Valerie Bertinelli looked back on Eddie Van Halen overcoming his battles with substance abuse during a recent appearance on Rob Lowe's podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe. "We all have a toolbox that we go to when we need to suppress any kind of emotion that we don't want to feel, any kind of pain that we don't want to feel, and I know that Ed's toolbox was filled with drugs … [Read more...]
New Podcast Aims To Break Down Entire Van Halen Catalog One Track At A Time
It's the podcast that is guh-guh-guh gauranteed to rock on...and on...and on...until they cover each and every song in the Van Halen catalog! And The Podcast Will Rock debuted in November and has released 16 episodes so far. In each, the hosts Mark and Corey choose a random Van Halen song and break it down from start to finish. "We are here to discuss, dissect and just … [Read more...]
‘Unchained’ Author Paul Brannigan Talks Eddie Van Halen On Chris Jericho Podcast
Author Paul Brannigan recently appeared on the Talk is Jericho podcast to share stories from his brand-new book "Unchained: The Eddie Van Halen Story". Here is a quick rundown of what Jericho and Brannigan cover in the interview, which you can listen to in its entirity below: Eddie's childhood yearsWhy wasn't Van Halen bigger in the UK?The rocky relationship between Eddie … [Read more...]
Podcast Explores Van Halen’s Rare & Unreleased Recordings
Credit: Neil Zlozower It's the biggest question among Van Halen fans: Will we ever get to hear what's in the 5150 vaults? The fascination with Van Halen's vast collection of unreleased material was pretty intense back in the 80s and 90s but with the emergence of the internet, it grew to mammoth (pun intended) proportions. The Wax Audio Show podcast recently released … [Read more...]
Author Greg Renoff On The History & Legacy Of Van Halen
Author Greg Renoff sat down for an in-depth discussion on Eddie Van Halen and Van Halen history during a recent appearance on the Making Waves with Tom Prather podcast. Prather covered a wide range of Van Halen-related topics while also learning some Greg Renoff history. Long before writing his critically acclaimed books Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard … [Read more...]
Anthrax’s Scott Ian On Seeing Van Halen Open For Black Sabbath In 1978: ‘Van Halen Was The Best Band On The Planet’
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian remembered seeing Van Halen open for Black Sabbath back in 1978. At the time, Black Sabbath was in a period of decline. As for Van Halen, Ian said there was no better band around. Ian, who was a recent guest on the No F'n Regrets Podcast with Robb Flynn of Machine Head, said the stories about Van Halen blowing Black Sabbath off the stage during … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview: ‘Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock’ Author Michael Christopher
The Van Halen News Desk's Eric Senich talked with music journalist Michael Christopher about his new book Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock! Below is the complete interview conducted by Senich for his podcast Booked On Rock. Christopher discusses a wide range of topics related to Van Halen including: The band's early days in Pasadena and original bassist Mark … [Read more...]
Five Favorites: ‘Van Halen I & II’ [PODCAST]
If you had to pick just five of the 21 tracks that make up Van Halen's first two classic albums what would they be? Do you favor the hit singles? The deep tracks? How about the Eddie Van Halen solo instrumentals? Hosts of the podcast The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll Ray Koob and Markus Goldman are serious Van Halen fans. So much so that, for their most recent episode, … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview: ‘Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen’ Authors Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill
Brad Tolinki (L), Chris Gill (R) The Van Halen News Desk had the chance to talk with Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill, authors of the much-anticipated book Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen, which is released today! Tolinski and Gill collected over 50 hours of unreleased interviews with Eddie - most conducted at his legendary 5150 studios in Los Angeles … [Read more...]
Mr. Big Singer Eric Martin On The ’85 Van Halen Audition That Never Happened
Eric Martin says he could have been a man with big regrets if it wasn't for his band Mr. Big. During a recent appearance on the Appetite For Distortion podcast, Martin recalled the time he had the chance to become the lead singer of Van Halen. "That's the biggest thorn in my side," said Martin, who went on to tell the story of the time Eddie Van Halen offered him a … [Read more...]
Dweezil Zappa Is All Fired Up For ‘OU812’ Deep Track ‘A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)’
Dweezil Zappa says Van Halen's "A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)" is firing on all cylinders no matter who the singer is. In fact, it could have worked just fine with no singer at all. "If there was never a vocal on this, this would be a great Van Halen instrumental," Zappa told Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine in a recently released clip of his podcast Runnin' With The Dweezil. … [Read more...]
Latest ‘Runnin’ With The Dweezil’ Podcast Clip On The ‘Greatness’ Of Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Good Enough’ Guitar Work
Listening to Zappa's podcast Runnin' With The Dweezil often feels like being a fly on the wall. We get to hear two veteran guitarists talk shop. In the case of this podcast, it's a shop filled with the sounds of Eddie Van Halen's legendary guitar riffs, solos, bending licks and whatever other head scratching "how the hell did he do that?" sounds. Take Eddie's elephant roars on … [Read more...]