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Eddie Van Halen's most famous guitar was built from a body the factory called junk. Eddie loved the whammy bar on a Fender, but Fenders sounded thin. Gibsons sounded fat, but had no whammy bar, and nobody sold a guitar with both. So in 1977 he went to a company that made cheap copies of Fender bodies and paid $50 for a reject with a knot in the wood. He took a chisel and a hammer to it, ripped the pickup out of his own Gibson and jammed it in. He couldn't work out the wiring, so he hooked it all to one knob and labeled it "tone". It was the volume. That junk guitar recorded "Eruption". Eddie painted it black, taped it up and painted it white, and later red: the Frankenstrat. Thirty years later, Fender made 300 exact copies, down to every scratch, at $25,000 each. They sold out in fifteen minutes, and Eddie mistook one for his own. Interview: Eddie Van Halen, Zócalo Public Square / Smithsonian (2015). Music: Van Halen, "Eruption" (1978). Music: "Cipher" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #EddieVanHalen #VanHalen #Frankenstrat #Eruption #GuitarHistory #MusicFacts #Shorts

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