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Former Ampex tech

Besides for Ford and Edison. They both lived for money and not for actual craftsmanship in my opinion.

Thomas Edison was a charlatan who hired inventors and roundly abused Nikola Tesla. He does not belong in any discussion on this level.

They were low impedance pickups ... he called the guitar super brute ...but the pickups were too large and didn't work out for him...Fat Tuesday's Les was in his prime... I worked for Les and was his friend was with him till his passing at white plains hospital

@@berfsk That is wonderful to know. Thanks very much. I really treasure that memory and am so glad I got to catch him when I did.

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chris lentz yeah thanks!s

18 with a goldtop les paul.....lucky you

18 with a gold top? i was 60 when i got mine.

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For real!

Because Les Paul was a notorious liar.

I went to a great Les Paul "concert" in 1976 at the Great American Music Hall. It was a bit before the album with Chet, but what a showman!

@@timducote5713 ; My point exactly.

@@bessied.5694 Les Paul claimed to be the progenitor of many things - most of which was not true, including: 1. He did not create the electro-magnetic pickup 2. He did not create the solid-body guitar 3. He didn't even design his signature model Gibson guitar. The only part that he had a hand in was the long bridge/tailpiece on the first years model that was changed to the tune-o-matic the next year. Paul Bigsby made a small, solid-body guitar for Les Paul, prior to the Gibson solid body bearing his name, after his accident for Les to play while recovering in the hospital. Les Paul lied for years about the existence of this guitar until Bigsby's original patterns emerged with Les's name on them. If I remember correctly, the guitar turned up at a garage sale of someone who lived next door to Les Paul. Les claimed that when Gibson redesigned the Les Paul model from the traditional Les Paul to the SG in 1961 that he had his name removed because he did not approve of the design; he said that the "sharp" horns could injure his hands when playing fast. The fact is that Mary Ford had filed for divorce and he didn't want her to be able to get his lucrative royalties from guitar sales. I don't know why so many myths were built up around Les Paul but it is amazing that not only did he not correct the record but he knowingly helped to promote them.

@@timducote5713 ; The latest claim I've seen recently is that he invented the harmonica rack. If that's true, he must have gotten word to Ernest Stoneman about it, who was playing guitar and a racked harmonica in the mid twenties.

I was thinking the same thing, all these reporters and writers are not very well educated people.

Les did not design the Les Paul guitar; Gibson had already designed it in reaction to Leo Fender's Telecaster. Gibson called up Les for an endorsement, the same way that Gretsch called up Chet Atkins to sell guitars. Neither had any say in the initial designs.

@@timducote5713 ha ive watched countless shows bout les and like i said thanks les or id never have what i have

He did. Someone else might have done it earlier but he still invented it.

@@KC9UDX No he didn't and your statement makes no sense. Someone else did it earlier but he invented it?

@@timducote5713 so you don't believe two people can independently invent the same thing? History books are going to be very surprising.

He sure did invent the solid body electric guitar.

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Very true. That is a myth which, for some reason, will not die.

@@timducote5713 The Production Company probably had to say that Les Paul invented the Electric Guitar as A Condition of allowing them to film or tape Les Paul.

Notice They never mention or say “solid body” when they made that statement. Man I hope no one tells them fender beat Gibson by a year on the first mass produced solid body electric guitar...

Yes he did, foul mouth. It doesn't matter if someone else did at the same time or earlier.

@@KC9UDX Paul Bigsby was making solid-body type guitars prior to both Fender and Gibson. Fender was the first with the mass produced solid-body guitar. The Gibson Les Paul, like the Gretsch Duo Jet, was a reaction by Gibson and Gretsch to the Fender Telecaster.

@@timducote5713 Gibson doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Les Paul built an electric guitar without knowledge of anyone else doing it.

@@KC9UDX If someone else did it earlier then how is Les the inventor? 🤷‍♂️

All in all, he did invent and pioneer multi-track recording. Everything else you mentioned I agree with.

@@horstvazinksi3408 the multi track recording machine that he used was invented and given to him by ampex. The first multitrack dates to the end of the 1800 and the invention of stereo sound. Multi track on tape was made commercially available in the 40 50s. Les Paul did not have the knowledge nor the skills to produce or invent such sofisticated equipment let alone the capitals to invest. He was a good guitarist in a time if great inventions and discoveries, we are lucky he didn't claim to invent nuclear reactors. Ah btw several studios around the world where already using multitrack.

You can be arrogant if you were Les Paul