In the summer of 1918, a twoman German crew dragged a weapon onto the Western Front that no army had ever fielded before. It weighed 35 lb, stood nearly 6...
Eddie Van Halen was browsing an antique store in Pasadena when he noticed a box of old high school yearbooks from the 1970s. Out of curiosity, he flipped through them...
The Pacific Ocean is a graveyard. It covers 63 million square miles of the Earth. It is deep and cold and unforgiving. For a pilot in a single engine fighter...
Eddie Van Halen was browsing a vintage guitar gear swap meet in Anaheim, looking at old amplifiers and effects pedals. At one booth, he spotted a beat up Finder Bassman...
The altimeter reads 3,000 ft. The air speed indicator hovers at 300 mph. Inside the cockpit, the temperature is freezing, but the pilot is sweating. He is sitting on top...
Eddie Van Halen was at a karaoke bar in West Hollywood celebrating a friend’s birthday. The host, a enthusiastic young woman running the karaoke night, was taking song requests. When...
The date is April 18th, 1943. 700 hours. The heat on the runway at Guadal Canal is already rising. 16 engines cough into life, spitting blue smoke into the humid...
Eddie Van Halen was sitting in the back row of a UCLA music theory class attending as a guest at his friend’s invitation. The professor teaching a unit on rock...
The jungle on the island of Luzon was screaming. It was February 1945. The heat was suffocating. Private First Class James Miller of the US 6th Infantry Division kept his...
Eddie Van Halen was in a GameStop in Burbank browsing games with his son Wolf Gang when he heard the unmistakable opening of Eruption coming from a demo station. A...