{"id":29583,"date":"2024-05-23T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-auctioning-off-his-personal-collection-of-instruments-and-memorabilia\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:05:00","slug":"alex-van-halen-auctioning-off-his-personal-collection-of-instruments-and-memorabilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-auctioning-off-his-personal-collection-of-instruments-and-memorabilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen auctioning off his personal collection of instruments and memorabilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-23\/Getty_AlexVanHalen_052324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jason LaVeris\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Van Halen<\/strong> drummer and co-founder\u00a0<strong>Alex Van Halen<\/strong> is getting ready to part with instruments from his personal collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Backstage Auctions just announced a new auction of The Alex Van Halen Collection, featuring over 350 lots filled with drum kits,\u00a0snare drums, kick drums, cymbals, sticks, mallets and more. Those drum kits include Alex&#8217;s\u00a05150 tour kit and the last kit\u00a0he used in concert during\u00a0Van Halen&#8217;s 2015 tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The auction will also include personal items, like a piano from the Van Halen family home, autographed pieces, tour cases and record awards, including a collection of vintage RIAA certifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI kept all these drums, cymbals, heads, and all other kinds of gear, instruments, and road cases in my warehouse for decades and it will bring me great pleasure to see them end up in the hands of my fans and fellow drummers,\u201d Alex shares, noting that a portion of the proceeds will be donated to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rideon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Ride On Therapeutic Horsemanship<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, which helps at-risk youth and people with disabilities by using equine-assisted activities and therapies.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bidding\u00a0on The Alex Van Halen Collection is set to open June 1, with the auction running through June 9. More info can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstageauctions.com\/catalog\/auction.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>backstageauctions.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason LaVeris\/FilmMagic Van Halen drummer and co-founder\u00a0Alex Van Halen is getting ready to part with instruments from his personal collection. Backstage Auctions just announced a new auction of The Alex Van Halen Collection, featuring over 350 lots filled with drum kits,\u00a0snare drums, kick drums, cymbals, sticks, mallets and more. Those<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/alex-van-halen-auctioning-off-his-personal-collection-of-instruments-and-memorabilia\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}