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Today Les Paul died.

Les Paul is credited with inventing the electric Guitar.

Here is a Video biography with some great footage of him playing with Mary Ford.

I remember seeing him in 1975 or 1976 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

I will never forget his rendition of Some Where over the Rainbow. Les Use the Paulverizer which was a real time multi track recorder. He would record some chords and then a bass line and then play along with them. He was truly an amazing guitar player.

Around the same time he teamed up with Chet Atkins and recorded Chester and Lester.

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Born in  Wisconsin in 1915, Paul’s first musical forays were with the harmonica and banjo before he turned to guitar.

Dissatisfied with the acoustic guitars of the time, he began experimenting with electric models.

In 1941 he invented ‘The Log’ – a four-by-four solid piece of wood strung with steel strings.

‘I went into a nightclub and played it. Of course, everybody thought I was a nut,’ he recalled on early outings with the electric model.

After modifying the instrument’s shape to make it look more traditional, the guitar began to gain fans.

In 1952, Gibson Guitars began to produce the Les Paul guitar.

The Les Paul is the best selling guitar of All time.

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