94 years old? Goddamn!
I’m a Fender man more than Gibson, but I wouldn’t kick a Les Paul out of bed for eating crackers either.
Years ago, a friend of mine dug out an old reel-to-reel recorder, a relic that his old man or some other relative had stored away. Evidently, they were marketed as consumer products and there was even a few pre-recorded reels that you could buy.
Obviously, the format didn’t quite take off and to be honest we recorded over those pre-recorded tapes in a fury of retarded home recordings. We recorded one song-an embarrassing ditty about teenage angst called “Leave Me Alone” (sample verse: “You can educate me to the highest degree/always around to help me grow up”)-over Les Paul and Mary Ford’s “Hold That Tiger” tape.
Sorry about that, Les.
Paul may have not invented rock and roll, but he sure helped create the sound of it. And not only did he helped create the sound, he played an enormous role in capturing it to tape. It’s tough to image what the world of music would have turned into if Paul hadn’t attached some strings and a pick up to a 4 x 4 piece of wood.
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