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Eddie Van Halen has written his own share of classic guitar pieces, but he's only inherited it from this living legend of the ...
In just 102 seconds, Eddie Van Halen redefined the vocabulary of rock guitar — like Jimi Hendrix and his personal hero, Eric Clapton, had done a decade earlier — with an array of fluttering ...
A guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen was indeed an eruption. In honor of the revolutionary guitarist, who died Tuesday, here are just seven of his many standout solos.
While anyone would kill to have had Eddie Van Halen teach them a thing or two about guitar, Eddie himself always knew to never stop learning.
Jas Obrecht’s chance encounter with a then-unknown Eddie Van Halen on July 23, 1978, resulted in the guitar virtuoso’s first magazine interview, which ran in Guitar Player’s November 1978 ...
Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts. I can't take it. I gotta leave. I know you're looking for a lead guitar player. Do ...
Eddie Van Halen's original guitar from the 1984 "Hot for Teacher" music video was sold at auction on Tuesday, bringing in an impressive $3.9 million.
Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white and black custom-made Kramer guitar was sold to an unnamed buyer at auction for $3.932 million, blasting past its pre-auction estimate of $2 to 3 million.
Eddie Van Halen's legendary custom-modded guitar goes by a couple names and, in a new interview, Wolfgang Van Halen sets the record straight on what it is officially called. "Frankenstein" or ...
Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens dazzles fans every night with a nylon-string guitar solo that ever-so-slightly teases bits of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven” and Van Halen‘s ...
Editor's Pick. Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged Guitar Sells for Record-Setting $6 Million in Auction. Eddie Van Halen passed away in October 2020 after suffering a stroke, with lung cancer among the ...
Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Hot For Teacher’ Guitar Sold For Megabucks At Auction. Plus the winning bidder got the straitjacket and white gloves the late guitarist wore in the video.