Reader and blogger Billy Beck writes:
I read your 1999 article "A World With All Kinds Of Music", and it's
pretty good.
I only wish that more people realized the seminal work of someone
without whom recorded music as we've known it for about a half-century
simply would not exist. (Here is one stark example: "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band" was produced on a 4-track tape machine.
Technically understood, it becomes a marvel quite beyond its aesthetic
impact. It simply would not have been possible without this man's
genius, nor would have anything else that we've listened to, all our
lives.)
He invented multi-track recording, and if you sat down in the
technological marvel of a recording studio, you would look around at his
nearly innumerable inventions that augment music production, and which
are generally taken for granted by everyone in the industry.
Best of all, he's still alive. He plays his guitar at a little joint
in New York called "Iridium", every Monday night.
His name is Les Paul, and he really is an un-sung hero.
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