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Google Honors Les Paul With A Recordable Guitar Doodle

Google created an interactive doodle that commemorates legendary guitarist Les Paul who was born on this date (June 9) in 1915. The doodle is a virtual guitar that lets you play a tune and save it for posterity. You can use your keyboard or mouse to compose your ditty. [Google]


November 3, 2010

This Is The World’s Most Heavy-Tech Guitar

Gibson’s Dusk Tiger has a name like cheap cologne and guts like no guitar before it. And with only 1000 being manufactured, they’re something of an endangered species.


August 19, 2010
Gadgets

Let’s Watch Expensive Things Get Destroyed In Slow Motion

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An expensive Les Paul Guitar. An expensive Strat-style guitar. An expensive refrigerator. Let’s all just take two minutes out of our day and gaze on as they’re destroyed by fire and explosion, in super slo mo. It’s beautiful. It’s cathartic.


August 14, 2009

Les Paul, Inventor Of The Solid-Body Electric Guitar, Dies At 94

Les Paul, the legendary inventor behind the birth of rock n’ roll, died today of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94.


November 11, 2008
Gadgets

Gibson’s Dark Fire: Les Paul Reborn as RoboCop

It looks like the reason Gibson’s self-tuning Robot guitar had a limited run is that the legendary guitar innovator had the much more insane followup already blueprinted up: Gibson’s Dark Fire Les Paul-style digital guitar is the crowning shred-related scientific achievement of our time.