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In 1984, he was given the "Hot for Teacher" guitar (seen in the song's video clip), and began appearing in Kramer advertisements. Paul Unkert, the "Guitar Guy" of UNK guitars, worked on the Frankenstrat and put his "Unk" stamp on it. The best-known Kramer owned by Van Halen was the 5150, which he built in the Kramer factory.
After the 2007-08 Tour, and once again under the supervision of Chip Ellis, the evolution of the Wolfgang within the Fender group became available to the public, with the EVH Wolfgang® USA Edward Van Halen Signature (in 2008) and the EVH Wolfgang® Special (in 2010), both sporting the "bottle opener" shape, [23] which is owned by Eddie Van ...
"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.
Van Halen used a black Wolfgang with a relic'd Ivory top coat for the majority of the Van Halen 2015 North American Tour. Built by Chip Ellis, it has a fatter neck than the Stealth. Van Halen sanded down the back of the neck himself. [17] A replica version was released afterwards, limited to 20 pieces. [18]
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The 5150 was based on the Soldano SLO-100 which Eddie Van Halen was using at the time and designed to provide high gain saturation as well as a clean channel. [5]While the product was designed around a centered printed circuit board (PCB), its cascading five preamps (actually four preamplifiers and one phase inverter) and four gain stages were implemented in a very simple manner.
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 ...
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [3]Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com named it the second-best Van Halen song, writing that it "merely feels like insatiable straight-ahead rock, but the lick is freaky, obliquely hovering above the foundation while the drums oscillate between two unrelated performance philosophies."