Straight outta Pasadena, Van Halen were America's ultimate party band, monstrously entertaining and gleefully ambitious, a classically Californian quartet formed by two Dutch immigrants. They also ...

The love, for fans of dynamic hard rock music in general and the electric guitar in particular, came easy in the case of Van Halen. Ask a Deadhead where they were and what they were doing when they ...

Eddie Van Halen may be best known for his Frankenstein Strat — a guitar hat married Les Paul tonality with Stratocaster ...

Former Van Halen singer and current The Circle bandleader Sammy Hagar recently suggested a song he thinks is the prime exemplar of his collaborative work with the late Eddie Van Halen. For him, it all ...

Los Angeles was the birthplace of some incredible classic rock bands including The Doors, Guns N' Roses, and Van Halen.

Van Halen had trouble bringing the song “Right Now” to completion, but that was nothing compared to the struggles they had with Sammy Hagar while trying to complete its associated promo video. After ...

Although Eddie Van Halen changed the world with his playing, he was acutely aware of his limitations, and named the two guitarists he could never match.

Sammy Hagar might be the guy who wrote "There's Only One Way to Rock," but when it comes to the two most popular periods of Van Halen's career, he's now happy to evangelize music from the David Lee ...

Eddie Van Halen’s famed ‘Kramer Ad’ electric guitar has become one of the most expensive guitars to ever be sold at auction, ...