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Alex Van Halen will release the last-ever song he worked on with Eddie Van Halen in the audiobook version of his upcoming memoir. Brothers is set to arrive on Oct. 22, with the spoken-word edition voiced by the drummer himself. The track, titled simply “Unfinished,” will feature within his narrative. Publishers HarperCollins confirmed that “Unfinished” is “the last piece of music they wrote together” before Eddie’s death at age 65 in 2020. READ MORE: How Michael Anthony Got Closure With Eddie Van Halen’s Family The memoir appears to be the final work of Alex Van Halen’s career. The 70-year-old...
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Alex Van Halen will release the last-ever song he worked on with Eddie Van Halen in the audiobook version of his upcoming memoir. Brothers is set to arrive on Oct. 22, with the spoken-word edition voiced by the drummer himself. The track, titled simply “Unfinished,” will feature within his narrative. Publishers HarperCollins confirmed that “Unfinished” is “the last piece of music they wrote together” before Eddie’s death at age 65 in 2020. READ MORE: Sammy Hagar Wishes He’d Tried Harder to Reconnect With Eddie Van Halen The memoir appears to be the final work of Alex Van Halen’s career. The 70...
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Sammy Hagar admits he would have reconnected with Eddie Van Halen sooner if he’d known the extent of the guitarist’s health woes. During an interview with AZ Central, Hagar reflected upon his last tour with Van Halen. The 2004 trek was plagued by tension between the frontman and guitarist, largely due to Eddie’s substance abuse. At the last tour stop, the guitar god reportedly lay down on stage and apologized to fans for being “outta gas.” “Eddie kind of lost it out there,” the Red Rocker recalled. “I mean, he was in bad shape the whole tour. Not trying to bring up a sore subject, but he was n...
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd believes Eddie Van Halen was far different than how he was portrayed in the media. Shepherd had a long history with the late guitar god, having toured with Van Halen on two separate occasions. “We toured with them back in the ‘90s when it wasVan Halen III and they had Gary Cherone singing in the band for a brief moment,” Shepherd recalled during a recent appearance on the Appetite for Distortion podcast. “And then we toured again with them on the very last tour in 2015.” Shepherd, who also became social friends with Eddie away from the stage, found the rocker to be friendl...
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Jason Bonham admits that he’s asked his current bandmates about certain “awkward” moments in Van Halen’s music. He came across these “weird” constructions in some of the band’s tracks while preparing for the ongoing tribute tour with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani, dubbed “Best of All Worlds.” Bonham says Anthony, Van Halen’s former bassist, told him the arrangements were a result of Eddie and Alex Van Halen being brothers. READ MORE: Top 10 Van Hagar Songs “Me and Joe were talking about this,” Bonham said on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. “There’s the way they play certain parts as i...
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Wolfgang Van Halen is convinced David Lee Roth no longer likes him following a series of YouTube videos that were released by the Van Halen lead singer in recent months. Wolfgang Van Halen appeared on a recent episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast where he discussed his years playing bass in the band. Maron eventually brought up Roth and asked if the two of them get along. “Not really,” Wolfgang Van Halen said. “At least as of recently I thought we were on good terms, and he actually made a couple YouTube videos about me, about how much he doesn’t like me.” Earlier this year, Roth shared ...
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Wolfgang Van Halen believes his famous father, Eddie Van Halen, “ruined the musical landscape” of the ‘80s. When Van Halen exploded to mainstream success, Eddie was quickly hailed as rock’s newest guitar god. His distinctive style of playing was soon copied by musicians around the globe, as everyone looked to emulate his ax-wielding exploits. During an appearance on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Wolfgang explained why the endless array of Eddie Van Halen copycats had a negative impact on music. “In a way, Dad kind of ruined the musical landscape [of ‘80s rock],” the Mammoth WVH frontman exp...
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Valerie Bertinelli has struggled to keep her own relationship rule. The 64-year-old actress started dating lifestyle writer Mike Goodnough, 53, in March and noted at the time that she had created a "three-week rule" whereby they would never go longer than that period of time without seeing each other but admitted that has been a "challenge" for them both. She told People: "It's been challenging. The summer has been booked full. It is challenging!" The former 'Touched by an Angel' actress - who was initially married to late rock star Eddie Van Halen from 1981 until 2007 and has Wolfgang, 33, wi...
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Shinedown drummer Barry Kerch, whose band opened for Van Halen during their bad-tempered reunion tour with Sammy Hagar in 2004, recalled how the dream-come-true experience also had a downside. While Kerch said he had a great time with Hagar,Eddie Van Halen and Michael Anthony, plus Wolfgang Van Halen and his mom Valerie Bertinelli, there was no denying the negative energy between the two factions in the headline act. And he recalled the moment Eddie Van Halen assaulted Hagar onstage while the singer was partway through the line of a song. “It was one of the most amazing times of my life – it w...
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Picking your one favorite Black Sabbath riffs feels like an impossible task, but Eddie Van Halen had one absolute favorite by metal’s founding fathers. On a 2023 episode of The Power Hour (on AXS TV), hosts Matt Pinfield, Caity Babs and Josh Bernstein were joined by Mammoth WVH‘s Wolfgang Van Halen and Sabbath’s Geezer Butler. In a social media clip shared this week (seen below) Pinfield encourages Wolfgang to tell Butler what his father Eddie’s favorite Black Sabbath riff was. “‘Into the Void’ is one of the best riffs ever. It was always my dad’s favorite riff from you guys. I know he was rea...
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