It’s hard to think of popular music without the electric guitar. The instrument became the cornerstone of rock ‘n’ roll, and grew into something far more than just another instrument. The tool behind laddering solos, soul-searing riffs and the foundational music that awoke a generation from conformity would fast become a totem of power, assertion and authenticity.
But everything has to start somewhere.
There must have been a first musician to pick-up an early axe and hit those first few pickup-channelled notes. Aside, of course, from the engineers tinkering away on behalf of instrument manufacturers behind closed factory doors.
