that is just silly, speaking as a 63 year guitar player, producer. It just in not a gauge of talent. Not. how guitar or music creations works, and les would agree/
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
Django Reinhardt recorded his famous version of "Sheik of Araby" in 1937 but he didn't write the song. It was already a fairly well known standard by then.
You have to keep context in mind too. This guy was shredding waaaaay before it was popular. The electric guitar was an instrument without any respect, and Les Paul was doing this.
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.
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well, lots could. Jimmy Bryant would be one. Les's fame is more in production and techniques, and putting a 2x4 thru an archtop to be able to turn up louder with less feedback.. ala les paul guitar.. sort of////
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 RUclips 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.
All clean, no distortion to hide behind.
that is just silly, speaking as a 63 year guitar player, producer. It just in not a gauge of talent. Not. how guitar or music creations works, and les would agree/
But can you imagine him playing thru a Marshall Stack on 11 with a metal band?
I would have loved to hear that. 👽🤘
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
Very nice
Bass player was cooking too!
Will Lee!🎸😊
Without any doubt, Maestro Les was one of the greatest guitarists ever.
well, influential would be more correct. You would have to list measurable traits to say greatest, for some easy rebuttal.
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.
I heard that he didn’t like that guitar(?)
@kennethmelnychuk9737 he did not like the iteration of the "les paul custom" which we know today as the gibson sg
@@robertdavis7640 But he was a remarkable person
@@robertdavis7640: I believe that he and Mary Ford played that type of guitar?
This man single handedly changed music forever
plus all the studio electronics he invented.
The sweeps he does toward the end are insane. That man was amazing.
I’ll bet he invented sweeps
@@briandillon8041you must have never listened to a classical guitar man
Of course here in London town we know him simply as Sir Les
ah.... of corse you doo
What😂
1:39 Priceless moment!
Les Paul, what a legend and gentleman😃👌🏼💫❤️🎶🎸
Every guitarist worth a lick owes him their soul....loop on.... where ever you are, Mr. P.!
He was brilliant and one of the very best ever!
how do you measure that?
Terrific ability. Genius.
An absolute legend!
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
12/14/2024: Good Day & Merry Christmas!
Excellent. Thank You for posting this wonderful piece of Musical History.
WOW ! HE IS THE MAN !
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.
Glad to be from his home town🎸
...credit too, to letterman, he OFTEN had great music on the show, with a band that could keep up, and the acts were happy to play WITH them.
0:57 Amazing!!!
Thanks so much for share, blessings. 🎸🎼👏💯🙏
Gorgeous guitar😮
THE MAN, THE LEGEND!!
Thanks for putting this up. Neat!
qell shizwl
Awesome!!!
one of a kind tone
Only a Les Paul can do what a hollow body can. This is the masterpiece of it all !
Man’s a legend! I have a LP and SG, 2 must have guitars 😁
Wonderful
Sometimes... ya just know talent and hard work when you see it.
extraordinario esse concerto
Iconic
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
Yep Django was the only other player in the same league as Les!
Plus Mack the knife!
Django Reinhardt recorded his famous version of "Sheik of Araby" in 1937 but he didn't write the song. It was already a fairly well known standard by then.
@@RossWade-jl6hoyrs starting at 1:23…😊
If it wasn't for Les and Chet I wouldn't be playing guitar today.
Les, the REAL legend !!!!!
Most important Waukesha Wisconsin man ever to the shredders of the world, soank U very much alright alright alright alright
lmao.
"hey, i am going to play with les paul, thats too many les paul's so we will get fenders"
you play what you like, .. should the drummer have used a vintage gretsch Drum set, like les's drummer did?
...did i just watch les paul sweep pick?
Yes, he was a true virtuoso
Perfect.😊
Mack the knife!
Holy shit Les Paul playing a Les Paul 🤯
That's some serious picking now!!
What's that old guy doing with a Les Paul?
wonder how much this gibson les paul goes for now?
Les Paul 🎼🎸💖
You gotta wonder where that guitar is right now , its probably worth a fortune
Великий человек за свои 94 года столько хорошего сделал что даже Юрьевой не снилось которая умерла в 100
Lester Polphas Waukesha, WI
USA. Home town boy changed the world way before the Beatles 😅
What a legend...who didn't like this video, Leo Fender?
No, Fender is his best friend. It's from the retarded fanboys.
hahahaha
You have to keep context in mind too. This guy was shredding waaaaay before it was popular. The electric guitar was an instrument without any respect, and Les Paul was doing this.
Sadly nowadays most guitar players play with overedriven tone 😕 they miss the magic of clean guitar sound
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.
Les told Paul to sit his performance out bc "there is only room for one badass on stage."
Very JAZZY.
what kind ofeffect is he using is cool sounding
damn he was singing the notes simultaneously.
Are there any questions?
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.😊
My left ear says thanks.
scratch aleft one stroke a right one
You can clearly see the famous "Les Paul shoulder".
He got his own style.
.... hab hier grade den Vorspann gesehen... Eddie v. H.
und wie er mit der Zigarette Ringe in die Kamera geblasen hat....
hm...
damals war das sicher Cool.... aber heute ist er tot
war....
mein Jahrgang....
ich hab noch nicht vor abzutreten....
die beste Zeit.... frei und unabhängig.... wer denkt da ans Abdanken...
alles hat halt seinen Preis....
Thanks "MrJonswift200 stories"🎼🎼💜🌺🙋🎼
🍈💈🎪🎸🎊😇
Best Music regards 🙋🎼🎼
yes
Is that him guitar a one off it has got the tone and volume knobs
in the wrong place.
and what song does he sing?
What’ve you been smokin’? And who’s Van Helen?
A Living God .
If you can sing it you can play it !!
Whats this song called
there is a mack-the-knife riff at about 1:35.
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.
Wait, he's playing with himself😂
Nobody could play like Les Paul. And he did it with a broken arm.
well, lots could. Jimmy Bryant would be one. Les's fame is more in production and techniques, and putting a 2x4 thru an archtop to be able to turn up louder with less feedback.. ala les paul guitar.. sort of////
Cool looking guitar. Anyone know the name?
@@ReadMyNameThanks thank you!
throgorod
This guy is pretty damn good, he should invent his own style of guitar
Wonder how much that guitar is worth.
Dude sweep picking
what guitar is that??? is this one of les's weird experiments again?
2 mins of shredding !!
I wonder who has that guitar and what they paid for it?
Frick!
Kind of awkward that the guys in Paul’s band are playing Fenders.
KIERA COYOTE SAY "MACK THE KNIFE".
les paul? lol how did his parents know he'd get into guitar XD.
You’re joking right?
@@axeanimation2417 yes
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.
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.
You can see the terrible arthritis in his hands is starting to take over -
sheik of araby!
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.
Nobody ever really played like that, at least that I've come across.
I'd laugh if he was playing a strat
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.
I love guitar and most guitarists but I can't abide the multiple (too many) notes that Paul played. He's no Chet Atkins.
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 RUclips 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 😂
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