Lester William Polfuss (Les Paul) - June 9, 1915 to August 13, 2009
As many of you may know the infamous Lester William Polsfuss also known as Les Paul passed away last week. Les Paul born June 1915 was a musical innovator and inventor. Not only did he design one of the most iconic instruments of our time, The Gibson Les Paul guitar played by iconic musicians like Slash (Guns ‘N Roses) Jeff Beck (The Yard Birds) and Matt Tuck (BFMV) the appearance of the Les Paul guitar is one of the most sought after and reproduced in music today. Without Les Paul we would not have effects like phase on the or delay. But one of his greatest achievements of all is being one of the pioneers of multi track recording without Les Paul recordings would still be listening to primitive one track recordings but thanks to him we are capable of multi track recording with machines like the Zoom H4N and Boss BR600.
Without Les Paul music would be so much different today. Not only a great guitar player but, an amazing inventor also. He will be sadly missed.
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