By the ripe age of 32, Les Paul had fretted together the instrument that would make rock music possible and listeners able to feel the noize: the solid-bodied electric guitar. He seems to be scratching his head as to what his invention had wrought.
Below, you can see his first sound-on-sound Ampex recorder; Paul pioneered multi-track recording. The guitar is his second Epiphone “clunker” modified with a steel bar to mount pickups. The amp is a Gibson EH-150.
Les Paul is the only person to be included in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Fun fact: Paul was Steve Miller’s godfather (yes, that Steve Miller) and his first guitar teacher. Compare these 15 vintage Gibson Les Paul guitars.
His mind was nimble and ever creating. Paul passed away at 94 in 2009.
I Don't Get It 
That was one guitar picking genius. I learned of him from some of my dad’a HiFi albums featuring him and his wife. Mary Ford. I did not know of the connection with Steve Miller.
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So fun to see! Although, I don’t think that’s the right way to wear headphones…
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Yeah but that’s the cool recording artist way.
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I want one of those guitars and I don’t even play.
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Me, too!
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I had a Gibson Les Paul guitar- it was marvelous !
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