“When the Strat wasn't working right during a show, Rory would pick this up”: Rory Gallagher’s back-up ‘Frankenstein’ Strat – gifted to its current owner by U2 – sells at auction for over $50K

Rory Gallagher A Dave Edwards Custom Stratocaster.

Eddie Van Halen is the guitarist most people think of when the word ‘Frankenstein’ is uttered in guitar circles, but Rory Gallagher had one of his own, and it’s just sold at auction for $50K.

A Dave Edwards custom-made Strat, it served as Rory Gallagher's number two guitar in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when his main squeeze, his timeless and time-worn 1961 Strat, started playing up, or simply needed a rest – and now it’s made quite the journey to the auction block.