One of the good pieces of advice that he always gave me that his dad always gave him was, “If you ever make a mistake, do it twice so that people think you meant to do it.”[Laughs.]Playing with Van Halen, there wasn’t really anything I felt I learned. It was just kind ...
A Van Halen custom Kramer guitar played by the late Eddie Van Halen in the band's "Hot for Teacher" video netted a winning bid of $3,932,000 in 2023, asLoudwirereported. The Kramer CO176 — it's believed to have been completed by luthier Paul Unkert in 1982 and delivered to the g...
His musical ambitions may not be limited to just the groups he’s part of, either. In addition to bass, Van Halen plays drums (his first instrument), guitar, keyboards and sings. He says that he “definitely would like to be a drummer in a band at some point,” bu...
Ayron Jones has tapped into something special, bringing a bit of emotionally charged blues to some electrifying guitar playing. This song is a powderkeg, displaying Ayron’s raw vulnerability at the open, building to an explosion of “bad man” guitar playing.. — CC Better Lovers, '30 Und...
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‘Don’t play guitar. Like, I want you to play piano, or I want you to play cello, or I’d want you to hit a triangle in a song, or just something.'” Like, [dumb-guy voice] “You got Eddie Van Halen to play on your album, and he’s not playing guitar,” somethin...
"That era [of Van Halen] doesn't get any respect, I don't think," he noted. "And there's a lot of amazing songs and just obviously brilliant guitar playing on a lot of that - on all of that stuff - and I think people don't give it a chance 'cause they fall into that just...
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Last month, he toldTotal Guitarthat playing the gig gave him a sense of closure – the sort of closure he’d have found if he’d played tribute shows for his dad. “With Van Halen and all of the history behind it, there may be a bit too much of that to be put aside for what ...
The second album from Wolfgang Van Halen's solo project is a lot like the first, with the son of the late guitar great handling every instrument himself. The music onMammoth IIdoesn't stray too far from the early-2000s power crunch from the debut either, from the stuttering drums of the...