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“It was all automatic Eddie Van Halen comparisons. I wanted something different”: Vito Bratta explains why he switched from Stratocasters to his iconic Steinberger

The shred trailblazer recalls how links to EVH's Frankenstein – and a fondness for high-tech gear – prompted his switch to a headless alternative in the '80s

Guitar World

"Don't even get us started on that Van Halen sh*t": Wolfgang Van Halen plays Eruption and Hot For Teacher with the Foo Fighters

And The Cradle Will Rockville

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“He doesn’t like the sound of new strings. The ones on the guitar for the new album were two years old”: Mdou Moctar prefers old guitar strings – and the Roland Cube is his favorite amp for a very good reason

The gear (or lack of) behind Mdou Moctar's searing signature sound on Funeral For Justice, which fuses Saharan rock music with Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen flair

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“I thought I’d make the notes count, like Jeff Beck. It doesn’t sound anything like Jeff, but that was the intention going in!” Phil Collen on how – by accident and design – Def Leppard reinvented rock guitar on classic album Pyromania

Pyromania is 40 years young this year is still fresh as a daisy. Collen explains how tones, solos, Mutt Lange and the art of recording one string at a time forged a pivotal moment in rock

Guitar World

‘Hammer-ons from nowhere’ can blow your guitar playing wide open – and help you craft silky smooth, effortlessly fast and highly impressive solos

This Greg Howe and Joe Satriani-favored technique will whip your hammer-ons, pull-offs, tapping, and muting into shape

Guitar World

"I can't be Dave Grohl or Ryan Reynolds." We spent the day with Tool and, can we shock you? They're still weird as hell.

Like the rest of us, Tool are hoping they can get it together enough to record another album before somebody dies

Metal Hammer

“Eddie Van Halen’s main solo is a greatest hits of all his best guitar licks”: Dweezil Zappa issues update for What the Hell Was I Thinking? – his ambitious mega-track featuring Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May and more

The track features solos from “at least 40” superstar guitarists, and its mastermind says finishing the 35-years-in-the-making mammoth is now a big focus

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"When Peter Gabriel played Red Rain I started sobbing - it makes me think of my dad": The soundtrack of Wolfgang Van Halen's life

Mammoth WVH guitarist/vocalist Wolfgang Van Halen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

Louder

“I made Yngwie play on a really slow blues… He sounds even faster”: Dweezil Zappa reveals plans to finish epic all-star track featuring 40 players, including Brian May, and Eddie Van Halen playing a “greatest hits of all of his best guitar licks”

Zappa has been working on this instrumental piece for over 30 years and it features Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young and more, and two solos from Eddie Van Halen

MusicRadar

“Even Eddie Van Halen – god bless him, I love him – was mainly pentatonic. I was radically different”: Yngwie Malmsteen on Rising Force and the introduction of a neoclassical shred icon

Breaking out of Alcatrazz and releasing Rising Force in 1984, a young Yngwie Malmsteen took us all through a supernova of virtuosity that changed guitar forever

Guitar World

“My dad always said, ‘Focus on your rhythm and writing songs.’ But when I got the itch to start doing solos, I got into Eddie Van Halen”: Trev Lukather on the guitar lessons he learned from his dad, Steve Lukather

The Toto great advised his son to sharpen up a certain aspect of his playing – but then EVH, Neal Schon and David Gilmour entered the picture

Guitar World

Sammy Hagar Reflects On Career Highlights At Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Explore Sammy Hagar's journey from Montrose to Van Halen, celebrating his resilience and influence on rock music.

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“When Van Halen came out, I thought it was the greatest sound I’d ever heard. Eddie was like, ‘Nah, I never really liked the sound of that record’”: Mike McCready recalls meeting Eddie Van Halen – and tries his hand at playing Eruption off the cuff

The Pearl Jam guitarist has opened up about his encounter with the guitar legend on Howard Stern, before showing off a few two-hand tapping licks

Guitar World

“When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted anything to do with it. Dave said I was a guitar hero and I shouldn’t be playing keyboards”: The story of Van Halen’s 1984 – the Flying V, the synths and the end of the David Lee Roth era

Creative differences led to Roth’s departure the following year, but 1984 found the band firing on all cylinders, as Eddie Van Halen embraced his pop sensibilities while retaining the musical adventurism that made him the greatest of all time

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“I was all about Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch. But John Sykes really got me – he changed my world through his tone and vibrato”: How Fozzy’s Rich Ward took a shred attitude and funk-metal mindset to invent Stuck Mojo

The Marshall fan explains what made him shut down the crossover band he loved, how he developed the perfect partnership with Fozzy bandmate Chris Jericho, and why mid-’70s Les Pauls are the best

Guitar World

“Three of those were made. I had one. Ry Cooder had one. Edward Van Halen had one”: Dweezil Zappa on the high-tech custom model that EVH dubbed “The Super Pluto Guitar”

The tale of a truly distinctive instrument that was custom-made for a trio of rock’s most innovative players in the 1980s

Guitar World

“Eddie’s death rocked his son’s world, but Wolfgang solidified his music career with a sound all of his own while continuing to honor his father’s legacy”: New Behind The Music episode puts Wolfgang Van Halen's story front and center

The long-running music docuseries kicks off its new season with WVH's life story

Guitar World

“I wanna say thank you Michael for an unbelievable catalog of music that has changed the history of rock 'n' roll”: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt play Van Halen hits with ex-VH bassist Michael Anthony

Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt’s side-project ,The Coverups, also covered Kiss, Nirvana, and David Bowie this past weekend

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"I've ripped up my fingers to shreds, they bled, they blistered": Watch Nina DiGregorio's jaw-dropping version of Van Halen's Eruption, played on 7-string fretted violin

Nina DiGregorio spent years preparing for this moment

Louder

"We were young and crazy. We were trying to do all the things that Led Zeppelin did": What happened when Billy Corgan interviewed Eddie Van Halen

In 1996, Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan collared his hero Eddie Van Halen to hear tales of parachutes, parties and, er, practising

Guitar World

“Fingers are crossed that once I start playing Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love, it'll be like, ‘I'm here, I'm in the zone’”: Joe Satriani is working with 3rd Power on the ultimate '86 era Van Halen amp

As Satriani prepares for this summer's Best of All Worlds tour with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, the guitarist has opened up on his preparation, which includes the building of a brand new amp and a deep dive into the technicalities of EVH's playing

MusicRadar

“They’re gonna see someone who’s hell-bent on being the most respectful guitar player to the legacy of Eddie”: Joe Satriani issues update on his mission impossible – nailing Eddie Van Halen’s guitar parts

Satch is boning up on Van Halen tracks in preparation for Sammy Hagar's Best Of All Worlds Tour in July – and he knows just what to do if the occasional lick escapes him

Guitar World

“It’s nothing crazy, but I have some weird, oddball sounds if needed”: Alex Skolnick reveals what’s on his pedalboard

Come take a look and see what the jazz phenom and Testament lead guitarist has on his 'board, and find out which pedal gives him “Tommy Bolin and Eddie Van Halen” vibes

Louder

"I can't think of a Van Halen song that doesn't put a smile on my face – it's just a question of figuring out how to play them": How Joe Satriani is preparing to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen

Exclusive: we talk to Joe Satriani as the setlist for Sammy Hagar's upcoming The Best of All Worlds tour begins to take shape

Louder

"The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close": The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime

With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore

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