Thanks for sharing the story

That's a great story man, holy shit, lol.. I went to a Broadcasting school in L.A.(Hollywood) In prolly like 89..I wish I had finished it..Unfortunately the Boy meet's Girl saga stepped in and squashed that idea.. What station were you working for when this monumental event occurred?

Wow..Jimi Hendrix got fired.What fool did that!

@@soulvaccination8679 That man's name has been lost to history.

@@soulvaccination8679 Decca turned down the Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix.

EVH would agree! He was a pioneer!

You’d be surprised at everything the late great Les Paul has accomplished in his lifetime. He changed the way a recording is done in a studio, both instrumentally and vocals. He was an amazing man. And his longtime companion and partner Mary Ford, was by his side.

Not to mention multi-track recording.

It would probably be easier to make a list of what he didn't invent!

He didn't. That whole intro bit is pure showmanship. The Les Paulverizer was actually a remote control for a multi-track tape machine he kept hidden backstage. He could stop and start the tape machine and select which track he wanted to mute, so that he could play that part live.

I had a 78 that my Grandmother gave me. Les Paul's Guitar Boogie. I was showing a friend how thick a 78 was, tapping it in my hand and it broke in half...ruined my day.

Les Paul did not create the Gibson Les Paul guitar. The Gibson company did. Pretty much the only input Les had was that the guitar should be solid body and to make them gold colored.

@@Thoracius no he created the log. The first solid body electric guitar which he had been touring around for about five years. The entire concept of what would make the Les Paul which he assisted Gibson in designing and building. Hence he told them to take his name off the SG as he didn’t like it or it’s design. Gibson only agreed the Les Paul after the Fender broadcaster broke cover in late 51 with test models going to various big band players. It could be argued that the Rickenbacker lap steel was the first solid body guitar from the 1930s. The full solid nature was originally touted by Les Paul, though the log was the inspiration for the ES335. As a result of the hollow wings that were attached to the log which were removed to show that they were irrelevant other than to make it guitar like. The construction was mostly mahogany, the maple top was because Gibson used maple a lot on it arch tops and it was to give it a flame top similar to the L5 or similar models. The idea to carve the tops was a Gibson one. This is arguably why the 1950s ones are so unique as they carved the top and the underside of the top. This leaves a small gaps between the maple top and the mahogany body on some models. It effects resonance on the guitars. This is why the standard is favoured over the custom as customs didn’t have a separate top. Hence do not interact as strongly as a standard does with a powerful amp. Gibson on the 1952 model got the neck angle wrong which made them hard to set up. Most of those originals have had a neck reset done. The revolution came when in 1954 they introduced the Ted McCarty designed tunomatic bridge. So I beg to differ. Les did have large influence of the first Les Pauls and his entire concept of a solid body to remove feed back was the basis of a Les Paul. He set mahogany as the best material for the solid body. First start of arguments about tone woods 😂, the maple cap was purely a cosmetic Gibson thing and their guitar workers were used to carving the tops on their semi acoustic jazz boxes. He gave constant feedback on the model along with Mary Ford about improvements that could be made. The Les Paul recording was the ultimate Les Paul input guitar - solid mahogany body, no top carve and low impedance pickups angled to balance the harmonics and volume balance on the guitar strings so they rang evenly in volume terms. The electrics were all taken from his own versions he created.

Les Paul was a genius and pioneered the electric guitar and recording, but analog electric computers existed long before and magnetic tape recording was invented in 1928.

Les Paul is one in a long line of innovators, including those who first showed what you could do with overdrive, distortion, and fuzz (hendrix, the who, the stones, the beatles, etc.) and those who first showed what you could do with synths (kraftwerk, bowie, reznor, etc.), and a bunch of others. there is no one greatest innovator. only a collective project, done by people from lots of places and times. I'll never live long enough to comprehend it all. But picking a "greatest" innovator is not the way to learn more! I suggest expanding your palate.

@@riproar11 muddy waters pioneered the amplifier before the les paul guitar

The man broke so much new ground, and was such a superb musician to boot. He was a true renaissance man, like Ben Franklin or Leonardo Da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, etc. And I love his guitars. I've owned some great Les Pauls.

What do you mean by “general electronics”?

Les Paul = absolute legend. Pure class.

Mary was epic also

Also him and chet atkins. The Chester and Lester album is one of my favorite to listen to of all time

I remember when a local radio station did a survey, and they were looking for the top 50 guitarists of all time. Of course, all of the great, and even the not so great, ones got named and made the list. All, except that is, for one glaring, overlooked name, that of Les Paul's. Unbelievable! Not even one vote! If it wasn't for him, the electric guitar probably wouldn't have ever been a front line instrument like it was in the Rock musical groups, at least not as dominant as it became, and not as early as the guitar was in the Pop Music culture that it definitely became. RIP Les.

Dre Na I don’t actually agree with shaming people with an r/woosh but this case is about the closest I ever came! 😜 By the way... Les didn’t invent the guitar that bears his name. Ted McCarty and his team at Gibson invented the guitar and at best Les had some design input (according to Les’ claim... according to McCarty the prototype guitar was essentially complete when it was shown to Les for his approval and licensing deal sign-off). Les was arguably the inventor of the solid body electric guitar in the late 30s/early 40s with his “Log” which he tried to get Gibson (and Epiphone, who were a separate company back then) interested in but with no success, but Gibson remembered it when Fender started having success with their Broadcaster/Telecaster/Esquire in the early 50s. The Les Paul model that Gibson developed was very different to the Log that Les had built himself though.

@@davidburke2132 They were different but based on the same concept.

@@jameshughes6049 in the very general sense of a somewhat solid bodied electric guitar, yes. When one looks at many of the real design details (body shape, woods, construction, etc.) they aren’t similar at all.

@@davidburke2132 Thanks for all the info. I'm not a player of the guitar but I love guitar music.

Lol!!!!!

Les was a musical Einstein! Mary and he were remarkable.

Gibsons are hot garbage. Unless you want to spend a few thousand dollars on a guitar with hella problems I would stay away

@@redguy8941Certainly you know better than Jimmy Page, Slash, Clapton. People should definitely listen to you.

@@aaronmccutcheon things have changed over the past 50 years. Do a little research and you will know what I'm talking about. Play authentic lol

@@redguy8941 I've done a lot of "research" with my ears listening to the people I've mentioned playing Gibsons. Got any clips of yourself playing whatever superior (or so you think) guitar it is you own? I'll gladly check 'em out.

yeah, alot of smoke and mirrors to convey the principle concepts. I bet the competition was fierce, and there were no modern laws to help protect the inventions.

@@ShaunPrince Les Paul was protecting nothing. Smoke and mirrors???? He was the master of his craft. All others came after him, and embellished on his craft. He gave them the tools they worked therever after. Whatever guitar master you wish to invoke, used Les's tools.

What he said.

Distortion was a natural effect my guy, plus Les Paul hated it to the point that he spent the majority of his life getting rid of it from his guitar

Stop talking shite

This IS Metal though. Its just played with more groove and no distortion :P

@Budgie Cat: that's what I get now BC... people ask me what kind of music I like/play, now I just say "guitar"...from Django to 'dimebag'Darryl🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸

His famous black box

Yeah, funny how the "loop" was able to change to the full chord structure for the song... still... he WAS Les Paul... :-)

@@cyclingtroll Exactly. Like I said, it was showmanship. It doesn't take away from his true innovations, such as developing multi-track recording, and having the tenacity to tell a doctor to fix his arm, after a severe crash, in a position that wold allow him to continue playing guitar (apparently, his elbow destroyed, and at the time, doctors couldn't rebuild it, so they told him, 'You'll never play guitar again" and Les said "We'll see about that").

He sold it well. He's not the first to pull up a tape on stage. Gave him a chance to shine like the sun.

So. What. You're like that guy that thinks he figured out everything the magician did and can't wait to tell everyone so they can spoil the fun while they sit smugly with crossed arms. 😂😂😂

Technically he changed the future of music

The first solid body electric guitar.

Nice, what do you have and which is your favourite?

@@sideparting68451960 Classic Plus. 1993 standard and 2o17 custom pro. The classic with the thin neck is my fav. Plays like butter and has a real narly sound.

“No, it’s a pullover but thanks for asking!”

Absolutely !!

Those are actually Low impedance pickups. It's a stacked humbucker with a resistance of 10 ohms compared to regular humbuckers of 6K-8K ohms!

Robertzep wouldn’t that make it high impedance??

Philou Mars Good story! Learning happens the most in the pauses between practicing, in the manner you described (beginner here, 51yo, 5 y selfthought noodling)

PJ Riverdale; Not quite sure what your point s, but it's good to see a comment from someone who doesn't buy into the myth perpetuated by LP himself that he single-handedly invented the music business. Paul gets a lot of credit for "inventing" stuff that already existed, while contemporaries like Alvino Rey and and Bill Putnam, Paul's acquaintance at Mercury Records in Chicago who pioneered slapback echo among other innovations, are nearly relegated to footnotes. Paul's greatest achievement is probably figuring out a way to package it a sell it, which he did with a level of success that left the rest of them in the dust, especially after he added a vocalist named Mary Ford.

@@bessied.5694 WTF Ever............

@@bessied.5694 Messy Bessie...

@@timhoovermusicman ; Hey, thanks for your in depth clarification.

@@bessied.5694 Always willing to help the less fortunate...

Sorry he didn't that was a front, see the above comment, it was all trickery. Same as when he supposedly double tracked Mary's voice live, it was her sister behind a curtain, pure showmanship.

Awesome cat!