Check out this hilarious Eddie Van Halen invention

[panama]

http://www.google.com/patents?id=-Qg...page&q&f=false

The pictures that accompany the patent are INCREDIBLE.

[bassteban]

July 85
WOOHOO

[Justin Tuskey]

thanks for the laugh, I needed that and tis now my desktop background

[kenfxj]

That's one of the stupidest looking things I've ever seen. He'll sell a million of 'em. "That's why I can't shred like Eddie! I ain't got one of those support things! Mom! I need to cash in a savings bond!"

[panama]

Mom, I can create sounds and techniques PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TO ANY PLAYER!

[dave64o]

I heard that Michael Anthony played a significant in the development of said invention but Eddie somehow got the US Patent Office to go back and remove Michael's name from all the records.

[Ric5]

What bothers me is the really expensive reliced re-issue Van Halen guitars with stripes. When his original was a cheap guitar.

[panama]

Originally Posted by dave64o

I heard that Michael Anthony played a significant in the development of said invention but Eddie somehow got the US Patent Office to go back and remove Michael's name from all the records.

Maybe EVH was jealous of Anthony's patents on the Jack Daniels bass and his sloppy drunken bass solos.

[GtenderG]

Steve Hackett was tapping long before EVH... Time to contact a Patent Attorney.

[tangentmusic]

Notice his patent date was April 14 1987.
This thing has been out there for a while.
I've never seen one in a music store. (never looked for one either)

[JTE]

Hmm... See, the patent has nothing to do with the way you play it, it's merely a support to allow one to switch from the "normal" way of holding a guitar (which used to be called "Spanish") to a way that holds it so it's horizontal to the floor (which used to be called "Hawaian"). Steve Hackett's (and Billy Gibbons', and Harvey Mandle's) use of two handed tapping pre-dating EVH's is totally separate from the support that's in the patent.

John

[Jumbotron]

That diagram of it in use is hi-larious.
Did he also patent that hair and pose?

[SMILEYSIXX]

So Eddie Van Halen patented a sideways guitar? There are not enough *facepalm*s for this.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by tangentmusic

Notice his patent date was April 14 1987.
This thing has been out there for a while.
I've never seen one in a music store. (never looked for one either)

Just because something has been patented doesnt mean that it was actually produced.

[Skitch it!]

Cocaine Decisions

[5StringBlues]

^ chop a line now!







Yeah,nobody ever held the guitar parallel to the ground like that 'till Eddie.

[lamonica78]

Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

^ chop a line now!







Yeah,nobody ever held the guitar parallel to the ground like that 'till Eddie.

Yeah.....I think a lot of you are missing the point of the patent. It's not patent for holding the guitar sideways or tapping. The patent is for a device that would act as a brace for the guitar and allow you to not actually have to hold it in that position so that it frees up your hands. That being said....it definitely does look goofy

[Skitch it!]

Jeff Healey already nailed it.

[5StringBlues]

Originally Posted by lamonica78

It's not patent for holding the guitar sideways or tapping.

Yeah,you can't patent the way you hold a guitar,obviously.....



I was just pointing out the fact that every "new" thing Eddie did had actually already been done.

[JMac4strngr]

That thing looks like if Your strap broke it would slide down Your body and cut off the old cocknballs, or maybe even a toe....... Besides, I would never be cool enough to sport the playing stance required to use that device........