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Author:Tony Bacon
50 Years of Gretsch Electrics: Half a Century of White Falcons, Gents, Jets, and Other Great Guitars
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-century of awe-inspiring guitars which...- $27.99
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Electric Guitars Design and Invention: The Groundbreaking Innovations That Shaped the Modern Instrument
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 party variant on one of these classics? Or...- $29.99
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Flying V, Explorer, Firebird: An Odd-Shaped History of Gibson's Weird Electric Guitars
Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughoutAuthor: Tony BaconISBN-10: 1617130087ISBN-13: 9781617130083Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2011Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 10.98h x 8.60w x 0.43d- $24.99
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Legendary Guitars: An Illustrated Guide
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,...- $24.99
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Paul McCartney: Bass Master: Playing the Great Beatles Basslines
Paul McCartney is one of the best pop bass players in the world, and this book presents a musical analysis of his consistently inventive and influential bass playing during his tenure in the Beatles. This indispensable guide offers full transcriptions (including tablature and chord...- $27.95
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Rickenbacker Electric 12-String: The Story of the Guitars, the Music, and the Great Players
The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar. 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...- $24.99
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Squier Electrics: 30 Years of Fender's Budget Guitar Brand
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 pundit Tony Bacon reveals the...- $24.99
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Author:Tony Bacon
Sunburst: How the Gibson Les Paul Standard Became a Legendary Guitar
(Book). Is the sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard really the greatest electric guitar ever made? This books aims to answer that question, even if so many players and collectors have already sounded a loud "Yes " Famously played by Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page,...- $29.99
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The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars
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 explains how that revolution happened...- $29.99
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The Fender Electric Guitar Book: A Complete History of Fender Instruments
To mark the 60th anniversary of Fender, Backbeat's introduced a new, completely revised third edition of this bestseller. Fender 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...- $24.95
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The Gibson 335 Guitar Book: Electric Semi-Solid Thinlines and the Players Who Made Them Famous
The Gibson 335 Guitar Book tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models, as played by B.B. King, Alvin Lee, and Eric Clapton, among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars, cool players, and fascinating historical detail. The book traces the story from...- $29.99
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Author:Tony Bacon
The Gretsch Electric Guitar Book: 60 Years of White Falcons, 6120s, Jets, Gents and More
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...- $29.99
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The Ibanez Electric Guitar Book: A Complete History of Ibanez Electric Guitars
(Book). Ibanez is the most important Japanese guitar brand, and this new book tells the story of its electric guitars, tracking the fortunes of this impressive brand. At first the guitars were cheap and basic, and in the 1970s, Ibanez was best known for...- $24.99
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Author:Tony Bacon
The Les Paul Guitar Book
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 of 50 Years of the...- $29.99
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The Sg Guitar Book: 50 Years of Gibson's Stylish Solid Guitar
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...- $29.99
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Author:Tony Bacon
The Stratocaster Guitar Book: A Complete History of Fender Stratocaster Guitars
THE STRATOCASTER GUITAR BOOK: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF FENDER'S GREATEST GUITARAuthor: Tony BaconISBN-10: 0879309962ISBN-13: 9780879309961Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2010Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 10.99h x 8.54w x 0.51d- $24.99
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The Telecaster Guitar Book: A Complete History of Fender Telecaster Guitars
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 popular than ever and for many...- $24.99
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