I saw The Log today.

[mathias]

Be jelly, there were a lot of vintage Les Paul instruments and gear there, including his original The Thing mixer.

[kosta]

Oh wooooooow. Lots of Les Paul and Mary Ford in rotation here these days. Where is this???

[The4455]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a Les Paul Exhibit, I saw it a while ago. It's pretty awesome.

[mathias]

This is at Discovery World in Milwaukee: http://www.discoveryworld.org/lespaul.php

[mathias]

They also had this thing that you could play: (stealing someone else's picture here -- I didn't take enough pictures)

And a room with a bunch of Les Pauls on the wall that you could strum and listen to various effects at each station through headphones - Moog Ring Mod, Carbon Copy Delay, Big Muff..

[snipelfritz]

I need to get my ass over there NAOW

[mathias]

Try to go when there's no kids. Dunno if that means weekdays during the day.

Kids were seriously destroying every exhibit, running around screaming, not pausing long enough to actually learn something. Parents were oblivious to how their kids were behaving.

Saw one kid rip three strings off a Les Paul that was attached to the wall (in the area where you can play with effects pedals and watch what it does to the signal on before/after oscilloscopes.) I haven't even seen a full grown guitarist rip three strings off their axe at once, but this kid was hanging off them.

Every time I go to a museum I have newfound respect for the guys who build the exhibits. I know two of the guys who do that at Discovery World, although I think one of them now teaches the classes in those little labs they have set up for field trips, etc.

[metalmariachi]

I saw the log and got to meet the man himself several years back when the Smithsonian had their “Electrified, Amplified and Deified” exhibit.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/resour ... spx?id=346
http://www.dantzig.com/smithsonian_001.html

http://invention.smithsonian.org/center ... redits.htm

Also got to talk with Jr Brown, G. E. Smith, Bob Benedetto and a bunch of others.

Paul Reed Smith reminisced with me about when he was too young to get into clubs and standing outside listening to the band I was in back then.

It was a fantastic couple of days.


One day if I hit the Lotto might just have Benedetto build me a super sexy bass.

MM

[kosta]

"The terrible solidity of the thing allowed for sustain without feedback." Duly noted, sir!