the Log, helped Paul study solidbody electric guitar design and prove its worth. The third Klunker was built in 1942 and featured doors on its back so Les Paul could easily tinker with its wiring ...

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Les Paul revolutionized popular music when he partnered ... In 1940, he built a prototype solid-body electric guitar called “The Log,” which consisted of a 4x4 piece of solid pine with a ...

4 facts about Les Paul * Gibson turned down Les Paul’s solid-body guitar, dubbed “the Log,” calling it a “broom-stick with strings” They changed their minds are introduced the guitar in ...

The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a ...

“There were other people who were technical innovators, but they didn’t play like Les did.” By 1941, still only 26, Paul had fashioned a workable solid body guitar he dubbed The ...

Les Paul got his start in country music ... The Music Box also devised an instrument mimicking Paul’s “Log” guitar, which he made years later as a professional musician in New York, when ...

Les Paul, the jazz guitarist who died on August 13 aged 94, invented the solid body electric guitar and revolutionised the sound of pop music recordings.

The earliest approved model of the Gibson Les Paul — owned by Les Paul himself and known affectionately as “Number One” — is headed to auction. The lot will be part of the upcoming ...