Aug 13, 2009

In Memory of Les Paul

I think I express the feelings of everyone involved with OCR when I mourn the loss of one of music's greatest innovators and virtuosos. I personally fell in love with the music of Les Paul about a year and a half ago, amazed by the bizarre and wonderful multitracked sounds he produced as early as the late 1940s. For me he represents the often forgotten capacity for excitement, experimentalism, and innovation in popular music. He is also behind one of my absolute favorite performances ever:



Thanks Les Paul!

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