The folks over at Google are becoming ever more ambitious with their famous Google doodles. Today’s honors the birthday of Les Paul, often credited as the father of the solid body electric guitar. Paul, who would have been 97 this year, has his birthday marked with a fully-strummable Google logo.
Paul’s belief that artists would want an instrument like an electric guitar proved remarkably prescient and helped kick-off a revolution in music. In addition to his prowess as an inventor and technical tinkerer, Paul pushed forward some of the styles of playing that would later become standards of rock ‘n roll.
Google’s homage to Paul is not only playable, but recordable as well. Click the little button, play your kickin’ jam, and Google will play it back and provide you with a sharable link. If you manage to pull off any face-melting solos, drop them off in our comments section.
