Is the reason I started playing in the first place, the man is a genius in his own right and many others agree. I am highly thinking of getting the black chrome new one out but I would love to hear of other LP fans out there, esp. those who may already have one.

I feel like a false follower. I play some guitar, but as a bassist I only ever got the Les Paul Special in Worn Ebony. It looks like a pair of faded jeans. Kinda cool, actually. But I still spin his music pretty often, especially his work with Mary Ford. =)

I started to get into music from a History class project I ended up doing one year in school. Just going back through the history shows how much its changed what we listen to now and hear coming from those younger than us.

I might not play as much as I would like, but I am always learning about it and studying so in the future the things I learn now will be of use then. And the work with Mary was insane, along with some of the photos I have found online.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Lesmary1.jpg

I think that is my favourite of them all, seeing as back then most times ladies were not allowed to do "mans work".

Whoa! I didn't think I would meet some Paul fans here. How nice. By the way, what do you mean by getting the black chrome new one? Black chrome new one are you talking about? I didn't get it you see. And who' that Mary? Looks like an old photo.

Les Paul the person did an extensive amount of recording with Mary Ford. He was a jazz guitarist who invented multi-track recording and a whole bunch of other things we still use in mostly the same way today. He did all this while, as I said, still being a MONSTER jazz artist. You should definitely check out some of his work, takatenamano, and see if you like it. I highly recommend it.