Like Hendrix and Vai he has large hands which helped him reach up and play the e, a and d strings with the same speed as the others and all over the neck. Great player.
Saw Racer X earlier that day at the Ibanez booth at Chicago's McCormick Place. I can remember seeing Paul and Bruce sweep pick and thinking "what the heck is that"? I also saw Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan arrive in a limo and head over to unveil the Jem that same day. A magical time
Only sloppy part was the drill bit 😂 Rest of it was amazing as always. Seen loads of his vids over the years but never seen this performance so thanks for the upload 👍
Did Eddie use drill first or Paul inspire him on the poundcake. I read Eddie use the drill when his tech left the drill on the recording console after replacing the tubes in Eddie's soldano amp while recording for F,'*k album that released in 1991.
@@ghostwriter1415 For me Eric Johnson is untochable, unique emotional style...Greg Howe also is amazing and so is Tony Macalpine...And of course the LIVING legend Jason Becker. We need to add Yngwie to the tier and the late great Criss Oliva from Savatage
1987? So ironic (not sure appropriate word) that he played a Van Halen Eruption section with a drill with the picks, then later EVH played the opening of Poundcake with a drill. I can’t tell by the blurry video, but it would be even more amazing if Paul’s drill was a Makita.
It was a Makita. And i never heard Paul complain about someone supposedly "stealing" from him, let alone about his Idol EVH, he always encouraged people learning his stuff.
That wasn't the objective to those guitar solos to the few that were even capable of doing that to that level of technique,It's funny also that everytime some burnt out I've encountered in my life that has criticized speed picking or just a high level of skill on the instrument, I've told them,"I have a guitar in my car" If you can play at or near that level then I'll listen to your opinion on it,and respect it if it's logical,insightful, etc...Otherwise,if they won't or most likely can't because they've never gotten past the pentatonic, burnt out riffer stage, that every wannabe guitar wanker,weekend warrior at your local bar does, lol.Then their opinion is meaningless.I was heavily immersed in all the technique, still am to some extent,but I've always equally been into the Art of the music,Classical guitar is highly Technical but in a different way, and of course it's very Artistic.The whole point is that Paul has always been musical like myself,it's just that he was so young then and not as musically mature as he is now,but nevertheless,In the context of this video clip,again,It was mostly for the sole objective to impress people with his chops,which is very impressive, especially at that age.
While I was admittedly thrilled by Paul's solos at the time, I don't think solos like this have aged well. There's nothing musical about this. Paul has fortunately developed a lot as a musician and in his approach to music.
Not a good representation of who he is as a player at this time. Yea the technique was there but he had a lot of other traits in check that other guys dont (like his vibrato)
To me, it has emotional impact. It´s exciting, uplifting and inspirational. No, it doesn´t move me to tears or make me consider falling in love again. But that surely isn´t the purpose of Paul´s solo. ;-)
Sounds horrible. And I love Paul. It is lacking restraint or any kind of dynamic, endemic of the 80's fretboard gymnastics event that guitar became in that period.
nothing special, all flat and a lot of imitating the style of other guitarists, for guitar solos eddie van halen king still creates a lot of new sounds and technical skills
They did have terrible tones in those days due to the shred guitar having to cut through the loudness of the band,so the sound was very "mid" range,piercing sound,even when Paul was with Mr. BIG,I saw them live in Hollywood,his tone was very piercing,saw Steve Vai a few months later at same venue,But Steve Vai sounded like I was listening to the best stereo system, apparently Steve also had brought his own board guy I was told,which was apparently rare in those days.But Paul had amazing skill,still does,only now his shredding is musical.
I saw them many times as a teenager (mostly at the Country Club). They were using Metaltronix modded Marshalls (which was literally across the street), and when Paul would whack the loud button it was almost unbearably loud (but we were young and dumb and didn't care :) ). To this day, I don't think anyone has ever touched Paul's speed and accuracy, and possibly no one ever will.
Don't get me wrong, I love Paul Gilbert, but let's be honest. He sounds like he's strangling a cat here. Sometimes I reflect on how much I miss the 80s, but then again it was an over emphasis on speed and quantity of notes that didn't speak much to the soul.
Well said,look at him now,a mature musician with an amazing family and his wife is a very gifted musician as well,his latest records are a proof of his evolution.
If I hadn't seen him play live back then I would think that portions of this video were sped up. Holy CRAP!!! He's matured as a musician over the years and so have I but I can still appreciate how amazing this is.
I saw him back in those days a bunch of times in L.A. I knew their singer Jeff martin who went on to play drums with Jake E. Lee's Badlands. I jammed with him a number of times. He liked my guitar playing. He's a cool dude. The first time I saw Racer X I was absolutely blown away by Paul's playing. Amazing. He was so far superior to most players in the shred scene, which I was also a part of, that he was on a different planet. He's matured a lot over the years and really developed a much better style. I like how he goes for more vintage, classic rock tones. I didn't like his tone with Racer X. I think it improved with Mr. Big. His latest album has amazing tone and playing.
I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm definitely hearing all the EVH undertone references on this piece. I hear Eruption, Spanish Fly, Mean Streets intro. It seemed like he was using this as underlining footprint marker as to keep the audience engaged with some form of familiarity, if it was their first time hearing him or seeing him play. I like how he used this strategy to incorporate it into his own playing style, to eventually show the world his own identity to the guitar.
the precision it takes to play like that, unbelievable 🤘🙂
His fingers are all the same length. It's insane. The speed is blinding.
At 21 years old he's killin' it.
Wasn't even 21 yet. This was June '87. Steve Vai and Joe Satriani also had sets at this show. It was an Ibanez event
I think he was about nineteen at the time. He was very young when he came to L.A. @@jahjah67
So clean and precise, and he's not even that gained up.
agree
That's pretty gained up... what do you guyhs considered gained up? double boosted recto?
Such ferocious picking!!!
And then you get older and play blues LOL
Change of age, change of musical taste i suppose..
Gundul mu atos
Exactly
The guys who end of playing blues,are the guys who either could never do this in the first place or just burn out and give up on playing seriously.
Ga mesisan reggae ta ?
🤣🤣🤣
Amazing..he will be Big someday…
Hell yeah! If he just keeps practicing he’ll be amazing!😜🤘😆
Good comment!
Yeah, I'm going to give him the nickname: Mr. Big
Hahaha
The king of guitar center.
Now that was super funny !
Wow he was so on fire when he was younger.
Oh so perfect pitch n everything. Awesome gilbert
If George Benson played after them at this booth performance at McCormick Place then I was at this.
This is awesome !!! Thx for sharing.
My dudes an alien 👽 bro....this is stupid good .
Like Hendrix and Vai he has large hands which helped him reach up and play the e, a and d strings with the same speed as the others and all over the neck. Great player.
Saw Racer X earlier that day at the Ibanez booth at Chicago's McCormick Place. I can remember seeing Paul and Bruce sweep pick and thinking "what the heck is that"? I also saw Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan arrive in a limo and head over to unveil the Jem that same day. A magical time
Only sloppy part was the drill bit 😂 Rest of it was amazing as always. Seen loads of his vids over the years but never seen this performance so thanks for the upload 👍
wow he's good.. hopefully he made it one day
I can see he loves Eddy, he already started using a drill he was 21 years old of age!
After the Eddie part there's a little Yngwie I think.
Did Eddie use drill first or Paul inspire him on the poundcake. I read Eddie use the drill when his tech left the drill on the recording console after replacing the tubes in Eddie's soldano amp while recording for F,'*k album that released in 1991.
Pretty sure Eddie wasn’t first on the drill routine.
@@toketcang Paul used drill first. eddie used it later on in the song "pound cake" in mid 1990's. Paul was using it here in 1987.
@@toketcang Eddie used the drill in 1978. In running with the devil you'lle notice it on the recording. So,might even be.
I just watch his version of Ice cream man....Total EVH worship!!!
Paul is one of the greatest axemans of his generation.
Mr. (no sarcasm intended) Bruno, can you tell me who, of this generation, is as great as Paul?
@@ghostwriter1415
For me Eric Johnson is untochable, unique emotional style...Greg Howe also is amazing and so is Tony Macalpine...And of course the LIVING legend Jason Becker.
We need to add Yngwie to the tier and the late great Criss Oliva from Savatage
Paul is a living legend. He can play anything from classical, blues ,rock ,jazz to heavy metal
Never a Paul Gilbert fan but won't deny his talent and chops. He's amazing.
@@brunovallesmunoz4757 this generation?
The best Guitarist fast llike hell
1987? So ironic (not sure appropriate word) that he played a Van Halen Eruption section with a drill with the picks, then later EVH played the opening of Poundcake with a drill.
I can’t tell by the blurry video, but it would be even more amazing if Paul’s drill was a Makita.
He complained that Eddie ripped him off on drill in the 90s about that.
It was a Makita. And i never heard Paul complain about someone supposedly "stealing" from him, let alone about his Idol EVH, he always encouraged people learning his stuff.
...somewhat missed the 1,334,287th note...
I’m glad he’s evolved, I wonder what he thinks?
My ears are bleeding…and I like it🤘
The pinky that kills!
Number1
Oh god what did i just watched..he is beyond every talent..hail paul gilbert you r the messiah
🦹🦹THE GREAT WHISPERER🦹🦹
People of that time, grown on the slowness of Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, thought: “What is it so fast for?”
Wtf??
A mic drop moment if ever there were one...
Holy Shit!!!
Why Paul never got the DLR gig I'll never understand...THAT would have been an awesome band!
I love this more than his current style.
like Eddie!!🤘 🤘
Аааа!!! Чо творит!!!🫣
Bruce was no slouch 🤘
Nuts!
気持ち良い。
あまり歪ませてないのかミュートが凄いのか1音1音が粒立ちが良い。
He plays with a lot more taste these days.
Thankfully yes he does! He's turned into an awesome musician all around.
Yep and makes music that isn’t enjoyable as what he used to do
@@knightfall9394 Dude. See a psychiatrist at once!
@@diah7130 It Was the 80S what do you expect
良い音 いいなぁー
Ok, fast. But where is The Music??
That wasn't the objective to those guitar solos to the few that were even capable of doing that to that level of technique,It's funny also that everytime some burnt out I've encountered in my life that has criticized speed picking or just a high level of skill on the instrument, I've told them,"I have a guitar in my car" If you can play at or near that level then I'll listen to your opinion on it,and respect it if it's logical,insightful, etc...Otherwise,if they won't or most likely can't because they've never gotten past the pentatonic, burnt out riffer stage, that every wannabe guitar wanker,weekend warrior at your local bar does, lol.Then their opinion is meaningless.I was heavily immersed in all the technique, still am to some extent,but I've always equally been into the Art of the music,Classical guitar is highly Technical but in a different way, and of course it's very Artistic.The whole point is that Paul has always been musical like myself,it's just that he was so young then and not as musically mature as he is now,but nevertheless,In the context of this video clip,again,It was mostly for the sole objective to impress people with his chops,which is very impressive, especially at that age.
Paul seems like a good guy and he has enormous skill and talent on the guitar..But I prefer it when he slows it down to just fast playing.
I use a table saw but it's tricky to hold it and the axe and the guitar 😆
1:04 dimebag who? Just Kiddin'
凄いね～！
Who is the guitarist on the cover of the video with the green guitar? Roland Grapow?
While I was admittedly thrilled by Paul's solos at the time, I don't think solos like this have aged well. There's nothing musical about this. Paul has fortunately developed a lot as a musician and in his approach to music.
there’s nothing musical to it, but it’s so face melting and precise that it doesn’t matter
Paul ' crazy fingers' gilbert
I wonder if he's a fan of Eddie Van Halen...
Superfast but not musical like he is today
Helps to have long skinny fingers too. Which I don’t have.
I did that once
Me too,then marriage happened
Hot zone💥
The guitar smoked a cigarette afterwards...
Hell yeah
is it because Paul and his guitar seemed like they had sex? ok... i probably shouldn't have asked it loud.
Tinnitus!!!! 🥺
The shredmiester
how does he picks that fast
Pinky pinky little star , how .....?
More than hairstyle, it's like EVH
ONE JOLT COLA LATER...
That was a nice song
02:43 Eruption......
Lol. Holy crap.
I don't understand how this got over 1k views without any tags or anything
Its old footage of Paul Gilbert. It's gold. Great upload
Us Gilbert fans are constantly on the lookout for new videos!
a little EVH 2:44
This is where I realize I should stop playing guitar.
ドリル使こうてるのPaulの方が圧倒的に先や～ん😁
I like Paul, but I would be
rockを感じない。
曲芸だな
Random bumblebee notes
No wonder he never became famous
Fast but with no soul. No emotional impact.
Not a good representation of who he is as a player at this time. Yea the technique was there but he had a lot of other traits in check that other guys dont (like his vibrato)
Uhm when do drum solos in mid set have soul , or anyone else for that matter playing any instrument. His solo expressions in songs is phenomenal!
To me, it has emotional impact. It´s exciting, uplifting and inspirational. No, it doesn´t move me to tears or make me consider falling in love again.
But that surely isn´t the purpose of Paul´s solo. ;-)
ごちそうさんとしか言いようがない！ｗ
お腹いっぱいかいな
Sounds like someone has been doing a spot of practicing………….🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Super fast, but lacks coherence and soul
Its monotonous noise.
Sounds horrible.
And I love Paul.
It is lacking restraint or any kind of dynamic, endemic of the 80's fretboard gymnastics event that guitar became in that period.
Better than Eddie licks but can't make the hits like Eddie.
He had some hits when he was in mr big
Tecnica 10, Creatividad 1 .... el solo esta bien para una olimpiada, pero como musica es una porqueria.
Pretty non-musical
That wasn't the objective😳
Speed ...speed...speed .only speed ..boring.
nothing special, all flat and a lot of imitating the style of other guitarists, for guitar solos eddie van halen king still creates a lot of new sounds and technical skills
shredding playing, horrible tone! i'll give him a pass, though, since he's just the nicest guy ever
They did have terrible tones in those days due to the shred guitar having to cut through the loudness of the band,so the sound was very "mid" range,piercing sound,even when Paul was with Mr. BIG,I saw them live in Hollywood,his tone was very piercing,saw Steve Vai a few months later at same venue,But Steve Vai sounded like I was listening to the best stereo system, apparently Steve also had brought his own board guy I was told,which was apparently rare in those days.But Paul had amazing skill,still does,only now his shredding is musical.
I saw them many times as a teenager (mostly at the Country Club). They were using Metaltronix modded Marshalls (which was literally across the street), and when Paul would whack the loud button it was almost unbearably loud (but we were young and dumb and didn't care :) ). To this day, I don't think anyone has ever touched Paul's speed and accuracy, and possibly no one ever will.
Not his best performance. Horrible tone and too many mistakes.
Yawn
playing notes not music
Don't get me wrong, I love Paul Gilbert, but let's be honest. He sounds like he's strangling a cat here. Sometimes I reflect on how much I miss the 80s, but then again it was an over emphasis on speed and quantity of notes that didn't speak much to the soul.
Well said,look at him now,a mature musician with an amazing family and his wife is a very gifted musician as well,his latest records are a proof of his evolution.
@@juanjosemartinez6757 Totally agree. He figured out what really matters after the peer pressure faded.
If I hadn't seen him play live back then I would think that portions of this video were sped up. Holy CRAP!!! He's matured as a musician over the years and so have I but I can still appreciate how amazing this is.
I saw him back in those days a bunch of times in L.A. I knew their singer Jeff martin who went on to play drums with Jake E. Lee's Badlands. I jammed with him a number of times. He liked my guitar playing. He's a cool dude. The first time I saw Racer X I was absolutely blown away by Paul's playing. Amazing. He was so far superior to most players in the shred scene, which I was also a part of, that he was on a different planet. He's matured a lot over the years and really developed a much better style. I like how he goes for more vintage, classic rock tones. I didn't like his tone with Racer X. I think it improved with Mr. Big. His latest album has amazing tone and playing.
Sounds like a bunch of angry bees.
I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm definitely hearing all the EVH undertone references on this piece. I hear Eruption, Spanish Fly, Mean Streets intro. It seemed like he was using this as underlining footprint marker as to keep the audience engaged with some form of familiarity, if it was their first time hearing him or seeing him play. I like how he used this strategy to incorporate it into his own playing style, to eventually show the world his own identity to the guitar.
Clearly the link between EVH and Buckethead.
I love this man.
That’s my favorite song.
2:45 upsss Mr. Gilbert ? 🤣
Unos dioses del metal sin lugar a dudas !!!
Longest fingers in shredder history
Hell yes!!
For some reason i thought about the robot on "lost in space" short circuiting, sparks flying, and the slinky arms flailing
"Danger!"
By the way, happy birthday Paul Gilbert! Today 55 years old.
Oh wow 😮🤟👍🔥🎸🔥 he on fire 😮
Super human in the technical category; but not much going on in the melody, mood, or feel department ?
Sounds like you’ve never listened to his actual music
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