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Page 1 of 1Les Paul
June 9, 1915 -
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician
|  I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound. | | I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working. | | When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. | | Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. | | I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. | | We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions. | | One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog. |
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