Good evening, EBD here filling in tonight for Vitruvius for the Thurday installment of Late Nite Radio.
Musician and innovator Les Paul passed away today at the age of 94. His influence as a guitarist is often overstated, but he deserves credit for essentially inventing the multi-tracking technique used today on virtually every studio recording, and his popular, eponymous solid-body guitar made by Gibson remains one of the most popular guitars in the world. The Les Paul wasn’t the first solid-body electric — Fender’s Telecaster, (originally called Broadcaster) predated it — but where the slight play of the Telecaster’s bolted-on neck somewhat deadened the strings after the moment of attack, making it a suitable rhythm instrument, the Les Paul’s weight and glued-on neck gave it a hitherto unprecedented amount of sustain, making it the quintessential soloist’s guitar.
How High The Moon featuring vocalist and musical partner Mary Ford is probably Les Paul’s signature song, but in light of his passing it’s probably appropriate here to feature his 1953 recording of Vaya Con Dios
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
welcome to england where foxes cavort unmolested and ….
soooo, are the muzzies offended because of police having a trained canine will cut into their mayhem?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030798/Muslim-outrage-police-advert-featuring-cute-puppy-sitting-policemans-hat.html
The term “Muzzies” is gratuitous and kinda dumb, curious george.
Moving on, here’s some fair — i.e. non-rhetorical — questions from a piece by Joseph Farah:
“What do you call it when the government asks its supporters to ‘snitch’ on opponents of its policies?
“What do you call it when the government wants to monitor broadcasts and establish itself as the guardian of ‘fairness’ on the airwaves?
“What do you call it when the government seeks to take over the private and personal health-care decisions of the people – establishing bureaucracies to make life-and-death decisions and banning unapproved transactions between doctors and patients?
“What do you call it when the government hires and fires the top executives of major corporations and redirects their corporate policies?…”
The rest at:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106590
h/t ghostofaflea.com
Is the paranoid anger of the guilty starting to show?
http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w081385A.xml
One has to give credit to Helen Thomas for calling it as she sees it — worse than the Nixon years.
A telecaster a rhythm guitar not a lead guitar?
Ed Bickert, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Roy Buchanon Don Rich and Albert Lee would disagree.
Les Paul made a solid guitar in the 30’s and also just happened to be a heck of a fine guitarist who influenced Jeff Beck among others.
Ddt, I wasn’t speaking in absolute terms. You’re absolutely right, any guitar can easily be, and will be, used for soloing or for rhythm. But the more percussive, quick-decay guitars like Teles or Gretch’s are *generally* considered rhythm guitars. We shouldn’t chat about it here, though.
Reader Tip: this piece from the WSJ was written four months ago after the two American journalists were arrested in North Korea:
“Some analysts say they believe the sentencing marks a turning point in the reporters’ situation and that North Korea will now negotiate with the U.S. to arrange their release in exchange for a payment or a diplomatic visit. (emph. mine)
Go Korea!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124443517768293503.html
A sad day indeed.
I grew up on Les Paul and Mary Ford music. And Les sure had a lot of influence in the music world.
Rest in Peace.
And keep on picking up there with your old pal:
Les Paul playing and Chet Atkins joins in
A significant bend:
“Senators exclude end-of-life provision from [health revamp] bill”
A cooler head than mine might observe, “It doesn’t matter what they call you as long as they turn. They turn, you win; the rest is just wind.”
Cap’n Trade has been marooned in Australia:
“Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan”
I seem to recall it being claimed that Les Paul invented flanging using the old analogue technique of resting one’s thumb on the flange of one reel to put it slightly out of sync with the other.
I prefer a Strat myself.
Daniel, your 10:26 links to this thread.
That would be Les Paul and Chet Atkins playing Birth
of the Blues, Foobert, which we previously featured
here one year and five days ago at SDA Late Radio.
That’s SDA Late Nite Radio, home of the best DJs 😉
Brought to you by Kate.
Nice clean-up there in aisle 4, whomever did it.
“Yesterday’s Globe carried the headline, ‘Harper blames Canada for visa furor.’ Never mind the pesky detail that he actually blamed our lax refugee system.
“Coincidentally, a press release appeared on the Liberal party’s website the same day – Harper talks down Canada on world stage…”
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2009/08/11/globe-star-cover-liberal-talking-points/
I thought that you’d be right on top of this Vit.
Les Paul
BTW – my records show that this recording was made in 1950.
I own the album in near perfect condition and made a digital recording of it. It is so well recorded and the pressing so clean that I have stumped listeners as to the type of recording while spinning the platter.
Track one – Lover
Track two – Vaya Con Dios
Apologies for dumping to my site … the music links are there.
Vaya Con Dios ….
Sorry EBD … didn’t look closely at the top line..
Randy Bachman has a nice story that he told on Vinyl Tap about how generous Les Paul was when RB saw him in Winnipeg.
“Randy Bachman tells a nice story about being too young to get into a club in Winnipeg to see Les Paul and Mary Ford, so he watched through the round windows on the venue’s kitchen doors and heard what he could when they’d swing open. When Les came through the kitchen at the end of the night, he thrilled Bachman by teaching him the speedy two-string run from “How High the Moon,” and in the process helped set the young guitarist on his a career path.”
Better and more detail directly from Bachman though
Better and more detail directly from Bachman though
And listen to CBC radio??? The horror.
sarge here whoever sez bolt on neck vs glued and sich makes the diff and strat/tele noyt a lead instrament is a dumbbutt itss humbucker vs single coil stop bridge vs whamy bar vs bigsby vs 4th position out of phase after ya take the spring out ect ect no surprise SDA gets everything wrong every time
Is this something Kate should get involved in?
The world has lost a great musician.
Tele’s are nice, I have two, both thinlines so the notes ring, two strats, two Les Pauls, as well as two Les Paul styled Hagstom’s, a Swede and a Super Swede(BTW both of these are far superior to anything Gibson has put out in the last thirty years). All of the LesPaul style guitars are extremly heavy so I tend to favour the tele’s. Just a few from my collection[url=http://img29.imageshack.us/i/newguitarphotos017.jpg/][img=http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7816/newguitarphotos017.th.jpg][/url]
Vitruvius @ 10:36
Thanks, I might have missed that one.
Why is it that the race card is played so quickly in any of these debates? Is the US going to be thrown away for the simple fact that if you do not agree with what is going on you are a racist?
“Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, agrees.
He points to the woman at a recent town hall meeting in Arkansas who said she no longer recognized her country.
“Whether she realizes it or not, she’s talking about race. I suspect she doesn’t recognize her country anymore because there is a black man residing in the White House,” he said”
http://www.brandonsun.com/world.php
There seems to be a common thread among liberal websites(especially the mop and pail) blaming Harper for the recent AECL extension and ensuing shortage. First they assert that somehow the situation that happened previously — firing of Linda Keen, restarting of the Chalk River reactor — has something to do with the current situation. That is obviously false. Nothing Harper did has an affect on what is occuring now.
Furthermore there seems to be an indication that Harper is responsible for the cancellation of the MAPLE reactors. This is again false:
http://www.aecl.ca/NewsRoom/News/Press-2008/080516.htm
A couple more good links:
http://www.aecl.ca/NewsRoom/News/Press-2009/090730-2.htm
http://www.aecl.ca/NewsRoom/News/Press-2009/090728.htm
It’s obvious, AECL has screwed up royally. Anyone with half a brain cannot blame either this government or any previous. We were told by the “experts” that the MAPLE reactors would be redundant, and each could supply 100% of the worlds needs. The project has gone massively over funding, and schedule. Even the AECL experts say it would be at least 5-6 years to get the MAPLE reactors up and running.
Are there any cellphone-savvy people out there? Help me with something — I just noticed this:
In this (extremely brief) video —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L3FnWNkIzU
— Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee chats on her cell phone while she’s being asked a question at a town hall by one of her constituents. Here’s what puzzles me: at the 19 second mark, and most visibly at about 34 seconds, she moves the phone away from the usual position and appears to start talking into — what I assume would be — either the earpiece or the screen. I’ve never seen that before. Is it a new kind of cellphone, perhaps? Or is she being sarcastic, or…..?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
EBD, funny, I wondered about that too. I suppose she could have been using it as a speaker phone, but that really doesn’t work well when there’s a lot of background noise. Dunno.
Well Erik, I’m glad it’s not just me. The possibilities are…mindless, as they say. Does she think it’s a walkie-talkie? I don’t think so; she’s using it properly at other times, listening and talking as usual.
Hmm. If you hear of any other online discussion of the matter — or especially, if anyone *asks* her — do post.
That’s a longshot, I admit.
The information
Ah, summer. I am returning from a week of it — during which, as ever on such occasions, I did my best to remain uninformed about developments in the world at large; to become better informed instead about topics such as birds, and fish. Though once again, my best wasn’t good enough. Merely check for e-mail, and one is freed immediately from illusions about freedom from the world.
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
EBD – I wonder if she was switching between phone and speaker phone – and saying “listen to these people that I have to talk to – just listen [switch to speaker] – can you believe I have to talk to these people?”
Until he passed I never knew Les Paul had done much other then the guitar but then I heard about his multiple track recordings and some of the neat things he did. It is the first time I have heard anyone talk about the four track, I was beginning to think I imagined it because no one seems to have heard of it. I remember one under the seat of my brother’s car. It wouldn’t fit any other place.
About the phone, I don’t own one, never will but is it possible she was reading text?
Erik,EBD
I don’t think she is all there.. She keep using the term DISH (Fox News interview) once said “I have no Dishes”…I am familiar with NY & NJ street slang and “Dis” has always meant disrespect in the black community. I think she is the one that had trouble with Animal Husbandry…
If they handed her a phone & she didn’t know how to use it… We can cut her some slack
Interestin view on why the US should not become Europe II.
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/on-becoming-europe/
Slap Shot It was Maxine Waters that asked why women want to marry animals when they were talking about animal husbandry.
Our Lady of the Cliches (S. Copps) has been spreading Cliches like swine flu.
Guilty she is for infecting Dr. Low with Cliche Flu:
““We’re between a rock and a hard place here. All of us are speculating on what’s going to happen,” Dr. Low said. “This is new waters for us. It’s incumbent upon us to be prepared, but realizing that it may well be a relatively mild season and the attack rate might be quite low.””
But, don’t worry; as the AGWarmites tell us: It’s in the pipeline.
…-
“Swine flu panic overblown: medical officer”
“First wave of virus was not as dire as expected and scale of infection in Southern Hemisphere is not nearly as bad as feared”
urlm.in/cwxf (Globe-Mail)
Socialism marches on its beer belly, er wine belly, er cocktail belly.
The taxpayer pays the tab.
Socialism is the religion of the gullet-stomach*.
…-
“$30-thousand Cocktail Party for AMO Delegates
Ottawa taxpayers will cover the tab for an opening reception for delegates attending the Association of Municipalities of Ontario Conference.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=67125
*Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of Socialism, ephemeral existence. …… the end, as at the beginning, a stomach. Nothing but an enormous stomach, …
socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/lebon/socialism.pdf
Really going to need this place for the next couple days. Sanity central.
If it is even possible, Halifax is about to get even more leftoid for the weekend what with the dippers holding their convention. An extra 1300 of them!! All card carrying.
And a couple of Barry’s “organizers” to boot.
Re Black Mamba’s question “is this something Kate should get involved in?” at 12:29 AM:
Check out William F. Buckley’s prophetic “God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom,” written in 1951.
“Academic freedom” is just another word for capitulation to the insidious cult(ure) of political correctness. Without a spiritual/moral imperative to counterbalance this pc plague, we’re defenseless. And that’s pretty much where Western Civilization (sic) is today: very few on the watchtowers, certainly not our freedom-toting academics.
“What do you call it when ….”
Isn’t it called “social justice”?
batb @8:17 – you’re being brainier than I am, with your Bill Buckley. I just thought Kate might want to get in on the whole Conservative T-shirt Babes of the Internet Show off their Assets thing.
BTW I was too lazy/sleepy/stupid to do the Shaidle link properly last night, but she’s playing too.
I bought three T-shirts from the guy this week. Seems like a pretty cool guy. Started emailing back and forth about different stuff.
Of course, I don’t exactly fill out a T-shirt like Right Girl or Fivefeet herself!
yup, the girls seem to make a T shirt just look right. 🙂
and I love the way Right Girl doesn’t shy away from that.
I lament the loss of Les Paul. Great man, fine musician and innovator of the guitar. However, saying that the Fender Telecaster is only good for rhythm guitar is close to the dumbest thing I’ve read this week (after the week’s Obama quotes). Give Roy Buchanan or any number of tele slingers a listen. Besides, weighing in between nine and eleven pounds, a Les Paul, while certainly capable of being a great guitar will have you at the chiropractors in no time unless you’re built like Leslie West or Randy Bachman. I’ve never seen Les Paul play one standing up. RIP Les!
In todays National Post “A book on Danish cartoons, minus any images” is on page A 1, the article continues on page A 12 with the image of Mo with a bomb turban. They credit http://www.fatihfreedom.org with the image. Strange that it doesn’t appear on the website, or that I can’t find it?
‘China is on track to emit more carbon in the next three decades than the U.S. has emitted in its history’ says Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
So let me see if I’ve got this right.
He backs a cap & trade bill which will at best produce minimal carbon changes while causing massive changes in the economy. The net effect of which, globally, will be zilch since China will ‘swamp’ all the supposed effects of the bill.
Sounds like a plan, sign me up.
Fixed! La Shaidle in all her glory!
Aside from the weight, a Les Paul doesn’t have the nice scalloping that a Strat has. But many of those sunburst Les Pauls are works of art.
Great tribute to Mr. Paul ‘EBD’. Great selection to listen to, brought back fond memories.
AtlanticJim – Alex is very cool, with a punk sensibility and conservative, to boot. His t-shirts are great.
I think Kathy’s bra is in the lead, although I feel I must point out the difficulty in reading what her t-shirt says versus the ease of reading the entire, lengthy quote on my t-shirt. Shouldn’t I get bonus points for that?
EBD at August 14, 2009 1:13 AM
I know a girl from Sierra Leone and she uses her cel phone in a similar manner. She is talking and then listening with the phone to her ear. It is just the way she uses her phone.
Iggy, Go home.
…-
“Canadian Factory Sales Unexpectedly Gain on Aerospace
Bloomberg – Alexandre Deslongchamps – 1 hour ago
Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Canadian factory sales unexpectedly rose in June as output at aerospace companies jumped and petroleum and coal prices advanced”
“House sales in Canada jump in July
Canada’s resale housing market for July posted the largest year-over-year gain in two years, with Western homebuyers leading the way, according to statistics released Friday by The Canadian Real Estate Association.
Canada housing sales hit record in July Canada.com
Canadian home resales rise for 6th straight month Reuters” (googlenews)
With all due respect to Five Feet of Fury, those things can poke an eye out.
In a similar vein, why do women wear shorts with a name or logo across the butt then get anoyed if you try to read it?