[Tributes for Guitar Legend Les Paul]

2009/08/14, Les Paul, 史上最重要的吉他手之一在紐約病逝, 享年94歲.

Keith Richards: "He actually taught himself to play guitar in order to demonstrate his electronic theories. All of us owe an unimaginable debt to his work and his talent."

Paul Stanley: "The name Les Paul is iconic and is known by aspiring and virtuoso guitar players worldwide. That guitar is the cornerstone of a lot of great music that has been made in the last 50 years."

Henry Juskiewicz: "He was a futurist, and unlike some futurists who write about it and predict things, he was a guy who actually did things."

Les Paul對搖滾樂的貢獻, 不僅是在1949~1962年間與妻子Mary Ford一同錄製的暢銷專輯上, 同時, 1952年與Gibson合作而推出的Solid-body Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Series Gibson Les Paul Series更被稱為是"paved the way for electric music made the sound of rock and roll possible"; 此外, 包含在吉他彈奏技巧上的創新與錄音技術上的突破, Les Paul都扮演著絕對重要的推手角色.

之前已放過這位阿伯帥氣的影片(連結), 以下分享他年輕時的錄音作品.