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Electric Guitars
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There are several artists with this name: 1. a Danish rock band, 2. an English post-punk band from Bristol. 1) A Danish hard rock / blues rock band founded by in 2013 by guitarists Søren Andersen (White Lion, Glenn Hughes Band) and Mika Vandborg (Justin Hawkins, Love Shop, Dicte). Their debut album was titled Electric Guitars as well, see their official home page for more infos: https://www.electricguitarsmusic.com -- 2) Electric Guitars were an English band formed early in 1980 by Neil Davenport (vocals, lyrics) and Richard Hall (bass, vocals) who were both studying English at Bristol University. The band soon increased to a five-man line-up, with Andy Saunders (guitar, vocals), Matt Salt (drums) and Dick Truscott (keyboards), they also later added two backing singers: Sarah and Wendy Patridge. Their first single "Health" / "Continental Shelf" was released on local label Fried Egg Records in 1980. They contributed four live tracks to the first edition of The Bristol Recorder in 1980, and in 1981 released their second single "Work" / "Don’t Wake the Baby" on Recreational Records, which reached No. 45 on the UK Indie Chart. They toured as support to The Thompson Twins, which brought them to the attention of Stiff Records, who promptly signed them up. The band's first single for Stiff was "Language Problems" in 1982, and this was followed by an EP in the same year, from which Toni Basil recorded "Beat Me Hollow" for her TV special. Bert Muirhead in his 1982 book about Stiff
