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“What would be totally ridiculous and would grab everyone’s interest? I said, ‘I’m going to make my guitar talk!’”: When Steve Vai was in direct competition with Eddie Van Halen

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“I hope this guitar brings you even half the joy you and your music has brought me”: Wolfgang Van Halen has gifted his favorite new guitar player one of his EVH SA-126 signature guitars

The Mammoth WVH leader has waxed lyrical about Aaron Marshall in the past – and now he’s sent the Intervals virtuoso one of his stunning semi-hollow signatures

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"It couldn't get any better than that, and it didn't": David Lee Roth teaches a lesson in how not to conduct a solo career in five albums

David Lee Roth's precipitous post-Van Halen tail-off is documented on The Warner Recordings 1985-1994

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“I think Eddie got rubbed up the wrong way because we had another superstar guitar player in our lineup”: Eddie Van Halen apparently left Peavey because it signed a second standout shredder – Joe Satriani

Van Halen had developed his Wolfgang and 5150 with Peavey, but the firm’s current CEO reckons Satch’s arrival ultimately convinced him to leave

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“I wasn’t with a known band, as opposed to Van Halen, who had a hit record, so he did it, and the world got to hear it”: Harvey Mandel was one of the pioneers of the two-handed tapping technique – yet he claims he was never properly credited for it

The technique reached new heights in the late '70s and early '80s thanks to Eddie Van Halen and his peers. However, Mandel was already using it several years earlier

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Here are all the winners in the 2024 Drumeo Awards. Did your favourite sticksmith make the cut?

The drum and percussion learning platform just announced its big winners from last year’s votes

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“The king of modern blues getting down and dirty (musically) with a former Van Halen singer”: January 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

2025 has kicked off with an explosion of new guitar releases, led by Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar, G3, Alex Lifeson, Billy Gibbons, Joanne Shaw Taylor and so very many more

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“If I’d said no to $80m, somebody would have committed me to a hospital – like, he needs psychiatric treatment!”: The rock superstar who made more money from his tequila business than he did selling millions of records!

And he gave most of it away!

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"Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest album

Drugged up, boozed up and almost washed up, Mötley Crüe went into rehab, came out and recorded a classic of the late-80s LA metal scene: Nikki Sixx takes us back

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David Lee Roth continues to move in mysterious ways with new blues song Forgiveness

An unexpected festive gift arrives as David Lee Roth releases a standalone version of a song he originally attached to some Taylor Swift audio

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“He says, ‘Hey Mike, come over about 1:30.’ And I thought, ‘Well, that’s going to work for me, a little lunch.’ Eddie says: ‘a.m.’”: Mike Rutherford reveals his secret studio sessions with Eddie Van Halen – and sheds light on their unreleased songs

Van Halen had just come across Rutherford's second solo album when he called the Genesis co-founder to collaborate

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“My dad called me a ‘rhythm bassist’, but all he taught me was a power chord and an AC/DC drum beat”: Wolfgang Van Halen on calling the shots in rock’s royal family

He isn’t just Eddie’s kid – Wolfgang Van Halen is a talented bass player with his own style

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“Push comes to shove, then some guys pulls a knife. They arrested him – but that was my introduction to Dave’s band”: Alex Van Halen on the first time he and Eddie met David Lee Roth at a show that nearly ended in violence

Pre-Van Halen fame, the brothers were scheduled to play a gig at a local park – only to get replaced by Roth’s band at the last minute

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“The Who, Van Halen – the whole thing where there’s a separate singer from the lead guitar player. That started with Hubert Sumlin and Howlin’ Wolf”: Vernon Reid on the 7 riffs that inspired him, from Hendrix to Chic, Cream, and more

The Living Colour guitarist reveals the seven riffs that stopped him in his tracks – and hints at how Jimi Hendrix might have inspired Cult of Personality

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“Carol Kaye taught me real hard, telling me, ‘No, no, you’re playing the notes but you’re not playing the feel’”: Gene Simmons names 6 bass players who shaped his sound

The Kiss icon explains how Ronnie Wood is a better bassist than guitarist, why he can’t recall anything John Paul Jones played, and what makes him the Burger King Whopper of bass players

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“The final song that Edward and Alex wrote together”: Eddie Van Halen’s soloing takes center stage once again – as the last song he ever wrote with his brother is released

Unfinished is a powerful, mournful instrumental epic that sees the late guitar legend let loose on six minutes of guitar action

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His playing blew the minds of Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, while his improvisation was up there with John Coltrane and Charlie Parker – here’s how Allan Holdsworth reinvented the way we approach the electric guitar

This in-depth masterclass in the fusion icon’s virtuoso style is for moderate to advanced players ready to level up their legato chops, outside playing and minor chord vocabulary

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“They’re all little pieces”: AI-aided Eddie Van Halen solos could be a possibility, according to Alex Van Halen

The late guitarist's older brother says that he reached out to OpenAI about potentially analyzing “the patterns of how Edward would have played something” to help round out unfinished material

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“The world's greatest guitarist is what everyone says. It's kind of a dicey title. You never liked it”: Alex Van Halen reveals the unease Eddie felt with being labeled the best guitar player on the planet in new excerpt from tell-all memoir

Brothers, which will “set the record straight on Edward’s life and death”, has been previewed by an audio clip that finds Alex paying tribute to EVH's guitar talents

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“We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime”: Hear Eddie Van Halen solo again in an unreleased preview of the last song he worked on with his brother

Titled Unfinished, the full song will be released as part of the audiobook version of Alex Van Halen's forthcoming tell-all memoir

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“In the 80s, you ordered a gram of cocaine like you ordered a beer. Doing cocaine was normal in those days”: The high times and crazy life of the Scorpions

Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine and Matthias Jabs look back on the career of Germany’s biggest rock band

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“Few guitars in rock ’n’ roll have inspired more adulation and imitation”: Billboard has shared its list of the 100 Greatest Guitars of All Time – and there are some surprises in the top 10

Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Willie Nelson all make the top bracket, which leaves out a few notable instruments

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“I may need a separate amp to cover that just one song”: Joe Satriani says his next challenge on the Best Of All Worlds Tour is nailing Eddie Van Halen’s clean tone so they can play a Sammy Hagar favourite

Having co-designed a custom amp with 3rd Power to replicate Eddie's hotrodded gain tone, Satch says he's exploring his options for cleans as they switch up the set

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"A lot of our best songs happened that way": Mark Tremonti on the unexpected key to Creed's success on Human Clay and their remarkable comeback 25 years on

"The Creed stuff has a lot more clean guitar parts than I remembered"

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Sammy Hagar kicks off his Best of All Worlds tour with a set stuffed with Van Halen classics - videos now online

Sammy Hagar's Best of All Worlds Tour – with Joe Satriani playing the Eddie Van Halen role – is now underway

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