He was in his 90s when I saw him live at Iridium in 2007. I didn't go there to hear him play like he did in his prime. I went there to spend an evening with HIM. I spent two hours close enough to reach out and touch his foot while he played, and actually got to speak with him for a minute when he autographed a CD I'd bought. He was most gracious, a truly refined gentleman, and I will treasure the memory of those few seconds for the rest of my life.
Every time he goes on stage he has a different Gibson tuned and configured by him back in his last hey day some of those are prototypes Gibson sent to him back in the early 50s
Oh! I'm amazed! When I saw to my Epiphone Les Paul Custom I remember what I desired this model. And when I see the man, the genius behind of this guitar icon I just say: Thank you Ms. Les Paul, for you music, for your iconic idea of guitar and I glad to say: I stand your council: LP black to show my hands slide on the neck. Thank you.
Les was in awe of Django they actually became friends Les very generously payed for Django,s funeral and was given Django,s cherished maccaferi selmer 501 guitar. if you have not heard Django play this tune it will blow your mind bearing in mind it was improvised
Check out the sweep picking @ :58! HA! So many guitarists think their favorite guy was the first to do this or that, but someone usually did it before them.
It's was pop but you could call this proto rock or swing jazz. Les Paul is mostly considered a pioneer in jazz, so I would call this swing even though it is very rock sounding.
Nope, it's not jazz, at least the jazz we have been knowing in the last 60 years (be bop, hard bop etc...) It's a sort of rockabilly and some kind of Dixieland ...
Maybe Paul felt the song didn't need a piano part. I think he was good at demonstrating "admirable restraint" (as per Robert Fripp's comment about Bill Bruford, who chose to sit out while the rest of King Crimson played a live improvisation that later became known as Trio when it was released on the Starless And Bible Black album) when it was needed.
You mean compared fifteen year olds doing UA-cam shorts from their bedroom? Their music is worthless and trivial. This guy left an enormous and meaningful legacy.
I'm sorry he has no rhythm. Rhythm is the key to play an instrument 🎸 This is a Sad thing about les Paul. All that playing but no Rhythm. Why all that reverb. Van Helen learns from Hendrix technique. But Van Helen is a Racist. Go google Kurt Cobain about Van Helen's racism. To learn blues rock is from Hendrix. Hendrix is a pioneer of Blues Rock or hard Rock blues. Van Helen bit his tongue from not saying his learning technique is from Hendrix. Go listen to the Jimi Hendrix Band of gypsy albums from Fillmore East of N.Y.. Especially the song Power of love and Machine gun. Hendrix did a lot of stuff before Van Helen came out . But that reverb is too high of Les Paul. What it sounds like without that reverb and no rhythm. It will sound like crap. People got fooled listening to Les Paul. He has no rhythm? You can hear it of his playing.. To play fast does not produce rhythm. Old black blues cats can tell you that. There are some blues Grass players or country guitar players, or Jazz Players is better than Les Paul. Les Paul is ok on his scales but no rhythm.. Van Helen is nothing but noise and he can't play the blues of turning the volume down of distortion.... like BB king 👑. Jim Hendrix can play the blues. Not just hard blues rock. Hendrix can turn down the amp. That makes Jim Hendrix a better guitar Player than Van Helen. Van Helen is nothing but noise. Van Helen is just not the number one guitar player in Hard Rock. It's Jim Hendrix's number one guitar player. Number one in blues are BB king and Albert king. Hendrix learned from those blues cats. Don't get me wrong about Les Paul and Van Helen. They are not all that. I like Steve Ray Vaughan on delta blues. But I don't like Texas blues. It's not real blues. I like Steve Ray Vaughan than Van Halen. Not much into Van Helen. I'm more into Jimi Hendriix's. I'm a guitarist and musician myself.
Les admitted that he would never be able to play like that. He was more important as an inventor than a guitarist…but he could still trade licks with the best of them.
Look at the joy on his face as he plays. The man loved guitar.
Also, keep in mind that the man shredding it that night was 71 years old.
I do have to keep that in mind because his sweep picking fails him at times. A lot of dead notes on a few of them
@@nicholasroberts7891 He was also already very affected by arthritis as well.
@@robhowardmusic Yeah he mentioned in an interview he had to learn playing the guitar again.
@@nicholasroberts7891 and it sounds great anyway
He was in his 90s when I saw him live at Iridium in 2007.
I didn't go there to hear him play like he did in his prime.
I went there to spend an evening with HIM. I spent two hours close enough to reach out and touch his foot while he played, and actually got to speak with him for a minute when he autographed a CD I'd bought.
He was most gracious, a truly refined gentleman, and I will treasure the memory of those few seconds for the rest of my life.
Wow that guy is good. They should name something after him.
ya... what ever happed to that? lol
Maybe a guitar from Gibson?
@@grokur9714 he notoriously hated Gibson, especially their solid bodies. He was more of a fender man from what I’ve read
@@STP_Fantasma Yes, that is why today we have the Fender "Les Paul" guitar.
@@genemars5158 Never been a big fan personally. The Gretsch Jazzmaster has always been my cup of tea
Without any doubt, Maestro Les was one of the greatest guitarists ever.
All clean, no distortion to hide behind.
He not only invented the Les Paul......he Was Les Paul
He invented one of the first solid body electric guitars but he himself did not design the Gibson Les Paul guitar as we know today.
The sweeps he does toward the end are insane. That man was amazing.
Of course here in London town we know him simply as Sir Les
ah.... of corse you doo
What😂
Very nice
Bass player was cooking too!
Великий человек за свои 94 года столько хорошего сделал что даже Юрьевой не снилось которая умерла в 100
Thanks so much for share, blessings. 🎸🎼👏💯🙏
He was brilliant and one of the very best ever!
Only a Les Paul can do what a hollow body can. This is the masterpiece of it all !
Every time he goes on stage he has a different Gibson tuned and configured by him back in his last hey day some of those are prototypes Gibson sent to him back in the early 50s
The other players were doing a fine job too. Listen to the rhythm player. The dude knows all the chords, and inversions, and double stops.😊
Nobody could play like Les Paul. And he did it with a broken arm.
Oh! I'm amazed! When I saw to my Epiphone Les Paul Custom I remember what I desired this model. And when I see the man, the genius behind of this guitar icon I just say: Thank you Ms. Les Paul, for you music, for your iconic idea of guitar and I glad to say: I stand your council: LP black to show my hands slide on the neck. Thank you.
It hurt my head trying to read that.
A Living God .
Sometimes... ya just know talent and hard work when you see it.
Glad to be from his home town🎸
one of a kind tone
0:57 Amazing!!!
THE MAN, THE LEGEND!!
Awesome!!!
extraordinario esse concerto
Sheik of Arabia by Django Reinhardt for anyone wondering.
Les was in awe of Django they actually became friends Les very generously payed for Django,s funeral and was given Django,s cherished maccaferi selmer 501 guitar. if you have not heard Django play this tune it will blow your mind bearing in mind it was improvised
Iconic
1:39 Priceless moment!
Perfect.😊
Wonderful
Thanks for putting this up. Neat!
qell shizwl
Mack the knife!
lmao.
"hey, i am going to play with les paul, thats too many les paul's so we will get fenders"
Les Paul 🎼🎸💖
Very JAZZY.
That's some serious picking now!!
You gotta wonder where that guitar is right now , its probably worth a fortune
Les told Paul to sit his performance out bc "there is only room for one badass on stage."
2 mins of shredding !!
Check out the sweep picking @ :58! HA! So many guitarists think their favorite guy was the first to do this or that, but someone usually did it before them.
wonder how much this gibson les paul goes for now?
damn he was singing the notes simultaneously.
My left ear says thanks.
scratch aleft one stroke a right one
What a legend...who didn't like this video, Leo Fender?
No, Fender is his best friend. It's from the retarded fanboys.
hahahaha
Thanks "MrJonswift200 stories"🎼🎼💜🌺🙋🎼
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Best Music regards 🙋🎼🎼
yes
This guy is pretty damn good, he should invent his own style of guitar
Frick!
what kind ofeffect is he using is cool sounding
Are there any questions?
What's that old guy doing with a Les Paul?
Nobody ever really played like that, at least that I've come across.
what guitar is that??? is this one of les's weird experiments again?
KIERA COYOTE SAY "MACK THE KNIFE".
and what song does he sing?
What’ve you been smokin’? And who’s Van Helen?
Amazing! What guitar is he playing?
A Les Paul Recording is prob what that is.
Check his use of the phase switch at 0:50. Changes the sound radically for a more biting tone.
@@charlied7571 That is exactly what he's using & modded out as Les wanted.
Cool looking guitar. Anyone know the name?
@@ReadMyNameThanks thank you!
throgorod
What genre is this??
Swing
Rockabilly
It's was pop but you could call this proto rock or swing jazz. Les Paul is mostly considered a pioneer in jazz, so I would call this swing even though it is very rock sounding.
jazz id say
Nope, it's not jazz, at least the jazz we have been knowing in the last 60 years (be bop, hard bop etc...) It's a sort of rockabilly and some kind of Dixieland ...
Obviously old school talent. However the hands are not what they used to be.
les paul? lol how did his parents know he'd get into guitar XD.
You’re joking right?
@@axeanimation2417 yes
I love guitar and most guitarists but I can't abide the multiple (too many) notes that Paul played. He's no Chet Atkins.
You can see the terrible arthritis in his hands is starting to take over -
sheik of araby!
Eric clapton, Jimmy hendrix etc learned from the master
And honestly, they couldn’t hold a torch to him. Les Paul is the greatest ever in my opinion. And I love Clapton and Hendrix.
he kinda looks like Bill Maher
Looks just like Les Paul , not kind of . Funny he's always looked just like himself !!!
Lol. I see it.
Where is Paul he didn't jamm with les are you kidding me
Maybe Paul felt the song didn't need a piano part. I think he was good at demonstrating "admirable restraint" (as per Robert Fripp's comment about Bill Bruford, who chose to sit out while the rest of King Crimson played a live improvisation that later became known as Trio when it was released on the Starless And Bible Black album) when it was needed.
He's almost as good as Prince at playing guitar
thats a good joke
Compared to today's standards he's a pretty bad and messy lead player, but a legend nonetheless.
Except for the fact that those standards only exist because of him, sure, why not...
He's just as good. He's a jazz legend.
Pretty bad?😮
You mean compared fifteen year olds doing UA-cam shorts from their bedroom? Their music is worthless and trivial. This guy left an enormous and meaningful legacy.
I'm sorry he has no rhythm. Rhythm is the key to play an instrument 🎸 This is a Sad thing about les Paul. All that playing but no Rhythm.
Why all that reverb. Van Helen learns from Hendrix technique. But Van Helen is a Racist. Go google Kurt Cobain about Van Helen's racism. To learn blues rock is from Hendrix. Hendrix is a pioneer of Blues Rock or hard Rock blues. Van Helen bit his tongue from not saying his learning technique is from Hendrix. Go listen to the Jimi Hendrix Band of gypsy albums from Fillmore East of N.Y.. Especially the song Power of love and Machine gun. Hendrix did a lot of stuff before Van Helen came out .
But that reverb is too high of Les Paul. What it sounds like without that reverb and no rhythm. It will sound like crap. People got fooled listening to Les Paul. He has no rhythm? You can hear it of his playing.. To play fast does not produce rhythm. Old black blues cats can tell you that. There are some blues Grass players or country guitar players, or Jazz Players is better than Les Paul. Les Paul is ok on his scales but no rhythm..
Van Helen is nothing but noise and he can't play the blues of turning the volume down of distortion.... like BB king 👑. Jim Hendrix can play the blues. Not just hard blues rock. Hendrix can turn down the amp. That makes Jim Hendrix a better guitar Player than Van Helen. Van Helen is nothing but noise. Van Helen is just not the number one guitar player in Hard Rock. It's Jim Hendrix's number one guitar player. Number one in blues are BB king and Albert king.
Hendrix learned from those blues cats. Don't get me wrong about Les Paul and Van Helen. They are not all that.
I like Steve Ray Vaughan on delta blues. But I don't like Texas blues. It's not real blues. I like Steve Ray Vaughan than Van Halen. Not much into Van Helen. I'm more into Jimi Hendriix's. I'm a guitarist and musician myself.
Cool story bro
Too bad you're wrong. Bet you can't play for shit in comparison either.
So let me get this straight… you’re saying Les Paul has mad rhythm and need more reverb? Too many words and rambling 😂
my ear left likes this
Let him sit on stage by himself with just an acoustic guitar and nothing else and let's see how good he sounds.
Les admitted that he would never be able to play like that. He was more important as an inventor than a guitarist…but he could still trade licks with the best of them.