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Thursday
Aug132009

Time keeps on slippin...

With sadness, today we say goodbye to one of Wisconsin's gifts to the world:  Les Paul.  Les (who by the way was Steve Miller's Godfather) was not only a true master of the guitar, he also invented two of the most important innovations of modern recording:  overdubbing and multitrack recording.   Had it not been for Les, there would not have been a little, insignificant album in 1967 called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and all that has proceeded from that astonishing 8-track recording process.  And, of course, there's the Les Paul Guitar, the preferred guitar of rock gods such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards,  Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.

The world of music was made different, and much better, thanks to Les.



 

 

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