“I was like, ‘Ed, you better stop smoking.’” Valerie Bertinelli recalls the night she met Eddie Van Halen — and the “tragic, scary” years that followed

The actress says their whirlwind romance quickly collided with addiction, fame and the habits that ultimately damaged the guitarist’s health

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Win tickets to see Eric Johnson in Northern California at Guitar Player Presents

The Texaphonic 2026 tour touches down at the Guild Theatre on the San Francisco Peninsula, Sunday, May 10

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Colonial Arts Center launches $5 guitar lessons May 7 - My Buckhannon

Colonial Arts Center launches $5 guitar lessons May 7  My Buckhannon

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“It sounds like a terrible B-flick horror soundtrack.” Eddie Van Halen on the night he got drunk and wrecked Marvin Hamlisch’s piano

During a late-night experiment in a rented Malibu home, the guitarist scraped the composer’s Yamaha grand with forks and knives — and turned the chaos into a track later used on Van Halen’s ‘Balance’

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“Look up!” Olivia Rodrigo reveals the hidden note Jack White left in her ‘SNL’ dressing room

White texted her a hint, prompting a full-scale search of the dressing room ceiling and closets

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“Even Clapton came out and gave me the thumbs up.” The day Ministry’s Al Jourgensen shut down a studio — while Eric Clapton was recording next door

The distortion-loving guitarist recalls how a tape experiment blew out the power while Clapton was recording his 1989 album ‘Journeyman’

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“It was like getting into a swimming pool with lead weights tied to your boot.” Mark Knopfler on his grueling 10-hour Steely Dan session that resulted in just seconds of music

Fresh off the success of “Sultans of Swing,” the Dire Straits guitarist joined Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in the studio — and discovered just how painstaking their recording process could be.

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