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Alex Van Halen shares rare recording of a young Eddie Van Halen playing guitar to mark the late guitar great’s birthday

The sorely missed guitar legend would have turned 71 on January 26

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"I had to stick my head in the low bins - it got blown off when Bill Ward was hammering the kick drum." Alex Van Halen praises the impact of seeing Black Sabbath for the first time

Alex Van Halen opened up to Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain about what it was like seeing Black Sabbath in the early 70s

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"In the mid-80s, to get your record played, you had to take the guitar solo out." Radio stations tried to cut Eddie Van Halen's solo from one of his most iconic songs

Iron Maiden legend Nicko McBrain has hosted an epic interview with Alex Van Halen

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“I hope your reaction is, ‘I have never heard Van Halen like this’“: New compilation album of old Van Halen rehearsals with Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang has reportedly been released – and it doesn’t feature a singer

The recordings come from the 5150 Studios soundboard as the band rehearsed ahead of their 2007 tour

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“Let me see you lay down a groove like Poundcake. That’s harder than getting up there and soloing”: The lead single from Van Halen’s 1991 album with Sammy Hagar combines a thunderous bassline with a revved-up power drill

Michael Anthony’s 16th-note bass grooves remained as much a part of the “Van Hagar” sound as Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pyrotechnics

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Eddie Van Halen's 1982 iconic Kramer guitar to be auctioned

The instrument is based on Van Halen’s original “Frankenstrat” guitar from 1975. Five years after Van Halen's death, this is the first of his guitars with this trademark design to ever be auctioned. It is expected to fetch more than $2million during an October auction led by Sotheby's.

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"We went platinum and Warner Brothers told us we owed them two million dollars": How Van Halen followed one of rock's greatest-ever debuts

For their second album, Van Halen created an infectioussound that was perfect for the new decade, and a lookthat MTV couldn’t get enough of

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“I have the memories”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s stopped listening to his dad’s music

The Mammoth multi-instrumentalist has discussed why he no longer listens to his late father’s Van Halen back catalog

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“Van Halen were a pale, washed up imitation of the band they once were”: Dave Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? A forensic examination of who was Van Halen’s best singer

Sorry, Gary Cherone…

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Sammy Hagar has offered a potential reason as to why Alex Van Halen has shut him out of his life

Sammy Hagar has suggested Alex Van Halen resents him for being able to still have a music career.

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Sammy Hagar thinks he knows why Alex Van Halen is angry at him and it's nothing to do with music

The Red Rocker's Best Of All Worlds residency kicks off in Las Vegas this week

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“I will not ever play a note on a Van Halen song!” Steve Lukather sets the record straight on his reported involvement on a new Van Halen album

After a Dutch newspaper reported that Alex Van Halen had hired Lukather to help finish a new Van Halen record, the guitarist has now cleared the air

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"There is a huge misunderstanding. I will NOT EVER play a guitar note on a VH song ever!": Steve Lukather sets the record straight on his role on the ‘new’ Van Halen album

He’s working with Alex Van Halen on the project, but as “more of a co-producer”

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“There is no-one who can do this process with me as well as he can”: Alex Van Halen says a new Van Halen album is in the works – and he’s recruited Steve Lukather to help him complete it

Reports coming out of the Netherlands have seemingly confirmed a new Van Halen record will become a reality

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“There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can”: Alex Van Halen says he is working with Steve Lukather to complete a new Van Halen album

Reports in Dutch newspaper say a new Van Halen album is happening with the Toto guitarist filling in for the late Eddie Van Halen

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Here are all the winners in the 2024 Drumeo Awards. Did your favourite sticksmith make the cut?

The drum and percussion learning platform just announced its big winners from last year’s votes

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"When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted to have anything to do with it": How Eddie Van Halen became a superstar and the real story of Van Halen's biggest-selling album

Welcome to 1984: it was the album that would see Van Halen straddle theplanet like a rock colossus, but it would also mark the end of the originalline-up

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“I will not take this to my grave": Sammy Hagar puts an olive branch out to Alex Van Halen

“I just want to be friends again,” the singer says

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Sammy Hagar determined not to take bad blood with Alex Van Halen to his grave

Hagar hopes to make peace with former Van Halen bandmate but admits they likely won't perform together again

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“Push comes to shove, then some guys pulls a knife. They arrested him – but that was my introduction to Dave’s band”: Alex Van Halen on the first time he and Eddie met David Lee Roth at a show that nearly ended in violence

Pre-Van Halen fame, the brothers were scheduled to play a gig at a local park – only to get replaced by Roth’s band at the last minute

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At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Alex Van Halen, the Rolling Stones, Opetrh, George Murray, Queen, Vion Hdertzen Brothers, Meat Loaf, Joan Armatrading, Michael Monroe, Rosalie Cunningham, The Sheepdogs, Koyo, The Darkness, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Starbenders and more

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Alex Van Halen reveals that David Lee Roth asked Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos: "He couldn’t handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was"

In his new memoire, Brothers, Alex Van Halen says that David Lee Roth was "convinced he was going to be a movie star" so didn't want the spotlight to shine too long on anyone else

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“He couldn’t handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was. He kept asking Eddie to play fewer guitar solos”: Alex Van Halen reveals the real reason David Lee Roth quit Van Halen

In his recently-released book, Brothers, the Van Halen drummer talks about the push-and-pull dynamic between Roth and the two brothers, and what eventually led to the singer's departure following the 1984 Tour

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“The final song that Edward and Alex wrote together”: Eddie Van Halen’s soloing takes center stage once again – as the last song he ever wrote with his brother is released

Unfinished is a powerful, mournful instrumental epic that sees the late guitar legend let loose on six minutes of guitar action

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Alex Van Halen shares the last song he wrote with late brother Eddie Van Halen

Unfinished / Between Us Two is an epic, six-minute instrumental

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