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On 1959's The "Twangs" the "Thang" LP he also used a Danelectro six-string bass guitar. Eddy became the first rock and roll guitarist to have a signature guitar when, in 1961, the Guild Guitar Company introduced the Duane Eddy signature models DE-400 and the deluxe DE-500.
4 days ago · Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938, Corning, New York, U.S.—died April 30, 2024, Franklin, Tennessee) was an American guitarist responsible for one of rock music’s elemental sounds, twang—resonant melodic riffs created on the bass strings of an electric guitar.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 2, 2024 · (1/3) In Memoriam: 1994 Inductee Duane Eddy was a rock & roll guitar god who invented twang. He created a distinctive sound and recorded a string of instrumental hits in the late 1950s that proved hugely influential on countless musicians.
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May 2, 2024 · Yesterday (May 1) we got the sad news that electric guitar icon Daune Eddy had passed away. I interviewed Eddy in 2018, the year of his 80th birthday, for Total Guitar and found him to be sharp-minded, genial, and still completely driven by the thought of making music.
5 days ago · The gear Eddy used to deliver the twang will make any fan of 1960s guitar drool. “I used my 1957 6120 Chet Atkins Gretsch,” he tells us. “I was using medium Gretsch strings and I used a ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Born on April 26, 1938, in Corning, New York, Eddy began playing guitar at age five and adopted a Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 model as his own at 16, when he formed a duo with his friend Jimmy Delbridge in Coolidge, Arizona.
May 2, 2024 · Classic Interview: He’s the original king of twang guitar and his canyon-deep sound made him America’s first guitar hero of the rock ’n’ roll era. Back in 2019, we caught up with Duane to talk about playing to mysteriously silent English crowds on his first tour back in 1960, his friendship with jazz guitar greats - and how a 2,000 ...
