Latest about Eddie Van Halen
“I said, ‘What happened?’ He said he just got really nervous. Crazy, considering his future.” Allen Hinds on Jeff Buckley’s guitar genius, and his “stupid” question to Jaco Pastorius
L.A. legato master Allen Hinds reflects on his Musicians Institute years with Buckley, Scott Henderson, Don Mock, Joe Diorio and other guitar greats
Watch Eddie Van Halen perform in a blizzard as Sammy Hagar unearths never-seen video clip
The band rejected the chance to cancel, instead opting for a memorable, if stormy, evening
How Eddie Van Halen and Metallica's Kirk Hammett pushed Primus bassist Les Claypool to his musical destiny
The Primus bandleader would later audition for Metallica after the death of Cliff Burton
Steve Vai on accepting his most impossible guitar gig: playing Eddie Van Halen to David Lee Roth
Vai says he approached the opportunity from a place of love and freedom, not to cut down one of the world’s greatest guitar players
“It shows you what you can do with two chords”: Did Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love really start life as a parody of the Ramones?
“The whole song is just that one lick throughout,” says Michael Anthony. "It was kind of like a nod to punk."
Eddie Van Halen’s 1982 Kramer expected to fetch $3 million at auction this fall
The guitar hasn’t been in public in over 40 years – but it did feature on a classic glam metal album in 1989
Mark Tremonti and falling in love with Dumble amps, and the legacy of Eddie Van Halen
The Alter Bridge guitarist on falling in love with Dumble amps, and breaking a decades-old Van Halen tradition with his band's new album
Why didn't Eddie Van Halen double-track his guitars? Recording engineer Ross Hogarth explains how he worked with the virtuoso
Hogarth broke an unspoken rule to make way for tonal play time. The results paid off in spades
