Original Van Halen bassist Mark Stone dies following cancer battle By Richard Bienstock Stone played with group in their earliest days alongside Eddie and Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth
Eddie Van Halen goes deep on the playing and tone secrets behind 10 iconic Van Halen tracks By Guitar World Staff From Eruption to Jump, EVH weighs in on some of the band's biggest hits in this classic GW interview
Wolfgang Van Halen nails Eruption on bass to silence online troll By Michael Astley-Brown Wolfie blazes through a note-perfect rendition of the landmark EVH tapping section
Phil X delivers near-perfect version of Van Halen’s Unchained and dives deep into how to achieve Eddie’s “violent” sound By Richard Bienstock “You’re never, ever, ever, ever going to nail it,” he says of Ed’s tone. “But it’s fun getting close.”
David Lee Roth: “I don’t know that Eddie Van Halen is going to rally for the rigors of the road again” By Guitar World Staff The frontman talks Van Halen’s future and why you should come to him “if you want to hear the classics”
Wolfgang Van Halen showcases his mean bass chops on snippet of debut solo album By Michael Astley-Brown The Van Halen and Tremonti bassist shares sneak peek of new material
Sammy Hagar predicts Van Halen “will probably be on tour next year” By Richard Bienstock “If they want to get it together, they just have to call Dave or have to call Sammy,” the singer says
Eddie Van Halen allegedly pulled a gun on Fred Durst - just to get his guitar gear back By Richard Bienstock “The greatest guitar player ever plays with the worst band ever,” Durst reportedly said of aborted EVH jam session
Sammy Hagar: “I always got blamed for the keyboard songs in Van Halen. It was not me - Eddie wanted to do that!” By Richard Bienstock Don’t like the synthy sounds of the Van Hagar era? Talk to Ed, the singer says
Turns out Billy Sheehan was offered the Van Halen bass player slot three separate times By Richard Bienstock “As much as I would have loved to do that, I want to see Michael Anthony in the band,” says the Mr Big bassist
The Circle: "We do Montrose, Van Halen, Hagar, Zeppelin and even Chickenfoot... I get to play all these great guitar parts from all these legendary players" By Richard Bienstock Bassist Michael Anthony and guitarist Vic Johnson on the Sammy Hagar-fronted band's debut album, Space Between
The top 20 guitar stories of 2019 By Richard Bienstock From Queen to Gilmour, JoBo to Tool, here are the stories that got the guitar world talking this year
David Lee Roth: I "structured" the guitar solos on Van Halen’s debut album - and EVH's guitar stripes were my idea By Richard Bienstock In a new interview ahead of his Las Vegas residency, Diamond Dave talks up his creative role in the Van Halen catalog
Van Halen's The Japanese Singles 1978 - 1984 is available now By Sponsored The vinyl boxed set collects some of the band's greatest songs
Watch Brad Paisley play Van Halen's Hot For Teacher with a 6-year-old drummer By Damian Fanelli Brad Paisley - and his young, talented sidekick - rock a Van Halen classic
Tool fan asks fellow gig-goer to take his picture, fails to realize it’s Eddie Van Halen By Michael Astley-Brown Guitar god turns photographer for clueless fan
Eddie Van Halen reportedly undergoing throat cancer treatment By Michael Astley-Brown Guitar legend’s disease returns, according to reports
David Lee Roth: "Van Halen's finished” By Richard Bienstock The singer, who's headed to Vegas for his own solo residency, proclaims Van Halen is done and hints at the release of long-shelved John 5 collaboration
The best (and worst) Van Halen albums, according to you By Guitar World Staff Every VH full-length ranked, from Roth to Hagar to Cherone... and back again to Roth
The 20 best rock guitar intros of all time By Guitar World Staff These memorable intros bring lighters out of pockets, prompt roars of recognition from a crowd and cause freeway drivers to reach for the volume knob
