Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, which made the sound of rock and roll possible. Paul taught himself how to play guitar and while he is mainly known for rock music, he had an early career in country music. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound),delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and they sold millions of records.
The Epiphone Les Paul is a line of solid body electric guitars produced by Epiphone as a more modestly priced version of the famous Gibson Les Paul. Epiphone is a subsidiary of the Gibson Guitar Corporation and manufactures the Les Paul and other budget models at a lower cost in Asia. Visually and ergonomically, it is almost identical to a Gibson Les Paul.
Les Paul Standard
Very similar to a Gibson Les Paul Standard, it has a solid Nato wood or alder body, Set-neck nato neck (most models) with a rosewood fretboard, Alnico Classic Humbuckers, GroverMachine heads and a Tune-o-matic bridge. Is considered by some to be the flagship Les Paul model made by Epiphone.
There is a "Plain-Top" model that features a plain maple top and a "Plus-Top" model that features a flame maple top.
Les Paul Standard PlusTop and Quilt Top PRO
The Les Paul Standard PlusTop PRO is a version of the Epiphone Les Paul Standard. It has ProBucker-2 and ProBucker-3 pickups with coil-tapping, which distinguishes it from the regular Standard PlusTop. PAF humbuckers were the original humbuckers from 1957, which were not perfect, since the coils were not wound perfectly, which created an out-of-phase sound that is associated with the era. The ProBucker is designed to replicate that out-of-phase 1950s sound. However, the coil-tapping feature allows one to turn this sound on or off. Like the Standard PlusTop, this guitar features a flame maple veneer top. There are multiple available color finishes including Honeyburst (inspired by late '50s vintage Les Pauls), Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Trans Blue, Vintage Sunburst and Wine Red. The body is nato (with the maple veneer top), the neck is hand-set nato, with a rosewood fingerboard. The scale is 24.75". The Les Paul Standard Quilt Top PRO is identical but has a quilted top maple veneer finish and is only available in Trans Blue and Faded Cherry Sunburst colors.
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, factory manager John Huis and their team with minimal input from guitarist/inventor Les Paul.
The Les Paul was originally offered with a gold finish and two P-90 pickups. In 1957, humbucking pickups were added, along with sunburst finishes in 1958. The sunburst 1958–1960 Les Paul – today one of the best-known electric guitar types in the world – was considered a failure, with low production and sales. For 1961, the Les Paul was redesigned into what is now known as the Gibson SG. This design continued until 1963 but continued as a separate guitar, when the traditional single cutaway, carved top bodystyle was reintroduced. The Les Paul has been continually produced in countless versions and editions since. Along with Fender'sTelecaster and Stratocaster, it was one of the first mass-produced electric solid-body guitars. Les Pauls have been used in many genres, including rock, Country, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, blues, jazz, reggae, punk, and heavy metal.
"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
"When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7."
"My first guitar came from Sears & Roebuck and I believe it was $3.95."
"I have younger friends who don’t work, and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working."
"Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever."
"We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions."
"I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker."
"We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building."
"One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog."
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This amazing-looking Gibson Les Paul is finished in Translucent Fuchsia – meaning you get both the awesome grain of the maple top as well as a stand-out, eye-catching finish – and for €501 less!.
When you’ve been doing this thing for a long time, you do become somewhat familiar with how certain guitars sound – a Strat will almost always fundamentally sound like a Strat, Les Paul like a Les Paul etc etc.
By SachinRavikumar. Jeff Beck's guitars and amps to go on sale in London... He died last year aged 78 ... the coffee-coloured 1954 "Oxblood" Gibson Les Paul depicted on the cover of his 1975 instrumental album "Blow By Blow" ... 4-6 ... 15 until the auction on Jan.
Valued at more than 1 million pounds ($1.3 million), the collection includes an oxblood 1954Gibson Les Paul that Beck bought in Memphis in 1972 and played for the rest of the decade ... “I think it’s part of the appeal,” she said ... He played them hard ... 22.
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Many of those damaged were Les Pauls, which were sent to Mike McGuire (who worked on Frampton’s first signature Les Paul) at the GibsonCustom Shop to be fixed ... the Les Pauls just split,” he explains.
Paul "Bear" Bryant — 16-4 (80%)At LSU. Les Miles — 5-7 (41.7%) ... His 13-5 mark at Alabama makes him the second-winningest Crimson Tide coach in rivalry history, trailing only Paul "Bear" Bryant's 16-win record.
Three decades and 13 albums into their discography, there is no doubt that Opeth have always had an exact vision for their sound, and never held back when it comes to attaining it ... “I had a Les PaulJunior from 1955 which I bought in Ireland way back.
CloudTimes’ weekly top performers. St ...John’s Prep team ... She’s joined by another sophomore from St. CloudApollo ... 27-Nov. 2 ... 1 ... MargaretDuffy was the highest local finisher in the state cross country meet Saturday at the Les Bolstad Golf Course in St. Paul.
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