5 Cool Gifts for Van Halen Fans

Van Halen was successful right off the bat. From 1978-1984, only Journey could’ve held a candle to them. Van Halen achieved over 80 million sales by bringing hard rock back as the leading genre and satisfying endless fans’ needs. As of 2007, Van Halen has sold 75 million albums worldwide and have gotten 13 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. While Eddie Van Halen is considered as one of history’s most famous guitarists, and a good one at that, there was a time when Eddie did things differently. Eddie originally played drums, while his brother Alex was on guitars. Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie’s son, joined the band in 2006 as the band’s bassist. He was only 16 when he started touring with the band, talk about starting them young!