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CNBC reports that Les Paul, legendary guitarist and guitar designer, has died at age 94
13 Aug 2009
| snarks_when_bored
Posted on 08/13/2009 9:12:40 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Les Paul has died at age 94. His electric guitar designs and innovations were central to the development of rock guitar artistry beginning in the early 1950s and continuing to this day. He was playing to the very end, too, in small groups in New York clubs.
So long to a great one...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guitarwizard; lespaul; music; obituary
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To: Grizzled Bear
He called it "The Log." He straped "wings" on it to disguise it as a "normal" hollow body guitar. No one could tell it was a solid body electric.And I'll bet that sumbi+ch rocked.
To: Beloved Levinite
At least until very recently, he had been playing weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club.
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posted on
08/13/2009 10:45:06 AM PDT
by
mak5
To: snarks_when_bored
![fighting smileys](http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/sad/sad0057.gif)
RIP my friend.
Another hero & legend gone.
To: SiVisPacemParaBellum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfyQkhbCvJQ&feature=related
Les Paul and Mary Ford Show
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posted on
08/13/2009 10:49:02 AM PDT
by
nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
To: snarks_when_bored
One of the greatest of all time. Here's to you Les...
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posted on
08/13/2009 10:55:40 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: TheStickman
I am not sure how to take that? LOL...a good thing or a bad?
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I was a gig RR fan. And to think young Randy got to heaven before he did. Both were gentle souls & brilliant talents.
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posted on
08/13/2009 10:58:54 AM PDT
by
Beloved Levinite
(I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:02:19 AM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(Where have you gone, Joe McCarthy, oh? A nation turns illiberel eyes to you...oo oo oo...)
To: wastedyears
Sure changed rock. Him and Leo Fender. Leo Fender, Les Paul and Jim Marshall were the bones that rock and roll were founded on.
________________________________________ Let's not forget the most important one, short of God Himself: Thomas A. Edison, shall we? ;)
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:04:24 AM PDT
by
Beloved Levinite
(I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
To: paulcissa
You are from Oakland correct? Went to IHHS? Class of 78?
To: Zeppelin
To: snarks_when_bored
![](http://www.furious.com/perfect/graphics/stevehackett.jpg)
Steve Hackett - Genesis
To: My Favorite Headache
A good thing, I promise. I knew his playing was a big influence on me but didn’t realize how much till I saw that video.
I am jealous he has more hair than me. :)
To: Beloved Levinite
One rather interesting fact about Randy, which I remember from an interview with his mother in Guitar World about twenty years ago, was that his favorite album around the time of his death was Phil Collins's Face Value.
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:17:22 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Those who provide the least and demand the most have a voting majority.)
To: TheStickman
Probably the big think I’ve stolen from Alex, playing-wise, is the use of suspended chords. It’s my opinion that, were he playing in a lesser band, he would be more renowned than he already is.
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:20:31 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Those who provide the least and demand the most have a voting majority.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
And another one (although he's played one of everything throughout his career):
![](http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/NealSchon.jpg)
And it looks like he's got a Floyd on his Les Paul, too!
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:23:23 AM PDT
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ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Those who provide the least and demand the most have a voting majority.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
And another one (although he's played one of everything throughout his career):
![](http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/NealSchon.jpg)
And it looks like he's got a Floyd on his Les Paul, too!
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:23:30 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Those who provide the least and demand the most have a voting majority.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I use a fair amount of suspended chords as well in my writing and Lifeson is probably one of the reasons I do.
Still love everything from Moving Pictures back to the beginning. Those were their “glory” days in my mind. Some of the stuff since then has been nice and technically well played but just hasn’t flicked my switch the way the old stuff still does when I hear it.
To: snarks_when_bored
My beloved 2000 Les Paul Classic. Sweetest guitar I've ever owned!
![](http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4760/img0421s.jpg)
Thanks Les!
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posted on
08/13/2009 11:52:34 AM PDT
by
Drew68
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