Les Paul was one of those folks that was the bridge between 50s pop and early rock and roll.The stuff he did with Mary Ford especially How High The Moon are timeless classics
This man made a hell of a contribution to the recording of records and was way ahead of his time. He had a vision that can only be described as truly incredible. And the reason that 31 trolls gave this a thumbs down is because of pure jealousy because they are truly blown away by the real talent that is the legend Les Paul. So 31 thumbs down doesn't really cut it when they are up against 1.6k for the thumbs up. It doesn't really matter about how he did it live on stage. But at least he did it. Being pedantic has to be the most annoying of the human traits, so haters, get over yourselves. The man is a legend. !!!! FACT !!!!
We should get old musicians on stage more often nowadays. Not only can you listen to the classics but you get an extra story from an old timer. It's a buy one take one free.
@@pzhikcloethaegeslikhrethyi4225 There are lots of us old folks on TH-cam. The thing is, unless I told you that I was old, you'd never know it from the way I talk (write, that is). If Gary never mentioned 1951, you would never have guessed him to be old. However, I would have guessed him to be old. Because his name is Gary, and 98% of all the Garys in America were named by their mamas after Gary Cooper, a famous movie star of the 1930s - '40s.
Remember hearing him and Mary on a record player as I drifted off to sleep about 10 years ago. I was only like 14 or 15 but it blew my mind what Les could conjure up with his magic. RIP Les Paul and Mary Ford 🕊
With out this man and his brain God knows where guitarists would play,WHAT INSIGHTS AND JUST PLAIN NECESSITY. My father loved this guy and turned me on to him.GOD REST HIS SOUL!!!
This is the Great Guitarist, Les Paul, who enthused and inspired Jeff Beck to want to play himself. Thank Goodness for Les Paul!! Hurrah!! Cynthia Allen McLaglen
What a sheer, unadulterated genius this man was! Looper invention aside, just listen to him PLAY! No one else - ever. BTW, as an equipment nerd, I have to not he's playing a Gibson axe through the quintessential Fender Twin Reverb - two items that are almost as classic as the man!
Ever wonder what was inside the black box? Nothing. The Paulverizer was a bunch of switches and the wires went to a bank of tape recorders that were off stage behind the curtain.
What a legend. And of course his guitar sounds so friggin good. What a great ear Les had. I love my vintage Les Paul Standard I wouldn't trade it for anything
This is even more amazing when you consider the time he did everything, Can't be heard in the bandstand? Invents electric guitar. Can't find competent backing band? Invents looping. Can't get enough sounds when recording? Invents multi track recording. Without Les Paul, modern music would not be what it is today.
Les Paul never did get the credit for this invention. Others did it in the 60's, but to my knowledge, Les Paul was the main man who invented this, and it was called the Les Paulverizer. It was a looper. Later on people stole this idea and called it a looper but this was all Les Paul's invention. Les Paul was a genius, as well as an amazing guitar player with such a unique style of music. There is no one that ever captured his style.
The thing with Les was he just didn't find a niche and stay there. He was constantly pushing the envelope and innovating. He was always open to experimenting with his instrument and sound. Pretty sure guitar and recordings would sound a whole lot different today if Les hadn't been here.
It's just....EVERYTHING!!! If you took music and just ripped apart into a million pieces you know that it would come back together into something. But that something would be named Mozart, Beethoven, or Les Paul. A rock and a stick. A synth with 24-part harmonization in a sonically isolated booth. Doesn't matter. Les Paul will produce music.
How is nobody realising that what he plays back is not what he recorded. In fact the track starts playing when he's not ready cutting off the first part of the recording.
It was kinda point from Les. To not do total playback and make him look like charing he did this comedy part. Everybody from first apperance of that black box in 60s knew it was just joke not real device.
He was already experimenting doing overdubbing with records. ( hard ) When they came out with tape recording machines he knew exactly what to do with them. He was way ahead of the game.
Remarkable innovator.Played weekly in a jazz club at age 92!
I had the privilege of seeing him perform at Iridium, in NYC.
Les Paul was always the coolest dude in the room.
This guy was a genius.
What a talented man he was. He and his Mary.
Rest in eternal peace, Les and Mary. 🙏🌹
they got divorced about 50 years before he died yk.
Mad how he played this 🎸🔥💯
Les Paul was one of those folks that was the bridge between 50s pop and early rock and roll.The stuff he did with Mary Ford especially How High The Moon are timeless classics
I'm old enough to remember when "How High The Moon" first came out. Loved it.
Folks don’t even realize how much this man changed in the industry. Music as we know it wouldn’t be recorded as easily without his contributions
Always, ALWAYS in awe of this man and his talent and genius.
Pure genius... The Great Les Paul..
...and EVH...together! Two guitar players and inventors extraordinaire. Eddie loved Les! and vice versa! But Les would NOT give him a black box 🤭
First true technician of the electric guitar.
he pretty much invented all of the precursors to what makes modern music what it is.
He's not just the absolute master of the guitar beyond all reason, he's like the most loveable guy you ever met.
This man made a hell of a contribution to the recording of records and was way ahead of his time. He had a vision that can only be described as truly incredible. And the reason that 31 trolls gave this a thumbs down is because of pure jealousy because they are truly blown away by the real talent that is the legend Les Paul. So 31 thumbs down doesn't really cut it when they are up against 1.6k for the thumbs up. It doesn't really matter about how he did it live on stage. But at least he did it. Being pedantic has to be the most annoying of the human traits, so haters, get over yourselves. The man is a legend. !!!! FACT !!!!
Somewhere s there's music. How near how far. It's in heaven. Where Les and Mary are.
We should get old musicians on stage more often nowadays. Not only can you listen to the classics but you get an extra story from an old timer. It's a buy one take one free.
i love seeing older musicians and younger musicians together making music
Over-the-top greatness of Les Paul!
What would guitarists be without that great man.... Les Paul?
Still to this day. Guitarist want a Les Paul model guitar.
My Grandmother took me to see Les Paul and Mary Ford in Chicago about 1951.
He is now a legend...............
wait how old are you
i never saw someone this old on youtube
pzhikcloethaeges likhrethyioprioj how rude you are. Didn't anyone teach you good manners ?
Lionel Stefan i was just asking i never saw someone that old on the internet
Lionel Stefan 😅
@@pzhikcloethaegeslikhrethyi4225 There are lots of us old folks on TH-cam. The thing is, unless I told you that I was old, you'd never know it from the way I talk (write, that is).
If Gary never mentioned 1951, you would never have guessed him to be old.
However, I would have guessed him to be old. Because his name is Gary, and 98% of all the Garys in America were named by their mamas after Gary Cooper, a famous movie star of the 1930s - '40s.
Looping before looping was a thang 🙌🙌💯so 😎 cool
TODAY ... JUNE 9th ....
"Happy Birthday" Les ....
RIP ... (June 9, 1915 - August 12, 2009)
Bless You Ever More ...
He’s so pure I love him, beautiful man with a beautiful aura, genius
This kids, is real music.
I know! I was born in 2003, but I adore all kinds of Rock!
Woodland Eagles well to bad that les paul is a jazz player and not rock.
Lol you changed the comment
A legend having some fun on stage
#lespaul
Merry and Paul bless the blues festival people
Les pulling all them chicks ! lucky man Jimmy, and the rest are good but the best ever is here !
One of my favourite people playing my favourite guitar . Doesn't get any better than this .... Thanks for everything Les ....
Remember hearing him and Mary on a record player as I drifted off to sleep about 10 years ago. I was only like 14 or 15 but it blew my mind what Les could conjure up with his magic. RIP Les Paul and Mary Ford 🕊
Simply a Genius!!! He'll never R.i.p. because all over the world we'll play his guitars 😁
An unrecognized enough GENIUS !!!...
Les Paul was the first looping Artist.
Les Paul is Gigantic!
With out this man and his brain God knows where guitarists would play,WHAT INSIGHTS AND JUST PLAIN NECESSITY. My father loved this guy and turned me on to him.GOD REST HIS SOUL!!!
An emprisario the man's a genius 🎸 btw Mary Ford sorely missed she was a brilliant guitarist 🎸
WOW…great stuff. Gives new meaning to the term “one-man band.” Bravo!
He sure lit a fire on that guitar.
As amazing as always.You can hear Mary right in there. I love these people and must say THAT is something to do with your time.
God, what a genius.
Les Paul invented electricity!
Electricity in the guitar he did. His first one was a Ma bell telephone mouthpiece set into the guitar.
He sure did. Him with Muddy Waters
I think he also invented rock guitar licks; long before the term "rock 'n' roll" even existed.
This is the Great Guitarist, Les Paul, who enthused and inspired Jeff Beck to want to play himself. Thank Goodness for Les Paul!! Hurrah!! Cynthia Allen McLaglen
Les Paul, the Thomas Edison of the music industry. As a youngster I played a Les Paul guitar and didn't even know who he was.
GENIUS, LEGEND, PIONEER ......
EVH once said that he could never play the guitar without Les Paul’s innovations.
Genius and superb player. Just wow. Such a legend. Man he could play.
wow what a legend what a showman he is like the forefather of modern playing
I remember seeing this when it was live on TV and it was so inspiring and amazing
What a sheer, unadulterated genius this man was! Looper invention aside, just listen to him PLAY! No one else - ever. BTW, as an equipment nerd, I have to not he's playing a Gibson axe through the quintessential Fender Twin Reverb - two items that are almost as classic as the man!
God damn legend.
Ever wonder what was inside the black box? Nothing.
The Paulverizer was a bunch of switches and the wires went to a bank of tape recorders that were off stage behind the curtain.
Oz. Muzak for the Emerald City.
What a legend. And of course his guitar sounds so friggin good. What a great ear Les had. I love my vintage Les Paul Standard I wouldn't trade it for anything
We saw him as a kid on St Paul Ave.. Waukesha, Wi.
So Gơod Mr Les Paul U R The Best . Love and miss your musics
Miss you Les
A true salesman. Selling Les Paul guitars, while pre selling Les Paul Loopers.
You're my master..
Playing his signature guitar that everybody wants a signature version of their own.
Les is the man.
Super non robotic. Pure touch and feel.
Today is my Dad's birthday and this was the number one song the day he was born.
He didn't need a band.. He can do itself
Such a cool dude and working musician with incredible innovation and work ethic
Good video. & song. Like it instrumental also. Les Paul the original guitar hero
Les was awesome....
A true master of his craft.
Les Pauls should have traditional specs and be true to the originals says modern day guitarist...
Les Paul - Hold my beer!
Miss Mary !!!! Love it ❤
This is even more amazing when you consider the time he did everything, Can't be heard in the bandstand? Invents electric guitar. Can't find competent backing band? Invents looping. Can't get enough sounds when recording? Invents multi track recording. Without Les Paul, modern music would not be what it is today.
Les Paul never did get the credit for this invention. Others did it in the 60's, but to my knowledge, Les
Paul was the main man who invented this, and it was called the Les Paulverizer. It was a looper.
Later on people stole this idea and called it a looper but this was all Les Paul's invention. Les Paul
was a genius, as well as an amazing guitar player with such a unique style of music. There is no one
that ever captured his style.
Les Paul was to music and recording what DaVinci was to Renaissance art and invention!
He literally invented rock and roll, as well as, rock, all should bow…
I wish he was more recognized
🎉This was the late great Felix Grant theme song when he rulrd the radio waves in the 60s and 70s in the Wash DC area
"JUST AMAZING ! "
Thats awesome and exciting maximal Respekt🎸👌 a true master musician and Pioneer....Teragigantic🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
Man he was Great! They should name a guitar after him! 😆
'Lester and Chester' is a classic duet album-- Les and Chet Atkins trading licks.
Immortal / irreplaceable
The thing with Les was he just didn't find a niche and stay there. He was constantly pushing the envelope and innovating. He was always open to experimenting with his instrument and sound. Pretty sure guitar and recordings would sound a whole lot different today if Les hadn't been here.
It's just....EVERYTHING!!!
If you took music and just ripped apart into a million pieces you know that it would come back together into something. But that something would be named Mozart, Beethoven, or Les Paul.
A rock and a stick.
A synth with 24-part harmonization in a sonically isolated booth.
Doesn't matter. Les Paul will produce music.
He is actually much better than most of guitar players in the history of music
and to think he very nearly lost the use of his arm in a car accident
Les Paul invented the guitar loop before anybody. Why doesn’t he have a pedal named after him ?😢
Les Paul had a huge influence on a young Jeff Beck only 14 years old!! Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
I just wish I got to see him live before he left us. RIP
I have a looper and it is the best pedal for learning music 🫶
Fantastic!!
The Edison of guitar
he used loopers before it's cool
Innovator of overdub and delay to be exact, actually.
He actually invented it...
He invented it all! Multi-tracking is all Les Paul!
It would be a very different story if Les Paul didn't invent any of these things to be honest.
he's fantom about em. he's just playinh over prerecorded music... just triggering the tracks, each ove with an extra overdub
Phenomenal!
How is nobody realising that what he plays back is not what he recorded. In fact the track starts playing when he's not ready cutting off the first part of the recording.
+benz0rz209 I get it, some folks just don't listen closely enough...but wow, the man was a legend :)
doesent matter, he still slaps your ass :b
@Dr JT that was what gave people the idea for the Looper I saw he has giant tape machines behind the stage
It's just a bit
It was kinda point from Les. To not do total playback and make him look like charing he did this comedy part. Everybody from first apperance of that black box in 60s knew it was just joke not real device.
He was already experimenting doing overdubbing with records. ( hard )
When they came out with tape recording machines he knew exactly what to do with them. He was way ahead of the game.
One of a kind.
Les Paul invented oxygen
GODFATHER!!!
Holy sh*t.
Legend.
All we need is Mary Fords beautiful unusual voice
"Oh yeah, and we were married for a while too. But more on this black box..."
The Legend
Maestro!
Beyond cool.
Yes, great stuff, If you see all the Video. All the great players are on the stage doing the backing
Gibson should do him his signature guitar…he’s really good.
legend