“Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played” Album, 2005 (released for Les Paul's 90th birthday).
I like the heavily-reverbed rendition of Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle".
Everybody knows about the guitar he invented. A lot of people don’t know what a truly great guitarist he was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaNMZmBR6E
We share the same birth date, but the year. Though some days I feel like a hundred.
I’m a big fan. The Log may have been the first solid body guitar.
“led to the development of the solid body electric guitar,”
but the Les Paul model was certainly not the first solid body in production. Those would be the limited production Bigsbys, and I think maybe Tutmarc (sp?) Then of course Leo’s Esquires and Teles, first called Broadcasters.
Les smashed his right elbow in a car wreak. The docs told him the couldn’t fix it to make it work again, so he had them set it in his guitar picking angle.
I clearly remember him, and Mary, singing the ads for Robert Hall!. And I’ve learned a lot of great guitar licks from him! What a career! What an exceptional human! I have quite a few of his 78rpm records.
“Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played” Album, 2005 (released for Les Paul's 90th birthday).
I like the heavily-reverbed rendition of Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle".
In fact, the Gibson electric guitars Les Paul designed arguably made it possible for the rock and roll music revolution that started in the early 1950’s.