But the close of Van Halen 1.0 might be the group’s finest ... the rubber band riffs and animal noises emanating from Eddie’s Frankenstrat. What it must have been like to be in the studio ...

Eddie Van Halen, who has died at the age of 65 ... of aspiring guitarists to vandalise their instruments. His souped-up "Frankenstrat" even featured in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan ...

One day about six or seven years ago, I walked into my family's music room and saw it hanging on our wall: a replica of Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white, and black "Frankenstrat" guitar that my ...