Guitar Done

Or
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(Props to Jon and Shawn on the shared epitaphany)

Or
Strung Out

Or
Guitar Zero

Or
Les is No More
(Cap tip to Jon and Fred for the shared epitaphany)

Or
Vaya Con Dios
(Word to Shawn)

Or
6 Strings Down
(Can I get a whoop whoop for Fred)
Les Paul, the pastiest jazz guitarist ever, and the only one without needle marks, has died at the age of 94. He could play in any genre – country, jazz, pop and rock, and accompanied some of the greats – Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Nat King Cole, Rudy Vallee, and the Andrews Sisters, but may be better known as the father of the electric guitar, inventing “the log,” a wooden board with a guitar neck, 6 strings and two pick-ups, in his recording studio/laboratory in the 1940s. He later tucked it into the body of a traditional guitar because it looked like a shop class assignment turned in by a kid who ate a lot of paste. So devoted was he to the guitar that after a 1948 car accident shattered his elbow so badly that once it was set, it would be immovable, he had it set at slightly less than a 90 degree angle so he could still play. By tinkering with amplification, he invented overdubbing and multitrack recording to turn his wife Mary Ford into as many voices as he needed, and in the 1950s invented the 8-track. In 1952, the Gibson company hired him to design a Les Paul model guitar, which helped usher in rock and/or roll. He continued performing until shortly before his death in a one man show that was part comedy, part jazz standards, part stories of music history, along the way having to re-learn how to play because of advancing arthritis.