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tomato
06-09-2011, 01:38 AM
Go to GOOGLE.COM and see what they have left there for us to play with... :biggrin::biggrin:

It actually records what you play if you hit "record"

Any musician out here? Does anyone know who Les Paul is?

Go check it out, it' s pretty cool!

www.google.com


Tomato
tomato
06-09-2011, 01:39 AM
(you have to hover over the chords with your mouse, then it works)
PETERPOOP
06-09-2011, 01:46 AM
that IS neat. Gibson Les Paul.......... Come on, you serious? Don't know what that is?!
tomato
06-09-2011, 03:12 AM
Oh, I know what that is. I'm asking the others! :wink:
tomato
06-09-2011, 03:12 AM
Do you play?
Altitude
06-09-2011, 03:46 AM
:smile: Anyone wanna guess how many renditions of Stairway to Heaven will be played on it? Or maybe Smoke on The Water...
tomato
06-09-2011, 02:56 PM
TIP: It's easier to play if you use the KB.
tomato
06-09-2011, 08:09 PM
Somebody did Stairways to Heaven

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2011/0609/Les-Paul-The-best-songs-played-on-today-s-Google-guitar/Stairway-to-Heaven
TLyttle
06-09-2011, 11:21 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Les Paul broke into the popular music scene (1949?) with "World is Waiting for the Sunshine" with his wife Mary Ford. The guy virtually invented the electric guitar, as well as multiple recording.

If you want to hear some real virtuosos on the guitar, try to find a vinyl called "Lester and Chester", Les Paul and Chet Atkins. Those guys are the standard by which all other guitarists are measured...
tomato
06-18-2011, 01:30 PM
^ Will do.
RedRide
06-18-2011, 09:12 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Les Paul broke into the popular music scene (1949?) with "World is Waiting for the Sunshine" with his wife Mary Ford. The guy virtually invented the electric guitar, as well as multiple recording.

If you want to hear some real virtuosos on the guitar, try to find a vinyl called "Lester and Chester", Les Paul and Chet Atkins. Those guys are the standard by which all other guitarists are measured...

I'm old enough to have seen Les Paul on the old Arthur Godfrey show.
Over dubbing was so new then that Les had to explain how he and Mary recorded those early recodings like "How High the Moon". Most people were amazed that over dubbing was even possible (with the technologey of the day) except for Les of course
TLyttle
06-20-2011, 01:20 AM
A story I heard: Les Paul was in an auto accident, and it shattered his right arm. They were re-setting it, and informed him that it would be set straight, never to move again. He told them to set it at 90 degrees so that he could still play his guitar, they complied... He was old then (88?) but still played jams at a local place; and apparently kept this on until he died. What a guy...
RedRide
06-20-2011, 03:22 PM
^ ^^
That is absolutely true. It happened back in January 1948. Les shattered his right arm and elbow in a near fatal accident on an icy Route 66.
The accident shattered his right elbow beyond repair, at least with 1948 medical technology.

He had the option of them setting it straight or, at about 90 degrees so he could still play.
It's exactly why you always see pics of Les with his right arm bent at about 90 degrees in precisely the position he told the doctors to set it.

Yes, he was pretty active and was still playing guitar in his later years.
He still had the original multi track recorder he designed and built, set up at his house in Mahwah MJ of all places.