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http://www.vintageandrare.com/ Talking to Tom Wittrock about his original late 50´s bursts on Arlington Guitar Show 2010.
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1982 Les Paul Custom Silverburst… a little white christmas instrumental
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FREE GUITAR MINICOURSE: http://www.myguitarguide.com/les-paul-guitars/gibson-les-paul-studio-lite/ In this video I review the Gibson Les Paul Studio and play the guitar through a few different amps. More information can be found at www.GibsonGuitarHeaven.com/gibson-les-paul-studio-lite.html
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CustomGuitarVideo.com Les Paul Collector Tom Wittrock tells the wonderful story how he bought his first Burst, a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard, for $2000. Everybody called him “the crazy guy who paid $2000 for a used guitar”! In 1972 he met with Billy Gibbons and got infected by the Vintage “Burst” virus. Due to their beautiful sunburst finish, these rare guitars are referred to as “Bursts”. Prices for these Gibson Les Pauls exceed $ 500.000 Enjoy the beauty of “Curly” in close-up shots. Extremely rare interview with the man who knows them all.
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RT @mrjyn http://bit.ly/lofiw #video #followfriday #youtube AND Follow @mrjyn http://twitter.com/mrjyn OR @nichopoulouzo …Les Paul - Spinal Tap Jam
Hey, guitar freaks: Is there a name for “one of” Les’s signature ‘lix’ @ 1:57 1:58 1:59 ? it’s like a harmonic, hammer-on, skiboodabadabble, but i know thereunto’ll be some guy from Berkley or somewhere who knows the technical jargon?
And while you’re at it, guy from Berkley: did Les Paul invent it? And while you’re chicken’ that out: What are 10 guitar ‘techniques’ that are unique-to, or that were invented and employed-by Les Paul?
thanks
NICHOPOULOUZO
“I was playing an apologetic, sweet little instrument that was always in the background. It had a lot to say but nobody could hear it. I was playing a little drive-in barbecue stand outside of Waukesha, and one of the guys in the rumble seat wrote a note to the carhop and said, ‘Red, your voice, your jokes, your singing, your harmonica is fine, but the guitar’s not loud enough.’ I went home to my mother and said, ‘Mom, one of the critics at the barbecue stand just lit the light for me that the guitar has to be amplified also.”‘
LES PAUL
Birthname: Lester William Polsfuss
Age: 91; born June 9, 1915.
Now lives in: Mahwah, N.J.
Innovations: Developed prototype for solid-body electric guitar produced by Gibson; developed recording techniques such as close miking, multitracking and use of echo and delay; introduced first eight-track tape player in 1950s; built early model synthesizer.
Paul wears one modern gadget when he performs. What looks like a standard hearing aid actually doubles as a miniature wireless monitor speaker that allows him to better hear his band onstage.
“He’s always looking at new technologies,” Marty Garcia, president of Future Sonics, which makes the ear monitors. “He’ll call me at 9 o’clock at night and we’ll be on the phone for hours.”
Arthritis in his left hand prevents Paul from playing the lightning-fast scales for which he was known in his heyday, but he has adapted his style to combine chords and single-note runs. He nearly lost his right arm in a car accident in 1948, but persuaded doctors to set it at an angle that would allow him to still play the guitar.
“I said, ‘Aim it at my navel and I’ll be just fine,”‘ he recalled. “The rest is history.” Paul is an engaging raconteur with an extraordinary ability to recall the details of his more than seven decades in show business — like the time in the 1970s when he was approached by country-and-western star Chet Atkins…”Chet said, ‘I’ll play my violin and sing and you’ll play your banjo and your harmonica and we’ll do all the things we’re not known for,”‘ Paul said. “Well, I was terrible on the harmonica, terrible on the banjo and I sang just as bad as I always do. And Chet was no better, so between the two of us we were horrible. I said to Chet, ‘Don’t you think we should do what we can do best?”‘ The result was a Grammy-winning album, one in an almost endless number of awards and accolades Paul has received. He is likely the only person who has been honored by separate national halls of fame for broadcasting, inventing, song writing and rock ‘n’ roll. The story of Paul’s role in the development of the solid-body electric guitar in the 1940s has become part of rock folklore: how he fashioned an early version out of a piece of railroad track before settling on a more manageable size and weight. (Around the same time, Fullerton, Calif.-based Leo Fender was developing an electric guitar that remains Gibson’s chief competitor.)
Once Paul developed a reliable prototype, he immediately began to experiment with altering the basic sounds of the guitar, and laid the groundwork for the reverb pedals, flanges and other effects guitarists use today.
Gibson began mass-producing the Les Paul model in 1952, and it eventually became the instrument of choice for generations of rock musicians, many of whom grew up unaware that its brand name refers to a person.
More than 80 years later, his influence on popular music is incalculable, largely due to his early use of recording techniques such as multitracking, delay and echo. His 90th birthday at Carnegie Hall in 2005 drew a diverse roster of guitarists including Peter Frampton, Jose Feliciano, Steve Miller and Edgar Winter, and he collaborated with Frampton, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and others on a rock album, Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played.
Waukesha (Wis.) County Historical Society, in the town where he grew up.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History also is discussing an exhibit. “He has far more artifacts of interest and significance than any one institution could take,” said John Fleckner, the Smithsonian museum’s senior archivist. “There’s no question that we would welcome a donation of materials from someone as significant in so many different ways as him.”
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1957 Gibson Les Paul Special with Okko Diablo Overdrive. Amp is a blackface Vibrolux Reverb Delay is a Akai Headrush. For the best results watching in “HD” - let the Video almost run through and scroll (!!) back. Less sync problems then!
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YOU MUST CLICK THIS LINK FOR STEREO
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This is the (reissued) guitar that Jeff Beck played in the 70’s when he recorded Blow by Blow
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90th-birthday celebration at the Iridium Jazz Club and the accolades that follow (induction into National Inventors Hall of Fame, Grammy-winning rock duets album with Jeff Beck, lifetime achievement award from Songwriters Hall of Fame) provide the verité framing device for Mr. Pauls lively recollections of his remarkable life. PREMADE OBITUTWEET Here: RT @mrjyn Les Paul #R.I.P. - http://bit.ly/BhJmn - June 9, 1915 - August 13, 2009 via @mrjyn Lester William Polfuss, known as Les Paul (June 9, 1915 - August 13, 2009 STAY TUNED @mrjyn http://twitter.com/mrjyn for more Les Paul tribute news. UPDATE: FULL POST HERE: http://bit.ly/zF05S via http://www.visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which “made the sound of rock and roll possible.” FROM THE DOCUMENTARY: ‘Les Paul - Chasing Sound!’ The legendary Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, inventor of overdubbing and multi-track recording, king of the 50s pop charts and architect of rock n roll, tells his own rags-to-riches story in a performance-documentary by filmmakers John Paulson and James Arntz, with a wall-to-wall soundtrack of the greatest hits from “Tiger Rag” to “My Generation.” An evocative blend of interviews, vintage film and television clips, recordings, radio show excerpts, still photographs, advertising art, personal memorabilia and a rich variety of stylish location B-roll illustrate Mr. Pauls narrative and examine his accomplishments in the distinctive in-depth style of American Masters. The intricate technology and sensuous beauty of solid-body electric guitars would not exist without the contributions of Les Paul. He gave birth to what is now, hands down, THE most influential instrument in modern American music. Les Paul has been chasing the perfect sound since his boyhood in Waukesha, Wisconsin, when he punched new chords into his mothers piano roll and turned his bedsprings into a radio antenna which would pull in the raucous jazz broadcasts from Chicago and the lonesome harmonica from the Grand Old Opry. Irascible, egotistical, indefatigable, an inveterate tinkerer and practical joker, hes the last of that self-educated, brilliantly innovative generation of musicians and media pioneers who revolutionized popular music and re-invented the global culture. At 90, Les Paul is still bursting with curiosity and brimming over with optimism, exuberance, and unadorned charm that’s one-hundred percent contagious. Les Paul - Chasing Sound! 90-minute performance documentary on the life and accomplishments of an American legend Television Music and WNET/Thirteen American Masters. WIKI: His many recording innovations include overdubbing, delay effects such as “sound on sound” and tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording. He was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin to George and Evelyn Polsfuss. The family name was first simplified by his mother to Polfuss before he took his stage name of Les Paul. He also used the nickname “Red Hot Red”. Paul first became interested in music at the age of eight, when he began playing the harmonica. After an attempt at learning to play the banjo, he began to play the guitar. By 13, Paul was performing semi-professionally as a country-music guitarist. At the age of 17, Paul played with Rube Tronson’s Texas Cowboys, and soon after he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton’s Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri on KMOX. In the 1930s, Paul worked in Chicago in radio, where he performed jazz music. Paul’s first two records were released in 1936. One was credited to Rhubarb Red, Paul’s hillbilly alter ego, and the other was as an accompanist for blues artist Georgia White.
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