By then Van Halen had become the biggest thing in hard rock, and Eddie was reshaping the sound, technique and look of electric guitar. According to Simmons, he chose Kiss. As the Kiss cofounder ...

Edward Van Halen did for Kramer Guitars. He put us on the map and made Kramer a household name in the 1980s. Through our 10-year working relationship, Eddie would often visit us here at the Kramer ...

Eddie Van Halen struggled with addiction his entire life. After doctors gave him steroid pills to combat swelling after surgery to remove a brain tumor near the end of his life, the legendary ...

Eddie Van Halen’s revolutionary sound echoed Clapton, Page, and Mozart. Equally important is Van Halen’s reinvention of an existing guitar design. Generations of players copied Van Halen ...

Eddie Van Halen's iconic "Hot for Teacher" guitar sold for nearly $4 million at auction this week. The late rockstar played the custom-made instrument for much of the 1980s. Van Halen died in 2020 ...

Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white and black custom-made Kramer guitar was sold to an unnamed buyer at auction for $3.932 million, blasting past its pre-auction estimate of $2 to 3 million.

By Gil Kaufman Someone call a doctor, because the price a bidder paid for Eddie Van Halen‘s iconic red, white and black-striped guitar from the “Hot For Teacher” video was sold for a song ...

The starting bid is $1.8 million. According to Sotheby's, Kramer Guitars co-founder Dennis Berardi got a meeting with Eddie Van Halen himself at the height of the band's career to create the ...

Wolfgang Van Halen remembered being shocked when his father, Eddie Van Halen, threw his famous hand-built Frankenstrat guitar across a room, showing that he didn’t think as much of it as ...