{"id":412,"date":"2009-08-14T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-08-14T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:45:01","slug":"les-paul-modern-music-innovator-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul, Modern Music Innovator Dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late in posting this, but I wanted to just the same.<\/p>\n<p>On August 13, 2009 Les Paul died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p>Les Paul was was instrumental (no pun intended) in the development of the modern solid body guitar, inventing overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a great guitar player, and a dedicated one at that. In 1948 he was in a terrible car accident that shattered his right elbow. The doctors told him that the elbow would never regain any free range of motion, so Les told them to set the arm in an &#8220;L&#8221; shape so that he could still play guitar.<\/p>\n<p>More info about Les <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Paul\"> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all you did for modern music Les. You&#8217;ll be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late in posting this, but I wanted to just the same. On August 13, 2009 Les Paul died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94. 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