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Tony Bacon's definitive guide to Gibson's most famous guitar moves into its latest and most complete version yet with this new and thoroughly revised edition. Now with 16 more pages and 45 new pictures this timely (and re-titled) update ...

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This new version of Tony Bacon's Six Decades of the Fender Telecaster shows how the world's first commercially successful solidbody electric guitar still attracts musicians more than 60 years since its birth in California. Today it is mo...

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In 1982 Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars. Millions of guitars later and celebrating its 30th anniversary Squier is almost as important to the company as the main Fender brand.THGuitar pund...

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In California in the early '50s the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the sound of popular music. This book ex...

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Legendary Guitars guides you through the electric guitars of the 1950s and 60s and the culture, styles, and music that shaped them. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years, to make sounds no one has heard before, is...

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This colorful book chronicles ten ground-breaking years that wouldn't have happened without the electric guitar. Mojo says the book "convinces even casual observers that the 1950s was the most innovative decade in recent history". It inc...

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Lavish, specially-commissioned photographs and informative essays chart all the musical developments from surf to Hendrix and folk rock to psychedelia, country, jazz and blues, as well as an exclusive section on The Beatles and their guitars. Clas...

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The Sex & Brass Book presents a fresh and exciting view of jazz and pop by blending together the stories of the music, the musicians and their musical instruments into a new and stimulating whole. Great names from the past - from Louis Armstro...

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Paul McCartney is one of the best pop bass players in the world, and he was at a creative peak during the time he played with The Beatles. This is the first book to present a musical analysis of his consistently inventive and influential bass play...

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Fender's guitars have long been the instruments of choice for artists such as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This book tells the complete story of Fender guitars, detailing classics such as the Telecaster, Stratocas...

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The latest addition to Tony Bacon's acclaimed series of guitar books E60 Years of FenderE gives a year-by-year history of the most successful electric guitar maker. In 1950 Leo Fender introduced to the world the solidbody electric guitar a the ins...

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The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar.THWhen the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man they popularized a new sound in pop music: the electric 12-string guitar.THRickenbacker is the gu...

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Leo Fender's company changed the course of popular music in 1954 when they introduced the Stratocaster. Since then the Strat has been played by countless guitarists from Jimi Hendrix to Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck. In this book interviews with importa...

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When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's ';Mr. Tambourine Man ' they popularized a new sound in pop music: the electric 12-string guitar. Rickenbacker is the guitar maker that brought the electric 12-string to market and has since been...

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The Bass Book offers a complete illustrated history of bass guitars from Fender's first in the 1950s through the models of the next 40 years that formed the foundation for modern music. The bass guitar is undoubtedly one of the most significant in...

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Introduced in 1954 as one of Gretsch's ';Guitars of the Future ' the White Falcon was an overwhelmingly impressive instrument. The influence of this spectacular new guitar spread to other models and guitar manufacturers. It was the dawn of a half-...

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The latest addition to Tony Bacon's acclaimed series of guitar books, 60 Years of Fender gives a year-by-year history of the most successful electric guitar maker. In 1950, Leo Fender introduced to the world the solidbody electric guitar the instr...

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Leo Fender's company changed the course of popular music in 1954 when they introduced the Stratocaster. Since then, the Strat has been played by countless guitarists, from Jimi Hendrix to Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck. In this book, interviews with impo...

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Until the launch of the Flying V and Explorer in 1958, electric guitars were supposed to look like...guitars. Suddenly, Gibson turned conventional design upside down, almost literally, by using straight lines and angular body shapes, changing the ...

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First published in 2001 and now updated and expanded, History of the American Guitar begins in New York City in the 1830s with the arrival of Christian Martin, from Germany, to set up the Martin company. From that historic moment, the book takes r...

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In 1982, Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars. Millions of guitars later, and celebrating its 30th anniversary, Squier is almost as important to the company as the main Fender brand. Guitar pu...

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Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own a glitzy wacky retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular music from timeless stars to unknown teens. The Beatles Chet Atkins Duane Eddy and Brian Setzer all made...

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To many vintage guitar fans it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and during the following year introduced a completely new design the one that we know now as the SG ( solid guitar ).At the time however it made go...

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This new version of Tony Bacon's Six Decades of the Fender Telecaster shows how the world's first commercially successful solidbody electric guitar still attracts musicians more than 60 years since its birth in California. Today, it is more popula...

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To many vintage guitar fans, it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and, during the following year, introduced a completely new design, the one that we know now as the SG (';solid guitar').At the time, however, it ...

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Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughout

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Color and B&W photos throughout

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Paperback Original w/French flaps

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Innovation. Disruption. Thought leadership. Today's hottest tech sector buzzwords would prove just as apt in describing the twentieth century crucible of guitar development. Imagine an electric guitar. Is it a Strat? A Les Paul? Some third pa...

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