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Just learned this on the wires - Les paul has passed away at age 94 ~ from my earliest interest in music and my admitted fascination with guitars the name Les paul was part of that mythology. When I finally learned to play guitar many years later owning a Les paul
was a dream realised. What a great instrument – and what a sound. His
name will be around forever for he was to guitars what Strummer was to
Punk.
Tim


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Posted in music on August 13, 2009


Les Paul, RIP

"Les Paul,
the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the
electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many
with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94. According to Gibson
Guitar, paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.
As an inventor, paul
helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll and multitrack recording,
which enables artists to record different instruments at different
times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the
"tracks" in the finished recording." [AP]

Les continued to perform right up until the end! Almost
every Monday at Iridium Jazz Club right here in NYC (where "You Never
Know who will show up"). RIP Les!
Videos below...










In July 2005, a 90th-birthday tribute concert was held at Carnegie Hall
in New York City. After performances by Steve Miller, Peter Frampton,
Jose Feliciano and a number of other contemporary guitarists and
vocalists, Les was presented with a commemorative guitar from the Gibson Guitar Corporation. On November 15, 2008, Les paul
received the American Music Masters award through the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at a tribute concert in the State Theater in Cleveland.
Among more than a dozen guest performers were Duane Eddy, Eric Carmen,
Lonnie Mack, Jennifer Batten, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Dennis Coffey, James
Burton, Billy Gibbons, Lenny Kaye, Steve Lukather, Barbara Lynn, Katy
Moffatt, Alannah Myles, Richie Sambora, The Ventures, and Slash.








































Les paul wailing at the Iridium 07/07/1997


























Les paul playing "Over the Rainbow" at the Iridium in NYC on 5/19/09.