Joe Satriani has all-but-confirmed he’ll be playing an EVH Striped Series '78 Eruption on – but it will be unlike any other EVH guitar you’ve seen before. Last month, Satch was spotted rehearsing with his new bandmates – Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham – . It prompted the question whether Satriani would swap his Ibanez for something more befitting the Van Halen material the Best of All Worlds group is planning to play.

It would make sense: Satch takes tone very seriously, and has already confirmed designed to channel Eddie Van Halen’s guitar tone. With Hagar and Roth-era songs set to feature on the tour setlist, a guitar switch to further harness the Van Halen tone is a no-brainer. Now, Satch has shared a snap on social media that confirms he will play an EVH guitar alongside his Ibanez models, but take a closer look: that EVH Striped Series model he’s holding is absolutely wild.

Why? Well, look at the mods. Satch has transformed Van Halen’s humble one-humbucker workhorse into a state-of-the-art example of modern guitar electronics, equipping it with a neck Sustainiac pickup and a raft of new switches and buttons. There are three new toggle switches on the modded model, which will likely serve as On/Off, Mode, and pickup selector functions.

It looks like there’s also a new button to contend with. A kill switch, perhaps? Or another parameter to control a tone function? Whatever the case, it's certainly grabbed attention: Dweezil Zappa, the king .