Electric Guitars and Rock n’ Roll

Electric guitars and Rock n’ Roll are practically synonymous. It’s difficult to imagine one without the other. Les Paul himself would surely agree. There would then be none -with authority- left to argue, because he was the inventor.

His humble beginnings as a county fair performer led him to install a microphone in his acoustic guitar to allow those in the back, of his ever increasing audience, to hear his music. Les Paul is considered the undisputed architect of rock n’ roll. If not for his efforts men like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page would have had to find a completely different method of getting their names published. There is little doubt that they would have been written up for something but the context would have been entirely different.

Many have made themselves famous by playing an electric guitar in a Rock n’ Roll band and many more aspire to those lofty heights of fame and fortune. Les Paul made it all possible and he should always be remembered by those who would use his invention to establish territorial rights in the hearts and minds of Rock ‘n Roll’s children.

The amplification of the guitar was the birth of Rock n’ Roll.