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Joseph Kekuku uses a railroad spike on his steel string guitar and invents the Hawaiian slide guitar technique
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Andres Segovia's first live performance
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Carl T Sprague comes out with his first album "When the works all done this fall" selling over 900,000 copies
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Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang making a good duet with Johnson playing the blues and Lang playing jazz.
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Ro-Pat makes the "frying pan" the first electric guitar.
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Martin makes the first modern 'flat top' guitar.
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Charlie Christian becomes one of the best jazz guitar players and making the electric guitar more popular.
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Gibson makes the cutaway making guitar's easier for people to put their hands to get those higher strings/cords
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Django Reinhardt makes the song Nuages and creates Gypsy Jazz.
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The blues starts to use electric guitars with T-Bone walker's 'Mean old world' song.
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Les Paul's single 'lover' is released making echo, delay, sped up recording, reverb, muted picking and layered overdubbed for the first time.
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Muddy waters goes electric. His first album sold out so fast that he said he couldn't find a album for himself making blues more modern.
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Bigsby makes the first good whammy bar for Merle Travis.
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Leo Fender makes the telecaster. Most professionals use it because it is highly playable having a wide range of tones
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Gibson makes the 'les paul' guitar that flops at first but then becomes (over time) one of the best guitars in the world
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Fender makes the Stratocaster having three pickups and a amazing whammy bar and a huge variety of tones.
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Elvis records with Scotty moore making the popular song "That's All Right With Mama" inspiring a generation of guitar players
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Seth lover makes the humbucker pickups making guitarists able to turn up the volume without a hum or a buzz noise
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Bill Haley's Rock around the clock becomes the number 1 because of a movie called Blackboard Jungle.
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Chuck berry releases "Maybelline" with his lead guitar style becoming the definitive rock style.
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Buddy Holly plays the Stratocaster on the Ed Sullivan show making a huge impact on people because of him rocking out on a more jazz like guitar
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Bo Diddley comes out with his first album named after himself. Having swagger and grooves. Making most older parents nervous the way music is going.
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Ricky Nelson plays rock on the TV show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
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Duane Eddy releases the album "Rebel rouser" with a kind of Twangy guitar instrumentals which influences the idea of rock guitar instrumentals
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Link wray releases "rumble" Punching a hole in his amplifier to make a ragged distortion making it one of the first hard rock/punk power chord
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VOX makes the AC15 and becomes the amp for British invasion rockers
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Chuck berry releases "Johnny B. Goode" (one of my favorite guitar songs) one of the most influential guitar songs ever
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'The incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery' is released making a whole new level of jazz guitar to top.
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Robert Johnson comes back with a rediscovered album 'King of the delta blues'
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Dick Dale invents surf rock a whole new genre to rock
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The yardbirds is formed one of the best bands of rock ever made!
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Maestro makes the FZ-1 the first distortion pedal
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The most iconic band the beetles is made with their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show
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Pete townshend Smashes his guitar on stage for the first time
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Jimmy nolen invents funk guitar on james browns guitar in the 'papa's got a brand new bag'
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bob dylan goes for the electric guitar with him protesting for folk music
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B.B King album comes out 'Live at the Regal' making people consider this to be the best blues recording ever
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Rolling stones is here (my favorite guitar band) making parents nervous which way rock is heading
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James marshal comes with his 100 Watt amp making things loud
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the byrds release eight miles high which was banned from the radio because of lyrics that contain drug innuendos
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John Mayall releases 'Blues breakers with eric Clapton' having people graffiti stuff about eric Clapton around London
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Jimi Hendrix makes a whole new show making new sounds and lighting his guitar on fire breaking it and throwing it into the crowd
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Jimi Hendrix releases a new album 'are you experienced' setting again a whole new bar to beat
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Vox makes the "wah wah" pedal (guess what sound it makes)
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Kustom makes the 'Solid state'' amplifier.
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Mason williams comes out with 'Classical gas' reaching number 1 on the charts making it the first instrumental to make it number 1.
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ElectroHarmonix makes the LPB-1 making it louder and better with new harmonics
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Led zeppelin is born making folk,metal,blues,punk and more! (and later immigrant song)
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Carlos Santana comes out with his first album making latin rock a genre making him become a guitar hero for everyone
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Woodstock celebrates peace and guitars with Jimi Hendrix playing "star spangled banner" to protest against the Vietnam war
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John McLaughlin records songs with Miles Davis and fuses their jazz and rock together
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Black Sabbath's first album released making them one of the first heavy metal bands
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Ovation makes acoustic and electric guitar pick ups making them able to have louder sounds with that natural sound
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Allman brothers release 'At Fillmore East' this becomes popular quickly with songs over 15 minutes
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Deep purple comes out with the song "Smoke on the Water" becoming one of the most popular guitar riff's in history
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Robert fripp uses loop effects in a performance
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Jeff beck releases 'Blow by Blow' a fusion album instead of rock
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Kiss comes out with 'Alive' and it sells millions of copies and teenagers love it
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Peter Frampton comes out with 'Frampton come alive' using a voice box to talk making the voice box more popular.
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Al Di Meola comes out with land of the midnight sun.
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The Ramones come with punk music with speed and loudness in most of their songs
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Van Halen album goes out setting the bar as high as Jimi Hendrix did.
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Randy Rhodes auditions for Ozzy Osbourne coming out with insane songs such as 'Crazy train'
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John Lennon is assassinated by a obsessed fan. Having a huge impact on the world.
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U2 comes out with 'boy' with lots of guitar effects
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Paul Reed Smith comes out with the golden eagle guitar a higher bar for guitar makers.
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MTV comes out with a shred guitar style
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Randy Rhoads dies in a plane crash becoming a guitar hero.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan's plays electric blues and the style comes back becoming very popular
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Yngwie Malmsteen comes with a new neo-classical technique on the album "Rising Force"
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Satriani comes out with "surfing with the alien" becoming the most selling album in the decade
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You already know what this is. This killed some of the music because it can be used on YouTube instead of going to live concerts.
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Nirvana didnt like the way rock and metal was going so they changed it with new songs that parents hate
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Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash turning into an idle making blues become a popular genre
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Jennifer Batten plays at the super bowl with Michal Jackson
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White stripes release "White Blood Cells" with only a guitarist and a drummer raw rock solos are coming back again
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Guitar hero comes out making kids and adults able to play along with old rock songs