when i was a young dude in 1984 and heard evh, i talked my parents into a cheap Kay guitar. I taped my guitar up to look like Eddies. In the years since, i picked up a kramer, 2 Ibanez, an ESP and a Gibson LP knockoff. I love my Ibanez's. I still love eddie, but i wouldnt pay more than a grand for this guitar. whats the point?
@zer0dahero That was the number on the neck plate of Frankie. He used parts from old Strats to build the original. The neck plate was from a '61 and the original (pre-Floyd) bridge was from a '58 Strat. The body of the actual guitar was a Northern hard ash Boogie Body from the mid-70's.
@DarthKazi It just seemed odd to say a home made guitar has a factory serial number just cause the neck plate used has one stamped on it. Would be like me using a '61 fender neck plate on a squier and so saying the squier adopts the 61's serial number. If anything, the original frankie should be thought of as sn 0001, regardless of what the neck plate had stamped on it.
@zer0dahero Why is it odd? He had Strat parts laying around from old guitars that were, at that time, not that valuable. In the mid-70's you could get pre-CBS Strats for $200. Clapton bought a whole bunch of 50's Strats in the early 70's for $100 a piece (and made Blackie out of parts from several). You could say it was the first "Super Strat" and the first known Strat-type guitar to have a humbucker in it, but Eddie wasn't making guitars to sell.
@DarthKazi Whats odd is that a magazine would credit the frankie as having a fender serial number and a 1961 date as if it was made by fender in 1961, don't you understand that? How that guitar became what it is is not what im talking about. I don't think I made myself clear on that when i pointed out to look at 2:03. Its odd that they would mention a serial number and a date when it was >>>home made<<<. But who cares anyway.
@zer0dahero Ahhhh, I get what you mean. Well, the magazine is wrong obviously. Eddie would have only been 6 years old when he built Frankie if true. ;)
This is a guitar built out of seconds and scraps. It was rigged the way Eddie liked to play it and he made it sound great. But the guitar looks like crap because it was made from a bunch of crap. Eddie didn't have much money to buy great gear. This is nothing special. I would take a nice Fender Custom Shop guitar set up the way I wanted to, long before I would pay big money for a replica of a guitar built out of scraps!
@rogofam Ironically, the replica IS a Custom Shop Fender. ;) There are many differences though. The "replica" uses a different wood than the original. It's swamp ash instead of hard Northern (baseball bat) ash, which is supposedly more tonally warm. So it really isn't a true replica. It's probably better than the original.
Music is the silence between the noise. It makes beat. Its all been done...the chord progressions. It's the lyrics that go with the progressions. Eddie or someone in the in that band figured this out in the early days of Van Halen. Eddie is not the best guitarist in the world and he knows this to be true. He is a good rock music writter with that guitar. He'd make my squir sound good. Smoke another one Ed.
@TeesByTruthSurge thats a sad story man. ya man i dont really love the franky anymore. its what everyone wants. its kinda overrated why dont people go for the guitars that are really bad ass. like eddies purple stripe guitar. (it was just an 83' kramer pacer he re painted.) and his shark. which was an ibanez destroyer chopped up and the body was re set. its amazing. the unchained guitar. is always my favorite. i need those guitars in my life and i will be set. ed roman's in vegas has them.
@TeesByTruthSurge true dude my mind has changed since a year ago. i really dont care for the replica anymore. you can get a peavy wolfy and its better looking and sounding vs everything
I wish Fender would have made a Van Halen I guitar with a 6 hole tremolo like the original. I hate Floyd Rose trems... they kill the tone of guitars and require a whole rethink of of the pickups and stuff. His original guitar was the best!
Eddie is/was great due to his creativity (which has been desperately lacking lately! He is far from the fastest or most technical, but speed isn't what makes him a legend. His approach to the guitar melodically, along with his innovative ways of making the guitar sound different then anybody else before him (or since?) are what make him a legend.
@petirok : Your comment pretty much nailed it. Eddies playing, especially the early stuff, still sounds like it's from another galaxy. Sure, there are speed demons out there that can sweep pick and all that stuff, but no one on the planet can pull off licks tastier than EVH. For instance, I love Paul Gilbert. The guy's a freaking monster--technical genius. But he can't invent lines, melodies or techniques like Eddie. (He's a huge Eddie fan, too. :)
I hate to break a mofo's bubble, but as far as great guitarists, Trower, Hendrix, Page, Buchanan, King, Gilmore, Clapton, Doyle Bramhall I and II, even the guitarist on Recess, the kid's band playing "Separate Ways", a Journey song, are great. The idea is that greatness starts small, but becomes itself a wonderful thing, an original thought you might say.
eddie van halen has been building his own guitars since 1974 he's been playing guitar since 1963 he's the true master there will never be another edward van halen he is the greatest of alltime!
This frankenstein replica is an over priced piece of shit! 25 Fucking grand for a basic Stratocaster with cigarette burns and bike reflectors! Fuck me.....
How could any guitar player be taken seriously playing this guitar ?Eddie was always a leader not a follower....now he's a corporate sell out! Jesus, what's next Eddie, a line of striped running shoes?
Well, you didn't complain when my dick was up your ass the other night, infact you squealed with pleasure begging for more , and when I pulled it out and splashed a huge hot load of cum down your throat you lapped it up like a hungry dog. You give the best head my black dick ever had!
What the fuck is wrong with you.fucking man loving queer blowing little bitch.fucking dity ass white boy.the coment you wrote me proves that youre just another smart ass,sexualy confused 12 year old.and even if i was gay youd still be the bitch because remember youre still the tiny cocked little bitch.
first of all its 25K for a good reason. its all of eddies complete 30+ years of experience, knlowledge and professionalism all in one guitar
if you even knew how much time + effort went in to making that guitar, you would not be saying "why pay 25k for a guitar that has bike parts"
Theres a documentary about the making of the new fender frankenstein. Eddie is by the side of the makers 100% of the way, what ever is being done, eddie has a say in what goes on
fuck u man i agree it shud be 25 grand becuz every fuckin little detail is exact the 1971 quarter by the bridge all the scratches and everyhting its priced that high becuz its so hard to create and theres only 500 out there
when i was a young dude in 1984 and heard evh, i talked my parents into a cheap Kay guitar. I taped my guitar up to look like Eddies. In the years since, i picked up a kramer, 2 Ibanez, an ESP and a Gibson LP knockoff. I love my Ibanez's. I still love eddie, but i wouldnt pay more than a grand for this guitar. whats the point?
drinkspecials 4 months ago
I have the same Boogie Bodies neck from the same batch
coffinshaker 5 months ago
The caption on the pic at 2:03 "collector's gallery" seems to have the wrong information and contradict what's been said in the interview.
zer0dahero 9 months ago
@zer0dahero That was the number on the neck plate of Frankie. He used parts from old Strats to build the original. The neck plate was from a '61 and the original (pre-Floyd) bridge was from a '58 Strat. The body of the actual guitar was a Northern hard ash Boogie Body from the mid-70's.
DarthKazi 8 months ago
@DarthKazi It just seemed odd to say a home made guitar has a factory serial number just cause the neck plate used has one stamped on it. Would be like me using a '61 fender neck plate on a squier and so saying the squier adopts the 61's serial number. If anything, the original frankie should be thought of as sn 0001, regardless of what the neck plate had stamped on it.
zer0dahero 8 months ago
@zer0dahero Why is it odd? He had Strat parts laying around from old guitars that were, at that time, not that valuable. In the mid-70's you could get pre-CBS Strats for $200. Clapton bought a whole bunch of 50's Strats in the early 70's for $100 a piece (and made Blackie out of parts from several). You could say it was the first "Super Strat" and the first known Strat-type guitar to have a humbucker in it, but Eddie wasn't making guitars to sell.
DarthKazi 8 months ago
@DarthKazi Whats odd is that a magazine would credit the frankie as having a fender serial number and a 1961 date as if it was made by fender in 1961, don't you understand that? How that guitar became what it is is not what im talking about. I don't think I made myself clear on that when i pointed out to look at 2:03. Its odd that they would mention a serial number and a date when it was >>>home made<<<. But who cares anyway.
zer0dahero 8 months ago
@zer0dahero Ahhhh, I get what you mean. Well, the magazine is wrong obviously. Eddie would have only been 6 years old when he built Frankie if true. ;)
DarthKazi 8 months ago
This is a guitar built out of seconds and scraps. It was rigged the way Eddie liked to play it and he made it sound great. But the guitar looks like crap because it was made from a bunch of crap. Eddie didn't have much money to buy great gear. This is nothing special. I would take a nice Fender Custom Shop guitar set up the way I wanted to, long before I would pay big money for a replica of a guitar built out of scraps!
rogofam 9 months ago
@rogofam Ironically, the replica IS a Custom Shop Fender. ;) There are many differences though. The "replica" uses a different wood than the original. It's swamp ash instead of hard Northern (baseball bat) ash, which is supposedly more tonally warm. So it really isn't a true replica. It's probably better than the original.
DarthKazi 8 months ago
Music is the silence between the noise. It makes beat. Its all been done...the chord progressions. It's the lyrics that go with the progressions. Eddie or someone in the in that band figured this out in the early days of Van Halen. Eddie is not the best guitarist in the world and he knows this to be true. He is a good rock music writter with that guitar. He'd make my squir sound good. Smoke another one Ed.
fritzy2112 11 months ago
had no idea e.Van Halen's guitar was a patched together guitar he made for about 150.00. Amazing!
primeVibe 1 year ago
@TeesByTruthSurge thats a sad story man. ya man i dont really love the franky anymore. its what everyone wants. its kinda overrated why dont people go for the guitars that are really bad ass. like eddies purple stripe guitar. (it was just an 83' kramer pacer he re painted.) and his shark. which was an ibanez destroyer chopped up and the body was re set. its amazing. the unchained guitar. is always my favorite. i need those guitars in my life and i will be set. ed roman's in vegas has them.
frankenstrat25 1 year ago
@TeesByTruthSurge true dude my mind has changed since a year ago. i really dont care for the replica anymore. you can get a peavy wolfy and its better looking and sounding vs everything
frankenstrat25 1 year ago
I wish Fender would have made a Van Halen I guitar with a 6 hole tremolo like the original. I hate Floyd Rose trems... they kill the tone of guitars and require a whole rethink of of the pickups and stuff. His original guitar was the best!
DarthKazi 1 year ago
Eddie is/was great due to his creativity (which has been desperately lacking lately! He is far from the fastest or most technical, but speed isn't what makes him a legend. His approach to the guitar melodically, along with his innovative ways of making the guitar sound different then anybody else before him (or since?) are what make him a legend.
petirok 2 years ago 13
@petirok : Your comment pretty much nailed it. Eddies playing, especially the early stuff, still sounds like it's from another galaxy. Sure, there are speed demons out there that can sweep pick and all that stuff, but no one on the planet can pull off licks tastier than EVH. For instance, I love Paul Gilbert. The guy's a freaking monster--technical genius. But he can't invent lines, melodies or techniques like Eddie. (He's a huge Eddie fan, too. :)
skrason 1 year ago
I hate to break a mofo's bubble, but as far as great guitarists, Trower, Hendrix, Page, Buchanan, King, Gilmore, Clapton, Doyle Bramhall I and II, even the guitarist on Recess, the kid's band playing "Separate Ways", a Journey song, are great. The idea is that greatness starts small, but becomes itself a wonderful thing, an original thought you might say.
fredszczepanski 2 years ago
eddie van halen has been building his own guitars since 1974 he's been playing guitar since 1963 he's the true master there will never be another edward van halen he is the greatest of alltime!
stratdem 2 years ago 3
Eddie was a stepping stone between the blues players of the 70's and modern super technical guitar players.
0ua8 2 years ago
Actually, I will be the next Eddie Van Halen.
JamesJoseph1000 2 years ago
its funny how people will say that eddie is over pricing the guitar when its fender thats responsible for the pricing
dogtowner93 2 years ago
Just make the fucking thing yourself.
DougFCKNSteele 2 years ago 3
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It's better when Eddie doesn't talk......
the drinking has pickled his brain.
This frankenstein replica is an over priced piece of shit! 25 Fucking grand for a basic Stratocaster with cigarette burns and bike reflectors! Fuck me.....
How could any guitar player be taken seriously playing this guitar ?Eddie was always a leader not a follower....now he's a corporate sell out! Jesus, what's next Eddie, a line of striped running shoes?
Nachrichten69 2 years ago
Fuck you, tiny cocked prick.
nicbadboy 2 years ago
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Well, you didn't complain when my dick was up your ass the other night, infact you squealed with pleasure begging for more , and when I pulled it out and splashed a huge hot load of cum down your throat you lapped it up like a hungry dog. You give the best head my black dick ever had!
Your Father taught you well!
Nachrichten69 2 years ago
What the fuck is wrong with you.fucking man loving queer blowing little bitch.fucking dity ass white boy.the coment you wrote me proves that youre just another smart ass,sexualy confused 12 year old.and even if i was gay youd still be the bitch because remember youre still the tiny cocked little bitch.
nicbadboy 2 years ago
you are a RETARD
first of all its 25K for a good reason. its all of eddies complete 30+ years of experience, knlowledge and professionalism all in one guitar
if you even knew how much time + effort went in to making that guitar, you would not be saying "why pay 25k for a guitar that has bike parts"
Theres a documentary about the making of the new fender frankenstein. Eddie is by the side of the makers 100% of the way, what ever is being done, eddie has a say in what goes on
Do your research NOOB
NGenesis 2 years ago
It's not his brain, it's yours. He has trouble talking since they cut off a piece of his tongue in '01 because of his cancer.
JManGuitar5150 2 years ago 2
fuck u man i agree it shud be 25 grand becuz every fuckin little detail is exact the 1971 quarter by the bridge all the scratches and everyhting its priced that high becuz its so hard to create and theres only 500 out there
frankenstrat25 2 years ago
Matt Bruck is such a twit.
darkknight91 2 years ago
"The body cost me 80 and the neck was 100", yet the replica is 25,000?
That sounds reasonable...
SplitHoof 2 years ago 29
@SplitHoof No no, $50 for the body and $80 for the neck.
TheMadMusicMan 1 year ago
@SplitHoof i know, but its so expensive 'cause of the pickups
TheMetalFloyd666 1 year ago
@SplitHoof in other interview he says : the body cost me 50 and neck cost me 80 :)
steveszadam1 7 months ago
cool guitar
hockeyfreakoo 3 years ago
cool
guitarplayer500000 3 years ago
i like this video! THE MAKING OF FRANKENSTEIN! just the nuts & bolts! no pictures of DLR.
1lhotstuff 3 years ago