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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
Eddie Van Halen's comments against shredding come to light in a previously unheard interview
His attitude is reflected in Wolfgang Van Halen's recent statement that "not everything needs a guitar solo"
Eddie Van Halen was "a pretty complex person" says his longtime friend and biographer
Steven Rosen had a 26-year friendship with the guitarist, whose personality was split between the guitar and the rest of his life, he says
Eddie Van Halen shot down a film soundtrack near the end of his life, saying he hadn't been playing much
The news confirms Sammy Hagar's comments that the guitarist had lost interest in the instrument
