RIP Les Paul

Les Paul died today. He worked hard on developing an electric guitar and built one of the first solid-body electrics. Most importantly, though, he developed multitrack recording. Before the days of multitracking, songs had to be recorded as live performances, which meant a single flub would require the entire band to do another take. With multitracking, everything could be recorded individually, so a single flub would only send one musician back into the recording booth. Also, multitracking allowed a single musician to play every part in a band. Multitracking also allowed bands like Queen to do all the amazing things they did.

Blah, I was hoping to get to see him perform at least once. The man was still performing into his 90s, and I was hoping to get to NYC to see one of his shows before he died or had to stop performing.