10/6: RIP EDDIE VAN HALEN
Impossible to overstate the loss today of Eddie Van Halen. A day we hoped would never come. It was so hard to know what was really going on with EVH the last few years. So many conflicting messages. Sadly turns out he was as sick as was rumored. I learned of the news while live […]
DID YOU KNOW EDDIE VAN HALEN HAD A PATENT? WELL, HE DID…
Eddie Van Halen was a guitar legend who even had a US patent to prove it — submitting what just might be the coolest diagram ever to the federal government to explain his device, reports The New York Post. The famous rocker, who died of throat cancer Tuesday, was granted US Patent. No. 4656917 in 1985 for what […]
MUSICIANS POST THEIR TRIBUTES TO EDDIE VAN HALEN
As previously reported, guitar legend Eddie Van Halen has passed away today at age 65. According to TMZ, Van Halen died at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California. His wife, Janie, was by his side, along with son Wolfgang, and his brother, and bandmate Alex Van Halen. According to the site, Eddie’s ongoing health battle went massively downhill in the […]
GUITAR GOD EDDIE VAN HALEN PASSES AT AGE 65
Eddie Van Halen, whose innovative and explosive guitar made him a legend in the rock community, died on Tuesday morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 65. Van Halen’s son Wolfgang aka “Wolfie” announced the news. “He was the best father I could ever ask for. Every moment I’ve shared with him on […]
LED ZEPPELIN PLAGIARISM SUIT THROWN OUT BY THE SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a copyright claim over Led Zeppelin’s classic Stairway to Heaven, capping a long-running legal dispute over the song. A lower court in California last March had ruled that the British rockers had plagiarized the opening riff from Taurus, which was written by Randy Wolfe of a Los Angeles […]
AC/DC MEMBERS BRIAN JOHNSON, ANGUS YOUNG AND CLIFF WILLIAMS DISCUSS THE ROAD BACK TOGETHER, WITH CLIFF SAYING, “IT WAS LIKE THE OLD BAND BACK TOGETHER”
Andy Greene spoke with AC/DC members Brian Johnson (vocals), Angus Young (guitar) and Cliff Williams (bass) for a feature article for Rolling Stone. Portions of the column appear below. PWR/UP the band’s upcoming album that reunites the four surviving members of the Back in Black incarnation. (guitarist Malcolm Young died in 2017, and his nephew Stevie Young […]