A fitting tribute to the man in love with life, guitars, and Mary. This world may know not who left us but some do. To all music lovers may God bless you all, please keep making sound befitting your craft
I'm still emotional about his passing. Yeah, he was 94 - but I wanted him to live forever and always be there on monday nights. I too shook my head at all the coverage of that 50 year old who did the moonwalk... this is the guy we'd all be holding candles in the streets for days for... in my alternate reality. Thank you Les. Thank you for melody. Thank you for sound. Thank you for a life dedicated to the purest joy there is: playing the guitar with people you love.
One of the finest gentleman to ever grace our planet.. Thank you God .. really, how many people have contributed so much joy to humility directly and indirectly as Mr Paul has? ie. invented the electric guitar, and multi-track recording, the LesPaul + gave us his music !! Thank you sir !
This is just incredible. The tone Les has going--the bass playing. Les riffs off some great phrasing. I am so grateful to have had an opportunity to see Les Paul once, one of his weekly Monday night shows in NYC. What a legend.
The man behind the guitar name, Les still has the chops and the rich sweet sound at 76 that some 26 year old guitarists might envy. What's really special is the man's warmth and love of music that comes through in his expression. Great video, Heat.
The thing I admire most is the way that Les treated his fingers like people and used all of them to his potential in even the most simple chord changes.
It's great to hear and see Les here when he was a hale and hearty 76. It is also fun to see the rest of the trio (at that time) looking a lot younger. Lou Pallo (Rhythm Guitar) was with Les to his last days and Gary Mazzaroppi (Bass) played with Les off and on, and many other folks like Marian McPartland. These days he plays with Les' former sideman Frank Vignola, and Vinny Raniolo. Recently they have been touring with Tommy Emmanuel. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Les smiles...
Certainly on a par with Django Rheinhardt and Andres Segovia as a guitar player but his engineering skills combined with his musicianship were fantastic.
Hey everybody! Just in case you didn't already know, you are listening to the Sensei, the Dalai Lama, the Grand Master, the 200th degree black belt of all things guitar, electronic, and recording. Everyone who does anything AT ALL in any kind of music anywhere today must stop and take their hat off to this brilliant man. If you combined the genius of Einstein and Tesla, and then turned that loose on the music world, the result would be none other than Mr. Les Paul. Love, and respect eternally!!!
You gotta love the sly grin Les has at the end of the song. He knows he is the "Babe Ruth" of the guitar world, and he just hit another game winning, walk off grand slam.
now if only we had him doing versions of other Broadway tunes. maybe I would like those too. until I heard this, I only sorta liked "over the rainbow". Now I LOVE it. what magic. No vocalist needed.
@JamesTKirkCobain A man of Les Paul's stature doesn't need to tap or shred the guitar. Being from his hometown I know that great music doesn't always involve tapping or shredding. Play from the heart like Les and that's all you need. R.I.P. Les Paul
@theRealIonian Ah a musician I see... GREAT...We're all looking at who made so much of this possible. My old boss, (RIP) Delaney Bramlett, knew Les well. They're together now... R.I.P.
That's the difference, though. Jackson was a very talented voice, Paul was a genius. Without Jackson, we'd still have modern music. Without Les Paul, we would not. His inventions were what paved the way for modern music. Michael Jackson could not have made the music he made without the amazing innovations Les Paul gave us. For that matter, Elvis and The Beatles couldn't have done what they did without Les Paul. The music world owes its very soul to Les Paul.
He sometimes plays very rare late-sixties Les Paul Professional and Les Paul Recording models, but most of the time his guitars were build specially for him.
@JamesTKirkCobain I hope you're a troll. This man is the reason Batio has a recording career and is also the man who helped design the guitar that is named after him.
the man who started it all... "Now thats where I heard feedback first from Les Paul. Also vibratos and things. Even before B.B. King, you know, Ive traced a hell of a lot of rock and roll, little riffs and things, back to Les Paul. I mean hes the father of it all: multi-tracking and everything else. If it hadnt been for him, there wouldnt have been anything really." Jimmy Page 1977
@vatheron Learn it by ear. I learnt most of the intro and first part of the solo by ear, the scale he's using is the be bop scale, I forget which key, but I hope that helps.
@dugganater "he must have played every note that could possibly have been played while still staying in the right key!" hahah that's as easy as eating a piece of pie if you use a chromatic scale either way, this is amazing though.
3:34 - N B C ! And yes, before all the theory geeks get on me and try to start explaining major 6ths or 2nd inversion triads - don't. It'll make you look foolish!
Quel manque de goût ,un son tellement excessif qu'il en devient caricatural .Pour la reverb il aurait du voir le bon dosage avec Elek Bacsik .....quand au phrasé et les traits grossiers c'est du même tonneau .Oublions Les paul pour ne retenir que ses accompagnateurs .
Votre commentaire est idiot .Commencez déjà par lire correctement .J'ai écouté Les Paul §Mary Ford alors que j'étais en effet encore au biberon .Comme dit la chanson "j'ai perdu mes fossettes et mes langes mais je retiens de Les Paul ce son de baraque Foraine pas du meilleur Goût en ce qui me concerne...en tout cas pas un "Premier Cru".
Wow! Makes me want to cry.
A fitting tribute to the man in love with life, guitars, and Mary. This world may know not who left us but some do. To all music lovers may God bless you all, please keep making sound befitting your craft
I'm still emotional about his passing. Yeah, he was 94 - but I wanted him to live forever and always be there on monday nights. I too shook my head at all the coverage of that 50 year old who did the moonwalk... this is the guy we'd all be holding candles in the streets for days for... in my alternate reality. Thank you Les. Thank you for melody. Thank you for sound. Thank you for a life dedicated to the purest joy there is: playing the guitar with people you love.
One of the finest gentleman to ever grace our planet.. Thank you God .. really, how many people have contributed so much joy to humility directly and indirectly as Mr Paul has? ie. invented the electric guitar, and multi-track recording, the LesPaul + gave us his music !! Thank you sir !
This is just incredible. The tone Les has going--the bass playing. Les riffs off some great phrasing.
I am so grateful to have had an opportunity to see Les Paul once, one of his weekly Monday night shows in NYC. What a legend.
The man behind the guitar name, Les still has the chops and the rich sweet sound at 76 that some 26 year old guitarists might envy. What's really special is the man's warmth and love of music that comes through in his expression. Great video, Heat.
The thing I admire most is the way that Les treated his fingers like people and used all of them to his potential in even the most simple chord changes.
Two things missing: Toto and Judy Garland! RIP Mr. Paul and god bless.
It's great to hear and see Les here when he was a hale and hearty 76. It is also fun to see the rest of the trio (at that time) looking a lot younger. Lou Pallo (Rhythm Guitar) was with Les to his last days and Gary Mazzaroppi (Bass) played with Les off and on, and many other folks like Marian McPartland. These days he plays with Les' former sideman Frank Vignola, and Vinny Raniolo. Recently they have been touring with Tommy Emmanuel. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Les smiles...
I feel like I am floating
By far, the best guitar player that ever lived....
I agree
Certainly on a par with Django Rheinhardt and Andres Segovia as a guitar player but his engineering skills combined with his musicianship were fantastic.
His tone is so clean it hurts....
Simply classic and one of a kind! He truly touched everyone who's ever listened to any modern recordings! RIP Les!
nobody could play it like you,les. now i'm sure you're playing it for the angels...RIP
So nice tone! I see it the rainbow..
What a legend.
Rest in Peace.
Killer tone..
6 años viendo este lindo video del mítico Les Paul, vale cada segundo, lastima que no pueda encontrar esta versión en Spotify…
Gotta love Les Paul!
The master, I'm in awe.
Les Paul LOVED his guitar and his guitar LOVED Les paul
nice music
thanx very much
Thanks for everything. Guitar Legend: Les Paul. RIP We will miss you. :(
Rest In Peace..in remembrance fabulous Les Paul..
so this is Les Paul.. my first time to hear his piece.. wow.. so wonder my his name resounds till today :)
thanks for design les paul guitar
u very best love u guy
Rip mr. Paul. Your amazing heritage will live on in every guitar players fingers
Happy 100th Birthday, Les!
Bless his soul, the man had style!
Rest easy, Maestro. We'll not see your like again.
The master.
Hey everybody! Just in case you didn't already know, you are listening to the Sensei, the Dalai Lama, the Grand Master, the 200th degree black belt of all things guitar, electronic, and recording. Everyone who does anything AT ALL in any kind of music anywhere today must stop and take their hat off to this brilliant man. If you combined the genius of Einstein and Tesla, and then turned that loose on the music world, the result would be none other than Mr. Les Paul. Love, and respect eternally!!!
thanks a million for the Les Paul guitar, sir-
BEAUTIFUL !
He could make it sing. A guitar with a soul.
begins very simply and builds and builds. breathtaking tone! and brilliant attack
Nekaj lagano i lijepo od legende Les Paula.
Les Paul is a true legend, guitar godfather.
this is the essence of solid body guitar playing!
Loved the video and Les Too. Thanks for posting. c]:-)
R.I.P, Les. You were truly one of the greats.
Happy Birthday Les :)
RIP the greatest man that ever lived
Les Paul, Charley Christian, Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Chet Atkins. Can you imagine the guitar jams in where ever they are.
I would love to dance to this!
You gotta love the sly grin Les has at the end of the song. He knows he is the "Babe Ruth" of the guitar world, and he just hit another game winning, walk off grand slam.
Thank You God
legend
Les Paul plays this just about every performance....I think it was a favorite of his late mother....or at least that's what I have heard.
im 22, and this is REAL music..not that auto tune shit...I need to find this and his other stuff on a cd somewhere..like asap!!
Les Paul invented autotune
I can not believe there is a dislike for this video
now if only we had him doing versions of other Broadway tunes. maybe I would like those too. until I heard this, I only sorta liked "over the rainbow". Now I LOVE it. what magic. No vocalist needed.
wow great you good les paul
@JamesTKirkCobain A man of Les Paul's stature doesn't need to tap or shred the guitar. Being from his hometown I know that great music doesn't always involve tapping or shredding. Play from the heart like Les and that's all you need.
R.I.P. Les Paul
fantastic im quite suprised about how much he has influenced modern musicians and remained relatively unknown
Raw perfection. Love his smile at :22.
Beautiful. Wonder when he played it with Judy Garland. Would sure like to hear that.
He played it on her original recording. He was the first guitarist to record this beautiful song.
nice ! ですね.
@theRealIonian Ah a musician I see... GREAT...We're all looking at who made so much of this possible. My old boss, (RIP) Delaney Bramlett, knew Les well.
They're together now... R.I.P.
That's the difference, though. Jackson was a very talented voice, Paul was a genius. Without Jackson, we'd still have modern music. Without Les Paul, we would not. His inventions were what paved the way for modern music. Michael Jackson could not have made the music he made without the amazing innovations Les Paul gave us. For that matter, Elvis and The Beatles couldn't have done what they did without Les Paul. The music world owes its very soul to Les Paul.
He sometimes plays very rare late-sixties Les Paul Professional and Les Paul Recording models, but most of the time his guitars were build specially for him.
GOAT
RIP Patron saint of all things guitar!
@753nano almost cry? I actually shed a small tear.....
Sweet....... What else can you say?
the macho buttons hard to push on this one. The guy was a guitar player till he died. He lived long, but seeing this shit will get me teary.
Lovely. I didn't know Joe Mantegna was in his trio.
I can't tell you why, but one thing I can say is whoever misses this clip will be left with a missing link in the electric guitar story board.
If anybody disrespects Les Paul, go upside their head.
@JamesTKirkCobain I hope you're a troll. This man is the reason Batio has a recording career and is also the man who helped design the guitar that is named after him.
great version . ididn t know he played with Dicky Smothers too.
the man who started it all...
"Now thats where I heard feedback first from Les Paul. Also vibratos and things. Even before B.B. King, you know, Ive traced a hell of a lot of rock and roll, little riffs and things, back to Les Paul. I mean hes the father of it all: multi-tracking and everything else. If it hadnt been for him, there wouldnt have been anything really."
Jimmy Page 1977
Have you been living in a cave,...on Mars,... with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears all your life?
Lou always reminds me of a cross between Chris Noth and Jerry Ourbach (or however it's spelled)
@vatheron
Learn it by ear. I learnt most of the intro and first part of the solo by ear, the scale he's using is the be bop scale, I forget which key, but I hope that helps.
RIP
I cannot find this tab anywhere Anyone know where I can find it, its really bugging me I want to learn it this way so bad.
+ a gazillion
Is that Lou on the left?
What does he say to the bass player around 2:40 ???
so, what was there over the rainbow?
Man i feel soory for that poor out cast that gave this video its only dislike,
I just from heard from Les. He said Ted Greene is giving him lessons on chord chemistry. Ted and Les and waiting for Chet to form the ultimate trio.
he must have played every note that could possibly have been played while still staying in the right key!
2:51-3:10 pure lespaulgarm
Michael Who ?
Les and Django were twins seperated at birth............
STEP 1) break out a les paul,
STEP 2) grab a pick
you're playing guitar with les paul.
(note: step 2 is optional.)
his tone sounds similar to a strat with emg pickups
@dugganater "he must have played every note that could possibly have been played while still staying in the right key!"
hahah that's as easy as eating a piece of pie if you use a chromatic scale
either way, this is amazing though.
like a boss, he sounds like Michael Corleone lol
@JamesTKirkCobain
dude....yer so kidding right?....
and by the way, Leo Fender already named himself after the Fender Strat, so too late for you.
not every old schooler, EVERYONE on this whole planet, for example he influenced the likes of jimi hendrix, jimmy page, jeff beck and so on.
kohta nukku ja huomena pääsee himaa :)
2:40 :D lol
If the guitar was a man, it was Les Paul.
3:34 - N B C !
And yes, before all the theory geeks get on me and try to start explaining major 6ths or 2nd inversion triads - don't. It'll make you look foolish!
Piękne świetnie opracowane , ale ja wolałem te wykonania z przed 50 lat , nie uczesane ale spontaniczne .
Quel manque de goût ,un son tellement excessif qu'il en devient caricatural .Pour la
reverb il aurait du voir le bon dosage avec Elek Bacsik .....quand au phrasé et les traits
grossiers c'est du même tonneau .Oublions Les paul pour ne retenir que ses accompagnateurs .
+Jean-Luc Bersou "Son excessif. Oublions Les Paul"?? Evidemment, vous avez bu excessivement. Et pas de l'eau.
Votre commentaire est idiot .Commencez
déjà par lire correctement .J'ai écouté Les
Paul §Mary Ford alors que j'étais en effet
encore au biberon .Comme dit la chanson
"j'ai perdu mes fossettes et mes langes mais je retiens de Les Paul ce son de baraque
Foraine pas du meilleur Goût en ce qui me
concerne...en tout cas pas un "Premier Cru".
Commence par lire correctement avantde
commenter .J'ai écouté Les Paul § Mary
not my kind of my music
too bad his tone is weak......
KIDDING !!!!