The Wizzard of…. Milwaukee?
This is just pathetic…
Discovery World lands Les Paul exhibit
The Wizard of Waukesha is taking his act to Milwaukee.
After waiting several years for a Waukesha museum to produce an exhibit about his life and career, music legend Les Paul is partnering with Discovery World in Milwaukee for an exhibit opening this summer.
The Waukesha native said the attraction known as “Les Paul’s House of Sound,” which is being announced today, would not conflict with the exhibit still under development in Waukesha.
But he called downtown Milwaukee’s interactive science museum “a perfect place” for an exhibit highlighting his innovations in music and recording. He has agreed to lend Discovery World musical instruments and other artifacts from his personal collection.
Speaking from his home in New Jersey, Paul voiced enthusiasm for connecting with Milwaukee-area musicians through interactive displays about his pioneering work with electric guitars and multitrack recording.
“All of that stuff should be somewhere where a fellow can see it - and learn it,” he said.
Waukesha needs to get off it’s rear-end. It should be embararssed that Milwaukee was able to make this happen while they’ve been “working on it” for over ten years. You are trying to raise $3 mil but you only have $1 mil? Then scale back and add on down the road!
I think Les has tried just about everything possible to get this museum going in his own home town. He’s 92, and the “projected” start for a museum in Waukesha is 2010? That’s just unnacceptable.
Michael Braunstein, who is Paul’s business manager, said the opportunity to develop an interactive exhibit with a newer museum was appealing.
Paul and his management team also are eager to complete such a project while the 92-year-old entertainer is still able to participate and attend the grand opening. Braunstein added that while Paul remains willing to cooperate with the Waukesha exhibit, that group, he said, is “still working on getting its act together.”
“Discovery World seemed to make a lot of sense,” he said. “Les is intimately involved with this. He has the connection: This is his home.”
Milwaukee is NOT his home, and his home should be ashamed of themselves.




