while also playing through a few Van Halen songs on the kit himself. “If he wasn’t in a band with Eddie Van Halen, I think he would be lauded as one of the greatest drummers of all-time,” Wolfgang ...

Clay Patrick McBride / Contour by Getty Images Recently, guitarist Eddie Van Halen donated his guitar, the Frank 2, to the National Museum of American History. Smithsonian corresponded with him ...

Frank Zappa’s son Dweezil is reminiscing about an interaction he had with Eddie Van Halen during his childhood. On Wednesday night, Dweezil spoke at a Discogs event at W Hollywood’s The Loft ...

But while most people weren’t ready for Eddie Van Halen to start warping minds when he first started ... and even outside of the hard rock realm, Frank Zappa had started crafting solos that took ...

We often associate rock ‘n’ roll with effortless talent, breaking the rules, and sticking it to the man, but Eddie Van Halen mastered ... to pay off his drum kit. In a 2015 interview with ...

ExploreSaying goodbye to a legend, pioneer and true rock star: Eddie Van ... (guitarists Frank Sidoris and Jon Jourdan, bassist Ron Ficarro and drummer Garrett Whitlock) Van Halen has enjoyed ...

Though Alex had been the guitarist in the family, when they formed Van Halen, it quickly became clear who would play: "[Ed] made that instrument... Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie ...

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020 ... On lighting his drum kit on fire during performances For me, fire represents the temporariness — that only the moment counts.

The world knew him as Eddie ... kit, but you can’t play? I broke my back (in 2022), but I am healing. It happened right after the thing with Dave fell apart for the quote-unquote Van Halen ...

However, Van Halen was something different. The powerhouse hard rock band co-founded by Alex and his brother, Eddie, sold over ... but it’s surprisingly frank in regard to the fraught dynamics ...