Long before Van Halen were famous, Kiss bass guitar player Gene Simmons played a role in their story. By the mid 1970s, Van Halen had landed a regular performance spot at Gazzarri’s on the Sunset ...

Wolfgang Van Halen has weighed in with a new message marking the fifth anniversary of Eddie Van Halen's death. In the years prior to launching his solo career, Wolfgang was instrumental in keeping the ...

Eddie was lauded for the speed, fluidity, and melodicism of his playing, as well as the two-handed tapping technique he perfected. The guitarist and his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen, led their ...

A 1982 Kramer owned and stage-played by the late, great Eddie Van Halen is heading to auction, with the red-black-and-white custom-build expected to become the world’s next seven-figure electric ...

Valerie Bertinelli got candid about the “loud absence” of her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen, nearly five years after he died of throat cancer. “Some days I really do miss you,” the “One Day at a ...

Sammy Hagar said he’d once discussed writing a Van Halen song with Eddie Van Halen on the cello. The singer said it was just a single example of how their partnership might have developed if they’d ...

The throwbacks are limited to Mammoth's "The End" video as Wolfgang Van Halen reveals that one portion of the song features him using his father Eddie Van Halen's iconic "Frankenstein" guitar. The ...

Michael Anthony says he has just one career regret. "The only regret that I have is how things, unfortunately, turned out for Van Halen," he recently said on an episode of Get on the Bus. "It should ...

The Van Halen rocker died in October 2020, and his son Wolfgang opened up about their bond on Billy Corgan's 'The Magnificent Others' podcast Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...

Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen in 1978. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) “If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your ...

This October, Sotheby’s will offer Eddie Van Halen ‘s 1982 Kramer electric guitar, wrapped in red, black and white stripes, passionately played by Eddie on stage during Van Halen’s 1982 and 1983 tours ...