

I took it to the local luthier and asked him to refinish it, to remove the awful sticker. You’ll see the inspiration for launching in these images below. Tip of the iceberg! Jimmy Page & Jack White: Guitar Player Magazine Here I’ve highlights a few of my 60’s guitars, but it only scratches the surface. Hence, the foreign guitar manufacturers gave us what we wanted. Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Rickenbacker these were all too expensive for our parents to buy for us. EKO was at the forefront, and within 2 years they were shipping over 10,000 electric guitars to USA per year.įor most North American kids, including myself, their first guitar was an EKO or some Japanese import. Companies that had been manufacturing Accordions for 20 years, retooled for electric guitars. Suddenly, electric guitars were #1 on every kids Christmas list. The Beatles – and of course others – stopped all that. In fact, it was likely that your parents were steering you in the direction of accordion lessons. The Beatles helped to turn electric guitars into a popular musical instrument, in the 1960’s It is hard to imagine today, but in the early 1960’s having an electric guitar in your home was rare.


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