The post Two of Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat-Style Guitars to Be Auctioned appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The two Van Halen guitars resemble his iconic Frankenstrat. Like the original, they ...

David Lee Roth detailed how he helped conceive the design for Eddie Van Halen’s iconic Frankenstrat guitar. The frontman recently shared a painting titled “Big Wave,” which fans apparently thought ...

Van Halen certainly had bigger hits than Hot for Teacher, and recorded other songs that proved far more influential in the development of the electric guitar. Its influence and stature were put into ...

Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of the late Van Halen shredder Eddie Van Halen, used his father's famous "Frankenstrat" guitar on parts of his upcoming debut album with Mammoth WVH, due out next month.

The scaled-down version of Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat guitar, played by “Young Eddie” in Van Halen’s famous music video for “Hot for Teacher,” is up for sale for $219,875. “You are looking at ...

Kurt Cobain’s artwork, one of Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat guitars, and Robert Plant’s handwritten lyrics to Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” are among the items set to hit the auction block in November.

It's serial number CO176, a Kramer electric guitar with a single "pickup" (which captures the sound vibration of the strings) and a red-and-white-striped paint color scheme.But to most people — it's ...

Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" guitar is one of the most iconic instruments in the history of rock, one that is held in reverence by most Van Halen fans, including his son, but in a new Total Guitar ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Wolfgang Van Halen’s surname and musical lineage could be both blessing and curse. He’s certainly managed to make it the former. With music in his DNA thanks to father Eddie Van ...

Lynn Ellsworth, a renowned guitar-maker whose work was purchased and played by some of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll musicians of the last several decades, died April 27. He was 81. His instruments were ...