Eddie Van Halen Fans

Eddie Van Halen launched lately with Fender a new line of guitars called EVH Wolfgang, which himself is testing in the actual tour of Rolling Stones.

Eddie Van Halen said “I do this because a lot of people ask if they can get what I use. Well, yes you can and what you get is identical to what I use“.

Eddie Van Halen is unloading a couple of his old cars.  Van Halen’s 1956 Chevy 210 and his 1956 Chevy Nomad will be sold during the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, Jan. 11-18.

Van Halen will even throw in a guitar from his EVH brand and a pair of red, white and black striped speakers for each car. He says he hates to let them go but he doesn’t have time to drive them and he’d rather have someone else driving them than let them sit around.  Minimum opening bids on the cars have not been announced.

From | ABC

Here are several pictures of Eddie Van Halen playing live, that we found online.

Here are some  Eddie Van Halen’s great pictures. What’s your favorite?

Here’s some Eddie Van Halen’s pictures, what it’s your favorite?

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Here is a music video of Eddie Van Halen playing Eruption in 94′.

Edward Lodewijk “Eddie” Van Halen (born January 26, 1955), is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer most famous for being the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen.

Van Halen was a son of saxophonist Jan Van Halen, his mother Eugenia was from Java Indonesia. At an early age he moved with his family to the city of Nijmegen (Netherlands). In 1962 they moved to Pasadena, California. Eddie learned to play the piano as a child, and has won many different talent shows. His older brother Alex also played the piano.

However, playing the piano did not prove sufficiently engaging - he once said in an interview, “Who wants to sit in front of the piano? That’s boring.” Consequently, while Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit and began practicing drumming. After Eddie heard Alex’s performance of the The Surfaris’ drum solo in the song “Wipe Out“, he grew annoyed that his brother had overtaken his ability and decided to switch and begin learning how to play the electric guitar.

He has stated that he would often walk around at home with his guitar strapped on and unplugged, practicing. It’s said that he would sit in his room for hours with the door locked, as a teen practicing the guitar. He once claimed that he had learned almost all of Eric Clapton’s solos in the band Cream “note for note” by age 14; in later interviews he stated he could never play the solos precisely, instead he would modify them slightly to suit his style.

From | Wikipedia