Eddie Van Halen Lost Guitar Found - Now For Sale
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- One of the early EVH Guitars has been found and is up for sale. We got to be one of the first to publicly see this guitar. This one was used on the Women and Children First album. It was lost or thought to have been painted over but here it is and the story behind who has it now. This one will probably go to an auction house. For more Information give Eric a buzz at Abalone Vintage Guitars!
www.abalonevin...
I saw VH in early 1979. They were touring for VH II. At the end of the show a roadie set the Franketstrat on a stand, near the right side barricades...then walked away. My friends and I were about 5 feet away. No one else was around. VH hadn't gotten really famous yet, so there wasn't a big throng around the stage 15-20 minutes after the show. We were only 15 years old. We were saying, wow, we we could steal it, and they wouldn't even know! But instead we just took pictures. Great memories, we had no idea how famous that guitar would become over the years. 😁👍👍
I actually saw this listing on Reverb and I shook my head. This is truly a museum piece, but when Eddie passed the price on anything that ever had his name on it went through the roof. So now you can't even think about an EBMM EVH for less that five figures.
How is this a museum piece? Ed didn't own it for long at all and didn't record with it. It was a brief experiment, a footnote in his history with guitars.
Even the EVH Stripe series jumped from $900 to $1,150
@@e.l.norton Did you even watch the video? He told us and showed us the Album it was on.
@@friguy4444 It was a staged photo taken AFTER the album was recorded. This is well-established. Regardless of what he says to try and inflate the value, Ed didn't even receive that guitar until after the album was done. The guitar is not as "significant" as he thinks. Again, more significant guitars of Ed's have sold for relatively modest amounts. This guitar likely would not approach their prices.
“Can I cuss?” That was genuine and hilarious. Great content guys.
Thanks a ton Nick:) We don't get to do too much scripting with these:)
and Eric is the only guy on earth who's just freaky enough to come up with something this cool...
I would have to agree! He is rather awesome:)
Oh, I got some other stuff I REALLY wish I could go public with.....I still have homework to do!!! LOL! ;)
There a boomer doctor somewhere that's going to be playing some fire pentatonic licks on that bad boy soon.
Lmao
Nah he’ll just put it in the glass case next to his ‘59 Les Paul in the middle of the massive foyer of his his 18 million dollar mansion in southern Florida we’re he’ll use it as a conversational piece.
That made me smile and giggle as well:)
This is more than boomer doctor $$...we're talking Instagram Influencer Supermodel $$$
that moment when you realize your going to get old and kids who think they are alot smarter make fun. gonna be priceless
I mean like how would you really know that's authentic? I don't know man. There's so many builds out there. Possibly millions of them.
You can compare the wood grain. It matches perfectly. NOW, what would be near impossible, is authenticating a graphic EVH guitar.
@@chatti4440 Someone is doing a build now and matched the grain amazingly closely. This guitar is not worth a fortune. It's been re-finished. It's not all original. It was never recorded with. Why would the seller drop his price 30k? Even at 20k, I think this guy over-paid by a lot.
I remember when that was on reverb real cheap about a year ago. Never would have guessed it was the evh mahogany bb strat
Several well known EVH guys passed on it!!!!
Damn nutty we agree:)
@@CasinoGuitars would u be interested in on Tak Matsumotos personal guitars? A pre gibson signature circa 2002
I really like the host. He's good. Great story too.
Just real cool content, and that guitar dealer even seemed cool. Keep up the great work Baxter!!
Thanks a ton Gixxer! We will keep at it:)
I'd like to know how this was authenticated. Comparing the guitar in the photo to the guitar in the video, they don't look like the same body. The grain pattern is similar in some places and not in others; there's also a pickup ring around the pickup in the video but not in the photo. Why would that have been added later? I also don't see the switch above the volume knob in the photo, but that could be hidden by the trem bar. I'd be super skeptical if I were a prospective buyer and all the evidence I had was what this guy is saying in the video.
Ed was always jacking with his guitars. Swapping necks.....pickups....bridges...tuners...
Agreed:)
I know Ed constantly modified his guitars. Adding a pickup ring seems uncharacteristic of him since he was known for mounting pickups directly to the body, but I suppose it’s possible. I’d still like to know how the body was authenticated.
@@chatti4440 People keep saying that but I was at the beginning of his career when there wasn't a chest full of gold and he had to build a guitar that did exactly what he needed it to do so he could make the kind of music that was in him . Later he made guitars , amps , pedals just to keep busy and make money for his fami bbn c
@@paulcrowder
It seems fairly logical that someone could have put a pickup ring on it in the past 40+ years. Eric has a large number of photos of all of Ed’s guitars( as he says in the video). I actually looked a several of those photos from 40 years ago and matched them to this very guitar as I was holding it. In one of those photos, there is a screw that is screwed in under the bridge . The screw is there on the guitar as in the photos, and the wood grain matches.
Dark streak below HI E dead giveaway REAL THING! Bravo man! :)
That and other things .
“And the cradle….will rock….” 😎🤟🏻🎸
I don't know how valuable that is as an "Ed guitar". It's connected with him, but it was never a main. Plus, the neck is not original. I could be wrong, but I don't think it'll bring a ton.
The neck off of THIS guitar has been on Eddie's Frankenstrat since the 90's.
I agree
Ed was always swapping bodies and necks, so it wouldn’t be an issue!
Id like to have any piece of an Eddie Van Halen guitar!
@@dezionlion Oh, he was. But, the truly valuable guitars, the ones he recorded with and toured with, the icons, are all in possession of the family. Unless it's one of those guitars, it's not likely to fetch the pie in the sky kinds of prices people THINK these guitars are worth. Wanting it to be worth a fortune doesn't make it so. Eddie played my Music Man EVH guitar right in front of me. Does that make it worth anything more? Nope. It's cool for me. But, it adds no inherent value. Ed owned a TON of guitars and gave countless of them away for decades to friends, associates and even schools. Just because Ed owned something adds little to the value. What did he DO with it? Any songs recorded with it? Was it a tour main? Short of that, the EVH connection doesn't add all that many digits to the price.
No, it may have a some point but Ed himself said he broke necks and replaced them pretty regularly. Ed used to put the headstock on the stage floor and put his weight on it! There are pictures of him doing it. I doubt that this guitars original neck is on Frankie today.
Great stuff guys!
Thank you Pete!
I only see 1 grain line that looks similar. Where are all the others?
All you have to do is compare the photos on Instagram to the Zloz photos. ;) Most EVH guys did that a year ago.
@@chatti4440 Hard to tell exactly from this video, I am going by the picture at around 0:22. A lot more defined grain in the picture & even looks like a knob between the pickup & bridge near the high E string. The guitar in the video doesn't look like ribbon mahogany at all, more like poplar. I've seen painters make a steel door look like oak, it's not hard streak wood and this looks to have been stained.
@@thomasz4981 There are several well known EVH guys who have purchased high resolution photo outtakes of those photo secessions from Zloz, and it is clearly ribbon mahogany. There are also photos on the Abalone Vintage Instagram page that are very clear. Ed even mentioned the mahogany body being made for him by Boogie Bodies in at least one article back in 1980.
I made an offer on this guitar during the first reverb listing it was just about to make a deal, and then somebody swooped in and took it.
..wow ...just wish things were more documented in the studio back then ...what guitar was played on what tune etc ....
Who thought it became the "rasta guitar"?? The rasta was originally the "circles guitar" or some call the "unchained" guitar became it was usually set to drop D
Why would anyone in the Van Halen collecting community be mad that this guy got that guitar at that price he did who better than him to find this guitar just jealous haters that would do the same
What's really funny is, someone could have bought it off of Reverb when it was $1,000 and PAINTED it.....assuming it was not Ed's. Then we would never know that it has existed all this time....unknown.
I think he won the lottery on this one...well, mainly because he knows everything about guitars as well:)
Maybe Wolfgang will buy it, I know I would want my dad's guitar.
Same here!
Interesting how it was "found" after his death.
Seems like cringe clout chasing
I think Wolfgang, should have all of his dad's belongings. Don't sell it, 💯
I like that idea as well:)
I would imagine Wolf has several of his dad's favorite guitars..
That’s a great story!
It feels like it weighs 12 pounds dude!
I see this avatar and name on every Van Halen video.
@@bigdaddycool4242 I know dude! It's a big piece of Mahogany. Dude! You must smoke alot of pot and you are a burn out.
@@buddywilliams5650 making assumptions…makes an ass of you🤷🏻♂️
To all paying these over inflated prices with no real provenance are out of your collective minds. When the stock market slides your million dollar guitar will be worth nothing.
Is this the original neck then if you just got the body??
The original neck was removed by Eddie and put on the original Frankenstrat sometime in the 90's. The neck that is now on the '79 Hog is a 70's Boogie Bodies neck. There are more photos on the Abalone Vintage Instagram page. ;)
How do you put a price on that guitar?
Well, the appraiser will help with the starting bid. And, once the auction ends, you'll have a concrete price for that guitar.
That seem s to be the MO
So why doesn’t the seller want to restore the neck before selling it or taking it to auction at least? Wouldn’t they get money by at least finding another neck from that model guitar to swap out the Strat neck?
I’d also love to talk to the dingbat who winded up with EVH’s guitar and changed the neck - wtf was he thinking?! 😱😡🙄
The Boogie Bodies neck that was on this guitar is now on Eddie's Franksnstrat, and has been since the mid 90's. The guitar now has an almost exact replacement Boogie Bodies neck from exactly the same era.
So the neck on it it now, from a Custom Shop Frankenstrat or something?
Correct era Boogie Bodies neck I had been sitting on for 25 years!
So who had it all these years? And why didn’t they try to get it back to ed before he died?
Why would someone try to get if back to Ed. Did he lose it???
As an outsider it seems like the VH camp purged stuff when they split with Roth... ;)
I'm not to sure about this story. Something feels off to me.
Of course it does. It's extraordinarily unusual. But, keep in mind, you have only heard a few minutes of the story. There's much more. ;)
A f**cking short and f**cking sweet video! Great f**cking job you f**ckers!!
Thanks for sharing this video with us fuckers!
Could it be?
I wonder why Eddie never used the guitar live? Maybe he gave it away? Or maybe someone stole the guitar? Regardless that's a cool artifact. I would liked to hear a really good Edward Van Halen wanna be play that guitar through a old Marshall.
Why didn't he say what he used for a replacement neck? 😡
Period correct Boogie Bodies neck.
Wolf van Halen
Geeze ya zero chance of buying that,yes it b sweet to own a EVH guitar!!!
Wow!!!!!
We second that emotion!
Contact me if interested in his custom all zebrawood flying V prior to his 1st US tour?
Could you please follow up with us on this? I’m interested in seeing how much this FUCKER brings at auction..
LOL! Well played.
Jeezus a bet someone buys it and it's never see again. 😭😂😂Respect and stay healthy all.
I certainly hope not...I hate when that happens!
Sounds happy you I dig , but subtitles
To the tune of VH where have all the good times gone?, where have all the used car salesmen gone?.
New terminology: Blues accountant, the guy you call to see if you have the free cash to buy this.
Then you have your Blues lawyer write up the contract.
Damn you just became a wordsmith and an inventor all in one:) Love it!
Doesnt look like the same guitar to me, the real one the photos has unfinished body & the pickup is screwed straight onto the body , this one looks glossy & the pick up is totally different
How do you know the pickup is screwed into the body? You've been in that guitar?
@@ericernest Look at the photos it doesn’t have any type of guard around it, And I have several guitars where the pick ups are screwed right to the body so I know what it looks like you can obviously see the guitar and the video is a totally different pick up with a square going around it and the one in the picture doesn’t.You can see it in the photos where its behind him in the studio, in the photos that are in color when it’s laying on the ground sideways It’s real easy to see that is not the same guitar the color photo show that it’s an unfinished body & the pick up has no guard on it, also Eddies guitar does not have a toggle switch on it , That’s a dead giveaway right there that it’s not the same guitar,Not the same tremolo either. Sorry buddy but you got fooled. Go to Google and type in Eddie Van Halen pink jumpsuit and the color photos will come up, it’s not the same guitar , you can see all the things I’m saying unfinished body , no guard around the pick , up no toggle switch images.app.goo.gl/4pQHqS6J6n2efjaf8
@@saint7370 It's the same guitar. Period. Quit trying to be a know-it-all cyber sleuth...you're getting an F.
@@chatti4440 no its not, look at the photos its totally different
@@saint7370 I've seen the guitar in the flesh, and you? Troll.
I would a lot of certified proof to believe that was actually his guitar.
I offer authenticity documents with my guitars. It's all about comparing the grain in photos. Perfect match.
Was he ever able to source the original neck?
That neck is a replacement Boogie Bodies neck the owner had held onto for over 25 years.
The neck that was originally on this guitar has been on the Frankenstrat since the mid 1990's. ;)
The guy has a gum addiction obviously!
Nope....just trying to mask the Covid.
He may just be a slow chewer...lunch was great:)
Weezer Zappa
Where's the proof?
The body is one of the most distinctive pieces of ribbon mahogany I've seen in my 30+ YEARS in the guitar business. Can't fake that.
@@ericernest7780 ok...
Again, where's the proof?
@@huntergatherer4223 I have stated why it is legit. The onerous is on you to prove it's not. ;)
@@ericernest7780 I don't have to prove anything. Until there is reputable acknowledgement and documentation its speculation.
@@huntergatherer4223 I'm one of the worlds foremost authorities on vintage guitars with over 30 years as a full-time profession, and you?
:)
Agreed
2nd!
Silver medal isn’t bad:) nice!
Ripoff!
9th comment f**kers! what do i win?🎸🤦♂️
hahaha
If you ain't first you're last
I think the worlds okay guitar fella has it with the Ricky Bobby quote:)
@@CasinoGuitars definitely can’t argue with that!👍🏼🇦🇺🎸👋
@@smalltowninnewmexico still love that moxy:)!
I know one thing; that guitar is going to be scrutinized something fierce, and if the provenance isn't there, you'll be damn lucky if it sells. OTOH, if it really is legit, what kinda Lamborghini u buying after the sale? :D
The well known EVH collector guys like Scott Smith, Mike Hickey, and many others, signed off on it as soon as I got it.
@@ericernest7780 those EVH collectors can "sign off on it" all they want..without a proper detailed provenance trail, it's just a guitar..nothing special..i deal in 18th century antiques, however this guitars value is based on a famous person owning it..you need a detailed provenance trail to make this claim..
@@fenderjazz6213 What makes you think i don't have that?
@@ericernest7780 wood thumbprints don't cut it buckwheat..
@@fenderjazz6213 Sorry, I have the ownership chain, Buckwheat...
It's worth nothing without the original neck.
Hendrix' Monterey Pop BURNED Strat with "non-original" neck:
"That charred guitar sold at auction for a whopping £280,000 on September 4, 2008."
I want to believe this is the real Hog, but the stain really prevents me from doing that.
Stain can be used to influence grain patterns.
The ideal comparison would be bare wood, without the stain, to the original bare Hog.
That would reveal it's true identity, just like a fingerprint.
SHANK ARCADA, please quit lying about the '79 Hog and deleting my comments calling you out on it. The guitar is NOT stained, which I have said repeatedly. Quit lying.
FAKE!
The body is one of the most distinctive pieces of ribbon mahogany I've seen in my 30+ YEARS in the guitar business. Can't fake that.
I've seen absolutely zero proof that it's Eddie's guitar.
That mahogany grain is like a fingerprint. If you do a comparison, it matches perfectly. There's a bunch of photos on the net.
@@ericernest How do we know it's not stained to match?
I want too see it stripped to bare wood, like it was when Ed had it.
Otherwise, hogwash!
@@shankarcada4201 SHANK ARCADA, please quit lying about the '79 Hog and deleting my comments calling you out on it. The guitar is NOT stained, which I have said repeatedly. Quit lying.
@@shankarcada4201 Stain enhances grain, it does not alter it.
Besides, you have clearly never seen this guitar. It has no stain.
It's only a guitar people who cares ... Yes I love evh but money and value on stuff like this .. be yourself and make your own guitar be something people value actually I value the person and the legacy memories and happiness not a chunk of wood anyone can make this guitar come on... Yeah it's definitely awesome in a way but the same people would buy his nose hair it's sickening lmao
well said
Don't bash people that want to have something that a hero of theirs owned. Do you have any autographs? Same thing. It's collectors that keep history alive. Now this guitar is known, it wasn't bought and painted over, never to be known again. Ed had this body made, he requested what wood to use, the thickness he wanted to try. This guitar houses one of the first Floyd Rose tailpieces. It allowed Ed to experiment and suggest to Floyd that he add fine tuners like a violin would have. Your thinking is short sighted and disrespectful as any guitar you put together, even if it could be made of Gold and Diamonds wouldn't be worth a second look.
@@RichardGutierrezRG no it's definitely an amazing little piece of history.. he is a huge hero to me and the world but it sickening how all these vintage guitars and stuff like this is so expensive I'm just more spiritual I could care less that's just me .. even the amount we pay for stones and diamonds.. we are the only animal that pays to live on Earth.. it's sick can't you see that.
I do believe money is useful it's a tool and I'm not suggesting that people not work and not have goals and happiness or art that brings joy .. but the value of items and cost of living everything is backwards.. but hey if it sells for , 500k it's what it is ...
Eric lives nearby and we both played guitars since we were teens and went to the same HS. To say he is a gear head and knows guitars and all things music is a understatement. I had a chance to buy a Charvel Preproduction Bumble Bee from him for $ 5 grand. I really didn't know much about them and the fretboard was really worn so I passed... Instead I bought 2 EBMM Pinks 1993 so that eases the burn a little...
He is a rather amazing source of information! We were thrilled to talk with him and hope to do so more again soon:)
Haha! Hi Jim! Yeah Joe Bonamassa ended up buying that pre-pro Charvel. He gave it to his guitar tech for either Christmas or his birthday. If you go on Instagram, you will see the guitar used as Mike Hickey's emoji. Stay safe out there!
@@ericernest7780 I would rather not as it still makes me nauseated. I still have some mint pink EBMMs, a aluminum Jackson Roswell, Modernes and enough pedals to open a store. Marshall YJM100, 58 Fender deluxe 5e3...Time to start thinning out the herd. I might contact you. Jim
Ed said he had a really thick body made on it in order to make up for the tiny sounding early Floyd Rose.
SHANK ARCADA, please quit lying about the '79 Hog and deleting my comments calling you out on it. The guitar is NOT stained, which I have said repeatedly. Quit lying.
I see where this going.
Enjoy your guitar bro.
Peace
I have never dealt with a character bigger than Eric. He would take my order and hit every show. I would get a call when he was in town and buy a white van full of legit Charvel’s. He is the best.
this is the coolest #&$^ing thing ever! I love when stuff like this turns up. And your boy here dropping an extra 5 large to get it overnighted? That guy is as gangsta as it gets. dayum! great great video!
Thanks a ton Simon:) it is pretty amazing the funny cats you meet through this whole thing!
Eric was gracious enough to let me check this guitar out several months ago. That 2 inches of mahogany was heavy as hell!
Admittedly, this is an extremely unusual opportunity....that requires an unusual response. LOL!
At 2:45 he picks up the picture of the EVH 1980 collection. I first saw that picture in Guitar World magazine. In that picture the Frankenstrat has a pickguard on it, the only photo I have ever seen like that. Does anyone have information on this? Did Eddie ever play that guitar live in that configuration?
Yes there are photos on VH forums and groups of it being used live. Sorry I don’t have a link right now.
Lucky guy!! I just used the guitar that is at Edward's right in the photo at 22 seconds ( aka Chris Holmes Ibanez Destroyer ) to write & record a track on my new record & It played & sounded just as you would expect. Such a gift. God Bless Edward!
Man right on! Great share and thanks a ton for the good vibes!
Hey man, so that is the one Chris had let Eddie borrow to record with (on women and children… Since Ed didn’t like the sound of his when it became the shark?), that also ended up with the red paint blood spatter design?
I was wondering if that was the same one. Or if that was a different one Chris was using. I’ve been in the presence of that particular one several times myself back in the mid-80s. 🤘🏻🎸🇺🇸
No, there is a video here on UA-cam where a guy still has the one Ed used. m.ua-cam.com/video/-R_ZqlSvum4/v-deo.html
Looks like an early DiMarzio X2N pickup.
The Rude guitar is a 2" thick mahogany body as well. It’s easy to tell as the neck heel looks huge in all the photos. The Rasta guitar is normal thickness and Dweezil owns that now. I always thought this was the Rude guitar because of the thickness.
How about low income individual such as me? I'll gladly make payments, $50 a month for 200 years?
✌😂🎸🎶~eruption💨
Forget Eddie's guitar, look at that Gibson EB-2 behind it!! Would love one of those.
Great story behind Eddie's guitar though, neat stuff! :-)
There was a treasure trove of very cool stuff right on that table!
For me: ZERO CHANCE of being able to buy this guitar, unless I hit that Powerball. If so, Eric can have whatever price he wants.
We are unfortunately in the same boat...super cool to see it all though:)
@@CasinoGuitars So he bought the body without the neck, whats the history of the neck we see in the video?
@@Lexxo777 That’s right, I don’t think he finished that story did he? Sounds like he found the original neck from someone else?
Dweezil Zappa owns a star guitar that belonged to Eddie...
Yep, but it wasn't the white star guitar that he used during the early years. Dweezil owns a Kramer that Ed went home and brought back to Dweezil when he was having trouble keeping it in time for a school talent show.
@@RichardGutierrezRG its possible its the same... Dweezil has said he repainted it because it looked horrible. Its in Frankenstrat colors now... w/r/b
gets the bronze lol
I feel heartbroken this guitar was somewhere for $1000 and I didn't get it lol , you're right none of us can afford it lol
Nutty eh?
Wow super cool
We thought so as well:)!
Guitar flipper: You’re not a real fan of EVH. You’re a guitar seller.
A real fan would have never let that go out of their hands.
Speaking of hands; even if you buy Eddie’s old equipment, you’re still not going to be EVH
That era has ended
Oh, I didn't know you were in charge of who-a-fan-is. My bad.
@@chatti4440
A real fan wouldn’t let go of a guitar body that Eddie had played. I know I wouldn’t.
Would you turn around and sell it a week later?
@@JohnDoe-jc3cl He bought the guitar over a year ago. Your comment is pointless.
Easy to say. What if you owned this guitar, you loved it and a family member needed money? You lost your job and the mortgage was due? For any reason...you still wouldn't sell it? Come on, get real. Eddie's own guitar tech had to sell Ed given gifts to survive not being able to work.
So what’s the story on the neck that is on it? Just a replacement?
i was wondering the same thing.
That neck is a replacement Boogie Bodies neck the owner had held onto for over 25 years. The original neck on the EVH "79 HOG has been on the original Frankenstrat since the 90's.
Chatti got it!
But why would you say it was used in recording WACF? Where did Ed say that?
UA-cam is literally the ONLY reason I jailbreak an iPhone because of ads being overwhelming on every damn video!
That looks like the Vintage Guitar Show in Asheville. Wow never know what you can find there. Great event.
The guitar looks too clean Eddie's Guitars are beat up ??
That’s a funny one
And you believe everything you hear/see on the internet??
I think I would need some SERIOUS provenance before laying down cash for that guitar. Plus, my EMBB Axis gets the job done!
I though dweezil ended up with the star guitar.
Non original neck and what proof it’s not the rasta now? Just because it looks like it?
Because...it's not the Rasta, Dweezil owns the Rasta, Ed gave it to hold onto your money, because you don't even know what's going on dude. This was an experimental guitar Ed had made to test if a thicker darker wood body would fix the over tinny or thin sound the metals Floyd was using in his locking trems. If it had sounded great, he may have done something with it...he didn't and eventually let it go. Floyd changed some things, different metals, added fine tuners at Eddie's request...then Eddie added it to his Frankie.
The thief l mean seller... Should be jailed..
Well, time to take out a mortgage on my house.
Thats what we thought...:)
8 years old and 80 at the same time.
To be honest this guys probably going to want so much for that guitar that noone will ever buy it, and thats a shame because that guitar should go back to Wolfgang but i bet this guy would ask so much from Wolfgang that it would break even wolfies bank, sad but true.
Hi Jimmy, I'm not going to determine what it's worth, I will leave that to the auction. The buyer will set the price. ;)
Here's the sad part. I search guitars and project guitars extensively on Reverb and ebay every day. I probably ly swiped past this guitar while looking because I didn't know about it being Eddie's. Never saw that one before. Awesome find!!!
I thought Ed used the Ibanez Destroyer that Chris Holmes lent him? They didn't have the Dimarzio x2n out then? ugly guitar though.
They still have the star guitar. It’s the one he painted during the invasion tour in 1980 it has the crossbones on it. He played it white during the 79 tour.
For a guitar he deeply discounted as being half missing, he sure will get a return on investment.
Where is the provenance that this was EVH's guitar? It seems like they are basing it on this being the only solid mahogany strat body ever made? I'm not necessarily questioning Eric, it's just that this video doesn't come anywhere close to establishing that this was Eddie's guitar.
Good point. Is there any other way to establish authenticity?
@@kevincaliva2449 Yeah, buy some high resolution photos from Zloz like I did. ;)
No, it's based on THAT body being the mahogany body in the Zloz photos.
@@ericernest7780 I get it, they apparently matched the grain. Not the best way to establish authenticity, in my opinion. Anyway, he doesn’t speak on it nor give any information, whatsoever to that in this video. 🤷♂️
@@Metalcop5150 Wood grain is like a fingerprint. The '79 Hog has very distinctive grain.
Dime uses a very similar pickup this is neat
Looks like a Dimarzio X2N to me.
@@stevemineer2857 I agree
That dude in the Hawaiian shirt has a awesome voice lol I could listen to him talk all day
You’re kidding right? It’s like a full grown man who’s still going through puberty
the right thing to do was give the proceeds of the sale to Mr. Holland's OPUS as Edward would have wished.... and let Wolfie know....
Why? It was never stolen, it was on the free market. If the Van Halen Family wants it, they can buy it. Don't spend other people's money man.
Where’s the dean that’s laying down?
I can live without it...
why would you sell this
Sounds legit LOL