EDDIE VAN HALEN AND HIS ORIGINAL GUITAR

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00:00This is the original guitar that, I mean, people really saw this thing up close.

00:07I mean, what happened was the body, it's Boogie Bodies, the one Wayne Charvel owned the place.

00:17You know, I took it apart because I wanted a vibrato in it.

00:21This is pre-Floyd Rose.

00:25On the first record, it's black and white.

00:27And I didn't know how to wire the stuff back up.

00:30See, this is a switch that's supposed to be there.

00:34You know, it can move.

00:35Anyway, I didn't know how to wire it back up, so I said to myself,

00:38I wonder what happens if you just take the back up straight to, see how it says tone?

00:44Well, it's a volume knob, but when you turn it up, you get nice tone.

00:48So, and it worked.

00:50So I'm going, what the hell do I need anymore, you know?

00:53And people are going, well, what's that? What's that?

00:54And I'm going, secret.

00:56It's not even...

00:57All right.