Innovator, inventor, recording pioneer, brilliant musician and one of the guitar's greatest elder statesmen has left us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html
It's a sad day for the guitar universe.
But the world is richer -- much richer -- from him having come our way.
RIP Les.
Les Paul and Leo Fender did more for rock and roll than anyone I can think of. Les Paul was a gracious and technically creative man. I have a few guitars with his name on them, a 1957 Les Paul Junior, 1959 Special, 1960 Junior DC, Several early 1970's Deluxes. The one guitar I really wish I still had was a 1960 Les Paul Custom single cutaway, burgundy with gold hardware - a real classic rock sound and heavy as a boat anchor. RIP, Les, we will miss you.
ReplyDeleteMark in Boston
Nice stash of guitars Mark.
ReplyDeleteI never met Les, but I've always felt like I knew him. I was very moved when he passed.
Both Leo and Les were the Thomas Edisons of our time.