Thursday, June 9, 2011

PLAY LIKE LES PAUL


Are you playing Les Paul's guitar on Google today? I am, and I'm having great fun with it.

Les Paul is 96 years old today. Happy Birthday, Les!

UPDATE: Right, Les passed on in 2009. Up there in heaven, Les, can you hear me?
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15 comments:

  1. RmjJune 9, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    I have been playing it.

    And I do it about as well as I do a real guitar. Now if they'd just honor a piano player....

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  2. RmjJune 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    BTW--Les died two years ago.

    The Google doodle is a bit misleading on that point.

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  3. June ButlerJune 9, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    Rmj, thanks. The link shows Les' dates on this good earth, but I didn't pay attention. I thought I remembered that he'd died, but I paid no attention to my memory, either.

    Perhaps one day Google will commemorate a famous piano player and give us the keys to play with.

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  4. susan s.June 9, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    I'm not sure anyone else can play like Les Paul. It would take more than the notes available to help me!

    My verification word is "vendelee". I'm sure that was one of Les' big hits!

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  5. June ButlerJune 9, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    susan s., "Vendelee" is unforgettable.

    I Googled "vendelee", and there is actually a French hotel chain with the name.

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  6. susan s.June 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    Does that mean that it is French, or just another made up word?

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  7. June ButlerJune 9, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    I don't think it's a real French word, just something made-up or a family name.

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  8. UnknownJune 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    Im playing the guitar! (As long as I can!!) I love it!

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  9. June ButlerJune 9, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    Ciss B, it's fun, isn't it?

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  10. LapinbizarreJune 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM

    Thanks for this. It's up for a further day. If you click on the button below the strings you can play from your keyboard.

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  11. LapinbizarreJune 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM

    BBBNMN
    BMNNB

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  12. June ButlerJune 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM

    Oh yes. I tried hitting random keys in a kind of rhythm, and it does not sound at all bad. Playing the keyboard is easier than strumming.

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  13. LapinbizarreJune 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Isn't it, though Fun!

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  14. CathyJune 11, 2011 at 4:39 PM

    So much fun. I wish Google would do stuff like that more often.

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  15. June ButlerJune 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    Google should do more. I read that Facebook is threatening Google's supremacy in ad revenues and may even move into a setting up a kind of specialized search process.

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