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“The pinnacle of dad rock”: This survey claims to have identified the ultimate dad rock band – but there was some surprising competition

New analysis has created the ultimate dad rock playlist, and revealed which band each US state thinks is the dad-iest of them all

Guitar World

Watch Phil X demo Joe Satriani’s new 3rd Power Dragon Amplifier – the Marshall-inspired fire-breather Satch will be taking on the road to play classic Van Halen tracks with Sammy Hagar

It looks like Satch's newly commissioned tube amp for his tour with Sammy Hagar was met with approval from the Bon Jovi guitarist

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“Our first show with Van Halen, he was playing a red ES-335. I thought he was a very good player, but not unique. He evolved leaps and bounds”: Rusty Anderson on his session journey – from supporting Van Halen to joining Paul McCartney’s band

The Gibson signature artist on why a rack makes most sense on tour, his approach to session work from Elton John to the Bangles, and how to keep feeling challenged with solo work

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“A semi-acoustic with aggressive character and punch that outshines many solidbody designs”: EVH SA-126 Special review

Wolfgang Van Halen’s new signature model ushers in a new era of the hot-rodded super-semi – and it might just be one of the most versatile rock machines on the market today

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“If you don’t want to play Eruption by Van Halen, don’t practice it. There’s no reason to do it. You want to practice what you want to do”: Buzz Osborne on how he forged a unique voice in heavy guitar playing – and why new guitars are better than vintage

As a cult hero of underground American rock, Buzz Osbornedescribes his band Melvins as “an avant-garde, weird thing”.And as a guitarist, he’s all about heaviness and spontaneity…

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“I said, ‘The winner is…’ and pulled a piece of paper out of my pocket – and said, ‘Edward… uh… Van Halen!’” Unseen footage of Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West's onstage jams and backstage hangs has been unearthed

In 2002, Eddie Van Halen joined Mountain on and offstage – and cameras were there to capture the moment

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"I started laughing, because he is the best": Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming

The extraordinary footage comes from a Los Angeles club show in 2002

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Van Halen's Michael Anthony recalls watching Ozzy Osbourne set Bill Ward on fire: "He didn't even flinch. He just kept drinking his beer"

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony looks back on the time his band toured with Black Sabbath, as well as the sometimes dangerous shenanigans that took place on the road

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“I picked him up and we drove by a music shop. I said, 'Do you want to pick a guitar up?' and we did – one of his Eddie Van Halen ones”: Tony Iommi on that time Eddie Van Halen helped co-write a Black Sabbath song – but didn’t get a credit

Van Halen joined the band for a rehearsal in Birmingham, England, and ended up contributing a solo to a track

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“I realized there’s no way to play the Van Halen stuff on my rig – it’s a different animal”: Joe Satriani has seemingly switched out his Ibanez guitars to play Van Halen material on the Best of All Worlds Tour

Satch is having an amp custom-made for the tour – and now it looks like he's got a new guitar and pedalboard, too

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"He was so drunk, slurring and forgetting lyrics and everything": The story of the historic day heavy metal killed new wave

It's memorial weekend in 1983, and the US Festival is about to change the musical landscape forever, with a little help from Van Halen

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“I hear there’s an election coming. Don’t vote for that Conservative p****!” In praise of Jane’s Addiction, the band who invented the 90s

Topics covered: Jane's Vs Guns, some of the greatest lyrics ever written, the birth of the "Alternative Nation" and other Gen X angst…

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Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”

Van Halen’s record label stopped him from getting a Black Sabbath songwriting credit in 1994

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“The way I feel is that Wolfgang probably wasn't excited really about being in Van Halen”: Michael Anthony on how he finally got the closure he needed with the Van Halens

Michael Anthony reveals what he thinks about Wolfgang Van Halen replacing him as VH's bassist in 2007

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"It was unbelievable. Every second was an inspiration": How a single show rejuvenated the Scorpions and sent them on the path to superstardom

With two members “smashed after touring”, the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the Love At First Sting album turned them into global icons

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Allan Holdsworth blew the minds of Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and a generation of guitar heroes – and his extraordinary fretboard hacks are still inspiring players today

Take your playing to another realm with this lesson in Holdsworth’s legato, string skipping and that unique ability of his to find new patterns in scales

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“You may think, ‘That guy can’t solo.’ You wanna see me do a guitar solo right now?” Dave Grohl pranks an entire audience by ‘playing’ EVH's Eruption – with a little help from Wolfgang Van Halen

The Foo Fighter fooled a festival crowd, with Wolfgang Van Halen providing the soundtrack to Grohl’s six-string charade

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"People chucked pesetas at us, bottles, you name it": How Gun survived Spanish crowds, an X-rated video and that "strange cookie" from INXS, then hit the bullseye again

Gun's debut album Taking On The World was a killer, and with new album Hombres their aim is once again true

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Watch Dave Grohl and Wolfgang Van Halen prank an entire festival with cover of Van Halen's Eruption

In which, for a brief moment, Dave Grohl is the best guitarist the world has ever seen

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"Don't even get us started on that Van Halen sh*t": Wolfgang Van Halen plays Eruption and Hot For Teacher with the Foo Fighters

And The Cradle Will Rockville

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The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands

From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

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“That was one hell of a fall”: Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready falls off stage mid-solo – but doesn’t miss a note

The Pearl Jam guitarist disappeared on the first night of the grunge heroes’ tour in Vancouver, but not even falling off stage could stop his shred-fest

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“This recognition holds immense significance for me”: Gary Clark Jr. joins Carlos Santana and Van Halen on Guitar Center Hollywood’s iconic RockWalk

The RockWalk ceremony made its return to Los Angeles for the first time in six years

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"When Peter Gabriel played Red Rain I started sobbing - it makes me think of my dad": The soundtrack of Wolfgang Van Halen's life

Mammoth WVH guitarist/vocalist Wolfgang Van Halen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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“I made Yngwie play on a really slow blues… He sounds even faster”: Dweezil Zappa reveals plans to finish epic all-star track featuring 40 players, including Brian May, and Eddie Van Halen playing a “greatest hits of all of his best guitar licks”

Zappa has been working on this instrumental piece for over 30 years and it features Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young and more, and two solos from Eddie Van Halen

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