(Part one’s HERE)
What if your drive or passion is so unique and indescribable that it’s not even a ukulele? You don’t know what it is. Maybe you’ll have to invent your own thing.
But don’t expect acceptance or appreciation. When the electric guitar was invented it was rejected as a “broomstick with pickups.”
Now, though, Les Paul is the only person in both the Inventor Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Totally new and unique things can take a while to influence (if ever).
Les just died. He was 94. Played in a club every week into his 90’s. When you do what you love, that’s what you do. I showed my friend Eric a video and he joked, “Where’s the other women singers?” It’s all Mary Ford – Les Paul invented the way for one person to sound like a group, too.
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