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Creating a Sound
Rock and roll music's inextricable link to electricity and technology sets it apart from most art forms. Amplification and the numerous variables it offers would not be possible without electricity. Guitarists' central tools -- the electric guitar, amplifier, and effects -- provide limitless options for textures and melodies; experimenting with these tonal possibilities has become essential to rock and can make a musician instantly recognizable by an unmistakable signature sound.
In this gallery, the guitars, amplifiers, and effects of four distinctive guitarists -- Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, and Tom Morello -- are presented as they would be set up onstage or in the recording studio. Both visually impressive and sonically sophisticated, these equipment rigs show the complexity of the choices that generations of rock and roll musicians have made and how those choices affect their music. |