Wishing a very Happy Birthday to longtime Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, who turned the big 7-0 on June 20. Anthony joined Van Halen in 1974, when the band was still known as Mammoth, taking over ...

“Unfortunately, Eddie and I never had a chance to really settle any differences that we had in the past or whatever,” Anthony explained to Sally Steele in an interview conducted in Las Vegas. The ...

Michael Anthony has detailed a memorable – and bizarre – early touring experience, when he watched Ozzy Osbourne light his Black Sabbath bandmate Bill Ward on fire. It was 1978 when Van Halen, then ...

Michael Anthony is gearing up for his summer tour with Sammy Hagar, and he promises that the performances will be “totally live.” “We're going to play totally live,” Anthony declared during an ...

Eddie Van Halen reshaped the landscape for guitar. But as former Van Halen bass guitar player Michael Anthony says, his impact might not have been as great were it not for some advice David Lee Roth ...

In 1974, seeking to expand the sonic range of the bass, Jackson conceived the idea for a six-string contrabass guitar ...