Born: January 26, 1955 - Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Edward Van Halen Parents moved to Pasadena from the Netherlands when he and brother Alex were young. His father was Dutch, his mother Indonesian.
Has been working on new material in his home studio since being declared cancer-free (he was treated for throat cancer in 2000/2001), but has no idea what he's going to do with it for now. Van Halen split with its label, Warner Brothers, in 2001, and is currently without a recording contract. [June 2002]
His father, Jan van Halen, was an accomplished sax and clarinet musician in his own right. He appeared on clarinet on "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" on the "Diver Down" album (released on April 14th, 1982).
Eddie started classical piano training, and won talent competitions as a child. Initially, Eddie's brother Alex Van Halen began playing the guitar, while Eddie played the drums. According to Van Halen lore, while Eddie was delivering newspapers to pay for his drum kit, Alex would practice playing on them. It was when Eddie heard Alex's mastery of the Surfaris drum solo in the song Wipe Out that Eddie decided to switch and begin learning how to play the electric guitar.
Eddie was around age twelve when he first started to learn guitar. He was so committed to playing the guitar, that he played it all day, everyday. Sometimes, he would even skip school to stay at home and practice. In an April, 1996, interview with Guitar World, when asked about how he went from playing his first open G chord, to playing "Eruption", he simply replied " Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7 P.M. to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3 A.M., I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years--I still do that."
In the burgeoning Los Angeles rock scene of mid-1970s, Van Halen's band was called Rat Salade, after a song by Black Sabbath. David Lee Roth suggested calling the band Van Halen, after having been hired by the band as a vocalist to circumvent paying for the use of his P.A. system. After unfulfilled promises by KISS's Gene Simmons to sign Van Halen, they signed with Warner Brothers in 1977, and then released their eponymous debut album on February 8, 1978. It was immediately recognized as a ground-breaking work. Van Halen's innovative, home-spun techniques, and unparalleled rhythmic sensibility influenced generations of guitarists. Van Halen's mantra, "if it sounds good, it is good," renowned "brown sound," and fleet-fingered graceful melodicism propelled him to "guitar god" status around the world. He is especially known for a technique that he popularised: finger tapping. While he did not originate the finger tapping technique, he refined it to an art through various unusual applications. In interviews, Van Halen has credited Jimmy Page's guitar solo from the song "Heartbreaker" (Led Zeppelin II) as the inspiration for developing this techinque.
Van Halen has one son, Wolfgang William Van Halen, born March 16, 1991 . He was named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and nicknamed "Wolfie". Wolfie has played at some of his father's concerts on their 2004 reunion tour with Sammy Hagar. Eddie named his line of signature Peavey Guitars after his son, and between 1993 and 2004 was also sponsored by Peavey Electronics to use their 5150 Amplifiers, which he had a part in designing. In 2004 the Peavey company and Eddie split ways, and Eddie launched reissues of his famous "Frankenstrat" guitars with Charvel.
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