Guitar Icon Les Paul Once Pranked Radio Engineers By Putting a Fly In a Microphone

Through the years American Jazz and Blues musician Les Paul (born Lester Polfuss, 1915 - 2009) (left) and British-American Rock musician Slash (born Saul Hudson) play guitars together at the House of Blues, Chicago, Illinois, December 2, 1996. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
By Ethan

Les Paul, the engineer who created possibly the most iconic guitar of all time, was an audio engineer at heart, and a prankster, too. Check out this story Les told as shared by his official Facebook page:

So he actually put a “bug in the system”.

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