Les Paul was born on this date.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

This is a well spent 10 minutes of your life

[calimary]

1. A giant.

My-son-the-guitar-player cherished his Les Paul. Still does. He was in a touring band for ten years. It’s still one of his faves.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Happy B-Day Les! One of the original shredders and a titanic talent and inventor! (nt)

[kysrsoze]

3. A genius in so many ways. From playing and designing guitars to inventing multi-tracking.

Les was awesome and the LP is still my favorite guitar.

[marble falls]

4. He certainly sent a lot of hand signals to his drummer.

[lark]

5. Besides being a great picker, he designed some awesome guitars.

I walked by his shop once and was just entranced with the beauties in the window.

[BigmanPigman]

6. "With my Les Paul I know I'm small but I enjoy living anyway,

yes I do"- Marc Bolan

[CaptainTruth]

7. I got to see him play a private banquet for Audio Engineering Society members...

... years ago in New York.

Since he was playing for a bunch of engineers & audio industry professionals, he told stories between every song. How he developed this, how he thought of that, the things he tried that failed before he finally got it right.

To me, as an AES member, engineer, & musician working in the industry (at the time) it was fascinating.