Comments on: Chasing Sound (IN MEMORIAM 1915-2009)

By: Jorge Castellon

Jorge Castellon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:00:35 +0000

Les Paul is the Legend that inspired me to be all i can be.

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:02:01 +0000

Les and I had a mutual musical friend (not a celebrity) and I inrtoduced myself to him in the Gibson booth at a trade show in 1984. I asked him about a run in “How High the Moon.” We played together for a while. We both were sitting on stools with guitars in out laps. It was a little like a calculus student doing a general math problem with Einstein. He talked to me for about 90 minutes and wouldn’t let me leave. While I was there he introduced me to numerous musicians that came to pay homage to him most whom you would know. They ranged from Rudy Svarzo the bass player for Quiet Riot to Buddy Ebsen. How can you get any farther apart than Quiet Riot and Jed Clampett. Everbody loved him…count me in. And to add a final story. He introduced me to Eddie Van Halen. Several years later I ran into Eddie and mntioned how we met. He remembered me and said that he wondered who I was. But, he figured if Les Paul knew me he should too.

By: John from Waukesha

John from Waukesha — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:01:22 +0000

I grew up in Les Paul’s home town of Waukesha, Wisconsin… many of the scenes from the program are personally familiar to me. I spent many an evening in the Club 400 Tavern, just a few blocks away. When I was a teenager I took guitar lessions from a gentleman named Floyd Jester in the basement the music shop in Waukesha. He’s long retired and in his 70s now but I remember his stories of Les Paul when he was a young musician…and of course, I bought a cheap Les Paul guitar to learn on. Just seemed right…

I’ll miss Les Paul, the most famous thing to ever come out of my home town.

By: Katherine from Maui

Katherine from Maui — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:46:14 +0000

I was traveling for 13 months as a “gypsy, on the road”, based out of New York in 2007. I had the privilege of being thoroughly entertained by Mr. Paul, the Master, and his friends twice…in October, ‘07 and New Year’s eve 12/31/07. Both times right in the front–up close–I’ll never forget it!! Both were the last shows of the evening and as late as it was he took the time to sign autographs and meet any guest who wanted to meet with him. He is the most generous artist I’ve ever met. I have a picture with him “kissing” me on the cheek. I even sketched him and he signed that sketch. These treasures are dear, just like the memories I keep in my heart of him. The world is a better place because of Mr. Les Paul. God bless his soul and my prayers go out to his family that lives on, and the world that has become his family. With Aloha….a kat who will miss you.

By: Bonnie Rosenberg

Bonnie Rosenberg — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:35:34 +0000

I also missed the airing of the tribute to Les Paul. You have to air it again.
Thanks American Masterpiece and PBS.