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  • lmao at the ad in the middle

  • Les Paul fuckn hated gibson.

  • Les Paul fucking hated gibson.

  • The best Rock and Roll guitar player ever! Thank you for putting in on YT.

    Davy

    England

  • Thanks Les and Mary, ALABAMA14 RTR

  • I am so saddened that I didn't know who Les Paul was until his death in 2009. I have been highly inspired by his music and work, which has motivated me to pursue great skill in the world of guitar. I thank you Les Paul, Jimmy Page, and Scotty Moore for the joy and influence you have brought this 17 year old.

  • @EpicCentral i DID know him and i can tell you he was everything you have heard and more...an honest gentleman from a different time and place for sure..but yes he was a sincere loving person who never said a bad word about anyone..did he have some regets??sure but you would never know it i was at his memorial in NY with Pat Martino(my mentor)and ALL the heavey weights WHERE there Ritenour,Carlton,Martino,Rufus Reed,Di Meola,it was a speacial speacial day there wasnt a dry eye in the room.

  • HOW CAN HE PLAY ELECTRIC GUITAR WITHOUT AMP

  • if Les Paul ever asked me if i would wanna do a song, i think i would have shit my pants.

  • This was one of my favorite songs played on one of the old cartoons from the time period.

  • Wow -cut off in mid-sentence- how rude! Anyhow, glad to have had the pleasure of meeting him & talking with him a couple of times back in the 70's ...once when he came to a local bar along with his lovely young wife, probably less than half his age, to watch Danny Gatton play!

  • LOL wtf I thought they was gonna play some kind of slow, old 1950s white people music and they suddenly started swingin' out lololololol

    Les Paul kicks ass. Liked.

  • The guitar Les has on the table looks very much like "The Log" -an experimental instrument he made out of an Ephiphone arch top guitar around 1941, cutting it apart and inserting a solid pine block in the middle, in order to study it's effect on amplified sound. Looking at a picture of the actual "Log" in a guitar reference book, there are a couple of differences -most noticeable are the fretboard inlays.

    A remarkable instrument created by an even more remarkable man! Glad to have had the plea

  • Les Paul could of made a legendary metal band

  • Les: "Wanna relax and do a song?" HAR lol

  • Ahh... nothing like listening to Darktown Strutters Ball to help me find something. Just yesterday I listened to it 6 times straight and found my long-lost dignity! :D

  • Assholes commenting on this

  • so much fighting

    shouldnt you all be goign

    HOLY SHIT LOOK AT HIS HANDS JESUS CHRIST!

    cause i am

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  • This guy was sweep picking already?

  • @luistijerina Les pioneered a load of things other than guitars and electric processing. Most only now know that his arm was fixed one one place at an angle where he could still play, ( shattered in a car accident ). His playing style was just sick. from playing early country and cowboy tunes, I'd wager he learned a number of lfat picking tricks that he brought to jazz.

  • His playing reminds me of Django Reinhardt but with harmonies and it's electric of course. Crazy how he can play all that great stuff fast and clean!

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  • @1m2a3t4t5 He's the man!!

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  • @MrJohntube12 True!!!!

  • lost my mind at 1:02. 

  • Tom & Jerry song

  • You understand this is the inventor of the electric guitar as we know it, multi-tracking, basically the founder of modern studio music, plus one of the most brilliant virtuosi of the instrument ever?

  • The music is great - though of course studio-produced, complete with multi-track effects, not home-improvised. OTOH, the retrograde cultural assumptions and inter-spliced commercials are somewhere between ridiculous and comical.  At least the theme song isn't white bread....(G)

  • @eclectix2 um....yeah. And Les Paul INVENTED multi-track recording. So, naturally, he used it. DUH! If you have no cultural awareness of white america of 1953, you have a lot of learning to do. And, if you thought for a minute this was a spontaneous performance, you have even more to learn. You possibly know that he also is the namesake of a famous guitar model. But, maybe not.

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  • i wish all house holds were like that, spontaneously break out into singing and playing guitar for any reason!

  • What an awful commercial... yikes.

  • you want to relax and do a song?, busts out a guitar with a crazy intro. added with humorous listerine ad, lol. so hilarious. love it

  • 7 people are feminist.

  • Thumbs up if you don`t give a shit what google did & you just wanna hear the music!

  • Thumbs up if you just fucking had the common sense to want to know who les paul was because of a little company called Gibson.

  • @MrCh33pshot you mean big company 

  • In that commercial, she should pour listerine all over her her lips and face before she kisses her husband with that herpes sore he has on his upper lip.

  • I have really bad breath.

  • ># <3 :)

  • Of course the husband is a total ball of ice and needs "special attention" but its the wife who has bad breath.........

    You gotta love the 1950's..........

    I m pretty sure ever since this clip ws made its been the husbands who've had bad breath, and the women who smell like roses.:)

  • To think it only took another thirty or so years before someone would shread on the axe like that

  • @TheEcHo5411 Wes Montgomery. Django Reinhardt. Charlie Christian. Chuck Berry. Yes, Les had amazing chops, and was a genius in development of electronic gadgets. But to say no one, well, that's just not true.

  • @tubapizza OH well couldn't brag on a White man without saying how great a Black man was

    They are the greatest thing that EVERappened to civilization We wouldn't have Basetball without them

    (Putting Ball in hole) Or tiger woods golf (putting ball in hole). Also drive by shootings, carjacking ALL brought to you by the black man

  • @2bwhiteproud

    vietnam

    world war 1

    world war 2

    global warming

    mass genocide in many countries

    drive by shootings? probably white prohibition-era gangsters

    golf? white people.

    fuck you. im white and theres so little to be proud in that. love your brothers and sisters bro.

  • @dlozanothornton Nothing worse than a White person who tihnks we owe the Negroe something they were taken from the Jungle by their OWN. we brought them over here gave them Jobs and Houses they were eating each other... Not a lot of difference now only they just kill each other now.

    The GUVMENT feeds them since Negroes are to lazy to WORK.

    Now Black People are a different story they work and don't feel we owe them like Bleeding Liberals like YOU! DO!.

  • @dlozanothornton Nothing worse than a White person who tihnks we owe the Knee grows something they were taken from the Jungle by their OWN. we brought them over here gave them Jobs and Houses they were eating each other... Not a lot of difference now only they just kill each other now.

    The GUVMENT feeds them since Knee grows are to lazy to WORK.

    Now Black People are a different story they work and don't feel we owe them like Bleeding Liberals like YOU! DO!.

  • @2bwhiteproud

    youre so clever and intelligent and I'm really impressed by your really GOOD! ARGUMENT!

    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    -Charles Darwin

  • Respond to this video... another wrong assumption. Genius, yes. Chops, yes. Unusual, not so much.

  • Stealing alot of Django licks there :)

  • Why I love this song??

  • Les Paul is the only guitarist that "relaxes" by playing like that.

  • at first that guitar had no strings

  • 7 people have no soul

  • @SanjiBlackLegz Probably some limp dicked crap fans.

  • Google did bring me and how cool is this...mazeltvoh to all involved...

  • ПРосто мегавиртуоз!

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  • How freakin' cool would that be, just having a '56 Les Paul Custom sitting around there, just waiting for you take a break from sweeping the floor or doing the dishes to whip out a rocking little swing tune?

  • I like how so many people are watching these videos because of Google....

  • ironic thing is he died on my birthday in 2009 im 15 btw

  • .....Les was a finger pickin' maniac....

  • honey have you seen my scissors?

    Shut up woman! Can't you see I'm working?! what you want to vote now too?

  • This music is fantastic. Boy this guy contributed a lot to the modern sound...

    But the dialog reminds me a bit of a script for a porn movie? lol

  • @Kriskazam no I didn't say that, I said google brought me here.. I didnt look up this video on purpose lol

  • TOCA DE MAIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • AI TOCA EM!!!!!!!!!!

  • Que belleza de música, ojala siguiera existiendo

  • @Shadowlily21 ya ik :/ well i guess many other people are on the same boat :)

  • Les and Django are cuttin' heads at this very moment.

  • @TheLobopelon being a jazz fan, my thoughts exactly

  • LOL commercial

  • They were pionneers in multi track recording. One example is the duet voice of Mary.

  • why cant n one play the guitar these days

  • @RalphAndChris cuz they're all "new-school", nothing old-school anymore.... i know.. it's sad...

  • Google Doodle?! :)

  • 1:01 - 1:15 no fucking way. this man is godly

  • Fántastico!

  • wspanialy pomysl! brawo!

  • Refdesk made me want to look up Les Paul, not Google. Great website that is awesome to kill time at work!

  • yay my comment got thumbed up hahaha @sickboy932 haha yeah

  • verrry nice tnx u les paul

  • Thumbs Up

    If google brought you here =]

  • godd jub google

  • OMG, greatest guitarist ever!

    

  • Google Doodle > Guitar Hero

    Amazing idea by google!

  • wow! i played a guitar for the first time on google..

  • Listerine

  • great google logo

    happy b les

  • jaaa google, mueve a los curiosos.

  • happy b day mr Les Paul

  • Ele brinca com a guitarra, faz dela uma criança!

    parabéns LES PAUL

  • Great google logo rip paul!!!

  • google bought you here?

  • damn..he knows how to play

  • Google guitar rocks !

  • i cant stop singing at those google strings XDD

  • damn he is moving fast

  • it's almost animated how he do he's shreds! pure awesomeness!! :D

  • one of the first shredders, but in the classical and musical way :) also not in distortion, purely in clean just added reverb..

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  • Happy Birthday Les Paul! R.I.P.

  • i like the commercial lol 2:01

  • typical white woman

  • @flekone93 typical disgusting troll

  • Thumbs up if Google brought you here :)

  • @itsmelaurab Doesn't Google bring everyone everywhere?

  • @itsmelaurab that's a shame ur brain/heart didn't bring you here .. a search engine had too. smh

  • @itsmelaurab How the hell did you not know who Les Paul is before Google??

  • What a perfect marriage life!

  • People didn't know how good they had it, when they could sit in their living room and spend five minutes with Les Paul and Mary Ford. Unless they got all paranoid about their breath.

  • I'm glad i have a guitar model who's named after this great guitarist

  • See.. its always been about sex and rock & roll.

  • Wonderful!!!!

    Les Paul slii alive??

  • @gorbatov1962 умер два года назад

  • @gorbatov1962 i'm afraid he died

  • It's nice to still have some old original vinyl albums of Les. Nifty, huh? Bucky Krum

  • her voice is great all four of them...

    

  • Absolute genius

  • is the guy that is playing the base hiding in the closet for the hole song

  • @mrthisguy100 LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @dangraphic im glad you found that enjoyable haha :^)

  • @mrthisguy100

    Are you kidding? I laughed for 15 minutes dude... :) cheers!

  • This is a great look at Les Paul's Epiphone "LOG" which is a big jazz box Epiphone cut in half with a fence post carved down and set though the middle. The neck was then reset in a new neck pocket joint. This is the guitar on the table not the one he is playing. The body is kind of crooked looking, but it plays. He used it on "How High The Moon" as well as other recordings, but as a "Gibson Artist" seeing him play this on video is rare. Here it is used as a prop for their little skit.

  • @Satchmoeddie I wonder where the "LOG", or for that matter, the BREADWRAPPER" guitars are now?

    Can you imagine finding them? They'd be priceless...

  • I think it gets annoying over time that you're husband constantly start playing songs at random moments, yes even if it is les paul:p

  • this is great, thanks so much for posting it

  • Winning

  • 4 times better than toothpaste...

  • Listerine: It's the only thing keeping your marriage alive...

  • Les Killed that Guitar! And Mary has the sweetest Voice around! These are Decent folks, and This Music is PURE Americana! They won't make it like this anymore! Les Paul & Mary Ford for EVER! Thanks for posting.

  • Les Killed that Guitar! And Mary has the sweetest Voice around! This Music is PURE Americana! That wont make it like this again! Les Paul & Mary Ford for EVER! Thanks for posting.

  • He's playing a Gibson Les Paul guitar, too. Nice.

  • FUUUUCCCCCCKKKK MEEEEE!!!!!! LOOOOOL. 

  • People just don't use guitars to play train sounds like they used to. lol

  • passive conflict resolution through guitar playing win!

  • BUT!Mary just LOVES being Les's kitchen slave!

  • Les Paul plays 4 times better than any other guitarist

  • holy crap

  • @2minutestomammoth The guitar playing? Or the nasty commercial?

  • @at90percent The guitar playing! it just blew my mind, I did not know that this level of guitar playing existed back then. Shredding sweeping and economy picking... wow!

  • is the guy in the commercial Ronald Reagan?

  • IM IN CLASS DOING A RESEARCH PROJECT :D

  • @mandjcartoons same.

    DAT GUITAR!

    DAT SHREDDAN

    DAT SWEEP PICKAN!

    DAT MYSOGONISTIC COMMERICAL HIGHLIGHTING THE NEGATIVE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN THE 50s

  • @MjXllcommando

    Dat Funny!

  • Old times Zakk Wylde without Distorsion :D

  • "Wanna' relax and sing while I shred balls out... clean?"

  • awesome, he can shred without plugging the guitar on a amp!!!

    hehhehe

    Rip Les Paul

  • Les Paul Playing a Gibson Les Paul Priceless

    THis is fantastic

  • i didnt even know shredding existed in the 50's ! haha

  • i didnt even know shredding existed in the 50's ! haha

  • hilarious - now I know why grandma always kept listerine in stock.

  • just your typical "space age couple"--one guitar genius, mix generously with

    hyper-talented multi-track singer. receipe for the ages.

  • the grand old man of the modern guitar...god rest his soul...i hope he is at rest and in a better place...

  • @MrXAVIERDB

    he's not resting. he's in heaven along with stevie ray vaugh, jimi hendrix and others teaching god how to play guitar

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  • @HILARIOUSKID33 he is also being with Mary Ford being a duo again

  • Some of the licks he plays are basically sweep picked....decades before Yngwie and the rest.

  • I'd do her!

  • its the log on the table!!!

  • les paul frickin shreded

  • so long folks

  • share with ALL your friends, neighbors, enemies, whatever. Les and Mary are ones and only. watch Les on today's NYTimes video "Last Words" too.

  • @thomasmoredamian This comment was only relevant for about an hour

  • Thumbs up if you think he has deserved giving the name of the guitar model!

  • The world back when people appreciated the guitar

  • "you want to relax and do a song" LOL

  • ow man i love television from the olden days :p it's so darn funny :p it's a shame i wasn't around at that time :p the 50's must have been an awesome time :p

  • That's some inhuman guitar playing.

  • I takes HEAD to thaw out a husband! It takes special attention to the penis and groin area, and SWALLOWING!!! Why the hell don't women understand that? And why the fuck is Les Paul using scissors to fix a god damn guitar? Fuck ! The 50's were screwed!

  • He is the godfather of us all. So far ahead then? He is still ahead of most people now!

  • I love the Les Paul Custom he is playing there. Look close at the selector switch, it's a rotary switch instead of the long since standard 3 way toggle. Cool.

  • Fuck you listerine!!!

  • This old Les Paul Custom has 2 HB's which Les did not use when he was actually playing . He preferred single coils P90's & his Low impedance design : He told me this himself & showed me 2 new huge humbuckers he made himself and mounted in a Sunburst Les Paul Deluxe. These PU's were square ~ 3" x 3" He only told me Low Impedance & Alnico VIII magnets. A question I asked was answered with "Ah I can't tell you that" 'Yes you can' "No that's proprietary" Still a great moment for me.