| ▲ | RyanOD 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I've often marveled at the success many guitar players had with experimental electronics - Hendrix, EVH, Les Paul, Brian May, Jack White, and Tom Scholz (special case, of course) are just a few examples. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nervousvarun 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Brian May stands out even among that group (well maybe not w/ Les Paul there) The guy built his own guitar as a teenager and has played it for the rest of his career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tclancy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The podcast "History of Rock in 500 Songs" (full disclosure: I am a devout, slavering fan) provides these on the regular. I was actually smiling when I heard a fairly new song that attempts a really flat, fuzzed out sound because it made me think, "Buddy Holly invented that by accident with a broken speaker". One of the episodes on The Who goes into the Marshall behind Marshall amps in similar detail. I suppose if I were going to recommend a single episode to Hacker News though, it would be https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-146-good-vibrations-by-... which begins with at least a half hour on the amazing (if not happy) life of the guy who invented the Theremin, Lev Sergeyevich Termen. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | bigiain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
"Muddy Waters invented electricity!" -- Willie Brown, Crossroads (movie), 1986 | |||||||||||||||||