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EVH pays homage to Eddie Van Halen’s Japanese guitar history with the MIJ Series Signature Wolfgang

The latest version of Van Halen's specifically spec'd signature sits between the US-made and Mexican-made Wolfgangs, but shares more similarities with the former

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Wolfgang Van Halen dusts off the Frankenstein and Eddie’s original Marshall amp rig on epic new Mammoth WVH single

Take a Bow showcases some stunning solo work – two-hand tapping included – performed with the setup Eddie Van Halen used on the earliest Van Halen records

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“A little tribute to Ed”: Neal Schon channels his inner Eddie Van Halen in jaw-dropping shred clip

Erupt-Schon! The Journey guitarist took Van Halen out on their first tour, now he’s issued a playing tribute to the departed guitar icon

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Brian May salutes the genius of Eddie Van Halen: “It was like watching Hendrix for the first time”

Queen guitarist Brian May looks back on working with “incredible” Eddie Van Halen on the Star Fleet Project mini album

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Steve Lukather voices support for the ‘tone is in the hands’ camp: “There’s no magic guitar, just magic people”

The Toto hero says he's played through both Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck's rigs, and came to the same conclusion both times: he sounds like himself no matter what he plays through

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The tiny Frankenstrat from Van Halen's Hot for Teacher video just showed up on Pawn Stars

Given that the full-size Kramer Eddie Van Halen used in the same video recently sold for an astonishing $4 million, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised...

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The dads who raised successful sticksmen

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Unassuming guitar teacher goes viral after channeling Brian May and Eddie Van Halen in epic America's Got Talent audition

Under the handle @oldgreyguitarist, John Wines has amassed 1.3 million followers on TikTok

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Watch Brian May enthuse about Star Fleet Project on kids' TV in 1983

'Yeah! We've done it! Great!' - Brian May on the recording sessions that bequeathed Star Fleet Project (featuring Eddie Van Halen) to The World

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Watch Nuno Bettencourt shred Van Halen's Hot for Teacher – on a Strat

In a long-form chat with Rick Beato, Bettencourt also discussed a part of EVH's guitar arc that “nobody talks about”

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The biggest pickup drop of the year? Seymour Duncan unveils new Alex Skolnick, Warren DeMartini signature sets and the EVH-inspired Little '78

Also new from the pickup firm is the Exciter humbucker, which takes its sonic cues from the glory days of glam rock

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Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project mini-album is finally coming to streaming – with unreleased EVH solos

Among other never-before-heard gems, the reissued set will feature a dozen takes of Star Fleet, which together chart the course of a solo that May cites as "one of the greatest things" Eddie Van Halen ever did

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Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project to be reissued as massively expanded box set

The long-awaited reissue of Brian May + Friends' Star Fleet Project will arrive next month – listen to new mix of Star Fleet single now

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Nuno Bettencourt once played through Eddie Van Halen’s rig, but said it was “a horrible nightmare”

“That was the biggest bitch slap of all time, when you realize, ‘Holy shit, it’s all about you. It’s all about your fingers,’” the Extreme virtuoso told Rick Beato

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New Van Halen documentary takes us back to the early ‘80s to tell the story of how Eddie built 5150 Studios as the band were coming apart

Or how Eddie Van Halen helped pioneer working from home, reinvented guitar, befriended Frank Zappa and ended up producing My Mother Is A Space Cadet for a young Dweezil Zappa

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Watch Dweezil Zappa nail Eruption with the Kramer guitar Eddie Van Halen gave him when he was 12 years old

It's clear that the vintage Kramer still has some mojo in it. Of course, Zappa's tapping and immaculate pickwork are pretty darn good, too

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Epic five-part documentary focusing on Van Halen's crucial 1983-1984 period announced

2.5 hours in total, the film will be free to watch on YouTube, and covers the construction of 5150 Studios, the band's legendary US Festival performance, the making of 1984, and the intra-band tensions that led to David Lee Roth's departure

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Steel Panther’s Satchel: “I really like the sound of single-coil pickups. It makes me play differently and feel like I’m David Gilmour. Or Yngwie!”

Steel Panther’s resident shredder discusses everything from Paul Gilbert’s picking method to super-expensive Strats, and explains why he doesn’t use amps in the studio

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Malina Moye: “The music business makes you question things, so you have to know your worth... Like Eddie Van Halen said, ‘If it sounds right, then it’s right’“

The uncompromising Strat and Flying V-loving southpaw returns with Dirty, an LP that represents the evolution of her sound and an “upside-down“ style that confuses the easily confused

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How Sammy Hagar made Van Halen even better, according to Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar says he blew Van Halen's minds when he joined: "they thought wow, here’s a professional”

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Six of Eddie Van Halen's stage-played Charvel EVH Art Series guitars – and a Masterbuilt Frankenstein copy – go up for auction

Each Art Series guitar was played and signed over the course of Van Halen's tours in 2004, 2007, and 2012, and are being auctioned off alongside a Chip Ellis-built model as one mega collection

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Vito Bratta names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The virtuoso behind White Lion’s platinum rock sound pays dues to the players who showed him what to do on guitar (and what not to do), and recalls an emotional encounter with Eddie Van Halen

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Watch Eddie Van Halen explain how he figured out the two-handed tapping technique behind Eruption – all thanks to a little help from Jimmy Page

Guitar-in-hand, EVH demonstrates his most iconic technique and explains its origins in this insightful 2015 clip

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Boss reinvents the SDE-3000 Digital Delay rack unit as two feature-packed pedals – and one is preloaded with Eddie Van Halen’s live settings

There is a standard delay and one co-developed with EVH – featuring the exact same presets found on the dual SDE-3000 rack setup that served as a key part of his Van Halen live sound

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Boss unveils two digital delay pedals based on the classic Roland SDE-3000 rack unit – and one is a special edition Eddie Van Halen model

Dual delay the digitally authentic way with the SDE-3000D and SDE-3000EVH

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