Interview with Mike Eldred of El Cabron Guitars, Early Days of Charvel & Running The Fender Custom Shop
With over six decades of stories from working in the guitar industry, Mike Eldred has seen it all from the earliest days of Van Halen on the Sunset Strip, to being the first employee of Charvel Guitars up through managing the Fender Custom Shop and now building El Cabron Guitars. Watch our in-depth video interview now!
Music Zoo owner Tommy Colletti kicks off a new interview series in this conversation with Mike Eldred, a close friend for over thirty years. Tommy speaks to Mike about his entire career throughout the guitar industry from first discovering Wayne Charvel and Boogie Bodies through speaking to Eddie Van Halen during their early days as a local LA band, beginning to work with Grover Jackson at Charvel Guitars, managing the Fender Custom Shop in the 2000s and starting his friendship with John Mayer, to now his latest venture: El Cabron Guitars - available now at The Music Zoo.
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Video transcript
Mike Eldred in conversation with Tommy Colletti — Charvel, Jackson, Fender & El Cabrón
An in-depth conversation spanning Mike Eldred's entire career: learning guitar in Southern California, discovering Van Halen at Gizarri's, building guitars for Randy Rhoads and Allan Holdsworth at Charvel, running the Fender Custom Shop, and launching El Cabrón guitars.
