[ Switch clicks, tube hums ]
[ Tubes humming ]
-My interest in music, 
yeah, it starts when --
when things become electric.
-♪ They wanna get my
♪ Gold on the ceiling
♪ I ain't blind 
-Pluggin' in
started a music revolution.
-Blues went electric.
They put it on a train 
and took it up North
and plugged them in.
Hot-wired the blues.
[ Guitar solo ]
-I plug it in. I get it home and 
I turn it up it's like "Khhhhh."
-"Ehrrrrr!"
-"Euhhhhhrrrrr!"
♪♪
-Suddenly, you didn't need 
a horn section anymore.
-I spent most of the mid-'60s
not hearing anything 
I ever sang.
-Electricity didn't just 
turn up the volume,
it opened up a world 
of new sounds.
-These albums 
are kind of sonic fantasies
that could never actually exist 
in real life.
-♪ I could never drown in
-I fell in love 
with the synthesizer.
-Is this how you make up 
all these songs?
With all these --
-We let the machines 
make up the songs.
♪♪
-You cannot put me 
anywhere near a synth.
I don't care 
if it was old-school synth,
you know it's still 
a manipulated sound.
-♪ They wanna get my
♪ Gold on the ceiling
-It was like they were working 
on Frankenstein.
All day, all night.
-This is the story 
of how one epic innovation
triggered 
a musical chain reaction
that's still 
throwing off sparks today.
♪♪
-It's amazing technology 
already happening,
which expands 
what can be created,
'cause someone will use 
one of those things,
and by accident, 
stumble into a brand new sound
that no one's ever heard before.
♪♪
-Just think of what would happen 
to the music business
if we pulled the plug 
on all the electricity.
