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Songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Wolfgang Van Halen has unveiled information for his upcoming third ...
Van Halen later painted the guitar's body red with Schwinn bicycle paint and added black and white stripes, which became the iconic look the guitar is known for.
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.
Eddie Van Halen died at age 65 in October 2020, leaving the world without its greatest post-Sixties guitar hero, and Alex without his brilliant, maddening, agonizingly sensitive baby brother, his ...
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 ...
On the cover of Van Halen’s 1978 debut album, Eddie Van Halen is holding a white guitar with black stripes that looks a lot like a Stratocaster. Except it wasn’t a Fender Stratocaster.
He used Schwinn acrylic bicycle paint for the black and white-striped finish seen on the first Van Halen album cover. Furthermore, he cut and installed a black pickguard to cover the empty pickup ...
Valerie Bertinelli couldn’t help but gush over her son, Wolfgang Van Halen, after his wedding ceremony to Andraia Allsop. “A magical night,” Bertinelli, 63, wrote via her Instagram Stories ...
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 ...
Expectations for the late Eddie Van Halen's famous guitar were high, but one bidder still managed to exceed the multi-million-dollar predictions.
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.
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 ...