Leo Fender was and is just as important. He was the Henry Ford of guitars.
Posted on 08/14/2009 6:33:10 PM PDT by fiscon1
Two men, Les Paul and Bob Moog, stand above all others as creators of the musical environment in which our brains are all now marinated. Moog, who died in 2005, stepped into the nascent field of digital music and devised an interface that took pure sound synthesis across the bridge from engineers to practicing musicians. Paul, who died of pneumonia yesterday at the age of 94, is less recognized as a digital innovator. But maybe he should be. Underlying many of his incredible inventions was an abstract notion that demanded, almost as an afterthought, radical changes to the hardware of music creation: the idea of sound as pure information.
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Leo Fender was and is just as important. He was the Henry Ford of guitars.
You got it! I’m a Fender man myself!
This guy was some innovative guy. I had no idea he used dubbing before anyone else. When he fell and broke his elbow he had it set at an angle so he could always continue to play.
What is a “Leo Fender”? Car fender? Sex offender?
Then there was Les Paul to perfect it.
Right about the time that Les Paul came on the scene, there was someone else in the late 40s/early 50s who was worth noticing. He was more of a jazz guitarist and never played popular music like Les did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xf3rAXoYjA
Indeed, because digitation sucks. Not Moog's, mind you, but digital media. It sucks.
RIP, Les Paul. Rock on.
And they probably love digital media, too.
I saw Les Paul about 3 years ago. He was 91 at the time and was still so on his game.
A true genius, RIP.
i own a strat, a tele and a mustang but there are two types of guitars....les pauls and all the other ones!!!!!!!!!! sorry.
What an odd article. The tie-in to Moog was strained and artificial. Les was a great guy and a creative genius.
(a side note - I had the extreme pleasure of meeting these two gentlemen (not at the same time). I feel blessed!)
Moog pioneered ANALOG synthesizers.
thought that seemed funny. thanks for pointing that out.
Anyway, I think Messrs Paul and Moog would endorse this...http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/453778/It-Might-Get-Loud/trailers
Can't afford one nowadays, never did when I could of, and wish I had.
Don't want no Epiphone,Don't want no Les Paul Studio without the pretty binding!!
What the heck is with Gibson anyway?
Used to be for solid bodies it was an SG or a Les Paul Standard or Custom.
Why did they have to muddy it up with all these pretender models nowadays.
I play a Fender Stratocastor and Fender is doing the same thing.
Too many models, too many variations for the market to designate as the one particular Holy Grail of desire.
Let me run these companies and I'd cut out the foreign crap and build the best models (The originals)with the best quality materials and get the biggest market share for reasonably priced instruments.
Rant done.
Just for the record in my opinion the Les Paul Custom with Jumbo Frets is the Cadillac model of payability for all guitars.
Cheers!
Breaking out the Keaggy CDs. I think I'll start with Beyond Nature.
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