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July 26, 2002
Happy 41th birthday to Gary Cherone today!

July 10, 2002
Geruchten over een mogelijke scheiding van Edward Van Halen en Valerie Bertinelli lijken op waarheid te berusten hoewel er nog geen officiële bevestiging van is. Het tweetal schijnt, na 21 jaar huwelijk, sinds eind vorig jaar al apart te wonen.

Link: Telegraaf - Van Halen gaat scheiden

Pikant gegeven uit betrouwbare bron zou zijn dat Alex Van Halen ook gescheiden zou zijn, zelfs failliet is, heeft geprobeerd zijn deel van de Van Halen rechten te verkopen (!) en momenteel in het gastenverblijf van Edward schijnt te wonen.

Hoe moet dat verder...

July 10, 2002, Wednesday
RADIO 3FM 09.06-12.06 Arbeidsvitaminen
Dutch radioshow with a playlist of 20 songs featuring Van Halen's Runnin' With The Devil at #11.

| This was Van Halen's second single. The horn sound at the beginning of the song was created by a collection of real car horns mounted in a box and powered by two car batteries. The horns were taken from an Opel owned by Alex, a Volvo owned by Edward along with horns from a Mercedes Benz and a Volkswagen. The horn sound was slowed down and recorded backwards. |

| Released: 3/29/78 | Peak Position US: 84 | Weeks on Chart US: 4 |

July 08, 2002
It's always entertaining to hear from Steve Lukather. This time he wanted to update me (melodicrock.com) on his solo Christmas album, due out (obviously) later this year. The album features a new guest guitar spot from Edward Van Halen. Steve says: "It's all done. Eddie did great as did all my friends. VERY cool record. Fun and humour and also great playing and arrangements. You'll dig it!" The album Santamental includes guests like Steve Vai, Edward Van Halen, Slash, Edgar Winter, Trevor Lukather, Simon Phillips, Scott Hamilton and Lenny Castro.
Link: www.melodicrock.com

"Van Halen will be back. It's just there are certain things... kind of dictated us taking a little bit more time off than we actually wanted to. Because you know, of course, the most important thing to all of us is getting out there and playing for the fans. Because that's been the life's blood of this band for the last, God... next year is going to be 25 years. But Van Halen will be back. So tell all the Van Halen fans not to worry." Michael Anthony

July 02, 2002
Your sixth chance to win one of Edward Van Halen's custom made Peavey EVH Wolfgang guitars! To enter the giveaway, simply fill out this form and submit it to Peavey. Good luck!

July 01, 2002
Today 4 years ago The Dutch Van Halen Web Site was launched as a service to all the Dutch and Belgian Van Halen fans. Since that date almost 34.000 people have visit this site and together they mailed me 313 times from all over the world with all sort of questions and comments about Van Halen. Thanks to all of you for your support and stay tuned for much, much more!