PBBPaul Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 What can one say that hasn't been said? News Our new and improved website Today's sample tune: Lonesome One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel E. Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Damn! I guess it was inevitable and he lived a long, rich life but it's a major loss. "You never can vouch for your own consciousness." - Norman Mailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 94 is a good long life. Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anderz Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Man, an influential guitarist is gone. It was probably going to happen, but it's still sad. Stick it to the man. http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/anderseb/ (Muh homepage of greatness) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changeling01960 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP When you think of how much great music he was responsible for, both directly and indirectly, there aren't enough words to describe his influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goalie Blues Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP Mr. Paul. Now the two most influential men in modern North American music are dead (the other being Leo Fender) Ask not what your guitar can do for you, rather ask you can do for your guitar without provoking a divorce or a visit from the police. - with profound apologies to JFK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stamplicker Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP =( The gig in the sky just got bigger MagicStomp Soundbites Soundclick Rambles Haunted Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bejeeber Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 What a major creative force he was. An inspiring guy for so many reasons, including how he kept gigging right up til the end, making age 94 look not necessarily so horrible! Just a pinch between the geek and chum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyguitfiddle Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP I will play my Les Paul all day today in honor Why do you lay down? I say that it beats standing up! whats got you feeling so down? I hold up my empty cup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Thanks for everything, Les, and I mean pretty much everything I like in music today. God rest you, Mr. Electric Guitar. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fingerstyle_Jim Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP - A life well lived and a world better for it. Jim My SoundClick Page My New Music Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tylerD Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Today suxx R.I.P. He was the Godfather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumpleCragstan Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Yeah, wow. *the* guitarist has passed away. Yep, I play the gee-tar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzilla Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Sad to see him go (and to have never seen him in person); but what a legacy! "Am I enough of a freak to be worth paying to see?"- Separated Out (Marillion) NEW band Old band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gifthorse Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Loved Les Paul I know it isn't him in his prime, but he was 84. http://flagshipmile.dmusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/gifthorse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gifthorse Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I own a CD of his best hits with Mary Ford, but this is inspired. Him and Chet Atkins. Chet is one of the greats as well.. One of my favorites http://flagshipmile.dmusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/gifthorse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarzan Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 RIP Les, you will be missed. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Well, there's not much I can say about LP as a musician, record producer or inventor that others haven't. I would like to mention a way he, or his life, directly affected me & undoubtedly others...but in a way you might not expect. As a child, in the mid-1950s, I broke my left arm smack through the elbow, totally mangling the joint. My father, fairly well-off & with connections to some of the best doctors in Detroit, had them set & reset the fracture several times. Finally they determined it would have to be left "frozen" in position. My father, however, knew of work done by some doctors in Chicago following the accident that LP had suffered years earlier & had them flown to Detroit to work on my arm, which was successfully set to allow full mobility (though it still has an alarming angle when held "straight"). Later, as my musical aspirations developed, that made it possible for me to become a guitarist. Sometime our lives affect others in ways we never know. d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braxat Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 the man might have passed away but he lives through his music and his guitars. rock on. I Am But A Solution In Search Of A Problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarPlayerFL Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 When I first think of Les Paul, I think of his work in multi-tracking before any thing else. He's the most important influence in music regardless of genre just because of that. Goodbye, Mr. Paul. A Jazz/Chord Melody Master-my former instructor www.robertconti.com (FKA GuitarPlayerSoCal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I am saddened by his passing, and sorry that I hadn't gotten to go see him perform down in NYC yet. He was one of those that made our world as we know it possible, and yet was also still one of us. I always felt like I kinda already knew him; it was his personality coming through his music, appearances, interviews, everything he did. I can so easily imagine him making jokes about his own passing, were he here! (Sorry, somehow I didn't even see this thread when I burst in here, so to speak, when I'd first gotten the news, and posted that other thread about this... ) Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMOND DUST Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 God bless. http://www.electricguitarz.com/images/LesPaulTheLog.jpg http://b-cordova.dmusic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I'm collecting online info & clips about LP & many of his technical achievements, performances, etc. at the Editor's forum. Any offerings can be added or the whole checked out for viewing. https://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2105433/Les_Paul_RIP_info_collection_t#Post2105433 d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G. A. Donis Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I just watched the clip with the Paulerizer. I didn't realize he also invented looping. As I asked on another forum, "what didn't this guy contribute to modern music?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesape Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 A true visionary has left us. We will never forget our debt to you, Les! Never a DUH! moment! Well, almost never. OK, OK! Sometimes never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I just watched the clip with the Paulerizer. I didn't realize he also invented looping. As I asked on another forum, "what didn't this guy contribute to modern music?" Just another form of "sound on sound" recprding, one of LP's major innovations. d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_APNEWSALERT?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Link = confusing. Something about banks. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rw2003 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I am saddened by his passing, and sorry that I hadn't gotten to go see him perform down in NYC yet. Me too... I've been meaning to see Les Paul since about 1987 or so but always managed to say... "Oh, I'll get to his show next week". Well next week lasted for over 20 years but no longer. Back then he played at Fat Tuesdays and recently at the Iridium(?). I'm so sorry I did not make more of an effort. LP...Thank you for all you've shared with us. RIP "Spend all day doing nothing But we sure do it well" - Huck Johns from 'Oh Yeah' Click to Listen to Oh yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 get the guitar choir ready, St. Peter. #@! http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 get the guitar choir ready, St. Peter. #@! Guitar choir? Les is bringin' it himself! Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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