Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 1
  [ 21 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Print view

Previous topic :: Next topic 
Author Message
tentoze
 Post subject: DEAD: Les Paul
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:20 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:40 pm
Posts: 5289
Location: Jacksonville, FL
http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/08/1 ... ead-at-94/


Warm up your amps and play one.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Radcliffe
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:20 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:31 pm
Posts: 12368
Location: last place I looked
Man, 94 is too young.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Yail Bloor
 Post subject: Re: DEAD: Les Paul
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:21 pm 
Offline
Whiskey Tango
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:08 pm
Posts: 21753
Location: REDLANDS
tentoze Wrote:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/08/13/les-paul-dead-at-94/


Warm up your amps and play one.


I'll do that a little bit later fer sure.

_________________
"To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss."

Back to top
 Profile  
 
MontyTheMongoose
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:24 pm 
Offline
KILLFILED

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:14 pm
Posts: 15027
Location: There n' here.
A legend.

Might have to make a trek to Waukesha, even... [shudder]
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Cap'n Squirrgle
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:24 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:59 pm
Posts: 24583
Location: On the gas and tappin' ass
DAMN! I'll tickle the LP Studio tonight when I get home.

_________________
[quote="Bloor"]He's either done too much and should stay out of the economy, done too little because unemployment isn't 0%, is a dumb ingrate who wasn't ready for the job or a brilliant mastermind who has taken over all aspects of our lives and is transforming us into a Stalinist style penal economy where Christian Whites are fed into meat grinders. Very confusing[/quote]

Back to top
 Profile  
 
discostu
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:26 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:17 pm
Posts: 10827
Location: Nashville
Just saw this

Quote:
WHITE PLAINS, NY - Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, has died.

According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital Thursday.

His family and friends were by his side.

As an inventor, Paul helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll and multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves and then carefully balance the "tracks" in the finished recording.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
MontyTheMongoose
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:30 pm 
Offline
KILLFILED

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:14 pm
Posts: 15027
Location: There n' here.
Obit from the local paper.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
no guru
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:32 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:24 am
Posts: 17359
Location: cogthrobber
That's a good run. He saw the evolution of a century's worth of popular music. And stayed cool.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
mugwump67
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:40 pm 
Offline
Indie Debut

Joined: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:57 pm
Posts: 1656
Location: Just getting back from Highway 61
Made it 94 years and single-handedly changed the course of music on his way.

A good run indeed.

_________________
"I don't think things are hoots. I don't. I don't think it's a hoot. I would never use the word hoot, and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word 'hoot."

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Flying Rabbit
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:46 pm 
Offline
May contain Jesus.
User avatar

Joined: Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:43 pm
Posts: 12275
Location: The Already, Not Yet.
Radcliffe Wrote:
Man, 94 is too young.


Makes you think, right?

RIP.

_________________
It's Baltimore, gentlemen; the gods will not save you.

Baltimore is a town where everyone thinks they’re normal, but they’re totally insane. In New York, they think they’re crazy, but they’re perfectly normal. --John Waters
Image

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Cotton
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:48 pm 
Offline
Alcoholic National Treasure

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm
Posts: 17155
there should've been another thread right on top of this reading STILL ALIVE: LES PAUL

_________________
Are you kidding? I have no talents. Nothing. I was very well educated to be an idiot. And I was a very good student.

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Aural Fixation
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:54 pm 
Offline
Queen of Obner

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:24 pm
Posts: 15259
Location: El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles
Wow, sorry to say but I thought he had already passed away.

RIP, Les Paul. I do believe I have a couple of old vinyl albums laying around the house.
Back to top
 Profile YIM 
 
no guru
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:56 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:24 am
Posts: 17359
Location: cogthrobber
Stan Lee plans on doing a Les Paul and staying current as long as possible.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
nobody
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:11 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:39 pm
Posts: 6960
Location: St. Louis
I've got a few old Les Paul records and some Les Paul and Mary Ford records. I like lots off of them, but other bits not so much. Makes me think there is a great compilation out there somewhere. Anyone have any good suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
PopTodd
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:20 pm 
Offline
Big in Australia
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:00 am
Posts: 19821
Location: Chicago-ish
RIP.

Was he still playing his weekly gigs in NYC, or had those ended?

Edit:
And how could you not like this guy?
Image

_________________
Paul Caporino of M.O.T.O. Wrote:
I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
MontyTheMongoose
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:38 pm 
Offline
KILLFILED

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:14 pm
Posts: 15027
Location: There n' here.
He was playing them thru at least age 88... & he did an event in Milwaukee -- I think for the opening of the Les Paul Museum, or re-opening, maybe -- three years ago, at 91. So, he was playing out at least a little into his tenth decade.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Cap'n Squirrgle
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:51 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:59 pm
Posts: 24583
Location: On the gas and tappin' ass
I love the story about him breaking his picking arm in the 50's (?) and having the cast set at a right angle so he could still play.

_________________
[quote="Bloor"]He's either done too much and should stay out of the economy, done too little because unemployment isn't 0%, is a dumb ingrate who wasn't ready for the job or a brilliant mastermind who has taken over all aspects of our lives and is transforming us into a Stalinist style penal economy where Christian Whites are fed into meat grinders. Very confusing[/quote]

Back to top
 Profile  
 
FT
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:26 pm 
Offline
Hair Trigger of Doom

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:05 pm
Posts: 21295
Location: Subpoenaed in Texas
THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO ROCK

_________________
bendandscoop.com

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Head Gardener
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:33 pm 
Offline
British Press Hype
User avatar

Joined: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:05 pm
Posts: 1312
Location: Northampton
my favourite LP sleeve

[img][650:488]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm50/shanequentin3/LesPaulsleeve.jpg[/img]
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
harry
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:48 pm 
Offline
Acid Grandfather
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:03 pm
Posts: 4144
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Resonate in Peace

_________________
Let's take a trip down Whittier Blvd.

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Twilightkid
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:16 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:47 am
Posts: 13881
Location: parts unknown
met him very briefly at a convention about 7 years back...seemed like a nice enough guy!

_________________
http://www.geminicrow.com

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 1
  [ 21 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 37 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Style by Midnight Phoenix & N.Design Studio
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.