EDDIE VAN HALEN MINI-DOCUMENTARY: The Early Guitars In His Own Words | The Journey to Frankenstein
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Edward Van Halen received his first guitar, a $40 Teisco Del Rey, in 1967 at age 12.
Over the next 10 years he would go on a journey, learning more and more about what he wanted and needed from a guitar.
After working his way through Les Pauls, Stratocasters and Destroyers, the culmination of that search for the perfect instrument was the creation of something all his own - the immortal Frankenstein guitar.
It recently placed number 3 in Billboard's list of the most iconic guitars of all time: www.billboard....
This mini-documentary, narrated entirely by Edward himself, featuring some previously unheard audio, traces the story of his early guitars, leading up to him creating a legend.
Special thanks for this episode go to Steve Rosen, who has graciously allowed some of his fantastic interview audio with Edward to be used here. This couldn't have been done without Steve's help, and I would recommend anyone to buy his book "Tonechaser - Understanding Edward: My 26-Year Journey with Edward Van Halen". Details for buying it can be found here:
Hardback - tinyurl.com/56...
Audiobook - tinyurl.com/4w...
I would especially recommend the audiobook version, as I think it's quite simply the greatest collection of Edward Van Halen audio available anywhere. Required listening for all fans.
Please also check out Steve's youtube channel for more interviews in full here: / @steveroseninterviews
Special thanks as well to Chris Gill, who also kindly provided me with some interview audio, and, as an absolute authority on this subject, was extremely helpful to me when it came to fact-checking. Please check out more of Chris' interviews with Edward in his book with Brad Tolinski, "Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen" - a core text on the subject and the book that made me want to start documenting Edward's life. It can be ordered here:
Hardback - tinyurl.com/zx...
Audiobook - tinyurl.com/5x...
Jas Obrecht's interviews with Edward in 1978-1980 were also essential in making this video, so please buy his fantastic book, "Talking Guitar" for more of these in full.
It's available here:
tinyurl.com/w2...
Please also take a look at his youtube channel to hear more of his illuminating conversations with Edward. You can find it here:
/ @talkingguitarjasobrecht
I'd also like to say thanks to Allen Garber, whose photo of the White Destroyer I borrowed (sorry Allen!), and whose research and tracking down of photos on the subject has also proved invaluable.
Shout out too, for Mill's Custom Guitars, whose videos I borrowed for the Frankenstein building sections. You can find them here:
/ @millscustomguitars1
Soundtrack music was by the Mini Vandals. Check them out here:
/ @theminivandals1840
Further thanks for help and research to:
Dave & Dave Unchained podcast ( / @davedaveunchained-ava... )
Adam Roach ( / @adguitar7 )
themightyvanhalen.net
vanhalengear.com
groundguitar.com
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BEAUTIFUL.... Ed had such a fascination with taking things apart & putting them back together again to make them do stuff it didn't say on the box off the rack in the store. I remember someone calling Ed - 'The Thomas Edison of guitar' ...And thank God he was and that he experimented ... Because just think what we would have missed...........In 1979-1980 I remember in the UK these defeatist guitar shop owners had given up on believing in a vibrato Bar bridge which stayed in tune no matter what you did to it. When I mentioned to these unimaginatives about Ed's idea of putting 3 in 1 oil in the nut grooves they would just sneer & say -'That's like putting treacle in your petrol tank' But Edward just kept pushing to develop it, clamping the strings at BOTH ends (Alex's idea first. Not Floyd Rose's) ,,,Changing the type of metal to give the bridge better tone,,,coming up with the fine tuning system on the bridge so you didn't have to unclamp it at the nut if it went out of tune. I'm sure Ed had that idea first but wasn't credited for it. Randy Hanson helped with suggestions too but because Edward made such demands on the vibrato bar with his playing innovations the manufacturers were forced to develop their stuff to keep up with him...Same with pickups and guitar bodies & amplifiers. Edward wasn't just improving things for himself- he was improving things for everybody. For all guitarists......Les Paul knew that. Like Les Edward was an innovative PLAYER creating innovations in guitar MANUFACTURE.... We players all owe him such a great debt 😔🙏 (Paul)
Thanks a lot for this. I remember your comments from my earlier videos, and this is another really good one. I love that line about him being the Thomas Edison of guitar. Every so often, people come along who just think differently to the rest. Ed was amazing because he wasn't really like anyone else, and that's definitely not just because of tapping. It was his whole approach to guitars - both playing them and setting them up.
@@iconsremembered Edward was always a musician who thought outside the box both as a player and in terms of equipment because he was always trying to take his instrument beyond where he had found it….Edward always tried to go beyond conventions to achieve something new, original and utterly novel. I believe the reason for this was he was rebelling against conventions which were imposed upon him by a rigorous classical piano training in his childhood. He found it very restrictive and stifling so when Ed picked up the guitar at 12 and was self motivated he was determined to figure things out for himself and to break the absolutist rules dictating how the instrument was played. This rebellion against ‘ramrod-back classical piano tuition’ led Edward to evolve into this fantastic innovator who would go on to change his instrument not just for himself but whole generations of players…Not just mere ‘tapping’ as a generalised technique but doing anything to the instrument to create sounds on it manually which were unusual. His playing had such ‘shock power of originality’ to it that before all his imitators arrived it was utterly startling. His whole vocabulary on the instrument from the 1970s and 1980s made you think -‘god, how did he do THAT’?? (Hear Meanstreet intro) ..And this transferred into instrument design,,,With his patented tray table device and his drop down D tuner ….and his mind would never stop thinking about improving things….And some of his suggestions and solutions would have you thinking - ‘this is so simple why didn’t someone think of this before’ ?? …Like when he had volume knobs made by a company specialising in manufacturing surgical equipment so they wouldn’t heat up and stop working when you turned them often and fast like on Cathedral..Or designing two pickups with different components to escape just having one pickup because he was never satisfied with the neck pickup because they both had to be the same….sorry, I mustn’t go on,,,things I’m required for….(Paul)
@@walterevans2118Thanks for the unusually insightful comments; as an EVH fan, I am fascinated by stories like yours about how Ed's unusual approach started out and set him on the road to superstar guitar hero status!
Beautiful video. I already knew the info but you put it all together so well, really incredible job. Thank you!! I have loved all your EVH videos. Hope there might be more to come in the future!
Thanks Edward 👍🏻 Again, I can remember you commenting before, and I really appreciate the kind words. Yeah the info is all out there in one form or another, but I just wanted to bring it all together in the best way I could. Also, a little bit of the audio hasn't been heard before, even if the quotes have been in print. Big thanks to Chris Gill for that.
I think there will be more episodes too - I'll aim to do at least a couple more over the next couple of months.
@@iconsremembered yes, even things we have read before mean so much more when heard from his actual voice. One of the MANY great things about your videos. So happy to hear there will be more!! 🎸🎶🤘
Nice to see a video about good 'ol Ed that is accurate and doesn't contain any mistakes and mis-information 👍🤘
Thanks for saying 👍🏻 There were a few errors in it, partly because Ed himself often remembered things wrongly. But I have to say thanks to Chris Gill (do him a favour and buy "Eruption" - it's awesome), who is an absolute authority on this stuff. He took a look at my demos, and helped steer me away from mistakes. I hope so anyway, as I would love this video to become a bit of a reference for the early progression towards Frankenstein.
@@iconsremembered You have succeeded my man, this video will set it straight for all that have seen, and all to come....... those who will witness the MIGHTY VAN HALEN !!!!!🤘
Another great video. Full of well researched and accurate information and somehow managed to make me quite emotional. Please keep em coming. Thank you!
@@Crinkle65 Thanks a lot for another great comment 👍🏻 Especially happy to hear it managed to make you emotional. It's a hard thing to pull off with a video about someone's guitars, but that's exactly what I would hope it might do to viewers 🙂 Think hearing it all in Ed's voice definitely adds a sort of bittersweet layer to it.
That magic smile at the end.....
@@rvk5150 Yeah, I think it was Andrew Bennett (a filmmaker who documented Ed from 2004-2007) who said that Ed's smile could end wars, or something to that effect.
The Dutch TV interview that came from is one if my all time favourite VH clips. Ed and Alex are both still young and really look like they're having the time of their lives.
Awesome man! 🎸🔥🔥🔥
@@JohnnyBeane Thanks again!
Excellent history on his journey to getting what he wanted. G.O.A.T. guitar player, rock virtuoso and composer.
@@robertswan742 Thanks a lot for saying. EVH is always seen as one of the greats for his playing, but his guitar building and experimentation was pretty much as groundbreaking.
And I hope that showing how he chose his guitars, how he pushed them beyond their limits and how he ripped them apart also tells us a lot about who Ed was.
Guitar Builder you forget that
Im not comparing my self to EVH in any way. I had similar ideas back in the 60's. A local music store had a Gibson PAF pickup, i bought it cheap too. I put it in my early 60's Strat, in the neck position though. (We didn't really date guitars then, it had a Brown Case). I also discovered the drill motor thing when putting that pickup in. I also made a set of locking tuners back then. I didn't like them and didnt follow through with them.. haha, I'd be rich now. Cool video, thank you.
Thanks for saying that about the video, and for your sharing the story. I could well imagine that others out there had the basic idea of marrying Gibson pickups to Fender functionality before, cos it's so simple in a way. But it took the master to really make it work 😊
@@iconsremembered I remember, I used a drill and a chisel to make the hole for the Humbucker pickup. We didn't have access to a router or any pro tools. It was a hack job it did. It worked though. I was only about 15-16 years old. Times sure have changed.
I've seen pictures of Blackmore using a John Birch modded Strat with humbuckers.
I've never heard the early interviews before. You can hear how smoking and drinking affected his voice, even without the cancer.
@@ivorharden Yeah it's amazing how much his voice changed over the years. Especially around the early to mid 2000s, his voice was completely gone from his vices and health problems. It actually came back a little in his later years.
As I say at the end of the video, I'd highly recommend you check out Steve Rosen and Jas Obrecht's youtube channels, as well as Rosen's audiobook "Tonechaser" - they're amazing resources for hearing the early interviews in full.
He was so addicted to that shit. If you Google photos of him thru the years, it's mind blowing how he's smoking in so many photos, even when playing guitar. He just smoked constantly, constantly, real shame
@@georgiethumbs2438 Yeah, sadly that was the vice he couldn't really shake off until very late on, even after he stopped with drinking and drugs. I don't know if there's ever been a musician who's been more photographed with cigarettes, either in his hand or wedged at the headstock of his guitar.
Thank You, im sat unable to sleep (4.05am UK) and i feel Like Ed has just talked me personally through his early guitar journey. Just me sat in an old stone cottage in the Lake District (on holiday) with my wife n dog sound asleep upstairs and my hero is talking to me.
I can't begin to tell you how moved i am right now. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for an unforgettable experience my friend.
@@ryanshaw3543 Wow, this might be the best comment I've ever had on youtube. Thank you so much for saying all that. It really means the world to feel like it could connect with someone like that. I've said it elsewhere in the comments, but what I wanted to do by having Ed narrate it, was for it to be the real, factual story, but also to move people by hearing his voice and feeling just a little bit that he lives on. If a video about guitars can make someone feel emotional, then I couldn't ask for a greater compliment of my work. I really appreciate you saying ❤️
The Lake District is beautiful too, so hope you enjoy it. And hope you got to sleep eventually 😁
This is so well done. It really moved me. I was expecting the usual, low budget, click bait bullshit.
Thank you so much for this. ❤
@@SteveSelvidge Fantastic to hear, thanks for saying. I've said the same in reply to other comments here, but if people say they were moved by a video about guitars, then there's no higher compliment. Doing something that both informed people and evoked feelings is exactly what I hoped to achieve. Thank you 👍🏻
And yes, there's way too much low budget clickbait bullshit out there. In my own small way, I'm trying to offer an alternative. Glad you think I have 😊
Lovely video! Plenty I didn't know about in there as well, thanks!;-)
@@DesSherwoodGuitarTuition Thanks a lot for saying so 👍🏻 With the help of the fantastic journalist Chris Gill, I've tried to make this as factual as possible, even though Ed himself often misremembered things in interviews. I'm really happy if it can give people something of the real story.
Now I know we're talking about eddie vanhalen, the guy with a wizard, but there is so much other talent clapton, jimmy page, but i'm convinced, and I know eddie said differently, but i'm sorry, jimi hendrix was the best simply because he was using antiquated guitars compared today but he made them sound like they came from outer spaces mick taylor was a disciplined guitarist, the best the stones ever had
@@johnpaulkane6153 It's impossible to say who was the best. Different greats of guitar existed in different contexts and so it's hard to compare them simply looking from today's point of view. Personally, EVH is my favourite of all the great rock guitarists, but you can't argue much against people like Page and Hendrix being considered the best. Beck and Blackmore too. They were each so enormously influential. And I don't really care that much for Clapton outside of Cream, but Eddie Van Halen was most inspired by him, so go figure.
Excellent video. Concise, factual, great piece of work.
@@timcarter1164 Thanks a lot for the kind words. Trying to make it concise and cohesive was hard, but I'm really glad you think it ended up that way. Have to thank a lot of people for helping it be factual, especially Chris Gill (who co-wrote the great book "Eruption"), but also others like Allen Garber and vanhalengear.com, who have done so much research that I'm piggybacking.
Great video ❤
@@Wolf.51.50 Thank you! Wanted to find a balance between appealing to those who are VH guitar-obsessives, and regular casual fans. So I've tried to be as factually accurate as possible, while simultaneously trying to make it engaging to those who don't play guitar. Hope I've succeeded!
@@iconsremembered I think you did 🙂
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,,,,.....2024,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...love this vid,,,,.....it's great to be alive,and playing music,,,,.......peace-out,,,...land o' lakes,wi.❤
Nice video, my friend!! Greetings from Brazil & The Links!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@Simonthehead Haha thanks a lot Mr Ribeiro 😁 Always one of the Links' nice guys!
Love this, thanks for putting together
@@JasonAchilles You're welcome. And I appreciate you taking the time to write the kind words 👍🏻 It was hard work, but a labour of love to put it together 😊
His Voice drastically changed over the years.
Yeah it's amazing how much it did really. It doesn't even sound like the same person at all, but it should be noted these various interviews took place over 37 years. His voice was sweet and soft up til the early 80s, but by 2006, it was shot to pieces. It actually seemed to come back a little after that.
Love it!!! What a beautiful and amazing story about Eddie Van Halen's early days. He was a true master of the guitar.
@@MrChetanG He was indeed. Glad to hear you enjoyed it and thanks for saying. You might have seen it, but I also have a documentary video here that covers the same period, but more Ed's background and the formation of the band. Check it out if you haven't already:
ruclips.net/video/JAIGM4ooTSE/видео.html
Ed was and still is one of the most important guitar players that will ever walk this Earth. I hope everyone that loves a Strat shape with a humbucker on the bridge knows EVH is responsible for that.
I was thinking about it yesterday - for all that Ed's most talked about innovation is tapping, it's actually something that never really endured beyond Ed doing it himself. I guess the reason being that he was so much the popularizer and master of the technique that it was almost pointless for others to do it, because it was so closely identified with him.
On the other hand, some of Ed's innovations in guitar design and building have actually become standards in the industry to this day. That original thinking isn't talked about as much as his playing, but it's arguably more enduring in a way.
Nice to see something about Eddie talking about what he loved,building guitars and playing.
Glad to hear buddy and thanks for writing 😊 I think Ed was almost as passionate about pulling things apart and putting them together in order to find something, as he was about actually playing the thing.
They left out the part where Eddie was bench testing Frankenstein at Dr Steins lab up near the peak of San Gorgonio, got out an oscilloscope, the variac and that little Princeton amp and a freak lightning storm sent a power surge and the guitar leapt off thr bench and the rest is history.
Can't believe I forgot to include that part
What a LEGEND even before he was gone 😢 His genius passed to his son can’t wait to see how far Wolfgang takes it.
Yeah Wolf is a very talented dude. His career has been good so far, so I'm looking to see if he can take another step forward.
He’s the reason I picked up the guitar 37 years ago so…thank you for doing this 🙏🏻
@@kellyp9438 You're very welcome. Think he's the reason a lot of people picked up the instrument. Thanks a lot for the comment 👍🏻
Thanks for putting this together whoever it was behind the scenes that did it. We miss you Ed.
@@alwatts9713 Thanks a lot for the kind words and you're welcome. It was pretty much a solo effort to put things together, but as I've detailed in the video description, I had a lot of help from writers and journalists. I produced the video alone, but I could only do so on the back of others' interviews, writing, photos and research.
Absolutely fascinating. The determination to get the right sound from a guitar is incredible.
@@davidkavanagh9344 Thanks a million Kavo! Always nice to get a comment from my number 1 fan 😉 Need to meet up soon!
This was awesomely put together (pun totally intended)!
@@Krullmatic Haha thanks a lot for that. Ed deserved something well-put-together for all the things he put together well. Can only hope that this goes some of the way to doing that.
Absolutely FABULOUS!!!! A true genius ❤
@@irishcladdagh3 I'm proud of the video, but I'm not sure I'm a genius. Oh wait...😉 Thanks a lot for the comment!
I'm about to watch this. I'm hoping that Wayne Charvel is mentioned. He's credited on the first Van Halen recording. I understand that there was some bad blood when Jackson became involved, but I'm hopeful that the entire story is shared m
@@evilmonkey63 Wayne himself isn't mentioned by name, but Charvel the company is given significant mention in the development of Frankenstein. I'm not narrating anything in the video, and only wanted to tell this with Ed's words. The only audio I've come across where Ed mentions Wayne and Grover Jackson (in this context) was when he talked about changing the Frankenstein again to the red paint job. He said that Charvel had started to copy his designs him after Grover Jackson had taken over. One short line about that is included.
I think he's mentioned Wayne specifically in other contexts, but they aren't included here for obvious reasons.
@@iconsremembered Thank you for the information. I knew that Jackson took advantage of Ed, and it was likely part of his movement towards Kramer. I also see that Ed was always a tinkerer and eventually ended up creating EVH. His drive for innovation was likely never going to allow him to favor any particular brand of guitar.
This was great! Thank you for sharing Eddie's insanely simple way of doing things!!
@@gregsmith4406 Thanks a lot for the kind words and you're very welcome. And yeah, the man himself might call it simple, but that's just because he's both modest and because his mind worked differently to other people - things that he thought were obvious and simple had never really been done before by anyone.
@@iconsremembered 100% agree!! Looking forward to more videos!
Awesome video, thank you!
You're welcome. Appreciate you saying it and always happy when people get something out of it 👍🏻
Oarsome.....
Great video… long live the king 👑
@@Col5150 Thanks for saying and glad to hear 🎸🤘🏻
What a great doc. I freaking loved it.
@@domusvita Thank you very much for saying. I'm pretty humbled by the reaction it's getting, but so happy it's connecting with people. Great to hear you liked it 🤘🏻
Vantastic!
This almost brought tears to my eyes
Whaddya mean "almost"? 😜 Seriously, thanks for saying and I'm always especially glad to hear that if the video connects with people on an emotional level 😊
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Indeed 👍🏻
Ed has always said that he developed some of his techniques on guitar because he couldn't afford pedals etc. - he had to find a way to the sound he heard in his head through his hands alone, without having any extra money.
Similarly he needed the instrument that could harness that talent in his hands and found it didn't exist. So he willed it into existence.
Is this the entire mini documentary?
@@matrix26uk This one is sort of a standalone mini-documentary on his early guitars, but I did a five part series of videos on EVH's early years more generally. You can find a compilation here:
ruclips.net/video/JAIGM4ooTSE/видео.html
I'll hopefully doing more parts on his life soon.
Hands down The King!
@@rodcarlozzi1323 Thanks for commenting - hope you enjoyed it 😊
Thanks… Just thanks. 🙏
@@guitarplayerstowohio You're very welcome. Honestly, it's me who's thankful that this has found some audience and that people are getting something out of it 👍🏻
Six String King!!!!
Before his solo Dave would sometimes introduce him as " the king of six strings and ten fingers"
When you see it at the Smithsonian it will give you chills.
I'm not 100% sure where it is now - I had the feeling it was back with Wolf at 5150. Think he's posted some pictures or video of it not too long ago. Though it would be awesome if it ended up at one of the great museums.
@@iconsrememberedThe original Frankenstein is with Wolf. The Smithsonian has replicas of Frankenstein in both its red/white/black (current) state and an accurate replica of the black and white iteration of Franky (built by Chip Ellis) that he gave to the Smithsonian when he did the Zocalo Public Square event there in 2015. The original was temporarily on display at the Met in NYC.
@@professorgillsguitargearga6388 Thanks Chris, of course you would know 👍🏻 I'd forgotten that Wolf also used it on one of the tracks on his latest record.
Great video Simon😊. Brilliant work bringing the different interviews together into something so cohesive👍. Cant wait to see more😮
Thanks Dan ❤ As always, my number one supporter 😊
Awesome !
Thanks for saying! Much appreciated 👍🏻
Awesome video! He was truly ahead of his time! No one else did what he was doing!
@@redshredder1021 Thanks for taking the time to say that. Yeah, he really was - I've said elsewhere in the comments that people focus on his playing innovations, like tapping. But that misses all of the other things he brought to guitars and guitar playing that were so different to others.
Eddie, an all around innovator.
@@MarkNorris-uz7ge Yeah he rewrote the rulebook in so many different ways, all while making it seem like it was the easiest thing in the world.
@@iconsremembered Yeah he did make it look so easy.
@@MarkNorris-uz7ge And I do genuinely get the feeling he believed that anybody could do what he was doing. As though it was really simple and possible for anybody.
Great video. Well done. ♥️🤍🖤
Great to hear, thanks for saying 👍🏻 Please help me spread the word about it if you know anyone else who might be interested.
Wow great job man ... great easy to absorb and good for the EVH loving hearts to admire and learn from ... I love how you even got an image of the receipt for the guitar, the trade in ( probably EVH's 2 or 3rd guitar ), and the drum set or drum parts purchased by their dad Jan.
That was like holy shit!!!
How great that is!!!
Thanks a lot Rob - very kind words. The receipt for the guitar has done the rounds for years, so I can't take much credit for that. But it did take some work to find catalogues from Lafayette Electronics or Teisco to help illustrate those parts.
The biggest challenge of all was to get all the audio together (A LOT of listening, logging and research) in such a way so that Ed could tell the story himself with his voice. And also huge thanks to Chris Gill, Steve Rosen and Jas Obrecht for enabling me to do that. And in Chris' case for giving me some audio that hadn't been heard before.
Really glad to hear you liked it and thanks again for saying!
@@iconsremembered illustrate what parts?
@@robhasenwinkle "Illustrate" was probably the wrong word. But I just meant that in the parts about the Univox and Teisco guitars, those old catalogues gave me something visualise what Ed was talking about.
@@iconsremembered ahh, you know that was a guess, and I'm glad I asked. I was thinking that must have been a challenging search, and I highly commend you for that.
Also, your accuracy in the makes and model numbers and even more detailed descriptions of the self ( EVH himself ) mods directly from Edward's mouth.
I knew some, or more like bits and pieces, of what I learned in this video from you.
Thanks!
I think I will watch this every year on his birthday, no maybe that's too weird, or maybe in between Christmas and NYE.
Thank you, Edward too! 🙌
Very well done video !!
@@MrMike-fm8bp Thank you for taking the time to say so. Glad when anyone can get something out of it 👍🏻
Awesome video. Really well done. Definitely brought tears to my eyes hearing the G.O.A.T. talk about his guitars.
Thanks so much for saying this. If people had an emotional reaction to a video about guitars, then I feel like I've done my job. That's exactly how I hope it would touch people. I feel like Ed's guitars and how he created and worked with them are a window into who he was.
I think there needs to be an Eddie Van Halen AI.
I truly appreciate Edward's skills, I just can't listen to Van Halen's dunderheaded music and take it seriously. It's too bad he didn't end up with a group of more likeminded serious musicians, but maybe that's just not what he wanted. Maybe he preferred stoner vapidity over substance. I guess we'll never know.
Ed was a consummate musician. Just because you can't appreciate the music, you make judgments. Edward love the power of his music, and so do millions of others. I am presuming you don't play because to say dunderhead is complete ignorance of the subject matter. Dick.
Pretty sure it was David Lee Roth's idea to put the stripes on the guitar because the band felt the solid color Strat was too reminiscent of Hendrix.
This is not true. However, Ed most likely got the idea after seeing a white Les Paul Custom covered with black electrical tape stripes played by Chip Kinman of the Dils at the Whisky in June 1977, about a month before the b&w striped Franky was first seen.
@@joesmith8398 I think Dave has claimed credit for the stripes idea at some point the last couple of years, but I honestly don't know if he was serious or just trying to mess with people's heads. Either way, I personally don't believe it was the case.
@@professorgillsguitargearga6388 Yeah Chris Gill has detailed this in a great piece about the origins of Frankenstein for Guitar World in 2021. I'd urge anyone to check that out. He suggests it's possible that Ed was inspired by this, especially given the timing and the fact that Kinman says Ed saw them a couple of times at the Whisky in this period. I didn't include it in this video firstly because I wanted to keep it in Ed's words, but also it's a bit of a rabbit hole to go down without knowing if it's the truth or not.
@@professorgillsguitargearga6388 Actually, looking at your username, I'm wondering if you are in fact quite familiar with the Guitar World piece already? 😅
@@iconsrememberedYou would be correct!