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1885/ Joseph Kekuku
Joseph Kekuku uses a railroad spike on his steel string guitar and invents the Hawaiian slide guitar technique -
1908/ Andres Segovia
Andres Segovia's first live performance -
1925/Carl T Sprague
Carl T Sprague comes out with his first album "When the works all done this fall" selling over 900,000 copies -
1927/ Lonnie Johnson@Eddie Lang
Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang making a good duet with Johnson playing the blues and Lang playing jazz. -
1931/Ro-Pat
Ro-Pat makes the "frying pan" the first electric guitar. -
1934/Martin
Martin makes the first modern 'flat top' guitar. -
1936/ Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian becomes one of the best jazz guitar players and making the electric guitar more popular. -
1939/Gibson
Gibson makes the cutaway making guitar's easier for people to put their hands to get those higher strings/cords -
1940/Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt makes the song Nuages and creates Gypsy Jazz. -
1942/ T-Bone walker
The blues starts to use electric guitars with T-Bone walker's 'Mean old world' song. -
1948/Les Paul
Les Paul's single 'lover' is released making echo, delay, sped up recording, reverb, muted picking and layered overdubbed for the first time. -
1948/ Muddy waters
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. -
1948/Bigsby
Bigsby makes the first good whammy bar for Merle Travis. -
1950/Leo Fender
Leo Fender makes the telecaster. Most professionals use it because it is highly playable having a wide range of tones -
1952/Gibson
Gibson makes the 'les paul' guitar that flops at first but then becomes (over time) one of the best guitars in the world -
1954/Fender
Fender makes the Stratocaster having three pickups and a amazing whammy bar and a huge variety of tones. -
1954/Elvis
Elvis records with Scotty moore making the popular song "That's All Right With Mama" inspiring a generation of guitar players -
1955/Seth lover
Seth lover makes the humbucker pickups making guitarists able to turn up the volume without a hum or a buzz noise -
1955/Bill Haley
Bill Haley's Rock around the clock becomes the number 1 because of a movie called Blackboard Jungle. -
1955/Chuck berry
Chuck berry releases "Maybelline" with his lead guitar style becoming the definitive rock style. -
1957/Buddy holly
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 -
1957/Bo Diddley
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. -
1957/Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson plays rock on the TV show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" -
1958/Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy releases the album "Rebel rouser" with a kind of Twangy guitar instrumentals which influences the idea of rock guitar instrumentals -
1958/Link wray
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 -
1958/VOX
VOX makes the AC15 and becomes the amp for British invasion rockers -
1958/Chuck berry
Chuck berry releases "Johnny B. Goode" (one of my favorite guitar songs) one of the most influential guitar songs ever -
1960/ The incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery
'The incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery' is released making a whole new level of jazz guitar to top. -
1961/ Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson comes back with a rediscovered album 'King of the delta blues' -
1962/Dick Dale
Dick Dale invents surf rock a whole new genre to rock
(Dick dale's miserlou is an awesome song) -
1963/ The yardbirds
The yardbirds is formed one of the best bands of rock ever made! -
1963/Maestro
Maestro makes the FZ-1 the first distortion pedal -
1964/Beatles
The most iconic band the beetles is made with their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show -
1964/Pete townshend
Pete townshend Smashes his guitar on stage for the first time -
1965/Jimmy nolen
Jimmy nolen invents funk guitar on james browns guitar in the 'papa's got a brand new bag' -
1965/bob dylan
bob dylan goes for the electric guitar with him protesting for folk music -
1965/B.B King
B.B King album comes out 'Live at the Regal' making people consider this to be the best blues recording ever -
1965/Rolling stones
Rolling stones is here (my favorite guitar band) making parents nervous which way rock is heading -
1965/James marshal
James marshal comes with his 100 Watt amp making things loud -
1966/the byrds
the byrds release eight miles high which was banned from the radio because of lyrics that contain drug innuendos -
1966/John Mayall
John Mayall releases 'Blues breakers with eric Clapton' having people graffiti stuff about eric Clapton around London -
1967/Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix makes a whole new show making new sounds and lighting his guitar on fire breaking it and throwing it into the crowd -
1967/Jimi Hendrix (again)
Jimi Hendrix releases a new album 'are you experienced' setting again a whole new bar to beat -
1967/vox
Vox makes the "wah wah" pedal (guess what sound it makes) -
1967/Kustom
Kustom makes the 'Solid state'' amplifier. -
1968/Mason williams
Mason williams comes out with 'Classical gas' reaching number 1 on the charts making it the first instrumental to make it number 1. -
1968/ElectroHarmonix
ElectroHarmonix makes the LPB-1 making it louder and better with new harmonics -
1969/Led zeppelin
Led zeppelin is born making folk,metal,blues,punk and more! (and later immigrant song) -
1969/Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana comes out with his first album making latin rock a genre making him become a guitar hero for everyone -
1969/Woodstock
Woodstock celebrates peace and guitars with Jimi Hendrix playing "star spangled banner" to protest against the Vietnam war -
1969/ John McLaughlin@Miles Davis
John McLaughlin records songs with Miles Davis and fuses their jazz and rock together -
1970/ Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath's first album released making them one of the first heavy metal bands -
1970/Ovation
Ovation makes acoustic and electric guitar pick ups making them able to have louder sounds with that natural sound -
1971/Allman brothers
Allman brothers release 'At Fillmore East' this becomes popular quickly with songs over 15 minutes -
1972/ Deep purple
Deep purple comes out with the song "Smoke on the Water" becoming one of the most popular guitar riff's in history -
1973/ Robert fripp
Robert fripp uses loop effects in a performance -
1975/Jeff beck
Jeff beck releases 'Blow by Blow' a fusion album instead of rock -
1975/ Kiss
Kiss comes out with 'Alive' and it sells millions of copies and teenagers love it -
1976/ Peter Framptom
Peter Frampton comes out with 'Frampton come alive' using a voice box to talk making the voice box more popular. -
1976/Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola comes out with land of the midnight sun. -
1976/The Ramones
The Ramones come with punk music with speed and loudness in most of their songs -
1978/ Van Halen
Van Halen album goes out setting the bar as high as Jimi Hendrix did. -
1979/Randy Rhodes
Randy Rhodes auditions for Ozzy Osbourne coming out with insane songs such as 'Crazy train' -
1980/John lennon
John Lennon is assassinated by a obsessed fan. Having a huge impact on the world. -
1980/U2
U2 comes out with 'boy' with lots of guitar effects -
1980/Paul Reed Smith
Paul Reed Smith comes out with the golden eagle guitar a higher bar for guitar makers. -
1981/MTV
MTV comes out with a shred guitar style -
1982/Randy Rhoads
Randy Rhoads dies in a plane crash becoming a guitar hero. -
1983/Stevie Ray Vaughan's
Stevie Ray Vaughan's plays electric blues and the style comes back becoming very popular -
1984/Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Malmsteen comes with a new neo-classical technique on the album "Rising Force" -
1987/Satriani
Satriani comes out with "surfing with the alien" becoming the most selling album in the decade -
1990/ Internet
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. -
1991/Nirvana
Nirvana didnt like the way rock and metal was going so they changed it with new songs that parents hate -
1991/Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash turning into an idle making blues become a popular genre -
1993/Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten plays at the super bowl with Michal Jackson -
2001/White stripes
White stripes release "White Blood Cells" with only a guitarist and a drummer raw rock solos are coming back again -
2005/ Guitar hero
Guitar hero comes out making kids and adults able to play along with old rock songs