Was this teenage prodigy the world’s first electric guitar player?
But being the man to first bring the electric guitar to the world’s ears for the very first time is quite a legacy. George Barnes' story is celebrated over at his family-owned website, which includes ...
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Classical Guitarist Plays the ‘Severance' Theme While Alternately Dressed as His ‘Innie' and ‘Outie'
M usician Sam Griffin noted the innie and outie variations within the theme music for Severance and performed the song ...
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Aggressively bizarre, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica remains one of the craziest guitar-driven albums ever made
Dense as a rainforest, sometimes grating, and often hard to grasp, Captain Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica, ...
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Priceless Archtop guitars shown off at Christ the King School in Burlington, Vermont
THEY WERE BUILT TO HONOR FAMOUS GUITAR BUILDER, JIMMY D'AQUISTO DEE- . THE COLLECTION WAS MODELED AND DYED TO MIRROR ONE OF HIS ICONIC BLUE GUITARS. TODAY... THE FOUNDER OF THE ARCH TOP FOUNDATION ...
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“I Got Sticky Fingers”: The Botched Solo That Relegated Paul McCartney to Bass in the Beatles
Bass players often find themselves at the butt-end of tongue-in-cheek jokes about “those who can’t play guitar ... With Me,” with Lennon ad-libbing blues lines in between the recognizable ...
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In ‘Song So Wild and Blue’ a writing life, lived alongside Joni Mitchell’s music
“I was instantly drawn to her open tunings,” Lisicky says, referring to how Mitchell created her own guitar tunings, sometimes to accommodate a left hand weakened by polio. “I think on an ...
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Funeral on Blue Monday for noted musician Ray DelPriore
To distract him from his grief, his mother gave him a guitar as a birthday gift ... a prominent regional musician who played with big-name blues acts and taught music lessons for decades ...