colder than the coldest winter was cold

by the end of the great war

the dandy warhols had progressed

far beyond the traditional jug band sound. zia had all but hung up the washtub bass

in favor of her new invention

which she called the synthesizer. the banjo was still there but now it was electrified

to a flat microphone which pete had wound tightly with copper wire and

called his pick-up and in turn made it louder by what fat-head jokingly

called

pete's amp. well

the name stuck and by the time such luminaries as gene vincent

elvis

presley and b.b. king had heard this new warhols sound

they were calling it

rock and roll. dandy frontman courtney taylor-taylor would be quoted as saying

i know it's

only rock and roll

but i think i like it

i'm bill curtis and you're listening to a piece of history