Les Paul Tribute

Les Paul, born in 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, had a profound effect on the history of music. Paul was a guitarist, an inventor, a technician, and a great performer. Having played for several years his guitar knowledge and skills could put a smile on anyone’s face. His playing style was based off jazz and its style of double time rhythms.
Paul was widely known for his invention of the multi-track recording; which allowed the musician to record a piece of music, play it back and record over it, giving the musician an easier way to record rather finding someone to record another piece with you. His other popular inventions were the tape delay, which helped with recording, and the solid body guitar, that paved the way for the use of electric guitars.
Paul introduced to the world one of the greatest guitars, the Gibson Les Paul. It is an amazing playing guitar, that many people play, that has Les Paul’s designed pick-ups that gives out a clean and clear sound, the dual volume control for lead and rhythm playing, great looking paint jobs like the famous Cherry Sunburst, and a changeable bridge that allows anyone to raise or lower it for their playing style. B.B. King said, “He was the founding father of modern music and helped make the rock and roll sounds of today.” Paul has allowed guitar playing to reach many heights making the guitar versatile in sounds going anywhere from clean and clear to distorted and heavy, with many other effects as well.
Les Paul loved to play guitar and the guitar was his life. He would do anything to keep playing; he even badly broke his arm in a car accident and made the doctor set his arm at the right angle so he could just play. Before his death at 94 he was even publicly playing and he had arthritis in his hands, he had to teach himself to make due with practically two fingers. Paul is truly an amazing guitarist who has been inducted into the Songwriters, Rock and Roll, Inventors, and Grammy Hall of Fames. Paul has played with many great guitarists, even my favorite Slash who said, “He was a shining example of how full one’s life can be; he was so vibrant and full of energy.” To me, Les Paul is truly a “Guitar Hero” his style stands apart from others and he has brought to the guitar community the many styles, sounds, and ideas of modern music and as a guitarist myself I have a lot of respect for his talent and what he has done for music.