Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar replica (part 2)

[@Drhodes1]

He even gave his love to Dimebag. Much respect to Eddie.

[@mdub2000]

i like the interviewers genuine curiosity in all his questions .... cause i think i'd be feeling the same way just asking tons of questions.....damn the world will miss you Eddie.....RIP!

[@johnkramer7161]

If memory serves that is Ed's guitar tech Matt Bruck

[@Dimeocide]

i fucking love eddie van halen (cause i'm a sane human being) but the moment he started talking abut the yellow and black, i immediately thought of how dimebag was buried with it and the fact he actually talked about it has made me think even higher of him

[@searaydrivingguy]

i discovered Van Halen in 1981, i was blown away by Eds playing, i was 12 i rode my bike to the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, and listened outside the back doors as they played ice cream man, and mean street, that memory will never leave my head

[@whotendsthefire7234]

+searaydrivingguy that's really cool ! eddie tore the lid off of guitar playing again!and just in time too.because all of the glam bands that came after really weren't good players at all.

[@eddiesteele7428]

Bull fucking shit...

[@embodingsnow6727]

Van Halen in Vancouver perfect

[@jadoo868]

Those are the best memories!!!

[@incubus866]

i'm very proud of this man, he's been through very hard stuff and now is playing his ass off..god bless ya man!

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Huge respect to Eddie for mentioning Dimes. 🤘

[@cdorkful]

"pretty much every thing i do is kind of a mistake." haaaa. Thank you,Eddie.you are truly blessed

[@ironmyno]

He actually pisses excellence.

[@patrickkirby7612]

Yes he was..

[@yourallbrainwashed]

@@ironmyno fuck yes

[@lukereinke8456]

my dad used to work for Van Halen as a stage manager after the album 1984 my favriote album

[@wesleyfelton1791]

Always my favorite guitar play. Grew up with his music and still love it more than anything!

[@DTPVH]

@bowslap actully ed didn't use the bumblebee on VH2. it was completed just in time for the photo shoot. he probably used the VH1 and/or shark guitar.

[@TrissVR]

Hope youre having fun shredding with dimebag at the the big jam session in the sky Rest in piece legend 💪

[@MaleekPatterson]

God Bless you Eddie, you're one of my greatest inspirations on guitar. Rest In Heaven my friend.

[@MrGTO-ze7vb]

RIP Eddie..!! Thank you for the fun times down at Cabo Wabo with Sammy !!! Great memories for the rest of my life..!!

[@veraregina4525]

Where is Cabo Wabo? Did Van Halen band perform in that place? When? With David Lee Roth or Sammy?

[@MrGTO-ze7vb]

@@veraregina4525 JUST SEARCH HERE..LOL

[@funeralbillii9172]

R.I.P. DIMEBAG...damn right!!

[@tomecalm7]

@Club Soda And you sound like a POSER!

[@yourallbrainwashed]

And now Eddie. We're next.. but no one will remember our sorry asses.

[@Gcon957]

That was thoughtful of him to pay respects to Dimebag

[@wolfgangwylde5889]

I'll never forget the first time I heard Van Halen..I knew after listening to a few songs off the first album,Van Halen was going to be legendary🤘💜

[@HardRockCovers101]

Oh and now Fender. I really wish Ed would use the Frank replica live. And maybe ease up on the buzz saw tone and warm it up a bit. Plexi style.

[@capncodypro4210]

Wow this actually inspired me i was going to make a replica of Eddies guitar but now that i watched this video Eddie made this guitar to suit his needs not otherpeople he didn’t care what others thought and now just makes me wanna make my own guitar

[@TylerFromKansas]

The burns on the headstock are spaced differently. I already noticed that. Look at the headstocks when he sets them both on the ground to talk about them.

[@briankehew579]

The stripes came from the LA band The Dils - look online, you'll see their guitar (and les paul copy) with the exact black/white stripes as Ed's guitar a year or two before.

[@OttoNomicus]

Good point. He said he didn't know why he thought of putting the stripes on, but it does look amazingly similar kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKXGY6J8lJWAmbc and the Dils were a California band so VH probably would have known of them. Did you spot this yourself or was it already known? DIME 333 (Dean ML-style)

[@PhantomKode]

I had no idea that eddie didn't know about the replica project. I thought that he helped out with the building! Like he'd bring down the original to the shop and take notes or something. But it was all from pictures. Amazing!

[@funeralbillii9172]

"With every twist, I would make sure the string wouldn't twist..." I remember "Father Eddie" saying that in a Guitar World interview years ago and doing that because Eddie thought that meant something when it came to tone. I've been a tone chaser since 1992 bc of him, and I'll chase that sound until I die...THANK YOU, MR. VAN HALEN, you've kept my heart beating for years.

[@fanofthewylde2933]

Have you tried that with your guitar? Turning the string to keep it from twisting? I wanna try doing that myself next time I restring my guitar to see if it improves how the strings feels.

[@funeralbillii9172]

Yes. I have my Les Paul strung up like that. I put the strings OVER the bridge (Like Duane Allman and then Zakk does) and that helps the feel of the strings also. I'm guessing the string turn thing has to do with adding tension to the string which you obviously do not want. The strung over the bridge trick helps that also since it cuts down on the angle and it makes bending much easier and you'll also notice better sustain...like a LOT better sustain. I was shocked when I first tried the over the bridge trick mixed with keeping the string straight all the way. I admit, it's a pain in the butt, but also like Eddie I don't change strings that often and when I break a string I only change the broken string (Eddie mentioned that in the 1978-1982 "Early Eddie: The Van Halen Tapes" interviews with Jas Obrecht that was printed in full in "The Best of Guitar Player: VAN HALEN" magazine cover date March 28 (1994). I used to have stacks of old guitar magazines with interviews with Eddie going back into the late 1970's that I'd pick up at guitar shows but my ex-wife threw them all out when we were moving along with 3 huge black garbage bags full of concert shirts (and that's just one reason why I divorced her, lol). Zakk got most of his ideas from Eddie, Randy or Page and I got all mine from reading those Eddie interviews over and over (even used to boil my strings like Eddie did to loosen them up until I did a side by side test with two of the same guitars, strings, water temp, etc. and found no difference). If you want all the secrets that Zakk coped from Ed there's a softcover book out called "Guitar World Presents VAN HALEN" by Back Beat Books from 2010 which collects a ton of old Eddie interviews going back to 1978. Give it a try, tell me how you like it, if you feel a difference, or at least string over the bridge, you'll DEF. feel a difference!! Cheers!!

[@fanofthewylde2933]

Oh man that feeling when the things you value get tossed away without you knowing about, sorry to hear about man. When you're single, things at home don't go mysteriously missing which is a benefit to being on your own. Once my Mum accidentally threw out my Dokken Tooth and Nail CD, even though something like that is replaceable I was still depressed for a moment haha. Anyway about the strings the reason I want to try turning it at the bridge while tuning it up is, 1. Eddie did it so therefore its worth a look 2. When I was doing the metal shop class in school, one of the teachers showed how to stop a steel rod from being flexible, and that was to heat it up until it goes red hot and then you can twist it, leaving the rod with this spiral through the center of it (sort of like how rebar looks with that spiral pattern to it) so when it cools down, it's a lot more difficult to bend. So using that same logic with the guitar strings but now keeping the string from twisting by turning it in the opposite direction at the bridge as you're tuning it up with the tuning pegs at the headstock, maybe doing that will leave the strings to be more flexible and easier to play with vibrato and all that good stuff since they won't have a spiraling twist in them. Anyway cheers bud! I've heard about the string over the top of the Les Paul tailpiece. I think you can raise those using a screw driver on either side if you don't want to put the strings over the top.

[@bruinjer]

I heard that Randy Rhoads asked Ed how he kept his guitar in tune.... Ed wouldn’t tell him!

[@jimbo0411]

Yes would have been nice if he was nicer to him, back in the Quiet Riot days with Randy. Unfortunately Ed was threatened by him and treated him like shit, let alone this was before the monster player that Randy became known for with Ozzy. Least Jimmy Page was nice to Randy backstage and regarded him highly.

[@DoubleVisionandco]

Ed is living proof the old saying of "practice makes perfect" is correct. He was so in love with playing guitar, he would play all day, everyday. When he got home from school he would pick it up and play well into the night, fall asleep with it still on. He married the instrument, that was one of the biggest keys to his success. He paid his dues and took it to the masses.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

You know, now that I am thinking about it, it’s not really about the guitar itself. It’s what he did with it that has all the magic. If it would have been a Ibanez RG10 with a humbucker installed I don’t think it would have mattered.

[@christophermooney3006]

They're very different. EVH used incredibely expensive parts for the original. He took the pick ups, bridge, electrics etc off of two guitars that are arguably the greatest/most valuable of all time - a 1958 strat and a 1959 Gibson ES 355. If you wanted to build that now, with todays prices, it would cost you well over £50'000.

[@bowslap]

@ozzyhead73 The original "Frankenstrat" is still in Ed's possession...he donated the replica shown in this clip.

[@PatrickBrokkr]

that little lick he does with one hand on the spot is better than a solo ive been working on for a year lol

[@ernestoortiz8672]

I come back to this video once in a while to watch that part, it’s insane the finger strength/speed he had

[@ozzyhead73]

@StealAwayTheN1ght coudnt agree more!!!!! youll never be eddie!!! theres only one eddie!!! concentrate on developing your own style, just like eddie did!!!! thats how he became so unique and amazing himself!!!! he made his own way!!!!

[@MoreThorin]

Really sad that Eddie got cancer and had to have part of his tongue cut out. VH1 was LIFE CHANGING for a lot of us! Thanks for everything Eddie. Wishing you the best, but TELL people: DON'T SMOKE!!!

[@ozzyhead73]

no your wrong my friend!! the one buried with dime is is other guitar, the black and yellow 1 from the cover of VH2, the frankenstien guitar was originially whitw with black stripes, then he painted it the with red later around the 1984 album!!! PEACE!

[@MrUltraworld]

I saw them open for Black Sabbath in '78 at the Garden in NYC. Ed played that guitar (still in black & white) for most of the set. He had another one taped up in different colors (Rasta) while his white one was being tuned. He had a Floyd Rose without the fine tuners on it. I had begun my luthiery career on 48th Street, we knew what the Floyd Rose was, but they weren't for sale to the public yet. Once the fine tuners were added and production was in Germany, we couldn't install them fast enough.

[@frankpaws]

Prey for Ed. He was hospitalized for a complication with his cancer treatment.

[@madden7732]

You must be devastated as we all do 😪

[@frankpaws]

@@madden7732 Yeah. This is gonna take time.

[@Brendan656]

Would be bad ass to see Eddie and dimebag play together, or have Eddie play a pantera song as a tribute

[@shredder1795]

dude not only is this guy amazing at guitar but also creating them to i mean come on who can do both so well

[@andros1984]

I'd suggest buying a HSS (or whatever config) pickguard for the install. You need a soldering iron for wiring, and schematic from manufacturer. Depending on whether the guitar has a "swimming pool" route, you need a drill for routing. There are some more technical things to keep in mind if swapping the bridge for a Floyd.. There are a lot of customizing sites too.

[@WeirdestGuy29]

@guitargod1598 I think the consensus is that it was a combination of the amps and his fingers that made the sound. He used Les Pauls, Fender Strats, Ibanez Destroyers and all kinds of guitars with all kinds of pickups (or none at all!!) and it still SOUNDS like him. That's the key. And you can't buy that key even with $25,000.

[@robertbarineau3813]

Thank you Eddie rest in peace

[@supah1337B]

@MrBrownstonee Dimebag...is with one of eddie valens guitars bro.... no words

[@JohnsFrusciante]

Really cool to see chip working with wolfie in new videos and stuff nowadays after seeing him with Edward from a video 15 years ago. Real cool to see.

[@djrickysmith]

Dang .. when he said, rest in piece Dime Bag... ughhhhh .. that hit home!! To all us performers

[@bowslap]

@36hunters The black/yellow guitar was the next "superStrat" Ed built after the black/white(later red/black/white). He used it on the second VH album and tour, but never could get the sound he wanted from it. Dime was enamored with that black/yellow, and Ed had promised to personally handtape/paint/build Dime a replica of it....but Dime was taken from us before Ed could get it done. Soooo.........Ed put it(original black/yellow)in the casket with Dime.

[@josephrodriguez2635]

Was just thinking about Darrell and the van halen guitar; such respect....

[@rjmcmooseknuckle]

Hell Yeah! Dime im sure was up there shitting his pants when Eddie laid that black n yellow guitar with him \m/

[@choice536]

Love all these u-tubes on Van Halen.

[@janiterinadrum1627]

Everybody loves Eddie. It’s his workmen like approach. It wasn’t a rockstar approach to his equipment and sound the stage or any of that he just did what he had to do to make the best music that he could, and everything else fell into place other bands try the other way around

[@HardRockCovers101]

The red came in around 79. The guitar during the 1984 tour and time was the Kramer 5150, based on the Frank's paint job.

[@jda6669]

Darrel was buried with the Yellow & Black guitar from Van Halen II. Ed still has Frankenstein.

[@BoyleJr]

its amazing how rough that guitar is compared to the precision ed insists on the wolfgang guitars

[@fleppie75]

Dimebag and Eddie...my 2 favorites, RIP both!!! Would be great if a Dimebag original was burried with Eddie...... :-(

[@HunterRouth]

We miss you so very much Eddie.

[@andros1984]

I tried this stuff with my first cheapo mid 90's Squier strat. Self installed a Duncan Humbucker, solder cut the pickup hole, routed the wood with a 1/2" drill. Messy but incredibly fun.

[@metalfiend124]

@Doomzdayxx Jackson for me too. Eddie said in the 80's that he liked Kramers because they sounded crappy. He didn't always like a clean perfect tone to his guitars, maybe that's why he stuck with the original frankenstein guitar as long as he did.

[@joeyclemenza7339]

aesthetically... frankstein looks so beat up, so neglected... but sonically... it played the music of the gods. it's incredible... when a guitar becomes almost as legendary as the man who wielded it.

[@ozzyhead73]

he sounds like hes been drinking here but when he talks now he sounds different cause he had a 1/3 of his tongue removed from cancer!! god bless and dont ever stop eddie!!! an all time LEGEND!!!! THANKS FOR THE MUSIC!!!!

[@TheAkd89]

Seeing this as an adult is weird🥺🥺RIP EVH

[@Gonz216]

@supah1337B No, he was buried with the original black and yellow Charvel, not the Frankenstrat.

[@peanutbutterisfu]

I have a 1995 epiphone les Paul that I put new pick ups in, rewired, fret work and it now is the best sounding guitar I’ve ever played! When we recorded my last band’s album we tried bunch of guitars and the engineer said what’s that guitar I didn’t wanna play it because it has a baseball bat neck and when I played it everybody was like wow that’s amazing! The engineer laughed when he seen it was a epiphone. I still never play it I only will use it for recording but just goes to show you it doesn’t matter how much a guitar costs. My main guitar is a modded strat because it feels good but not the best sounding.

[@RocknRollHairMetal]

There is a replica of this guitar at the guitar store i go to all the time it is not for sale though :( sry for spelling

[@Chillybeef123]

@supah1337B i think he meant that he made his black/yellow as a backup/new guitar, and buried that with dimebag, so once that was gone he went back to the original cause it was all that he had left . . . i only say that cause he also says it's the same guitar that was on the first record . . . either way it's an interesting concept

[@mesarock2vh]

I like the new Eddie now compared to this messed up state of condition! EVH looks and sounds so much better now.

[@TheMadMusicMan]

@londonkol That was only for the body and neck. Don't you guys understand that it takes more than two peices of wood to make a guitar? He had to get tuners, a floyd set, and a pickup amoung other hardware. Yes, 25,000 bucks is a lot for this guitar, but it wasn't only 130 bucks.

[@manchiscap]

He reffers to Dimebag Darrel who was Pantera's guitar player..... he was a brilliant guitar player just like Eddie

[@landers1984]

@bowslap Wrong. The balck and yellow was built for Ed by Charvel. He used thethe guitar for the VH2 world tour and also for 2 other tours. The reason he stoped using it was because Grover Jackson at Charvel started to mass produce them and sell them behind Ed's back, which Ed didnt like. So he stoped suing it and started to slate it and Charvel to get back at them. Why would he use a guitar for 3 world tours if he didnt like it?

[@solunasunrise]

WhoaAAA he talks about dimebag .... awesome :) didn knew they knew each other .... waht a HEROOOO !!!

[@doctorpaullemon]

@LOMAZ5150 Before you splash out on an original, try replacing your trem posts ... the bits that screw into the guitar. When I put an original into my Frankie, the tuning was still rubbish, but I was still usign the cheap posts from the licenced trem. I put in original Flotd posts (made from proper hardened steel), and the whole thing just gelled perfectly. The posts were about £10. How crazy did you go with your replica? Did you get the stripes right, did you use the correct switch?

[@MomentofSilenceBand]

i love how he is saying, "yeah". and, respect! he buried his guitar with his friend.

[@organizedchaos7111]

Respect EVH and DD two forceful legends and influences

[@BIGHEARTM1967]

Eddie the tone MASTER!!!

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

Whatever happened to his Megazone guitar? I always wondered what that one sounded like.

[@derekRTK]

evh not just rock guitarist. not rock star like others, also guitar/amp inovator and class act. ya crazy dutch bastard, rock on ..

[@adrianbass5560]

it shows how much he loved and respected Dimebag by partying with that infamous guitar! Dimebag was incredible and will live on for fucking years as will now sadly his brother Vinnie Paul.

[@WeirdestGuy29]

@bowslap Eddie didn't build the black/yellow. Karl Sadoval did. He also never used it on a record. He hated the sound of it and even after numerous pickup swaps and necks, it never sounded right. VHII was almost all the white/black Frankenstein (not painted red yet) and a Strat with a Tele bridge pickup (Women in Love intro and Bottoms Up).

[@WeirdestGuy29]

@guitargod1598 I think that guitar had numerous pickups in it over the years, I'm sure. He also had Seymour Duncan re-wind some in the early days. The Duncan '78 is a copy of the pickup he wound for Eddie in the 70's. His bumblebee (VHII) guitar had a DiMarzio of some sort... maybe a Super D or a PAF... nobody, including Ed can be sure. Maybe Grover Jackson knows... but whatever. I also think the current "Frankenstein" pickup is much hotter than anything out of a 335.

[@thenewyorkpauls]

Hah, not trying to knock Eddie [or Frankenstein], I think it's funny that it BLEW HIS MIND that the custom shop division of one of the world's biggest and most iconic guitar corporations were able to make a guitar that was "even better" than the partscaster he slapped together for $100 in the '70s that had strings slipping out the nut and everything.

[@TheMadMusicMan]

@supah1337B That was the Yellow & Black that Wyane Charvel made for Eddie, not Ed's Frankenstein.

[@Frehley5]

@restlessr84 the white stripes were children when he painted it red. They hadn't even met yet.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

RIP Dimebag. Long Live EVH.

[@nonombre7159]

Eddie's guitar, for me, is the red one with the Kramer headstock. That will always be the "Eddie" guitar.

[@nattheanswer24]

dude the guitar that was buried with Dime was a replica that evh hand made it for dime before he got shot

[@transtremm]

Cool to hear Eddie talk about how he stayed in tune before a Floyd Rose.

[@pedraw]

So, if they buried Dimebag with the original yellow/black guitar, the yellow/black and black/white were 2 different guitars? I thought they were the same guitar which morphed into the red/white/black.

[@stbreal]

The black/white guitar and the red/white/black guitar is the same guitar but the yellow/black is a different guitar all together.

[@pedraw]

Sheesh........who can keep up? Not me evidently. Thanks for the info.

[@oldschoolfoil2365]

Note the string pull method 0:14 through the head wound up not down, untwisted.

[@DillonBerkley]

im talking about the evh 5150 III and the wolfgang cause he said himself that he got the band back together to see if the wolfgang was "road worthy". i didnt think about the fact that this video was aobut the replica sorry. but yes one nights tickets probly do generate more funds than the product line.

[@slcompsquad]

Great job dude. How many hours did that take you?

[@goodnameishere]

@bluesmann8 That's why he did the "Beat It" solo for free, isn't it?

[@iownallnoobs]

thats the promo video for jamies crying, they took it off youtube but i think you can find it on google

[@doctorpaullemon]

@LOMAZ5150 you have the Fender custom shop replica? Surely if you're in a position to spend that much on one guitar, youve had ample experience of tuning with floyds? I built my own and put in an OFR. tuning stability... no problems. With the trem blocked off, tuning is EASY compared to a floating bridge.

[@TheMadMusicMan]

@supah1337B No, that was Yellow and lack, not the Frankenstein.

[@roccotanto]

cool video! Chip did an AWESOME job......nice work!

[@WeirdestGuy29]

I forgot to mention roller nuts, saddles and string trees, which arguably are even better than graphite/teflon stuff. But, my point isn't how functional the FR is, I just think they are big and ugly, compared to vintage trems... in my opinion (I must stress). You'd think by now, some engineer or inventive guitarist would have improved the more tasteful and subtle classic Fender trem to be as functional as a Floyd. Or... maybe ol' Floyd could do a re-design.

[@ThomasMetal75]

@ 3:06, did he just give his condolences to Dimebag Darrell? If so, this is another reason to respect the man that is Eddie Van Halen!

[@jaywalking17]

Thanks for pointing that out. I removed the comment for lack of clearification. My intent was to point out how the interviewer could have done a better job interviewing Eddie. No offense.

[@MrBrownstonee]

@supah1337B they buried him with his bemblebee (black n yellow), not frankenstein

[@metalfiend124]

@DarthKazi Funny , I thought Ed let them check the guitar out, take it apart, and copy the pickup also. I thought the pictures were just for the body damage and aging effect. Who knows?

[@Chillybeef123]

he does . . . i think that was either right before, or right after his rehab . . . i'm glad to see he recovered from all that though.

[@WarriorMigs24]

I would love to have the Frankenstein Guitar

[@veraregina4525]

Where is that special, gorgeous and famous guitar? Do you know?

[@WarriorMigs24]

I don't know

[@veraregina4525]

@@WarriorMigs24 ninguém sabe quem ficou com a guitarra original do Eddie. A guitarra vermelha de listras pretas e brancas. Talvez o filho dele ou enterraram ela com ele? I mean the Frankenstein guitar.

[@chickenmanstan]

@supah1337B I think they buried the bumblebee with dime not the frankenstrat.

[@outlaw6066]

I think Guitar Center carries it as a special order. Better save up for it though cause it's $30,000

[@shaynarose4254]

AWESOME