The virtuoso has tackled Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love and Mean Street over the past few weeks, with a little help from his custom ...

While in the middle of an Extreme tour, Bettencourt found himself without his prized custom Washburn guitar, with suspicion ...

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 demonstrated he could do it in the context of a song. It also ...

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.

Alex Van Halen is hoping his late brother Eddie Van ... patterns of how Edward would have played something" to generate new guitar solos in his brother’s signature style. "You’re gonna think ...

The preeminent magazine about “axes” has finally gotten the axe. Guitar Player will halt publication after almost 58 years, putting out one last issue on Oct. 15, with an interview with Led ...

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.

In a 1982 interview for Guitar Player magazine, Eddie Van Halen recalled he wasn’t eager to record that song because he had trouble coming up with a riff he liked. He countered Roth’s ...

The first new guitar we see is the ST-Modern – a logical, more affordable follow-up from last year's Plus interation with a compound radius fretboard, two-point tremolo, truss rod wheel and locking ...