Posted August 11, 2015 at 12:45 pm | No comments
This week Cleveland will host Les Paul – The Tour with free local entertainment each day, an exclusive look inside the world of Les Paul and the opportunity to interact with the state-of-the-art technology produced aboard the mobile touring vehicle for all to enjoy. The tour and experience is free as is all of the local entertainment and bands scheduled to perform. It’s all part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Les Paul.
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Posted July 14, 2015 at 2:01 pm | One comment
TUNE IN TO WATCH!! – Tonight on the hit series “Counting Cars” on The History Channel Danny (The Count) is asked to create a commemorative bike that honors the music legend Les Paul.
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Posted June 30, 2015 at 4:54 am | No comments
Next up at the Les Paul 100th Birthday celebration was Little Kids Rock, a student band from a music education program sponsored by the Les Paul Foundation. During the changeover, video interviews with Sammy Hagar, BB King and other artists were screened, attesting to Paul’s incredibly wide-ranging influence.
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Posted June 29, 2015 at 5:00 am | No comments
“I want a sound that has never been heard before,” Les Paul famously remarked, and during his life he really delivered–as a creative guitarist who came up with fresh licks, chord sequences and fretting techniques that blew away his peers, and as the pioneering developer of the solid-body electric guitar and many recording innovations, including multi-tracking, tape delay, phasing and reverb.
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Posted March 26, 2015 at 12:46 pm | No comments
The Les Paul Foundation has announced the official “100th Birthday of Les Paul,” a year-long celebration to launch the famous inventor and musician’s 100th birthday – June 9th, 2015.
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Posted June 4, 2014 at 9:50 am | One comment
Gibson Custom, a division of Gibson Brands, is excited to announce the industry’s first tribute to a genre of music with the launch of the Southern Rock Tribute Program and the corresponding guitar, the Southern Rock Tribute 1959 Les Paul. The Southern Rock Tribute Program celebrates the cultural importance of the musical genre and the Les Paul’s significance in Southern Rock’s lineage.
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Posted September 13, 2013 at 4:28 am | One comment
108 Rock Star Guitars by photographer/author Lisa S. Johnson is a collection of stunningly personal and intimate portraits of the cherished guitars owned by the gods of rock. It is a music and fine-art photography aficionado’s backstage pass to witness up-close these six-stringed works of art belonging to Les Paul, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Lou Reed, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Nancy Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Rick Nielsen, Slash, Jack White, Billy Gibbons, Ace Frehley and many others.
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Posted January 26, 2013 at 9:20 pm | No comments
Highlighting the evening was the Les Paul Award presentation to renowned recording artist and composer The Who’s Pete Townshend. The Les Paul Award was presented by film producer and humorist Martin Lewis and Jeff Salmon, representing The Les Paul Foundation.
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Posted June 10, 2012 at 1:20 pm | 2 comments
On the day of which would have been the late, great Les Paul’s 97th birthday, worldwide records were set during a white glove auction of property from the Estate of Les Paul auction at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills.
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Posted May 14, 2012 at 10:31 am | One comment
In this second part of our interview with The Burst Brothers, Dave Belzer and Drew Berlin talk about Julien’s Les Paul Legacy Auction and its support of the Les Paul Foundation, their relationship with Les Paul, their favorite guitars and the recovery of Tom Petty’s stolen gear.
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