From other threads, I know some of you guys and gals are also musicians. I saw today that Les Paul died at age 94. He was one of the true greats who changed the face of music.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-dies/?apage=2
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From other threads, I know some of you guys and gals are also musicians. I saw today that Les Paul died at age 94. He was one of the true greats who changed the face of music.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-dies/?apage=2
I remember Les Paul & Mary Ford from the 50's. The man was a genius with a guitar. I used to play around with a Les Paul guitar. Very smooth and easy to handle. This news catches me flat-footed.
Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune?
Somewhere there's heaven -- how high the moon?
RIP Mr. Paul. You will always be one of my favorite guiter players!
Z
Had a '57 Les Paul Junior when I was in high school. Mahogany. Loved that guitar. I didn't know anything about Les Paul until a couple years later. Then bought a LP Custom. Had if for years before selling it.
FWIW- Steve Miller was a guitar student of his (Miller's dad and LP were buddies).
RIP Les.
94...that's great and all that music he made....i don't play an LP but i wouldn't mind lucking into an early Gold Top...saw Robben Ford work magic with one recently in Roseburg at the summer concert series. Awesome guitar. Means even more now.
MontanaMoose
Sat down drank Budweiser and ate peanuts with him and his wife one evening in an old tavern in my home town probably 20 some years ago...his playing was incredible and talk about a humble, down to earth guy!
My buddy is a professional musican and was about out of his skin when we got to sit and talk with him...it was funny to see him basically shrug off being billed as the inventor of the electric guitar...he said he was not the orginator just the first one to successfully mass market them.
He's the only musican I have ever talked to in that environment that wouldn't accept a beer being bought for him...he just sort of chuckled, offered a thanks and simply said he had plenty of money and at his age he could afford to buy his own beer.
First Chet Atkins, now Les Paul. For those of you who don't recognise those names, if not for the two of them, the electric guitar, if it existed at all, would be about as versitile an instrument as the kazoo, only not as pleasing to listen to. They made some great music themselves, but they made everything else possible. They are and will be missed.
There will be beautiful music in heaven tonight.
my guitar gently weeps :cry:
pour a sip for Mr. Paul