Eddie Van Halen.Photo: Ross Marino/Getty
If you want to shred likeVan Halen, you might have to wait for the next auction.
Eddie Van Halen’s original guitar from the 1984 “Hot for Teacher” music video was sold at auction on Tuesday, bringing in an impressive $3,932,000.
The iconic custom Kramer guitar had a minimum bid of $1.8 million, with its value estimated to be somewhere between $2 and $3 million.
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One person who likely won’t be buying an original Van Halen guitar and playing “Hot for Teacher” is the late rocker’s sonWolfgang Van Halen— who opened up about missing his father in an interview forAudacy Check In, and said it’s important to him that he honor him in ways greater than just singing his songs.
“He’s the reason why I do what I do. I wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for him,” Wolfgang, 32, said last month. “So that’s certainly very important. I think just doing what I do is enough of a reference and tribute—just me existing and continuing to be my own person and my own musical space.”
The rocker continued with a reference to Van Halen’s 1984 hit “Panama”: “I don’t think people realize that me just doing that is enough of a tribute and respect toward the life that he gave me, and the interests he instilled in me. I don’t have to play ‘Panama’ in order to respect him, you know what I mean?”
Wolfgang added that his dad — who died in October 2020 at age 65 — wasn’t a fan of covers himself, but when he did, made a point to “fully transform it” into something of his own.
source: people.com
