How Gene Simmons discovered Van Halen: “The world’s most expensive demo tape”
Seeing the future of rock and roll music.
Eddie Van Halen Archives: 07/2024
“I was a little nervous”: The artist Eddie Vedder was starstruck by
“It turned out that he was the sweetest, sweetest guy…”
When a drunken Eddie Van Halen assaulted Sammy Hagar: “Square in the nuts”
A drunken moment to forget.
The guitarist Jeff Beck called the greatest: “I could do well to learn from him”
Still learning after all those years.
The one person who broke up Van Halen, according to Sammy Hagar: “He poisoned the band”
The rock and roll dream coming to an end.
The single Eddie Van Halen never wanted to release: “I was really bummed”
Taking things in the wrong direction.
The song that made Eddie Van Halen play rock music: “We immediately said ‘Enough piano'”
The rock and roll epiphany moment.
Why Sammy Hagar almost didn’t want to join Van Halen: “I didn’t like that band”
“Let’s see what they want from me”