You Can Own a Guitar Played on ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and at Newport ’65 — For $275,000
Michael Bloomfield's Telecaster — which outraged Pete Seeger during Bob Dylan's set at the 1965 Newport Folk festival — is on sale.
Eddie Van Halen’s big problem with Frank Zappa: “It doesn’t move me”
While most guitarists can find merit in any of their fellow players, even Eddie Van Halen had a few guitarists who went right over his head.
The Van Halen song that was too shocking for MTV to show
Even though most Van Halen fans knew they were about having fun, that didn't mean they couldn't get in trouble from time to ...
Zakk Wylde discusses Ozzy Osbourne's guitar rules, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, and Yngwie in his first Guitar World interview
Not long into his dream gig, Wylde sat down with GW for a chat about his favorite guitarists of the era, and what Ozzy ...
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“They Used to Lock Me in a Little Room”: How Eddie Van Halen Mastered His Signature Speed Through a Face-Slapping Piano Teacher
Eddie Van Halen mastered his signature speed and style on the guitar by studying a different instrument in childhood.
Southern rocker on playing Lynyrd Skynyrd legend’s guitar: ‘Blown away’
Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr also talks solo shows, filling in with The Black Crowes, carrying on after passing of his band's drummer.
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A back catalogue to epitomise the American Dream: The Van Halen albums you should definitely listen to
If ever a back catalogue epitomised the American Dream, it’s the albums of Van Halen.
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A look at the electric guitar’s origin in Southern California
Later years: Fender goes on to work for a couple other guitar companies in Southern California. He is president of Music Man in the ... Charvel, EVH and others. In the 1980s, a group of employees ...
A look at electric guitar history that originated in Southern California
Attuned to guitars What’s considered the best-selling pop instrument of all time was invented by Southern Californian Leo Fender. Some of the most notable electric guitar companies have their roots in ...
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Man Vanished from Michigan Music Festival in 2018. His Remains Were Just Found, but Cause of Death Remains Unknown
Kevin, who would've been 34, was last seen at the Electric Forest music festival in Oceana County’s Rothbury on July 1, 2018, before his then-girlfriend reported him as a missing person on July ...
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Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir
the guitar was your instrument, right? A VAN HALEN: Yes. MOSLEY: How did it become Eddie’s? A VAN HALEN: I was taught very ...