Sixty-nine years after his dad was born, Wolfgang Van Halen unveiled a brand new signature guitar in his honor.
The EVH Gear SA-126 is a nod to Eddie Van Halen in its title — the guitar legend was born on Jan. 26, 1955 — however the sound that the guitar creates belongs distinctly to Wolfgang.
“I knew I wished to do my very own sound and never simply instantly emulate all the things my dad did,” Van Halen instructed Chuck Armstrong on Friday evening’s version of Loudwire Nights (Jan. 26).
“I wished to search for a unique tone and that is the place I discovered semi-hollows. I assumed merging what EVH Gear is thought for — form of shreddy necks and shreddy guitars usually — however marrying that with the form of basic semi-hollow. And that is what the 126 is. It is this loopy form of hybrid instrument that may form of do something.”
Van Halen instructed Chuck that if followers need to know what the SA-126 is able to, simply take heed to Mammoth WVH’s newest album, Mammoth II.
“I actually performed that for nearly the whole thing of the file. Like 95 % of the album is that guitar.”
Chuck requested Van Halen if he ever thought of naming this guitar one thing totally different, protecting that bond between him and his Pop to himself.
Van Halen shortly answered.
“Yeah, however on the identical time, I feel this opens up a complete new space of the EVH model,” he defined. “I do know numerous youthful gamers, they’re not likely into the Floyd [Rose tremolo]…I feel there’s so many guitar gamers on the market who simply take a look at a Floyd and go, ‘Eww.’ That is often what the model presents. It is actually enjoyable to have the ability to combine that up and to supply one thing fully totally different that I feel additionally represents all the things that we stand for in making unbelievable devices that help you be your self.”
Van Halen and the EVH Gear staff have been engaged on the SA-126 guitar for 3 years, however he instructed the Loudwire Nights viewers that he is had a reasonably good time with the method.
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“It has been actually enjoyable placing all of the work in and crash testing it, as my dad would all the time put it again within the day,” he admitted.
“Taking part in it for the final two years on the street and actually simply banging these guitars up and utilizing them within the studio, it has been actually, actually, actually enjoyable to lastly get the guitar to the purpose the place it is prepared for the general public. I am stoked.”
Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Beneath
Wolfgang Van Halen joined Loudwire Nights on Friday, Jan. 26; the present replays on-line right here, and you’ll tune in dwell each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you too can see if the present is out there in your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand. Stream Mammoth II at this location, try Mammoth WVH’s full tour schedule and seize particulars on the brand new SA-126 guitar from EVH Gear.
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