The Mighty VH Podcast

Ep: 024 Michael Starr of Steel Panther

As many times as we tried to bring this episode in for a landing, the stories just kept getting better and better! Join Tommy & Tor as they welcome Michael Starr, frontm

Ep: 023 Ranking The Album Covers

Tommy and Tor take on the entire Van Halen catalog, breaking down and ranking every album cover from the legendary 1978 debut all the way through Tokyo Dome Live in Conce

Ep: 022 Caleb Rapoport of Nerd Halen

Guitarist, EVH artist and Nerd Halen founder Caleb Rapoport joins us for a conversation filled with personal stories, chance encounters and, of course, Van Halen.Caleb ta

Ep: 021 Van Halen News Round Up Fall 2026

What’s Sammy doing in Las Vegas? What’s Alex doing in the Netherlands? And what’s Dave doing…period? In Episode 021, Tommy & Tor are back with a Fall 2026 Van Halen News

Ep: 020 40 Years of Live Without a Net

40 years ago, Van Halen gave fans a front-row seat to the 5150 tour with Live Without a Net, a concert film that became one of the defining documents of the Sammy Hagar e

Ep: 019 The Hot for Teacher Focus, Back to School Edition

In the spirit of “Back to School” season, Tommy & Tor head back to the classroom for a deep dive into one of the great anomalies in rock music: Van Halen’s “Hot for Teach

Ep: 018 A VH Round Table with Don Jamieson & Keith Roth

Plenty of legendary bands have changed lead singers. Some survived, some became even bigger, and others were never quite the same. But decades later, few of those changes

Ep: 017 The What If Episode

What if Sammy Hagar turned down the offer to join Van Halen? What if Van Halen fully reunited in 1996? What if the band never recorded “Jump?” In this episode of The Migh

Ep: 016 Stephen Pearcy VH Tales from the Ratt Cage

RATT founder and frontman Stephen Pearcy joins Tommy and Tor for a Van Halen-focused conversation built around his personal encounters with the band over the years. Steph

Ep: 015 Women & Children First Album Focus

Tommy and Tor dig into Van Halen’s explosive third album, Women and Children First, going track by track through the 1980 classic that pushed the band into heavier, darke

Ep: 014 Shooting Van Halen with Photog, Mark "Weissguy" Weiss

Legendary rock photographer Mark "Weissguy" Weiss joins Tommy London and Tor for an unforgettable conversation about one of rock's greatest eras and his front row seat to

Ep: 013 Van Halen News Round Up Summer 2026

From David Lee Roth's surprising tour cancellations and his reunion with Alex Van Halen at TEDxFargo, to Alex's viral comments about Roth and his work with Steve Lukather

Ep: 012 Doing a Deep Dive with Dweezil

In this somewhat extended episode, Tommy and Tor welcome acclaimed guitarist, composer, producer, and life long Van Halen fan and friend, Dweezil Zappa, for a wide-rangin

Ep: 011 Ranking the Cover Songs

From hard rock staples to Motown classics and everything in between, Van Halen had an incredible ability to take someone else’s song and make it unmistakably their own. S

Ep: 010 Mark Goodman of MTV & SiriusXM

Mark Goodman has been a pioneer in music broadcasting for more than four decades. From his beginnings in radio in the late 1970s to becoming one of MTV's original VJs, an

Ep: 009 OU812 Album Focus

Released in the summer of 1988, OU812 proved that Van Halen’s successful reinvention with Sammy Hagar was no fluke. Debuting at No. 1, the album showcased a band that was

Ep: 008 Author & VH Expert Greg Renoff

Greg Renoff has become one of the most respected voices in Van Halen history. As the author of Van Halen Rising and Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer's Life in Music, he

Ep: 007 The Genius of Michael Anthony

Michael Anthony’s fingerprints are all over the Van Halen sound, even if his contributions have not always received the recognition they deserve.When people talk about Va

Ep: 006 Guitarist Richie Kotzen Gets to the Soul of VH

Richie Kotzen, acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer known for his solo career, Mr. Big, Poison, and The Winery Dogs, joins Tommy London and Tor for a fas

Ep: 005 Remembering Donn Landee, the man behind the sound of Van Halen

When fans talk about the sound of Van Halen, the conversation usually starts with Eddie, David, Alex, and Michael. But behind the board was a man whose fingerprints were