Smashing Pumpkins frontman and electric guitar trendsetter Billy Corgan – never shy about talking up influences that were ...
Zappa first met Van Halen when he was just 12 years old, and it wasn’t long before he was receiving lessons from the guitar ...
Eddie Van Halen inspired some of rock's greats with his virtuoso guitar technique Tributes have been paid to Eddie Van Halen, the revered guitarist and co-founder of rock band Van Halen ...
Eddie Van Halen, who has died at the age of 65, opened up dozens of new possibilities for the electric guitar with his wildly inventive, and largely self-taught, techniques. Combining lightning ...
That, of course, was guitarist Edward Van Halen — Eddie to his fans, Ed to his familiars — who, along with his older brother Alex on drums, founded the band in Pasadena, Calif., in the early ...
There is no universe where Van Halen has ever been viewed as hip-hop or rap. Although, to Eddie, genres are an arbitrary tag that merely hinders his talent. So, when he discovered the opportunity ...