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invent the original multitrack?
What do you mean by that?
There's 12 guitars and 12 Marys on
How High the Moon. But as the video shows, he's copying from one tape to another while mixing-in new material. So Mary #1 has been re-re-re-copied 11 times before the work is done.
Long version with jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YA_RINQySU
Les didn't make it to August 2020.
Patti Page and Mitch Miller also did self-overdub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Page#Pop_success:_1948_.E2.80.93_1949
Because she was overdubbing her vocals, Page's name would be listed on the Pop charts as a group name. ... "The Patti Page Quartet"
http://www.amazon.com/Confess/dp/B000V6A99A/ref=dm_ap_trk21?ie=UTF8&qid=1250193293&sr=1-2
Les is generally known for Siml-Sync, using a record-head as "play" while recording to another channel. This avoids re-re-re-copying.... except you only get 2 or 3 passes (3-track mastering decks used to be common).
Les did commission Ampex to build an 8-track, tall as his ceiling; but it was never used on his classic records. Around this time, 4-tracks were in use by Beatles, Airplane, and then 4 and 8 everywhere. And the music changed, and Les did not want to follow. So Les primed a pump, but never got a drink.
Also the harmonica-holder: see 0:33 in
this snip.
Also a new name for Iris Colleen Summers.