How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar

[metalmaniac93]

Nothing real new, but an interesting read!!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... -a-guitar/

 

[Piero the Guitarero]

Cool EVH Gear Article

EVH in Popular Mechanics magazine

 

[Racerxrated]

Good stuff!

 

[Drew]

And a box of D'Addario 8.5 strings on the bench.

 

[Racerxrated]

And a box of D'Addario 8.5 strings on the bench.

Yup. When you get older, it gets harder to play like you used to....age happens. Those of you shredding with 11s now, I highly doubt you will be able to use that gauge when you're 60+ yrs old.

 

[Drew]

And a box of D'Addario 8.5 strings on the bench.

Yup. When you get older, it gets harder to play like you used to....age happens. Those of you shredding with 11s now, I highly doubt you will be able to use that gauge when you're 60+ yrs old.

It's not the gauge that surprised me...it's the brand. I guess even evhgear.com can't keep up with his ever changing tastes.

 

[Hung Huy Tran]

I guess even evhgear.com can't keep up with his ever changing tastes.

It's in his DNA.

 

[Racerxrated]

And a box of D'Addario 8.5 strings on the bench.

Yup. When you get older, it gets harder to play like you used to....age happens. Those of you shredding with 11s now, I highly doubt you will be able to use that gauge when you're 60+ yrs old.

It's not the gauge that surprised me...it's the brand. I guess even evhgear.com can't keep up with his ever changing tastes.

Gotcha.

 

[SLOgriff]

All this talk about "strings" and no mention of the block letter Peavey 5150 sitting there?!? You guys are slipping....

 

[DAMIAN The MAN]

All this talk about "strings" and no mention of the block letter Peavey 5150 sitting there?!? You guys are slipping....

In the inner circle they're talking about BE 100 guts in the 5150 block letter....

 

[messenger]

All this talk about "strings" and no mention of the block letter Peavey 5150 sitting there?!? You guys are slipping....

In the inner circle they're talking about BE 100 guts in the 5150 block letter....

You've got the backwards. The BE100 has 5150 Block Letter guts inside.