From Guitar World.com. Originally printed in Guitar World Magazine, April 2008 By Joe Bosso. Photographs by Neil Zlozower. Thirty Years ago, Van Halen burst out of the Sunset Strip and set the music world on fire with their debut album. This is the story behind the group's rise to success and the making of Van Halen, the record that changed guitar playing - and rock - … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2010
Business Advice From Van Halen
From: Fast Company In the March issue of Fast Company, Dan and Chip Heath's column focuses on early warning indicators. In one example, they explain why David Lee Roth banned brown M&Ms from backstage. It wasn't a diva thing, but rather, an operations performance metric. The excerpt: BROWNOUT: Van Halen's brown-M&M test acted as a diagnostic, allowing … [Read more...]
Van Halen’s new line of High-End Designer Clothing Unveiled
From Van Halen Store: You asked...we responded. Van Halen Store is very excited to introduce the new designer line of premium men's and women's (and kids!) Van Halen clothing, proudly made in the USA by the vintage t-shirt specialists at Chaser LA. (SHOP NOW or scroll down) Van Halen's high-end fashion line employs revolutionary fabrics, washes, printing processes and … [Read more...]
More Van Halen isolated guitar tracks
Eddie Van Halen's isolated guitar tracks for "Hear About It Later", "Intruder," "Pretty Woman", Somebody get Me A Doctor", and the "Beat It" guitar solo. Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Van Halen on Clapton
This is from the "30 on 30" article in Guitar World's current (March 2010) issue. As their 30th Anniversary celebration continues, they chose 30 of the greatest living guitarists to tell them who they would pick as the greatest guitarists of all time. Our man Eddie picked Eric Clapton, and Richie Kotzen chose Eddie. … [Read more...]
Righteous, Red, and Rockin’ Introducing the Sammy Hagar Red Rocker Les Paul
From Gibson.com: Sammy Hagar Red Rocker Les Paul Through a career that spans stints with Ronnie Montrose, Van Halen, and his own prominent solo work, Sammy Hagar has been the force behind a total of 60 million record sales and countless righteous riffs, and when the Red Rocker rocks, he chooses to rock Gibson. Now, in celebration of Hagar’s mammoth new band Chickenfoot, and … [Read more...]
EVH D-Tuna now available in Black & Gold, as well as Chrome
The EVH D-tuna is now available in two new colors - Black and Gold, as well as Chrome. The D-Tuna is Eddie Van Halen's revolutionary patented device that enables players to drop the E to D and back again, in an instant. The D-Tuna was designed to adapt to a double-locking tremolo, such as a Floyd Rose or Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo. The patented design allows for precise … [Read more...]
Chickenfoot update: 2nd album news, live DVD news & more
Here's a five-part Chickenfoot update as of February 7th: 1) READER's POLL WINNERS: Chickenfoot won "Best New Talent" in the 16th annual Guitar World Reader's Poll Results, published in the March 2010 issue. 2) NEW ALBUM UPDATE: Classic Rock magazine got an update from chickenfoot's manager, who dispelled a silly rumor and told them Chickenfoot will start recording … [Read more...]
Sammy Hagar soundboard concert from 1978
WolfgangsVault.com has a soundboard recording of an entire 1978 Sammy Hagar concert from Winterland (San Francisco). You can click the PLAY button to hear the first track ("Urban Guerilla/Red") or click "Play entire concert" Concert Summary This headlining gig by Sammy Hagar comes a few years after concluding his tenure in Montrose. At the end of a … [Read more...]
More isolated Van Halen tracks
"Feel Your Love Tonight" & "Loss Of Control" guitar tracks, and "Panama" backing track for guitar, which means all you hear is Drums, Bass, Vocals (and unfortunately the audience singing along from the Guitar Hero game). … [Read more...]