The Latest News & Info about The Mighty Van Halen
Michael Anthony made Spike.com‘s list of “The Top 10 Most Overlooked Band Members” We all know that being in a band is a team effort. It’s never a one-man show. So it’s unfortunate sometimes when fans just assume the lead singer writes all the lyrics and the guitarist is the only one composing the music. [...]
VanHalenStore.com has teamed up with world-renowned rock photographers so that they can offer an exceptional collection of Photographic Prints for the true Van Halen collectors! Each Print is professionally printed on high quality archival paper from the original slide or negative. These beautiful pieces are exhibition quality and are suitable for framing. Prices are very [...]
It seems that the rumors are true and that Van Halen really is planning on being featured in a Guitar Hero game. Eurogamer is giving the game an August 2009 release date. And from RollingStone.com today: Van Halen are rumored to be the next band to get its own Guitar Hero game, Joystiq.com is reporting. [...]
Dweezil Zappa is currently touring with an ensemble performing a show dedicated to his late father’s work, called “Zappa Plays Zappa”. On February 26th of this year, during a stop at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona, Dweezil took the opportunity to tell a short, funny tale of meeting Edward Van Halen for the very [...]
“Everything I do is . . . kind of like a manual to the way I live,” says the 61-year-old singer, who is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer thanks to his 13 years fronting Van Halen. “Hey, you want to live like me? You don’t have to be rich and famous. You just need to consolidate your time so that you can spend as much quality time doing the things you want to.
“And when you do that, man, life gets really, really fun.”
Since emerging into the public eye in the early 1970s as the front man for hard rockers Montrose, Hagar has amassed a 26-album discography, with 16 of his own — including Cosmic Universal Fashion (2008) — that have occasionally yielded hits such as I’ll Fall in Love Again (1981), Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy (1982) and the anthem I Can’t Drive 55 (1984). (Click “Read The Rest” for more)
Exclusive Chickenfoot interview from Classic Rock magazine: Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith team up for supergroup and give Classic Rock the exclusive lowdown. The name Chickenfoot doesn’t exactly conjure up visions of a union between some of rocks mightiest musical behemoths; in fact it sounds more like a nasty side effect [...]
The current issue of Hustler magazine has an exclusive interview with Eddie Van Halen. Here are the highlights where he talks about his upcoming wedding plans and making new music with David Lee Roth: When can we hope for the new CD? First, Wolfgang graduates, and then Janie and I are getting married. Then we’ll [...]
With the torrential flood of remixes and mash-ups hitting the internet daily at an alarming rate, it is surprising that no one has thought of this idea before: Combining the Beatles’ original version of “Tomorrow Never Knows” with the interpretation offered by David Lee Roth on his own Diamond Dave album. Throw in some samples [...]
We at the Van Halen News Desk just learned that Eddie, Alex, and Wolfgang Van Halen have donated some signed items for an auction to help to help a Southland sheriff’s deputy who is fighting acute myeloid leukemia. (The full story is below). This news doesn’t surprise us, as we know that Eddie Van Halen [...]
