While many artists can be diplomatic about certain albums, Sammy Hagar couldn't deny that this Van Halen album sounded ...

While Jimmy Page could justifiably be called a guitar hero, he felt this guitar icon was one of the godfathers of every six-stringer going forward.

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In May 1988, LA hair metal band Dokken set out on the biggest tour of their career - but it would prove disastrous. Monsters ...

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“Brothers” by Alex Van Halen, read by the author This memoir is a loving look back at the life and upbringing of the drummer and his guitar hero brother, Edward. The book briskly moves through ...

And just like the rest of us, Cocchi’s approach to guitar has dramatically evolved over the years – to the point where his original guitar hero sounds nothing like the band he’s famous for playing in.

The deeper you go down the wormhole with Phil Lesh, bass player and co-founder of Haight-Ashbury’s first and foremost band, The Grateful Dead—the more you understand: His bass technique was a pure ...

The memoir "Brothers": was published this past October, and highlights how Eddie Van Halen found his voice as a guitar player ...

Eddie Van Halen. Truly a man who changed the way we think of guitar playing. And yet, back in 1984, it was a song driven by ...

Ed’s talent was an asset, not just to me but to him. It was an asset to our band; this thing that was bigger than us would be ...

The backstory: Initially, Alex Van Halen was the guitarist in the family, but he discovered that he had "no connection with the instrument," he says. His brother's link to the guitar, on the other ...