lessons Of legend Les Paul

lessons Of legend Les Paul

The first thing to establish about the Les Paul is that there really is one. I think that young people aware of the report of the meeting. Torn middle-agers think that on the guitar.

Older people are aware of the revolution he was playing guitar by Eric Clapton was the first pair of long pants to think that myth. Everyone thinks he may have guitar strings for the arteries.

Nowadays, to be confused with other issues, stepped 90-year-guitar picker in the category known as the rock star stratosphere. Conference on Disarmament on the recently released, American made / World Played, his sidemen include the likes of Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Buddy Guy.

CD puts an exclamation mark to become the big bold Mr. Paul what was called "a permanent installation" exhibition at the Rock Roll Hall of Fame last year. Was chosen in the hall in 1988.

What Les Paul, a person, and think of all the hype surrounding the fame of his life? "I do not think I'm very successful," he rants. "I'm just trying to constantly improve, with the knowledge that I have improved quite a bit since I was fifteen, sixteen years of age. You do not improve much after that."

Complete absence of arrogance and real, in the era of megahype, frankly, scary. The truth is, along with his million-selling records, Grammy Awards, and installed permanently Rock Hall of Fame center, Les Paul is, indeed, in a class by himself.

And when he went Jimi Hendrix was planning his Electric Lady studios in the late 60s, and Les Paul for advice.
Request a few years ago to review the album Les Paul Melody Maker newspaper English, former guitarist Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page and put it this way: "He is the man that started it all is just a genius."

It recognized the genius that pop music mad world bag of tricks, such as phase shift, overdubbing, reverb and effects, sound on sound close miking, echo and delay.

Les Paul guitar, in itself, is a fine fragrant, long-stemmed rose in the garden of the modern musical instruments. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen once stood on stage with Les Paul and said to him: "Without the things you've done, I will not be able to do half the things I do"

Rock guitarist who built the machine completely from scratch, Brian May, formerly of the Queen. When I asked Queen guitarist Brian King on guitar why,: "It is incredible how far in technology that have occurred in every time."

Mr. Paul also happens to be the man who invented multitrack recording and electric guitar solidbody. Contributions from those two alone, one can venture to say that the history of popular music without Les Paul shrunk the date of the Beatles Paul less.

If Ms. Paul, will have the fried onions, and he'd be the mother of all wars, electric guitar, since the choice of many rock guitarists of his instrument as a weapon of their choice.

The Instead, he and the father of the year 1941 in New York City with Mr. Paul solidbody guitar first. Since become an essential tool how to play pop music, and heard, and development of the most important achievement in his life of important achievements.

In the life of America, 1941, and the minds of people in the two growing: one in Europe and one in Asia. Found on the Yankees themselves play the Dodgers in the World Championship all-new, New York; the so-called "automatic" and found its way into cars, and in Duluth, Minnesota, a child named Robert Zimmerman, Allen (later to go by the name and found Bob Dylan) itself in the world.

I got a quarter of you in the movies or six tunes on the Wurlitzer Music kaleidoscopic. This was a rise in the era of Big Band and dancing. The tunes Top Today Glenn Miller "Chattanooga Choo Choo -"
Sammy Kaye in "father", and Inkspots "I do not want to set the world on fire."

Developing world U.S.A - 1941. Fire communications shift was at an early stage in a cocoon of electrical wiring. Across the country are increasingly wired-up, the sound is natural to be the beginning of the Transcendental amplify the sound. This means, there are people beginning to think more in sound waves of sound.

It was one of those who touched the power allocated to a new artistic medium Lester William Polsfuss, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, June 9, 1915, five years after the death of Mark Twain. Although I was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, Mr. Paul instincts belong to the end of her era to more voltaic, medium is the message.
A natural musician, he was fascinated as the flow of electricity as the flow of music. He proves that the American innovator who was to feel the power of art that was rooted, it feels Technical Twain's in Mississippi now.

In the early 30s, began guitarist up and coming professional burn its energies on this central vision: a guitar that would produce non-distorted electronic sounds.

"What I want to do," Mr. Paul said to me, "He did not have two things vibrating. You want the string to vibrate and nothing else. I wanted to keep the guitar longer than the box voice and different voices than just my voice box."

Concept, of course, and cannon shots were fired across the bow of December aesthetic that are reverberating guitars. But it was the perception of Mr. Paul is too early to believe that a power to change the full context of the source. The different requirements. The use of acoustic guitar emptiness of what it can to get vibrations.

With electricity, vibrations and hurt more than helped. It will be the purest sound if the body is vibrating, stable and solid. The guitar was not to be producing the sound, after all, but pregnant and.

With the vitality of the pioneers of insight and certainty, it was necessary, Mr. Paul consistently for years to form a guitar-oriented generation of galvanic. And dealing with electricity, as if they were new and the vernacular, such as Dante dared to write in his native Italian, to create in the language of his time.

It slices through persistently one problem after another, the first problem is how to pick up the instrument so that the electrical impulse from the chains that would make a sound.

Paul explains: "I picked up the first with the other half of the magnet and coil phone, and placed under the strings then you are the phonograph, a needle prick in the upper part of the guitar."

Noting that the emptiness of the instrument interfere with electronic sound and realized that the hard surface would serve better.

"I know that what is needed is a guitar with no holes," said Mr. Paul. "I am a goal in the breach. Poured full of plaster of Paris. I tried everything with the guitar in an attempt to get it to lack of feedback and sound like a voice box."

Paid in the end to penetrate him in 1941. While F.D.R. The country's warm-up chats with his fireplace, 26-year-old Les Paul left his stove on each plant Sunday.

Epiphone Guitars, click the Woolworth Road 14 in New York City, and allow him to use the factory once a week to work on his guitar design.

He spent most every Sunday in the plant while the names of great big band singer Hotels New York: spiral Duchin at the Waldorf, for the men in the Roosevelt Lombardo, Benny Goodman in The New Yorker.

Sunday working in the factory, take a piece of four inch by four inches of wood and attached to the sides of the follow-up guitar parts on it. There it was: guitar, solid and non-volatility. The inventor guitarist re-design some of the tools of old wood and string, to a new tool. He dubbed "the record."

Points more than three years later, became the solidbody electric guitar all the greatest symbol of America since the wooden baseball bat or a wooden hut. Like the wooden hut, and a tool embodying the spirit of leadership and this is permanent.

Over the years and pointed out that the formation of a piece in 1941, as a most important step in the development of the prototype solidbody.