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“It still sounds and feels like Eddie but you’re listening and going, ‘Oh! That’s Joe!’”: Sammy Hagar explains why no one is better than “the professor” Joe Satriani at nailing Eddie Van Halen’s playing style

The Red Rocker's ringing endorsement of Satch's EVH guitar skills arrives as The Best Of All Worlds Tour revs up and video highlights emerge online. But what makes Satriani the man?

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"A lot of people are going, 'Joe, he doesn't play like Eddie.' I know that – but he can": Sammy Hagar on why Joe Satriani was the only man for his Eddie Van Halen job

Exclusive: Sammy Hagar on why Joe Satriani is a guitarist in a million

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“It’s no wonder Eddie had so much fun playing this!” Joe Satriani tackles a wealth of Van Halen classics in the first footage from the Best of All Worlds tour

Satch took on no less than 15 EVH songs in a set that was laden with Van Halen

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David Lee Roth launches exuberant unplugged version of Van Halen's Mean Street on the day Sammy Hagar's tour starts

Coincidence? Who knows?

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“Bon Scott chose to hang out with us more than AC/DC. He thought they were boring”: the rollercoaster story of Y&T, the greatest hard rock band never to become huge

Headlining over Van Halen, hanging with Bon Scott, out-partying Mötley Crüe – Y&T deserve way more love than they get

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“Eddie Van Halen could say: ‘I got this idea,’ and Sammy could pick up a guitar and go, ‘Yes, but what about this?’” why Sammy Hagar is the greatest guitar hero no one talks about

He’s played with six-string icons Ronnie Montrose, Eddie Van Halen and Joe Satriani – but Sammy Hagar is a hell of a guitarist himself

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"Too many tracks are more perspiration than inspiration": Van Halen's combative For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, expanded

Van Halen's big-hitting album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge now comes with a rowdy live set

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“I’m sure people will say, ‘What’s this doing here?’” Joe Satriani reveals the one mod he’s made to all his EVH guitars ahead of the Best of All Worlds tour – and the vintage Music Man Wolfgang he’s taking on the road

Ahead of the tour kickoff this weekend, Satch has showcased the complete guitar rack he's planning to take with him

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"The best gig of all time": What happened when Van Halen played a secret show at a tiny New York club

In 2012 Van Halen announced a new album and celebrated in the only way they knew: By throwing a party

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"I think that was his statement to me": Sammy Hagar took Alex Van Halen's recent sale of his musical equipment personally

Sammy Hagar has detailed his fruitless attempts to reach out to Alex Van Halen

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“That was the coolest thing about Eddie for me. That’s why nobody could ever touch him”: Slash explains why Eddie Van Halen was really a blues player at heart

Van Halen's boundary-pushing rock guitar style was defined by unprecedented fretboard acrobatics – but underneath all that was a humble bluesman, according to the GNR guitarist

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“It's my mod on Frankenstein. Eddie's gonna come back and kill me!” Joe Satriani fears Eddie Van Halen will haunt him for what he’s done to his Frankenstein design

Satch has shown off the heavily modded EVH Frankenstein he’ll be using to tackle Eddie's guitar parts on the Best Of All Worlds tour later this month

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“One piece of rock and roll history that has remained absent for three decades”: Eddie Van Halen’s long-lost Canada flag Music Man has been unseen for 30 years – now it’s going up for auction

The guitar was custom-painted for a special Canada Day concert in 1993, and its whereabouts for the past three decades remain a mystery

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Joe Satriani shreds and taps through Van Halen’s Poundcake in new Best Of All Words rehearsal footage – and it seems his Ibanez signatures still have a role to play after all

Sightings of Satch shredding on a modded EVH made fans think his Ibanez guitars would be taking a break on the upcoming tour, but new footage from Sammy Hagar seems to suggest otherwise

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“They had spoken to me also. Who knows what was going on in their minds?” Michael Anthony says he and ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted were both approached for the failed Van Halen reunion

Newsted turned heads in 2022 when he claimed he was in line to join a Van Halen reunion tour – but now Anthony has revealed he was in the running for it, too

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"I think it will really change your mind about semi-hollows": Wolfgang Van Halen on the EVH SA-126, why rhythm comes first and who his unsung guitar hero is

We meet the multi-instrumentalist at Olso's Tons Of Rock festival to talk about his new signature model and musical perspective

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“He got me in a headlock and started punching me. We just went at it”: the explosive story of Dokken, the hard rock band that tore itself apart

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"He did horrible things to people. He treated people so bad. He was a complete raving maniac." In 2016, Sammy Hagar talked candidly about his fears that Eddie Van Halen was going to die during Van Halen's 2004 reunion tour

"When I saw those demons take over him it was pitiful." Sammy Hagar revisited his darkest days in Van Halen in a 2016 interview newly uploaded online

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"Eddie was doing these extended solos so Tony had to have a word with him about that": Geezer Butler remembers the ups and downs of Black Sabbath being upstaged by Van Halen, and his hopes for a final farewell show with Bill Ward

He also weighs in on what went wrong with the Rick Rubin-produced 13 album: "Tony was incredibly disappointed in him"

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“Mr. Bungle tried to play this song in the '90s and we scrapped it because we sucked at it”: Wolfgang Van Halen helps Mr. Bungle rip through a cover of Van Halen’s “most metal song”

WVH joined the avant-garde metal ensemble for a raucous rendition of the heavy Van Halen cut

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“He turned his amps around so they’re off-stage. The ones facing backwards were unbelievably loud to get sustain”: Dave Natale has worked with Prince, Van Halen and The Rolling Stones – but Jeff Beck was the loudest player he ever mic’d up

The legendary front-of-house mixing engineer has been exposed to countless guitar tones across his career, but Beck's was one of the best – and certainly one of the loudest

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"When Eddie Van Halen is giving you his socks, you know your life is getting weird": Ugly Kid Joe and beyond – the crazy career of Whitfield Crane

Hung out with Lemmy (in his Speedos), been kidnapped by unknown assailants or charged with ‘murder’? No you haven’t. But then you’re not Ugly Kid Joe frontman Whitfield Crane

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“I hope Wolfgang goes through some of it. There’s probably miles of the stuff. I’m sure there’s stuff that Eddie did on his own”: Michael Anthony offers an update on the never-before-heard archive of unreleased Van Halen songs

Van Halen recorded every idea they had while in the studio, and it's all sitting in boxes of tapes just waiting to be unearthed

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“Thin Lizzy prepared me for Skynyrd. They said, ‘You need to learn these songs note for note.’ I said, ‘I wouldn’t dream of doing it any other way’”: Damon Johnson on having one of rock’s most enviable resumés – and why Eddie Van Halen gifted him a guitar

From touring with Van Halen, to finding his own niche as a blood-and-guts player with some of rock’s biggest names

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“Sneaky hidden Sustainiac!” Joe Satriani is playing an EVH Striped Series Eruption guitar on the Best of All Worlds tour – but it’s had some surprise mods

Satch will be tackling various Van Halen eras on the upcoming tour, and it looks like he's crafted a do-it-all Frankenstein replica for the job

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