[Jenn[_2_]]

A true musical and technological innovator

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[vinyl anachronist]

On Aug 13, 9:24�am, Jenn wrote:
A true musical and technological innovator

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That's very sad indeed. RIP.

[MiNe 109]

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Jenn wrote:

A true musical and technological innovator

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...wQ7FPeiKtJbK8Q
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Just heard on the radio. A giant.

Stephen

[Clyde Slick]

On 13 aug., 13:33, MiNe 109 wrote:
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*Jenn wrote:
A true musical and technological innovator

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...k8tewQ7FPeiKtJ...
PmtzAD9A23LL00

Just heard on the radio. A giant.

Stephen

My guitar gently weeps.

[Jenn[_2_]]

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Clyde Slick wrote:

On 13 aug., 13:33, MiNe 109 wrote:
In article


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*Jenn wrote:
A true musical and technological innovator

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...k8tewQ7FPeiKtJ...
PmtzAD9A23LL00

Just heard on the radio. A giant.

Stephen

My guitar gently weeps.

Yeah, he's dead too. :-(

[Bret L]

Yes, he was. Most people do not realize that he, with wife Mary
Ford, was enormously successful as a pop artist in the postwar/prerock
years, particularly the late 40s and early 50s.

While he did a great deal of technical innovation, most of it either
has not ever been available as a commercial product (Les Paulverizer,
his stage rig of tape looping which was crudely imitated by Robert
Fripp) or was marketed fitfully and unsuccessfully (the low impedance
LP Recording guitar series). No one else really sounded like Les, and
for better or worse no one else really wanted to.

[vinyl anachronist]

On Aug 13, 5:07�pm, Bret L wrote:
�Yes, he was. �Most people do not realize that he, with wife Mary
Ford, was enormously successful as a pop artist in the postwar/prerock
years, particularly the late 40s and early 50s.

Um no, most people realize this.

[Bret L]

On Aug 13, 7:21 pm, vinyl anachronist
wrote:
On Aug 13, 5:07 pm, Bret L wrote:

Yes, he was. Most people do not realize that he, with wife Mary
Ford, was enormously successful as a pop artist in the postwar/prerock
years, particularly the late 40s and early 50s.

Um no, most people realize this.

I bet if you polled 100 people outside a Wal-Mart 99 wouldn't. What's
more interesting is that would also be true of a Guitar Center.

[vinyl anachronist]

On Aug 13, 5:40�pm, Bret L wrote:
On Aug 13, 7:21 pm, vinyl anachronist
wrote:

On Aug 13, 5:07 pm, Bret L wrote:

Yes, he was. Most people do not realize that he, with wife Mary
Ford, was enormously successful as a pop artist in the postwar/prerock
years, particularly the late 40s and early 50s.

Um no, most people realize this.

�I bet if you polled 100 people outside a Wal-Mart 99 wouldn't. What's
more interesting is that would also be true of a Guitar Center.

"Most" people don't hang out in front of Wal-Marts and Guitar Centers.
I'm around a lot of musicians, and an overwhelming amount of them are
familiar with Les Paul and Mary Ford. Thanks for the history lesson,
but it was probably a tad condescending for this crowd.