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California Noise: Tinkering with Hardcore and Heavy Metal in Southern California
Tinkering has long figured prominently in the history of the electric guitar. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, two guitarists based in the burgeoning Southern California hard rock scene adapted technological tinkering to their musical endeavors. Edward Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen, became the most celebrated rock guitar virtuoso of the 1980s, but was just as noted amongst guitar aficionados for his tinkering with the electric guitar, designing his own instruments out of the remains of guitars that he had dismembered in his own workshop. Greg Ginn, guitarist for Black Flag, ran his own amateur radio supply shop before forming the band, and named his noted independent record label, SST, after the solid state transistors that he used in his own tinkering. This paper explores the ways in which music-based tinkering played a part in the construction of virtuosity around the figure of Van Halen, and the definition of artistic 'independence' for the more confrontational Black Flag. It further posits that tinkering in popular music cuts across musical genres, and joins music to broader cultural currents around technology, such as technological enthusiasm, the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos, and the use of technology for the purposes of fortifying masculinity.
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The birth of loud : Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the guitar-pioneering rivalry that shaped rock 'n' roll
A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
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Innovation and the Development of the Modern Six-String Guitar
Discusses how the European makers of gut (and later nylon) string instruments, and the American makers have independently progressed the design of their instruments throughout the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the present day where the two traditions are regaining closer ties.
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Perspective: How the Fender Bass Changed the World, Part One--Prologue
Begins a new regular column by observing that the Fender Precision Bass instrument created by Leo Fender in 1951 was one of those revolutionary instruments that could be said to have changed the course of music. Notes that Fender was not the first to have the idea for an electric bass guitar, but that his was the first such instrument to catch on in a big way. Promises to continue the story in future issues.
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Fenderology: the birth of the Tele, Strat & Jazzmaster
Smith discusses the birth of the Telecaster, the Stratocaster and the Jazzmaster--all of which are Fender guitars. The Telecaster and Stratocaster have remained favorites with guitar players.
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Leo Fender's 1943 prototype electric guitar
Leo always maintained that this guitar was not intended to revolutionize the world - he merely needed an electric guitar to rent out to Western groups around Fullerton. Fender ran a radio repair shop, but also rented sound equipment and other gear for local music events and concerts.
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