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Paul Gifford
Founder
Say the name "Les Paul" to anybody born after 1960, and they'll probably think you're talking about an electric guitar. But the musician and inventor, who was born 100 years ago Tuesday, was also an accomplished jazz guitarist. Paul was never happier than when playing for a live audience.
Pallo shared the stage with Paul every Monday night for close to three decades. They played a bit of everything Paul had done over his career, including country, pop and jazz. Pallo says that as a musician, Paul played with a rare amount of feeling.
Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He got his start playing and singing country music on the radio in the morning and playing jazz at night. He first heard jazz on the radio in Waukesha, as he said in an interview with NPR in 1996.
"When I heard Art Tatum, when I heard Fats Waller, I knew that jazz was where I'd like to go," Paul told NPR. "And, you know, I dropped from $1,000 a week as a country singer down to $5 a week as a jazz player, and I said there's something wrong. That's when I formed the Les Paul Trio. Then I was down the middle of the road."
Jazz was still only one of Paul's interests. He played with some of the biggest pop acts of the 1940s, including Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. But his solo breakthrough came thanks to recording techniques he developed in his garage.
Just as Les Paul's solo career was taking off, he was badly injured in a 1948 car accident. Doctors couldn't rebuild his right elbow, so Paul told them to fuse the elbow at a 90 degree angle so he could keep playing guitar. After the accident, Paul recorded his biggest hits with his wife, singer Mary Ford.
"Now I can go back and do what I've been wanting to do for a million years," Paul said. "All my life, I was torn between being commercial and playing jazz. If you play jazz, you don't eat. You don't sell your records. You turn people off. And the air gets thin. Today, I don't care about money. I don't care about anything. I just go in and play."
Pallo was Les Paul's bandmate at those weekly gigs. He says Paul was constantly tweaking the band's sound right up to the end, even if arthritis prevented him from playing with the blazing speeds of his early career. Paul played every Monday night until just a few months before his death in 2009.
"Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become that much better," Paul told NPR in 2005. "And I probably will play until I fall over, and that's the end."
Paul was going to be 85 this year. He and my mother did eight shows a week at the Globe Theater in San Diego, two acts with only one other character. It was a crowning triumph of a truly stellar career. And he was SO funny in the role. The audience, attendance by which broke all records for that venue, was crying with laughter or pathos throughout the play.
Camping has been an all American tradition for more than the last century. Whether we took a camper, RV or just the family station wagon or van, many of us can relate to roughing it out with the family, for better or for worse at some point in our past. The idea behind this design was to turn that tradition into a tangible and attractive playhouse.
But fail to win a title, particularly with Paul in the final year of his contract with nearly $31 million remaining, and, well, he's something else entirely: a Hall of Fame player with that "but" that will always trail him. Think Karl Malone. Think, as Shaq likes to constantly remind us, of Charles Barkley.
Yet there are worries, and not just the fact Paul is getting older and more and more injury prone, nor the great fear that Golden State could be squandering whatever remains of Curry's window, nor even the worry that Thompson will be more his 2023 playoff version (not great) instead of his regular-season version (at times utterly phenomenal).
There's a reason, even excluding the Wizards, that the Warriors will be Paul's sixth team of his career. He's been great, but he hasn't won. He's been a difference maker, but often someone teams were happy to eventually see go.
It's a possible last chance for Paul, in which a career of greatness and shortcomings, of almosts and could-have-beens, will have its final judgment on the question of the man's career: Who, exactly, is Chris Paul the basketball player?
Evan Parker: I first heard Paul play when I played opposite him playing with Spirit Level. That was a good while back! He gave me a beautiful neck-strap that his wife Linda had made for me. I heard that night he was something special as a player. He has continued to give me the gifts of his wonderful playing and his great human spirit ever since. May there be many Happy Returns.
Paul Littlewood was destined to become a strong player from birth. His father John was for some time one of the strongest players in the country and represented England on many occasions. His uncle Norman was for a few years not far behind. Paul, however, has surpassed them both and has become the first in the family to reach IM status. (Ed: JEL was very much worthy of the IM title but insufficient events of the right type held him back).
Clearly more interested in an academic career he went up to Cambridge and then followed his father into the teaching profession. Opportunities to play in strong tournaments were thus very limited. These opportunities, however, were grasped in both hands. Three times in thirteen months between August 1978 and August 1979 he obtained an IM norm and thus the title.
His father who was also competing in the championship was as proud as could be and deservedly so (he also coached Sheila Jackson who retained her British Ladies Championship that year). His excellent all round play took him to the title and only once during the tournament did he stand worse. His endgame play was so good that CHESS even published an article solely on these endings.
Paul has a long and illustrious recording career, having had great success on the vibrant session scene in Dallas where he recorded on many commercials. He also played on the hit song Timber by rapper Pit Bull, possibly the most listened to song with harmonica in the last decade, with over one billion streams on Spotify.
Paul met and performed with many great musicians on the Dallas music scene, becoming the go to harmonica player for famed record producer Phil York, appearing on the NBC Special with comedian Steve Martin, as well as sharing the stage with John Denver and Dolly Parton.
Loves Coming Home to Happy, Exercised, Socially Active Dogs
We have owned dogs since 1988. Until we found Happy Tails in 2006 we continuously looked for the best way to care for our dogs when we were away. Now, the pressure is off! Paul and Tina Jackson, the owners of Happy Tails, know dogs! The care they provide for our animals means that we come home to happy, healthy, exercised and socially active dogs. The dogs we currently live with, Phil and Bell, are two year old St. Bernard's. They started staying at Happy Tails and learning social skills when they were 14 weeks old. Starting that socializing process so early in their lives has made such a positive difference for them as they are out and about in the world with other dogs and people!!
Happy Tails is the Right Place to Care for Our "Children"
We feel like our boxers are our children, so when we moved to the Seattle area and had to find a boarding facility, we were extremely nervous. Previously, we had always left our pups with our parents when we had to travel away from home. Shortly after arriving at Happy Tails, we knew we had found the right place and the perfect people to take care of our "children". Paul and Tina made us feel extremely comfortable leaving Zoe and Elle with them. We were actually excited for their first stay, as we saw how happy the girls were just being there during our initial visit. We are never worried when we drop them off with Paul and Tina, as we know that they will be very well taken care of and will have tons of fun to boot! Zoe and Elle can hardly contain themselves once we get within a couple miles of the house. Although they are excited to see us when we return, they aren't completely ready to go home. However, they are definitely worn out from playing so much during their stay, which is great for us since we're usually exhausted from traveling!!!
Happy Tails Is A#1
Michael, our 5 1/2 year old English Setter has been boarding at Happy Tails since 2003. He loves being with Paul and Tina because they understand him. He enjoys the wide open spaces to run. He has been known to nose a cow or horse at the fence on an adjoining field. Michael seems to be particular about the other dogs with whom he will play. Paul and Tina group dogs, not only by size, but also by personalities. The sleeping areas are spacious and clean. We have had dogs for almost 35 years and in our opinion, Happy Tails is an A #1 kennel.
George and Ginny Thomas, Seattle