Product Details

• Actors: Les Paul
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B5XSI0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,469 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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LES PAUL - DVD Movie

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great dvd, March 23, 2006

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musicaddict - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Paul (DVD)

This is a great DVD to get a different and in depth perspective on Les Paul the legend. Different clips and interviews take you through his life and style of playing. Great for any fan or guitarist.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A LIVING LEGEND, March 10, 2008

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Fpl Van Tonder "LEON" (EAST LONDON SOUTH AFRICA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Paul (DVD)

WHAT THIS MAN HAS DONE FOR MUSIC,IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE.FROM THE SOLID BODY
GUITAR TO MULTITRACK RECORDING,AND HIS PLAYING AND FEEL FOR MUSIC IS JUST GREAT!!!

THIS DVD HELD ME TO MY SEAT FOR THE WHOLE 90 MINUTES,SEEING AND LISTENING TO A LIVING LEGEND.LES PAUL IS THE MAN THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ALL THE GREAT GUITARIST TODAY AND I HOPE THEY ERECT A MONUMENT FOR
THIS MAN. THIS DVD IS A MUST FOR EVERY GUITAR PLAYER THAT'S GOT A PASSION
FOR REAL QUALITY AND WHO WANT'S TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE INNER SECRETS OF
FEELING ON THE FRETBOARD.LES DEMONSTRATES IT IN A VERY EASY AND HUMORISTIC
WAY.LONG LIFE THE GIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Les Paul"- The DVD (The Interview with Jon Chappell), March 4, 2010

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Janet Saccardi "unityreconciliationradio" (york, pa) - See all my reviews
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"Les Paul"- "Les Paul (Instructional DVD For
Guitar)" this DVD produced by the Hal Leonard Corporation is a 90 minute sit down interview with Jon Chappell and the legendary Les Paul. Now that may not sound exciting, but when you stop to consider who Les Paul was,and the contributions he made to modern music and the then nascent recording industry, it borders on "must see" viewing. For those who don't know, Les Paul invented the electric guitar. Today it is the world's number one musical instrument. He would also perfect the technology of what he called "sound on sound", and what today is known as multi-track recording. All of this and more, are reviewed and explained at length in this in-depth "Les Paul" DVD. Interspersed with the Jon Chappell interview is live video footage shot during the last twenty years, of Les Paul and his band playing in New York jazz clubs. As well as historic early television footage from the 1950's, coming from Les Paul's own television show, "The Les Paul Mary Ford Show". This television footage is important, not only to the life of Les Paul, but to the history and development of television and multi-media as well. During the interview Les Paul will discuss the electric guitar, and it's place in music. He explains how he improvised both jazz guitar and blues guitar lines live in concert. He demonstrates the electric guitar techniques of guitar slides, guitar hammers, and guitar bends. All of which he helped to introduce and make popular, to guitar players around the world. Les Paul then reveals how he invented the electric guitar in the late 1920's, and the ten years it took for him to convince the Gibson Guitar Company to buy both his electric guitar, and it's accompanying amplifier. He had invented the guitar amplifier of course, to amplify the sound coming from the electric guitar strings. He goes on to explain how he sold his "sound on sound" recording machine, or multi-track recorder to AMPEX. His recording career (he and Mary Ford sold 20 million records) with Capitol Records is also covered. Please don't miss this "Les Paul- Instructional DVD For Guitar" DVD. It really does enlighten and educate it's viewers about one of the most important figures in 20th Century music, the recording industry, recording technology, and multi-media. All of which are becoming more prominent in this 21st Century. Many people working in these areas today, enjoy the fruits of Les Paul's labor. Hopefully this little review will be helpful for guitar players, music and multi-media people. [...].