Yngwie Malmsteen. By that point, Van Halen were five albums deep into their career, having turned the guitar world on its head with “Eruption” and Eddie’s superlative tapping exploits in 1978.

In a new interview with Classic Rock, Yngwie Malmsteen has looked back on his near-meetings with Eddie Van Halen – and claimed the late electric guitar legend felt threatened by him. While ...

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens told UCR how Eddie Van Halen inspired his live classical solos in a May 2025 interview.

"He was the most supportive person other than my mom in my life," Wolfgang said about his late father, Eddie Van Halen.

Eddie Van Halen is one of the most interesting men to have ever graced the music industry. His guitar skills are not only one-of-a-kind but also monumentally influential. In addition to Van Halen ...

The throwbacks are limited to Mammoth's "The End" video as Wolfgang Van Halen reveals that one portion of the song features him using his father Eddie Van Halen's iconic "Frankenstein" guitar.

Joe Satriani explained the challenge of playing Eddie Van Halen's guitar parts during an interview in May 2025.

Eddie Van Halen rocked the world with his band Van Halen — yet he was no stranger to the Jersey Shore. Van Halen, who passed away after battling throat cancer on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the age of ...

"This is the first, and only, official announcement." Nodding to the late Eddie Van Halen, who died from cancer in October 2020, Roth said he'd been thinking about "the departure of my beloved ...

The same year that Hagar departed, Van Halen started putting together a greatest hits package. It would include songs from both the Roth and Hagar eras. Roth, who hadn’t spoken with Eddie Van ...

Diamond Dave is back in the live business. David Lee Roth performed his first public concert in more than five years Saturday night at the M3 music festival in Columbia, Md. — a 75-minute set of ...

As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn’t come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen’s death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in ...