The song that made Eddie Van Halen give up playing drums

Eddie Van Halen was always at home on the guitar, but he knew a sense of rhythm by starting on the drums before anything else.
Penn Live

Van Halen singer explains why he took drummer’s sale of musical equipment personally

It was Alex Van Halen’s recent sale of his drumming and other musical equipment that rubbed Sammy Hager the wrong way. “I think that [the sale] was his statement to me,” Hagar told Classic Rock. He ...
WDAF-TV

David Frangioni and Goldin Announce Auction of Alex Van Halen Drum Kit

MIAMI, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, June 19, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- David Frangioni, a multi-platinum, award-winning musician, technologist, and CEO of Modern Drummer ...
LAist

Alex Van Halen memoir

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. In the new memoir, Brothers, Alex looks back on his relationship with Eddie and the decades they ...
AOL

Sammy Hagar Hasn't Spoken to Alex Van Halen in Over 20 Years: 'Just Leave Me Alone. I’ll Leave You Alone'

Sammy Hagar and Alex Van Halen are still feuding after more than two decades. Hagar, 77, and the drummer, 53, haven’t spoken in 21 years, Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday, April 29, alongside a new ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. Only 20 months apart in age, they had grown up together as "a yin and yang ... the two halves of ...