Paul Gilbert = fucking amazing

Man this is the first track off his last album. Fuck I'd give my left nut to be able to play that fast.



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Paul Gilbert...... the Metal Dog

Now I'm not the hugest shred fan, I mean it's one of those genres I just fall into listening to every once in a while and when I do I get into it very heavily but definetly couldn't listen to it all the time. Now there are countless shred guitarists out there who mostly have their own bands but play solo under their own name i.e. Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Michael Angelo Batio, John Petrucci etc. Now I've liked quite a few of their stuff but once it starts getting into scale wankery and meaningless flashy shit like Malmsteen and Friedman especially I don't like it.

Paul Gilbert has always stood out as a favourite of mine, because one he is down to earth and not up his own ass. He has a good sense of humour and he plays guitar cause he loves to. Not only is he one of the fastest players around but he is very versatile doing styles from metal to spanish flamenco to classical. I've decided to include a video of him playing one of my very favourite instrumentals of his (originally done when he was in Racer X) called Technical Difficulties (see what I mean by sense of humour!) sometimes called Metal Dog as well. This song is fucking kick ass, great riff that carries it and the soloing is superb. For those new to Paul Gilbert this is the best song to introduce you to him. Here it is:




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