Junior Brown is turning 71 on Monday. Born in Cottonwood, Arizona, he landed in Austin in 1990 with his double-neck guit-steel guitar that he created.
Let’s explore other MUSICAL ARTISTS WHO CREATED/ADAPTED/ INVENTED AN INSTRUMENT AND HEAR A FAV SONG FROM THEM.
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“Whammer Jammer” by the J. Geils Band. Featured harominca player Richard Salwitz, who went by the stage name of Magic Dick. After the J. Geils Band dissolved in 1985, Salwitz spent time working on a harmonica design of his own, the “Magic Harmonica”, for which he received a patent with co-inventor Pierre Beauregard.Beauregard was the director of the Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra, of which Salwitz was also a member.
Joey Lozano
Grandmaster Flash didn’t invent the turntable, but he was the first to scratch with it on his “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” album.
Kenneth Bloomer
Although he didn’t invent the tremolo or vibrato bar for a guitar, the term ‘whammy bar’ as it’s called now is largely attributed to Lonnie Mack and his ’63 hit “Wham!”
Mimi Weedleone Roach
