Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts. I can't take it. I gotta leave. I know you're looking for a lead guitar player. Do ...

Eddie Van Halen He was the great white hope when he did the solo on [Michael Jackson’s] Beat It . I’d seen him, and I don’t like the speed tapping style very much, but he had it down.

The electric guitar might be a relatively new instrument in the grand scheme of things, but Jeff Beck felt no one did it ...

Davies' influences are scattered far and wide —but he hasn't always appreciated how musicians have responded to the Kinks' ...

Be that as it may, all of it did happen after journalist Steve Rosen met guitar god Eddie Van Halen for the first time in 1977. For over two decades, ... We talked about Jeff Beck.

Rosen had previously authored biographies on Jeff Beck, Free/Bad Company, Black Sabbath and Randy Rhoads. In this excerpt describing a 1978 hang, his budding friendship with Van Halen is on full ...

The late, great Jeff Beck was known for many things, one of those was his expressive use of the guitars tremolo system. ... If you’ve never borrowed or stolen any tapping licks from the Eddie Van ...

Beyond Eddie Van Halen, there’s another bucket list booking that eluded Satriani. “The one that was so close to really ...

And Eddie Van Halen took the instrument to its technical limits while still finding a way to express personality. Jeff Beck did all of that, and more, while flying just under the commercial radar ...

When you hear Eddie Van Halen, you're hearing someone who listened to Jeff Beck. (SOUNDBITE OF JEFF BECK'S "GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT") BROWN: Tom, thank you, my friend.