Every year for more than a decade, The National Guitar Museum has given its “Lifetime Achievement Award” to a living guitarist who has contributed to the legacy of the guitar. The guidelines are straightforward: the person must have been a performing or recording artist whose talents had an effect on guitar playing — and whose […]
Clip from pt. 2 of Dweezil Zappa on the Van Halen Rd table at Sunset Sound. DZ shares some amazing stories of EVH and how he contacted him first, the day his dad passed away. R.I.P EVH Thank you DZ
The year before Van Halen put out their self-titled debut, the biggest things in rock were long, ponderous solos and the back-to-basics riffing of the Sex Pistols and Ramones. Then came “Eruption.” In just 102 seconds, Eddie Van Halen redefined the vocabulary of rock guitar — like Jimi Hendrix and his personal hero, Eric Clapton, […]
Eddie, The one and only,. What’s can you say about him that hasn’t already been said. He was a gift that change the face of rock music with his tone, his finger board playing, tapping on the fret board, no one did this until Ed came along and totally blew everyone minds. He has truly […]
The guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died on Tuesday, of cancer, at the age of sixty-five, was the sort of musician who only seems to appear once every generation: a true savant. His aptitude felt uncanny, as if he had been touched by something extraterrestrial. Whatever sorts of chops gets a person voted “The Best […]
Van Halen is an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1974. Credited with “restoring hard rock to the forefront of the music scene”, Van Halen was known for its energetic live shows and for the virtuosic talent of its prodigy lead-guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll […]
