Rick Vito was influenced by this American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor who was one of the pioneers of what?
Les Paul Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
Ikutaro Kakehashi Ikutaro Kakehashi (梯 郁太郎 , Kakehashi Ikutarō , 7 February 1930 – 1 April 2017) , also known by the nickname Taro, was a Japanese engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. A pioneer in electronic musical instruments and a Technical Grammy Award winner, he was founder of Japanese companies Ace Tone, Roland Corporation, Boss Corporation and ATV Corporation. He was involved in developing such as the TR-808 and TR-909, the MIDI standard, TB-303 bass synth, Ace Tone Rhythm Ace drum machines, , Microcomposer sequencers, and Boss guitar amplifiers and effects pedals. His electronic equipment were influential, shaping popular music genres such as electronic, dance, hip hop, R&B, rock and pop music.