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Eddie Van Halen plays his custom Frankenstrat guitar at Cobo Arena during Van Halen's "Hide Your Sheep Tour" on August 13, 1982, in Detroit, Michigan.
Eddie Van Halen on the music teacher who slapped his face — and his all-time worst song

By Jas Obrecht Published

EVH touched on the essence of his approach to soloing in this classic Guitar Player interview

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LEFT: Sammy Hagar performs onstage during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 19, 2025 in Las Vegas. RIGHT: Alex Van Halen of Van Halen performs during the 2015 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 17, 2015 in Las Vegas
Sammy Hagar makes new plea to Alex Van Halen: “I would love to bury the hatchet”

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The former Van Halen frontman says he wants to reunite the band’s two eras, even as the brothers’ musical legacy remains a point of contention.

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Sammy Hagar performs onstage at 2025 MusiCares Person Of The Year Honoring The Grateful Dead at Los Angeles Convention Center on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Why Sammy Hagar has always refused to play before or after AC/DC

By Martin Kielty Published

An embarrassing experience with Ronnie Montrose has stayed with him through his Van Halen years and beyond

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LEFT: Alex Van Halen of Van Halen performs during the 2015 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 17, 2015 in Las Vegas RIGHT: Sammy Hagar performs onstage during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 19, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sammy Hagar fires back after Alex Van Halen calls him a “complete idiot”

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Hagar questions why Alex continues to dismiss Van Halen’s years with him and criticizes the drummer’s latest book project

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A screengrab of a Ted Talk between David Lee Roth (left( and Alex Van Halen
David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen reunite for the first time in more than a decade

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The former Van Halen bandmates spoke in public for a TEDx conversation about their history, their clashes and the music they made with electric-guitar hero Eddie Van Halen

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Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performs on stage playing the guitar on their second Japanese tour, Osaka Prefectual Gymnasium, Osaka, Japan, September 1979
Van Halen’s earliest known song to be released with a pricey new book

By Phil Weller Published

The eponymous “Van Halen” book, written by Alex Van Halen, is being billed as a definitive history of the band, and might just be a sly dig at Sammy Hagar

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Sammy Hagar and Alex Van Halen
Sammy Hagar calls for peace as he responds to Alex Van Halen calling him “a complete idiot”

By Phil Weller Published

The drummer’s comments concerned Hagar’s controversial 2011 autobiography

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LEFT: Billy Gibbons photographed in Los Angeles, California, on April 18, 2019. RIGHT: Eddie van Halen circa 1978
Billy Gibbons on the first time he saw Eddie Van Halen live

By Phil Weller Published

Gibbons stumbled onto fretboard tapping by accident five years before “Eruption” — then watched Eddie turn the technique into a guitar revolution

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LEFT: Ozzy Osbourne performing live onstage with Black Sabbath in 1978 RIGHT: David Lee ROTH and VAN HALEN, David Lee Roth - posed, studio, leather jacket in 1978
David Lee Roth recalls the night Tony Iommi thought he’d kidnapped Ozzy Osbourne: “What did you do to Ozzy?!”

By Phil Weller Published

The Black Sabbath singer vanished during the bands’ infamous 1978 tour with Van Halen, sparking an all-night search

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Van Halen on 10/11/81 in Chicago, Il.
Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Ed's impressions of David Lee Roth’s new guitarist weren't entirely positive — he wondered if others saw him the same way

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