Back in 1986, Van Halen was hot off the release of its latest studio album "5150" with new frontman Sammy Hagar. A best-selling album for the group after its run with lead singer David Lee Roth, "5150 ...

Rock and roll guitar solos are modern one-person symphonies, and two of the greatest guitar soloist are Eddie Van Halen and Dimebag Darrell. The sound of their respective bands Van Halen and Pantera ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Few people are lucky enough to meet their idols, and even fewer get the distinct displeasure of realizing that those idols are copying them—but Eddie Van Halen managed to experience both. Before the ...

A legendary guitar personally customized and once wielded by arena-rock icon Eddie Van Halen is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s in October. Its estimate? A whopping $2 million–$3 million. And ...

Just like the final moments of New Year’s Eve in 1999 did not close out the 20th Century or the millennium (despite what Prince sang in “1999”), musical eras of rock ’n’ roll do not align with decades ...

The 1982 Kramer axe graced the hands of not one but two legendary musicians, making it a true piece of rock ‘n’ roll history. It was extensively played by Van Halen on his rock band’s tours in 1982 ...

A previous Sotheby’s sale for a guitar owned by Van Halen — that one on display in the band’s “Hot for Teacher” music video — netted $3,932,000 in April 2023. By Chris Gardner A piece of rock history ...

Nearly five years after his death, one of Eddie Van Halen’s most recognizable guitars will be auctioned off for the first time this fall. As part of a rock collectibles sales by the auction house ...

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. The ...