![]() ![]() Soon after, Eddie became tired of singing lead, and asked Roth to join the band. The band rented David Lee Roth's PA system for their shows. In 1972, the brothers formed Mammoth with Mark Stone on bass and Eddie on lead vocals. In addition to The Broken Combs, there were The Space Brothers, The Trojan Rubber Company, and Mammoth. Career Īlex and Eddie Van Halen had several early bands before the formation of Van Halen. They formed the band Mammoth, and Alex, along with the others, left Pasadena City College. ![]() While there, Alex met Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth. He then took classes in music theory, scoring, composition and arranging at Pasadena City College for a short while. In 1971, Van Halen graduated from Pasadena High School. Īlex, Eddie and three other boys formed their first band when they were in the fourth grade, calling themselves The Broken Combs they performed at lunchtime at Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena, California. Alex was influenced by Budgie drummer Ray Phillips. After Eddie heard Alex's mastery of The Surfaris drum solo in the song " Wipe Out", he decided to learn to play the electric guitar. After spending some time playing Eddie's drum kit, Alex became more skilled than Eddie was as a drummer. While Eddie was delivering newspapers to pay for his drum kit, Alex would practice playing on them. Although Alex is known as a professional drummer, he began his musical aspirations as a guitarist, with his brother Eddie taking up drums. īoth brothers were trained as classical pianists during childhood. Alex and his brother Eddie became naturalized U.S. The family moved to Pasadena, California, in 1962. Alex spent his early years in Nijmegen in the east of the Netherlands. His mother, Eugenia van Beers (1914–2005), was an Indo (Eurasian) from Rangkasbitung, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His Dutch father, Jan van Halen (1920–1986), was an accomplished jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. The family name in Dutch is van Halen (with lower-case 'v') and is pronounced in Dutch as. Prior to their disbandment in 2020, following Eddie's death, Van Halen released 12 studio albums, and the brothers were the only two constant members of the band. signed the band in 1977, and the band's debut album was released a year later. The band was formed in 1972 by Alex Van Halen and his younger brother Eddie under the name "Mammoth" before adding Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth in 1974 and changing their name to Van Halen. Alexander Arthur Van Halen ( Dutch pronunciation: born May 8, 1953) is an American musician who was the original drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Van Halen. ![]()
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