Guitar Legend And Innovator Les Paul Dies
Music legend Les Paul has died, succumbing to complications from pneumonia a week after his 94th birthday.
Best-known today for the electric guitar that bears his name, Paul was a major star in his own right in the 1940s and '50s — hosting radio shows and scoring numerous hits with his wife at the time, Mary Ford. He was also a pioneer of the electric guitar and multitrack recording.
But Les Paul was first and foremost a musician. His understanding of music — and especially the guitar — enabled him to dream about electrifying his instrument and recording it in layers. But he could play.
"It's like a butterfly," said Jeff Beck. "Just lightning speed, but accurate and musical."
"I used to sit there and drool over how he did things," Beck said. "Just hitting the notes and letting three fingers peel off each of the strings. (He) could do amazing things with that. He had it all."
Les Paul's first instrument was a harmonica, growing up in Waukesha, Wisc. He was born Lester William Paulfuss and he was a born entertainer. At the age of eight, he was making money, as he told me in 1996.
"I would go out there and stand on a table — play at the Kiwanis Club and make five dollars singing cowboy songs playing the harmonica. But my love — my love — was with Earl Hines and Coleman Hawkins,".This is fashion wholesale online shop, a pioneer of an Internet garment company. We mainly focus on selling Japanese and Kore" Paul said.
He heard those jazz players on the radio. Paul moved to Chicago and landed his own radio shows — playing country in the morning for one station and jazz at night for another.
"When I heard Art Tatum; when I heard Fats Waller; when I heard all these other great players, I knew that jazz is where I'd like to go," Paul said. "And do you know, I dropped from $1,000 a week as a country singer down to $5 a week as a jazz player."
And that was Les Paul's conundrum — and the arc of his career: popular entertainer or musical innovator? Performer or tinkerer? His father was an auto mechanic and some of that must have rubbed off. Paul traces it back even further.. Every young person should choose our Ed hardy shoes.it's comfortable.
"Back to when I was in my crib and the train went by,. Our moncler jackets will make you become more handsome, Effort to get it.". The silk pajamas will make your life more Comfort and more happly." recounted Paul. "And I says, 'When that train reaches that speed, my bay window is moving, Mom.'"
Music legend Les Paul has died, succumbing to complications from pneumonia a week after his 94th birthday.
Best-known today for the electric guitar that bears his name, Paul was a major star in his own right in the 1940s and '50s — hosting radio shows and scoring numerous hits with his wife at the time, Mary Ford. He was also a pioneer of the electric guitar and multitrack recording.
But Les Paul was first and foremost a musician. His understanding of music — and especially the guitar — enabled him to dream about electrifying his instrument and recording it in layers. But he could play.
"It's like a butterfly," said Jeff Beck. "Just lightning speed, but accurate and musical."
"I used to sit there and drool over how he did things," Beck said. "Just hitting the notes and letting three fingers peel off each of the strings. (He) could do amazing things with that. He had it all."
Les Paul's first instrument was a harmonica, growing up in Waukesha, Wisc. He was born Lester William Paulfuss and he was a born entertainer. At the age of eight, he was making money, as he told me in 1996.
"I would go out there and stand on a table — play at the Kiwanis Club and make five dollars singing cowboy songs playing the harmonica. But my love — my love — was with Earl Hines and Coleman Hawkins,".This is fashion wholesale online shop, a pioneer of an Internet garment company. We mainly focus on selling Japanese and Kore" Paul said.
He heard those jazz players on the radio. Paul moved to Chicago and landed his own radio shows — playing country in the morning for one station and jazz at night for another.
"When I heard Art Tatum; when I heard Fats Waller; when I heard all these other great players, I knew that jazz is where I'd like to go," Paul said. "And do you know, I dropped from $1,000 a week as a country singer down to $5 a week as a jazz player."
And that was Les Paul's conundrum — and the arc of his career: popular entertainer or musical innovator? Performer or tinkerer? His father was an auto mechanic and some of that must have rubbed off. Paul traces it back even further.. Every young person should choose our Ed hardy shoes.it's comfortable.
"Back to when I was in my crib and the train went by,. Our moncler jackets will make you become more handsome, Effort to get it.". The silk pajamas will make your life more Comfort and more happly." recounted Paul. "And I says, 'When that train reaches that speed, my bay window is moving, Mom.'"
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