The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 3
In assessing popular music in the last half of the 20th century, rock music was a massive cultural phenomenon\u2026initially driven by young baby boomers, rock grew bigger and stronger, starting in the middle 60s, eclipsing all other genres\u2026and central to this conquest was the electric guitar\u2026\n\nThat sound, with all its power and distortion and infinitely diverse tonalities, can still drive music fans into ecstasy,\n\nFor many, the electric guitar is a symbol of rebellion and liberation\u2026it was a new vehicle for freedom of expression\u2026and it opened the doors to new types of creativity\u2026and it was because of the electric guitar that rock went global\u2026\n\nIts history is a complicated one involving musicians, inventors, tinkerers, happy accidents, big multinational companies and lone wolves\u2026some names are well known while others, despite their contributions to the decades-long evolution of instrument, languish in obscurity, known only to guitar geeks and obsessives\u2026\n\nAnd while there have been many occasions where pundits have declared that rock (and by extension, the tools to make this music) is dead, the electric guitar has proven to be extremely adaptable and has (so far) been able to take on all comers, especially when placed in the hands of radicals and rule-breakers\u2026\n\nIf a power chord played through a Marshall stack has ever given you chills, then you\u2019re in the right place\u2026this is the history of the electric guitar, part 3\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices