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94 years young today!
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09-06-2009 10:22pm#1The man that the infamous Les Paul is named after... is 94 today! :eek:
The craziest thing is that he's still playing. He plays weekly at the Iridium club in New York.
That's him playing his main guitar, the not so popular Les Paul Recording model from the 70's. His personal guitars have his own custom pickups.
You have more to thank Les for than just his signature guitar.
He was also the inventor of multitrack recording... and what a wonderful thing it is!
:cool:
Here's an interesting mini-documentary about Les 5
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Looks like playings not all hes doing at 94!Johnny Storm wrote: »Nice one!
And he still gets to hit on Joan Jett:-
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Johnny Storm wrote: »Nice one!
And he still gets to hit on Joan Jett:-
She could do with a wash and a scrub.I was told by a luthier friend of mine that Les Paul is the greatest guitarist he's ever seen in his life and I really trust his opinion as a luthier and musician. I'd love to get a chance to see him in New York some time.
No way dude, Dime shreds better then him times infinity :pac:0 -
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Haha, I like the way his main guitar is a very un-Les Paul-y Les Paul
Flat top, bigsby, P90s, bigsby and more knobs than you could shake a stick at :pac:brendansmith wrote: »She could do with a wash and a scrub.brendansmith wrote: »No way dude, Dime shreds better then him times infinity :pac:
Where's the anti-thanks :pac:0 -
spoonbadger wrote: »Flat top, bigsby, P90s, bigsby and more knobs than you could shake a stick at :pac:
Two Bigsbys??
You seem to know your stuff, could you tell me what that black/yellow thing he's got on the stand in front of him is? Tech 21 Sans Amp-y thing?
Edit: Looks like one of these, but his doesn't have a switch on it...0 -
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Yes, the Les Paul Recording, as well as the two bigsbys, has active, low-impedance pick-ups (the forerunners of EMGs), not P90s
It is, I have to say, a really ugly looking POS.She could do with a wash and a scrub.
I'm keeping my eye on you, buddy.
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Johnny Storm wrote: »Yes, the Les Paul Recording, as well as the two bigsbys, has active, low-impedance pick-ups (the forerunners of EMGs), not P90s
It is, I have to say, a really ugly looking POS.
I'm keeping my eye on you, buddy.
The pickups were quite literally the forerunners to EMG's. The company that made them were called "Dirty Works" and were later renamed to EMG.
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Two Bigsbys??
You seem to know your stuff, could you tell me what that black/yellow thing he's got on the stand in front of him is? Tech 21 Sans Amp-y thing?
Edit: Looks like one of these, but his doesn't have a switch on it...
What can i say, the man likes his vibrato :pac:.So what do all the extra controls do? Looks like an interesting guitar.
The first two dials control the rate and depth of ass-kickage. The toggle switch at the bottom is for putting his fingers in series or parallel.
The selector switch above that is for selecting each pickup individually, or both together in super secret les paul mode.
The dial to the far right is for tone. Not mellow/trebly, but how Godlike it sounds. It only has one position. 11.68 lost souls wrote: »Les paul is gay?
Oh yeah, they all were. Hendrix, knopfler, clapton. Jeff beck actually owned a gay blues club in london for a brief time in the sixties.0
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