the fact that they succeeded in mixing the sounds of Pop and Heavy Metal, had a virtuoso lead guitarist and a flamboyant frontman and wrote songs about Sex, Rock And Roll and just ...
This is the album that turned Van Halen from rock superstars into a household name, and which found Eddie Van Halen’s keyboard skills bursting out of the closet with the worldwide smash "Jump." The band’s songwriting, musicianship and wit hit such dizzying new heights on songs like "Hot...
Details of Van Halen’s disastrous 2004 reunion with Sammy Hagar have been well documented. Eddie Van Halen’s debilitating addiction weighed heavily on the group, as did the series of concessions bassist Michael Anthony was forced to agree to in order to participate. Things got so bad that Ha...
Here's our chronological list of Van Halen's 20 Best Summer Songs: "Ice Cream Man" From:Van Halen(1978) David Lee Roth cruises down the block offering up heat-beating treats on Van Halen's cover of Chicago bluesman John Brim's "Ice Cream Man." That's Roth, not Eddie Van Halen, on...
Four years after issuing "You Really Got Me" as their first single, Van Halen pilfered theKinks' catalog once again for the opening track onDiver Down. Van Halen had roughly half a dozen Kinks songs in rotation during their club days, having learned a whole side of a compilation album tha...
1996: Alex Van Halen / Eddie Van Halen / Michael Anthony / Mitch Malloy 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...
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...
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...
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...