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"Musician. Inventor. Architect of Rock N Roll... NOT JUST THE INVENTOR OF THE HARD BODIED ELECTRIC GUITAR BUT, a pioneer in RECORDING TECHNIQUES..."
LES PAUL CHASING SOUND - An American Masters CD, presents an impressive line up of music stars give their thumbs up to Les Paul... Including Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Jeff Beck, Merle Haggard, ... Waukesha Wisconsin, Chicago, New York, Hollywood.... NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME!
LINK TO NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
and the LES PAUL FOUNDATION ORG
WIRED FOR SOUND A GUITAR ODYSSY, subtitled THE AMAZING STORY OF THE GUITAR, features some of the "Guitar Gods" of the 20th/ 21st century: Scotty Moore of Elvis Presley's Blue Moon Boys, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Hank Williams Jr., not to mention Rock and Roll performers like Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins...
They talk about the guitar as an instrument itself, and there is plenty of historical film footage and interviews in this one! There's a visit to Orville H. Gibson's work shop... and well, this is like a biography of the instrument itself.
What we learned?
Americans coming through Liverpool brought American records and American guitars which were sold in the stores, some so precious that they were kept behind glass.
The DVD/film is C 2000 Cottonport Holdings Nashville.
Lester William Polsfuss, long known as Les Paul, passed into Eternal Life at the age of 94 yesterday, August 13, 2009. To link right to his site, click on the title above. Les invented the Les Paul Gibson Guitar, an electric guitar, that helped take Rock and Roll out of the acoustic phase into the electronic phase. (And Rock and Roll is rounding back a bit, with a acoustic guitar versions of many previously electronic hits.)
Now it's been a while since we've posted multiple links on a blogpost. But below is the link to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Les Paul page.
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/les-paul
"The guitar that bears his name – the Gibson Les Paul – is his crowning achievement. It grew out of his desire, as a musician and inventor, to create a stringed instrument that could make electronic sound without distorting. What he came up with, after almost a decade of work, was a solid bodied instrument – that is, one that didn’t have the deep, resonant chamber of an acoustic guitar." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
We'll let the world speak for itself on Les.
