Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen
Kramer | Charvel (Eddie Van Halen guitars are for sale by Ed Roman)
Eddie Van Halen Signature Charvel Guitars
Not too much needs to be said about Eddie Van Halen that anyone reading this will not already know. His influence on the Rock guitar world is probably second only to Ace Frehley in terms of the sheer numbers of players that were inspired to start playing guitar.
All I can say is that, like the famous question ' Do you remember what you were doing when you heard that Kennedy got shot?', 'Do you remember what you were doing the first time that you heard Van Halen?', the answer in most cases will be, "Yes, I remember.' I certainly do. I was at a backyard keg party in the Summer of '78 in Montauk, NY. They had an FM Rock station on, and all of a sudden an absolutely blistering guitar sound ripped across the party as the opening chords of 'You Really Got Me' exposed me to Van Halen for the first time. I remember asking a guy there, 'Who was that?' and he replied that it was a brand new band called Van Halen. I bought it the next day.
Eddie Van Halen upped the ante at a time when Rock guitar was entering a new, flashier modern era. Van Halen were playing Judas Priest covers at backyard parties in Southern California at the same time Randy Rhoads band Quiet Riot were getting started in the same scene. Gene Simmons was the man responsible for getting Van Halen demoed and signed. A major credit should be given to producer Ted Templeman who is responsible for recording the most explosive guitar sound put on tape up to that point in R&R history. Templeman had set the high water mark for heavy guitar sound 5 years before in 1973 when he produced the classic first Montrose album (with Sammy Hager on vocals who would eventually become the longest reigning Van Halen singer), which at that time was the most in your face guitar sound on a record. He was good at it and clearly had a vision for where the modern Rock guitar sound should be going. He and Eddie engineered Eddie's famous 'Brown Sound'. The rest as they say is 'R&R history'...
Ed Roman Guitars now have all the Charvel EVH Limited Edition candy stripe Models!
Call for yours today!
