The world is a better place because of this man

At this point in his life, Les Paul had arthritis in both his hands so bad that only three fingers in each hand where even functional and those that where functional where severely compromised. He had to re-teach himself how to play the guitar with this handicap. Still, this is one of the best renditions of sleepwalk on guitar. In his younger days Les Paul was one of the greatest guitar players out there and he created many new styles some of which went on to be rock and roll. I showed my son a video of him playing "How High the Moon" which came out in 1951. The video was made in 1953 from a TV show he made laying down the final track of it in a demonstration of the technique of over dubbing (which he invented) and my son immediately said "That's Rock & Roll". No I said the history books say that the first Rock & Roll song was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets from 1955 while others say it was "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats in 1951. Here it is. I'm not showing this to demonstrate his virtuosity but rather his inventiveness. Remember this was 1951. There are better examples of his virtuosity. Les Paul was known as a Jazz player but whatever you want to call this it wasn't Jazz. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJ97yJOAeKTemKg.html

@DanielVerberne

3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating, I did not know of Les debilitating condition towards this stage of his life. I love Joe Satriani's rendition of this piece.

@knastera

9 ай бұрын

Remember that he also broke his elbow and had it set so he could play guitar.

Could listen to this all day

Great version of Sleepwalk beautiful sound. Thank you will never be forgotten

Les played with such elegance and finess.

Les Paul. What a guy. Invented the solid body electric guitar and many other devices and can he play guitar when he has arthritis.

...thank you for Les Paul. Happy BD in paradise maestro.

There are legends.....AND THERE IS LES PAUL......thats all i have to say about that.

Great sentimental version of this song.

Gorgeous tone from the master!

The forever young melody is beautiful.

The bassist and guitar add tasty phrasing for Les to play over. The audience is there to see real genius at work.

what a great player he was love this song

There have been so many great guitarist from Jimmy Page to Jimi Hendrix that have strapped on & plugged in and played a Les Paul, but there was only one Les Paul.

@alexlogan124

4 жыл бұрын

Hendrix? You sure buddy? I’ve seen him use strats, Flying V’s, and SGs but never a Les Paul

@franktheo2055

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexlogan124 I met a kid working in Sam Ash 18 years ago I was buying guitar strings. The kid told me he was at an event featuring Les Paul. Slash and other great guitarist were there and he told me not one of them could keep up with Les that night Arthritis & All. When I took guitar lessons BTN 1978-1983 I had a snark Jazz musician for a teacher and he shunned Rock music, so I asked him who dose the Jazz world regard as a great rock guitar player he looked at me and said Jimi Hendrix, I nodded in agreement. 1986 I was in my friends car WNEW FM was playing a Jimi Hendrix special it was all jazz ruff cuts that were never released, and I never heard this music again and I was Listening to this thinking I could be home tapping this, and I thought about what my guitar teacher said about Hendrix & Jazz music. Leo Fender never played a guitar but built a good one & Music Man guitars as well. Les Paul was in a league of his own & invented the electric guitar. What Hendrix played in the studio and on stage who can tell. The Gibson SG had Les Paul's stamp on it Mick Taylor had one its on the cover of Get Your Ya's Ya's Out in 1969, and the Gibson Flying V might have had a Les Paul stamp on it as well -- Who Knows. Les Paul was the master who paved the way for Jimmy Page Steve Miller and everyone who followed whether they played his guitar line or not. YEP I'M VERY TO THE POINT & VERY SURE !

@alexlogan124

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Theo I don’t disagree with any of your claims of the virtuosity of jazz players vs rock players but what I disagreed about was Hendrix playing a Les Paul. Les Paul was way ahead of Hendrix

@franktheo2055

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexlogan124 My statement was pointing to the guitarist & not what name brand of guitar they where playing. But to each his own.. Peace.

@alexlogan124

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Theo Alright I can agree with you on that

Wow! LOVE this piece. And Les KILLS it!! Sure do miss him!!

Such Class and Finesse. Beautiful.

Humans can do things..... this is a good human doing what he do Thank you LP

What a legend

Superbe interprétation de cette jolie mélodie d'une façon jazzy à la manière de Django Reinhardt.Chaque note est jouée sans virtuosité ostentatoire avec beaucoup de musicalité.Encore bravo M.Lee Paul!!!!

Bästa versionen jag hört av Sören Walk. Jag har hört väldigt många. Tack Les

@stig-ovestolt2986

11 ай бұрын

Sleep walk

the master at work

¡¡¡Bravo, maestro!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

Très belle version toute en finesse...

Simplemente impresionante... maestro total de la música... todo mi respeto para ese talento

Les Paul......nuff said

FUCKING BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine going into guitar shop and picking up the most famous brand in the world…. With your name on it.

wow!!🙏

Este hombre es muy grande.

Such a sweet tender tone. ..

I think its crazy everbody distorts these when they sound so devine with just a little reverb and slap back delay . Thanks Santo and Johnny for getting up at 2 am and working this out! on lap steel

I saw interview by an editor of a guitar magazine years ago in which he and Les talked about some of the double bends that Les used. The technique was simply that Les would bend a note and hold until the note had almost disappeared and then Les would re-bend the note without using his picking hand, this gave an almost silent but noticable second emphasis on the note. Les said it was a method he'd developed to add a bit of "extra" to the songs without having a whole loud note popping out of the speakers. This particular song showcased that re-bend technique a number of times. Chris, I really enjoyed this one and greatly appreciate the effort you take to post these excerpts from the performances. I'm curious as to what his rythm guitarist and bassist have been up to since Les passed away. With "played with Les Paul" on their resumes, I have to imagine they're playing with anyone they choose to...

@berfsk

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Simmons lespaul.org

Les is the man

Uploaded on my birthday Beautiful version. Thankyou les Cheers.

Wow..nice

Lester was on the ball that night!

@berfsk

6 жыл бұрын

Liam Marshall lespaul.org

@mr.wizard2974

6 жыл бұрын

I'm always on the ball

My favourite.. by thé maestro

Thank you for this upload

Toda vez que estou estressado ou chateado esculto essa musica, e fico tranquilo, calmo, essa musica me traz boas lembranças como a do meu pai q já se foi a muito tempo.

Good stuff

❤GREAT

Genius

You have to be this good to have The Gibson Guitar company name a guitar in your honor.

Les always plays beautiful guitars that aren't available to the public. This song sounds good.

@rogerray1853

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good is putting it mildly with out him other greats would not be there

masterpiece

Oh so very sweeeeeeet! Howl!

🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍💯💯💯❤❤❤

Très élégant, respect. C'est aussi un peu amusant de voir le VRAI Les Paul jouer un son aussi fin et clair alors que 99% des utilisateurs de la guitare éponyme ne conçoivent pas de jouer sans un son baveux et distordu. D'après l'histoire, Leo Fender avait envoyé une Nocaster à Les Paul, mais celui-ci a préférer la collaboration avec Gibson et on connaît la suite. J'espère qu'après leur contribution aussi merveilleuse à l'histoire de la musique (en tout cas celle que j'aime), les deux s'éclatent bien au Paradis.

素晴らしい！

Yes !

Hahahahaha. That was so good it made me laugh too. "Sleep Walk" was a #1 hit for Santo & Johnny Farina in 1959.

Good one

@berfsk

6 жыл бұрын

Scott Thomas lespaul.org

ﾎﾟーﾙさん、素敵🦉

Would have made Santo & Johnny proud.

@mjs2016

3 жыл бұрын

Santo and Johnny would have been making him proud

That's how it's played buddy.

ANYONE TO DESLIKE THIS MUST HAVE SNEEEZED AND HIT THE BUTTON

🔥

Don’t disrespect LP he is a marvelous man and guitarist.

What can I say that hasn't been said before?

his real name is--- let's play ----Les Paul is his stage name

It’s in the fingers. You can’t buy it.

THE MAN.........😄

Listen to Jeff beck's versiin

I hope he was better in his younger days because I could play it better than that when I was 14, 62 years ago.

LP could not read music.

Simples.

ギターが体に纏わり付いている、というかもっというとギターが身体の一部になっている感じがします。 THE guitar cligs his body. more to say,the guitar looks one of his body,

とても 「寝込み徘徊」(！笑) など出来ない、 一音一音、(彼は今回はさらっと流して？！おられるのだろうが)、 その深みは矢張り凄く凄い(二重失礼！) と思う。 そんじょそこらじゃない。 矢張り、格の違いは、直ぐに解るものですね！

An interesting observation: Less didn’t bend strings when he played sleep walk. Wonder why?

@antithug7942

3 жыл бұрын

@t Adler: Looking at his fingers, especially his right hand because it's easier to see, it looks like he has arthritis pretty bad. Can still play very well, though. I'm just guessing that's the reason, I could be wrong.

@tdadler

3 жыл бұрын

anti thug ; You prob right. Arthritis great player.

@South3West77

3 жыл бұрын

In 1948 Lester williams Polsfuss, les paul's real name, was in a bad car accident, the doctor could not repair his elbow, so Les told him to fuzz the elbow at a 90 degree angle so he could continue to work with the guitar. Amazing.

Damn i thought it was django reindhart on rhythm

@myflyonthewall48

4 жыл бұрын

The real real goat

not a patch on hank, basic really

I bet he is good at guitar today!

@michaelware3970

3 жыл бұрын

Your'e dead on!

It's like watching Einstein do physics. Fun to watch a genius at work. It's hard to believe he invented the electric guitar.

I'm not to keen on the thin tone.

Is it just me, or is it weird watching Les Paul playing a Les Paul? Malkovich Malkovich Malcovich, Malkovich?

@GH-oi2jf

3 жыл бұрын

What else would he play?

No doubt a great guitarist, but for my taste the Gibson does not have the sustain to carry this melody. Hank Marvin's version is hard to beat.

@tonybussey8763

Жыл бұрын

Brian Setzer won a Grammy for his version

He may want to play "Sleep Walk," but he's got another tune mind. Sad, he's butchering this tune.

@pyleen

2 жыл бұрын

Hes about 90 here you clueless fuck... I bet you play all that heavy shite people still laugh at

@GH-oi2jf

11 ай бұрын

In case you haven’t heard, music admits considerable variation in what notes are played and how they are played, except for purely classical music. This was Paul’s version; perhaps you like another version better. That’s legitimate, but to say that he doesn’t know the tune is ridiculous.