Today marks the premiere of a new weekly feature at VHND.com - "All Access" Van Halen photos! Every Saturday we will be posting a photo which isn't just your typical live-in-concert Van Halen photo. Rather, these will be the type of photos that you would have to be a roadie, friend, or band insider to have taken. We're talking unique, candid pictures. And many will be … [Read more...]
Van Halen’s Split Personality
How a geek and a physique created thud rock's most successful oddsemble This story is from the June 21, 1984 issue of Rolling Stone. By Debbie Miller. Pictures from VHND. When the music was dredged up last year, Dave wrote the words the way he usually writes, cruising with the top down in his Mercury convertible through the canyons around L.A. He had jotted down a phrase one … [Read more...]
Van Halen ‘Why Can’t This Be Love’ – Rare Live Footage
Van Halen's first single with Sammy Hagar, "Why Can't This Be Love," peaked at Number 3 on The Hot 100 Billboard chart on this day in 1986. (May 17th). Watch rare live footage of the song, which never aired in the U.S., above. We've all seen Live Without a Net, filmed in 1986 in New Haven, CT, during Van Halen's first tour with Sammy Hagar. This is NOT from that … [Read more...]
Wolfgang Van Halen on Joining Tremonti, His Bass Influences & Why He Got Kicked Out of 5th Grade Choir
From Noisecreep: By Carlos Ramirez. Photo by Ashley malle. "I've always been a huge Alter Bridge fan and on the 2007 Van Halen tour we happened to be in the same city, so I went to go see them play and we met for the first time. We got along really well and kept in touch after that. I'm honored to be in his band now. Mark [Tremonti] is still one of my guitar … [Read more...]
Eric Singer Praises Alex Van Halen
KISS's Eric Singer contributed to the hardcover photo book, Van Halen: A Visual History, 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: "Alex the Animal. The first time I heard Van Halen was “Runnin’ with the Devil” on the radio on WMMS in Cleveland. I remember thinking (along with everyone … [Read more...]