With three humbuckers, recessed bass strings, and a very peculiar double tuning setup, the Ugly Stick might be White’s ...

Jas Obrecht’s chance encounter with a then-unknown Eddie Van Halen on July 23, 1978, resulted in the guitar virtuoso’s first magazine interview, which ran in Guitar Player’s November 1978 ...

Eddie Van Halen's legendary custom-modded guitar goes by a couple names and, in a new interview, Wolfgang Van Halen sets the record straight on what it is officially called. "Frankenstein" or ...

Eddie Van Halen on guitar solos, the music teacher who slapped his face, and his all-time worst song. Jas Obrecht. Wed, December 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM UTC. 4 min read.

About Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein Guitar + Wolf's Mammoth Usage. Over the years, the iconic guitar has been called both "Frankenstein" and "Frankenstrat," but during a 2024 appearance on the ...

Eddie Van Halen’s new take on a classic guitar first appeared on the cover of Van Halen’s iconic 1978 self-titled début album. In the photo, 22-year-old Van Halen is lifting his guitar toward ...

While anyone would kill to have had Eddie Van Halen teach them a thing or two about guitar, Eddie himself always knew to never stop learning.

The guitar was “locked down and safe in a way that if the world ended it would still be OK,” said Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie’s son, in a recent interview. Ellsworth retired in 2012, but he ...

Alex Van Halen has been largely quiet since his younger brother, Eddie Van Halen, passed away in 2020 after a long battle with cancer. He's having his say now with "Brothers," a just-published ...

Eddie Van Halen died in 2020 after a struggle with cancer. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) EDDIE VAN HALEN’S SON WOLFGANG ON MOURNING HIS FATHER: ‘HE’S THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS ME GOING’ ...