google.com — WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.
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therightcliqueAug 14, 2009
Well, that's one of the things you could have said.
therightcliqueAug 14, 2009
Awesome. Well worth watching from the beginning though. Especially today.
avatarpalinAug 14, 2009
RIP
tedmccartyAug 15, 2009
Les Paul was a brilliant jazz guitarist. His endorsement of Gibson's first solid body guitar helped to sell the new model in 1952 and after. But the key word is "endorsement." Ted McCarty (1910-2001), President of Gibson, along with a team of designers, worked to produce Gibson's first solid body guitar in 1951. They showed a prototype to Les Paul, who suggested it come in gold or black. They then asked him to endorse it, which he did to the tune of a royalty per each one sold. Later innovations, such as humbucking pickups (which gave the later models their great sound) also came from Gibson designers, not Les Paul. The Les Paul Specials, Juniors, and the SG style Les Paul of the early 60s were also Gibson, not Paul, designs. In fact, Les Paul hated the SG design so much he demanded his name be taken off it in the early 60s. Those are facts. Les Paul later claimed he designed the entire Les Paul guitar, but he was just... not being honest. It's still a great guitar, and he's still a great player, but that's the truth.
rjjrdqAug 15, 2009
Have you seen this guy play in his day? Shred is the appropriate word. I'm sure most "musicians" today secretly wish they had a fraction of the talent Les Paul had. RIP
timeistissueAug 18, 2009
"The time is never. You can figure out the place on your own"Stay thirsty my friends.No, but seriously, there is a time and place for that. I just had to recite that commercial :\.
bluesdealerAug 21, 2009
Without jazz, no rock.