Just about every element of this guitar was modified many times during its six years in the spotlight, including the neck, ...

His souped-up "Frankenstrat" even featured in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. "Nobody taught me how to do guitar work: I learned by trial and error," he told ...

When Van Halen lead guitarist Edward Van Halen passed away from cancer in October of 2020, the entire world of rock music ...

The ultimate ‘80s guitar hero started on an unmodified Ibanez Destroyer, but his signature axe is the fierce-sounding (and fearsome) Frankenstrat. It’s a custom-built, red-white-and-black ...

One day about six or seven years ago, I walked into my family's music room and saw it hanging on our wall: a replica of Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white, and black "Frankenstrat" guitar that my ...

Below is a satin jacket featuring the Arena album artwork. A reproduction of Eddie Van Halen's signature Frankenstrat guitar will also be on display. This guitar was Van Halen's attempt "to ...

That decade is commonly disparaged as a depressing era when the industry’s leading manufacturers produced some of their worst guitar models, which is not entirely untrue, but it also was an ...

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The Prince of Darkness declared "All aboard!" before members of Metallica, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Billy Idol played his classics. 25 Rockers Who've Been in Three or More BIG Bands 25 ...