My all time favorite guitar is the Gibson Les Paul Standard, about a 1957 vintage. The instrument is named after the inventor of the electric guitar and many of the multi-track recording techniques we use on a daily basis today. Les Paul died today at 94.
Here are a couple videos, one of Les Paul and Chet Atkins doing a blues number. And the other of Eddie VanHalen. Skip a bit of the Van Halen video till you get to the end. All the wacko sounds and shredding that we take for granted were made possible by LP.
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I don't know guitars well enough to tell one from another . . . but after the last few days, I definitely have a new favorite guitarist. Les Paul is & was incredible.
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