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Kerry Doole, in his review for Exclaim! was critical of the film and wrote, "A so-called "history" of the electric guitar that doesn't include interviews with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Pete Townshend but spotlights corporate rockers like Neal Schon (Journey), Steve Lukather of Toto (featured way too much here) and Mick Jones (the Foreigner one, not the Clash guy) is rather lacking ...
George Delmetia Beauchamp (/ ˈ b iː tʃ ə m / [citation needed]; March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments.He is known for designing the first electrically amplified guitar to be marketed commercially.
Paul was Miller's godfather and his first guitar teacher. [65] [66] Ford gave birth to their first child on November 30, 1954, but the girl was born prematurely and died when she was four days old. [64] They adopted a girl, Colleen, in 1958, and their son, Robert (Bobby), was born the following year. Paul and Ford divorced in December 1964. [53]
The history of electric guitars has been summarized by Guitar World magazine, and the earliest electric guitar on their top 10 list is the Ro-Pat-In Electro A-25 "Frying Pan" (1932) described as "The first-fully functioning solid-body electric guitar to be manufactured and sold". [24]
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)
In 1944, he bought his first electric guitar and then formed his first electric combo. He felt obliged to electrify his sound in Chicago because, he said, "When I went into the clubs, the first thing I wanted was an amplifier. Couldn't nobody hear you with an acoustic." His sound reflected the optimism of postwar African Americans.
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1887 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American production engineer and machinist who, together with George Beauchamp, created the first electric string instrument, and co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company, also with Beauchamp. [1] Rickenbacker was born in Basel, Switzerland as Adolf Rickenbacher. He immigrated ...