Les Paul & Chet Atkins 1978 07 05 NYC NBC Today Show Pt2 

Jody Sheridan talkin’bout acdc? ;D

Paul and Atkins were both instrumental (so to speak) in the development of electric guitars. They're each playing guitars they helped design to specs which suited their playing styles. You'll never hear a Gibson Les Paul or a Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman played more deftly than in this clip. Ever. Isn't it a delight to hear?

Unlike today, back then you had to have real talent to get on TV. Unless maybe you were on the Gong Show. 😁

Two of the finest pickers ever, sadly both gone to a better place, hopefully.x

legends forever...…….

Sadly gone? That’s life.

@@bonhamhouse1169 You are a sick person. Yes, it's sad. Parting is sorrowful.

I realize it is kind of randomly asking but do anybody know of a good place to stream new tv shows online?

I don't think most people even know Les Paul was a guitar player. They prob just assume it's the name for the guitar and nothing else

The history of the actual guitar he's playing is quite interesting. He made the Les Paul with Gibson obviously, but Gibson just kinda kept it the same give or take but Les Paul himself never stopped changing it and improving it (in his eyes). Like he loathed distortion and overdrive and dedicated himself to eliminating it. And so this guitar he's playing has a different impedence to basically all other electric guitars and needs a special amp to be able to play it, the pickups are essentially only on this guitar model and no other, it has a whole bunch of switches, like 20 switches when guitars normally only have 1, or 2 at the most. Gibson released replicas of this specific kind of Les Paul and called it the recording model, but they're very rare and highly sought after, and very expensive. But they have a unique sound to them that basically no other kind of electric guitar ever made has. They're astounding instruments. Wish I could own one one day but it's the cost of a vintage porsche pretty much.

The Gibson Les Paul Guitar was created by Ted McCarty and the Gibson design team with 'input' from Les Paul the man. He didn't invent it, he urged it along.

@@orlandopockets6372 agreed however in addition to what you said, I' tell'em politely to GTFOH!

@@orlandopockets6372 this is les Paul!

If yoy are a Rock guy, you should know, add some distortion to these music crancked up and there you have it!

mike hunt If black guitar players didn't exist.

@@modernsavage2584 Lmao why is there always some afro-centrist hanging around in these old videos? Les Paul revolutionized all guitar playing. Both by his inventions and techniques. You can read up on him and his impact on the instrument, it would sound very different without him. Chet Atkins too was a driving factor behind more advanced country picking. Mark Knopfler mentioned Atkins as his idol. Both of them pre-dates any Hendrix or Berry

TheTreasureHouse what criticism?

dude u r so L7

What do you mean with Alien back in the day? Its not like they already heard Hendrix, Clapton, PAge, Beck and all the others...

Chet had been playing like this since the 50s

@@joriszsz95 The thing is, Les Paul already sounded like this in the late 40s, waaay before any Hendrix, Clapton or Page was seen. Chet Atkins since the early 50s

Well someone I can relate to I thought I was the only person who thinks like you,I sure do agree with you.

Luc Fielder less is that good because he is and was the father of the electric guitar there will be no other no ax man to be as great as he ever was without Les Paul there would be no electric guitars or axes or even multitrack recording

I feel you, I even owned a tv yellow les Paul custom .... had no idea ....

It's pronounced Mo- BEEL Alabama. Screw buddy rich. His despicable persona COMPLETLY negates any talent. Somebody should've kicked his ass up to his shoulder blades years before his demise.

Imagine hearing Chet Atkins play a guitar and then try to say with a straight face that he isn’t a “real musician.” Lol.

What a totally ignoramus thing for Buddy to have said - he wasn't kidding, was he? Good grief!! Chet Atkins is AWESOME.

Joe Day fuck Buddy Rich. He was a rude, crude drunk and abusive to musicians and fans.

Not quite, Django was quicker