Eddie Van Halen’s red-white-and-black striped electric guitar is a legendary musical instrument, and affectionately referred to by two similar, but slightly distinct, names: Frankenstein and ...

Van Halen certainly had bigger hits than Hot for Teacher, and recorded other songs that proved far more influential in the development of the electric guitar. Its influence and stature were put into ...

Did you know former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth helped Eddie Van Halen place the strips of adhesive tape that formed the signature striped design on the guitarist's unmistakable "Frankenstrat"?

David Lee Roth detailed how he helped conceive the design for Eddie Van Halen’s iconic Frankenstrat guitar. The frontman recently shared a painting titled “Big Wave,” which fans apparently thought ...

Wolfgang Van Halen remembered being shocked when his father, Eddie Van Halen, threw his famous hand-built Frankenstrat guitar across a room, showing that he didn’t think as much of it as everyone else ...

Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of the late Van Halen shredder Eddie Van Halen, used his father's famous "Frankenstrat" guitar on parts of his upcoming debut album with Mammoth WVH, due out next month.

Kurt Cobain’s artwork, one of Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat guitars, and Robert Plant’s handwritten lyrics to Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” are among the items set to hit the auction block in November.

One of Eddie Van Halen’s iconic “Frankenstrat” guitar — which the rocker gifted to late Mountain guitarist Leslie West — is set to hit the auction block Sunday. In the late-Eighties, Van Halen gave ...

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Admit it. Ever since you first heard “Runnin’ With The Devil” you’ve worshiped Van Halen. Those sick guitar licks, tight bass and ass-less chaps on Roth – you couldn’t ask for more rock and roll. Now ...