Les Paul, 93, Tennessee waltz

The legendary performer - and father of the electric guitar - Les Paul, in a performance of TW at Iridium Club, NYC, July 2008

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[Techmonkey]

smile to my face... RIP les.

[tubekaeru]

A great one has gone...RIP Les Paul

[metalheadtiltheend]

funny, thats exactly what your mother said about your guitar playing too

[Sharon Stewart]

Wow! Fantastic!!!! Please visit our tribute site to the man behind the song, Redd Stewart. We'd love to hear what the song means to YOU!

[Nathan Jones]

rubbish !!

[dave johnson]

he started it all

[roman14032]

OF COURSE HE UNDERSTANDS THE GUITAR. THATS LES FUCKIN PAUL DUDE!

[welderella]

 @aliceband2 Not much genius? Are you referring to Les Paul's entire career or? just this video. I cannot say that there are better guitarists or not. I do know that LP said he really looked up to Django. He was fabulous too.

[welderella]

he was around for so long and I never knew anything about him, except that he was a guitar maker? or that there were guitars named after him. I knew nothing more. how did I miss this? that is criminal. meanwhile I had to suffer through soooooooo much crap on the top 40, No wonder why I stopped listening to music. Now I will never stop. I love youtube. thank you for posting this!!!!! I think you might have just saved my soul. :>)

[aliceband2]

LP was a sharp businessman, endorsements make money. nothing wrong with that Joe Pass didn't like his Ibanez. Fender currently endorse some truly dire rock guitarist - what do they care? pick up my comments from word ten, that's what I care about.

I think the recording industry would have got there without him.

Blind hero worship is a stupid thing.

[bilsrylos]

not to mention that Les pioneered many ideas for recording sound and music, without him, we probably wouldnt have the music recording capabilities that we have today, and of course he liked the les paul or he wouldnt have given it his namesake and used it in so many shows. TROLLFAIL

[oblivionfr3ak]

even at 93 he could blow away pretty much any modern guitarist with his eyes closed.