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| Les Paul 1915-2009 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 13 2009, 11:30 PM (143 Views) | |
| Bill | Aug 13 2009, 11:30 PM Post #1 |
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![]() Somehow, the world just got a little less interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8200385.stm |
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| beatlechick | Aug 13 2009, 11:34 PM Post #2 |
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In Paul's Arms!
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I'd have to say that this man had as much, if not more, influence than just about any artist, including The Beatles. His guitar stylings has oft been imitated but not duplicated. A sad, sad day for music and his family. RIP Les Paul |
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| Monkey Chow | Aug 14 2009, 12:18 AM Post #3 |
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beep beep m beep beep yeah
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Words are inadequate. RIP. |
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| scottycatt | Aug 14 2009, 04:26 PM Post #4 |
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I heard him interviewed a couple of years ago on a local radio show. He was the nicest, most humble man you can imagine. He had that *greatest generation* sensibility about him. He truly was one of a kind, as cliched as that may sound. He made me think of Paul when he said that he loved playing and making music and that he would play until that was no longer possible. I really think that's how both of them manage(d) to stay young and timeless. R.I.P, Mr. Paul. Your gifts to us will live on. |
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| beatlechick | Aug 14 2009, 11:46 PM Post #5 |
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In Paul's Arms!
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Apparently he almost played up to his death. I think I heard his last gig was just about 4 months ago! |
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| Queenbee | Aug 14 2009, 11:57 PM Post #6 |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6796976.ece Guitars Gently Weep Les Paul changed the rhythm of our lives for ever 1 COMMENT RECOMMEND? If you want to see, as Noël Coward put it, just how potent cheap music can be then imagine a world in which Les Paul had not existed; a world in which he had not invented and perfected the sound of the electric guitar that bore his name. It is a world in which there would be no Layla from Derek and the Dominos. Nor would there be the Beatles’ Day Tripper. We would be without those hypnotic opening bars of Satisfaction or Paint It Black or Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones. No Johnny B Goode, no Pretty Woman, no Summertime Blues. The Kinks strumming You Really Got Me? We would, somehow, have had to get by without it. Also missing would be the deliciously brash chords that announce the arrival through the loudspeakers of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love or Heartbreaker, or of The Who’s Pinball Wizard, or David Bowie’s Rebel Rebel. There would be no Purple Haze from Jimi Hendrix, or his plangent recital of The StarSpangled Banner at Woodstock. Indeed, no Woodstock, Live Aid, or the Concert for Bangladesh. In creating the solid-body electric guitar Paul provided the soundtrack to the second half of the 20th century and, thus, to all our lives. Just as Stradivari, by finding the purest shape for the violin, enabled Bach and Vivaldi to blossom; just as the piano in the late 18th century changed the expressive scope of the keyboard, thereby transforming Beethoven’s musical horizons; just as Adolph Sax minted the instrument that Charlie Parker and John Coltrane would make the signature of jazz; so Les Paul created the instrument that has been jangling on the world’s jukeboxes for two generations. Paul’s main goal in life, he often said, was to make people happy. He did. |
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