Early in the summer of 1973, singer David Lee Roth and guitarist Eddie Van Halen performed together for the first time. While the Van Halen brothers would remain enrolled in their neighborhood high school, David Lee Roth, who’d moved to greater Pasadena from Massachusetts in 1963, would have a different experience. As Roth told the Guardian in 2012, Van Halen …
“Okay, lemme ask you a question: Whose side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?” Now, if you answer Van Halen, as the ‘record exec’ foolishly did in the 1994 film Airheads, rocker Chazz will know immediately that you’re an undercover cop. American rock band Van Halen’s hits, in their 40-year run, are split evenly between …
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Eddie Van Halen’s only true peer passed away two …
Eddie Van Halen, legendary lead guitarist for the wildly popular hard-rock band Van Halen, has died of cancer at 65. “I realize I don’t sound like him,” Van Halen told Guitar Player magazine in 1978, “but I know every solo he’s ever played, note for note.” David Lee Roth, left, and Eddie Van Halen perform in 2008 in Las Vegas. …