EVH is proud to announce the release of one of the most requested guitars Eddie Van Halen has played over the years, the EVH Stripe Series “Circles” guitar made famous by Van Halen’s 1981 Unchained music video.
With an otherworldly black-and-white “circles” graphic gloss finish, the EVH Circles model is without question one of the most distinctively eye-catching guitars in the Stripe Series lineup. There’s nothing alien about the rest of this high performance tone machine, though, with its sleek Strat®-like basswood body, rock-solid quartersawn maple neck with oiled finish, fast and smooth compound-radius maple fingerboard (12”-16”) with comfortably rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets, a single ferocious EVH direct-mount pickup with single black plastic control knob (master volume), EVH Floyd Rose® with D-Tuna® bridge and locking nut, and EVH tuners.
For more information, go to evhgear.com.
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Another cheap import guitar cheapening an already fading brand.
eh, still better than anything a guitarist could buy in the 70’s, when Ed started out playing.
You’re paying a premium for the EVH brand, but they’re pretty good fiddles if you like the looks. Frankly I like this one the best, always have.
You can grab a Kramer 1984 model for a little less. I kind of prefer the old banana headstock.
Eddie uses custom made guitars. Rosewood is nicer.
Eddie’s always played maple fretboards (at least on stage, he plays whatever the hell he wants in the studio).
No opinion on these new ones. Would have liked to have had one of the early Ernie Ball models that had the necks that were laser scanned and CAM duplicated from Frankenstein…
The Wolfgang Stealth has an ebony fretboard.
Did he play that model a lot on the last tour? I can’t remember.
He did. There’s video footage on YouTube of him doing his solo spot with that guitar.
The Steinberger TransTrem model from 5150 was a notable rosewood exception, I should say…
there was a video for “unchained”?
Yes, it was actually a “live” clip from ’81, probably can find it on youtube. 😉
It used to play on MTV all the time back when it first started. There’s another video from the same concert that was shown a lot to. It was for “So This Is Love”.
I’ve seen it, just didn’t notice the guitar paint job (silly me) – I was more interested in how many times DLR leaped through the air. That is one thing I sorely miss about vintage VH. I don’t expect him to do it anymore, but it would be nice to see the next generation of performers do similar stuff on stage.
Yes it would. Airbourne is the new AC/DC, but will there ever be a new Van Halen? 😉
One last cash grab before the grave….I smell another tour that won’t happen coming next…