Everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but few of us remember his contributions to jam bands and classic rock music. The staff at The Real Mews has uncovered an interview with his wife, Mina Edison, which sheds new light on the legacy of the man we now know as Vitamin E, the heppest cat in musical history.

“He was like a madman, workin’ in the basement all night.” Mina Edison begins. “He connected a five-pound generator to a piani and started tinkerin’ about. Soon he has them electrified keys that keep his fingers playin’. That’s when he starts writing all sorts of strange jams, zipping and zapping with the power of lightnin’, and becomes a rock and roll prodigy right before me very eyes.”

She continued, “For years he’s putting on these concerts in the middle of town and everyone in the colonies knows he’s pioneerin’ a musical revolution. He forms a band called ‘Edison’s Medicine’ that immediately starts the teenage girls screaming – they take to calling him ‘The Electric Piano Man.’ Soon you got a bunch of hippies gathering in Plymouth town square, boogying about like a bunch of loons.” 

After demonstrating what she called ‘the Devil’s dancing,’ Mina finally slumped back into her rocking chair. “He started plugging them electrical sockets up to his peddles, and that’s when he took to dancin’ on that piani all crazy. I feel like I wasted me life tryin’ to change him, but old Eddy is still me greatest love.” She paused and bowed her head. “Oh how Eddy loved his LSD,” she finally lamented. “But I guess in a world full of uncertainty, you can’t blame a man for wanting to spend his time blasted on Yellow Sunshine and jitterbuggin’ with the Devil on top of an old piani.”