Eddi Van Halen’s 1960s Gibson SG Junior (Polaris White)

Eddie used this guitar live in the mid-to-late 1970s, and later used it to record the slide parts on “Dirty Movies” from Fair Warning. For that recording, he modified the guitar by cutting off the treble-side horn, because it prevented him from reaching the higher notes with the slide.

Eddie with the guitar, around 1977-1978.

The guitar remained with the family after Eddie’s passing, and his son, Wolfgang, used it on his album Mammoth II, released in 2023.

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