People talk about music as if it is unknown magical invention, but in reality it is merely an upwelling of divine fate.
Rock and Roll as a genre is a fantastic example of this, given the original disparate parts were formed in The Levant, before recombining in America through the technical partnership of Richard Anthony Monsour and Clarence LeĆ³nidas Fender.
Richard (who performed under the moniker Dick Dale) had a lebanese background and early training in oud and tarabaki. This set the foundation for his powerful play style and legendary recompositions which defined surf rock and later imitators of his genre and style until his death.
The LeĆ³nidas Fender was the scion of an orange grove family, the fruit of which itself has an almost mythohistorical murky past. It is long theorized that the golden apple idiom, a staple of European and Mediterranean legend, was actually reference to oranges. While the citrus originated in China and matriculated west over centuries, the true historian must never overlook these connections.
In a time when a determined player could literally light their amp on fire through sheer fretwork, these two demigods worked to contain the energy the music summoned. They created a technological cascade which soon became just as much a part of the music as a medium through which it flowed.
