Alex Van Halen said David Lee Roth used to tell Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos. The drummer asserted that Roth’s ...

Remembering his time with Van Halen, Alex Van Halen explained how jealousy led David Lee Roth to ask Eddie Van Halen to play ...

Alex Van Halen has shared the last track he wrote with late brother Eddie Van Halen.

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Eddie Van Halen’s performance on the Michael Jackson classic Beat It is widely recognised as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. But his brother Alex, the drummer for Van Halen, wishes it ...

Alex Van Halen is sharing the last piece of work he made with his late brother, Eddie. On Monday ... have played something” so they could have guitar solo, and have someone sing over them.

Like it or not, EVH, you were the best we’d ever seen. In six deep cuts from Van Halen’s golden era, we explain why… Eruption was the young Eddie’s definitive guitar statement, but I’m The One ...

Alex Van Halen ... guitar solos in his brother’s signature style. "You’re gonna think I’m out of my f---ing mind," Alex said. "But when conditions are right, things will manifest." Eddie ...

Four decades after Eddie Van Halen worked with Michael Jackson ... Eddie agreed to perform a guitar solo on Jackson’s “Beat It” in 1982, which Alex claimed led to their band’s demise.

The idea was to eventually bring in Joe Satriani on guitar, and maybe even original bassist Michael Anthony, who hadn’t played with Van Halen since 2004, after which Alex and Eddie replaced him ...

But to Alex Van Halen, he was Edward, maybe Ed, but never Eddie. He was also a best friend, the sensitive soul who “couldn’t filter out criticism” and a reluctant guitar hero with a boyish grin.

“I was like, yea, I think you should go for guitar, dude,” says Alex. “We both knew he had a talent for it right off the bat.” In a few short years, Eddie Van Halen would become one of the ...