Latest about Eddie Van Halen
Jeff Beck’s guitar was stolen before the Wired sessions — Jan Hammer remembers what happened next
The keyboard legend also looks back on his collaborations with Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Tommy Bolin, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Neal Schon and Miles Davis
Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him
Ed's impressions of David Lee Roth’s new guitarist weren't entirely positive — he wondered if others saw him the same way
Eddie Van Halen's studio-used Kramer guitars are up for auction — with his cigarette butts still tucked beneath the strings
Two battle-scarred backup guitars built by longtime tech Zeke Clark carry $50,000 opening bids, while Backstage Auctions says they saw extensive studio use during the 5150 era
Eric Clapton on the one guitarist who mastered the “difficult” art of modern blues. They’re no longer speaking
Slowhand highlighted one player as a champion of the genre — but their friendship wasn't built to last
David Lee Roth cancels U.S. tour and gets words of support from Sammy Hagar
Hagar even extended an invitation for Roth to join him onstage at his Las Vegas residency in September
Ronnie Montrose offered a brutal assessment of Sammy Hagar
Montrose had fired Hagar from his namesake band, but in 1983 he still believed his former singer was “adequate” at guitar and “just ends up using every cliché in the book”
“We did our best work with Dave.” Alex Van Halen explains why David Lee Roth was Van Halen’s secret ingredient
The drummer says Roth’s chemistry with Van Halen “was brilliant soup” — and credits the singer with connecting to audiences like no one else could
Neil Young on why guitar virtuosos and music schools doomed the future of rock — and why one note is enough
Long before social media made technical perfection a currency, Young argued that feeling — not flawless technique — was the true measure of a great guitarist
From Metallica playing in the Antarctic to Van Halen performing in a blizzard — here are the wild stories behind three of rock’s coldest concerts
Playing in subzero temperatures meant frozen fingers, failing tuning and some very unusual rules — including one gig where the audience had to wear headphones
