Les Paul & Chet Atkins 1978-07-05 NYC NBC Today Show Pt1 

Amen

Well put....

Lol

I’ve listened to this eleventeen times and still can’t comprehend half of it, I’ve now got my guitar collection for sale 🤣🤣🤣

Seems to work like a tape looper.

Yep. He did.

He is a legend

what a legend!!!! 20 years ahead of everyone else, with that one

....Yes, and 'analog', not 'digital'......just mind numbingly brilliant....

IMO They're both from another planet.

Michael Lucarelli I

Hear, hear!

Les was getting sick there. I'm just sorry that I never saw his live shows at The Iridium

Crazy how the guitar started playing the solo before he moved his fingers...

@@eles2147 i did. he was the best. killer sense of humor to boot. great music AND COMEDY!

@@robharms1659 The Paulverizer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-28sVIzLWarY.html&ab_channel=MrAudioSoundImages

I think that stuff at the end was actually chet playing & les trying to keep up

AAAAAaamen

He's a pretentious wanker. He wishes he was Chet so bad.

@@sewagedump Pretentious? No, he was an innovator and one of the giants of modern guitar playing. You're an idiot.

@@sewagedump You're joking right? You know what pretentious means? Les was the real deal and that's just a fact. Who are you anyway?

@@Kedbuka he's also a moron and a sewage dump

@@mehermusic2154 Ok 10 year old

These are the guys who invented guitar heroics, and their mastery of the craft never gets old

he also recorded one with Mark Knopfler that was as good

I just added one.

Michael Lucarelli. That's for sure but not many know who they are now..sad but true

The morons out there are too busy listening to J-Zee and Beeoncay!!! Don't you undertand? they give us great music!!!

Michael Lucarelli ad

I know 2of the greats these guys was wow

Thank you for pointing out the inappropriate, competitive attitude.

I somewhat disagree., They could't play like Clapton when asked who was the best said "who cares? Let's Jam"

Just Lester Paul. Technical-wise, there are death metal bands out there who play with more technique than les paul. But considering his era of music, he's probably the only one who can play like that.

Woah. Someone needs to learn English. I said technical wise. Anyways, I'm not trying to troll. So I can't give less shit if you pretend or not.

Arthur Napolitano One thing to keep in mind, comparing Les Paul to today's metal guys, is that Les is playing with a clean sound, and with what kind of action? As you know, it's easier to play fast if you have a fuzzed out, super-saturated sound, on a metal guitar with a very low action. I've seen Television live, and Tom Verlaine and Richard Loyd work their asses off to play that stuff on Strats with almost no distortion.

Your mouth to God's ear!

young? they were old as hell in this...lol... les paul was a hit in the fiftys with his late wife, late as in now shes dead.... but glad you liked it.

oakenshanks I KNEW I was going to get called on the "young, prime" thing lol and yes I know very well who they are :) "Old as hell", maybe to your thinking. Not to mine considering they both played nearly to their last days, Chet was 77 when he passed and Les at 94... :)

Seriously what are we hearing...

What if I'm only 20?

xtc1957 Charlie byrd

Charlie Byrd

Pretty sure people still play live music on TV, old timer. In your defense, it does usually happen after 8PM, so you're probably asleep and miss it.

@@nickfoxx9310 YEAH, SHIT MUSIC A-HOLE

Doesnt matter we have youtube.

not everybody is low iq sliding into degeneration becaue of a lack of intelligence overal in the family, so speak for yourself. If u went to school or church ur brainwashed and a follower of man, how low can u go

The Les Paulverizer was simply a remote control for a tape machine Les Paul had hidden backstage. There's no looping going on here. That demonstration is just a bit of showbiz schtick. The entire thing you hearing is just a normal tape that Les had done beforehand. As for digital delays not being able to do this kind of thing, maybe not in 1978, but 1982, I think it was, Electro-Harmonix had introduced the 16 Second Delay (and in 1984, they introduced the 64 Second Delay, but that was available for long before the original company went under), and several other companies were making delay units with 4 second delay times.

@@Kohntarkosz Cool cool... I was thinking about the DIGITAL delays not the analog ones... I kinda forgot about those ones!

@@Kohntarkosz Thanks for clearing that up, I was totally blown away before reading your comment. Much appreciated.

Carnival organs do not use acid

From 6:22 to the end is one of the most beautiful and nonsensical things I’ve ever heard

I'm not sure 🤔

It’s the "Les Paulverizer". Les says so at 4:39, as does the video synopsis at the top. Wikipedia says that invention of his allowed him to access pre-recorded layers of songs.

I didn't need the layers.... what he played was very Django Reinhardt esk....(you can hear him play the same runs) . 😃.... and would have sounded great on its own......as he played it so well.... He was an incredible innovator of the guitar and it sound...... Carnival organ on acid..... is a great way to say what we heard lol.... 😃

great detail

Garegh62 Campbell was good, but not Les Paul or Chet Atkins good. Les Paul could make a guitar do things others dreamed of.

@Garegh62 Glenn was in their realm so was Roy Clark

Tommy Emmanuel.

And old white men around them that inevitably will be sued for sexual harassment.

haha

Hahaha haha 🤣🤣🤣 So true.... and very funny!...

and not so old white men who will go with anything those super skinny women say to bash all men.

@@oofconnoisseur8025 So offensive to all old white men who have NOT committed sexual offences.

80sMeavyHetal agreed

Pip McSqueeza Well, I'm sure Hendrix, as good as he was, didn't think of *himself* as "God."

Pip McSqueeza I guess it bothers some more than it does others.

+Pip McSqueeza He didn't. His fans did. In fact he hated it. His album "There's one in every crowd" Was originally to be called "The best guitar player in the world. (There's one in every crowd)." But it was changed because the record company feared that people wouldn't understand the ironic self deprecating humour.

+Pip McSqueeza Hendrix said he wasn't the best and that Terry Kath of Chicago was better than him.

+Jay Rock Nurse .....Must have said it before Stevie Ray Vaughn made him admit and I quote "There's no way you're going to do better than him, if you are on the same venue together you just have to resolve to do the best you can"

I love it.

Amazing