The strings have gone silent. Les Paul, one of the greats of guitardom, father of the electric guitar, passed away August 12 at the age of 94. Somewhere out in that Great Recording Studio of the Beyond, Jimi Hendrix and Chet Atkins are saying, “All right, Les, we been waiting for you. Lets jam!”
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August 13th, 2009 at 4:16 pm