LES PAUL'S GREATEST HITS

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SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITAR PLAYER, ROCK ICON AND GENIUS

THE INVENTOR OF THE HARMONICA BRACE, THE SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, THE MULTI-TRACK MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDER, TAPE DELAY, PHASING EFFECTS AND MULTI-TRACK MUSIC MIXING & RECORDING

Born In The Early Years of World War One, Old Lester William Polsfuss Had A Busy Life

Descended from the Wisconsin German families that gave us Blatz Beer and the Stutz Bearcat automobile, Les Paul was a self-taught engineering genius in the great American Midwestern tradition of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. He was also a great musician and a generous soul who paid for Django Rheinhardt's tombstone, and for Chet Atkin's first real guitar. A terrible car accident in 1948 left him permanently disabled, but it didn't stop the music or the inventions. A real left brain AND right brain thinker, Les had the doctors rebuild his shattered arm and set it permanently in a position that allowed him to hold and pick a guitar. The "Log," Les Paul's ab-original solid-body electric guitar design, was then re-designed by him to be easier to play in his "differently abled" configuration. Les Paul took the log to Gibson Guitars, who finally produced a series of "Les Paul" guitars based on his design and further innovations beginning in 1952, only after Leo Fender came out with the Stratocaster. Those two guitars are the top choices of the greatest guitarists in Jazz and Rock, Blues and Country to this day, responsible for the modern sound of popular music. For both ease of use and sweetness of tone, high quality and great sustain, the Les Paul will live on long after it's master is gone.



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MORE MUSIC VIDEOS


YOUTUBE: LES PAUL & MARY FORD
"LES PAUL and MARY FORD "KANGAROO" "DON'CHA HEAR THEM BELLS""
One of Les Paul's own compositions, "Dont'cha Hear Them Bells," proto-rock & roll.




YOUTUBE: LES PAUL
"les paul takes the pis out of eveys one"
Les playing with himself onstage --years before Jim Morrison.




YOUTUBE: ERIC CLAPTON
"Hideaway (1966) Eric Clapton w/ John Mayall's Blues Breakers"
Clapton conspires with Les Paul to create the sound of the 60's.




YOUTUBE: JEFF BECK
"ROCK MY PLlMSOUL (1968) by the Jeff Beck Group"
"Beck-Ola" a la Paul.




YOUTUBE: JIMMY PAGE
"Rock & Roll -Foo Fighters with Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones "





YOUTUBE: NEIL YOUNG
"Neil Young & Pearl Jam!"
Rock'N'Roll will never die. Some of the musicians...




YOUTUBE: DUANE ALLMAN
"The Allman Brothers Band with Duane - Whipping Post - Fillmore East - 09/23/1970 (Part 1)"
The good brother.




YOUTUBE: MIKE BLOOMFIELD
""Stop" Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield (Super Session)"
A coupla the Dylan kids, a-rockin'.


(cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus)



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