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Topic: Les Paul Playing For Tips At 92 |
Ernest Cawby
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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 4:59 am |
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I saw this and thought it might be interesting to share.
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 5:28 am
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| I trust that you know that this is a joke photo. |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 5:43 am hi
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This picture came from AARP just as displayed, yes most likely a joke. but
you can find him jamming every monday at the Iridium in Manhattan, his six-string namesake guitar- securly in hand. Fans clammer, but the joy is all his,says the 92 year old Paul.
quote from article.
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 6:41 am
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Yes sir, for sure, he is a wonder. It will be a sad day when he can no longer do it but he certainly is still at it. But believe me---I may work for the tip jar but Mr. Paul doesn't need to.  The folks who hire him know exactly who he is. |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 9:33 am
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Les Paul is truly amazing, and he plays guitar pretty good too...  |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 11:45 am
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| Wish I was named after a guitar like he was. |
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T. C. Furlong
From:
Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2008 2:55 pm
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And don't get the idea that playing at Irridium on Monday nights is all that Mr. Les Paul does. A couple of years ago (he was only 90 then), I was at a party at Sony Studios in NYC and at 11PM, he came to the party after 12 straight hours of recording. It was amazing. He was all smiles and there was always three or four very attractive young women hanging on him. It's a good thing that I am a happily married man or I'd have shown him a thing or two!
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2008 3:55 pm
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| I heard a really fine interview with Les this afternoon on NPR. He's a national treasure, and what an inspiration. |
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Ernest Cawby
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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Apr 2008 3:59 pm hi
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Mark come on down to Pratville and be with us we are going to have a time.
ernie |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 13 Apr 2008 5:58 pm
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...and he does all that playing in the face of arthritis in his hands. In a recent interview he was asked about that and he said that once he gets playing with the band he's too absorbed in the music to notice the pain.
...what a trouper ! |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Apr 2008 6:54 pm hi
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Allen you can see it in his hands in the picture his knuckles are swollen real bad as is mine, my index finger is 45% to the left on my left hand and the thumb is also
ernie |
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Dave A. Burley
From:
Franklin, In. USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2008 9:00 pm Les Paul
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Les Paul is indeed a wonder. I had the pleasure, well at the time I didn't think so, of producing Les on the Cavalcade Of Guitars in Dallas, Texas. The memories of producing and working with such a big icon is worth all the hell that I had to go through. I hope Les lives another 10 or 15 or more years. Wouldn't you love to have all the equipment that he has in his studio? The first multiple recorder that he invented and other inventions by Les too numerous to mention.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 14 Apr 2008 1:09 pm
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Take a good look at the tip can. It says singers tips. Not sure what that means, but I understand Mr. LP has a great sense of humor.
A hero of mine, for sure. Inventor, innovator, tinkerer and oh yeah....not too shabby guitar picker too  |
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Steve Gorman
From:
Gilroy California
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Posted 15 Apr 2008 7:10 am
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| Les also was in an auto accident in 1948, badly breaking his right arm. He had it set at a right angle so his picking hand would naturally come down right over the strings. Even at his age, and with his ailments, he can still pick way faster than me - I must be doing something wrong..... |
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Jim Mitchell
From:
Phily,Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2008 7:29 am REMEMBER THIS
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Electric guitar innovations
Paul was unsatisfied by the electric guitars that were sold in the mid 1930s and began experimenting with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created "The Log," which was nothing more than a length of common 4" by 4" fence post with bridge, guitar neck, and pickup attached. For the sake of appearance, he attached the body of an Epiphone hollow-body guitar, sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved his two main problems: feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body.
THE LOG
CHECK OUT THIS SITE-- LES PAUL
http://www.smokestacklightnin.com/Bios/bios_lesPaul.htm
Jon Light said
Wish I was named after a guitar like he was.
PS I am named after a WW2 BOMBER
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I am trying to play a Harlin Brothers 1956 Multi Kord 6 String 4 Pedal Steel Guitar
and a RONDO lap
Retired from Boeing Helicopters in Ridley Park Pa.
we build the CH47 |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Apr 2008 10:44 am
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| Your name is B-25? |
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Jerry Erickson
From:
Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 15 Apr 2008 7:58 pm
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| He'll be on the Stevie and Johnnie show on WGN tonight. 720 AM... that's the AM radio dial. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Apr 2008 5:29 pm
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| Chet Atkins's brother played in Les Paul's band, and Les was a family friend and very frequent visitor to the Atkins household. I understand that it was Les who encouraged Chet at an early age and gave him lessons. |
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bill mitchell
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chattanooga, tn usa
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Posted 17 Apr 2008 6:58 pm
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| Hey Jim, come on down and we'll fly one of those things. I believe it's still at the airport...with my name on it. |
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Jim Mitchell
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Phily,Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2008 8:48 am
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| bill mitchell wrote: |
| Hey Jim, come on down and we'll fly one of those things. I believe it's still at the airport...with my name on it. |
IS THIS YOU
Come down and fly with I could never find you place
SHOOT I CAN'T EVEN SPELL CHATTANOOGA
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I am trying to play a Harlin Brothers 1956 Multi Kord 6 String 4 Pedal Steel Guitar
and a RONDO lap
Retired from Boeing Helicopters in Ridley Park Pa.
we build the CH47 |
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