Coors Beer Commercial Featuring Les Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8O5wZAd2z4
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You Never Know who will show up on Les Paul Mondays at Iridium
Les Paul , Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy Award winner, pioneer of the electric guitar and inventor of numerous recording tech-niques, such as reverb and multi-track recording was born June 9, 1915 in Waukesha Wisconsin. As The Gibson Les Paul line of guitars is universally hailed as the best and is played by legendary musicians, Iridium has been the host to countless musicians and celebrities who pay homage to ‘The Father Of The Electric Guitar’. Musicians such as, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Tony Bennett, Paul Schaeffer, Steve Miller, Brian Setzer, Joe Beck, Al Dimeola, George Benson and many others have ‘jammed’ with Les on Monday nights at Iridium.You never know who will show up at Iridium to jam and joke with Les and the band!
Les says his greatest God-given gifts are perfect pitch, a love for music with the ability to learn it quickly, and the curiosity and persistence of an inventor who wants to know ‘how things tick’. His first professional job, as ‘Red Hot Red’, was as a guitarist and harmonica player when he was just thirteen. One fateful night while performing in front of an outdoor crowd, Les became frustrated that people farther back couldn’t hear him. Les Paul created an electric guitar and amplification system out of a radio, the earpiece of a telephone and a needle from a family record player that he jammed into the fret board as a ‘pickup’! Les?guitar and voice were now heard by all.
However, the resulting vibration and resulting feedback had to be contained. Les experimented by stuffing clothes and plaster of paris in the guitar; he even went so far as attaching a string to a hinge placed at the end of a railroad track.The sound was perfect.When Les showed his mother his accomplishment she replied, ‘You’ll never see Gene carrying that thing around’. So he settled on using a 4×4 block of wood attached to an Epiphone neck. When the audience paid no attention to his playing because the instrument was too strange, he attaches two non-functional ‘wings’ to the 4×4 so it looked like a normal guitar.The fans loved the sound and the solid body electric guitar was born! In 1950, Les started his design of the Les Paul model for The Gibson Guitar Company, which has become the world’s best selling line of electric guitars.
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Sungha Jung cover of U2 With or Without you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY
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