Eddie Van Halen

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Eddie Van Halen (born Edward Lodewijk Van Halen in in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 26 January 1955; died 6 October 2020) was a Dutch-American virtuoso guitarist, classically-trained pianist, and founding member of American hard rock band Van Halen. In 2012, he was voted number one in a Guitar World magazine reader's poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Born to a Dutch father (Jan) and an Indonesian mother (Eugina), the Van Halen family moved to Pasadena, California, from Holland in 1962. Eddie Van Halen immediately started classical piano training and won talent competitions as a child (although during a radio interview he said that he cannot read music). Eddie claims that one of the first things his parents did upon arriving in America was to seek out a piano teacher for him and his older brother, Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen. Initially, Alex began playing the guitar while Eddie studied piano. According to Eddie, while he was delivering newspapers to pay for his drum kit, Alex would practice on them. It was when Eddie heard Alex's mastery of the Surfaris drum solo in the song "Wipe Out" that he got annoyed that his brother had overtaken his ability and decided to switch and begin learning how to play the electric guitar. Eddie was around age twelve when he started playing guitar. He was so committed to the instrument that he played it all day, every day. Sometimes, he would even skip school to stay at home and practice. Eddie claimed that he had learn

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The Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1 [Japan Bonus Tracks]

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Music From The Motion Picture Twister-The Dark Side Of Nature

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Top Gun

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Greatest Guitar Solos

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Van Halen

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Top Gun Soundtrack

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Sounds of the Eighties - 1985

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Rapsody Of Guitar Tracks

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100 Greatest guitar solos

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Van Halen Box: 1986-1993 Disc 5

The Wild Life

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AOR TREASURES - The Soundtracks Vol.4

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