The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1053: Rock’s iconic musical instruments
Most of us probably go through a phase where we decide we want to make music for ourselves. Maybe we’ll do it alone, or perhaps we want to be part of a band.
The first thing you need to do is decide what instrument you’re going to play. Once you do that, you have to narrow things down to the exact make and model of that instrument.
When you’re starting, your dream instrument is probably out of reach financially, so you make do with whatever you can afford. But you never lose sight of one day owning an iconic rock’n’roll machine of some sort.
It might be a guitar…and if it’s a guitar, you will inevitably have an opinion on amplifiers…perhaps you’re into keyboards…you might covet an expensive grand piano…or you have your eye on a particular line and model of electronic keyboard. The same applies to drums…
What are these iconic instruments? What instruments are famous and desired by musicians around the world? And what is it about these particular music-making thingies that makes them so desirable?
Let’s investigate. This is a look at the most iconic musical instruments—the GOATS of the tools of rock’n’roll.
Songs heard on this show:
- Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen
- Foo Fighters, Everlong
- Smashing Pumpkins, Cherub Rock
- Green Day, She
- Royal Blood, Figure It Out
- Slayer, Raining Blood
- Nirvana, About a Girl
- Charlatans UK, The Only One I Know
- Nine Inch Nails, Head Like a Hole
Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist for the episode.
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