What are these EVH guitars?

[cdwillis]

Has anyone ever seen Ed use these guitars in the foreground? (I know you can barely see them in the pic.)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/cdwillis/van_halen_06.jpg

[jhale667]

Strat-head Kramers....from very early on in the Kramer endorsement...He used the doubleneck in the US Festival vid....

[cdwillis]

Thanks for the info. I just realized that I've seen the doubleneck before, but those kramers were a mystery. Did he actually use them at shows? I thought he stuck to the "frankenstrat" or the VH II guitar.

[RuzDNailz]

Probably did at some point, I guess. Like many other guitarists.

[jhale667]

...They were basically back-ups, from what I understand...much like the guitar from the 'Unchained' video you never saw again...

[GAR]

I was told he used one or two of those Kramer-stripes on an east coast leg of an 81 or 82 tour. There's a pic or two out there I've seen, they look like colored electrician's tape, not paint stripes.

[darkknight]

The one on the far left is a Boogie Bodies parts guitar, not a Kramer. The one in the middle is the purple Kramer he played onstage with Allan Holdsworth in a club. At the time it didn't have stripes. The stripes are electrical tape.

[Don Corleone]

Known as the Rasta guitars. Gars right about the stripes, it's electrical tape not paint on them. One of them stated life as a Purple Kramer Pacer, (I'm not sure what the other one is).

[Don Corleone]

Here's the Pacer from the front: