Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen offers an in-depth look at how early guitar hacks taught him that the sound he was looking for was usually just a modification or two away.

This unlikely pairing worked like a charm.

If Wolfgang Van Halen's upcoming album isn't a hit, it certainly won't be due to a lack of effort on his dad's part.

The guitarist revealed that he is unaware of his lead singer's current whereabouts.

Eddie Van Halen is one of the world's biggest rock stars, but as a kid, he was just a kid whose parents "showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano."

Nobody else is getting into Eddie Van Halen's already sold-out talk about his life, music and career at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. on Feb. 12 -- but that doesn't mean you have to miss it.

Even the great ones get things wrong sometimes.

We all know Eddie Van Halen is good with his hands -- and if a story making the rounds about the Van Halen guitarist is accurate, he's been blessed with some pretty sharp ears, too.

While the rest of us sit around wondering whether we're going to hear any new (or old) music from Van Halen anytime soon, Alex and Eddie Van Halen are out doing more important stuff.

Jason Becker wants everyone to know that Eddie Van Halen made a quiet donation after his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, becoming the last of three famous rockers named by the former David Lee Roth guitarist.

"Ted just didn't see eye to eye with the way I looked at things. That was my whole premise for building the studio."

Randy Rhoads was a phenomenal musician whose skill reduced many budding guitarists to tears of frustration, but even he could be intimidated on occasion. According to Rhoads biographer Andrew Klein, one of those occasions included the first time he watched Eddie Van Halen perform.