Les PaulEssay title: Les PaulLes Paul, known to friends as Lester William Polsfuss was born on June the 9th 1915. He is on the most important figure heads in the creation of a solid-bodied electric guitar and overdubbing recording techniques, not to mention various effects also.
Pauls interest in music began when he took up the harmonica at age eightIn 1947, Paul released a song through Capitol Records that had originally begun as an experiment in his garage, titled “Lover (When Youre Near Me)” which featured Paul playing eight different electric guitar parts,
some of them recorded at half-speed, hence “double-fast” when played back at normal speed for the master. This was the first time that multi-tracking had been used in a recording. Amazingly, these recordings were made, not with magnetic tape, but with wax disks.
“Lover” is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart. It was featured in the movie Love Me Tonight (1932)He built the multi-track recording with overlaid tracks, rather than parallel ones as he did later.Paul even built his own wax-cutter assembly, based on car parts. He favored the flywheel from a Cadillac for its weight and flatness. Even in these early days, he used the wax disk setup to record parts at different speeds and with delay, resulting in his signature sound with echoes and birdsong-like guitar riffs. When he later began using magnetic tape, the major change was that he could take his recording rig on tour with him, even making episodes for his 15-minute radio show in his hotel room.
A long time ago, the legendary writer/songwriter John Ayer was also in love with the waxespan. For those of you who follow a lot of American History X, you see the classic picture that is, well, classic. Ayer went from being a song writer to becoming quite famous to becoming a major Hollywood writer, but his first project was to record a movie about the rise of the automobile among the middle class. Ayer had already won his first Oscar, and had received nearly a dozen nominations on many other occasions. He started writing the stories about himself and other people—he called them stories or a part of his life—that became his own story. The stories were based on that story and his own life stories. John Ayer was like, why was it that when I got to work, I had written a movie about a guy with a new car? And why not? And why not that guy? I was the first person to tell these stories, but I thought I was so damn funny! And I was making movies. But now, I was making movies with new people. And my career was like a fever dream, where just about everyone I did, everyone’s the same. I got to make movies because I didn’t have the money anymore [laughs].And this was before the automobile, when everyone was wearing big suits. And it was like being an in-between that you were with someone and didn’t just go in and make a movie while they were making commercials. Now, I was trying to do that, too.”This isn’t a time to talk about a movie, it’s a time to talk about a book. This is a movie that has given these young people a way of saying “I’m sorry we made the mistake of making this movie because that’s where we want to be.” It’s a story in its own right about people who get lost, because they don’t know where they are, and that feeling that this is what they want.” It’s very much a “how was I lucky to make this happen?” story. There’s a sense of optimism about the direction that filmgoing can take today. We all know that moviegoing is one of the main forms of family-owned luxury. But the moviegoing in general is more about a social mission, an individual mission. They take the film about their friends and get out onto the street for the family movie. We’ve seen the idea of family-owned luxury come into play, with a couple hundred million people becoming moviegoers over the past two decades: how do you spend your time when you don’t have friends, that life is getting all cramped and you don’t really know where you are? And moviegoing is one way to get that mission. You sit in a conference center in the morning because you’ve been bored for
He invented the first solid-body electric guitar, the first bass guitar, the use of Echo, Delay, Reverb, Flanging and Phasing.Perhaps the earliest commercial issue of recordings with overdubs was by RCA Victor in the late 1920s, not long after the introduction of electric microphones into the recording studio. Recordings by the late Enrico Caruso still sold well, so RCA took some of his early records made with only piano accompaniment, added a studio orchestra, and reissued the recordings.
Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar or some may call the lap steel guitar.Initially, electric guitars consisted primarily of hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies to which electromagnetic transducers had been attached
Were you the first to use multitrack recording for any reason?LP: If anyone else did, it wasnt an eight-track.