the guitar hes playing and preferred is the les paul professional . .you can find the reissues for round $4500 or so . .the original issues i doubt it :) it features his preferred switching
Very well put. He invented techniques that guitarists constantly tried to emulate, thirty or forty years later. A LEGEND that so many of the Seventies idolised!
I wanna grab my axe and learn some of his coolness... I think there's a bit of ME in there if I were to look for it, he's a musical soul mate. I love the jazzy and Spanish parts of his stuff.
@@sergeantkipling he's not wrong though. Shredding goes back literally centuries. Though it used to be more on the violin than guitar based instruments. Then Django came along with his two fingers and made the guitar a lead instrument.
He really did invent the concept of the modern guitar shredder, it just wasn't an overdriven electric guitar. LP was always the jazz guitarist that invented the les paul log.
***** We don't talk about that piece of shit publication! Anyway, I do remember seeing Les' name pop up in lists compiled by Guitar Player magazine and in Classic Rock magazine. I guess it's rare to hear about Les' playing these days, since his style isn't exactly popular with the "yoof" anymore. If they only knew how highly their idols think of him...
Both artists were on a par, but Les had such A CREATIVE FIRE to shape and bend the existing electronic tech to his needs. I recall the anecdote where Chet is performing onstage, and he keeps seeing a small light going off and on in the audience. It's LES writing down Chet's fingerings)! Yes, he and Mary covered the current pop standards, but with such technical pizzaz. An artistic their element is to experienced!
Why has the Les Paul guitar been one of the most popular and best selling guitars of all time? Because it was developed by a real musician and inventor.
BKDocHoliday Les Paul did not have anything to do with designing the Les Paul guitar. The Les Paul was designed by Ted McCarty and his team at Gibson. In fact, Les didn’t like the carved top on Les Paul guitars. He wanted his tops to be flat. But don’t take my word for it. Look it up. All of the information about how the Les Paul came to be is easy to find on the Internet.
I met Les in Mansfield Il.in 1959 . He actually took the time to pose for a picture of me holding his guitar he showed me how to play a D chord . Been playing ever since I was 5. Such a kind generous man.God Bless you Les ,we miss you.
I had the honor of meeting and spending quality time with Les in New York. For me there was nothing more exciting. I cherish those times, I wish someone would make a movie about this incredible man. So many people only know about the guitar that bears his name.
There have been a couple of good documentaries. The one from which I cut this: I think it was called "The Wizard Of Waukesha" - plus a more recent one called "Les Paul - Chasing Sound" - both of which include interviews with the great man.
Thanks Ronald, I am aware of one and will look for the other. I was hoping someone would make a big budget film for the general public. There are plenty of films about people who didn't have as big of an impact on modern music as he did. His life was really interesting and I think people would be interested if the cast was well chosen. Maybe someday.
Not just magnificent, . an ingenious innovator, supporter of his craft and still one amazing showman that inspires delights! To this day. My Father and I, were always over the "moon" about this guy. ❤Mom too!
He was amazing - the sweep picking at the start! And despite the obsession people have these days with 'classic' Les Paul guitars, you can see he was already bored with his - mods galore! No pedal board either - everything is on board. Even the bloody mic is attached to his guitar!
@@a1wireless1964 eh, not entirely sure on that first one, vivi-tone came up with a solidbody electric guitar in the early 30s, but it didn't catch on. he definitely inspired leo to come out with the esquire though.
People went monkey squeez when Michael Jackson died. Sad that they never knew who much greater an effect Les Paul had on the entire recording industry. This man literally single handedly revolutionized the way records were made. God rest your soul Les Paul and bless you for you contributions to advancing the human condition.
Fall of 1971, Slam Stewart brings Les Paul to a room called the Broom Closet at SUNY Binghamton. We sat in the center front table. Les made that guitar talk. He was a little down. People did not believe he invented the electric guitar he said. He starting playing and we starting believing. Memory of a lifetime. Thanks Les
Love that Les is sampling & looping his own music live. Not just ahead of every1 with guitar, but the electronic creativity too. Eons ahead of the WHOLE game.
8:44 the end caught me off guard, this whole video is an amazing display of skill, even more so considering how much of this is his own invention and how unheard-of it was back then to play with what today we'd call a looper.
Yep, among others: modulation FX, tape delay, modulation delay, the home studio in general, a lot of tape synch tricks, overdubbing as a musical effect, the solidbody electric guitar (there is a debate about it), and who knows what. He was a genius and a helluva player.
If you have the occasion, find YT videos of Les Paul with Satriani or Slash, and look at the tremendous respect visible on the faces of the youngest. Impressive !
Imagine what he'd do today, with digital tech! It's odd that this piece gets less than 2,000 hits a year. And I note that barely 25% of its audience stays to the END. Of course, TH-camrs traditionally have short attention-spans - but those 75% don't know what they MISSED!
A thousand thanks to you David for posting this video on Les Paul - a real genius on so many levels. Inventor. Entrepreneur. Business owner. Musician. Performer. Husband. Guitarist. Hero. More people should see this video and be inspired. I know I am.
I salute all Les Paul has done for guitars,playing and recording ,few like him just genius material. RIP Les and Mary! Let's give props to that drummer playing along to pre-recorded tracks, thats not easy without a click track!
He was never underated in any way whatsoever. Theres probably only one guy around these days that comes close...les never distorted his sound ever..he played fast clean and clever. Legend full stop...only one.
+James Cougan but he liked that people experimented. Hes wasnt stuck up like most les paul owners. He even modified his guitar. Whilst people pay 6000 dollars for one that has no mods. He encouraged experimentation, including distortion.
Just got a box set of Les Paul. Very intriguing creative mind. One disc is with Mary Ford. Which I already knew much of that material. The music he recorded by himself, was breathtakingly different, all done, in the 1940's. Licks that, later became part of the electronic vocabularies. What a true genius. For Les, one discovery would, just lead to another biggest discovery. Thank you Les Paul. For being smarter than the rest of us.
Didn't know he also invented the looper. Wow he had all the other parts recorded & him & his drummer just played along. Amazing. Why not save money on paying a whole band.
Wow! I had NO idea Les seemed to have created the loop for guitar!! Not only some of the best guitars ever made, but a monster monster player in his own right back in his day. On top of that he invented the loop. What’s next, am I going to find out Les also created a cure for cancer?? Guy was amazing.
Been watching Les since I was a youngster on TV with his wife Mary Ford.. First guitarist I ever saw.. Still for me, all things considered, my favorite all time with a style and sound like no other and my favorite all time!... His friend Chet Atkins my second favorite and the two greatest American guitarists!... They set the table for everyone else!
From 8:45 onwards Les sounds like something Joe Satriani put down on 'Engines of Creation' but Les did this many years before Joe even knew what a guitar was. That's testament to just how far ahead and influential Les was to all those who came after him.
Walter Mirren "LES F*CKING PAUL" I'll have to look at this clip again I must have missed that, I mean as far as I know Les is straight and McCartney has just got married again, lol.:-). Peace Walt.
To Paul Moore: yes indeed, the first tune IS "Dark Eyes" - or in Russian, "Очи чёрные" - which in English is "Ochi Chyornye" [pron. "otchie chornye-a"] - and which of course translates as "Dark Eyes".
Even without considering his musical talent and technical contributions to music, he's actually a genuinely nice guy. The average human lifespan is much too brief for people of his caliber.
GOD this man is amazing, loved to hear him play, but also hearing him talk is a treat for sure, imagine all those stories, plus seeing him with the newest guitar gods, is just incredible, he was an incredible person, and so was his wife Mary Ford all talent and a beautiful smile, and even her laughter was beautiful!!!
such an amazing man. a genius inventor and luthier whose product is still beloved despite being virtually unchanged 70 years later, a masterful guitarist, and one of the most important figures in audio engineering history with his multitrack and delay work. and to top it all off he's likeable as hell! most people would kill to be one of those things, and somehow the big man in the sky decided he got to be all of them
I'm so humbled that the Les Paul Foundation had asked that the Waukesha School District to consider renaming a middle school, Central, after Les Paul. Central was formally a 3 school campus converted to 1 school. Originally it was a grade school, which was torn down, a middle school, and a high school which Lester Pollfuss attended. The proposal passed 5-4 and the school will be renamed for Les' 100th birthday. As a yes vote, it's my hope that TH-cam videos such as this will inspire youth in the Waukesha School District to pursue your passion and dream; you may end-up changing the world like Les Paul did! Today, Les Paul would have been identified as a gifted and talented student in public education. In 1932, during the Great Depression, things were a lot different.
The greatest Guitar Player Genius , inventor ever. He set the standard for them all and provided the Guitars and the effects. Very very fast picker fun to watch .
I've been a fan since I was a boy and I play wirh the same looping method with an apocalyptical intonation. Love my cousin's styles. One of my biggest motivators to play music
Gibson ought to make a replica of Les Paul's modified Les Paul that hes using in this concert. I think this particular one is just as phenomenal as his playing. Yep I mean build it down to a tee complete with the black box and the little microphone built in
No argument that he was great but the Gibson Les Paul is hardly the best guitar ever made. The quality control at Gibson over the years was hit and miss so some guitars were good and some were crap.
les is one of the few who not only revolutionized guitar playing itself in a major way, but also made the single biggest inovation in rock music. the solid body electric guitar. without less paul jimi hendrix as we know him would not exist
Wasn't it a coincidence that He was called Les Paul and so was his guitar.. What's the chances of that happening, I'm never going to find a guitar called Dave :-D
not a coincidence, actually, though i see how you could think that; in actuality his parents were named Joyce and Aaron Paul, and Les was their ninth child (!!) and in the delivery room they hadn't come up with a name, so the nurse, named Tellie Castra, who had already delivered 7 of the other Paul children, decided to throw a little shade and name the child Less, basically to say "have Less Pauls". Now when Aaron Paul found out, he got really mad about it, obviously, but there was no way to change a name back in those days, and so in his rage, he actually took Tellie and broke her arm (dislocated shoulder and then twisted, very nasty, very nasty indeed) so badly that it had to be amputated at the shoulder when infection set in. Joyce, on the other hand, saw the humor of Tellie's little joke, and since she couldn't work at the hospital delivering children anymore (certainly not with one arm) Joyce invited Tellie to be Les's nanny. When Les grew up, and started tinkering with guitars, he decided to make a guitar that reminded him of Tellie, with a small waist, a big bottom, a long neck with hair parted down the center, and a huge ass chunk taken out of its left shoulder. He wanted to call this guitar the Telliecastra, but it was too close to an existing guitar (coincidentally also named after the nurse, who really inspired a whole generation of luthiers) and so, in honor of her joke, and because he was a little bit egotistical, he called it the Les Paul. Hope you can appreciate this wacky piece of music history. The truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes! Peace and blessings, peace, and, ble s s i n g s . . .
@davidwrightatloppers > What an awesome video compilation! I LOVE IT!!!!! I knew he designed the 16 track tape recorder but never knew of his 'black box' :) Thanx for sharing this....
Les Paul was a genius...!! I remember an interview with Keith Richards....who said the same thing. Les Paul invented almost all of the effects still used today in a studio today...delay...reverb....distortion....echo...multitrack......the list goes on and on .....genius....!!
When a man walks out on stage like he did here, with all eyes on just you, you better know what's going on here. He did know--he just cranked it out flawlessly What a talent--miss him a lot.
If this guy had a signature guitar, I’d buy it in a heartbeat
the guitar hes playing and preferred is the les paul professional . .you can find the reissues for round $4500 or so . .the original issues i doubt it :) it features his preferred switching
@@mwilson308 yea it’s nice, the closest I’ve seen to it in person is a 70s les Paul recording. He definitely uses some funky pickups.
@@davidhahn5748 my thoughts exactly
His signature is the les paul, he would rather you have the body itself and put in your own pickups that you would prefer. Whatever your preferences
It makes no sense there's a Slash model Les Paul model...
That's like creating a Brian Setzer model Chet Atkins model. Pick one damn artist already.
THE sweep picking. the speed. the clarity is amazing. HE WAS SHREDDING before anyone knew what that was.
People were shredding on shamisen, bro
Ever hear rock around the clock ?
Hand him a distortion pedal and he’s a metal god
@jsimsgt96 actually. He was chasing the perfect note. When asked about distortion he said those guys chase a sound just like I do.
Probably had compression fx that he himself invented too. 😮
Les Paul: a rock star before there were rockstars.
voskresene ????
Very well put. He invented techniques that guitarists constantly tried to emulate, thirty or forty years later. A LEGEND that so many of the Seventies idolised!
before there was ROCK!
I'd modify that to the rockstar who made other rockstars
I wanna grab my axe and learn some of his coolness... I think there's a bit of ME in there if I were to look for it, he's a musical soul mate. I love the jazzy and Spanish parts of his stuff.
I've been playing Les Pauls my whole life, and never heard him play until today.
Damn, hes good.
That’s a bit of an understatement lol
Look up Alabamy bound by Les Paul, way ahead of his time
Check out some of the stuff he did with Mary Ford like "How High the Moon." Les Paul invented multi-tracking among other things. The guy's a genius.
This guy plays good. Hope he becomes famous.
TheSupertoniefy maybe he'll even get a guitar company to make a special edition after him.
@@travosk8668 Meh, with a name like Les Paul it probs won't catch on
they gotta name a guitar after him
The guitar sounds a little funny...its probably a Epiphone he got at a pawn shop for $400.
We love your sarcasam
Wish I could have seen this. He was the original shredder.
Actually it goes way way back.
Do you even know who Les Paul is?!? @@Charzilian
@@sergeantkipling he's not wrong though. Shredding goes back literally centuries. Though it used to be more on the violin than guitar based instruments. Then Django came along with his two fingers and made the guitar a lead instrument.
Not That Original
He really did invent the concept of the modern guitar shredder, it just wasn't an overdriven electric guitar. LP was always the jazz guitarist that invented the les paul log.
Serious serious chops. Why is Les so underrated today as a guitar master?
He was indeed a Jazz virtuoso but he chose to play mostly carnival music.
teppolundgren He is underrated by folks who don't know anything
*****
He rarely shows up on "greatest guitar players of all time" lists, so I suppose most folks don't know anything...
Most of those lists are terrible. Especially the ones put out by Rolling Stone magazine
*****
We don't talk about that piece of shit publication!
Anyway, I do remember seeing Les' name pop up in lists compiled by Guitar Player magazine and in Classic Rock magazine.
I guess it's rare to hear about Les' playing these days, since his style isn't exactly popular with the "yoof" anymore.
If they only knew how highly their idols think of him...
Everyone knows the guitar, nobody knows the artist. This man was the Tesla of guitars. Ultimate respect. Chet Atkins is another forgotten genius.
In no way is Chet Atkins forgotten.
Both artists were on a par, but Les had such A CREATIVE FIRE to shape and bend the existing electronic tech to his needs.
I recall the anecdote where Chet is performing onstage, and he keeps seeing a small light going off and on in the audience. It's LES writing down Chet's fingerings)!
Yes, he and Mary covered the current pop standards, but with such technical pizzaz. An artistic their element is to experienced!
Why has the Les Paul guitar been one of the most popular and best selling guitars of all time? Because it was developed by a real musician and inventor.
BKDocHoliday Les Paul did not have anything to do with designing the Les Paul guitar. The Les Paul was designed by Ted McCarty and his team at Gibson. In fact, Les didn’t like the carved top on Les Paul guitars. He wanted his tops to be flat. But don’t take my word for it. Look it up. All of the information about how the Les Paul came to be is easy to find on the Internet.
Like When Nicola Tesla designed the cars for Elon Musk
It actually was copied off a Missouri artist who know one know but he made the original solid body guitar
@@veeshead nice wiki info right there, refer to rob scallions info when he went to a museum. He didn't design the look, just the solid body
because many rock icons used it and because it looks elegant, cool and expensive. And it actually is an amazing guitar
I met Les in Mansfield Il.in 1959 . He actually took the time to pose for a picture of me holding his guitar he showed me how to play a D chord . Been playing ever since I was 5. Such a kind generous man.God Bless you Les ,we miss you.
I am a proud Les Paul player. Not only the inventor of the greatest guitar ever but also invented multi track recording and THE LOOPER
You could remix his MONO releases (early 50's) into STEREO today because his original source was 8 tracks!!
So... THAT is what shredding sounds like without effects. Who knew ?
Exactly....that's what it is.
You mean without distortion, because there's some effects, but still !
Yeah! Nowhere to hide!
There's a bit of flanger there if you listen closely. Tbf he invented that thing too.
Les Paul and Django Reinhardt
I had the honor of meeting and spending quality time with Les in New York. For me there was nothing more exciting. I cherish those times, I wish someone would make a movie about this incredible man. So many people only know about the guitar that bears his name.
There have been a couple of good documentaries. The one from which I cut this: I think it was called "The Wizard Of Waukesha" - plus a more recent one called "Les Paul - Chasing Sound" - both of which include interviews with the great man.
+Susan Hudak-Scherer actually they have
it's called THE WIZARD OF WAUKESHA...
BTW,what is that mystery riff @ 2:15 ?
+Ronald Vaughan and ANOTHER documentary called CHASING SOUND
Thanks Ronald, I am aware of one and will look for the other. I was hoping someone would make a big budget film for the general public. There are plenty of films about people who didn't have as big of an impact on modern music as he did. His life was really interesting and I think people would be interested if the cast was well chosen. Maybe someday.
Here here on the need for a major film on Les Paul with the requisite cast of characters!
Not just magnificent, . an ingenious innovator, supporter of his craft and still one amazing showman that inspires delights! To this day. My Father and I, were always over the "moon" about this guy. ❤Mom too!
Les is MORE!
F3NDER4LIFE Ok Les do it!
That one guy invented just about everything you need to play rock and roll. Hats off!
He was amazing - the sweep picking at the start! And despite the obsession people have these days with 'classic' Les Paul guitars, you can see he was already bored with his - mods galore! No pedal board either - everything is on board. Even the bloody mic is attached to his guitar!
when it comes to the electric guitar: he was THE genius.
Damnit he even invented the thing. :D
Without him there'd be no electric guitar no multi track recording and no looping
@@a1wireless1964 eh, not entirely sure on that first one, vivi-tone came up with a solidbody electric guitar in the early 30s, but it didn't catch on. he definitely inspired leo to come out with the esquire though.
exactly, he's not *a* guitarist, he's *the* guitarist.
Holy crap I never knew this guy was such a genius.
I know Dead Baby
Nice name
People went monkey squeez when Michael Jackson died. Sad that they never knew who much greater an effect Les Paul had on the entire recording industry. This man literally single handedly revolutionized the way records were made. God rest your soul Les Paul and bless you for you contributions to advancing the human condition.
Michael deserved the recognition, too.
The guy is absolutely on another fucking planet. That isn't a guitar, it's a limb. Genius. Truly missed.
Love that microphone mounted right on the guitar 😊
..His guitar playing and stage presence, speed and technicals are unreal...like watching Hendrix .
He indeed did out of this world artistic magic with the guitar like Hendrix
Fall of 1971, Slam Stewart brings Les Paul to a room called the Broom Closet at SUNY Binghamton. We sat in the center front table. Les made that guitar talk. He was a little down. People did not believe he invented the electric guitar he said. He starting playing and we starting believing. Memory of a lifetime. Thanks Les
Damn, I started Bing. In 74 and missed that.
The term "musical genius" gets thrown around a lot. Les Paul is one of the few who really _was_ a genius.
he was looping before anyone, this guy really was a visionary
Here is the man that brought the electric guitar into this world. Man, did it change this world! Thanks Les!
This guy plays good... I hope he will eventually become famous and turn into a guitar.
"It's very easy to be dark. It's much more difficult to try to not to be dark, without being cheesy."
Jean-Michel Jarre
Love that Les is sampling & looping his own music live. Not just ahead of every1 with guitar, but the electronic creativity too. Eons ahead of the WHOLE game.
8:44 the end caught me off guard, this whole video is an amazing display of skill, even more so considering how much of this is his own invention and how unheard-of it was back then to play with what today we'd call a looper.
HE INVENTED THE LOOPER????
He pretty much invented multi-tracking in musical application.
he's a genius
Yep, among others: modulation FX, tape delay, modulation delay, the home studio in general, a lot of tape synch tricks, overdubbing as a musical effect, the solidbody electric guitar (there is a debate about it), and who knows what. He was a genius and a helluva player.
He invented EVERYTHING important to the electric guitar!!
If you have the occasion, find YT videos of Les Paul with Satriani or Slash, and look at the tremendous respect visible on the faces of the youngest. Impressive !
Imagine what he'd do today, with digital tech! It's odd that this piece gets less than 2,000 hits a year. And I note that barely 25% of its audience stays to the END. Of course, TH-camrs traditionally have short attention-spans - but those 75% don't know what they MISSED!
so true. and i'm the only comment back to you 7 years later
Sad affairs
Because there is more talk then music in your video, that's why. And nobody has to see the boring black box gimmick again.
Genius is never boring to another genius!
A thousand thanks to you David for posting this video on Les Paul - a real genius on so many levels. Inventor. Entrepreneur. Business owner. Musician. Performer. Husband. Guitarist. Hero. More people should see this video and be inspired. I know I am.
Goddammit - I had no Idea.... always knew him as an luthier.... But my oh my... Thank you for the upload, made my day!
You should check out his work with Chet Atkins, as Chester & Lester. Nice nice stuff there too
I salute all Les Paul has done for guitars,playing and recording ,few like him just genius material. RIP Les and Mary! Let's give props to that drummer playing along to pre-recorded tracks, thats not easy without a click track!
A lot would say he's underrated, but then again, one of the best guitars of all time bears his name!
My grandpa introduced me to Les Paul’s guitar playing when I was young and learning how to play guitar. Absolutely blew my mind.
He was never underated in any way whatsoever. Theres probably only one guy around these days that comes close...les never distorted his sound ever..he played fast clean and clever. Legend full stop...only one.
+James Cougan Which is who?
Mark Knopfler
+James Cougan but he liked that people experimented. Hes wasnt stuck up like most les paul owners. He even modified his guitar. Whilst people pay 6000 dollars for one that has no mods. He encouraged experimentation, including distortion.
Tommy Emmanuel
Now you are doing what Les detested, closed your mind to alternatives.
Soooo glad I watched this video. These are the gems you can find on youtube that if you're a musician (in this case) you're glad you found.
Just got a box set of Les Paul. Very intriguing creative mind. One disc is with Mary Ford. Which I already knew much of that material. The music he recorded by himself, was breathtakingly different, all done, in the 1940's. Licks that, later became part of the electronic vocabularies. What a true genius. For Les, one discovery would, just lead to another biggest discovery. Thank you Les Paul. For being smarter than the rest of us.
You could actually remix STEREO mixes from Les' early work....he predated the technology
So glad this exists! He's amazing, I knew his Guitars, his name, did not know how phenomenal he was. Thanks for posting this!
Didn't know he also invented the looper. Wow he had all the other parts recorded & him & his drummer just played along. Amazing. Why not save money on paying a whole band.
Wow! I had NO idea Les seemed to have created the loop for guitar!! Not only some of the best guitars ever made, but a monster monster player in his own right back in his day. On top of that he invented the loop. What’s next, am I going to find out Les also created a cure for cancer?? Guy was amazing.
Lester was a shredder, lets hear it for the drummer as well!
Been watching Les since I was a youngster on TV with his wife Mary Ford.. First guitarist I ever saw.. Still for me, all things considered, my favorite all time with a style and sound like no other and my favorite all time!... His friend Chet Atkins my second favorite and the two greatest American guitarists!... They set the table for everyone else!
Some people just absolutely blow me away. He is one of the few.
He played with CLEAN sound. Can you imagine that solo using a distorsion?
Very underrated. Better than most shredders
A true master, a legend and a wonderful sense of humor to boot. Les Paul was on fire here! I love this clip, thank you so much for sharing it.
From 8:45 onwards Les sounds like something Joe Satriani put down on 'Engines of Creation' but Les did this many years before Joe even knew what a guitar was. That's testament to just how far ahead and influential Les was to all those who came after him.
Or even before Joe was born. Not putting Joe down at all, but this is LES F*CKING PAUL.
Walter Mirren "LES F*CKING PAUL"
I'll have to look at this clip again I must have missed that, I mean as far as I know Les is straight and McCartney has just got married again, lol.:-).
Peace Walt.
LOL! Ok, that was taken out of context lol. Now I have an indelible image that I will have to live with...
What a treasure Les is..! Thanks for playing forever..!!
To Paul Moore: yes indeed, the first tune IS "Dark Eyes" - or in Russian, "Очи чёрные" - which in English is "Ochi Chyornye" [pron. "otchie chornye-a"] - and which of course translates as "Dark Eyes".
+davidwrightatloppers the chet atkins version from hee haw rules all
Correct translation would be "Black eyes". "Чёрные" means "Black". The word "Dark" translates into Russian as "Тёмные" [pron. "tyomniye"].
davidwrightatlopper was um
made me really smile and laugh (out of joy)!
Even without considering his musical talent and technical contributions to music, he's actually a genuinely nice guy. The average human lifespan is much too brief for people of his caliber.
He lived to be almost 100 years old
GOD this man is amazing, loved to hear him play, but also hearing him talk is a treat for sure, imagine all those stories, plus seeing him with the newest guitar gods, is just incredible, he was an incredible person, and so was his wife Mary Ford all talent and a beautiful smile, and even her laughter was beautiful!!!
1 clean channel, no effects, no bullshit.......Guitar God!
Well that's just not true, he has plenty of effects. That was like his trademark, he invented a lot of effects
He's got an effect attached to his guitar!
Holy crap, that is one of the best guitar playing I have ever seen.
Thank You Les Paul.
Historically, a True Hero.
Les Paul has always been my favorite kind of guitar. The man truely is amazing at guitar playing
".....oh you went out to turn on. " eff N. GENIUS!!!!!! AND Josh Smith you rock too bro!!
Thanks "davidwrightatloppers" 🎼💜🌺🙋🎼Complimenti ! Les Paul forever and ever in our hearts 🎼
This man invented Awesome
such an amazing man. a genius inventor and luthier whose product is still beloved despite being virtually unchanged 70 years later, a masterful guitarist, and one of the most important figures in audio engineering history with his multitrack and delay work. and to top it all off he's likeable as hell! most people would kill to be one of those things, and somehow the big man in the sky decided he got to be all of them
Starting at 8:45...WTF was that?!?!? Wow
How you cram the entire Merle Evans Circus Band into a guitar and drummer. That's what.
That... Was crank
That's talent that's what that was
The bumblebee....
WOW
This's a really wonderful slice of history that ,of course, still holds up musically & on an emotional level too. Thanks very much for posting this.
Sick man. Never heard him play that I can recall until now. What a beast on guitar.
The absolute very best! There will never be another such genius of so many fields of music again!
"This guy deserves should have his own signature guitar"
Too bad they don't make the one he actually likes
Im mostly a rock/metal player but I acknowledge Les for the genius he was both as a player and an electrical engineer.
Forever change my life.
I did not hear a single buzz.
What a legend...
I'm so humbled that the Les Paul Foundation had asked that the Waukesha School District to consider renaming a middle school, Central, after Les Paul. Central was formally a 3 school campus converted to 1 school. Originally it was a grade school, which was torn down, a middle school, and a high school which Lester Pollfuss attended. The proposal passed 5-4 and the school will be renamed for Les' 100th birthday. As a yes vote, it's my hope that TH-cam videos such as this will inspire youth in the Waukesha School District to pursue your passion and dream; you may end-up changing the world like Les Paul did! Today, Les Paul would have been identified as a gifted and talented student in public education. In 1932, during the Great Depression, things were a lot different.
Wow, Les Paul is the GOAT
The greatest Guitar Player Genius , inventor ever. He set the standard for them all and provided the Guitars and the effects. Very very fast picker fun to watch .
Mother of God.
Les is Father of God.
I've been a fan since I was a boy and I play wirh the same looping method with an apocalyptical intonation.
Love my cousin's styles.
One of my biggest motivators to play music
Is astounding that he's never in the debate of being one of the greatest guitar players of all time...
he's the best guitar performer I know
Music owes so so much to this man.
Gibson ought to make a replica of Les Paul's modified Les Paul that hes using in this concert. I think this particular one is just as phenomenal as his playing. Yep I mean build it down to a tee complete with the black box and the little microphone built in
The recording model is the one he's using with the xlr mic hook up
I have known of the Les Paul guitar for 20 years, took until today to realise there was an artist behind it. Every days a school day 😮
I guess that's how you get the best guitar ever made named after you.
i mean aside from him physically actually making the guitar.. XD
Ryan Rossiter lmao
He’s not called Les Stratocaster what
No argument that he was great but the Gibson Les Paul is hardly the best guitar ever made. The quality control at Gibson over the years was hit and miss so some guitars were good and some were crap.
@@rudybigboote3883 I guess you've never played a 50s goldtop before then.
Man and on top of all that he’s doing all that with one arm fused in place at the elbow!!! A true music talent and treasure.
8:45 he just shows how it’s done for all of us mortals.
I'm loving the microphone plugged right into the guitar!
Holy shit the original shredder, no.2 after Jimi?
He predates Jimi.
Les Paul>Jimi
Jimi's great and all. But there's so much to Les, I don't even know where to begin.
les is one of the few who not only revolutionized guitar playing itself in a major way, but also made the single biggest inovation in rock music. the solid body electric guitar. without less paul jimi hendrix as we know him would not exist
are you kidding??? Charlie Christian is the original guitar hero. And wtf Les Paul over Hendrix???????
les paul is technically superior to hendrix
What an absolute treasure! I regret never getting to see him perform.
8:45 eat that, Malmsteen Batio Romeo Gilbert Petrucci Govan
always so far ahead of his time, what an amazing man Les Paul was, total respect for the man.
50's Les Paul
90's Paul Gilbert
Bro..... YES!
Never ceases to amaze. I hope more footage of these shows starts cropping up.
Simplemente POCA MADRE!!!!
Happy Birthday Les !!!
Wasn't it a coincidence that He was called Les Paul and so was his guitar.. What's the chances of that happening, I'm never going to find a guitar called Dave :-D
@@luiscar2000000 ffs🙄
@@luiscar2000000 I admire your ambition to help educate people, but jesus Christ dude
not a coincidence, actually, though i see how you could think that; in actuality his parents were named Joyce and Aaron Paul, and Les was their ninth child (!!) and in the delivery room they hadn't come up with a name, so the nurse, named Tellie Castra, who had already delivered 7 of the other Paul children, decided to throw a little shade and name the child Less, basically to say "have Less Pauls". Now when Aaron Paul found out, he got really mad about it, obviously, but there was no way to change a name back in those days, and so in his rage, he actually took Tellie and broke her arm (dislocated shoulder and then twisted, very nasty, very nasty indeed) so badly that it had to be amputated at the shoulder when infection set in. Joyce, on the other hand, saw the humor of Tellie's little joke, and since she couldn't work at the hospital delivering children anymore (certainly not with one arm) Joyce invited Tellie to be Les's nanny. When Les grew up, and started tinkering with guitars, he decided to make a guitar that reminded him of Tellie, with a small waist, a big bottom, a long neck with hair parted down the center, and a huge ass chunk taken out of its left shoulder. He wanted to call this guitar the Telliecastra, but it was too close to an existing guitar (coincidentally also named after the nurse, who really inspired a whole generation of luthiers) and so, in honor of her joke, and because he was a little bit egotistical, he called it the Les Paul. Hope you can appreciate this wacky piece of music history. The truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes! Peace and blessings, peace, and, ble s s i n g s . . .
@davidwrightatloppers > What an awesome video compilation! I LOVE IT!!!!!
I knew he designed the 16 track tape recorder but never knew of his 'black box' :)
Thanx for sharing this....
He’s the GOAT not Hendrix or SRV or Clapton
Simply the best ever. The gold standard in guitar and this video shows a glimpse of why.
Is he the first who invent looping?
Eldias Mahdi Sastra Basically, yes.
No, he invented onstage live looping which became the looping pedal.
Multitrack recording as well
Les Paul was a genius...!! I remember an interview with Keith
Richards....who said the same thing. Les Paul invented almost all of the
effects still used today in a studio
today...delay...reverb....distortion....echo...multitrack......the list
goes on and on .....genius....!!
Holy god he owns that guitar. I mean that in the sense that he made it his bitch.
+impreprex1979 The Gibson Les Paul IS his bitch!
When a man walks out on stage like he did here, with all eyes on just you, you better know what's going on here. He did know--he just cranked it out flawlessly What a talent--miss him a lot.