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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

Guitar World

"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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The lie Sammy Hagar found in his "Roots"

"Right now, I don't know what to think," said the musician after discovering a secret about an ancestor

Salon

"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

Metal Hammer

“When the Boogie Nights scene came on, I said, ‘Man, I think I’ve been in that guy’s house in the early 80s!’”: the rise, fall and porn-assisted resurrection of AOR heroes Night Ranger

Power ballads, bust-ups and Boogie Nights – this is the epic story of Night Ranger

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Universal Audio UAFX Lion '68 Super Lead Amp pedal review

Bringing Plexi back

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“It felt like a really special moment to celebrate by using the Frankenstein. It was like having my dad right there with me”: Wolfgang Van Halen on how it felt to use Eddie’s OG Frankie and Marshall rig to record one of Mammoth WVH’s standout solos

Found on the latest Mammoth WVH record, the lead effort on Take a Bow was recorded using one of the most iconic gear combos in music history

Guitar World

The 16 most expensive guitars of all time

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction

Guitar World

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a helicopter, and you can land next to some": The wit and wisdom of David Lee Roth

The very best quotes from Diamond Dave, original Van Halen mouthpiece, Hollywood bon vivant and unbeatable wit

Louder

“Dave said, ‘No, not doing it’”: Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen once wrote a brand new Van Halen song, only for David Lee Roth to refuse to sing it

Van Halen’s swansong album A Different Kind Of Truth could have featured a song with the working title Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Panama if it wasn‘t for David Lee Roth having a hissy fit

Louder

“It was like being fired out of a cannon”: Wolfgang Van Halen looks back on joining Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen says he joined the band to support his dad, but that didn’t stop some fans from giving him a rough ride

Louder

Steve Lukather voices support for the ‘tone is in the hands’ camp: “There’s no magic guitar, just magic people”

The Toto hero says he's played through both Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck's rigs, and came to the same conclusion both times: he sounds like himself no matter what he plays through

Guitar World

New Van Halen documentary takes us back to the early ‘80s to tell the story of how Eddie built 5150 Studios as the band were coming apart

Or how Eddie Van Halen helped pioneer working from home, reinvented guitar, befriended Frank Zappa and ended up producing My Mother Is A Space Cadet for a young Dweezil Zappa

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How Sammy Hagar made Van Halen even better, according to Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar says he blew Van Halen's minds when he joined: "they thought wow, here’s a professional”

Guitar World

Paul Gilbert names 12 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Mr. Big guitar hero reveals how his strap length influenced his technique, why hearing Yngwie Malmsteen down the phone inspired him to give fast picking one more try, and what he considers to be "one of the biggest scourges" of modern guitar playing

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 7-13

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of May 7-13 include comedian Aidy Bryant from “Saturday Night Live,” drummer Alex Van Halen of Van Halen and former NFL coach Bill Cowher

Louder

Montrose: Paper Money - Album Of The Week Club review

After announcing their arrival with a stone-cold classic, Montrose returned to the studio in 1974 to record an underwhelming second album. Perhaps they should have released them in reverse order

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Guitar World

Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound

Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life

Guitar World

Watch Phil X jam Van Halen's Somebody Get Me a Doctor with Michael Anthony

The onstage jam took place shortly after the one-time Van Halen bassist alluded to a new project with the Bon Jovi guitarist and a mysterious "really, really cool singer” in an interview with Eddie Trunk

Guitar World

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony teases new band with Bon Jovi guitarist, Aerosmith drummer and “a really, really cool singer”

Phil X and Aerosmith live drummer John Douglas are involved, but who’s the mystery vocalist?

Louder

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony has a new band with Bon Jovi and Aerosmith men

"I wasn't going to mention anything about it, but there is a little side project thing..." former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony

Tribune News Service

Sammy Hagar buzzed about his new Las Vegas residency, cocktail line and Cabo San Lucas tourism ambassadorship

Sammy Hagar has learned to roll with the punches, as befits a former boxer turned Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee who in 1995 was fired from his decadelong gig as the lead singer in Van Halen.

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