Eddie Van Halen’s talents reshaped the guitar scene in the 1980s, but his son says there’s far more to his craft than tapping ...

Jimmy Page wasn’t just flying by the seat of his pants when he quickly formed Led Zeppelin. Page had a plan for the debut album, and he executed it brilliantly. His intricately planned approach to the ...

Bettencourt set the scene with Guitar World, recalling, “The first time I met Eddie I was working on Dweezil Zappa’s album [1991’s Confessions], and he handed me his guitar and said, ‘You’ve gotta ...

Eddie Van Halen has been hailed as the “Hendrix of his generation.” As the co-founder of the legendary Van Halen, the guitarist popularized the “tapping” technique. Wolfgang Van Halen knows his dad ...

The legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen has died aged 65. One of the most influential guitarists of the modern age, Van Halen was known for his mastery of the two-handed tapping technique and for ...

Eddie Van Halen was the type of musician who's only placed on this Earth once in a blue moon. The way he was able to work his instrument was so brilliant that he made it look effortless. He could go ...

White tipped his cap to the legend during a lean, funky power trio version of his 2014 song "Lazaretto." Around the 2:45 mark, he incorporates a brief section of tapping — the flashy technique Van ...

Nuno Bettencourt recalled how Eddie Van Halen told him to stop playing “silly stuff” when they first met. The pair encountered each other around 1991, while the Extreme guitarist was working on ...

Of the many music stars who’ve died in recent years, Eddie Van Halen has a unique place in the pantheon of pop culture: the hard-rock hero, the last guitarist who changed what people thought guitars ...