EVH MINI-DOC: The Early Guitars In His Own Words | The Journey to Frankenstein

[Seshmeister]

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: https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-... 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.

[Kristy]

So Eddie wasn't the poor black child he led us all to believe.

[Terry]

So Eddie wasn't the poor black child he led us all to believe.

And Eddie's playing style didn't spring up out of thin air after he was exclusively listening to Eric Clapton via Cream, despite Eddie's allusions otherwise.