Wolfgang Van Halen has revealed that he used his late father Eddie Van Halen‘s iconic Frankenstein guitar, aka the Frankenstrat, to record parts on his new Mammoth song “The End.” ...

Wolfgang Van Halen has shared a clip of him tracking the slap guitar section of his new song, The End, on his late father's legendary Frankenstein guitar. After dropping his initials from the band ...

A new mini-documentary charting Eddie Van Halen’s pre-Frankenstein electric guitar journey has been released online. Masterminded by Simon Alkin and narrated by old audio of Van Halen himself ...

Van Halen didn’t name the guitar, but it’s how fans referred to his iconic axe (’50s-era slang borrowed from the saxophone) over time. Van Halen’s famous Frankenstein comprises multiple ...

Guitars like the Frankenstein or the Shark, stuff like that,” said Van Halen. As for that next record, Van Halen also offered Total Guitar an update on the scope of the album.

Wolfgang Van Halen is paying tribute to dad Eddie Van Halen in his band's newest album. In Mammoth WVH's new song "Take a Bow," Wolfgang played Eddie's iconic Frankenstein guitar and belted out a ...

WASHINGTON—One of Eddie Van Halen’s guitars will have a home at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The museum announced Monday that it has acquired the “Frank 2 ...

About Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein Guitar + Wolf's Mammoth Usage. Over the years, the iconic guitar has been called both "Frankenstein" and "Frankenstrat," but during a 2024 appearance on the ...

The tale begins way back in 1967, when Van Halen purchased his first-ever guitar – a $40 Teisco Del Rey – at the age of 12. Over the next decade, Eddie would embark on a journey of six-string ...