Ongoing History Daily: A fascinating electric guitar story
Les Paul, one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, tells a story about how he came up with some early ideas for electrifying an acoustic guitar. In the late
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Random music news for Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Attention studios of the JFK assassination: This piece of news is the biggest thing we’ve heard since…the Zapruder film? This raises a lot of new questions. Meanwhile, let’s get some
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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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It’s not new Tool, but it is an animated short scored by guitarist Adam Jones
Before Tool took off, guitarist Adam Jones was a special visual effects expert who worked on Hollywood films, something that was put to good use in the band’s early videos.
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: The Inventors
Every walk of life has its stars, the famous people who get all the attention. In business, it’s the CEOs. In sports, it’s the quarterback, the homerun-hitter, the big goal
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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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Les Paul (He of the Guitar and Multi-Track Recording) Once Ran a Pirate Radio Station
Les Paul is known for (a) the Gibson guitar that bears his name; and (b) this pioneering work in developing multi-track (or as he called it, “sound-on-sound”) recording. But until
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 749: Unsung Heros
History of full of stories of people who did great things but aren’t remembered for them. For example, Scott Neeson was the head of 20th Century Fox in Hollywood. But
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Random Music News for Monday, January 4, 2016
All right, back to work. Only 78 days until spring. And while we’re on the subject of a new year, this isn’t going to sit well with religious types. (Via
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Off to Dublin tonight. Anyone have any tips? Can you tune a tree? (Via Tom) Some say that Johnny Cash is the author of the greatest love letter of all
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