Eddie Van Halen, who has died at the age of 65 ... of aspiring guitarists to vandalise their instruments. His souped-up "Frankenstrat" even featured in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan ...

You also saw Eddie ... s Frankenstrat. What it must have been like to be in the studio while Roth tracked his spoken-word bits. Few rock guitarists have broken more ground than Eddie Van Halen.

One day about six or seven years ago, I walked into my family's music room and saw it hanging on our wall: a replica of Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white, and black "Frankenstrat" guitar that my ...