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Les Paul guitar legend

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 10:16 AM

THE man passed away this morning. he created the "axe".

thanx, les, for the amazing contribution.
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 10:18 AM

Ahh Wow !! Did not know ??

A LEGEND !! :cheers: :cheers: for the contributions

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 10:23 AM

The guy was amazing. Here is some reading...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 10:39 AM

RIP Les Paul

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 11:11 AM

Good for him! I wonder if he was still playing!?!

I'm sure it was a great life
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 11:28 AM

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:21 PM

What a legend. Truly one of music's greats. Not to mention an inventor on top of being an entertainer. He will live on in the hearts of music lovers everywhere. :cheers:
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:33 PM

Man. What a player/innovator. I will take up my well-worn/beat up/much loved '79 Les Paul Custom today and play it loud and be thankful he thought it up so I could have one :cheers:
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:36 PM

His life's work and accomplishments will keep his memory alive forever...
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:43 PM

And to think Gibson told him "there will never be a demand for a plank guitar", which became the Les Paul.
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Posted 13 August 2009 - 11:21 PM

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Posted 13 August 2009 - 11:36 PM

I looked for just the right one... through the JD I found these with Mary. Ole-School baby. ;)

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 12:26 AM

I can remember Pop listening to Chester and Lester when I was growing up. That was some good stuff. Never hears much of the stuff he did with Mary Ford, will have to look it up.

RIP Mr. Paul. Thanks for it all! :closedeyes:

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Posted 14 August 2009 - 03:04 PM

Some of you may get a kick out of these photos. This is one of the oldest Les Paul's you're likely to see. In the late 80's, I bought this guitar and a few others from an older gentleman who used to play guitar in a square dance band back in the 50's. (I sold it in '97) see attached photos.

A little story comes along with this guitar...

It has no serial number and is marked with a number 2 on the back of the tuning head. It turns out that when Les Paul and Gibson (Norlin Music in the Chicago area) were first pitching this guitar to music stores, Les would travel all over the country to music conventions/shows in order to demonstrate and publicize the new Les Paul electrics. Occasionally one of these original guitars would get banged up or scratched / chipped etc... , and Les would send the guitar back to Norlin for a new one.

The damaged guitars were then repaired and refinished and marked with a "2" to indicate it was now a "second" and not brand new. They were routinely offered for sale to employees. Anyway, the wife of the man that sold me the guitar had worked for Norlin at that time and bought this guitar for him.

Because it was a "second" and was refinished (you can see the refinished paint worn down to the original finish on the back of the neck), the guitar was only worth $2500. Had it not been refinished and marked with the "2", I shudder to think what it might go for today. It has some of the earliest pickups you'll find and the bridge was pretty rare too.

R.I.P. Les Paul

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P/S Another point of interest you may have missed... Les Paul was one of the original users of tape echo and multitrack effects and made them extremely popular.
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