Jan 29 2008
Les Paul, 92 years young
Last night I made the 160 mile trip to New York to see Les Paul perform at the Iridium Club. Les has been playing a regular Monday night gig at the Iridium for years. This video was made back in December of 2006, so Les is a spring chicken of only 91 years here. He is accompanied by his regular band, Lou Pallo on guitar, Nicki Parrot on bass and Jon Colliannis on piano. This is the same lineup that I saw last night.
There are some segments of the PBS special Chasing Sound available on YouTube, but they don’t include complete songs. I recommend seeing Chasing Sound, however, if you are interested in music, history, the electric guitar as an artifact or Les Paul as a person. It’s a worthwhile 90 minutes.
If you click on Les Paul’s name in the tag cloud on my sidebar you will find some more video of Les and Mary Ford, from 1950’s television. I also have a couple of photos on my personal blog, here.
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