Subject: RIP Les Paul From: Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:10:00 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>----=_vm_0011_W866116078_9700_1250187000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Les Paul, innovative guitarist, inventor and all-around delightful person= died at 94. Most of you know him, but for those who might be unfamiliar = with him, he was an autodidact who developed the electric guitar, multitr= ack recording, delay, and many other staples of modern recording (he also= was the first to record pieces at a slower speed wo when it was played a= t normal speed it sounded like he was playing much faster than he really = could). He was truly an original. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=3D1&hp ?Honestly, I never strove to be an Edison,? he said in a 1991 interviewin= The New York Times. ?The only reason I invented these things wasbecause = I didn?t have them and neither did anyone else. I had nochoice, really.? ----=_vm_0011_W866116078_9700_1250187000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><br>Les Paul, innovative guitarist, inventor and all-around delight= ful person died at 94. Most of you know him, but for those wh= o might be unfamiliar with him, he was an autodidact who developed the el= ectric guitar, multitrack recording, delay, and many other staples of mod= ern recording (he also was the first to record pieces at a slower speed w= o when it was played at normal speed it sounded like he was playing much = faster than he really could). He was truly an original.<br><br>http= ://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=3D1&hp<br><br= >?Honestly, I never strove to be an Edison,? he said in a 1991 interview in The New York Times. ?The only reason I invented these things was because I didn?t have them and neither did anyone else. I had no choice, really.?<br><br></html> ----=_vm_0011_W866116078_9700_1250187000--