- The electric guitar was conceived for the first time in 1931.
- This type of guitar is the most played instrument in the United States.
- The first Fender guitar was made in 1943, made from oak.
- The electric guitar served as a major component in the development of rock and roll.
- Les Paul had a car accident in 1948 and asked the doctor to set his arm permanently in a guitar-playing position.
- Electric guitars are also used by classical composers.
- The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers.
- A Fender Stratocaster guitar is carved on Jimi Hendrix's tombstone.
- Gibson's first production electric guitar, marketed in 1936, was the ES-150 model.
- Since this type of guitars use electric signals to transmit sound, their sounds can be modified using distortion pedals.
- The highest price paid for an electric guitar at auction, was $959,500 at Christie's in July 2004 for Eric Clapton's 'Blackie' Stratocaster.
- Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the U.S. during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
- The night of Jimi's first gig, Jeff Beck was coming out of the club and outside he ran into Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend. With a frightened expression he told them "I think we're in trouble here!".
- An early form of rock and roll was rockabilly.
- The Yardbirds were the ones who gave Clapton the nickname "Slowhand".
- Steve Morse's (Deep Purple) guitar has 11 different pickup positions.
- The solo in The Beatle's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is played by Clapton.
- Cobain's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the name (or slogan...) of a deodorant brand.
- Sting's real name is Gordon Summer.
- Elvis Presley's former home, Graceland is the second most-visited house in America after the White House.
- Pink Floyd's original name was Sigma 6.
- From 1968 to 1970, Jim Morrison lived at the humble Alta Cienega Motel in Los Angeles, in a room with no telephone.
- Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.
- Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
- On September 11, 1946, James Marshall Hendrix became Jimi's official name.
- Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942.
- Jimi Hendrix is considered the greatest electric guitarist in musical history
- Parents: James Allen "Al" Hendrix and Lucille Jeter.
- Jimi's astrological sign is Sagittarius.
- Jimi's height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
- Hendrix was influenced by blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper.
- Jimi was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992
- Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003.
- Hendrix was a devout fan of Bob Dylan.
- Jimi Hendrix got his first guitar at the age of 15.
- Jimi's childhood nickname was Buster.
- Hendrix claims that his music is called electric church music because he claims music is a religion.
- On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London.
- A Fender Stratocaster guitar is carved on Jimi Hendrix's tombstone.
JIMI HENDRIX - QUOTES
"I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."
"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway..."
"We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people."
"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world."
- Gasoline is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines.
- Gasoline is also used as a solvent, mainly known for its ability to dilute paints
- Commonwealth countries use the term petrol for gasoline.
- In the United States and Canada the substance is called gasoline (or "gas").
- The term "petrol" has been used in English to refer to raw petroleum since the 16th century.
- Gasoline floats on water.
- Gasoline or petrol is more volatile than diesel oil.
- Internal combustion engines are designed to burn gasoline in a controlled process called deflagration.
- Gasoline has no specific freezing point -- it freezes at any temperature between -180 and -240 degrees Fahrenheit. When gasoline freezes, it never solidifies totally, but resembles gum or wax.
- Ancient names of the guitar: cithara, qitare, gitarre, guitare, guitarra.
- Guitars are recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as flamenco, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, rock, jota, mariachi, soul, reggae and many forms of pop.
- There are left handed guitars and right handed ones, there is a change to the string order.
- The English word guitar, the German gitarre, and the French guitare were adopted from the Spanish guitarra.
- Many of the worlds most popular modern guitarists were left handed, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Kurt Cobain.
- Electric guitars were introduced in the 1930s.
- A luthier is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments (like guitars). The word luthier comes from the French word luth, which means "lute".
- There are 2 primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric.
- Traditionally, in classic guitars the strings were made of animal gut.
- There are 3 main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar.
- Archtop guitars are carved in a curve rather than the traditional flat shape.
- Electric guitars rely on an amplifier that can electronically manipulate tone.
- The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3,300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard.
- Rio de Janeiro (River of January), is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and the second largest city of Brazil.
- Rio was founded in 1565
- Nickname(s): Cidade Maravilhosa ("The Marvelous City") or simply Rio
- Money: Brazilian Real
- Area - Metro 4,557.3 km2 (1,759.6 sq mi)
- Population (2010) - Metro 14,387,000
- Demonym carioca
- Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil for nearly 2 centuries.
- Rio de Janeiro is the 3rd most visited city in the world.
- Rio is known for its natural settings, carnival celebrations, samba, Bossa Nova, balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon.
- The giant statue of Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) atop Corcovado mountain was named one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
- The city has the biggest carnaval and the biggest reveillon of the world.
- Rio de janeiro has a tropical savanna climate.
- The average yearly precipitation in Rio is 109 cm.
- Copacabana is the most famous region of the south zone with various hotels, bars and night clubs.
- Rio has 50 km (31 miles) of beaches spread out along the coast of the state.
- Brooklyn Decker is an American fashion model best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
- Brooklyn Decker is married to American tennis player Andy Roddick.
- Birth name: Brooklyn Danielle Decker
- Parents: Tessa and Stephen Decker
- Brooklyn Decker was born in Kettering, Ohio on April 12, 1987.
- Brooklyn's astrological sign: Aries
- Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
- Hair color: Blonde
- Eye color: Blue
- Brooklyn won Esquire magazine's 2010 "Sexiest Woman Alive" bracket challenge.
- In a January 2011 interview with Self magazine, Decker stated that she suffered from an eating disorder.
- Brooklyn Decker is a big fan of the Dave Matthews Band.
- Discovered in a Charlotte shopping mall when she was a teenager.
