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Originally Posted by Rick Lee

For the songs on the first album with no whammy bar, he used the Ibanez Destroyer, which he had just made into the Shark guitar, later seen on the cover of the third album. It's in the video for You Really Got Me. The Frankenstrat was used mostly on the second album, was painted red before the tour, and had a Floyd Rose on it by the third album. And there are some outtake photos of him with a tobacco burst Les Paul Junior for the photo shoot for the first album. I guess they decided the Frankenstrat looked cooler for the final cut.

BTW, of all his great feats, the one I find most amazing is Hot For Teacher. He used a '59 Korina wood Flying V, the whole song is done in one take with no overdubs and that solo and tone are just to die for. Those guitars are north of $400k now.

For those who want to render their own opinion on Eddie's work on "hot For Teacher", listen to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwWpPY6x-cY&feature=emb_logo

This is an isolated guitar track of Eddie's playing from the song. I can't really weigh-in, mostly because I suck at guitar. I just know I loved the video and my then girlfriend (now wife) pretty much hated it. She still gave me "the look" just now when she heard his guitar as she thought I was watching the original video!