My mother grew up with him in Waukesha. He’d come by and play guitar with my grandfather 💜
@marions.1202 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch Les play the more I learn that I can’t play! ✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶 He was the best!
@ACOUSTIC_4LOVE3 жыл бұрын
Just Blown away. This Document of a National treasure is priceless. Les was Gifted beyond measure- but remained humble. What a sense of humor. My God my Grandfather’s generation truly was special. Makes me feel blessed to have grown up influenced by guys like Les and Chet as kid in the 60s.
@barrykrause10493 жыл бұрын
I got to know Les when I lived in NY two blocks from the Iridium Jazz Club where he played every Monday night in his later years. I was very close to buying one of HIS guitars. By the Monday I was supposed to meet him to buy it, he had passed away. He needed to talk to his son about price because he said "no one ever asked me before."
@Kohntarkosz Жыл бұрын
I remember recording this from Night Flight, circa 1985 or 1986, on Betamax! And I watched that tape loads. Loved this film. Even wrote a report on it for my 7th grade English class (then a week later, wrote a piece about Scorpions' World Wide Live concert movie!).
@paulkelly1543 жыл бұрын
Brilliant man. Great player, and such an important, historical figure. I met him a couple of times--once at a NAMM show in the mid 90s, once at The Iridium in NY during his Monday night gig. This was about 2002. Real nice man, too.
@chiefyamaha74453 жыл бұрын
Mike Bloomfield playing a Les Paul was destiny
@cowsill2x23 жыл бұрын
Check out more on the 2013 documentary "Turn It Up! A Celebration of the Electric Guitar," where the Bloomfield clip reappears.
@mrmusic2483 жыл бұрын
He was not one of us, the same way Einstein or Bach were not one of us. Mega intelligent was he, and it didn't hurt that had that incredible lab in which he could come up with the miracles that he did. If you don't realize it, the fact that we can hear ourselves played back on a tape, is a HUGE miracle, not to mention multi-track recording. RIP, Les, you genius for all time.
@charleslambiase56702 ай бұрын
I almost fell over when I watched his hands-on that opening number.... ❤❤❤❤
@staffanotterland846111 ай бұрын
A Humble 🎉 Down to Earth Incredible Intelligent Talented soul Thank you Red for all you brought to Music I am shore your with the Paradis Orchestra
@dylanfan4243 жыл бұрын
I’ve been looking for this forever, thank you!
@cowsill2x23 жыл бұрын
Check out more on the 2013 documentary "Turn It Up! A Celebration of the Electric Guitar, where the Bloomfield clip reappears.
@luigizanellato29596 ай бұрын
This was fun to watch. There’s so much more about Les Paul than just the guitars.
@jimmyjames97523 жыл бұрын
Been waiting a very long time for this thank you so much
@cowsill2x23 жыл бұрын
Check out more on the 2013 documentary "Turn It Up! A Celebration of the Electric Guitar, where the Bloomfield" clip reappears.
@Kohntarkosz Жыл бұрын
Just for the record, Les didn't "invent the electric guitar" and he didn't even "invent the solidbody guitar". Lloyd Loar and Rickenbacker introduced solidbody guitars in the early 30's, whereas Les didn't build The Log until around 1940. That doesn't take away from what Les actually did do, which was conceive of multi-track recording and really taking the idea of being able to overdub multiple parts (or do things like doubletracking and tape flanging) to the moon and back. He really set the benchmark for what you could do in the studio, almost before the technology to do it even existed!
@nataliep.90478 ай бұрын
LP didn't invent half the stuff that he took credit for. Multi-tracking , overdubbing, and half-speed recording had all been done before. LP came up with a formula on how to use those techiniques for optimum commercial effect. I'll give him credit for being a fine jazz guiar player, a good recording engineer, and a good record producer, but he did not single-handedly invent the post-war recording industry as many assume.
@Imgayactormichaeldouglas3 ай бұрын
@@nataliep.9047Can you give some examples? It's really hard to find information on this.
@Powertuber10003 ай бұрын
He didn’t even design the Les Paul guitar, that was Ted McCarty and Gibson factory manager John Huis.
@jimibassification3 ай бұрын
Yeah but Lear, The Rick, and McCarty don’t have the pedigree that LP did musically so this is all a moot point. I created BS KZbin troll posts in 1996 but everyone keeps claiming credit.
@Colhogan063 жыл бұрын
It just dawned on me that I never asked my father if he ever met Les Paul. Our family all come from around the Milwaukee area. I know my dad managed a music store in Milwaukee, and played in the clubs in the area where many of the up and coming artists hung out. He talked about knowing, Conway Twitty, Roger Miller, Johnny Carver and several others.. They also got a one season gig on a local TV Show in Illinois when we moved about 60 to 90 minutes south of Milwaukee. I know Les had left Wisconsin eventually, but did go back often. Musicians all seem to gravitate to the same places so I'm sure they chewed some of the same dirt so to speak even if they hadn't formally met. I wish I had asked him before he passed. This video just got me wondering.
@dicksatan64449 ай бұрын
Which store did your dad manage?
@mohammedcohen3 жыл бұрын
...I remember being 6 or 7 years old in Fort Lee, NJ - in the schoolyard at recess - a kid had a crystal radio set that looked like a 50s era rocket ship...he put the alligator clip onto a metal strip on a telephone pole...and I heard something - IIRC a commercial on one of the two 800 lb gorilla radio stations in the NYC area...
@denismpoiriersr3339 Жыл бұрын
Once Les made the low impedance pickup he never went back to the high impedance ones.
@Gennettor-nc8kx5 ай бұрын
The most important bit is the clip from 12:27 of the movie "Sarge Goes To College" with Les, Wingy Mannone, Coco Candido, Joe Venuti, Jess Stacey and Abe Lyman. (and of course it's cut....)
@MarsG0Dofw4r_9 ай бұрын
He invented the freaking looper! 16:25
@jonbonner57342 ай бұрын
Not really. The Paulverizer was basically a remote for his ampex tape machine, which had prerecorded guitar parts on it. Still pretty innovative for the time.
@thomaspick4123 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding. His divorce made him not want to promote the SG at the time. Mary denutted him.
@mikec67333 жыл бұрын
Wingy Minone !
@cowsill2x23 жыл бұрын
Wingy Manone, but yes :)
@guitarmeetsscience10 ай бұрын
@@cowsill2x2 Wingy was my grandfather.
@smedleybutler8787 Жыл бұрын
He was making $1,000 a week in 1938?
@helmutsecke3529 Жыл бұрын
Hier kommt der Ivan Kral am 19:01. Gott mit ihm.
@eddriver78157 ай бұрын
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