Ben Varon, of Amoral, a Finnish band that played at last month's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, says he was first inspired to ask his mother for a guitar after watching a Guns N' Roses video.

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For all of the reasons I ever picked up a guitar or sang a tune in a Fargo, N.

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By the time of "Their Satanic Majesties Request, " what his Satanic Majesty would be requesting was a 38-inch waistband, and everyone would have mocked the Stones for having a faintly ludicrous wobble-butt on guitar who was ruining the concept of rock 'n' roll.

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' So the rock 'n' roll edge, having a rock guitar, was kind of the icebreaker to say we're familiar.

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African cities have blended differing tribal cultures and the technology of the electric guitar to produce some of the most vital world musics, as represented by Youssou N'Dour from Senegal or Salif Keita from Mali.

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Mr. MYERS: Even before Jerry Lee and the dawning of rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie was shifting away from the piano to electric guitar.

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Tightly embracing guitar effects and tape loops, Mission of Burma made sound an important commodity in rock 'n' roll, and its members carried that tradition into their first album after a 19-year hiatus, 2004's ONoffON.

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