Day 42: Seeing the 93-year-old inventor of electric guitar play live is BTS

There are exactly 988,968 words in the English language. None of them can do justice to the experience of seeing Les Paul, the 93-year-old inventor of the electric guitar, in concert (he plays at the Iridium Jazz Club with his trio on Monday nights). I was with my friend C.A., who was transfixed by Les Paul’s genius as much as by his late-night-comic schtick. A couple of out-of-towners jammed with him onstage as they played bluegrass, folk and jazz standards as “Summertime”, “Tennessee Waltz” and “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off.”
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August 7, 2008 at 1:59 pm
damn. where have i been all this time?!?!
and to think i used to dream of owning my very own gibson les paul all the way back in college!
thanks for the tip… will know what to do with my monday night next week =)
August 8, 2008 at 3:19 am
wow… that is soooooo cool, and much BTS