Sammy Hagar explained his tribute song to his late former band mate Eddie Van Halen in a video he posted on Instagram.

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens told UCR how Eddie Van Halen inspired his live classical solos in a May 2025 interview.

Credit: Ross Marino/Getty Images Steve Vai once said that “only an idiot competes with Eddie Van Halen,” but that hasn’t stopped a score of shredders from entering guitar battles with him.

Edward Van Halen did for Kramer Guitars. He put us on the map and made Kramer a household name in the 1980s. Through our 10-year working relationship, Eddie would often visit us here at the Kramer ...

and Jason Bonham team up to deliver a celebration of Van Halen's repertoire, may have recruited one of the best veteran players on the scene, Joe Satriani, to fill Eddie Van Halen's shoes.

[Ex-Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony] & i will keep it live, and alive.” The Red Rocker’s post also features a black-and-white photo of him with Eddie smiling and playing guitars together ...

"Take a Bow," which will be featured on Mammoth WVH's upcoming album, is out now Scott Legato/Getty Wolfgang Van Halen is ... Wolfgang played Eddie's iconic Frankenstein guitar and belted ...

Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white and black custom-made Kramer guitar was sold to an unnamed buyer at auction for $3.932 million, blasting past its pre-auction estimate of $2 to 3 million.

By Gil Kaufman Someone call a doctor, because the price a bidder paid for Eddie Van Halen‘s iconic red, white and black-striped guitar from the “Hot For Teacher” video was sold for a song ...

The starting bid is $1.8 million. According to Sotheby's, Kramer Guitars co-founder Dennis Berardi got a meeting with Eddie Van Halen himself at the height of the band's career to create the ...