Interesting Read About Ed's Guitars On VH I

[Bowanna]

The ‘Other’ Van Halen I Guitar?

http://www.woodytone.com/2009/08/24/the-other-van-halen-i-guitar/

[sadaist]

Cool read. I know so little about guitar shit like that, most of it might as well be written in German. But the pics were great...made even greater by the fact that is was Dave that had em stored away & slapped em up on his site.

[chefcraig]

It's an interesting read, but most of it is pure speculation based upon a pair of images from a photo session for the first album cover, and a further guess based on a photo from sessions that had absolutely nothing to do with it, which was the recording of the second album. For the past thirty years, it has been widely documented that EVH used the original Frankenstrat (with a PAF pickup unceremoniously bolted to the body) and the Ibanez Destroyer (with either an original Super 70 or PAF pickup) that he later butchered with a chainsaw. A Les Paul Junior has never been mentioned in the recording of the first album, but this guy looks at a couple of photos and manages to connect the dots when no one has done so before? Unlikely.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

It's an interesting read, but most of it is pure speculation based upon a pair of images from a photo session for the first album cover, and a further guess based on a photo from sessions that had absolutely nothing to do with it, which was the recording of the second album. For the past thirty years, it has been widely documented that EVH used the original Frankenstrat (with a PAF pickup unceremoniously bolted to the body) and the Ibanez Destroyer (with either an original Super 70 or PAF pickup) that he later butchered with a chainsaw. A Les Paul Junior has never been mentioned in the recording of the first album, but this guy looks at a couple of photos and manages to connect the dots when no one has done so before? Unlikely.

didn't anthony play all the guitars on the first album?

[Jagermeister]

Hmmm. Who cares?

[indeedido]

I don't hear anything on VH I that sounds like it would be P90s.

[sadaist]

I don't hear anything on VH I that sounds like it would be P90s.

Wouldn't hurt to give it another listen....or 100.

[Hardrock69]

I think that article is a buncha hot air.

I mean, what the hell, dude can speculate all he wants to and all, but it is pretty much meaningless. So he used a Les Paul on a photo shoot.

Was kinda interesting info about the original pickup reading zero ohms, but whose to say it did not short out sometime more recently, like say in the late 90s?

Oh well. What the hell.

[darkknight]

I believe the readings on his pickup go back to the late 80s/early 90s. Seymour Duncan and John Suhr(?) both read the pickup with the same result. It does have a single coil-ish sound. It's not fat like a JB or Super Distortion. I think that pickup started changing sound around Diver Down. He didn't use the Les Paul on VH1. Those pictures were taken at the Whiskey. It was either before a gig or the day they videotaped You Really Got Me and Runnin' With The Devil. He just used it to pose with. Also, those VHII "session" photos were not taken while recording. They were done after the album was recorded. Zloz said they were all posed with trash on the floor and crap everywhere. Totally fabricated. Although, the light wood Strat with the Danelectro neck was used on VHII for the intro to Women In Love.

Yes, I'm a guitar geek.

[Don Corleone]

So he used a Les Paul on a photo shoot.

And for all anyone knows that could be one of the Pauls which Ed mentioned in an interview after VH1 where he said "I went out and bought 2 Pauls with some of the money we made off the album"

[ashstralia]

google image search, there's lot's of pic's of young ed playing les pauls....

[indeedido]

[sadaist]

Rehearsing in a dance studio? Those bars on the wall behind Eddie are for dancers to stretch their legs up on...no?

[indeedido]

I didn't even notice those. LOL

I wonder who is tickling the ivories.

[Seshmeister]

The same person who stole Eddies dummy?