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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Wolfgang Van Halen’s surname and musical lineage could be both blessing and curse. He’s certainly managed to make it the former. With music in his DNA thanks to father Eddie ...

“The original FrankenStrat included pieces from a number of guitars,” said George Levy, MHFA president. The other item on display is on the other end of the entertainment spectrum. It’s a ...

We mourn Van Halen for obvious reasons. If you've slung an electric guitar over your shoulder in the last 40 years, or cobbled together a Frankenstrat in your teenage bedroom, you owe the man a debt.

His most famous axe, the red, white and black "Frankenstrat" was a ragtag bitzer he built from parts, taking a humbucking pickup from a Gibson, coating it with wax to tamp down feedback ...