Sponsor Message No matter the singer, Eddie Van Halen's high-flying guitar sound — heavy on tapping, with both hands on the neck of the instrument — was deeply influential, but also hard to ...

The 1978 High Top, as it's called, contains a photograph of Van Halen playing guitar during their first world tour on the side that faces out and "Eddie Van Halen 1978" on the side that faces in.

Sammy Hagar wrote many top jams with Van Halen, and this list looks at some classic moments from the “Van Hagar” era.

Guitar legend and musician Eddie Van Halen died following ... the statement continued. "His band Van Halen kicked the American hard rock scene into high gear in the late Seventies, became rock ...

One of rock 'n' roll's singular and most gifted guitarists, Eddie Van Halen, has died ... They were members of rival high school bands and then attended Pasadena City College together.

Eddie Van Halen wrote and experimented with sounds while drunk or high or both. He revealed that he would stay in his hotel room drinking vodka and snorting cocaine while playing into a tape recorder.

Just spin them into the most colorful hard-rock-shuffle-metal-pop-doo-wop-back-to-rock music ever blasted through a boom box, provide the soundtrack for wasted high ... Eddie Van Halen was an ...

But throughout the video, the giddiest band member of all is Eddie Van Halen ... at Southern California high schools and backyard parties in the mid-'70s, Van Halen cultivated a reputation ...

His guitar solos stunned and inspired, but the musician, who died of cancer, was also a gifted songwriter, producer and keyboard player. By Rob Tannenbaum In 1985, Edward L. Van Halen submitted a ...

NEW YORK — Eddie ... two Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist Michael Anthony — formed in 1974 in Pasadena, California. They were members of rival high ...

Eddie Van Halen, whose innovative and explosive guitar ... as his principal inspirations. After high school years spent in local party bands, the brothers founded a new quartet — which they ...