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Good Life Project
"les paul" Discussed on Good Life Project
"There's an interesting really kindness based origin story of how you came to even own that guitar. Well, yeah, the whole thing is like a fairy story, really, from beginning, and there's no end. And it's still, it's the gift that keeps giving. So yes, I had just, I was with humble pie. It was 1970. I was playing film or west, and I had just swapped my SG, my Gibson, SG Gibson, Les Paul for a 62 four three three 5. Well, unfortunately, we played at such a loud level humble pie that every time I turned my volume up to solo, my solos sounded like, oh, it's just a massive feedback. You know, and I was just and the band were looking at me like, what's going on? You know, so anyway, after I came off, there was a friend of mine there that I knew from San Francisco. And he's Mariana. And friend of his had told him that I was having problems. So he came down the next night. He said, I couldn't help but notice that you were having problems. He said, would you like to borrow one of my guitars? I said, oh gosh, yeah, that probably be good. So he said, it's a Les poll. I said, I'm not too good. I like SGs, but let's pause or a bit too fat sounding for me. So I said, but you know what? Anything. It's going to be better. So he brings it to the hotel the following morning to the coffee shop. He opens it up in the coffee shop. And it's just come back from Gibson having been refinished in 1970. It was a 1954 guitar. And he had a plumbed it for three humbuckers instead of the P 90 original pickups on the guitar. And send it back to give some name for refinished it. And I just took it up to my room in the hotel and I was playing it and I just felt like this was the perfect neck, everything just felt so and I played it on stage that night and for the rest of the night for the show and it was my feet didn't touch the ground. And my solos were nice and loud. So I was just and then at the end of the show or ended the run of the shows. I said to mark, you know, I gave it back to him and I said, I know there's I know what you're going to say, but I got to ask it anyway, which is sell it. And he said, no. I'm going to give it to you. And I mean, I'm getting goosebumps right now. That was the beginning of the fairy story, you know, that he gave me the guitar. I have given him so many number ones of all the different runs of Gibbs and guitars that I've been lucky, lucky enough for them to do for me. So he always gets number one. He's going to get there's another one coming out. So he's going to get that one, too. And so I played it. I played it. I played it from 7, 1970, 1980. We had this horrible accident plane crash and Caracas Venezuela and we believed all the stage gear was gone. Everything. PA, monitors, backline guitars, keyboards. And so when my tech went down a week later, we were not in the country anymore. We'd already moved on to Panama. And when my tech went down there a week later, he said there's nothing left. It's just, you know, there's a picture in the book of shows you what was left. And so anyway, that was it. So for 30 years, every time someone came to me and I had a black Lewis Paul in my hand or was that it is that it and I go, no, it's not the one. And so then, as I said, 30 years later, I open up an email from my info at Frampton dot com. And there it is. Today. It's a lie. You know, so I screamed and I looked at it and it's mine. That is mine. I could see it because they took the pickups out. I know everything about that guitar. Inside outside, you know, inside the volumes, everything, because I've taken it all apart so many times myself, the cleaning and updated or whatever and that's mine, but I wasn't going to tell them that. So anyway, there was a gray area of two years where the guitar was owned by someone on the island of Curaçao and he stashed it away. It was too he knew what it was, obviously. Then his son, the next generation. That's why there's the 30 years. Wants to play guitar and says, dad, can I take that guitar into be fixed? It's not playing too well. And so he said, yeah, go ahead. And they didn't think about it. The luthier he took it to new as soon as he opened the case. He went. And he said, you know, he didn't say anything. He just said, leave it with me overnight and I'll get it playable for you. So the kid comes back following day, and the luthier says, do you know what this guitar is? Who's this is? And the kid just closed the case and ran out. So that was it. We knew who had it, but we didn't know where he lived. So in the end, the kid wanted a new guitar. Within 18 months, two years. And so he asked the luthier. I'll get rid of it.
thebuzzr pod
"les paul" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"You helped me develop us. And dinty homage to teach teach me more about this and so she did. And so Edge the black is the result of vow. Those teachings there's a lot of the music is telepathic and ripping communicated anti telepathic level. So it's it's it's it's carried on emotional wavelengths of pure emotion of of of Of appear love in all the strings. All the all the notes that are being played and being played four heartfelt. And that's that is the on a telepathic level. And that is what extraterrestrials listen for. They listen for the emotion. That's in the music. The actual motion. That's one of the things that they taught me. What else have they taught you They also taught me about the tonal language of the whales and how the whales speak a very complex tonal language. That is also telepathic. And i asked if they could teach me this and of a couple of years ago. One of the new girls thera and when the appointee she was teaching this. I received a massive download from them one evening. Kathleen is the download It's kind of like the best way to describe it if you've seen the movie the matrix when when the neo was getting all these cards put anthony. And they're downloading all the information and all of a sudden he's like i know kung fu that's not science fiction that's based on reality on real things take place and the kind of technology that extraterrestrials have where they can download you with information. I've experienced it so many times and the symptoms are always the same after. I've had a download the next dan. I'm extremely groggy. And extremely tired in asia have to go home. And take a have a long download reboot nap. A minute literally. Feels like a reboot Because of how heavy some of these downloads are. But i digress anyway one of the downloads. She gave me was actually the tonal language of the whales introductory course it would be almost nine months before he actually access those those memories of those teachings and then i ended up writing now waffen on my On edge the black and they're in that in the main melody of as song is total language. The melody is actually. There's no words but the melody the tones that i'm playing actually or saying do you hear me and i was. I was what at the time when i wrote it. It wasn't until afterwards that i finished the song was listening back all the sudden i got it was like a sudden knowing and i heard a translation of the music. Do you hear me. I was actually saying end the recording and broke down and cried. It was the most incredible moment in my life. Besides the birth of my my first son. what happened with that tonal language. So the my my extra-terrestrial teachers have taught me so much. And they continue to teach me and there's so much that they have to offer to teach us of the sixteen million years of advancements that they have over us amazing kevin while the sound of pyramid of mars has definitely evolved over time. What can fans expected new next release. Getting back to as i was saying with the how music continues to evolve were. Each song does not sound the same as the next one and different. Each guitar has a different tone than another guitar. And the guitar wants to say something different. So the music is always evolving. They're still the same elements in pyramids. Omar's you know the way. The songs are structured the tones and and the melodic themes a lot of that is very structured but the sound will be completely different so with the new album is explained a lot of it. Half of the Was written on the signature guitar however the other half of album sounds completely different than anything else that i've done. It sounds more influenced by Sounds more like my older band shatter instincts when we were more of a tool influenced band and so playing everything else on my les paul guitar which has been tuned down quite considerably low. So it's It's a long story but how this happens. Callous the story the other songs on my on my next album by guitar. I went to pick up my les paul one evening last year and and this sounded so rich and i started all new songs. Disturbed to come out and we're just coming out of the guitar. Like song after saw like like ridden like a one. Take these great song ideas and it was recording them. All and then. I realized that the guitar center really lower than normally did and i went to check the tuning and they guitar was completely re-tuned tuned down a whole step and a half from where was it was like. I did analysis who was actually tuned to a baritone setting but it was also at a different frequency. I tuned my on. My music is played at four. Thirty two hurts and tuned to four hundred thirty two hurt versus four forty. And there's a reason for that. I'm not going to get into right now but my other guitar might less paul when check the tuning. It had been tuned to five hundred and forty eight hurts self ngo gio frequency which is love. It's a healing frequency. Dna repair frequency low-frequency. I didn't do that was like okay. Who returned my guitar. It wasn't that it was out of tune it was completely retuned. Somebody came in here. Physically sat down with the guitar retuned to a different frequency. And then i found out that it was one of my. Ponti friends grayson. Hugh had re-tuned my guitar and he wanted. He thought that. I could experiments in a different frequency different retuning and then he even my god. This is crazy. I in i was in. I was interviewing sewer and riverway offer on my radio show. Who are the telepathic translators. For the and while they're interviewing me grayson interrupted sue and started talking to sue to talk to me and the live on tv grayson. Started to tell me how to. He taught me how to play guitar and with to listen to and he said the lowest ring. Listen to that as a as a it's supposed to be the eureka of the song and bring it back hole and it was a long explanation of how he's explained at a play that guitar and so the new the new music. That's coming out. You're going to hear this guitar with these new tunings in the music. So it's it's a very different direction of where i'm going musically and really excited about it and i think people are gonna turn a lot of heads because nobody else is doing. What what these albums sound like gets into the like anything else out there in the music right now. Wow what an incredible story. Your music definitely took a turn in act charade. Tell me at with our during rain.
WBUR
"les paul" Discussed on WBUR
"No program on the history of the electric guitar would be complete without talking about Les Paul, who actually was a famous guitarist and Monica. Tell me, why is he important? He's an interesting figure, because in some ways, I believe he's gotten more attention for invention around the electric guitar, then maybe he should, but not enough around his both playing but also his sound recording inventions. The thing with Les Paul is that he was an amazing guitar player very fast, very high quality. A lot of people wanted to play like him, and he was extremely popular, and he had experimented as had others in the forties and even late thirties with the idea of a solid body electric guitar. He came up with something he called the log around 1941 that was basically a piece of wood with pick up and strings on it. And he tried to play it in a club and the club owner said. That doesn't look like a guitar. Or you can't play that. So he cut another guitar in half Put the wings essentially on the piece of wood. To make it look like a guitar. And then it was okay, so this innovation of his sort of gained this mythical quality about the early solid body electrics. But actually in the Smithsonian's collections we have is Slingerlands Song Storer guitar from the late 19 thirties that was a Spanish style solid body electric guitar. It's in trade catalogues, but it never took off. So there's something about the combination of innovation at the right time and fame..
Stuff You Should Know
"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"How seeing at the very beginning in the first episode. How vendor was up west. Paul was down on the other way around the strap kind of changed the world. And then the strat became kind of cool for a little while in the sixties when all. These guys started playing the the les. Paul jimmy page of course and People like wait a minute. We need less. Paul's like there was only twenty. Four hundred of them so they started making them again by popular demand in. I think sixty something a sixty eight and they never went out of production again. Yes sixty eight start making him again and since then it's you know there are plenty of people who have both but the question sort of always unless you play like off like a rickenbacker. Something people are always like you gibson person or a or offender person. Sure i'm a gibson person always have been. that's well. les paul ended up. He died he does a nine but he ended up being the only person to date who has been inducted in both the rock and roll hall of fame and the national inventors hall of fame which is pretty cool. Pretty amazing great story. That's the story of the solid body. Electric guitar has told through the eyes of leo fender. And les paul the and thanks for indulging me on this goes go a man i was nice to hear you just so just jazzed. Like precision jazz bass will after thirteen years. I've we finally tackled something new something whatever. Well if you want to know more about The electric guitar go pick one up. See what happens. And maybe you'll start.
Stuff You Should Know
"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Mister x was the president at the time and he Largely designed the guitar. But yeah they kind of let. I guess as part of the endorsement deal. They let Les paul just basically claiming like he'd had a lot to do with it. He made some tweaks For sure but he he never designed the last ball that that is also a fact right and he did not admit the electric guitar. A lot of people still say that less paul invented the electric guitar and he was always happy to just sort of not as head all right. Chuck like by the by the mid fifties by the early fifties Fender telecaster out Gibson had their les paul model out so there were now widely available electric guitars being produced in. That sounded awesome. Like the sounded finally been achieved loudness clarity shredding nece gnarly nece all that stuff was now extant in the world did not exist before now. It did but the the one that really changed everything that the electric guitar that changed at all was Fenders if not their second model. They're definitely their second. Well known. Model the stratocaster right which came out in nineteen fifty four. Yeah this was a huge innovation because the problems with the tally is that it Like i said it was it was it wasn't rounded it wasn't sharp and i'm talking about the edges of it was kind of dug into your body and wasn't super comfortable so leo fender does what he does which is make improvements like the japanese and he got onto the back of it and he. He carved out where the top of the back of the guitar. Meet your belly. He shaved that down to where it was contoured in. Then where you're right arm. If your right hand player your pick hand where it We are forearm kind of rests on the top front of guitar. He carved that down to and contoured it. So your arm in your belly. Weren't pressed against these sharp edges. It was just a more comfortable guitar all the way around. It had a had a coup..
Stuff You Should Know
"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"But they're really kinda gets across. Just how huge mall was as popular musician. Right yeah Mary was great in Everyone loved her. She had a beautiful voice Again he was not a good husband to her. he was eventually when they got divorced It was on grounds of cruelty was one of them because he was just a a a workaholic would never stop and he would not let her stop and she was like where they were really really wealthy at this point from their career. And she's like can we enjoy life a little bit. Can we stop in and live. And he was like no like. We're not getting anything accomplished. If we're doing that and the stage Act was a little. I mean i guess for the time it was what it was but it was kind of misogynistic. He would make cracks about about mary. You know singing in between doing the dishes and and kind of making him dinner and she would sort of laugh and it was their banter but it was. Just the whole thing was kinda gross. In retrospect yeah for sure especially today and then the cats on the unicycles with the sparklers. It was widely considered to be over the top way over the top so But because leo new. Les paul i mean like you said they they an paul biggby. We're all working in a garage together. Working on electric guitars like he knew he was friendly with them enough. So that Leo fender in don. Randall said you know if we could get less paul. Who's like the most well known guitar player in the world to endorse are fender guitars. This would be a huge deal huge so they sent him a telecaster and with a note saying like. Hey this is where. I'm going like you to consider coming here with me. Something on paraphrasing and Les paul was like nah. That's all right. I don't really like this guitar that much. Yeah i think he was fairly kind about it but he said the sound is too bright. Had that bolt on neck. And you know it's a different sound and he didn't like it and remember like that was the whole reason. He dedicated himself to coming up with the electric guitar and cracking this code for a decade or more couple decades by that because he wanted to cuba searching for that one perfect sound and so that actually. He didn't give up the quest after fender said. You know here's my guitar and it didn't work Les paul despite having been turned away by gibson a full decade before went back to gibson and said hey. You guys have to listen to me this time like it's this is. This is where things are going lee offenders. Just come out with this telecaster. Like it's very clear that you guys need to be developing a solid body. Electric guitar and gibson said funny should mention that. Because we've been working on it. Ever since we saw the esquire at that music convention knocked our socks off..
Stuff You Should Know
"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Welcome to the podcast. Everybody i'm josh. And there's chuck and jerry's out there running around somewhere And this is stuff you should know about fender in less paul part do should we recap quick. Yeah i think so. It seems appropriate all right. Well where we left off with. Part one was Leo fender lifelong engineer. Tinker and non musician as made a career making amps. And trying to figure out the problem with electric guitar feedback. Les paul was a budding superstar guitar player and session player Also tinkerer trying to figure out this problem of amplifying. The electric guitar without feedback k. And they were introduced in nineteen forty seven trying to figure this out together and then enters a third gentlemen who may have had more to do with the invention of the solid body electric guitars. We know it then either. One of them for real. This is awesome things get a little bit shady. Little murky when carey grant enters. What's the guy's name is paul. His name is paul biggs b. and i've heard the last thing i've seen those guitars before his it's still are the is the company still around. Yes so here's the deal. Biggby is now most well known for what's called the bixby tailpiece. Which is he's the guy who kind of invented the whammy bar if you know nothing about guitars But you've ever seen like eddie van. Halen play not guitarists use these things but if you hit a note and then you reach below the guitar and grab that little steel bar and make it go. Wow wow wow wow That's a bar bixby invented. That and he is still most well known. Like you can be tailpiece. Put onto a les paul or s g or You can't do a defenders because they have their own. I guess you could with a telecaster but Any guitar without a whammy bar could put on a big tailpiece. They're beautiful they look great. And that's what they're kinda most well known for today..
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"And if you one time say on track five. He had to start all over at the beginning unless he still had those first. Few tracks handy Hopefully didn't break each record after each recording or anything like that but in that nuts going to that and that was about as innovating a former music as anyone who come up with to that point yet i. It's funny when you hear people working with pro tools in dragon drop digital recording now and they talk about like the old days when they use when they would cut in spice tape might go back even further jude to les paul doing this on actual actual acetate records. It's crazy. it is crazy when i was like. What does that mean. What was he doing like dueling acetate records and i looked in my eyes popped out of my head. Yeah it's it's pretty remarkable. The innovations he was coming up with. So he's doing all that he's becoming more and more popular and then very faithful thing happened Steel guitar player name Do we say joaquin murphey. That's all. I'm going out spelled He came over to his house one day and he said you know what i got this guy here Wants you to meet him in. He's good with working on amplifiers. And i think you guys might like each other And his name is leo fender and waris noah and this movie territory. Leo fender unless paul are hanging out together trying to figure stuff out together work shopping problem solving they You know day pointed out. And he's right that they weren't like great friends but it's not like they're enemies arrivals at first they just were really really different from each other. they kind of shared a at the very least they had a common problem common quest that they were both working on. They were just not similar people personality wise. They didn't click. Yeah put it. They weren't like this is great. Let's be partners. Were the same right exactly but they also were also kind of becoming rivals a little bit too right well. Not quite yet. At this point they were genuinely trying to figure stuff out together. And i think like leo is coming over every weekend. Basically musicians would come over still and he would ask them questions and try and figure stuff out Try and solve these amplification problems but Yeah there may have been a little friendly like listen with these guys got kind of thing but you know it's like you can't even play. Yeah then again. remember remember though fender. By this time he had a company fender electric instrument company. He was mostly focusing on Electric steel guitars because not just country western. Love that stuff but hawaiian music was really huge as well And they use the lap steel guitar. So yeah he was..
Stuff You Should Know
"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"We're back chuck. we're back we gotta log. We've got this little funny looking black solid body guitar and Need to pick back up with with les paul in nineteen. I guess forty one ish. He moves to los angeles. He starting to get session work He plays with bing crosby. Who was a sort of one of the most popular singers at the time. Oh yeah he moved to los angeles to be near being crosby which a little research and that was kind of a common thing. What just want to be near crossing you move across the country to be near bing crosby unless you were. one of. His kids was a good father now. Oh really not a good dad. I didn't know that. Wait a minute thinking. Oh mommy dearest that's right. That's what i'm thinking of thinking joan crawford but he was a huge music star Les paul was out there working with him but then he gets. I don't think we mentioned. He got electrocuted really bad. When he was twenty six playing music sweaty hands held the microphone was also touching the guitar strings completed a circuit and really damage should his hand such that. It took I mean i heard his whole body but it damages hand such that. It took quite a couple of years to even recover which is huge. He he might have never played again like there was a pile yet that was going to happen. Yeah and that's just injury number one for him But he gets drafted in world war. Two goes to work in the army the armed forces radio network and is playing guitar. Basically backing up the andrew sisters Backing bing crosby when they do these uso tours so as far as the army goes in world war two pretty plum gig right So and plus. He's again like he did move to. La beaner bing crosby and the fact that he's getting to like play with bing crosby is i'm guessing a lifelong dream of his come true And even after the war. I guess he made enough of a connection with being I'm on a first name basis with him by the way short He That that les paul Kind of i guess became. I don't know if there was like a mentor. Thing that at the very least. He definitely patronized les. Paul helped his career. Big time one of the things that really help us become like a genuine bona fide star. He's already fairly well known and a lot of circles had some hits but what really shot him to the top was in one thousand nine hundred forty five song. 'cause in a long long time sexually really good song but it was kind of a song. That was a hit. Because it kind of summed up america trudging wearily back from world war two And it's just kind of like this mellow solemn song where it's almost. I'm sure there's other instruments but my ears pickup bing crosby vocals in les pauls jazz guitar in the it. His guitar enhances the vocals so much. But there's actual guitar solo in there and it's slow but it's really good and that kind of show les paul superstardom from that point on. Yes bing crosby is like you need to open up a studio. I'll even help finances thing..
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"And i think gibson eventually bought them i think they're Co cobra or you know under the gibson umbrella now but He got to work on problems. And you've got to look up some pictures of some of this stuff kind of starting now. just look up a picture of the log from les paul and it was a about the essentially but it's not essentially. It was a four by four block of pinewood in about two feet long that he put a guitar neck on an episode guitar neck and he made his own pickup. I guess he didn't go out and buy pickup or us one from another guitar. And he made his pick up you know with a magnet wire put some strings on it and called it the log and it was a very primitive but working solid body electric guitar. It looked very much like something. diva would have played. Yeah in fact. It freaked people out so much early on That he ended up taking part in other guitar and gluing sides onto the side of it and you had to make it look normal to make it look normal and there. There's this great picture of him holding the law. Kind of separating the sides off with a little wry smile but the gibson little side note gibson firebird guitar which is one of my favorites are as they used to have one but i sold it. It is a. It's called a through neck guitar. I'm sure there are others. But it's the only one i can think of. That's really popular whereas it's the same thing. It's basically one long piece of wood like the neck is the same piece of what is the body and then they glue on these wings on the outside. Okay all right settled down. Chuck pretty exciting so chuck. Also if you ever found yourself. Trapped in waukesha wisconsin. You go to go to the kitchen. What county museum and actually have the original log there on display. Oh really yeah. Apparently they have a lot of les paul stuff there including that with the wings of the of the guitar kind of pulled away to kinda show. You know it's an extra design like the fiber i. I was just teasing you. I said to settle down. I was just taking opportunity like i'm. I'm charmed very unsure everyone else's by your childlike excitement. Over this whole thing. I'm as excited as when i got my first guitar when i was twelve. Which was a candy apple red. Bc rich like metal guitar. I wish i knew what mine was. A metal guitar to my was. Pink had a light coating of diamond dust. In i wish to god i could remember finding this out and who was a local metal band toledo. Yeah yeah they had like an album in a poster and everything and the guy. The guitarist from the band worked at like the music store Where i would take lessons. And he taught me and he was as interested as Oh i can't remember carl weathers. Character happy gilmore. But he's like a golf pro and totally uninterested. That's how interested this guitar player was and seeing me as a future guitar player. And it's like i blame him for me. Losing interesting harvard. He definitely didn't he wasn't a great mentor or anything. But i wish i would have stuck with a little bit longer because it was pretty pretty boss when i look back on the whole thing. I never knew this. How long did you try. know five. Six lessons may be right. I wonder what happened to that. Gets hard to like. My parents bought guitar. I mean it was using everything. But like i have no idea what became of that guitar. I took lessons. So maybe that's the key. Yeah i could totally see that. A shut myself in my room and started buying tablets Which if you don't know what that is instead of actual sheet music written out like a like.
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"He performing in front of people whereas leo fender really kinda wanted to be at the background unless he was very quietly getting on stage Must paul from the very beginning Once he could afford regular guitars. I think he moved to chicago and was like making decent money Like backing other people up but he had a relationship with gibson from the very beginning because gibson started out as an acoustic guitar maker And they're still known. I mean they make these great electric guitars but you know some of the best guitars in the world are gibson acoustic guitars mandolins in like yeah like just all manner of stringed instruments in the what they made basically works of art yes. They were beautiful and they still are. My favorite guitar is when i bought during the pandemic i finally bought gibson acoustic Based on a nineteen forties model. And it's just it's amazing the sound difference between even that and my really nice martin. Acoustic is striking. Yeah gives fender was not making acoustic guitars and they still to this day. Don't make a very good acoustic guitar. Yeah i can imagine. It's really interesting that like one of the big companies in the world. I don't know if they can't or if they just don't put the resources toward it. But i think they're nicest acoustic guitar tops out at about eight hundred bucks. Which is you know you can get a pretty good guitar for that. But these really really nice gibson's are like four and five thousand dollars. Gibson's whole Jam was to make professional quality instruments. That were again works of art. But like if you were a professional musician like gives him could make a an instrument that you could use an improbably love And they were making them already. They were making those electrified. Spanish style or electrified acoustic guitars. As as like. I was saying as early as i think. Nineteen thirty six was the. Es one fifty es stood for electrified. Spanish guitar And there was a jazz guitarist named charlie christian who really kinda champion that development. He think he played for benny goodman's band But i think they name the pickup in those after him. Charlie christian pickups but So les paul was playing these gibson guitars but it still wasn't what he was looking for. Because again if you turned it up really loud you would provide all sorts of problems. Yeah it's funny these little letters that like the es three thirty five just a classic amazing instrument still today and they have all these cool letters and you never know what they named. They mean electrified. Spanish is kind of funny. The iconic gibson s g. s. jason's for solid guitar. Really these very mundane abbreviations that all these years later seem cool. 'cause angus young plays it. Yeah right oh yeah. I mean cds attis the different example from angus young to be really onboard. But i got you. Oh man no. I play one well there. You go isn't cool. So he charmed his way into the epa phone factory in new york Phone is a really big guitar maker at the time..
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Fifteen in waukesha wisconsin. He was very constant boy. Like ed geene was as well but not nearly as grisly nell but it guitar wizard like game little known fact about again yes so before we get into his childhood. This is the real important distinction between leo fender. Unless paul leo fender did not play. Instruments was an engineer heart and love to figure out problems for other people less. Paul was At the height of his game the the most popular guitar player in the world and with a string of number one hits He was also a tinkerer but he was like. I need to make my guitar sound better for me so i can get better in sound better. Yeah that was his goal all along but you know it takes a special kind of person to say like okay. Well then i need to figure out how to make that happen. I need to figure out how to make an electric guitar. Rather than oh. What can i do i need to. I need somebody to do this for me. So many needs to invent this. I need clever somebody he was like. I'm going to try to figure this out myself. And he really like. I didn't realize what it guitar. God was and that he he was like this I think at one point. He had like four hits her four. I'm spots on the billboard top charts Like he was really a popular musician About midway through his career but even from a young age he started out playing like he a performer. And i think he's also credited chuck with being the person because he played country western to he also played the harmonica. His act was called rhubarb. Red him and he played the guitar and the harmonica. And he figured out. Long before bob dylan. Every came along that that's problematic. You'd technically need forearms for that. So he fashioned a harmonica holder that he could wear while he was playing the guitar. Just like bob dylan. More later on he was the kid who invented that years before. Yeah maybe this is another one of those things where it's like. Did he invent it. Or did he see it and make one on his own But not taking anything away from a guy. He was also a kid taking apart electronics in his house. Putting back together he really knew what he.
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Driving it so if you're sitting there and you're just crump crumpling your your issue of guitarist magazine right now. Losing your mind. Sell down 'cause. I just spell it out for everybody. Okay yeah in so getting back to where we kinda got off track. Good way but getting back to the big burning question in the big problem was with these. They call them spanish guitars but we call them acoustic guitars now. That had those electric pickups in them. They were really into feedback because they had this big hollow cavity behind the whole or it. You know it usually had what's called f holes in. That sounds funny but if you look at a new to shape like an ornate sort of cursive f- i'm glad you said it. So the because of these big hollow acoustic guitars with these pickups and early amp technology they would just feedback like crazy anytime he tried to get any volume so yeah. Those pickups wouldn't differentiate between the the Vibrations from the string that you are intended or the reverberated vibrations from inside the hollow body of the that spanish style guitar. And so it just sounds awful right so that was the thing that offender was obsessed with. He was like. How could you know it's hard to imagine but at the time that guitar was not a lead instrument and it was there were occasional guitar. Solos and stuff that you could Insert into a recording or they recorded live but you could put on a recording but like if you were playing. Live in a in a venue. The guitar was very much in the background. Because you couldn't turn it up loud enough to cut through the vocals and the drums. The piano horn sections. These are all really loud live instruments and he was like the offenders. Like we've got to be able to amplify the sound such that it doesn't feed back to where you can actually hear the guitar in a concert hall so it can stand on. Its own rather than companies you know..
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"I can fix nothing. Yeah he was busy like he was too busy leading cub scout meetings that i was not a part of any longer thinker. He was too busy. Well sounds like you guys found a great way to not spend time together. We did bring them beer. That's how i got to spend right So leo was really fascinated with radios early. On as a child he would build his own. He got a broadcast license when he was in high school. And before you know it. He had kids and neighbors adults. Even that would come over to have him fixed their radios and then to the point where he had a little repair shop in their in in california. Where the big vendor factory ended up being. yeah. I guess it started out at that radio as the radio repair shop and this kind of grew from there right. Yeah as a radio shack in cool literal radio shack. Yeah i guess so i. I think that the good people radio shack would have had a problem with it. Had you called that but was that you could have made a case like no no radio shack is the rip off. This is the radio shack and the judge been like shut up. Shut up shut. Capital t. You're all going to jail. So he was building radios. He started working on. Pa systems public address systems Which don't know what that is. It's always people are getting on me now for saying like everyone knows what that is. It's what the principal talked on. Or anytime you have a microphone. Attached to speakers that's public addresses. Yeah that's funny because it has been a little while since since somebody called you out on that because you stop saying if you've been living under a rock but now they're they're they're meeting you wherever you're at as far as concern. I either have to completely stop or just give up caring one of the two. Well explain what a pa system was. So maybe i'm on track. I think you did great with that. So this is when he started to become obsessed with Where we're just gonna call the big challenge which was basically you have to think back to a time where music was not electrified They were seeing through microphones. The they did have Lap steel guitars were electrified. That was technically. The first electric guitar was the lap. Steel yeah the rickenbacker frying pan. I saw yeah. That was kind of the very first thing. And in fact the The guy who started rickenbacker george beauchamp. He was the inventor of the electric pickup. So thank him. Big time for kind of leading the way. Yeah he basically he he yeah. He laid the foundation. That who knows how long it would have taken. But i i just want to like explain to people who are like me who don't understand this kind of stuff just real quick with a pickup. Yeah the pickup is the heart of what makes the electric guitar electric. And it basically works through Electromagnetism where you loop a bunch of copper wire around so magnets and then when you move the strings above those magnets it actually affects that magnetic field and produces an electrical signal that electrical signal goes from the pickup through the cord to the pa whereas amplified and now you have an electric guitar. And that's the guy who came up with this astoundingly impressive invention because not only did it work. He figured out how to make it pretty small right out of the gate like the frying pan electric lap steel guitars ugly but it was small and compact. It wasn't like those early computers that took up an entire room. He like how to make it. You know useful right outta the gate and it was a big big innovation from what i can tell yet another way to think of If you'd know nothing about guitars of the pickup is like the microphone for the guitar right.
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"So Clarence leonidas fender webster's defines fender as craze leonidas fender. He doesn't have a good name and he's one of these guys. You said that. He and les paul who will meet in a little while. We're very different and Leo fender wasn't just different from les. Paul who's different from a lot of people. He was what you would call an engineer. And if you have a parent who is an engineer above your dad or you're an engineer you know. The engineers are different kind of a different dip. Their cut from a different cloth in leo fender was definitely an engineer. From what i can tell. Yeah i totally thought about your dad during this We was born on august tenth. Nineteen o nine in orange county california and his first injury that affected his craft was his eye when he was Between seven and eight he lost an eye when he fell off his dad's vegetable truck and had a glass eye from there on out You know it's it's not like losing an ear which we'll get to that later If you're an engineer who works in generally in sound but when you're working on small circuit boards and stuff like that losing one. I is certainly going to affect your work. Well plus also he apparently was self conscious about it which is just just that my heart. Can you imagine a little will. Year leo fender. Who's like you know can't look up. He's looking down at the ground all the time while. He's talking to you because he's self conscious about his class. I it's just heartbreaking. Yeah and like you said he was an engineer. Little electrical circuit board nerd He would take things apart and put them back together from an early age he There's a great story from the book when he was about ten years old He got underneath the car and the driveway and basically took a look at it. What was going on when inside in sketched out. Not only just what exactly look like but how it all could explain how it all work together to make that car move. Yeah which is astounding. That's like prodigy kind of stuff. Like he was an engineering prodigy is another way to put that because absolutely not you know even even among engineers that's pretty remarkable and especially as a kid to do it too and then what makes them even more remarkable as an engineer and for all the things that he accomplished. He never had any formal training as an engineer. He just kind of became one to spy. Be doing things that engineers to was like taking things apart putting them back together inventing new stuff improving things that he thought can be improved. He just kind of learned by doing. Which is you know. that's that's old school very old school. Get in there and tinker away right. Yeah but if you don't have overalls on what are you doing. You know what. I mean now. Is your dad always tinkering with things in the house to know he was more like I've headed like make drawings all day at work. Leave me alone. Maybe bring old milwaukee tallboy before you leave okay. If there was anything that went wrong in the house you know my mom would be like. Can you fix that. Can you fix and he could fix it all..
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"les paul" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Production of iheartradio. Hey welcome to the podcast. I'm josh The clark there's charles. W chuck benny and the bryant jerry's over there and she's just jerry. This is stuff you should know. Is captain fantastic. Oh yeah that's a good one more talking about the piano player. What about how about mister robot. Oh sure okay jerry. Mr obama roland great. So how you a man. I think you're probably pretty jazzed about this one..
Pat Walsh
Les Paul's Number One Goes Up for Auction
"Oaks Theatre festival dot com. Thanks, Kendall. Nice job. Thank you, everyone for trying Appreciate that less. This is amazing to me right here. If you're a music fan, this is amazing. Les Paul, his number one Gibson guitar. Is headed to auction Les Paul. Unbelievable. The most historically significant valuable Pivotal, important guitar. Of Les Paul is up for sale. The earliest approved model of the Gibson Les Paul, owned by Les Paul himself. I mean, the earliest approved model of this great guitar. Les Paul, himself, known affectionately as Number one is headed to auction. The law is going to be part of the upcoming exceptional sale taking place
Mandy Connell
Colts CEO, Jim Irsay, Buys Guitar Used to Record 'Don't Stop Believin'
"To record that smash hit. Don't Stop Believin is going to a new home. Indianapolis Colts CEO Jim Irsay says he bought the guitar that was used by Journeys. Neil Sean. Piece of music history went for $250,000. It was a modified black 1977 Gibson Les Paul Chang autographed it. Our next update
Monday Morning Podcast
"les paul" Discussed on Monday Morning Podcast
"Live and all of that shit and Yeah so i watched cinderella at the moscow peace festival nineteen thousand nine which was a big deal because Back then you know we fuck in. We would like the Carla colorado avalanche fucking detroit red wings back in the day in the late nineties. We will let you know we weren't getting along that same really getting along now but like the big thing. Dan was people in russia. They couldn't get They could get stuff from america in one of those you know jeans and all of that shit and one of the big fucking things was Music so it was a big deal when gorbachev got in there and he let these bands come in and play the fa- the crowd was going fucking. Nuts must have been so exciting to go over there and play slash. I would be nervous like none of you. Guys have drugs on you right right. It's you're flying over. There would have been terrified. Fred career the fucking power. Tom's played the pearl kit. And that was a big deal back then like with like drums. Everybody played tam or tomahawk. I never knew how to say that or pearl right until the fuck in late eighties. And then all of a sudden drum workshop. Dwi came out and everybody changed. And i remember. Tommy lee was always playing pearl and then he went to. He switched over to d. W and then everybody did. The dude from poison emmer. He switched over. But then all the fucking speed metal guys all play the tama drums and that became like literally just like within metal music. Subsets a metal music. There was like the gear that you had to have. And i wanna give i think slash was the guy. If not tom keefer. I would say slash atop brought the les paul back because everybody had the fucking shredder guitars. I saw a time backstage. Cinderella and chunky for showing all of his these lead single also killer guitars was showing all of his guitars and he was playing vintage guitars and the nineteen eighty s and he had a one thousand nine hundred fifty nine louis paul les paul which i hope he still has worth like fucking you know three fifty half a million bucks last time. I looked you when they say if you could go back in time which bet like the super bowl and shit like that if you went back in time to nineteen fifty nine and you just walked into a fucking if they had a store view just ordered ten nineteen fifty nine les paul guitars. You would never have to work again if you sold. Nine of them like i dunno..
Broken Record
Robbie Robertson: Leader of The Band and Architect of Shangri La
"Here's Rick Rubin Malcolm Glad Well Bruce Adam from Shangrila speaking with the studios architect Robbie Robertson. We had a fantastic take the other day a year. And I'm when I was telling the stories of Shangri la you know stories he envisioned this place and built it and it was unbelievable and it was mine it it you know the other guys in the band thought this was a good. Hi Dear but from big pink to. Sammy Davis Junior's house to the worcester. We made these records in not not in studios in other places where there was an atmosphere and it could be our atmosphere and ours. Sounds you know now and every thing was not on somebody else's will way of doing of somebody else's wave likes. You know you would go into the studio Rodeo. And there'd be these used to be these union guys they'd be like Oh looks like it's lunchtime or like what are you talking about lunchtime. We're we're you know we're about to do something something and and they'd be an IV. Like I I don't know this should be louder than don't touch that you know. Yeah so I don't want that I. Ah I don't WanNa do that so I said what we're going to do is we're going to make these clubhouse these workshop these studios does things that is our world and arm music are sound and whether it was true or not. I believed that that it gave it a character and a saying which it did for better or worse. What's what's interesting about? That too. Is that now. It's become more the norm. Yeah Ah that that said when you did it technologically. It was much more difficult to do like when you did it. You needed big studio equipment like today. People people can do it on their laptops so they can. It's easier to make that jump but when you did it. The infrastructure involved was not easy to pull off. It was unheard of except for Les. Paul Les Paul said. I'm going to build studio at my house and I'm GonNa Build an Echo Chamber into the side of this hill right. And he was going to do all of these things. I had an argument demint the other day with Van Morrison about being able to do this kind of thing and because he was saying I only liked the play live just with my band and I go in and we sing and they play this song and we can capture a moment. We've all done that. I know it really well. I played Ricksen music the other day. That was all like first or second takes in it. Was You know songs you've heard. Yeah sounds you've heard a lot so so anyway so van saying it's gotta be live and it's got to be governed by and that's the way it used to be in a way of being I said what about less paw. Aw He overdubbed. He made things he played on top of himself. He doubled tracked. Things invented it so so van says I know but he was magic you recorded at. Sammy Davis Junior House. Yes we made the band album. The brown album And we rented. Sammy Davis Junior House in the Hollywood sunset is at plaza in the Hollywood hills. And we all stayed in the House for the family and we turn the pool house where he used to have have his. Party's with Frank Sinatra the rat back and all these people we turn that Pool House into his studio and the record company Penny thought. This was the worst idea they ever heard. I thought this was ridiculous. He said Dr Fifteen minutes. We have the best studio in the world here. Franks not for records year right all of this stuff and I was like no no no. This is a different thing and finally finally they were like okay. Okay I guess I don't know what you're doing and it's probably going to be bad but serious June didn't show up in another another. Sammy Davis Junior. He owned he still owned the House. He didn't live there so the magic him like he lived there. Stepping in on one of your according to what the House was built lower. You go into the the bathroom in the sink was down here and it was. Everything was built to his specifications you know and and I it seemed like this is great. This is great. Sammy's world's amazing. And so we recorded the album there and then we mix it or we're going to mix the record and there's this guy in New York. Toni Mae was his name and he had mixed the is the brothers. It's your thing. Do what you WanNa they do. So it was such a great sounding record we said wow. Let's see we can get Tony Maiden Mick says and he worked with Phil Ramone and all these people are which so anyway comes in and he puts up the tapes and everything and he says These tapes are awful. I'm going to have to do a lot of work. Arcand this and I thought I don't know if I like that. So anyway. He did a mix. There was not what I wanted at all. It's not the way I heard it all so anyway we're like thanks. Tony See You know and on which songs with these these were on the band album was the night they drove old. DIXIE DOWN UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK Whispering Pines on was wrong with his mixes his mixes were a trying to make this slick and bright and end and there was a witness to it. There was a muddiness to it that that suited the music it was earthy and I I want it that right. But he didn't get the joke so that was okay so I went and mixed the album with guy another another guy at the at the the old Jerry Ragavan said factory in New York this guy of mixed the album we mixed at the guys in the band. We were all in their the in God at the way that that I wanted so we get it and then it's like okay. The guy the mastering in guy his name is Bob Ludwig. You GotTa get him to master your record. So we take the record to Bob. Ludwig and and He puts you know he puts on the tape the mixes and everything and he says Oh boy is like Toni. May He's like I don't know I'm GONNA try see if I can fix this or save this and I'm like That's really depressing. So I go on I tell the other guys I said. I don't know we might have done this all wrong. Everybody's saying it's it's terrible and that you know so the net. I don't know a couple of days later. Bob Ludwig calls me and he says I am such an an idiot. I am such a fool. I didn't get it I so get it. This is maybe be the most interesting record I've ever heard. He said I'm so sorry. And he told me Bob Ludwig he said I made the same mistake when sly stone brought me. There's a riot going on. I thought that that was a big mistake. Sue Two and he said and then I realized it you know I had to accept it the way that I accepted your record and So I was like 'cause I thought he was right hit on and if he had a state with that I don't know what would have happened. So he you you know he mastered at hardly did anything to it in in the mastering and it was just one of those things it was a homemade saying it did have that character to it and that was part of its
Business Wars Daily
Tuning Up: Gibson Guitars Sings Sweeter Song
"AH from wondering I'm David Brown and this is business wars daily happy Friday France. Maybe one of the things things you look forward to on the weekend is going to hear some music or perhaps playing some of your own today to celebrate our three hundred episode of business wars daily. We're going to take take a look at two icons of the Guitar Business Gibson Guitar and fender recently our sister show business wars to deep dive into their decades long rivalry and today we're going to catch you up on where the two are now. Gibson guitars been on a rocky road to say the least the company was founded in nineteen o two and named after Kalamazoo Michigan Inventor Orville Gibson over the decades it became known for its high quality instruments particularly guitars played by Les Paul Elvis Presley Jimmy Page and bb be king among many others less Paul of course had a guitar named after him but in recent decades Gibson Star began fading in the nineteen eighties instrument sales slowed as kids chose synthesizers and video games over guitar strings over time that trend continued by the early two thousands more and more musicians composing and making music digitally under CEO Henry Jessica Gibson attempted a risky strategy to try to reduce Gibson's reliance on selling mainstream mainstream guitars. He wanted Gibson to become what he called a music lifestyle company with that as its New Strategy Jessica wits lead Gibson into buying buying an assortment of consumer electronics businesses making head bones turntables in speakers but what about guitars will according to the Nashville Tennessee and between twenty ten in two thousand fifteen the company's sales grew from three hundred million dollars to over two billion dollars but the business model was hollow just go lewitt's had also tried to reinvent his electric guitar business pioneering several attention-getting innovation some of which like a rocket shaped guitar and electronic robot tuning. Learning machines were mostly rejected by guitar purists. Many Gibson loyalists complained that quality dropped prices rose in by two thousand fifteen profit margin's dropped to a meager four percent meanwhile Gibson's most famous rival thunder was doing quite well founded by a Radio Repairman in an instrument lover named Leo Fender Back in Nineteen forty-six vendor is famous for its stratocaster and telecaster guitars. The company also invented an electric bass. Call the P. Base the precision bass which became a foundation for rock and roll like Gibson fenders instruments appeared in the hands of world famous artists from country to our beat Iraq in the nineteen eighties eighties and nineties fender custom crafted guitars for Jimmy Page Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Merle Haggard Stevie Ray Vaughan and the list goes on while Jessica Woodson his team were pursuing doing an aggressive strategy that took the company away from its core business fender to was expanding but in an arguably healthier less flashy fashion the company added Digital Products Guitar Students along with upgraded amplifiers and other basics by early twenty eighteen gibson was in debt to the tune one of half a billion dollars and filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection some wondered whether this would be Gibson Swansong or if the one hundred sixteen year old company could be saved last October Gibson name new leadership and the company emerged from bankruptcy now. It's getting back to basics. No more rockets shaped guitars electronic robot tuners crazy futuristic takes on its mainstay. Les Paul Guitar Today. Gibson offers two basic lines of its classic classic guitars modern and traditional many players feel like qualities returning and that the guitars while still expensive or no longer wildly overpriced and under engineered appeared. The company is slowly getting. It's Mojo back. Fender is at the top of its game but keeping an eye on Kitson. Hey Vendor knows its biggest. Competitor isn't down for the count to make sure it would compete with Gibson. Fender has sharpened up its budget minded imports made in Mexico and China. Those instruments were designed to undercut Gibson price in rival. I Will Gibson's affordable brand episode on at the same time fenders producing high quality more expensive guitars right here in the United States of America. It's not easy for icon at companies to maintain their relevance for more than a century but with help from their fans that's just what both Gibson and fender have managed to do at least at least for now for more on the twists and turns of one of America's great musical rivalries check out our series Gibson guitars versus fender our sister show mm-hmm business works from wondering this business wars daily at this week's episodes were written edited and produced by Elaine Appleton edited and produced by Emma Cortlandt are executive producers Marshal Louis created by for Non Lopez or whatever I'm David Brown and we'll see you next week.
BBC World Service
Mother, child dead after migrants set fires at Greek camp
"Newsday this talk about a five that's broken out in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos I should say notorious refugee camp actually so over crowded is it a police ended up firing tear gas is the migrants protested against what had happened that says speak more with Marianna kind of cooler that kind of lucky who covers refugee issues and has done has spoken to us in the past as well and she visited the campus it's called Maria camp about a week ago I'm Marianna will come back to the program first of what we know about the sequence of events what actually happened les Pauls. so basically there were two fires yesterday afternoon at around five o'clock one broke out at the olive Grove which is outside of the official come and a few minutes later another broke out inside the company not container and it's some spreads on a bike container you mean is is this one of the shipping containers that people people live in. yes the shipping containers that have been converts into houses right in the authorities then say that there was trouble from the migrants who are protesting that the firefighters didn't turn up early up again what do we know about that background. before the fire brigade arrived some migrants and refugees tried to still put out the fire but they were prevented by the police so when the the fire brigade arrive they at that the the vehicle basically runs the police responded with tear gas at the same time so they try to find to find this tear gas flying around it sounds an appalling situation and in the middle of this that was at least one fatality do we know how many people died the with the hotel is a woman from Afghanistan who was that's been identified the a few hours ago and your child's. a big. tragic one thing that we always talk about what would be say over crowded I mean just remind me the latest figures that ice or you know better than me but the latest figures I saw was twelve thousand people in the facility intended for three thousand is that still the situation water things like in the camp. I was offered the twenty sixth of September the there were thirty thousand five hundred people also viewed now they're around thirteen thousand because there are I rivals pretty much every single day what is the what is the background to that because of course there was this controversial deal between the E. U. in Turkey that was supposed to limit the number of people who ending up on this post but what is actually happening on more people coming through what's the situation at people are coming through Turkey in large numbers and we have not this this this summer actually this is both of you because of your political reasons because of what is happening in Afghanistan because a large majority of people arrive at the moment are people from of guns them but also people from thirty arrive so that was a shipwreck a few days ago in which some people died and all of them were from Turkey and do we have to assume that for the the the the Turkish border all the Turkish border police are letting people through. up possibly we cannot say anything for certain. but if this is so highly possible because what we have not this is the people who arrive on the Greek islands remaining thirty for a very limited time so maybe a couple of days we haven't seen that since twenty fifteen and with a tragedy like this does it move it back up the agenda I mean can't you know Greece's these people are sort of course in a limbo grease kind of doesn't really know what to do with the camp is this going to lead to any change. not actually change of the Greek authorities have amounts of they will increase the number of police officers on the island and they will try to change the asylum system which is the this is the reason that we have about local from southwest cations but unless the European Union thank some responsibility nothing is going to change many thanks indeed Marianna correctly lucky agree journalist who covers in detail the refugee issues in that
Thom Hartmann
What happened during CNN's climate town hall and what it means for 2020
"Absolutely remarkable town hall last night and CNN I and I hope you were able to catch all of the candidates giving their pitches and and and and I would love to get your feedback on them if you watched the CNN out at a town hall last night on climate change they they did a series hi you know frankly I thought this was more informative than any the debates we've had so far. we we had an opportunity to actually see candidates for president of the United States down democratic candidates for the president United States. take questions give answers get challenged. I this was far more useful to me as a as a voter as a potential we are not a potential as a primary voters in the democratic primary. this format yeah it was seven hours some yeah it wasn't actually seven hours because they broke it up and there is news in between and you know quite quack but that but basically you know it's it's spanned over well over of of a substantial period of time from the afternoon of prime time on CNN. okay I've got a couple take aways from this and and I want to get to them and I won't have a conversation about them the thing that high I was I was very impressed by the virtually all the candidates I think everybody brought their A. game to this with the exception of Joe Biden which really concerns me and if you are Joe Biden supporter. and you watched the debate last night. the the town hall last night and you wash Joe Biden's performance. I would love to hear from you as to why you continue to support Joe Biden I'm I you know I've been scrupulous up to this point. about not trying to answer my own opinions into this democratic primary I have my my own personal opinions about you know who would who would be the best candidate or the best candidates and you know I've I've leaned a publicly in on the air on a number of occasions toward Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders because they're the two candidates who are polling above three percent I'm basically you know anybody's polling under three percent right now you know with all the exposure that these candidates had with with four days in debates you know two complete sets of debates and newspaper articles on the internet and everything else everybody's been doing I think if they're under three percent they're probably fairly marginal and they're not you know they don't have a shot that that they're really running for a cabinet position or for senator or you know whatever to to raise their profile and yeah which is fine I get that the one exception that he is that if Joe Biden drops out of the race. and after watching his performance last night. hi you know I was in there with Louise neverson they're just with our mouths open I mean I I was like. if if the whole country was seen us and and I realize the whole country wasn't I mean you know CNN at any given moment probably has a few hundred thousand maybe at the most a million viewers in some of those day parts and but this was early prime time it might have been even a couple of million viewers I think if everybody was saying this it would be the end of Biden's candidacy in my opinion. he was rambling he was forgetting where he was he in in his in his thoughts. he was one of the very first questions is why are you leaving here to go to a fundraiser at the home of a guy who is the co founder of a of a liquid natural gas company of fossil fuel executive and Biden was like well I don't think that's the case and then they came back and said well yeah that is the case and then you know better I mean Anderson Cooper to fact checking in but it wasn't the fact checking the flip me out and it wasn't the the open reveal that you know Joe Biden's taking big corporate monies down that his whole entire life. what shocked me was his answers to the questions. they were non answers and and in many cases it seemed like he was just totally confused. I mean dial it we'll talk about how Donald Trump is slipping. and you know there's something wrong with Donald Trump well last night really flipped me out I mean I'm really concerned if Joe Biden is our nominee that Donald Trump is guaranteed a second term. as as as incompetent as Donald Trump is I realize these are really strong words. and so you know I guess I'm saying if you're a mmhm Biden supporter and you watch that now if you didn't watch that. don't bother calling I mean I you know it's a I I'm not I I I I II because this is this is a singular moment I mean this is this is this is. at a it it just blew my mind and I was watching on Twitter I was watching the the hash tag you know climate to crisis talk or play a clinic town hall or whatever whatever it was I was climatology with the hashtag on Twitter. and who what I'm telling you right now is what I was hearing from person after person after person I mean it was just like it was the Twitter blew up on this. and. back I'm very concerned. so. I now want to toss that out and and I I will pick up your calls on on you know that topic and others you know who who else did you see what did you see over daily kos Andri Yang kinda won the daily kos straw poll Elizabeth Warren came in second Bernie third I'm but I thought all of the candidates Connell Heris allowed forgetting which person was interviewing her now watching hours of the stuff I know there was Anderson Cooper but in any case you know a lot or something it caught in this trap that that Anderson Cooper tried to catch Elizabeth Warren in about let's talk about plastic straws let's talk about light bulbs you know people like those light bulbs are shaped like candles you won't take those people Hey I've got LED light bulbs that are shaped like candles it's a B. S. argument it was the talking points of the fossil fuel industry that the moderators kept throwing at these democratic candidates now you could you know it kind of pissed me off frankly but on the other hand I'm thinking you know these are the exact same kinds of fossil fuel industry talking points that will be thrown at you know the bad at the general debates and that candidates in general because the fossil fuel industry and big pharma basically you know fun to the media and I claim to ignore that. but so it was infuriating on the one hand but on the other hand it was so cool when when Anderson Cooper said well we know what what what what a Les Paul say the other one he said was you know you want to take away peoples gas powered cars and make them drive electric cars that are slower and I'm like. I mean I I've got a plugin Prius the you know the goes thirty miles on pure electricity and when it's on pure electricity I stop on the gas pedal and nothing can lay rubber that that that thing takes off like like nobody's business I've I've driven and several friends is Prius is there like a rocket ship it's like a jet taking off your pin back in the seat. I can't you know when I when I flip by my a Prius into into gasoline mode I can't get anything close to the pick up I've got electric boat and so I tweeted you know obviously Anderson Cooper's never room never driven car. but you know again we get these fossil fuel talking points of the CNN guys but that that you know I thought we were Elizabeth Warren push back brilliantly when he asked her about the in a little white ball thing and she was like really. seriously. I mean you want to talk about that and straws when when we were talking about the fossil fuel industry produces seventy percent of all the poison that's that's in the atmosphere I thought it was great to several people there and then during the evening pointed out that that the that the intensive animal agriculture and specifically mate was also a major contributor to the foster cries to the to the energy crisis or to the issue climate change crisis sorry someone Joe Biden here. so there's that. number two I I want to point out twenty one Tories have now left Boris Johnson. and the Conservative Party kicked them out of the party twenty one of them said you know Boris you're nuts we're not going to go along with this thing we want to have a yes we want to break so we don't want to have a hard break so we want to have some sort of negotiations with the European Union so that there's some sort of reasonable transition into British sovereignty. now that's interesting for us as Americans G. look what's going on in the U. K.. but. it raises a much larger question that nobody in the media is asking which is why is the same thing not happening in the Republican Party in the United States. why are Republicans not standing up to trump why are they not saying you know this guy's nuts. and frankly I think it's because of the power of a big money. in the U. K. they limit the ability of billionaires and corporations to own politicians. as I recall and I could be wrong on these numbers so please you know double check them and I will try to double check them with a little later on the program but as I recall when an election is called it's it it there's a six week maximum campaign period. and there's a limit to how much money can be spent on those campaigns. and I have I I recall in number but I'm not even a six I'm not certain of my fax so I'm I'm gonna stay in that regard but as a result of that it's a lot harder for for billionaires and industries like the fossil fuel industry to own politicians in the U. K. it's not it's still possible and it obviously happens it's a whole lot harder there or and in any other to develop democracy in the world than here in the United States. and so here in the U. S. you've got Republicans who are still cowering before the gun industry. and I'm gonna get into that a little later in the program and still cowering before the fossil fuel industry. and still going like then we'll find out of Joe Biden's gonna do this fundraiser tonight at the at the home of the co founder of this liquid natural gas company or not. but you know still distilled you know with their hand out to the corporate group. we've got that the United States they don't have that in the UK which brings me back to the point that my my final point on the on the primaries in on I was mentioning some of the secondary candidates. if Joe Biden continues his performances like he did last night in the debate. for in the town hall and climate if he continues to lose track of where he is and seen time because you can't remember what he was saying and things like that if that continues to happen. right now Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren have about forty percent of the democratic vote locked up. which means sixty percent is up for grabs Joe Biden's got about twenty percent of that sixty percent so if Brighton goes down then the question is who feels that place who is also willing to take corporate money but is now still a good Democrat. and I'm guessing it's going to be calling Harris put it but I'm also guessing that there's a couple of you know quote marginal Canada's secondary can't as people are
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Dick Dale, "The King of Surf Guitar," dead at 81
"Listening to because dick Dale the king of the surf guitar died over the weekend at age eighty one or eighty two and what I always been a big surf rock fan, partly because I socialize with the west coast and reason and libertarianism in L A, but what I love about dick Dalby, besides the music, which is just frenetic and wonderful and exciting and happy and drama and comic it's dramatic and comic at same time. He started life. As Richard Richard Anthony, months sore in Boston Massachusetts fell in love with Hank Williams was dubbed, dick, Dale by guy from Texas, and then, you know, ended up on the west coast, he's Lebanese-American polish Belarussian, and it became dick Dale king of the surf guitar, and that and surf music kind of it it ended up providing if if the Ramones on the east coast in punk were a girl. Group like throw a nostalgia act for girl group music, which I think is a fair and proper just reading of them all of the west coast punk bands of note were basically surf rock nostalgia bands. And dick Dale is just great. And when you listen to his music, I think most people get happy, and I would say go to Spotify just hit him on artists and listen for awhile. And then for those who get really excited by it. He did a cover later in his life of Jimi Hendrix's third stone from the sun, which is this great meta narrative because in that third stone from the sun from the are you experienced album has this. It's it's a dialogue between two aliens who come to the planet, and they they decide that chickens are the smartest beings on earth. And then they destroy earth and Hendrix one point says the line you'll never hear surf music again. And dick Dale had a particularly interesting relationship to that line. But so I'm out for a minute. During that actually came back to like, the chickens taking over the I don't know. Oh now that they're the special. What happens, and that's why the alien like episode five low opco show. Yeah. I still thought it was the white mice or the dolphins or something. They were running things. Dick, Dale was so awesome. He played absolutely every instruments in his band better than everyone who played those instruments. So he was virtuoso trumpet player in a and is drummer and all these kinds of things amazing. He also, and this will be my contribution to what are we consuming? Because of the way that he played a guitar, which it it's a sounds like a percussion instrument. That's because it would take he had like the heaviest strings of anybody like that think of if you don't if you're blanking on dick Dale is Pulp Fiction. That's all. That's the odds. Miserly opening section. Because of the way he played guitar. He partnered Leo Fender, original development developer of the electric guitar and really helped create the Fender brand. Leo. Fender was in competition with less Paul who he named as one of thirty five recent heroes of freedom in our two thousand three anniversary issue, but they're the subject of a book. Great book by Ian, port called the birth of loud. Leo fender. Les, Paul guitar pioneering rivalry that shaped rock and roll? Which is really great. Dick, Dale plays. A a very strong supporting cast role in kind of creating the Fender amps, the Stratocaster telecaster, and all these kind of great guitar sounds that came out of that total pioneer. And you know, we think of surf music the beach boys, which is correct on once sense. But even before that it was all about. This instrumental sound on that was dick Dale and the ventures in particular and Knicks, right? They launched a trillion garage bands and an DIY kind of seen throughout southern California. And that and that history is with us
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Yahoo is now part of Oath
"Star star eight four eight that star star eight four eight star star eight four eight the monkeys have postponed the last four dates of your tour after guitarist mike nesbitt myth became ill we the monkeys posted on facebook that nez myth had a minor health issue before showing philadelphia and was advised to rest for the next week the seventy five year old return to his home in california nez myth has been performing past hits the monkees present the mike mickey show tour with bandmate mickey dolan's the group says shows and philadelphia new york and new jersey will be rescheduled i'm bill michaels ober hard rock hotel and casino in atlantic city had to work quickly to fix a misspelling on a thirty foot tall guitar installed this week the sign modeled after a gibson les paul guitar was put up without officials noticing the word rhythm was misspelled on.
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Indonesia court sentences hardline Muslim cleric to death for role in terror attacks
"Cancer had returned aggressively a leading conservative voice he was also an author and pulitzer prize winning columnist fox's bret baier once asked him do you think you'll ever stop writing no i intend to die at my desk really i would like to i'm not sure i can arrange you president mike pence tweeting the charles krauthammer will won't be remembered for his countless contributions to american political thought former president george w bush saying in a statement he's saddened by the loss of an intellectual giant a dear friend charles krauthammer was sixty eight an indonesian court has sentenced radical cleric amman abdur amman's death for ordering his lawn estate affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the january twenty sixteen suicide bombing at a starbucks in jakarta the killed four people helicopters rescued strength people stranded by flooding thursday in both texas and montana including one hundred forty children and counselors who'd been stuck in a mountain bible camp for two days as severe storms swept across the rockies midwest thunderstorms that have moved across texas this week also brought heavy rains to that less than a year ago or hit by flooding from hurricane harvey potential rock and roll full pau has been averted the hard rock hotel and casino having its granddaughter opening next week in atlantic city they're dotting there is and crossing their t's but apparently they're not checking their ease a thirty foot tall model of a les paul guitar was placed out in front with a major misspelling on the rhythm treble switch the word rhythm was spelled r h y t h e m well there's no e in rhythm hard rock says corrected the typo by removing the.