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[4] [5] Lonnie Donegan was Banks' first major musical influence and inspired him to take up the guitar at around 8 years of age. [6] His parents bought him his records to listen to as well as his first guitar, an acoustic model which he later said "was practically unplayable". [4] His first electric guitar was a Gretsch Tennessean.
Electric guitar design and construction vary greatly in the shape of the body and the configuration of the neck, bridge, and pickups. However, some features are present on most guitars. The photo below shows the different parts of an electric guitar. The headstock (1) contains the metal machine heads (1.1), which use a worm gear for tuning.
Bob Dylan (born 1941) owned a black-and-white early 1960s Telecaster with a maple cap fretboard, which became one of his first electric guitars, shaping his controversial electric sound. He used this guitar on his epic 1966 tour of Australia and Europe and then Robbie Robertson adopted it for his use with the Band for their first 4 albums and ...
He is credited with design innovations that allowed Fender to produce its first solid body electric guitars, the Esquire and Broadcaster, which the company introduced in 1950. [3] After leaving Fender in 1970, he continued to work with Leo Fender at the CLF Research company, and later co-founded G&L Musical Instruments along with Fender and ...
The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Definitive, 2005) Solo Flight: Live! with the Benny Goodman Sextet (Definitive, 2008) On the Air (Fuel 2000/Varèse Sarabande, 2009) Yale University Archives, Vol. 5: NBC Broadcast Recordings 1936-1943 (Nimbus, 2010) Electric, with the Benny Goodman Sextet and the Charlie Christian Quartet (Uptown, 2011)
The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the tele / ˈ t ɛ l i /, [1] is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Together with its sister model the Esquire, it was the world's first mass-produced, commercially successful [note 1] solid-body electric guitar. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends ...
Jerry Garcia's Rosebud guitar. Red Special – an electric guitar owned by Queen guitarist Brian May and custom-built by him and his father Harold over a two-year period beginning in 1963. [55] The Red Special is also sometimes named in reviews as the Fireplace or the Old Lady, both nicknames used by May when referring to the guitar. [56] [57]
Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti was the first album he owned, [17] and said the hard rock band Kiss was an early favorite. [18] He grew up singing around the house and in harmony with his mother, [19] and said all his family sang. [20] He began playing guitar at the age of five after discovering an acoustic guitar in his grandmother's closet. [21]