It was rock’s version of the heavyweight championship of the world. In one corner, Van Halen. In the other, the band’s former singer David Lee Roth. It was 1986, and there was outright hostility ...

However, don’t ask Steve Vai to consider the gig. The guitar virtuoso, who was Roth’s right hand man after the incomparable frontman left Van Halen for a solo career during the mid-80s, has no ...

Albert Lee, Steve Morse and Steve Vai have also recorded for What The Hell Was I Thinking?, which Zappa began work on back in 1989 ...

For this piece, I could just post a picture of four musical phases of Eddie Van Halen and leave it at that. Apart from making my editor frown, I’d also rob myself of two things I enjoy quite a bit: ...

While rock guitar hero worship may have begun its ascendancy with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and exploded beneath the fingers of Eddie Van Halen, it was arguably Joe Satriani’s 1987 release ...

David Lee Roth and his former Van Halen bandmates squared up for round two just two years after battling each other for the first time with 1986's Eat 'Em and Smile and 5150. This time, the opposing ...