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Leslie West favoured a Les Paul Junior; demand for this model greatly increased after guitarists saw one in his hands, [177] and Gibson began to reissue the model in the mid-1970s. West also used an SG and a Flying V. Snowy White uses a 1957 Les Paul Goldtop acquired in a trade for a Fender Stratocaster while in Sweden in 1968. White has been ...
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has used Epiphone Les Pauls while playing live. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) was among the first "British Invasion" guitarists to acquire a Casino, using a sunburst model with P-90 pickups and a vibrato tailpiece (most likely a 1961 or 1962 model) on The Rolling Stones' first US tour in June 1964. [14]
Born Iris Colleen Summers, Mary Ford was born in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers (born February 13, 1896, in Ridgway, Illinois; died August 5, 1981, in Los Angeles), [2] [3] [4] a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, [5] and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers.
Paul McCartney playing a true left-handed guitar (a Gibson Les Paul).. Left-handed people play guitar or electric bass in one of the following ways: (1) play the instrument truly right-handed, (2) play the instrument truly left-handed, (3) altering a right-handed instrument to play left-handed, or (4) turning a right-handed instrument upside down to pick with the left hand, but not altering ...
Jones is a self-taught guitar player, primarily playing Gibson Les Paul electric guitars in his early years. He had allegedly only been playing for three months before his first Sex Pistols gig, and has said that practising under the influence of black beauties helped him focus well on learning the instrument. [8]
Robert "Waddy" Wachtel (born May 24, 1947) is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work. Wachtel has worked as session musician for other artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Beth Hart, Stevie Nicks, Miranda Lambert, Kim Carnes, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones (lead guitar on "Saint of Me"), Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Iggy Pop, Warren ...
In 2000, she became the bassist for Les Paul in his trio's weekly performances at a club in Manhattan. She appeared in two documentaries about Paul: Chasing Sound and Thank You, Les. [1] Parrott recorded her first album, Awabakal Suite (2001), with her sister, Lisa Parrott.