#1339341 - 06/08/01 03:23 PM
Happy Birthday!
|
KJ
Senior Member
Registered: 02/02/01
Posts: 185
Loc: Methuen,MA,UNITED STATES
|
Offline
|
|
Let's give it up for one of the true legends of popular music of the last 100 years as he celebrates his 85th birthday tomorrow, June 9th. This man has pioneered many of the things that us music professionals/hobbyists take for granted such as multi-track recording, tape flanging, low-impeadance pick-ups and of course the solid body guitar. Alot of people probably don't even connect that there is a real person behind that beautiful flamed maple-top guitar with the gleaming humbuckers hanging on the music store wall.
Happy Birthday Les Paul and thank you for everything that you have done to make guitars and and music what they are today!!!!
------------------
KJ
-------------------
bari man low
_________________________
KJ
-------------------
"50 million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong" - John Prine
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
#1339342 - 06/08/01 04:15 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
-
Platinum Member
Registered: 03/13/01
Posts: 1999
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339343 - 06/08/01 08:15 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
michael saulnier
MP Hall of Fame Member
Registered: 12/06/00
Posts: 4070
Loc: San Diego,CA,UNITED STATES
|
|
Offline
|
|
Happy Birthday to LES PAUL!!!!
To steal with apologies from Winston Churchill:
Never before in the history of guitar playing have so many owed so much to so few... well, one man...
Les Paul ROCKS!
guitplayer
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339344 - 06/09/01 12:13 AM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
ricknbokker
Gold Member
Registered: 12/10/00
Posts: 570
Loc: Telford,PA,UNITED STATES
|
|
Offline
|
|
If I could, (and HE could!)...I would have his children...
Steve
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339345 - 06/09/01 12:44 AM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
rold
Platinum Member
Registered: 02/10/01
Posts: 1493
Loc: supernatural BC CANADA
|
|
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ricknbokker:
If I could, (and HE could!)...I would have his children...
Steve
LOL good one!
Happy bday mister les paul sir.. 
_________________________
meh
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339346 - 06/09/01 04:19 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
DC
MP Hall of Fame Member
Registered: 01/17/01
Posts: 2706
Loc: here to eternity...
|
|
Offline
|
|
It's great to hear Les is still with us as I've heard no news about him in years. I wrote a report on him in like 6th grade (and I'm 40 something so that was awhile back); all about the stationary elbow set so he could still play guitar, the multitracking and of course his electric guitar research and signature instrument. What a true genius! Happy 85th Les!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339347 - 06/09/01 05:24 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
Tedster
MP Hall of Fame Member
Registered: 09/21/00
Posts: 5933
|
|
Offline
|
|
Happy birthday, Les! Thanks for multitrack, the Les Paul...and all that great music!
_________________________
"Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine...(WAH WAH WAH WAHHH!)"
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339348 - 06/09/01 05:57 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
SteveRB
Platinum Member
Registered: 01/12/01
Posts: 1795
Loc: California
|
|
Offline
|
|
MY Les Paul just turned 24 years old.  He really is a legendary figure in music. He has such an amazing attitude and lack of ego. I tip my hat to the man....and long live the solid-body geetar.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339349 - 06/09/01 05:58 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
-
Platinum Member
Registered: 03/13/01
Posts: 1999
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339350 - 06/09/01 09:09 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
d gauss
MP Hall of Fame Member
Registered: 02/15/01
Posts: 3231
Loc: Somewhere in the Swamps of Jer...
|
|
Offline
|
|
you want to learn more about les paul?
get it from the horses mouth. just go see him on any given monday night in NYC at irridium. he's funny, cranky, he still plays great, and he'll talk your ear off at the bar between sets.
-d. gauss
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339351 - 06/16/01 05:52 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
D_dup3
Member
Registered: 11/16/01
Posts: 0
Loc: Tucson,AZ,UNITED STATES
|
|
Offline
|
|
One thing we seldom think of regarding Mr. Paul is the accident that left him with that immobilized right elbow. I personnally benefitted from his misfortune,however, in that, as a child in the late 1950s I experienced a multiple fracture in one arm. Doctors set & reset my arm and it looked like I was going to wind up with a joint set rigidly in place. Luckily my father could afford to fly in these docs from Chicago who'd been trying to find a method solving the problem they'd had with Les's arm &, to my everlasting thanks, they were able to finally set my bones in a way that granted me full range of motion.
Multitrack recording is cool 'n' all but Les's funky doctors get my thanks !
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1339352 - 06/16/01 10:48 PM
Re: Happy Birthday!
|
gtrmac
Platinum Member
Registered: 12/06/00
Posts: 1763
Loc: Naniwa-ku,,JAPAN
|
|
Offline
|
|
Well, my Belated Birthday wishes to Les Paul. I was lucky to have met him several times and attended his birthday party at the Iridium two years in a row. What a funny and nice guy! Not to mention a killer guitar player. At one party they were showing a clip from his TV Show and he was playing some licks that would make any shredmaster sweat, but Les was just pickin' and grinnin'. Has anyone seen the tribute video concert with Eddie Van Halen etc. It's very cool. Les attended the Christmas party at the studio where I worked a few years ago and I got the honor of giving him the studio tour. He asked technical questions about every piece of equipment in the place, half of which I couldn't answer. My Dad was right, Les Paul is the greatest!
------------------
Mac Bowne
G-Clef Acoustics Ltd.
Osaka, Japan
This message has been edited by gtrmac@hotmail.com on 06-18-2001 at 12:31 AM
_________________________
Mac Bowne
G-Clef Acoustics Ltd.
Osaka, Japan
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: myles_rose, A String, Bluesape
|
|
|
