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“Chris was in a very fragile part of his life. He started playing bass… He got so into it he started bleeding. I said, ‘This is the man you want.’ And then he died”: Alex Van Halen reveals his and Eddie’s secret jams with Chris Cornell

Eddie Van Halen and his brother tried out the Soundgarden singer shortly before his death – and at one stage, an Ozzy Osbourne-fronted Van Halen album was also on the cards

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“The moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave popped a fuse… The vitriol that came out was unbelievable”: Alex Van Halen reveals the real reason why the Van Halen tribute didn’t happen – and the advice Brian May gave him about the tour

Van Halen says that David Lee Roth's refusal to pay tribute to Eddie during the proposed tour was the straw that “broke the camel's back”

Guitar World

"You’re gonna think I’m out of my mind": Alex Van Halen is considering finishing unreleased Van Halen songs, with Robert Plant adding vocals and guitar solos generated by artificial intelligence

Alex Van Halen has approached the makers of ChatGPT to explore the possibility of creating new guitar solos

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Alex Van Halen says reunion was canceled because David Lee Roth refused to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen

Van Halen wanted to emulate Queen’s tributes to their late singer Freddie Mercury

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“If it had come to fruition, it would have been phenomenal.” Eddie and Alex Van Halen wanted Ozzy Osbourne to front a new-look Van Halen, and Ozzy would have joined if his family's MTV show hadn't got in the way

Alex Van Halen reveals that Ozzy Osbourne was in the frame to front a new look Van Halen at the start of the millennium, and Ozzy says that he was up for it

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Alex Van Halen names famous singer he has in mind to perform unreleased Van Halen music

Eddie Van Halen died at the age of 65 in 2020

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“The world’s greatest guitarist is what everyone says. It’s kind of a dicey title”: A deep dive into the Van Halen catalogue proves the point

EVH didn’t like being called the greatest. That doesn’t make it any less true

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“The world's greatest guitarist is what everyone says. It's kind of a dicey title. You never liked it”: Alex Van Halen reveals the unease Eddie felt with being labeled the best guitar player on the planet in new excerpt from tell-all memoir

Brothers, which will “set the record straight on Edward’s life and death”, has been previewed by an audio clip that finds Alex paying tribute to EVH's guitar talents

Guitar World

"Outliving my little brother, this just wasn't the plan. As the older brother, I was supposed to die first. Same as always, Ed, butting in line": Listen to Alex Van Halen's emotional tribute for Eddie Van Halen from his new audiobook, Brothers

Alex Van Halen makes a beautiful tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen in his new audiobook, Brothers, which is also set to feature a previously unreleased song composed by the pair

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Listen to Unfinished, the last song Eddie and Alex Van Halen ever recorded together

Unfinished will be included in the audiobook of Brothers, Alex Van Halen's forthcoming memoir

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“We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime”: Hear Eddie Van Halen solo again in an unreleased preview of the last song he worked on with his brother

Titled Unfinished, the full song will be released as part of the audiobook version of Alex Van Halen's forthcoming tell-all memoir

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Alex Van Halen shares a snippet of the accurately-titled final track he recorded with his brother Eddie

Alex shares final track he recorded with Eddie

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“We shared the experience of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life”: The final track Eddie and Alex Van Halen wrote together will feature on highly anticipated new audiobook memoir

The drummer's upcoming book is a “love letter” to his brother, offering an “intimate and open account” of their personal and musical relationship – and it will include the last song they worked on together

Guitar World

Last Alex and Eddie Van Halen track ever to debut on AVH's memoir audiobook

Alex Van Halen to release the last track he worked on with Eddie

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“I’m sure our paths will cross”: Sammy Hagar on whether we’ll ever see Wolfgang Van Halen join the Best Of All Worlds tour

Hagar hopes to take the tour to South America and Europe, which could increase the chances of a Wolfgang guest spot in the future

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"The best gig of all time": What happened when Van Halen played a secret show at a tiny New York club

In 2012 Van Halen announced a new album and celebrated in the only way they knew: By throwing a party

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"I think that was his statement to me": Sammy Hagar took Alex Van Halen's recent sale of his musical equipment personally

Sammy Hagar has detailed his fruitless attempts to reach out to Alex Van Halen

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Watch: Josh Freese delivers a jaw-dropping version of Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher drum intro at Foo Fighters’ Glasgow gig

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“It's the end of anything that that could have been tribute-wise”: Michael Anthony gives his thoughts on Alex Van Halen selling all his gear

Michael Anthony gives his thoughts on Alex Van Halen selling all his gear

Guitar World

“I’m not gonna point fingers, but through all of this, one of the ingredients was not playing ball with everybody else”: Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony sets the record straight on the much-rumored VH tribute project

According to Michael Anthony, internal disputes have ruined the Van Halen tribute project's potential

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"The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close": The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime

With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore

Guitar World

“Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death”: Alex Van Halen set to chronicle his relationship with Eddie in new memoir, Brothers

Dubbed “the definitive take on Edward Van Halen’s life and death from the one who knew and loved him best”, Brothers will arrive this October

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“I was with him from day one”: Alex Van Halen's forthcoming memoir Brothers promises to offer “the definitive take on Edward Van Halen’s life and death from the one who knew and loved him best”

Alex Van Halen will share "his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love" in forthcoming book Brothers

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"I know in my heart, I want to hear that sound in my head" – Joe Satriani is having a custom 3rd Power amp built for the Van Halen tribute tour and it's based on Eddie's 1986 live choice

"But the main thing will be, can you have that one sound that will carry you through?"

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"Kids came in their thousands, and the first two rows looked like Attila The Hun’s frontline troops – frothing at the mouth": four years on the road with America's ultimate party band, Van Halen

At the tag end of the 70s, Van Halen were poised to become one of the biggest-grossing acts on the planet... but the cracks were beginning to show

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