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Joseph Kekuku runs a railroad spike on his steel string guitar. The sound it made interested him and he invented the Hawaiian slide guitar technique
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Carl T. Sprague becomes Hollywoods first singing cowboy. His 1925 album sells 900,000 copies which is huge for the time.
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Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang record popular interracial duets. Johnson plays blues; Lang plays jazz.
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Ro-Pat-In creates the 'frying pan,' which is the first electric guitar.
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Martin developes the modern 'flat top' acoustic guitar.
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Gibson debuts its guitar/amp package. Charlie Christian uses this to popularize the electric guitar.
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Gibson introduces the cutaway. This makes it so that people can reach high notes easier.
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Django Reinhardt records 'Nuages.' With this Gypsy jazz is born.
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The blues goes electric with T-Bone Walker's 'Mean Old World.
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The first single sells out, and this brought the blues to a more modern aidience.
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Les Paul's 'Lover' is released. It features a lot of guitar effects like delay, echo, reverb, phasing, flanging, sped-up recording, muted picking, and layered overdubbed recording. This is the first recording to feature all these effects.
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Bigsby builds the first whammy bar for Merle Travis.
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It's a hit with the pros because it has a wide range of tones, is very durable, and is highly playable.
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Surprisingly this guitar actually flopped at first, but later as we've seen it becomes one of the most famous models in the world.
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This is the opening song of the teenage gang movie "BLackboard Jungle." It instantly topped the charts and along with solo guitarist Danny Cedrone.
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This guitar has three pickups, a really good whammy bar, and a limitless variety of tones which makes it one of the most successful and famous models in the world
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Elvis records with guitarist Scotty Moore. Moore's playing on the song "That's All Right with Mama" inspires a generation of guitarist.
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Berry's lead guitar style becomes the definitive rock sound
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This allowed guitarist to be able to have the volume really loud without the annoying hum and buzz.
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Ricky Nelson played rock guitar regularly on this show and brought rebal rock to typical American living rooms.
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In the minds of most Americans, guitar was mainly acoustic and jazz, until Buddy Holly came along. On the Ed Sulivan show, he showed of his strat and rocked the stage on TV so everyone could see it.
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British invasion rockers used this as their amp of choice and it gave a new definition loud.
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This was probably the first song to use the power chord. Also fun fact he actually punches a hole in his amp to get that distortion sound you hear.
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This album is full of twangy guitar intrumentals and popularized the idea of the rock guitar intrumental.
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This song literally became one of the mose influential and recognizable guitar songs ever.
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With this he becomes the acknowledged successor of Charlie Christian.
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This album was known as the source amoung many British rock player.
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With a 100 watt amp, tremelo picked middle eastern scales, and a lot of reverb makes this one loud guitar fest.
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This is the first distortion pedal ever made and the first important effect pedal of any kind.
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This band launches the careers of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck. These guitarist later were known as some of the best guitarist ever.
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The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and this was the first time they ever appeared on American television.
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Pete Twonshed smashes a Rickenbacker guitarat the Railroad Tavern at Harrow and Wealdstone. This moment literally changed rock and roll.
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Bob Dylan revives folk music introducing a electic guitar into it.
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Jimmy Nolen invents funk guitar on James Brown's Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
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This album is considered the greatest live blues recording of all time.
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This album was banned on the radio for it's refrences to drugs. It also uses a electric 12-string guitar to invent 'jangle' tone.
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People in London started to graffitti 'Clapton is God' throughout London.
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This album raises the bar for guitarist everywhere.
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To put the period on the performance, Jimi Hendrix lights his guitar on fire, smashes it to pieces, and then throwes the pieces into the audience. This highly increased his popularity.
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This is the only time a guitar intrumental has done this.
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This pedal provides gain by clipping the signal resulting in a raw distorted sound full of sustain and harmonics.
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Jimmy Page's multiple styles (folk, metal, blues, psychdelia, punk) made this album one of the best in rock.
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With this fusion is born.
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Carlos Santana basically made the Latin rock genre with this release.
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This gives birth to heavy metal and it's satanic mythos
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In this album Duane Allman proved that he was a great improvisor and electric guitar player.
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This becomes one of the most recognizable guitar riffs ever.
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Robert Fripp effectively uses loop effects to create massve walls of sound on this album.
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This albuum amazed guitarist because of Jeff Beck's virtuosity and fusion style harmonic complexity
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This album was marketed toward youth, and they go absolutly wild for KISS guitars, make-up, costumes, and wild stage antics.
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The way he was able to make his guitar 'talk' with the use of voice box effects became really popular.
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Punk music rises to popularity with it's speed, volume, stripped down aesthetic, short songs, and anti establishment lyrics.
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This album raised the bar on technical virtuosity for guitar players.
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This album raised the bar again for guitarist. Guitarist haven't felt the bar raised since Jimi Hendrix.
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This raised the standard on quality parts in the guitar building industry.
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This album takes guitar effects and production values to new heights.
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This caused people to mourne for days after his death. Not even Elvis had the impact of The Beatles
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New shred guitar style is broadcasted into peoples living rooms by music videos.
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After his death he became known as a heavy metal icon to aspiring shredders
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This album takes neo-classical technique to a whole new level.
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This album becomes the best selling guitar intrumental record of the decade.
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The music industry will suffer but the average guitarist will be able to get a lot of exposure through youtube and through free education.
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Thanks to him the blues continued on.
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This album made raw primal rock solos become popular again.
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This game brought back classic rock and made it popular again.
