Wolfgang Van Halen had kind words for David Lee Roth this week when addressing the 67-year-old rock singer and fellow Van Halen alum’s upcoming retirement.The subject was one of many floated on Wednesday (Dec. 1) in a joint interview with Wolf — the Mammoth WVH bandleader and the son of late Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen — and Dirty Honey vocalist Marc LaBelle that was arranged by the website Consequence. In October, Roth said he would retire from performing after his Las…
Video has emerged of an Eddie Van Halen memorial plaque being dedicated to the late rocker and his namesake band, Van Halen, by the City of Pasadena earlier this month, in honor of the guitarist who started the influential rock band in the California town.In the Oct. 11 ceremony led by Mayor Victor Gordo and attended by several city council members, the EVH shrine was affixed outside the city’s Civic Auditorium, a venue where Van Halen performed frequently.Watch the video…
Sammy Hagar recently raised the notion that, following his departure from the band, Van Halen attempted to “bury” his work with the group — the material that resulted from his 1985–1996 tenure singing for the former Eddie Van Halen-led act that’s referred to as the “Van Hagar” era.In making the claim, the singer gestured to the band’s second reunion with singer David Lee Roth — the one that led to the final three Van Halen tours launched in 2007, 2012 and 2015. He suggested it was around then that…
It took Jerry Cantrell nearly two decades to retrieve a guitar Eddie Van Halen had gifted him after it subsequently was stolen from the studio.On Wednesday (Sept. 1), the Alice in Chains guitarist and co-vocalist summarized how he recovered the instrument that’s one of two EVH gave him following Alice in Chains’ supporting tour stint for Van Halen. Around a week earlier (Aug. 24), Cantrell announced his new limited-edition signature model axe with Gibson Guitars, a “Wino” Les Paul Custom.Watch…
The ’80s saw the emergence of hard rock and metal, bolstered by a new format — the music video. The arrival of MTV provided a visual outlet unlike anything that had come before it, making the rock stars of the day even more familiar and visible to their adoring fans. Here we pay homage to that era with the 30 Most Epic ’80s Rock + Metal Music Videos.Though hard rock was prominent during the preceding…