Les Paul, 1915 – 2009
By Ryan - Thursday August 13th 2009 |
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Lester William Polsfuss
“Les Paul”
The Wizard of Waukesha
June 9, 1915, Waukesha, Wisconsin –
August 13, 2009, White Plains, New York
Farewell to a true innovator. I started to compile a comprehensive photo gallery of Gibson Les Paul users (Standard, Epi, Studio, Custom, Artist Sig, the full gamut) from our existing photo library, and quickly realized this would be a task that could take months. Still, see if you can guess who’s who in the collection of Les Paul users captured by our own Sung below. First person to correctly identify eight of the 12 bands and/or performers in the comment section wins a five-CD pack from the Losanjealous music library. (You do still spin CDs someplace, right?) For bonus CD consideration, see if you can correctly identify where the artist is playing…and when. (Sung, you’re not allowed to enter the contest.)
» Les Paul Online (official site) (top image via)
» Gibson Les Paul (official site)
ryan, you sure made this contest tough. i don’t even know a couple of them. they better be good cd’s.
We do not hand out second tier prizes here at the Losanjealous. If you think about it, all you really have to do to win is pore over a couple-hundred-dozen Sung™ photo galleries and then look up a few names in the google machine. Piece of cake right?
+ you didn’t really think I’d load it with the obvious, did you?
» More Slash On Les @ Wiltern – by Brian – here
LP1 – Travis @ The Wiltern, April 10, 2009
LP3 – Devendra Banhardt @ Space 15 Twenty, July 18, 2009
LP6 – Chairlift @ The Echo, June 18, 2009
LP7 – Band of Horses @ Coachella 2009
LP8 – Okkervil River @ Coachella 2009
LP9 – M83 @ The Fonda, November 29, 2008
LP10 – Amy Millan of Stars @ Outside Lands Festival 2008
LP12 – Battles @ Coachella 2008
if no one else is going to give it a shot, will you open it up to me?
spoke too soon. what the hell, edwin must have a special version of google that none of us have.
Nah, I’m just unemployed and a big fan of scavenger hunts.
M83, Okkervil River, Band of Horses, Devendra Banhart, Jet, Chairlift, Battles, Art Brut
FYI all: Answers / winner will be posted EOD Friday.
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Congrats to EDWIN, who nailed eight artists, dates and locations with aplomb in record time yesterday!
Full answer list:
LP1 – Travis @ The Wiltern, April 10, 2009
LP2 – SXSW ‘09: Rolo Tomassi @ Radio Room (southpaw!)
LP3 – Devendra Banhardt @ Space 15 Twenty, July 18, 2009
LP4 – Jet, Key Club, July 16, 2009
LP5 – Art Brut, The Echo, June 19, 2009
LP6 – Chairlift @ The Echo, June 18, 2009
LP7 – Band of Horses @ Coachella 2009
LP8 – Okkervil River @ Coachella 2009
LP9 – M83 @ The Fonda, November 29, 2008
LP10 – Amy Millan of Stars @ Outside Lands Festival 2008
LP11 – Albert Hammond Jr. Band, Spaceland, July 11, 2008 (Marc Philippe Eskenazi I believe; don’t hold me to it, I’m not gunning for the bonus here)
LP12 – Battles @ Coachella 2008
Edwin, wait for my email with details as to your prize package. Meantime, everybody saw these posts yesterday and today, right? Oates rocks the Les Paul in the “She’s Gone” video; Les Paul, as proven yet again by Sung, is also the preferred weapon of SUNN O)))
Sweet, thanks a lot Ryan!
btw for any electric guitar fans out there i highly recommend the documentary ‘it might get loud’