YOUNG JOHN WATSON - "Space Guitar" (1954)

 

The song "Space Guitar" was recorded so long ago, that it was actually first released as a 78 RPM record back in 1954.

 

Johnny "Guitar" Watson was only 19 years old in 1954, and was recording as Young John Watson.

"Space Guitar" was the flip side of a song called "Half Pint-a-Whiskey." Obviously neither of the two songs had any chart success at the time, but "Space Guitar" has been heralded over the years for it's most unusual and unique early use of a guitar.

 

 At one point in his life, Johnny "Guitar" Watson stated  

 “Those things Jimi Hendrix was doing, I started that shit.” 

Nobody in the world was using a guitar like this back in 1954.

There were no effects pedals back then so he had to just manipulate the guitar in his own way, and is Johnny "Guitar" Watson in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Hell No!!! 

YOUNG JOHN WATSON - "Space Guitar"