Les Paul 1979 Documentary "The Wizard of Waukesha" with Michael Bloomfield and Rick Derringer

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@marions.120 Жыл бұрын

Every time I watch Les play the more I learn that I can’t play! ✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶 He was the best!

@wendysmith1242 Жыл бұрын

My mother grew up with him in Waukesha. He’d come by and play guitar with my grandfather 💜

@ACOUSTIC_4LOVE 3 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.

@barrykrause1049 2 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."

@mrmusic248 3 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.

@paulkelly154 3 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.

@chiefyamaha7445 3 жыл бұрын

Mike Bloomfield playing a Les Paul was destiny

@cowsill2x2 3 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

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!).

@charleslambiase5670 Ай бұрын

I almost fell over when I watched his hands-on that opening number.... ❤❤❤❤

@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.9047 7 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.

@Imgayactormichaeldouglas 2 ай бұрын

@@nataliep.9047Can you give some examples? It's really hard to find information on this.

@Powertuber1000 2 ай бұрын

He didn’t even design the Les Paul guitar, that was Ted McCarty and Gibson factory manager John Huis.

@jimibassification 2 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.

@luigizanellato2959 5 ай бұрын

This was fun to watch. There’s so much more about Les Paul than just the guitars.

@dylanfan424 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for this forever, thank you!

@cowsill2x2 3 жыл бұрын

Check out more on the 2013 documentary "Turn It Up! A Celebration of the Electric Guitar, where the Bloomfield clip reappears.

@denismpoiriersr3339 Жыл бұрын

Once Les made the low impedance pickup he never went back to the high impedance ones.

@staffanotterland8461 11 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

@jimmyjames9752 3 жыл бұрын

Been waiting a very long time for this thank you so much

@cowsill2x2 3 жыл бұрын

Check out more on the 2013 documentary "Turn It Up! A Celebration of the Electric Guitar, where the Bloomfield" clip reappears.

@Colhogan06 2 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.

@dicksatan6444 8 ай бұрын

Which store did your dad manage?

@mohammedcohen 3 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...

@Gennettor-nc8kx 4 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....)

@thomaspick4123 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding. His divorce made him not want to promote the SG at the time. Mary denutted him.

@MarsG0Dofw4r_ 8 ай бұрын

He invented the freaking looper! 16:25

@jonbonner5734 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.