Apparently Van Halen woke her in the middle of the night with a phone call, where he played her an instrumental piece he composed on the guitar. Heart exited their campfire session with an impressive, ...

Steve Lukather has recalled the time he performed secret jam shows with Eddie Van Halen, Steve Morse and Albert Lee, surprising audiences by booking the gigs under false names.

Rick Derringer recalls a young Eddie Van Halen and performing with Johnny Winter. Joe Bosso. Fri, December 6, 2024 at 11:37 PM UTC. ... you were emulating Eddie Van Halen’s solo.

Music Meet David Zychek, the Greatest Guitar Player You’ve Never Heard Of The Waco-bred rock and roller, who Ted Nugent compared to Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen, gets a posthumous moment in ...

Alex Van Halen is shedding light on his brother Eddie Van Halen’s addiction to prescription pills. In his first interview since Eddie’s death, Alex, 71, explained that his late brother, the ...

Eddie Van Halen never had to worry about sounding original, but he had a word with one guitarist with showing too much of his influence. ... Steely Dan already boasted some of the best players in the ...

Eddie Van Halen - "Frankenstrat" The ultimate ‘80s guitar hero started on an unmodified Ibanez Destroyer, but his signature axe is the fierce-sounding (and fearsome) Frankenstrat.

Cheap Trick brought the set full circle with “Goodnight,” with guitarist Rick Nielsen delivering some final licks on his iconic five-neck guitar. Eclectic Opening. ... the titular Edward in the title ...

Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. He uses Jazz III nylon ...

For the song, Eddie Van Halen's fat keyboard riff carries the song in a way David Lee Roth's vocals never could. But the video, set on a bare stage and with utterly no plot, would be nothing ...

The greatest guitarists have instruments as unique as they are. Sometimes a happy accident will turn a standard guitar into something unique, as happened to Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green.Sometimes a ...

It was so distinctive that, even in the band’s earliest days, Van Halen could hear other guitarists copying his approach. “Rick Derringer opened for us last year, and he did my exact solo,” Van Halen ...