Latest about Eddie Van Halen
Andy Wood demos his ultimate Van Halen pedalboard rig and it sounds as spectacular as we hoped
The gear and the chops
Has guitarist Andy Wood just made the ultimate Eddie Van Halen pedalboard?
Expert choices here – and even the 'board has the stripes
“I don’t want to generalise and say that he made everything sound good, but he did”: Joe Satriani reveals his strategy for replicating Eddie Van Halen’s tone on upcoming Sammy Hagar tour
It's one thing playing EVH's parts, but for The Best Of All Worlds Summer 2024 Tour, Satch has got to recreate one of the most sought-after tones in guitar. He has a plan for that
Sammy Hagar shuts down talk of a shared Van Halen tribute tour with David Lee Roth, says he's not invited to the whole thing: "No f***ing way"
Update: As feared, the Van Halen vocalists are outta love again: "He can come out and sing a song on a show or two, if he can remember the words"
EVH Gear launches the Frankenstein Relic Series – three heavily aged takes on the Frankenstrat in solid red, black and white colour finishes
From the distressed finish to the “dummy” neck pickup and Eddie-approved features, these are three of the coolest high-performance S-styles you’ll see this year
Watch Van Halen’s incendiary 1984 Monsters Of Rock set – and Eddie’s 10-minute guitar solo – at Castle Donington as pro-shot footage emerges online
A band and their trailblazing guitarist at the height of their powers blaze through an hour-long set of Van Halen classics
Wolfgang Van Halen on his approach as a multi-instrumentalist: "Drums are, to me, the most important part. It's the backbone of everything"
As Mammoth WVH II drops, Wolfgang tells us about taking his one and only drum lesson from Eddie, and why Travis Barker and Danny Carey shaped his playing
"Certain people in the band at that time didn't like me doing things outside the group" – remembering when Eddie Van Halen joined Michael Jackson onstage to play Beat It without a rehearsal
"You got it Eddie!"
EVH Gear unleashes another hybrid monster electric guitar design in the shape of the limited edition Star
Putting a retro-style coke-bottle headstock on an offset Charvel body, this high-performance electric references a classic Eddie Van Halen guitar from the early '80s
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