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This guitar is one of my personal favorites. I remember the first time I ever saw the guitar was in a photo from Life Magazine. They followed Edward on the road around the time of the Fair Warning and Diver Down tours. That is my favorite Van Halen album by the way. Anyhow, as you may or may not know Edward built a lot of his own guitars. He was backstage with a bunch of them and this one kind of in the middle as I vaguely recall. It really stood out to me. (If anyone has that photo please post it!) It was the only guitar he had that had any green on it. I like green so it stuck in my head for years. A decade later I went to Edward's 5150 recording studio for a recording session. He played a few amazing solos on my as yet unfinished magnum opus - What The Hell Was I Thinking? (Started working on it in the early 90's so it's soon to be 20 years in the making)
Anyway the "Rasta" guitar - That's what Edward called it - He also referred to it as UBAB - was sitting in the corner. The neck was off. I said, "Hey that's the guitar from Life Magazine" and he replied, "Oh yeah, I hate that guitar... it's too heavy. Do you want it?" "Yes please" was my immediate response. It came replete with actual dried vomit in the neck joint and a little left on the guitar as well. It's still there...BRUTAL Cologna...
This has been posted in the past, but fits the thread well. Here, Dweezil tells a charming story about his infatuation with Eddie Van Halen, then plays "Eruption" on a VH II era copy guitar.
To a teenage EVH freak (pre Meth era) that would be mindblowing!
Totally, can you imagine? At 12?
IIRC as legend goes, Eddie actually gave him a few more lessons...and cool that he'd let a kid hang out and witness his (then complete) awesomeness.
I also love that Dweezil's still got Frank's Hendrix Strat...
(I want to relic out a Sunburst body that badly and put a black pickguard on it... )
Originally posted by conmee If anyone even thinks about deleting the Muff Thread they are banned.... no questions asked.
That is all.
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Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO I've seen prominent hypocrite liberal on this site Jhale667
Originally posted by Isaac R. Then it's really true??:eek:
The Muff Thread is really just GONE ???
OMFG...who in their right mind...???
Originally posted by eddie78 I was wrong about you, brother. You're good.
"What we've been doing, which is great and certainly cost saving, is I train in the sand pit in McDonald's. I do a few laps. I go through the tunnel a few times. The kids don't mind if I smoke. Plus, when I'm done, lunch is right there."- DLR 2003
Here's something I didn't know...supposedly the Rasta guitar is the Unchained guitar repainted...which is kinda sad in a way, the Unchained graphic looked killer! Always imagined it was hanging on the wall or in a stand somewhere in EVH's house...
This became this? Boo!
One wonders, does the puke in the neck pocket add extra mojo?
Originally posted by conmee If anyone even thinks about deleting the Muff Thread they are banned.... no questions asked.
That is all.
Icon.
Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO I've seen prominent hypocrite liberal on this site Jhale667
Originally posted by Isaac R. Then it's really true??:eek:
The Muff Thread is really just GONE ???
OMFG...who in their right mind...???
Originally posted by eddie78 I was wrong about you, brother. You're good.
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