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“Jimi Hendrix scared me. Learning about the Hendrix E chord was amazing… I figured out where to put my fingers and kinda eked it out on my own”: Steve Lukather names the 12 guitarists who shaped his sound

From George Harrison and Jeff Beck to David Gilmour and Eddie Van Halen, the Toto veteran has befriended many of his heroes – and it's thanks to them that he still loves to sit at home playing

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"It’s not one of my favourite things. It’s stupid because I produced it, but the keyboards just hit me as wrong": Van Halen's Jump is 40 years old. Here's how the most famous keyboard riff of all time was created (and how you can do it, too)

Or the most irritating? You decide…

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“You have to take what he says with a grain of salt. He also said he wrote Eruption and came up with the Frankenstein stripes”: Wolfgang Van Halen responds to David Lee Roth jibes – and says a Van Halen tribute tour is “impossible”

The Mammoth WVH frontman has addressed Roth’s recent outburst, highlighting the former Van Halen vocalist’s previous outlandish comments in the process

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"I guess I'm honoured he even thinks about me as much as he seems to": Wolfgang Van Halen responds to David Lee Roth's bizarre personal attacks with polite resignation

Wolfgang Van Halen sounds prepared for a future in which he's a target for the occasional David Lee Roth outburst

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"Epitomising the blend of prog-rock chops, pop sensibility and Zappa-influenced weirdness that was Max's secret formula": Max Webster's High Class In Borrowed Shoes

High Class In Borrowed Shoes is the second album by extravagantly dressed Canadian rock eccentrics and Rush buddies Max Webster

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“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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“If I knew I was gonna influence thousands of guitar players, I woulda practiced more!” Ace Frehley struts down memory lane to shoot down Kiss myths and reveal the secrets behind an era-defining sound

The former Kiss guitarist on the “dinosaur bends” and dimed amps behind his signature style, and his guitar highlights as the rock institution's original Spaceman

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“Just like driving a Plexi Super Lead flat out, but accessible at lower volume levels – and won’t cause permanent ear damage”: Universal Audio UAFX Lion ’68 Super Lead Amp review

UA sought to capture the tone and feel of one of the most legendary guitar amps of all time in a pedal – and the Lion nails the brief

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“I loved Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. Then something happened where it was like you had to be in the guitar Olympics”: Billie Joe Armstrong explains why he rekindled his relationship with the guitar solo on Green Day’s newest album

Saviors might be the band’s most solo-heavy record to date – a result of Armstrong re-embracing lead playing and, as he tells Guitar World, putting “a spotlight on a little bit more of what I’m capable of”

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“I have that Eddie Van Halen mentality of ‘it doesn’t really matter what it looks like – I wish someone would teach me, because it’s just been me destroying stuff!” David Pajo on modding guitars, Gang of Four and the launch of his lost folk-rock album

The Fender fan, who plays bass and drums on a new ‘lost album’ by Children’s Hour, didn’t realize what an influence Andy Gill had been until he filled the late guitarist’s space

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“Eddie was down in the pit watching every move I made”: Ace Frehley says his early displays of tapping prowess “probably” inspired Eddie Van Halen to develop his trademark two-hand technique

“But he perfected it. There’s no way I could play some of the solos that he pulled off,” said the former Kiss guitarist

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“I was aggressively informed, ‘That’s Eddie’s technique; you’re not allowed to play it on the tour – or else’: Former Autograph guitar maestro Steve Lynch on theory, technique, and life as a tapping pioneer

Lynch was a trailblazer for two-handed tapping, but when his band opened for Van Halen, Lynch was prohibited by Van Halen's management from using his trademark technique (a ban that was later lifted at the behest of Eddie himself)

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"I miss hearing you laugh. I miss laughing with you": Wolfgang Van Halen shares poignant birthday message to his late father Eddie, on what would have been the guitar legend's 69th birthday

"I'll do my best to keep a smile on my face and think of you today"

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NAMM 2024: “The SA was borne out of a necessity for finding my own sound for Mammoth”: EVH Gear marks Eddie Van Halen’s birthday with the unveiling of Wolfgang’s signature SA-126 semi-hollow

WVH’s shred-friendly model takes its name from his father's birthday and features an E-hole tribute to the late guitar legend, and it presents us with a radical take on a semi-hollow

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“The goal was to put together a guitar that didn’t exist yet”: After years of anticipation, Wolfgang Van Halen’s long-awaited EVH SA-126 signature guitar is finally here – and it’s arrived on Eddie’s birthday

The SA-126 was named in honor of Eddie Van Halen's birthday, and gets an official launch almost two years after Wolfgang began road-testing prototypes on tour

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"He's complaining the entire tour like I’m not paying enough attention to him on stage": David Lee Roth launches bizarre attack on Wolfgang Van Halen, complete with comedy voices

Former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth has launched a strangely spiteful recording in which he tells tales from Van Halen's final days on the road

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NAMM 2024: EVH Gear brings back a pair of Eddie Van Halen cult classics as the Shark and the Circles (aka Unchained) guitar return to the lineup

The Circles guitar is for all you 1981 Van Halen heads while the Shark remains one of the craziest experiments in guitar modding

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"We got a good crowd here!" Watch a heavily-disguised Green Day busk a hard rockin' cover of Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love on a New York subway platform

Who had 'Green Day jamming on a Bad Company classic' on their 2024 Bingo card? Not us

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“No brand comes close to Suhr as far as quality. My guitar also has an actual Fender bridge, even if it’s challenging to keep in tune… I’ve been playing out of tune live for years anyway!” Fusion master Scott Henderson on why he’s not a jazz guitarist

Despite once being named ‘No. 1 Jazz Guitarist’ by Guitar World readers, Henderson has abandoned playing jazz standards. He explains what he’s trying to achieve now, drawing from Beyoncé, country, Albert King and Eddie Van Halen

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“After years of receiving requests for this famed instrument, the new Striped Series Shark returns”: EVH brings back Eddie Van Halen’s classic Shark and Circles models

Two of EVH’s most outlandish designs will be available once more

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“He looked at me and he goes, ‘You’re the only one that understands me. People think I’m an alien because of the way I play’”: Why Eddie Van Halen cried when he met Billie Joe Armstrong

A 12-year-old Armstrong cried when he witnessed Eddie Van Halen play live for the first time in the '80s. Years later, the roles would be reversed

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“He started crying, and goes, You're the only one that understands me”: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the day he made his childhood hero Eddie Van Halen cry

They say that you should never meet your heroes, but meeting Eddie Van Halen was an experience Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong will never forget

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"That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalls his hard rock education before the era of 'The Guitar Olympics'

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“I wanna hear that mythical sound”: Joe Satriani has been struggling to nail Eddie Van Halen’s tone – so he’s having a special amp built for the Best of All Worlds tour

Satch has called upon 3rd Power Amplification to replicate the tones of Van Halen's modded Marshalls from 1986, which will form the foundation of his EVH-inspired sound

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