Van Halen News

Dubbed "Chickenfoot Live," the screening is set to take place at select theaters in 33 states on Dec.

There has always been a good deal of mystery surrounding the pinch harmonic, or, as hip players like to call it, " pick squeal ". A pick squeal is simply an artificial harmonic, or high-pitched sound, produced by choking up on the pick and allowing the thumb or thumbnail to catch the string in just as it is picked.

Posted on Friday, November 20 @ 08:10:09 MST Chickenfoot 's first concert film, Chickenfoot Live , will play a one-night engagement in selected theatres around the country on December 1st, according to Blabbermouth .

Five years after parting ways, Michael Anthony says that Eddie Van Halen still bears him ill will.

The low-road way to begin telling you about the Dick Cheney-Kay Bailey Hutchison event would involve a cheap metaphor linking Cheney's comebacks from life-threatening health conditions and Hutchison's hope that her gubernatorial campaign can do the same thing.

Don't do it, Joe. Just don't. Now that Aerosmith's embroiled in one of the nastiest rock divorces in recent memory, with singer Steven Tyler leaving the fold to focus on "Brand Tyler," as he puts it, guitarist Joe Perry has notched up the feud several levels by suggesting that the Boston rockers will simply replace Tyler.

MusicLab announces RealLPC 16th November 2009 RealLPC MusicLab has announced RealLPC , a new virtual guitar instrument plug-in which aims to bring the incomparable Les Paul Custom Guitar sound to your studio, virtually.

Maybe something along the lines of: Wanted: One Toxic Twin to complete a set. Age, race, gender unimportant.

The bigger surprise, perhaps, than that Aerosmith was replacing singer Steven Tyler , was that Aerosmith was actually still a band.

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Tom Hanks, Eddie Van Halen, Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara, Steven Spielberg, Eddie Van Halen, all either own cottages in Muskoka, as do many hockey players, or can be classified as frequent visitors.

Van Halen re-invented itself with Sammy Hagar when its founding vocalist David Lee Roth left the band.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler ... soon to be starring as Widow Twanky on Blackpool pier.

These two have never looked better and both have new plans... Eddie Van Halen appears with Tony Iommi on the cover of Guitar World's 30th-anniversary issue, available at newsstands November 17.

Believe Review Posted by Daniel Wilcox on 11.05.2009 Mammoth pop hooks and epic guitar work, delivered by a hot Greek chick.

Eddie and Alex Van Halen came from the same womb, played in the same legendary rock band ... and now they're driving identical $120,000 silver Audi R8s .

Steel Panther's Michael Starr is dealing with his first dose of fame. 'I'm at the doctor getting some penicillin,' claims the newly minted hair-metal hero with a laugh, down the line from Burbank, Calif.

Legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen has updated his MySpace page with the following message: "Took a short break and went to Vegas with Janie [ Liszewski , Eddie 's new wife], Wolfie [ Eddie 's son and VAN HALEN bassist Wolfgang ] and Olivia .

The woman with the electric guitar has played this song before. It's a Michael Jackson ballad, and the young guitarist is named Orianthi, who leans back now to unfurl a solo of smoldering melody before stepping up to the microphone to sing some torrid lyrics: "Love is a feeling / give it when I want it / 'cause I'm on fire / quench my desire.

The stars must have been perfectly aligned when Red Hot Chili Pepper's drummer, Chad Smith, guitarist Jeff Kollman and keyboardist Ed Roth were brought together to help out Glenn Hughes' latest project.

So I'm leaving the Genitorturers show at Firestone Live last Saturday to head back to Will's Pub to catch 1991 close out the Post Records showcase when I roll up on this bad boy on Orange Ave... I'm not sayin' it is or it's not.