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Both guitars were hand-stripped by the guitar hero who died earlier this month Two guitars that were once owned by Eddie Van Halen are going up for auction. The two instruments were partly ...
from its initial design to its final red-white-and-black striped form. “The guitar that I wanted to play did not exist,” Van ...
By Gil Kaufman Someone call a doctor, because the price a bidder paid for Eddie Van Halen‘s iconic red, white and black-striped guitar from the “Hot For Teacher” video was sold for a song ...
Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white and black custom-made Kramer guitar was sold to an unnamed buyer at auction for $3.932 million, blasting past its pre-auction estimate of $2 to 3 million.
Well, now EVH has made the ’78 Eruption available as a production model. Of course, Eddie’s iconic red/white/black guitar started out life as simply white/black before he added the red later - it’s ...
Eddie Van Halen’s legendary “Frankenstrat” guitars, known by their black, white and red striping — painted by Van Halen himself — are pillars of the genre’s iconography. They are ...
For Eddie Van Halen, seminal rock star, inventor, and experimenter, innovation stems from necessity. In 1978, he created the hybrid black-and-white guitar that combined parts from a Fender and a ...
After giving guitar fans a glimpse of its upcoming releases at NAMM earlier this year, EVH has now officially launched the Wolfgang WG Standard T.O.M. – a new electric guitar that delivers on ...
Eddie Van Halen was a guitar legend who even had a US patent ... The rocker’s submission included a black and white diagram apparently of the rock-and-roll star — complete with his classic ...
Along with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Jack White was one of the poster boys for the Noughties ... In our extensive interview with Eddie Van Halen, the guitar icon told us of the Wolfgang, “It’s ...
Lynn Ellsworth had just sat on his couch after a trip to the dentist when his wife, Diane, came in to ask him if he had heard Eddie Van Halen died. His first reaction was disbelief. “The first ...
The iconic “Frankenstrat” guitar that Eddie Van Halen played ... 1984 video — including the straitjacket and white gloves worn by EVH in the visual — but the main draw was the custom ...