Nary a day goes by that my life isn’t touched by the ever present hand of Les Paul. That’s because I listen to a lot of music that features solid body electric guitars. And he pretty much made the first one ever. Now if you stop and think about that for a minute, you can see why he is such an important guy in my life, albeit indirectly. His musical and sound recording innovations and thus, influence on modern music hardly stop there either.

Les Paul died today.