Jas Obrecht’s chance encounter with a then-unknown Eddie Van Halen on July 23, 1978, resulted in the guitar virtuoso’s first magazine interview, which ran in Guitar Player ’s November 1978 ...

The tale begins way back in 1967, when Van Halen purchased his first-ever guitar – a $40 Teisco Del Rey – at the age of 12. Over the next decade, Eddie would embark on a journey of six-string ...

Eddie Van Halen’s new take on a classic guitar first appeared on the cover of Van Halen’s iconic 1978 self-titled début album. In the photo, 22-year-old Van Halen is lifting his guitar toward ...

Billy Corgan and Eddie Van Halen go way back. Heck, he even interviewed EVH back in 1996 for this very publication – a meeting of the minds that saw both guitarists, from different genres, eras ...

Over the years, the iconic guitar has been called both "Frankenstein" and "Frankenstrat," but during a 2024 appearance on the Shred With Shifty podcast, Wolfgang Van Halen officially confirmed ...

A Van Halen custom Kramer guitar played by the late Eddie Van Halen in the band's "Hot for Teacher" video netted a winning bid of $3,932,000 in 2023, as Loudwire reported.

"Oddly enough, the way that I ended up doing a nylon [string] guitar solo was that I was in Vince Neil 's band, and we did about six weeks opening for Van Halen [in 1993]," Stevens recently told UCR.

Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock 'n' roll for a decade ...

Alex Van Halen has been largely quiet since his younger brother, Eddie Van Halen, passed away in 2020 after a long battle with cancer. He's having his say now with "Brothers," a just-published ...

Alex and Eddie, both born in Amsterdam, began playing music together in childhood. Van Halen, which they formed after moving to California, rose to fame with their 1978 self-titled debut album.

Jan Van Halen also appreciated Roth; he knew his sons needed some visual locus for their band, something to appeal to an audience beyond teenage air-guitar aficionados, i.e., pimple-creamed boys.