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**Mr.Shreddy** · 08-13-2009, 02:21 PM

RIP Les, you are missed

**Grandturk** · 08-13-2009, 02:30 PM

Everybody says the guitar, but I say - multi-tracking.

RIP - and I'm a lazy fuck for not going to see him.

**lerxstcat** · 08-13-2009, 02:31 PM

Originally posted by mattsmusiccenter View Post

I just read about this. RIP Les and thanks for all your contributions!

Here's a quote from the press release Gibson just issued.

"Les Paul has become the only individual to share membership into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame".

That's right, he pretty much invented multitrack recording as well as the soldibody electric guitar, and a great player to boot!

Jimmy Page totally owes everything to Les Paul's inventions!

God bless you, Les, may you rest in peace for all the good you've done us musicians and listeners!

**daisp** · 08-13-2009, 02:35 PM

Man this is sad news....

**lhrocker** · 08-13-2009, 02:37 PM

RIP Les - The world will miss you but your music, inventions and guitar will live in our memories forever.

Maybe Gibson should have a half price Les Paul sale in your honor.

**JC_Denton** · 08-13-2009, 03:24 PM

R.I.P What a great guy did a lot for music!

**eelblack2** · 08-13-2009, 03:28 PM

R.I.P. to a legend in so many areas.

**Cygnus X1** · 08-13-2009, 03:37 PM

A great man!
A great inventor.
A great entertainer.
A great guitarist.

But above all, a Great Man!
We don't see many like him in our lifetimes.
RIP, Les.
A true hero to all of us!

**Partial @ Marshall** · 08-13-2009, 03:43 PM

Originally posted by Grandturk View Post

Everybody says the guitar, but I say - multi-tracking.

RIP - and I'm a lazy fuck for not going to see him.

+1

**Jackson/Charvelfan** · 08-13-2009, 04:14 PM

Originally posted by Partial @ Marshall View Post

FUCK FUCK FUCK...one more thing to regret not making it to new york to see him play, wanted to get up there and play with him too. Huge influence on everyone, whether they know it or not. Will play my LP at the next gig in honor of a great musician, inventor, and man. RIP Les and thanks for all you did.

Originally posted by Grandturk View Post

Everybody says the guitar, but I say - multi-tracking.

RIP - and I'm a lazy fuck for not going to see him.

I wanted to see him Play too as he was on my bucket list of things to do in the next couple of years now that I am on the east coast. I agree that the guitar was ground breaking but multi tracking is the biggest thing Les has ever created. I have a few of his live DVD's at home and I will be watching and playing and raising a glass tonight.

RIP Les!!!!

**Newc** · 08-13-2009, 05:02 PM

Sad news, but not totally unexpected.

Hopefully this will spur whoever owns his catalog (audio and video) to dump them onto the store shelves. I want legit copies of his duets with Chet, and all the video footage I can get, and not from YouTube.

I've got a boxed set of the Les Paul / Mary Ford albums, and they're just pure magic.

And yeah, the man that invented multi-track recording, the solidbody electric guitar, the electromagnetic pickup, sampling-on-the-fly, and the tape-driven loop/analog delay box won't get half the recognition he deserves from the mainstream media since he wasn't a crazy-black-man-who-wanted-to-be-white pedophile.

August 13th should be World Les Paul Day. It should hereafter be commemorated with music festivals, a technology fair, and a biographical video display with Les telling in his own words how and when he did the things he did to make modern music possible.

And Ebay will be full of douchebags selling Les Pauls at twice their normal price, hawking "built before he died, when he had his eye on quality control - the new ones they made today aren't as good as the ones they made yesterday".

Rest In Peace, Sir.

BK · 08-13-2009, 05:22 PM

RIP Les Paul. Never owned a Les Paul, but I'm pretty sure that I will one day.

**Partial @ Marshall** · 08-13-2009, 05:27 PM

All talk about the guitar and inventions is awesome...but he may have been the original shredder. I can't think of anyone who played as fast and cleanly at that time.

I am all for World Les Paul day...great idea Newc