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The Birth of Loud - Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
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The Birth of Loud - Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
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"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The
New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative
masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated
the electric guitar's amplified sound-Leo Fender and Les Paul-and
their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles,
Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band
jazz into rock 'n' roll-and these louder styles demanded
revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender's tiny firm marketed the
first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians
immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the
largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product.
The company designed an "axe" that would make Fender's Esquire look
cheap and convinced Les Paul-whose endorsement Leo Fender had
sought-to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world's most
heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender
was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a
brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years
toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an
arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and
1960s-including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the
Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton-adopted one maker's guitar or
another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments
had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with
a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In "an excellent
dual portrait" (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the
full story in The Birth of Loud, offering "spot-on human
characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars" (The
Atlantic). "The story of these instruments is the story of America
in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new" (The
Washington Post).
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