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Electric Guitars, The Illustrated Encyclopedia
Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia is a tour through pop-music’s most celebrated musical instrument. Covering several decades of iconic pieces, this guide describes electric guitars produced by every significant manufacturer from Alembic to Zemaitis.
Alongside every model is detailed information and a host of action pictures of key players, from Chet Atkins to Joey Z. 1,200 photographs really bring each guitar to life. With 800 classic, rare and unusual instruments from all major manufacturers in studio-quality photographs, plus illustrations of key players, original ads, and memorabilia, it’s easy to get lost within these pages.
Comprehensive and informative text with a unique A-to-Z guitar directory covers makers’ histories, great guitarists, and musical trends. This is the definitive guide to the electric guitar, written and researched by the world’s leading authorities on the instrument that has shaped over 50 years of popular music.
In words and pictures, detailed descriptions of just why the electric guitar is the most exciting icon of modern pop music.
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign, With Illustrations and Woodcuts
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign
Bakersfield Guitars, The Illustrated History
From out of the dust of California’s San Joaquin Valley . . . The Ventures only endorsed Mosrite guitars for about five years. But the legendary instrumental band’s use of the upstart guitar line in the mid-1960s was and is, for many musicians, the first band-brand affiliation they remember.
That saga is part of the iconic guitar boom during that decade, which changed the American music scene forever. California’s guitar-centric surf music genre was going strong in the early part of that decade .
. . but there ain’t no surf in Bakersfield, where numerous instrument builders and innovators were toiling in the gritty and dusty clime of Kern County. Bakersfield Guitars: The Illustrated Historycontains the compelling chronologies of numerous intriguing, born-in-Bakersfield guitar brands, including Mosrite, Hallmark, Gruggett, Standel (three different manufacturers), Encor, Epcor, Dobro (by Mosrite), GM Custom, Melobar, Osborne, and Acoustic.
Among the noted musicians whose recollections are documented here are Marshall Crenshaw, Tommy Shaw, Jorma Kaukonen, Jeff Carlisi, Fred Newell, Ed King, Chuck Seaton, Eugene Moles, Jim Shaw, Tim Bogert, Davie Allan, Jackson Smith, and others.
