Becker was one of the hottest guitarists in the world in the late 1980s, having emerged alongside Marty Friedman, who would later join Megadeth, in Cacophony before joining David Lee Roth’s band for ...

Jason Becker's father, Gary, right, demonstrates the speaking system he invented for Becker in 1996, center, in which he only uses his eyes to make words by moving them to each "square" of letters ...

Jason Becker is now 50 years old and he attributes his survival to music and the people around him who help him create it. He cannot move, but he's moved others and they all say their lives are ...

In 1986, Marty Friedman and Jason Becker started Cacophony – a relatively short-lived project that would be responsible for some of shred music’s most technical and celebrated compositions.

At the start of the 1990s, young guitarist Jason Becker was riding high, having joined forces with ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth to record what would become Roth's third full-length solo ...

Guitarist Jason Becker’s mother, Pat Becker, has revealed that her son is “in constant contact with his doctors” after “experiencing shortness of breath and a rapid heart rate.” Becker was diagnosed ...

Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet By the end of Jesse Vile's engaging docu, even those who had never heard of Jason Becker will probably leave as fans.

Jason played so few guitars in his life, so these instruments are incredibly special. Whoever buys these guitars will not only own a piece of history, they will be directly helping Jason battle ALS.” ...

Musician Jason Becker was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) before his 21st birthday and given no more than five years to live. That was in 1989; he’s now 47. Once a guitarist ...

Legendary guitarist Jason Becker, who has been living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for over 30 years years, recently began experiencing shortness of breath and a rapid heart rate, and ...

Jason Becker, former guitarist in David Lee Roth’s band, shared a video shot in 1996 when Eddie Van Halen paid him a visit during one of his weakest moments of ill-health.