Electric Guitars And Basses: A Photographic History

Book info: Electric Guitars And Basses: A Photographic History (Hardcover, 1 pages) – Backbeat, 1994. Language: English.

Provides color photographs and brief descriptions of the history and special features of over 500 electric guitars and basses From The promised companion to last year's lavish Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instruments is another stunner featuring page after page of full-color musical instrument portraits (the pictures are so loving and attentive, you couldn't call them anything else). Gruhn and Carter sort the pictures first into two chronological parts, "Electric Roots: 1932 to World War II" and "Branches of the Electric Family: 1947 to the 1990s," then more finely within each part by type (e.g., Hawaiians and Spanish-necks in part one) and still more finely by maker. Besides the brief, historical main text, they provide for each instrument a generous note, and quite often a distinctive detail of the instrument appears nearby. Practically everyone who cares deeply about America's idiomatic musics--jazz, blues, country, and rock, in each of which the electric guitar and later the electric bass guitar became fundamental voices--will pour over this book like a Hendrix flourish over that morning crowd at the original Woodstock. Ray Olson