music-makers and world-changers
May. 16th, 2005 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonYou might have to register at the Washington Post to read this article, I'm not sure:
'The Log' Puts Paul in Ranks of Top Inventors
On Saturday, Les Paul, less than a month shy of his 90th birthday, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in Akron, Ohio, as the creator of the solid-body electric guitar, arguably the most important musical innovation of the past half-century, a device as common today in the nightclubs of Nairobi and Manila as in Bethesda on prom night.
There are a lot of people who have been called, "legendary," but Les Paul is one who truly deserves the title. Besides being an excellent musician (five Grammys), he pretty much single-handedly invented the concept of the solid-body electric guitar in the 1920s and 30s. I only have one electric guitar myself, a '71 Gibson Les Paul Custom (cherry sunburst, natch), almost entirely true to Les Paul's design. I expect to pass it onto my son someday, with my only modification being the addition of a set of MIDI pickups. You can't surpass perfection.
'The Log' Puts Paul in Ranks of Top Inventors
On Saturday, Les Paul, less than a month shy of his 90th birthday, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in Akron, Ohio, as the creator of the solid-body electric guitar, arguably the most important musical innovation of the past half-century, a device as common today in the nightclubs of Nairobi and Manila as in Bethesda on prom night.
There are a lot of people who have been called, "legendary," but Les Paul is one who truly deserves the title. Besides being an excellent musician (five Grammys), he pretty much single-handedly invented the concept of the solid-body electric guitar in the 1920s and 30s. I only have one electric guitar myself, a '71 Gibson Les Paul Custom (cherry sunburst, natch), almost entirely true to Les Paul's design. I expect to pass it onto my son someday, with my only modification being the addition of a set of MIDI pickups. You can't surpass perfection.
