This book plugs you into a decade in popular music and pop culture that simply could not have happened without the electric guitar. Year by year, you'll discover the guitars, players (Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Barney Kessel and many more) and developments that impacted jazz, blues and country - and gave birth to a timeless movement called rock'n'roll. In stunning full-color throughout, it also features classic ads, catalogs, movie posters and other fascinating '50s memorabilia. Includes an index and a bibliography.
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By Mr T Brittenden (Lincoln, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Echo and Twang: Classic Guitar Music of the '50s (Paperback)
Along with its companion volume 'Fuzz and Feedback: Classic Guitar Music of the '60s', this book provides a richly-illustrated account of electric guitars and their manufacturers from a seminal period in the history of popular music. From the classic to the bizarre, from the familiar to the esoteric, they are all here in big picture and full-colour. Its magazine-type layout and writing approach makes for very easy perusal, providing an entertaining overview of the period and these fascinating time-pieces.BUT BE WARNED ... this book was previously published in 1996 in hardcover under the title 'Classic Guitars of the '50s'. To the best of my knowledge no mention is made anywhere of this in the write-up.
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Be Aware!!! (I wasn't) Reprints Under New Titles and Covers!!!,
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This review is from: Echo and Twang: Classic Guitar Music of the '50s (Paperback)
I'm one of the macaroons that didn't notice that these two books Fuzz & Feedback, and Echo and Twang are actually older books with brand-spanking new Titles and Covers.They were originally: Classic Guitars of the '60s, & Classic Guitars of the '50s. I ordered them from Amazon thinking they were cool new books by Bacon and Company. Bacon's books are usually similar to DK books with great pictures and good text, so I normally just order them when I see them. I've reported this to Amazon and we'll see if they'll let me exchange them. (i reported this to Amazon on 12-29-06 and as of 1-5-07 I have heard nothing) Amazon did allow the exchange.
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Almost all of the constructional concepts for the solidbody and semi-solid electric guitar were established in the 1950s, and more advances were made in those ten short years than in the two decades that followed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
catalogue guitars, solidbody electric guitar, solidbody guitars, maple neck, guitar makers, lap steels, jazz guitarist, new guitar, two pickups, steel guitars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Paul, New York, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Leo Fender, Barney Kessel, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Scotty Moore, Charlie Christian, Mary Ford, Down Beat, Tal Farlow, United States, West Coast, Bill Haley, Country Gentleman, Don Randall, Los Angeles, Paul Bigsby, Golden Hofner, Jimmy Bryant, Johnny Smith, Bill Carson New!
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Almost all of the constructional concepts for the solidbody and semi-solid electric guitar were established in the 1950s, and more advances were made in those ten short years than in the two decades that followed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
catalogue guitars, solidbody electric guitar, solidbody guitars, maple neck, guitar makers, lap steels, jazz guitarist, new guitar, two pickups, steel guitars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Paul, New York, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Leo Fender, Barney Kessel, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Scotty Moore, Charlie Christian, Mary Ford, Down Beat, Tal Farlow, United States, West Coast, Bill Haley, Country Gentleman, Don Randall, Los Angeles, Paul Bigsby, Golden Hofner, Jimmy Bryant, Johnny Smith, Bill Carson New!
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- Country gentleman by Chet Atkins on page 38, page 50, and page 51
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac in Front Matter, and page 51
- Play in a Day by Bert Weedon on page 47, and page 80
- Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac in Front Matter, and page 51
- Country Music: Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Charles Wright in Back Matter
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