Van Halen “He keeps texting me: ‘Come downstairs, I’m in the front.’ Nuno Bettencourt recalls Eddie Van Halen's surprise visit Extreme's tribute to EVH now includes a cover of Van Halen's "Mean Street" New Eddie Van Halen-narrated documentary details how he got hooked on modding guitars – and subsequently created Frankenstein The free-to-watch mini-doc finds the guitarist talking about his earliest guitars, and his quest for his one true guitar love Alex Van Halen teases a snippet of Unfinished – the last song he worked on with his brother, Eddie The song is set to feature in the audiobook version of the drummer’s soon-to-be-released autobiography, Brothers, and finds Eddie in melodious form Latest Van Halen Alex Van Halen’s upcoming audiobook memoir will feature the final song he wrote with Eddie By Phil Weller published 28 August 24 The book, titled Brothers, reflects on the pair's relationship, from their childhood through to their world-conquering “bad boy behavior” in Van Halen Joe Satriani on the key mod he’s made to his Best Of All Worlds EVH guitars By Phil Weller published 11 July 24 The guitarist has given a rundown of the guitar arsenal he’s assembled for the Van Halen-honoring tour, which kicks off this weekend Michael Anthony says there’s unreleased Van Halen material – but we “probably” won't hear it By Phil Weller published 19 June 24 Though the band’s final album was the only record the bassist didn’t feature on, Anthony says ideas he helped develop in Van Halen's early days were revisited for the album Watch newly unearthed footage of Van Halen performing Top of the World in 1991 By Phil Weller published 14 June 24 The previously unreleased video shows Van Halen shred the biggest hit from ‘91’s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge at the West End Marketplace in Dallas, with a newly remastered extended version of the album set for release next month Pro-shot footage of Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West jamming emerges online By Phil Weller published 6 June 24 The pair were joined onstage by Mountain drummer Corky Laing for a rendition of Mountain's Never In My Life, with West later revealing that Van Halen knew the track better than he did Is Joe Satriani ditching Ibanez for the upcoming Best of All Worlds tour? By Phil Weller published 29 May 24 Newly released rehearsal footage shows the shred legend playing an EVH Strat, with a revised pedalboard, as he goes on a Van Halen tone dive "I was playing an ES-335 before we got signed, but the guys said, 'Come on, you look like Roy Orbison' – this little punk kid playing a Ted Nugent axe": Why Eddie Van Halen left Gibson's famed semi-hollow behind, and how he would've built his ideal ES-335 By Jackson Maxwell published 10 January 24 "When I pick up a stock 335, you probably wouldn't even recognize my playing," the late guitar legend told GP in this classic interview “First of All, There Was No Guitar Player Who Had Ever Played Like That”: Van Halen Producer Ted Templeman Tells ‘GP’ How It All Began By Ken Sharp published 28 September 23 Van Halen might not have been the same group without Ted Templeman, the man who discovered and signed them, then produced their greatest albums How to Tap Like Eddie Van Halen By Dale Turner published 9 August 23 Learn EVH's astonishing tapping techniques including slides, bends, harmonics and more Van Halen's ‘The Collection II’ Box Set Announced. Watch the Newly Remastered “Humans Being” Video Here By Rod Brakes published 9 August 23 Video The long-awaited sequel to Van Halen’s David Lee Roth era ‘The Collection’ contains four number-one Sammy Hagar era albums and a disc of rarities Video 1 2 3 4 5 6 Archives Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1“A roadie plugged the wah in the wrong way, and I stomped into it and got this incredible screaming noise”: Pink Floyd's Echoes marked David Gilmour's emergence as a guitar hero – and its surreal tonal highlight was created by accident2“They had strippers and crabs everywhere... People would get pissed and start shooting at the stage. You had to duck and keep playing!” Stevie Ray Vaughan talks his Number One Strat, Dumbles, and his craziest gigs in classic GP interview3“The guitar allows me to switch my brain off from trying to understand the music... The mistakes make it interesting.” Crowded House's Neil Finn on his trial-and-error approach to playing and songwriting 4"What did we do when the record company asked us for a disco hit? We gave them Highway To Hell!" An archive interview with AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young 5“The guitar playing on ‘Stairway to Heaven’ — it’s probably the greatest electric guitar solo of all time.” Steve Stevens talks Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and the 10 albums that changed his life
Alex Van Halen’s upcoming audiobook memoir will feature the final song he wrote with Eddie By Phil Weller published 28 August 24 The book, titled Brothers, reflects on the pair's relationship, from their childhood through to their world-conquering “bad boy behavior” in Van Halen
Joe Satriani on the key mod he’s made to his Best Of All Worlds EVH guitars By Phil Weller published 11 July 24 The guitarist has given a rundown of the guitar arsenal he’s assembled for the Van Halen-honoring tour, which kicks off this weekend
Michael Anthony says there’s unreleased Van Halen material – but we “probably” won't hear it By Phil Weller published 19 June 24 Though the band’s final album was the only record the bassist didn’t feature on, Anthony says ideas he helped develop in Van Halen's early days were revisited for the album
Watch newly unearthed footage of Van Halen performing Top of the World in 1991 By Phil Weller published 14 June 24 The previously unreleased video shows Van Halen shred the biggest hit from ‘91’s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge at the West End Marketplace in Dallas, with a newly remastered extended version of the album set for release next month
Pro-shot footage of Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West jamming emerges online By Phil Weller published 6 June 24 The pair were joined onstage by Mountain drummer Corky Laing for a rendition of Mountain's Never In My Life, with West later revealing that Van Halen knew the track better than he did
Is Joe Satriani ditching Ibanez for the upcoming Best of All Worlds tour? By Phil Weller published 29 May 24 Newly released rehearsal footage shows the shred legend playing an EVH Strat, with a revised pedalboard, as he goes on a Van Halen tone dive
"I was playing an ES-335 before we got signed, but the guys said, 'Come on, you look like Roy Orbison' – this little punk kid playing a Ted Nugent axe": Why Eddie Van Halen left Gibson's famed semi-hollow behind, and how he would've built his ideal ES-335 By Jackson Maxwell published 10 January 24 "When I pick up a stock 335, you probably wouldn't even recognize my playing," the late guitar legend told GP in this classic interview
“First of All, There Was No Guitar Player Who Had Ever Played Like That”: Van Halen Producer Ted Templeman Tells ‘GP’ How It All Began By Ken Sharp published 28 September 23 Van Halen might not have been the same group without Ted Templeman, the man who discovered and signed them, then produced their greatest albums
How to Tap Like Eddie Van Halen By Dale Turner published 9 August 23 Learn EVH's astonishing tapping techniques including slides, bends, harmonics and more
Van Halen's ‘The Collection II’ Box Set Announced. Watch the Newly Remastered “Humans Being” Video Here By Rod Brakes published 9 August 23 Video The long-awaited sequel to Van Halen’s David Lee Roth era ‘The Collection’ contains four number-one Sammy Hagar era albums and a disc of rarities
