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From Van Halen's first $40 Teisco Del Ray to the Univox 12-string that featured Eddie's first successful mod, The Journey to Frankenstein tells the story of the instruments that came before one of ...
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 this week ...
To be clear, it's not that guitar, the one Eddie Van Halen himself dubbed "Frankenstrat," a guitar that he'd modified himself and used for his first few albums. But with the iconic album "1984 ...
Eddie Van Halen’s right hand reinvented electric guitar, and Jeff Goebel shook that hand twice. Once, as a starstruck fan in Goebel’s early 20s. The second time, decades later after Van Halen ...
It, of course, features the famous red, white and black stripe paint that originally was part of Van Halen's "Frankenstrat" that the guitarist built in the '70s.
To guitar gearheads, serial number CO176 is a Kramer electric guitar with a single pickup. But for classic rock fans, the instrument's red-and-white-striped paint color scheme makes it an iconic ...
Eddie Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang, as well as ex-bandmates and famous friends have paid tribute to the late guitar legend on what would’ve been his 70th birthday.
But it was Ellsworth’s tie to one of the most famous instruments of all time — Eddie Van Halen’s completely beat-up, red-and-white-striped guitar, often referred to as “Frankenstrat ...
The Kramer CO176 is made from poplar wood and painted with Van Halen’s signature abstract red, white, and black stripes—an ode to the “Frankenstrat” that he built in the ‘70s.
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.
From Van Halen's first $40 Teisco Del Ray to the Univox 12-string that featured Eddie's first successful mod, The Journey to Frankenstein tells the story of the instruments that came before one of ...