R.I.P. Les Paul

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R.I.P. Les Paul

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I know those of you who play and enjoy the guitar join me in thanking Les Paul for his substantial work over the years. This is one of those guys who really changed history. We were blessed he walked among us. Thanks, Les!
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His massive influence on the development of the electric guitar aside, many do not realize his pioneering work in recording techniques such as overdubbing and multi-track recording. Because of him, The Beach Boys, Queen, and everyone in between have much to be thankful for.
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...and the Beatles, Led Zep, and anyone that has ever overdubed anything...

Les was an Iron Horse...all the way until he died...

RIP Les! You Rule!

I would give anything to sit onstage into my 90's, and play a weekly gig.

The man was amzing.

Strange how things go...have co-worker selling a Les Paul Signature, and asked just yesterday if I was interested. Well...I wasn't until now...

Again...RIP Les...you held the mantle for 50+ years. No one can take it from you!
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Here's how much he liked playing the guitar:

He was in a very bad auto accident in the late 40's and told the doctor to permanently set his arm in the guitar playing position.
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I still miss my '67 GTO with the reverb on the radio! Thanks, Les.
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The man was a true icon!
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Check out Les giving a demo of the Les "Paulverizer".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXSXOAfB4U

Man...I think I will be on here for another 3 hours just paying tribute to THE MAN!
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Les with his (and Ampex's) original Ampex 8-Track, and a more current clone. Audio was my business, and Les led the way in 1953-1955 by having Ampex create/invent the first real multitrack recorder. Up to that point the biggest had been a 3-track. Multitrack replaced the "horrendous" sound-on-sound layering and has grown and grown. I know of one studio that wound up using two sync'ed 24-track machines at one point (48 tracks).

RIP and thanks, Les.
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Schuarta wrote: I know of one studio that wound up using two sync'ed 24-track machines at one point (48 tracks).
There's a story about such a setup being used to record the second Boston album, and it didn't work right. So the engineer had to keep the two 24 track tapes in synch for the master by riding the reel flanges with his thumbs, manually slowing one tape ever-so-slightly if it started getting ahead of the other.
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"I find the pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats. Hungry?"
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