Van Halen

The late rocker guided Collen on a significant guitar mod.

A swear word forced singer and guitarist's first live appearance off the air.

"We were trying to hold Gene in check," Paul Stanley says in new Eddie Van Halen biography.

For a while, if a track appeared on one of their LPs, you could be confident it would also turn up onstage.

"The first night [of filming] management told Eddie [Van Halen] he had to be completely sober because there was so much money on this shoot.”

Band revealed "great chemistry" while battling technical issues during 1986 concerts recorded for home-video release.

"I honor my dad by existing and doing what I do every day."

“There were two songs that we actually finished,” the singer admits to UCR, adding that Eddie Van Halen left behind a million "jams and pieces."

You can’t please ‘em all.

Singer and guitarist reconnected a few months before Van Halen's death.