The custom-built Kramer electric guitar that Eddie Van Halen used in the Hot For Teacher and onstage as the VH rock juggernaut conquered the world in 1984 has gone the way of David Gilmour’s Black Strat having now been sold at auction for just over $3.9 million.
Listed by Sotheby’s and sold on 18 April, Eddie’s red-black-and-white stripped Kramer fetched a whopping $3,932,000, making it one of the most expensive guitars in the world – though just shy of Gilmour’s most-famous Fender Stratocaster, which sold for $3,975,000 in 2019, then a world record.
