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0 Les Paul is dead.
Les Paul died yesterday. This won’t be the most eloquent post you read about him. But I just want to say this. I love this guitar.
It’s heavy. It feels like rock and roll. It weighs hard on your shoulder and reminds you that you have work to do. But the kind of work that little boys and girls hearing music beyond their generation for the first time dream about.
It’s loud. It sounds like rock and roll. It’s loud, but seemingly always at the perfect volume. It will slice its way through the noise and define the mood when the mood defies definition. But it can breathe a quiet melody, soft spoken when the note needs to be whispered to be truly heard.
Lastly, it is beautiful. It looks like rock and roll. Its curves draw your eyes around it like a woman, thin in the middle, wide at the hips. It looks like it’s moving. It’s small in stature, but stands long and lean, its shape remarkable in its efficiency. The single cutaway allows you to massage the base of her neck, and she responds with intimate and frightening intensity.
I love this guitar. It is rock and roll. And it’s great. Thanks Les.
“I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it’s the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with 20 notes.”
-Les Paul
1915-2009
0 Les Paul is dead.
Les Paul died yesterday. This won’t be the most eloquent post you read about him. But I just want to say this. I love this guitar.
It’s heavy. It feels like rock and roll. It weighs hard on your shoulder and reminds you that you have work to do. But the kind of work that little boys and girls hearing music beyond their generation for the first time dream about.
It’s loud. It sounds like rock and roll. It’s loud, but seemingly always at the perfect volume. It will slice its way through the noise and define the mood when the mood defies definition. But it can breathe a quiet melody, soft spoken when the note needs to be whispered to be truly heard.
Lastly, it is beautiful. It looks like rock and roll. Its curves draw your eyes around it like a woman, thin in the middle, wide at the hips. It looks like it’s moving. It’s small in stature, but stands long and lean, its shape remarkable in its efficiency. The single cutaway allows you to massage the base of her neck, and she responds with intimate and frightening intensity.
I love this guitar. It is rock and roll. And it’s great. Thanks Les.
“I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it’s the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with 20 notes.”
-Les Paul
1915-2009