David Lee Roth (left) and Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen perform Wednesday ... to punctuate Wednesday's setlist. The songs before those mostly came from 1984 and everything before it -- early ...

Van Halen's "Summer Nights" lines up against "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age in the first round of our Greatest Summer Song battle – and your votes determine the winner.

“I mean, some of those songs were great ... crazy acrobatics where I would sing crazy lines, and he'd go nuts on the guitar. When I was in Van Halen, at least in the early days, it was all ...

Sammy Hagar may have been a great shot in the arm for Van Halen, but he knew he could take them to a higher plateau with the right song.

During the next song, "Top of the World," Anthony and Satriani converged and unexpectedly freelanced a few lines of another classic Van Halen hit “Dance the Night Away.” “Hey, sometimes I ...

One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our ...

Van Halen’s techniques in this song were not new ... Yes guitarist Steve Howe had played “classical” sounding lines and employed rapid picking; Jimi Hendrix had made dive-bomb swoops ...