The electric guitar, tool of cultural revolution for nearly a century of legends across multiple musical genres, has died. The age of the instrument is undisclosed.
After a lengthy and very public demise, the guitar was pronounced dead after multiple allegations from unnamed sources stating its diminishing relevance among popular musicians and the shocking disappearance of guitar icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen from the cultural landscape. Sources also cited a general decline in industry returns as a direct contribution to the icon’s untimely and inevitable demise.
While exact origins of the electric guitar remain unconfirmed, the instrument rose to prominence in the late ’30s and early ’40s, meeting the demand for a more audible tool for producing audible guitar performance among larger big bands. It became quickly embraced by the jazz and blues musicians before skyrocketing to notoriety with the help of rock pundits such as Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. Ever the tool of social disruption and political statement-making, the guitar enjoyed a noticeable creative renaissance in the 1960s with the advent of surf, the British Invasion and psychedelic rock, and again in the late ’70s with the first inklings of punk rock and its later successors such as grunge and indie.
The electric guitar is survived by a small contingent of laptop and mobile devices, along with a longstanding assortment of MIDI controllers and tone modeling devices alleging a more efficient and convenient production of electric guitar tones.
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