Comments from the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame:“Without Les Paul, we would not have rock and roll as we know it,” said Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. “His inventions created the infrastructure for the music and his playing style will ripple through generations. He was truly an architect of rock and roll.”
A true icon has passed,at the age of 94,so he at least lived a long and successful life!
Some quotes from Les Paul... "When I was a kid there was only one person in my hometown that played the guitar, and that was me. It was all piano in the old days. The guitar was rare.
What we did was take an acoustical instrument -- which was a very apologetic, wonderful, meek instrument -- and turned it into a pit bull. And that's what happened"
"And there was no such thing as amplifiers, so I had to build my own -- I took my mother's radio and I turned it into one"
"I remember I would go into a club in the very early days with my electric. I didn't care who was there with his saxophone or trumpet or piano or drums, I could drown them out. It became a monster, from a wimp to a monster"
the article from Spinner... http://www.spinner.com/2009/08/13/les-paul-in-his-own-words/?icid=main|main|dl7|link2|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spinner.com%2F2009%2F08%2F13%2Fles-paul-in-his-own-words%2F
The details... Electric guitar icon Les Paul passed away today, the result of complications of severe pneumonia, at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York. He was 94. Born June 9, 1915, as Lester William Polsfuss in Waukesha, Wisconsin, he later adopted the stage name Les Paul and, in addition to his contributions as a performing artist, played a major role in the development of the solidbody electric guitar, most closely associated with his namesake instrument, the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson Guitar's best selling instrument....
http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/005089.html
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