Eddie Van Halen's Guitar Collection Reveals His Fascination

There is no question that Vitas was a tremendous tennis player.  This Brooklyn-born Kramer 5150 Guitar Lithuanian-American would win 25 top-level singles titles and 8 doubles titles during his career, culminating in his highest singles ranking of  worldwide in 1978.  Vitas was also a classically trained pianist as well as a guitarist, and he and Eddie would reportedly get together often to hang out and jam.  Tragically Vitas would pass away in an accident in 1994, but he always cherished this symbol of his Kramer 5150 Guitar for sale friendship with Eddie Van Halen until the end of his life.

What trips me out about this kramer5150guitar.com guitar is that when I painted it red, that made it more famous. A lot of people still don’t know that it’s the same guitar as the black-and-white guitar on the cover of the first Van Halen album. That guitar went through a lot of different phases and changes. On the first record, it had a stock vintage Fender Strat vibrato, then the Floyd came around, and then I added the dummy pickup at the neck. I kept changing it because I was tired of people copying my guitar.