Les Paul, RIP

"Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.

According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side."


Of course at his age this was bound to happen eventually but I am particularly not stoked as we were supposed to see him play this summer. The show we had tickets for was canceled due to Les getting sick which as it turns out was the beginning of the pneumonia that ultimately led to him dying August 13 2009.