Edward Van Halen has donated a guitar to the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund Guitar Auction and the online bidding has begun. The Fund: Formed in honor of the legendary singer who lost his life to stomach cancer, The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable fund dedicated to support cancer prevention research, raise … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
The Roth Show, Episode 5: Cafe Wha? / ‘Eat ‘Em And Smile’ Origins / ‘Goin’ Crazy!’ Video w/ Commentary / DLR Art Gallery
In Episode 5 of The Roth Show, your host, David Lee Roth, discusses NYC's Cafe Wha? and the origins of the Eat 'Em And Smile album. Also included, the music video for Goin' Crazy! (starring the Fabulous Picasso brothers!) with commentary from DLR. We also get a guided tour of Dave's art collection. … [Read more...]
Ted Nugent: “Godspeed, Eddie Van Halen”
Ted Nugent contributed to the new hardcover photo book, Eddie Van Halen, by Neil Zlozower. VHND.com has the exclusive on what he had to say about Eddie Van Halen: "Van Halen opened up for my band in the late 1970s, and this fuckin’ kid started playing shit I’d never heard before, and I was like, 'Oh, I think I’m a bad motherfucker, but there may be an element of me sitting … [Read more...]
Van Halen’s ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ the “Number One Album of 2012” According to Ultimate Classic Rock
Popular rock news website Ultimate Classic Rock has listed their TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2012. Guess which album they liked the most this year? From their article, here's their intro and their Number One pick: "Our list of the Top 10 Albums of 2012 features some of the biggest names in classic rock history. Perennial favorites like Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen, Dylan and Rush have … [Read more...]
1962 Photo: The Van Halen Family On a Boat to America
This historic photo was taken on the very boat that carried the Van Halen family to America (Feb. 1962). It was a nine-day boat ride, and to help pay their fare, Jan, Edward, and Alex provided the ships musical entertainment. Special thanks to Jan and Eugenia for taking their two beautiful boys and risking everything by immigrating to America with their nothing but 75 Dutch … [Read more...]
David Lee Roth: Gene Simmons Tried To Recruit Eddie For KISS, But I Was On To His Game
Yesterday we featured a quote from an old friend of Van Halen's that said that sometime before Van Halen's debut album was released, Kiss's Gene Simmons tried to recruit Eddie Van Halen for his band. In his out-of-print autobiography, ‘Crazy From The Heat’, David Lee Roth concurs that Gene Simmons tried to recruit Eddie Van Halen for KISS. Here's what Roth had to say in his … [Read more...]
Did Gene Simmons Beg Eddie Van Halen To Join Kiss?
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has always boasted that in 1982, Edward Van Halen, while expressing his frustration over dealing with David Lee Roth, actually asked if he could join Kiss. We're thinking Gene is making a bigger deal out of it then it was. If Eddie really did ask to join Kiss, he probably woke up the next day with a brutal hangover and had a laugh about it with the … [Read more...]
Is Ozzy Dead? Van Halen’s Crazy Tour With Black Sabbath
David Lee Roth shares a tale from Van Halen's first world tour: There is an old science-fiction movie from the fifties called Forbidden Planet, where the extinct inhabitants are called the Krell. So we started to call cocaine "Krell", gave it a science fiction name. We would stay up all night, well into the next day, having what we called Krell Wars. And the best Krell War was … [Read more...]
Van Halen’s ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ Nominated for ‘Best Rock Album’ in Guitar World’s 2012 Readers Poll
Days ago, we reported that Guitar World nominated Van Halen in four categories in their 2012 Readers Poll, but failed to nominate them for 'Best New Album'. Well, now things have changed... 'A Different Kind of Truth' is now nominated! So if you're one of those fans that likes to make your voice heard, head on over and vote so that Van Halen can catch up from a late start in … [Read more...]
Legendary Record Producer Andy Johns on Producing Van Halen
In the video above, Guitar Shop TV sits down with legendary record producer Andy Johns (The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and many other rock greats) In this exclusive interview, Andy discusses his work with Eddie Van Halen in producing several of his classic rock albums. “WORKING WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN WAS MAGIC,” Johns told Guitar Player magazine. “I loved him, … [Read more...]
Sammy VS Dave Poll! (And VHND’s Facebook Page News)
We're finally doing it! The Van Halen News Desk's official SAMMY VS DAVE poll! Tell the world if you prefer one singer over the other, or if you like both Van Halen singers equally. In order to promote our Facebook page, this poll is exclusive to our Facebook page. You can 'Like" our page below, and vote HERE. Why you should 'Like' VHND's Facebook page: We will always … [Read more...]
Van Halen Reschedules Japan for 2013
From Pollstar today: The good news for Van Halen’s fans in Japan is that rescheduled shows in Osaka and Tokyo have been announced. The bad news is they’ll have to wait until summer 2013 to see Eddie & Co. in action. Van Halen had originally planned to play Japan in late November. But that was before Eddie Van Halen underwent surgery in August for diverticulitis, a … [Read more...]