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Originally Posted by Brian Baker
Just saw the news when I opened up my yahoo email a few minutes ago. What a storied life he lived. Sadly, many people will not even know who he was. Especially casual music lovers that were it not for him inventing a machine that allowed for recorded tracks to be overdubbed, we wouldn't have the music we have today. Imagine just one song that would not exist were it not for Les...Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
RIP Les, you will be missed but your accomplishments will live on.
On a side note, I've read things about how the Gibson SG came to be, and it had something to do with Les getting dovorced from Mary Ford and it being created so she could not get the his royalties from Gibson. Any truth to this?
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Think of all the multi-tracking that Sir George Martin did with The Beatles! That list is endless.
I know the SG was Gibson's baby, Les
hated it. The early ones were called Les Pauls, but after '62 I believe Les and Gibson parted ways, and Gibson called that the SG for "Solidbody Guitar". Gibson halted production of "proper" Les Pauls until 1968; they reintroduced the Black Beauty Custom. P-body, what year is your dad's Lester? Not to sound callous, but that could be worth some serious coin.
BTW - what's a dovorce?
Back in 1976, I was 13 and had a picture out of Hit Parader or Creem, it was a shot of Ace Frehley playing a tobacco sunburst Les Paul. That, and those shots of Joe Perry playing his '59 tobacco sunburst on the inside of "Live Bootleg" led me to my tobacco sunburst Les Paul. On a side note, Joe sold that guitar during their "dark" years, Slash acquired it when G'nR hit big, and subsequently gave the guitar back to Joe a few years ago on his birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4
Check out the arpeggios at 1:20; Yngwie eat your heart out!