Music legend Les Paul has died ... today for the electric guitar that bears his name, Paul was a major star in his own right in the 1940s and '50s — hosting radio shows and scoring numerous ...

Over the years, Gibson has shown that it's not afraid to push the guitar technology envelope, introducing robot tuning, electric/acoustic tone merging ... Lightly Figured Les Paul Standard with ...

Guitarist and inventor Les Paul — who invented the device that made the electric guitar possible — died ... with his own radio and TV shows and many a Top 40 hit in the mid-century years.

The guitarist shared deep details on his Les Paul, Fender Deluxe and Whizzer controller in a classic interview from our ...

November 24, 2008 Gibson Guitars have ... generation: the Les Paul Dark Fire, which incorporates an upgraded self-tuning capability and ups the ante with a 'Chameleon Tone' system that Gibson ...

Yesterday, a deafening cry of disbelief was heard from every electric guitarist on the planet. Les Paul had died. He was 94. We all knew the day would come but the shock was seismic. Guitarist ...

Les Paul was often called ... a telephone mouthpiece and a radio speaker. The sound did get stronger, but, as Paul would recollect in Modern Guitar magazine in 2005, “I ran smack into the ...

Les Paul revolutionized popular music when ... he wired a phonograph needle to his acoustic guitar and connected it to a radio speaker. In 1940, he built a prototype solid-body electric guitar ...

We have several folks to thank for that, beginning with Les Paul. The man whose name ... hollow-body models were the norm for electric guitars, and they boasted a tone more suited to sounds ...

There’s a new Epiphone guitar on the ... by dual volume, dual tone controls, all wired up to Orange Drop capacitors and black “speed” knobs as per the Les Paul Custom’s style.

Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion ... and His Texas Cowboys and led the house band on WJJD radio in Chicago. In the mid-1930s he joined Fred Waring ...