Van Halen Isolated Guitar Tracks and Drum Tracks

The Van Halen News Desk has a great collection of stripped down Van Halen tracks. It's interesting listening to these old Van Halen tracks stripped of vocals, bass, etc.

Van Halen Isolated Guitar Tracks & Drum Tracks

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Chickenfoot Fan Music Video

Fans are really kicking butt for bands I like lately. On the heels of a bunch of nine inch nails fans releasing a high quality live concert video, Chickenfoot fans created this really really cool animated video for Chickenfoot's song, "Get it Up."

This set of talented Chickenfoot really created great cartoon versions of Sammy, [...]

Bike to Beach Bicycle Speaker for iPod

Someone on one of my cycling email lists posted this recently. It's an iPod speaker system for your bike that fits in one of your water bottle holders. Not sure I'd ever use this. I prefer a single earbud in the right ear for better sound. Speaking of which, anyone know of a quality, but [...]

nine inch nails Fans Collaborate on Massive Free DVD/Blu-ray

This is a really impressive undertaking. You gotta love these fan-based projects where a group of big-time fans pour a bunch of their free time into a project for a band, movie or whatever they love.

I remember first reading about this via nine inch nails' official web site some time last year. Basically, a ton [...]

Rock Band 3: Where Do We Go From Here?

All of this articles' suggestions are great for where the original full-band series needs to take it. New music isn't enough for a sequel anymore. I really hope Harmonix is thinking along the same lines as the IGN author, or they are after seeing this piece.

Rock Band 3: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Holiday Greetings 2009 – Sammy's Special Message to All the Redheads

Check out Sammy Hagar's video holiday well wishes and thanks:

Holiday Greetings 2009 – Sammy's Special Message to All the Redheads

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Michael Anthony Says Friendship With Sammy Hagar Got Him Booted From Van Halen

File this one under, "duh." I don't know why the Van Halen brothers can be so fickle, but while they sat at home a decade ago, Michael Anthony was bored and wanted to make music. So he went on the road with former Van Halen frontman, Sammy Hagar for a little fun and music. It's [...]

Christmas Light Hero: A Festive Way to Rock Out

Every year, people utilize technology to one-up last year's coolest and most over-the-top Christmas light displays on their property. 2009 is no different. Check out Christmas Lights Hero taking the music-controlled Christmas light display to a new level of power-billing inflating insanity. I like the "rotating" snow flake effects. View the the video below and [...]

Van Halen Says 'No' to Hagar-Era Cover

Back-to-back Van Halen posts today. It seems American Idol alum Carrie Underwood and David Cook did a cover of the Sammy Hagar-era tune, "Why Can't This Be Love?" for a recent broadcast special. Like the article says, a little common sense could have kept from wasting everyone's time. I'm sure that Hagar and Michael Anthony [...]

Eddie Van Halen: Prime Cuts

Man, I'm just eating up this article which is a compilation of Eddie Van Halen talking about a lot of the famous Van Halen tracks from both the Roth and Hagar eras. I'd read some of the stories before, like the stuff about "Eruption" not even originally supposed to be on the first album. Some [...]