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From his grade-school performances to his curtain call with Van Halen, UCR revisits 12 landmark shows from Eddie Van Halen's illustrious career.

From his grade-school performances to his curtain call with Van Halen, UCR revisits 12 landmark shows from Eddie Van Halen's illustrious career.

From his grade-school performances to his curtain call with Van Halen, UCR revisits 12 landmark shows from Eddie Van Halen's illustrious career.

Billboard hit, after the Sammy Hagar-led Van Halen's 5150 soared to No. 1. Roth's old band had already reached No. 3 with the synthy "Why Can't This Be Love?" "Yankee Rose" likewise preceded Eat 'Em and Smile, giving Roth his third career Top 20 solo smash, while Van Halen's "Dreams" then just missed at No. 22. "Love Walks In," another Hagar ballad, nearly broke the Top 20, as Roth released four more singles from his solo debut LP – but nothing from Eat 'Em and Smile got any higher than "Goin' Crazy!" at No. 66. The reconstituted Van Halen seemed to have won the battle: Roth officially a...

John 5 may have been at the right place at the right time when he originally secured a place as David Lee Roth's guitarist over two decades ago. But while most musicians audition for positions or perhaps earn a recommendation from another bandmate, John impressed Roth in an entirely different way. He had just finished reading Roth's 1997 autobiography,  Crazy From the Heat, when he found the phone number for Roth's management in the back. "I thought to myself, 'Hmm, I think I'm going to reach out and call this number and see what's going on,'" John said in a recent interview with The Sessio...