Eddie Van Halen Lost Guitar Found - Now For Sale

One of the early EVH Guitars has been found and is up for sale. We got to be one of the first to publicly see this guitar. This one was used on the Women and Children First album. It was lost or thought to have been painted over but here it is and the story behind who has it now. This one will probably go to an auction house. For more Information give Eric a buzz at Abalone Vintage Guitars!

[mchlwilson]

I saw VH in early 1979. They were touring for VH II. At the end of the show a roadie set the Franketstrat on a stand, near the right side barricades...then walked away. My friends and I were about 5 feet away. No one else was around. VH hadn't gotten really famous yet, so there wasn't a big throng around the stage 15-20 minutes after the show. We were only 15 years old. We were saying, wow, we we could steal it, and they wouldn't even know! But instead we just took pictures. Great memories, we had no idea how famous that guitar would become over the years. 😁👍👍

[JIMJAMSC]

Eric lives nearby and we both played guitars since we were teens and went to the same HS. To say he is a gear head and knows guitars and all things music is a understatement. I had a chance to buy a Charvel Preproduction Bumble Bee from him for $ 5 grand. I really didn't know much about them and the fretboard was really worn so I passed... Instead I bought 2 EBMM Pinks 1993 so that eases the burn a little...

[orion]

I actually saw this listing on Reverb and I shook my head. This is truly a museum piece, but when Eddie passed the price on anything that ever had his name on it went through the roof. So now you can't even think about an EBMM EVH for less that five figures.

[jacobludowise]

I remember when that was on reverb real cheap about a year ago. Never would have guessed it was the evh mahogany bb strat

[nickcarrasco]

“Can I cuss?” That was genuine and hilarious. Great content guys.

[markboogie]

I have never dealt with a character bigger than Eric. He would take my order and hit every show. I would get a call when he was in town and buy a white van full of legit Charvel’s. He is the best.

[bigbikerbo]

and Eric is the only guy on earth who's just freaky enough to come up with something this cool...

[CraigParkerAdams]

Lucky guy!! I just used the guitar that is at Edward's right in the photo at 22 seconds ( aka Chris Holmes Ibanez Destroyer ) to write & record a track on my new record & It played & sounded just as you would expect. Such a gift. God Bless Edward!

[morganghetti]

There a boomer doctor somewhere that's going to be playing some fire pentatonic licks on that bad boy soon.

[markesquivelarvizu]

Ed said he had a really thick body made on it in order to make up for the tiny sounding early Floyd Rose.

[jmartini]

I mean like how would you really know that's authentic? I don't know man. There's so many builds out there. Possibly millions of them.

[kevincaliva]

At 2:45 he picks up the picture of the EVH 1980 collection. I first saw that picture in Guitar World magazine. In that picture the Frankenstrat has a pickguard on it, the only photo I have ever seen like that. Does anyone have information on this? Did Eddie ever play that guitar live in that configuration?

[evalonious]

That looks like the Vintage Guitar Show in Asheville. Wow never know what you can find there. Great event.

[stevemineer]

The Rude guitar is a 2" thick mahogany body as well. It’s easy to tell as the neck heel looks huge in all the photos. The Rasta guitar is normal thickness and Dweezil owns that now. I always thought this was the Rude guitar because of the thickness.

[simontemplar]

this is the coolest #&$^ing thing ever! I love when stuff like this turns up. And your boy here dropping an extra 5 large to get it overnighted? That guy is as gangsta as it gets. dayum! great great video!

[charleslord]

Forget Eddie's guitar, look at that Gibson EB-2 behind it!! Would love one of those.
Great story behind Eddie's guitar though, neat stuff! :-)

[MrGixxerr]

Just real cool content, and that guitar dealer even seemed cool. Keep up the great work Baxter!!

[richsackett]

I really like the host. He's good. Great story too.

[paulcrowder]

I'd like to know how this was authenticated. Comparing the guitar in the photo to the guitar in the video, they don't look like the same body. The grain pattern is similar in some places and not in others; there's also a pickup ring around the pickup in the video but not in the photo. Why would that have been added later? I also don't see the switch above the volume knob in the photo, but that could be hidden by the trem bar. I'd be super skeptical if I were a prospective buyer and all the evidence I had was what this guy is saying in the video.

[willneal]

They still have the star guitar. It’s the one he painted during the invasion tour in 1980 it has the crossbones on it. He played it white during the 79 tour.