Les Paul

...grind and a tease of Talking Heads geek punk/funk. I smelled a whiff of Cat Stevens during "Strange Design," some Les Paul guitar prowess amidst the cowpunk newgrass of "Ginseng Sullivan," appreciated the pitstop at a cover of...

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...into wimp-rock territory. Young got down and dirty for the latter portions of the show, when he was joined by a band (led by longtime drummer Ralph Molina) and plugged in Old Black, his vintage Les Paul. During the electric portion, the...

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...2009, 4,445 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Les Paul literally made possible all the music you love, and he died today. Paul essentially invented the solid-body electric guitar in 1939, and the Gibson...

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..."Alabama," and "L.A.". It was Young's primary electric guitar during the Harvest era, since Young's deteriorating back condition (eventually fixed with surgery) made playing the much heavier Les Paul difficult. This particular White...

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...a werewolf in a plaid shirt stalking the stage. Barely scratching the surface of his back catalogue, he produced a 15-minute take on Keep on Rockin' in the Free World that sated the crowd. For the chorus, the stage exploded in swirling...

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He also recorded hit songs with his wife, singer Mary Ford, including 36 gold records and 11 #1 pop hits such as "How High the Moon," "Lover" and "Vaya Con Dios," many of which used the overdubbing techniques Paul had helped develop.

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...its central interface metaphor with 1970s computers: a file cabinet. That navigational trope has more miles on it than Old Black, Young's vintage Les Paul guitar. Young plans to add folders to the cabinet by letting users download...

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The coloured lights and an enormous fan action-paint his hair while he churns out seismic riffs and thunderheads of feedback from his Les Paul and coos plaintive acoustic masterworks such as "Needle and the Damage Done" in that odd,...

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...world's first solid body electric guitars from a log. The design was bought and refined by Gibson guitars in 1952 and dubbed the Les Paul -- an electric instrument emblematic of the rock sound that has been played by many musicians, including...

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