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Van Halen modified the Frankenstrat several times. This photo shows the guitar in its final state, with red-over-white-over-black paint job. The top two pickups have been replaced with company electronics: the center one with a selector switch and the upper one with a red single-coil made in 1931, pickup.
In 2007, under the supervision of master-builder Chip Ellis, a single run of 300 [22] of his original Frankenstein guitar were made available by Fender under the EVH brand, in strict collaboration with Eddie Van Halen. The guitars were priced at $25,000, having a massive demand upon their arrival to the market.
Van Halen used an EVH Wolfgang Stealth with an ebony fingerboard for the majority of Van Halen's 2012 album A Different Kind of Truth. "As Is" features a Wolfgang with a D2H (Drop 2 Hell) tailpiece. The D2H is made from solid brass and can drop the low E string down two and a half steps or more. It has never made it on to a production model.
"Eruption" starts with a short accompanied intro with Alex Van Halen on drums and Michael Anthony on bass.The highlight of the solo is the use of two-handed tapping. "Eruption" was played on the Frankenstrat, with an MXR Phase 90, an Echoplex, a Univox echo unit and a 1968 Marshall 1959 Super Lead tube amp.
The song has it all, but Alex Van Halen’s memorable and innovative drumming deserves a special shout-out (Anthony also gets points for his hilarious attempt to grab the hot teacher in the music ...
An avid tinkerer, Van Halen assembled a Boogie Bodies Stratocaster body with a thin, 21-fret maple neck and a humbucking Gibson PAF pickup in the bridge slot. This guitar, known as the "Frankenstrat" was featured on Van Halen's 1978 debut album Van Halen, and pictured on the album cover. It was later repainted with a top coat of red, and has ...
It would also be Van Halen's final studio album before Eddie's death and the group's subsequent disbandment in 2020. A Different Kind of Truth was recorded at Henson Recording Studios and Eddie Van Halen's own 5150 Studios and produced by John Shanks. Seven of the album's 13 songs are musically re-worked and lyrically re-written songs that had ...
Although the album did not do well initially [34] —by the end of the year it reached No. 35 in the UK and No. 125 in the US, [36] with the "Star Fleet" single being counted as "a non-starter at 65" [34] that "received no daytime radio airplay", [35] individuals took a liking to the mini-LP—so much so that by 1984, it was reported that the album was "already a cult guitar favorite.