eddie van halen interview

eddie van halen interview

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[SplitHoof]

"The body cost me 80 and the neck was 100", yet the replica is 25,000?

That sounds reasonable...

[petirok]

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.

[drinkspecials]

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?

[coffinshaker]

I have the same Boogie Bodies neck from the same batch

[steveszadam1]

@SplitHoof in other interview he says : the body cost me 50 and neck cost me 80 :)

[DarthKazi]

@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. ;)

[zer0dahero]

@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.

[DarthKazi]

@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.

[zer0dahero]

@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.

[DarthKazi]

@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]

@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.

[zer0dahero]

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.