Here are some interesting facts about your favorite band:

- Both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have had two seperate stints as the lead singers of Van Halen. Roth had the position between 1974-1985 and 1996-1997, while Hagar had it from 1985-1996 and 2004-2006.

- Van Halen is known for its "Brown Sound", generated by a combination of guitar and amplifier techniques pioneered by Eddie Van Halen.

- Van Halen holds the #7 spot on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

- Eddie Van Halen is #70 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of Rock and Roll.

- The solo in "Eruption" is #2 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos, after it introduced the "tapping" technique, which utilizes both the left and right hands on the neck of the guitar.