But even more unusual is though this is the debut album that is not new to you. So for a lot of people it might be overwhelming, but is it easier having done it before? Van Halen: It's still ...

Van Halen was a band about to splinter, the differences between its lead singer and its guitarist simply too vast to bridge. Those differences actually helped to make 1984, the album the band released ...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown. In this case it’s Wolfgang Van Halen, whose late father, Edward, single-handedly reshaped guitar playing with Van Halen in much the way Jimi Hendrix did a few ...

One exception comes on Eruption, from Van Halen's debut album, which is simply 102 seconds of molten-hot finger work, as Eddie dive-bombs over the fretboard, incorporating both classical scales ...

as evidenced by this newly unearthed recording of Van Halen playing at Pasadena High School in April of 1975. For context, their eponymous debut album was still three years away. Eddie Van Halen would ...