Essays Tagged: "first guitar"

Kurt Cobain

ars old. Kurt chose to live with his mother. Kurt's father remarried three years later.Kurt got his first guitar for his 14th birthday. He took one guitar lesson and never paid for it. Kurt says 'I we ... . They released a single in November of 1988. They got signed to a small company and produced their first album titled Bleach. It featured Chad Channing on Drums, Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals, and ...

(5 pages) 65 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Kurt Donald Cobain's life

e of two. He had a Mickey mouse drum set that hebeated night and day, Kurt's aunt Mary gave him his first guitar lesson ,found that he couldn't sit through a whole lesson pretty much like anysix or se ... time , something different from heavy adifferent metal attitude.2Kurt smashed his guitars a lot his first time he smashed one was onOctober 30, 1988.Question 1.Kurt Donald Cobain started playing music ...

(6 pages) 68 1 3.7 Jan/1995

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Green Day Band Bio

ten. Billie's Mom was a waitress and a diehard country music fan. At age eleven, Billie Joe got his first guitar, a blue Stratocaster that he plays to this day. It was around that same time that he me ... orming a band of their own in 1987, Performing under the name the Sweet Children, they landed their first gig that same year, playing in the lounge of Rod's Hickory Pit, the joint where Billie Joe's m ...

(6 pages) 37 0 2.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Elvis Presly

remembrance of his stillborn twin. On his eleventh birthday on January 8, 1946, Elvis received his first guitar. Two years later, the Presleys packed and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis enrolled i ... is teamed up with Scotty Moore and Bill Black while at the studio. In 1954 the trio worked up their first songs which became very popular.Presley hired Colonel Tom Parker as his manager. The new up-an ...

(4 pages) 1572 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Stevie Ray Vaughn

mily consisted of his father Jim, his mother Martha and his older brother Jimmy. Stevie recived his first guitar in 1961 he described it as a cheap three-string toy. This toy is what started the magic ... He even had the honor of playing for former President G.W. Bush's inagural celebration. He made his first album being drug free it was named crossfire On January 30, 1990 In June, he embarks on a two- ...

(2 pages) 1439 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Basic Information About Guitar

Around when and where was the first guitar made?The first guitar was created in Rome and was brought to Spain around forty AD. The ... ed in Rome and was brought to Spain around forty AD. The modern guitar is a far descendent from the first guitar made in Rome. In the beginning it only had four strings. The six string guitar was crea ... big part of life guitar, therefore, is a very big part of life.How important was guitar when it was first created?Compared to nowadays the guitar when it was first created was not very important. It w ...

(3 pages) 13 1 4.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Jimi Hendrix

(Encyclopedia of world biography) Jimi?s love for music started when he was very young. Before his first guitar he attached string to broom and pluck it. (Allmusic.com) Jimi?s first real guitar was a ...

(3 pages) 13 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

History of Mexico Guitar

Spanish dance form with a repeated theme.This Gigue by Manuel Ponce is performed by Horst Klee.The first guitar probably was brought to Mexico by a monk in the 1700's and it has since become the "nat ... ny to a written bass line. He also produced many arrangements for solo guitar including some of the first written examples of early Spanish dances such as the jácara, mariona, gallarda, villano ...

(6 pages) 3596 0 3.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies