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Friday September 22nd, 2000
McCartney to receive Les Paul excellence award
Paul McCartney will receive the 2000 Les Paul Award Saturday in Los Angeles honoring the distinguished individuals in music and sound. Gibson Guitar Company is a Gold sponsor of the Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards (TEC), presented each Fall during the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention. The TEC Awards are one of the most important annual events in the professional audio industry. Gibson will present McCartney a custom-built, left-handed 1960 Gibson Les Paul Reissue crafted by the luthiers from Gibson's Custom, Art, Historic division.
By 1952 Les Paul was not only the most popular guitar player in America, he was also a leading innovator in guitar and electronics design. He had been experimenting with electric guitars for as long as there had been electric guitars. He had once mounted a guitar string on a railroad tie to confirm his belief that a solidbody guitar would maximize sustain, and he had incorporated a mini-railroad rail-a 4"x4" piece of pine-into the body of a homemade solidbody electric guitar he nicknamed "TheLog."
In the early '50s, when the solidbody guitar first became commercially viable, Gibson designed an instrument that would change the image of the solidbody electric from a simple plank of wood to an elegant, stylish piece of art. With the new model almost ready for market, Gibson approached Les Paul, the obvious choice to help launch it. Les was already intimately familiar with the unique characteristics of a solidbody electric guitar. And he was at the top of his career. His 1948 hit, "Brazil," featured six guitar parts, all played by Les in a virtuoso demonstration that would eventually earn him recognition as the father of multi-track recording.
McCartney, the Beatles, and Sir George Martin were one of the earliest artists and producer to exploit multi-track recording, mixing, and other sonic techniques using truly innovative applications of recording technology.
See a complete list of TEC Award nominees here. For tickets and information please contact Karen Dunn at KarenTEC@aol.com or call 925.939.6149.
In addition, GMICS (Global Musical Instrument Communications Standard), a research and development division of Gibson Guitar Corp., will be showing its latest developments at the AES convention. The GMICS team will present working examples of the GMICS links in a recording studio type application:
For more information about GMICS go here.
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