Born Lester William Polfus in Waukesha, Wisc., on June 9, 1915, Loved music at a young age and played the harmonica, piano, guitar, and banjo at age 9<number>
Started palying semiprofessionally in shows at age 13 with Rub Tronson’s CowbowsDropped out of school and formed the Rhubarb Red and played with Wolverton’s Radio Band<number>
Ran many experimaents with the sound of electric guitar modelsGibson guitar company didn’t like the new idea and didn’t accept the solid body model at firstFender guitar company started making solid body models so Gibson used Les Paul’s model<number>