Les Paul leaves us today :(

[tudizzle]

The man who changed the face of music has passed

http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1618727/les-paul-inventor-and-guitar-wizard-is-dead.jhtml

 

[BossRev]

Cheers to an epic life

 

[Snowizard]

Here's what wikipedia says about his life. Fascinating.

Check out his real last name,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul

 

[Snowizard]

Les Paul also invented multitrack recording.

Good description of how he came up with the process. Les was handy with a lathe and mills, and actually machined some of the hardware for the first multitrack tape machines he used in his 1950's recordings himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_multitrack_recording

Based on an Ampex machine used by Bing Crosby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to-reel_tape_recorder

The Ampex machine is based on a not previously known German tape machine from 1939, called the Magnetophon.

 

[Skinner]

Dang

Long live Rock!!!!!!

 

[Snowizard]

From my previous post above: ^^^^^

Here is a photo I took of Bing Crosby's ACTUAL Ampex machine he used in his radio variety shows in the late 1940's. It resides at the Pavek Museum of Broadcsting.

I volunteer and help support the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, in St.Louis Park, MN (Minneapolis suburb.)
http://www.pavekmuseum.org/

Here is Jack Mullen's ACTUAL Magnetophon he brought back to the U.S. after WWII, where he served in the Army , and had heard about these machines, and after the war, was lucky enough to locate some and bring them back here.

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/jmullin.html

He asked the 3M company to "try" to make some recording tape, by modifying their process of making sandpaper!! It worked!!
The rest is history.
Of course it was Les Paul who modified the Ampex for multitrack recording, but Mullen was the pioneer of tape recording in the USA.

 

[framus]

Had me a custom once. It was like my best buddy then some major c*cksuker stole it. Been able to afford one now for 25 years but just cant seem to do it. RIP Les.

 

[AndrettiDog]

Just think of the music we would be listening too if not for the electric guitar!

Probably some folk stuff played on the cowbell.

 

[lucky13]

i had a 25th aniversery, played it for a long time, got stupid and sold it fantastic hunk of wood

 

[justadude]

RIP Les,

there will never be another person who will innovate and change popular music like he did!!

 

[rockdog2112]

RIP Les Paul. You are a true ledgend.

 

[rockdog2112]

This is Les Paul and Mary ford in around 1953. It about 2:15 long. Watch the whole thing and watch this guy play. He is awesome. How many great guitar players did this guy influence. We lost an american treasure today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4

For you true fans, here is a link to another old chip about 4 min long. Watch him play. He was fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRlu65wB7Fs&feature=related