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Book review: Play it Loud describes how the electric guitar took on a life of its own

This history of the most important musical instrument of the modern age will have readers searching online to find the songs and riffs it refers to

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Eddie Van Halen and his ‘Frankenstrat’.
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Play It Loud

by Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna

Doubleday

4/5 stars

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The scream of the electric guitar was the dominant soundtrack of the 20th century.

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