{"product_id":"les-paul-in-his-own-words-9781603600507","title":"Les Paul: In His Own Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt thirteen  he took the tone arm from his fathers phonograph  jammed the heavy needle into the top of his five-dollar guitar  and filled it with Plaster of Paris to quell feedback. The guitar didnt survive  but his idea worked  essentially creating the first solid-body electric guitar. Les Paul went on to alter guitars in his quest to create the perfect sound  making one breakthrough after another along the way. Nonstop experiments in his homemade recording studio led to the invention of sound-on-sound  multi-track recording  echo  and a host of other discoveries that revolutionized the recording industry  while he and wife Mary Ford dominated early 1950s pop charts with a continual string of hits. Taken together  the enduring influence of his unique contributions to recording technology  instrument design  and American popular music are unsurpassed. He truly is the man who changed the music  and now  Les Paul tells the whole story as only he could  in his own words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651709427765,"sku":"ByrdShop_1603600507","price":217.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781603600507.jpg?v=1781837810","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/les-paul-in-his-own-words-9781603600507","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}