This outstanding folio is a guitarist's dream. The 30 selections include: And the Cradle Will Rock * Beautiful Girls * Best of Both Worlds * Dance the Night Away * Finish What Ya Started * Hot for Teacher * Jamie's Cryin' * Oh, Pretty Woman * Panama * Runnin' with the Devil * When It's Love * Why Can't This Be Love and more.

There is possibly no guitar player of the modern era more influential than Eddie Van Halen. Now, from the pages of "Guitar World Magazine" comes this outstanding collection of interviews and insights. Whether you are a fan or a professional musician, you'll be entertained and educated by this comprehensive, in-depth collection.

A new series from Guitar World magazine! These books feature many articles organized in a logical manner to create a history of the artist or band. Covers their start to current day activities. Some titles include transcriptions of solos or riffs. Metallica, Van Halen, S.R. Vaughn and Kiss!

Featuring the brilliant soloing and rhythm playing of ultimate guitar hero Eddie Van Halen and the flamboyant lead vocals of David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar, Van Halen have sold more than 60 million albums in the U.S. alone, racking up classic hits such as "Hot for Teacher," "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Jump," and their latest single, "Tattoo." Through the years, Guitar World magazine has been there to provide first-hand reports on Van Halen's extraordinary career, from their early days in the Seventies playing the Sunset Strip to their smash 2012 comeback album, A Different Kind of Truth. Now, for the first time, Guitar World presents the entire story in an incredible collector's edition packed with rare photos and colourful interviews with band members and group insiders.

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen's debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained elusive--until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid, compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary 5150 studios at Ed's home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen's masterpiece 1984, the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward's early struggles as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language, which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar manufacturing. As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie's side of the story when it comes to his extraordinary life.

Van Halen at 50 is the lively and stunningly illustrated story of the legendary rock band told through 50 seismic releases, appearances, and other milestones.