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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 9, 2015 21:27:45 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 10, 2015 4:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by dave on Jun 10, 2015 10:43:04 GMT -5
Great video, CB! Didn't Les Paul single-handedly invent the electric guitar?
Les and Mary appeared on Brother Jesse's Morning Music a few years ago on the MoreStories and Utica History Proboards Forum. Part of the following is tongue in cheek, but nonetheless interesting. And in the last segment they evidently did in fact lay down a 25th track for How High The Moon.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 10, 2015 19:03:03 GMT -5
That's a great video. I remember Omnibus but not that episode, I was only 6 when it was broadcast. I spent most of my career in magnetic recording but I was always more comfortable in the digital rather than the analog side of it. Much of music recording seemed to be arts & crafts rather than engineering and science to me. It's much like when I read about the construction of fine string instruments, craftsmen make intuitive adjustments to glue, tension and finishes in order to get the "sound" they want. In a similar way skilled people can hand polish a tape head to get the contour and finish which gives the "sound" they want.
Les Paul was the first of his kind. A skilled musician who could see how a tape recorder could be a new kind of musical instrument and someon who could interface with the tech world to get what he envisioned built.
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Post by kit on Jun 11, 2015 9:55:24 GMT -5
No question Les Paul was one of several performers who influenced my learning the guitar when I was a kid. Not only in playing, but the electronic technology as well.
I happened to buy a half-track Crestwood reel-to-reel tape recorder at a community garage sale years ago and rigged it with an extra playback head fed back into the input to achieve an 'echo' effect when recording. It was the first electronic echo chamber in the Utica area and I used it in my first band, "The Echoes." It was a simplistic version of the famous "Les Paulverizer." Being 2 speed, along with a 2nd recorder it was also good for multi-tracking and speed change.
Les was a great guitar player and I learned a lot from listening to his recordings, as well as those of Chet Atkins, the Ventures, the Fireballs and others.
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