Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
Did he?
Les Paul says he invented the solid body electric guitar.
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Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Essentially yes. He was bankrolled by Bing Crosby.
Honkridge
UNACCEPTABLE!
No he didn't.
Loyd Loar's Vivitone brand had a solid body electric in the mid 30's. Rickenbacher's (yes they spelled it that way back then) had a solid bakelite body guitar in early '35. These were kinda a cross between the Hawaiian Lap Steels popular at the time and the newly electrified Spanish guitars...they died an death of indifference when the War broke out.
The famous "Log" that Les built in '41 wasn't really a fully solid body guitar and Gibson laughed him out of the factory when he showed it to them. Paul Bigsby made a guitar for Merle Travis in '47 that was a thoroughly modern solid body. In early '50 Leo had the Esquire up and running and when Gibson saw that the solid body was here to stay they signed Les up.
Loyd Loar's Vivitone brand had a solid body electric in the mid 30's. Rickenbacher's (yes they spelled it that way back then) had a solid bakelite body guitar in early '35. These were kinda a cross between the Hawaiian Lap Steels popular at the time and the newly electrified Spanish guitars...they died an death of indifference when the War broke out.
The famous "Log" that Les built in '41 wasn't really a fully solid body guitar and Gibson laughed him out of the factory when he showed it to them. Paul Bigsby made a guitar for Merle Travis in '47 that was a thoroughly modern solid body. In early '50 Leo had the Esquire up and running and when Gibson saw that the solid body was here to stay they signed Les up.
Grant Harding
Creative fingering specialist
Yeah - I think Paul Bigsby invented the "electric guitar" as we know it. Fender and Gibson made their own takes on it, but they're copies that's for sure (to me).
smurfco
Meatus McPrepuce
He invented Radiohead
jelloman
Couch'd Tater...
Something I know you will never forgive him for...
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
I mean, unless he invented the Ric frying pan, I ain’t buying it. His actual inventions and contributions were amazing. To just throw in that he invented the solid body electric is weak sauce, IMO.
smurfco
Meatus McPrepuce
Les Paul invented the raging hard-on.
Honkridge
UNACCEPTABLE!
Pfft. Everyone claims that...
BlockInlay
Octavate.band
The guy saying he did X first usually isn’t the guy that did X first, second, or third.
shoeless
Riffin'
He seems to get credit for humbuckers too, but I'm not sure if that was actually his or not.
Highernoon
Burninator
Weren't humbuckers invented by Seth Lover?He seems to get credit for humbuckers too, but I'm not sure if that was actually his or not.
I guess LP was the first guitar to come with HBs, maybe that's why he gets credit.
mongooz
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actually, that's Peter Green's LP. Green is the one who flipped the front pickup.Les Paul:
Moore Paul:
Moore acquired it from him.
MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
I don't claim to have invented it, I just sport it at the most inappropriate times.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
It's Hammett's Les Paul now
Danhedonia
Noted duckfat enthusiast
Les Paul also invented volcanoes, whiskey, anal sex, perfume, hovercraft technology and the Tindr app.
He's a very big deal.
He's a very big deal.
