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“We’re playing Led Zeppelin songs, and Eddie would imitate Jimmy Page… I mean, he had it down!”: Steve Farris on the time he jammed ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin songs with Eddie Van Halen

The Mr Mister guitarist got a front row seat to Eddie Van Halen's greatness when they they were both Peavey artists playing a NAMM show

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“Derek Shulman took me to a Bon Jovi show. The whole audience was freaking out, and Derek said to me: ‘Are you ready for this? It’s going to happen to you.’ And I fully believed in it.”: The unlikely rebirth of Dan Reed Network, funk rock’s nearly men

How funk rock pioneer Dan Reed overcame death, drama and drug addiction to make the Network’s first album in 25 years

Louder

“I can’t stand Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing”: The Jesus and Mary Chain call Eddie Van Halen one of the “worst guitar players in the world”

The band claims Van Halen’s music influence had a detrimental effect on guitar playing

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“I can't stand Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. I think he ruined rock guitar all through the '80s and '90s 'cause so many people copied him”: Fighting talk from the Jesus And Mary Chain

William Reid: “Guitar players should never learn scales” – Discuss

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“If you think this is a bunch of throwaway crap to suck the dollar out of poor, unsuspecting Van Halen fans, it’s not”: Eddie Van Halen’s soon-to-be-released recordings are going to blow you away, according to Steve Lukather

The highly anticipated project could be the ultimate Eddie Van Halen honor record

Guitar World

"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name

Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name

Metal Hammer

“He had an electric guitar, and his mom wouldn’t let him plug into the amp”: David Lee Roth fights tears as he recalls his partnership with Eddie Van Halen

The singer spoke of the touching “full circle” moment that bookmarked their final chapter together

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“We were on the Howard Stern show. My personal assistant asked me, ‘Would you mind switching places with someone? I said, ‘Eff off!’ He said, ‘Let me tell you who it is first. It’s Paul McCartney.’ I said, ‘It’s done!’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s funny stories

“Sharon’s going, ‘Smile!’ And this chimp is biting my thumb off!”

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“We did call him because we owed him that. He was important for the band”: Alex Van Halen says they tried to recruit Michael Anthony for Van Halen’s David Lee Roth reunion

Wolfgang Van Halen would take Anthony’s place, but he didn’t get the gig because of “family influences,” the drummer says

Guitar World

“It was a whole library of tapes. It was such great stuff”: Steve Vai on the time Eddie Van Halen played him never-before-released material – at the guitar legend’s house

Vai has also had his say on Steve Lukather's involvement in the much-anticipated new Van Halen record, which will revive old material

Guitar World

“This cop came into my dressing room. He's like Robocop – helmet, goggles, gun, handcuffs. He says, ‘Those little fellas – do you hang one of them every night?’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s outrageous tales of idiot lawmen, werewolves, chimpanzees and Paul McCartney

“Sharon’s going, ‘Smile!’ And the chimp is biting my thumb off!”

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Valerie Bertinelli mistaken for sex worker while with ex Eddie Van Halen on tour

Valerie Bertinelli and Valeri Kendall were mistaken for prostitutes by hotel staff when the pair tried to return to their respective husbands', Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen's, rooms on the upper floor.

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Eddie Van Halen-approved baked maple necks? Check. Flagship pickups? Check. EVH Gear unveils stunning refresh of the Wolfgang Special

The Wolfgang Special Baked Maple is offered with a Floyd or a fully adjustable EVH compensated bridge with fine-tuners. In other EVH news, a 5150III 6L6 2x12 has been added to the Hypersonic series

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“They’ve revived B.B. King’s first-ever guitar and made it $349. I know what my next acoustic is going to be”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including Chase Bliss’ “most foolish” pedal yet

The rebirth of B.B. King's first acoustic, a leading Dumble clone in plugin form, another spin-off of the famed Big Muff – all that and more in this week's round-up

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“The original idea was Steve Stevens, but he was busy with Billy Idol”: How Steve Vai ended up joining David Lee Roth's post-Van Halen band – thanks to Billy Sheehan

While Vai wasn’t his original choice, the Sheehan-Vai dynamic proved strong enough to outlast Roth’s project

Louder

"It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

Guitar World

“I didn’t see it for 18 or 19 years. It disappeared, and it broke my heart”: Jerry Cantrell looks back on the guitar gift from Eddie Van Halen that went missing

Cantrell opens up on the nearly-two decade search to find his Van Halen Music Man

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"As a vocalist, every word I sing in the Van Halen songbook, I wrote. I wrote every line, every melody, every harmony stack. For better or worse, if you're singing it – Roth was bringing it": David Lee Roth has clarified his creative role in Van Halen

“Our stuff is like West Side Story,” he says of the Van Halen back catalogue

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“We bounced around the idea of having everyone from Joe Cocker to Phil Collins to Mike Rutherford sing”: Out went David Lee Roth and Frankenstein, in came Sammy Hagar and Kramer –the story of Van Halen’s rebirth

It was the end of an era. Roth’s exit, Frankenstein's last hurrah. But it was the start of a new one as Eddie Van Halen got experimental on 1986's blockbuster, 5150

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From strads to shreds and Vivaldi to Van Halen, classical and heavy metal are a natural pairing

With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it up to 11

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“Evidently not content with redefining what was technically possible on the guitar, he also managed to rewrite pretty much the whole of music theory”: How Allan Holdsworth blew Eddie Van Halen’s mind and inspired the next generation of virtuosos

We unpack the brilliance of jazz-fusion trailblazer Allan Holdsworth, with some help from Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, Paul Gilbert and Eddie Van Halen

Guitar World

“A piece of rock and roll history”: Guitars gifted, played and modded by Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen and Keith Richards are all going to auction – and expected to sell for more than $1,500,000

Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas acoustic also features the lot expected to smash into a seven-figure total

Guitar World

“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

Louder

"Notable for not including anything new or previously unreleased." The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better

Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album

Guitar World

“I think the only thing was ‘Please, don’t play Eruption.’ He didn't say that, but I wasn't going to do that”: Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on making an Alter Bridge album at Eddie Van Halen’s studio

An invite from Wolfgang Van Halen led to the recording experience of a lifetime as Alter Bridge decamped to 5150 Studios for their new “straight-ahead hard-rock record”

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