The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58113   Message #917980
Posted By: M.Ted
25-Mar-03 - 12:01 PM
Thread Name: Les Paul
Subject: RE: Les paul
You can go see Les play, always much more helpful than tabs, every Monday nite at Iridium in NYC, just up Broadway from Times Square--He looks and sounds great, and has a four piece band, Les, two guitars and a bass, that create that Les Paul multivoice sound perfectly--

As far as tab goes, tab won't show or explain the technique that he uses to make the threads of notes that he plays sound as they do, and it won't really clarify the way other intruments fall into place--hearing him will, though, and, at least for a couple hours after you hear him, you will understand how the music works perfectly--


Only problem is that, unfortunately, Les is an incredibly offensive sexist--his bassist is a woman, and he makes remarks about her that would make Beavis and Butthead blush--Too bad he can't keep his mouth shut, because he is one of the true greats, musically---