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LL Cool J’s new album AUTHENTIC is released today. Eddie Van Halen guests on two tracks, which can be listened to below. “We’re The Greatest” features Eddie Van Halen on guitar, who LL himself heralds as “one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived.” Travis Barker plays drums on the track. “It’s not necessarily [...]
REVEALED: David Lee Roth is the half-hour special that aired during mid-April on REELZ, a US based cable network channel dedicated to stars, fans and all aspects of Hollywood. The legendary Van Halen frontman talks about the band’s early days, comeback, and what it’s like to be a Samurai swordsman! Watch the 22-minute interview above.
This week’s photo is from 1985 and shows Eddie Van Halen and then wife Valerie Bertinelli chillin’ at 5150 Studios. Never published anywhere until now! (Technically, we did publish this photo in issue #8 of The Inside magazine back in ’97, but the vast majority of fans have never seen it. The Inside was Van Halen’s official [...]
Below is a short 4-minute video which shows Eddie and Alex’s childhood home in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The video is entirely in Dutch, so we sent this video to Eddie himself for verification. He really got a kick out of it, and said that it is indeed the building where he and Alex lived, and that [...]
Here’s two reviews and some of the best photos and videos we can find from Van Halen’s April 20th concert at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia. (By the way, many people are wondering why the band wore matching outfits. They were all dressed like the main character from STONE, the classic Australian 70s [...]
Your host, David Lee Roth, explains about Iaido and also demonstrates some techniques. Iaido is a modern Japanese martial art associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard or saya, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard. While new students of iaido may start learning with a wooden sword [...]
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach had quite the experience yesterday! While flying home after performing at the Stone Music Festival in Australia, he noticed that one of his fellow passengers was none other than Diamond Dave! Here’s what he posted to facebook once he landed in Los Angeles: “30,000 feet above the ocean w Diamond David Lee [...]
This week’s photo is from 1979 and has never been published anywhere until now. The photo and story are by rock photographer Neil Zlozower. “When I first started hanging with the guys, they would just randomly pop over to my apartment on Fuller Street in Los Angeles to hang out with me if they were [...]
Van Halen shared the stage today with Aerosmith for the first time since 1979. Recently, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry contributed to the hardcover photo book, Eddie Van Halen, by Neil Zlozower. The Van Halen News Desk has the exclusive on what he had to say about the first time he saw Van Halen in concert: “Aerosmith was rehearsing [...]
Van Halen completed their gig at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia, which is their first show of 2013. SETLIST : 1 ) Unchained 2) Runnin’ with the Devil 3 ) She’s The Woman 4) Romeo Delight 5) Tattoo 6) Everybody Wants Some!! 7) Somebody Get Me A Doctor 8) China Town 09) (Oh) [...]
Good news for Van Halen fans! In a new interview with Faster Louder, David Lee Roth reveals that Van Halen is planning to spend some time recording new music after they complete their Japan tour in June. Dave mentions “preparing for some new recording and some new songs.” While this is great to hear, we’ll be [...]
David Lee Roth, Billy Joel, and the members of Aerosmith held a press conference at 11am today in Australia. The musical giants are headlining the inaugural Stone Music Festival at ANZ Stadium in Sydney this weekend, the first time they have ever shared a bill. Here’s three articles which feature highlights from the press conference, and [...]
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