How The Beatles came to use a Riverside-built guitar on the 'White Album'
How The Beatles came to use a Riverside-built guitar on the ‘White Album’
The instrument found its way to George Harrison, who played it on the landmark 1968 release.
It seems that a prototype guitar — built in Riverside — was used by George Harrison ofon the 1968 “White Album.”First, how did Riverside get a guitar factory?This story actually starts in the 1920s with a man named Paul Barth. Barth was a quiet, unassuming person who was, in essence, the father of the electric guitar. Starting in the ’20s, he was creating and experimenting with many types of electric methods of amplifying the sound of a guitar, which at the time was being drowned out by other instruments in dance and jazz bands. Barth worked with George Beauchamp in the 1930s to further develop electric guitars and guitar pickups.
Source: L.A. Daily News/headtopics.com
