Les Paul: Chasing Sound! "Les and Mary"

Guitar wizard, inventor, architect of rock 'n' roll...the legendary Les Paul tells his own rags-to-riches story in this feature-length documentary shot in HD. From his hometown in Waukesha to Chicago, Nashville, Hollywood and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, follow the life and times of this irrepressible superstar. Featuring a wall-to-wall soundtrack of greatest hits, Les Paul: Chasing Sound! also includes interviews with B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Jeff Beck, Merle Haggard, Steve Miller and many more.

Available now on DVD. For more info:
http://www.kochvision.com/product.aspx?number=741952643296

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[brabon1]

not age

look at vids of paul's concerts

all ages represented

good music is good music

[dburr13]

When Les Paul hit the scene it must have seemed like outer space music to those who had grown up with the big bands...Les Paul took music to a whole new dimension...

[Rtmax45]

I have seen a video, but can't find it where Les has Mary singing, then he would throw a switch on his guitar and you would hear 2 Mary's. He did it again, and now you have 3 Mary's and so on. He was experimenting with overdubbing which today is no big deal, but back then-Wow. He helped deveoped the mixing board used in studios today. Richard Carpenter listened to him and Richard and Karen would overdub the backup singing to Karen's single singing.

[damnbigfish]

Les was a genius, to be sure. But to put things in perspective, when they talk about how fast he was playing....the tape was slowed down to record those super fast parts, when you speed the tape up it sounds faster. At 1:40 on the tape he is clearly not playig what you are hearing, which is a sped up guitar part. That he thought to DO that, was indeed genius, and fooled a generation of early TV watchers into thinking he could actually play that fast.

[BuddLightbrain]

Smokin!

[Geepsterr]

@puchalaka Love Les grew up on his 45's. Leo Fender did come up with the first production solid body about '47 but Rickenbacker put magnetic pickups on a solid body back in the 20's (albeit slide ), so it was bound to happen . Also the Ampex 3 tracks were being made in the 50's. Now dig this: Disney had proprietary 9 track recording in the 1930's & noise reduction. Now listen to the munchkins sing and the song that plays as Dorothy arrives in the Emerald City, sounds like another planet too.

[happyface4444]

les paul is the most important man in modern music.

[TheRebasMom]

@Record208 Quelle bonne chance!

[TheRebasMom]

I think they also recorded Seven Lonely Days, but don't see it here. Anyone has a copy he/she can post?

Thanks to everyone for sharing these great videos with us.

[sharrer2]

@The2010SnowDay :o Well thats understandable. With all the overdubbing and layering.

[The2010SnowDay]

@sharrer2 I do see that, but it is there because when he was on tv, he would mime playing to his studio recording.

[sharrer2]

Anyone but me notice that Les Paul had a broken string on the black and white video parts?