Tonight on NPT Channel 8 is Les Paul: Chasing Sound. From Jim Ridley's pick in this week's Scene: "The many celebrity guests treat Paul with deference, but the best clip is of Paul, now 92, in his weekly residency at the New York jazz club Iridium—where, despite arthritis, his fingers coax every ounce of plaintive longing from 'Over the Rainbow.' " Show's at 8, then again at midnight and 3 a.m.
Thread ideas:
Les Paul vs. Leo Fender (vs. Bob Dunn?): who really invented the electric guitar?
Bah, I already read Mark Rubel's interview with him in Tape Op. Bah.
