Electrified: The Guitar Revolution - Electrified:The Guitar Revolution

[kylezeni]

should have used distortion with that songster

[JazzKeyboardist1]

great show,, i was thinking as g,e, went thru the years,,, it is really not music that most people like, it is the effects, and the anti establishment of the sound,,, i loved studio hendrix when i was a kid, but now listening to effects, it is like i am listening to a dialect, i do not know and say, what? i have no idea what notes he is playing,, and now we have rap, so we do not even need to try to play notes or melody,lol

[1149779]

I have this documentary on my iPod.

[chrishudgins]

The kid at :30 is a student at SPC Creative Arts where I teach!

[BerenFairchild]

what the hell is that guitar at 1:12

[Khultan]

That's really interesting about the part of an unintended aspect of the electric guitar.

[MediocreAccount]

first dislike.

was.me.

[Megollyen1]

@MediocreAccount Cool story.

[pyscobrand]

@MediocreAccount your first thumbs down was me.

[straycatsean]

Henry Rollins? Awesome.

[wow950]

0 dislikes, lets keep it that way!

[sillymonkey829]

lol I was sitting here playing some Opeth on my acoustic when I realized that I'm watching the very man who designs Akerfeldt's guitars! I might have to get me a PRS now.

[FretZeroGuitar]

Sweetness.

[FrnkEzee]

After Richenbacker...Gibson jumps on the bandwagon LOL

[aguileogonzalez]

They didn't mention that the Telecaster was actually the Brodcaster first.

[lilmuff69]

what about semi hollowbodys? wtf

[WichitaHistory]

Fab. Production, frivolous & fun - shaky on facts however. The Smithsonian overlooked the fact that Beauchamp (Rickenbacker) introduced an electric standard guitar at the same time as the Frying Pan Hawaiian (late 1932). Indeed Lloyd Loar was a genius as an acoustic engineer, but his work in electrical amplification was later and technologically off-track (it didn't work). It would've been interesting to have addressed earlier electric instruments such as the Geo. Breed Guitar & Therimin.

[WhiteCamry]

No mention of Alvino Rey?

[1935prototype]

This would be a very informative documentary if it were right!

The folks who put this together were told when they asked the experts they chose to help with the project that the Lloyd Loar part was a MYTH. It has been documented in his own hand that he DID NOT work on electric instruments while at Gibson. That his interest began in the late 1920's. This Myth needs to be put to rest. That and the Slingerland electric solid body they are so proud to own was advertised as early as 1936 not 1939.

[DrGeneNelson]

As someone who worked in the R&D department of Fender Guitar in Fullerton, California from 1970-1971, I enjoyed this Smithsonian Channel presentation. (I'm now a Docent at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.)

[RJW882]

Luckily thoughthey did become friends and it was cool. At the time though it was pretty much a Jeff Beck thing. Him playing an Esquire through a Vox and a Tonebender= Magic!

[RJW882]

heres one for ya: when jimi first came to england, Jeff Beck of all people went up to Townshend and said Hendrix is a disgrace?!. And thats pretty funny to just diss him like that right off the bat.. I think the reason was because He had just joined the Yardbirds and he was using a Tonebender i heard he got in a box of Corn flakes! helluva prize right? That was pretty much a trademark until he came along and used fuzz faces, etc. So i think he overshadowed his breakthrugh and was pissed...