Ongoing History Daily: The olden days of bass, part 2
When it comes to someone playing bass in a band, the only option was the big double bass, a stringed instrument that was often bigger and taller than the person
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25 mind-bending pieces of music trivia you can use to amaze your friends with your brilliance
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] For the last number of decades, I’ve made a career out of sourcing strange and wonderful facts about the world of
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 941: The story of the electric guitar, part 2
For centuries, music and nice and clean. While different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of these notes were expected to be projected with clarity and purity. Yes, you
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The complete story of how we came to have loud, fuzzy, distorted guitars
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] When Les Paul and Leo Fender introduced their electric guitars in the early 1950s, they were looking for a way to
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Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 146: The History of Fender Guitars
Okay, we went long this time but that’s because we have a fascinating interview with Phyllis Fender, the widow of guitar legend Leo Fender. She and Randall Bell (Leo’s biographer)
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