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"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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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In fact, the working title of the song was "The Double Drum Song". [6] The group performed the song, with Rick Derringer on guitar, on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973. [7] Record World called the song "a thumping instrumental featuring fine performances by each member [of the group]." [8]
His YouTube channel "Paint", an account gifted to him by his brother, [6] was created on December 27, 2005, and has over 4.63 million subscribers as of May 2023. Cozart's career in video started in middle school as a way to avoid writing papers, offering to make videos instead, and he continued this through high school.
Abbott asked that a special Razorback should be made in the style of Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstrat" guitar; this was done, but the standard black, white and red Van Halen style guitar has remained in the company's museum at their headquarters in the US, while the yellow design was given to Van Halen. In 2007 three new designs were added.