Racer X - Paul Gilbert - Guitar Solo (High Quality) at Sir Studios 6-27-1987
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Paul Gilbert solos during Racer X showcase for record executives at the time. Remastered at Hoth Studios by Mark Kirby. Restored for archival purposes. Instagram @racer_x_band_photography #paulgilbert #racerx #racerxlive #paulgilbertracerx
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Hey Mark, your group did a great job of restoring it. I remember shooting this back in 87. Scott Travis had me come down for this from Santa Barbara. I was at Brooks Institute at the time majoring in Motion Picture. This was shot on 1/2" video... nice job restoring it!
Great to meet you Steve!! Thanks for the info and the fantastic footage. It was a small crowd that day wasn’t it? I’m sure I saw you there. This was actually my first attempt. I’m much better at restoring now. I would like to contact you about maybe getting the rest of the raw footage? My email is kirbskirbs@gmail.com I would also like to credit you in the description, if that’s OK? Cheers!
His picking hand is so damn fast, I think that drill actually slowed him down a bit.
Now that’s funny! Nice!
Best picking hand in the west, by far.
It's like Yngwie and Eddie combined
They were dubbed "the Van Halen of the nineties".
Absolutely!
The skills of Ynwgie with the attitude of Eddie
It is
Even at a young age he was a monster shredder.
I remember hearing this back in the late 80s and was in total disbelief, after all these years it still crazy to watch.
Thanks for watching! 🎸
One of the most talented bands from this period. To be that damn good at such a young age just astounds me !!!
I totally agree. Did you see them play live? Outstanding.
@@MarkKirbyMusic Unfortunately, I have not. Wish I had though!
Such a shame we're still waiting for a record after Getting Heavier in 2002/3. Damn Paul, you made me hate blues and that slide now, go back to your real nature!
I am a big fan of paul,he was a beast of picking and skipping,and love his overall feeling on his eighties live guitar solos.
One of the best guitarist of all time 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸P.Gilbert 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Yes! Thanks for watching!!
The amount of reverb paired with the crappy vhs camera makes this 10x more epic.
😂
It sounds really dry
It's a joke how good he is. Unbelievable speed
In that case I’m laughing to my death!
35 god damn years ago Paul and Jason were already doing these crazy things... god bless
For how fast he's playing, it's still so clear and crisp. Awesome
Welcome to the Paul Gilbert experience
That's what separated Paul from the rest. No slop, always super clean with that signature attack and percussive staccato.
As a kid I wasn’t a fan of his playing - then I grew up. He’s good, he’s reeeeeeal good!
Welcome! 😎
Yeah, totally agree and this reminds me of why. Not what I wanted to see on Headbanger's Ball! Having said that, I have gained a real appreciation of Paul Gilbert from watching his various talks on youtube (e.g. Scarified, etc.) and like some of his newer stuff like Fuzz Universe.
Paul was always the best shredder
this guy is not human, and people say steve vai is an alien, in that case paul is a whole new solar system one of the best that ever lived
@@kotzenkotzen6392 they're both good, they just play different styles thats all
Vai is essentially not a shredder, he could never play like this. He had to learn some shredding especially when he had to cover Yngwie stuff in Alcatrazz, and in his own words it was a pretty humbling experience.
But he did it very well considering everything, Steve is a skilled musician and player no matter what, he can shred if he has to. He's just not in Gilbert's league when it comes to shredding virtuosity, Vai is more into creating his own unique sounds with lots of effects and stuff.
Still Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion or the DLR's material are legendary.
It's worth noting that the power drill trick Paul does at 1:25 was several years before Eddie did it on, ' Poundcake '.
Is that a fact? I never knew that…
The thing is, he's a good guy, keeps his ego in check, not many guitarist can do that. On ya Paul.
Agreed!
Eddie is not the only one with the evolution of guitar playing. This got Yngwie written all over it.
Exactly
he sounds nothing like yngwie, other than he is fast as fuck
Paul is more blues oriented, pentatonic and natural minor. Yngwie was all about harmonic minor and diminished, I find Yngwie boring compared to Paul Gilbert. Yngwie was a pioneer, but not the most interesting shredder of the time
It was a natural progression, first Eddie in the late 70s who started it, then early 80s Yngwie appeared and from then on everything changed.
To be fair Al Di Meola was already pioneering fast picking in the late 70s, and Uli Jon Roth playing neo-classical passages with Scorpions, for example.
But yeah the two biggest influencers were certainly Eddie and Yngwie.
Paul Gilbert ladies and gentlemen
Amazing !!!! Gilbert and Mustaine are the reason i started to play the guitar .
He’s a big reason for me as well!
@@MarkKirbyMusic marty friedman too
Best Guitarist 🎸 ever skills 👌
I was there. Will never forget
Awesome, me too lol. Nice to meet you! How many people do you think were there? Maybe 15-20? Kind of hard to remember.
@@MarkKirbyMusic Nice to meet you too! Yeah, very small crowd. Was a label showcase, if I remember correctly.
@@rubenreza Yup!
The eighties ruled... those pants!
Check out Satch's jacket from the 90s!
He is not a human. its really amazing .how can he creat that sound with a hello kitty guitar...
Paul is the man! Paul is guitar itself!?
thank you for precious picture!
When I got my first guitar, An Ibanez jumpstart Paul was the one instructing the videos on what a guitar was and it's parts and all of that and that's how I discovered Paul it wasn't until later that I looked firther into him that I discovered him to be much more than the basics he was teaching on video and oh boy is he one of the absolute best and cleanest.
I remember when they had that jumpstart pack, I thought that was a great idea! Thanks for watching and commenting. Have a good day! 🎸
It’s very nice of Paul not to expect the crowd to cheer and just keep playing, he’s always kinda like “yeah whatever, I’m fuckin’ amazing”
The last Solo he plays before it cuts off is so Buckethead ❤it makes sense as he taught the Bucket 🪣 headed one 😂👍
Those pants are the reason anyone can play such crystal clear
ua-cam.com/video/ZS2eF2rdPfA/v-deo.html These are also amazing pants 👖 for alternative picking.
Came from another PG video where someone in the comments suggested playing at 1.75X speed...ya know, just for kicks...so I came to this and it was still on 1.75X --- needless to say that was F*&%ing terrifying.
Then I reset to 1X speed
THEN I had to double check to make sure I actually set it to 1X speed...because...WTF
Paul is insane.
Haha, that’s a great story!
only one word in my mind when I watch this. "insane"
Had to check it.. holy hell!
Amazing.... Proper shred metal.
Indeed.
I don’t care what anyone says. Paul Gilbert and Buckethead are fucking amazing
They totally are!!
Mmmm.... paul is way better.... buckethead is just technique with no music
They really are, Haven't got to see Gilbert live, yet damnit! but I have been very very very fortunate enough to see Buckethead play solo shows at least 6-7 separate times, he really is amazing and special elite all time great player i8n his own right, and yet Gilbert is even still especially in his prime like late 80s obviously- somehow noticeably faster at shredding etc. Then even fricking Buckethead is! that's insane to even say out loud. But both of them are just at stupid high levels, Like Paul Gilbert as far as I'm concerned especially in his prime is probably the literal greatest shredder ever when it comes to both straight up maximum speed, as well as technical/cleanness, maybe like prime Petrucci also in the late 1980s or so, and Jason Becker in his sadly very very short prime like maybe at there level if they really compared played there absolute fastest cleanest shredding as they could maybe it'd be arguably just flat out draws lol, but I really consider Gilbert to be the literal best and most perfect shredder/ fastest in history, and Buckethead himself is"onlyyyy" like at least top 10 lol, as if that's not amazing in itself or anything, which it is by the way love both them to man!.
@@memeacademy2295 Not true, I know what you mean someone with just a glance of Buckethead understandably would think that, but its really just not the case like at all, the reality is Buckethead has and does do it all, and your not wrong to some extent- he literally has some albums out if say are basically just what some might call"noise"nonsense, consider it the guitar equivalent of modern art lol....but the thing is he also has countless albums which are amazing and have every single thing you could think of, all time great shredding of course and speed, but great creative chords and good phrasing, and believe or or not just off the top of my head and I have probably only head maybe 30 of his albums all the way through out of the 300+ or so he has released since 1993, id say he has no less then a couple dozen songs that can even be considered both catchy as well as complex, far from just nonsense or "noise" or mindless shredding but very good some even surprisingly so I mean the kind of songs that'd make people who believe what you do about him seriously reconsider! I do know why you think that though.
@@memeacademy2295 if you are down to give it a 2nd chance for a good starting point maybe check out some form his Albums 1. Population override!, 2.Crime slunk scene, 3.Peppers Ghost, 4.Electric sea. Maybe check out some from those albums you might find at least a few songs that have the amazing technique you mention but are also surprisingly catchy songs/good music as well. here is a random actually kinda pretty acoustic song by him for example!.ua-cam.com/video/WSjXHNs4Yvg/v-deo.html
Paul is my hero still!!
Me too :) Well, one of many that is.
He played more notes in this song than i did last year.
😂
Hes playing so fast i am waiting for the amp to explode
Lol 😂
Oldy but goldy, Cleary light of speed
Pure Madness
Yup! In a good way lol
1:32 He's playing "Eruption"s Eddy van Hallen👍
Yup!
Nope that's a violin quote by Kreutzer that Eddie Van Halen borrowed himself.
Killer solo
Yeah, epic!
Insane
Paul is the best
The wood on the fretboard is🔥!!!!
You're right! It's lucky it didn't catch on fire!
Wow, first time ever listening. Very underrated.
Agreed!
The guitar I'm pretty sure was pregnant after this show.
So was my mom.
2:11 If I'm not mistaken, those arpeggios are very similar to the ones Paul played at the end of Scarified
Yup! They are the same ones.
Absolutely right, folk
He has never played a lick live that isn't used in AT LEAST one of his songs. Probably multiple times.
He has like 10 different variations of every lick he has. Like that lick has a minor arpeggio version, a major version, a diminished version, and a scale fragment version.
And maybe one or two variations. But that is like 50 percent of his repertoire already
Killer soloist
Unbelievable🤘
I mean I have never got to see Gilbert live yet unfortunately, I have been lucky and fortunate enough to see Buckethead play solo shows with just him and like a whatever for some back drums and parts if needed, etc , and saw him also a couple times with a random bass player for few songs, as well as a couple times with Primus 3rd drummer/ Bucketheads friend Brain on drums, and then also super fortunate enough to catch one of the rare as heck only ever had I believe just the one single tour-for there also lone and only single debut album they released back in what 2004 or so- Sweet show with Les Claypool/ "Bucket of Bernie Brains", then yeah just Buckethead mostly by himself like 5-6 separate times aside from those, and he absolutely rightfully so deservedly has routinely made like top 15.top 25 top 50 etc. All time fastest/best shredders list no doubt, and some nights he had good but not great nights, one time he had a well for him what would be considered "bad" night lol, and few times just close to perfect, and he played some runs which absolutely can hold there own speed/technique wise against 99.9 percent of the best and fastest Guitar players in history, and yet even Buckethead is noticeably slower and somehow less technically//technical for lack of better terms lol then fricking Paul Gilbert is....and that's just ridiculous to even say out loud, that's not an insult to Buckethead, It just means Gilbert is on such an insanely stupid high level in technique and speed even now absolutely even right now is he slower yes pretty much everyone is in there 50s especially if that play a wide range of styles as Gilbert has obviously gravitated towards in his later/recent post Racer X career, but he still is among the fastest around even today, but like in the mid/late 80s/early 90s, but especially mid/late 80s the speed and technique he played with on Guitar was I Really believe the literal best ever, just as far as speed/technique/timing/ and how efficient he was and how little it strained him it truly was/is borderline super human.
Thanks for the comment and watching Daniel!
Yep, PG is still today the best shredder/alternate picking madman that ever came out from that scene, he's still the standard, make no mistake about it.
Fantastic!!!
I have this on dvd remastered as well 720p
Just bad luck
PG says to folks, who gonna bring my 🎸?! Malmsteen says ME
Malmsteen uses economy picking. It doesn't have the forcefullness of Gilbert's alternate picking chops.
paul is my idol🙏
He should be the real Amercian Idol!
amazing❗️😵
You guys are so harsh on Paul who brought us so much great music over the years with Racer X, Mr Big, many solo albums, G3 touring and other projects, etc. By the way he was 21 at this Showcase. What were you doing when you were 21?
I got that drill thing down. Just gotta learn how to play notes at the same time. U should see me squeeze that power button tho!
Increíble 👏👏 👏
Thanks for watching!
What stand the most for me is the absolute silence of the crowd....this is simply awesome!
That's because there was only like 15-20 to us. It was a private show, in the afternoon, only for record company executives.
@@MarkKirbyMusic what a wonderful moment that would be! I had the honor to meet Paul and get my guitar signed by him a couple years ago. One of the greatest ever!
MauroGuedes It really was! Check out my Instagram page too - @racer_x_band_photography
Well, its not often that you realize that you have a super beast of the guitar right in front of you lmao 😂
Madden True! It’s actually even more impressive up close.
Che chitarrista eccezionale, e poi con il tempo come il vino, più invecchia e più è spettacolare🎸
Su quello avrei da ridire, non mi piace ciò che suona ora.
Dopo il 2010 c'è stato un cambiamento nel suo stile, avvicinandosi troppo ad un semplice e ridondante blues, quasi rinnegando ciò che lo ha reso Paul Gilbert e che ha perfezionato quando era giovane, ovvero lo shred metal e neo-classico.
@@livingbeing1113
Che non ti piace ciò che suona sono gusti tuoi.
È un chitarrista poliedrico, praticamente suona quello che gli pare e come gli pare, a tutto tondo, qualsiasi genere, stai sereno che non rinnega nulla perché quando si è come lui con quel cuore che ama la musica a 360 gradi e pure più, non credo che si possa dire nulla.
A mio avviso.
Anzi moltissime persone che fanno musica dovrebbero essere così, credimi.
@@fillo1971 Purtroppo se segui le sue interviste dal 2010 in avanti, quando parla di Racer X e del suo periodo da chitarrista funambolico appare sempre questo alone di nervosismo e di rimpianto per quel periodo, come se non lo sentisse suo e ne fosse imbarazzato.
Ho sentito dire in una sua clinic che ha suonato metal a fine anni '80 solo per soldi. Ora, Paul ha un senso dello humor particolare, ma non è bello da dire ad i suoi fan che lo hanno amato soprattutto per gli inizi, pure se fosse uno scherzo.
Paul Gilbert è diventato ciò che è ora grazie al suo shred ed ai Racer X, ha avuto successo e formato i MrBig grazie alle ore passate a suonare a mille all'ora, diventando preciso e pulito come una macchina.
E personalmente trovo ridicolo rinnegare gli anni '80 e lo shred per paura di diventare un cliché, e passare al blues ispirandosi agli anni '70, '60 e '50 come se non fosse anch'esso un cliché.
Con le sue capacità Paul dovrebbe passare al jazz, altro che blues.
He was pretty bad ass with the Floyd rise whammy bar too! Why did he ditch it???!!!
its a Kahler, they dont go out of tune when you break a string. Still dont know why he doesn't use them anymore.
I recall he said he wanted to change strings faster.
no one even close......
no one
nevereeer
Except maybe Jason Becker
Okay Paul let's settle down! :P
😂
Fucking legend
Would love to hear him and Michael Angelo on the same record.
Pre Pound Cake props
Wow, Eddie Van halen stole the Makita drill idea from Paul. Paul was using it in 1986 and Van halen's song pound cake came out in 1991.
Yeah, I think so too. When I first saw the Poundcake video I was like, “Wow, this is crazy....”!
Yup, even Eddie admitted in an interview!!
With my age he already was a complete maniac 😂
Guitar 🎸 says I need a cigarette 🚬
😆
Perfect pick up and amazing velocity.
DANIEL FARIA Totally agree, thanks for checking out the video! Watch my Bruce Bouillet video too when you get a chance. More coming soon!
Paul is the fucking GOAT!!
What song are they leading into at the end?
On the Loose
Anyone ever think Paul is buckethead? Same mannerisms, height, style of playing, “the vein on his right hand, the theatrics and eccentricity.
Close, he actually gave Buckethead lessons.
Brian "Buckethead" Carroll was actually a student of Paul. He idolized Gilbert and basically all his shred licks are borrowed from him.
@@livingbeing1113 Yup!
This really isn't mean't to be a tour-de-force of solo construction, just a show off moment for the audience. Relay your sole balls everyone.
Relay our sole balls? Trying to figure out which of these words isn't a typo...
@@torontolarrivee7965 I must have been on drugs or something.. maybe 'relax'?
@@adisharr Lol
THE absolute definition of shred, period! Paul has the best alternate picking on the planet. Of course, this insane display of pure virtuosity and technical prowess is for the shredder community only. As such, it is unmatched. Together with Yngwie and Jason Becker, Paul will always be remembered as a shred master extraordinaire, although he's been treading different paths in music lately.
I agree, and thanks for watching!
why no mention of Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Uli Jon Roth, Chris Impelliterri, Marty Friedman, Bruce Bouillet, Nuno, Shawn Lane, Buckethead, Greg Howe, Ritchie Kotzen, Blues Saraceno, Steve Morse, George Lynch, Joey Tafolla, Satch and VaI, Michael Leek Firkins, Randy Roads and MAB
@@budgiecat2885 Yes, those are all great players as well!
@@MarkKirbyMusic yay!
@@budgiecat2885 In that awesome list there are at least three players who were Gilbert students.
Paul's picking is indeed the best in the business, and his way of shredding was the pinnacle of it in my opinion. Such a shame he doesn't play like this anymore.
Just the picking, dynamics, string-skipping instead of sweeping, and the immaculate precision, using a very simple and stripped down tone, not hiding behind effects and such. That's why i call him the "ultimate shredder".
I honestly dont know who is the literal fastest I mean when comparing peak peak prime vs prime, Like say Petrucci late 80s from that change of seasons song/solo part, Jason becker in the short time he had,Shawn Lane, and then there is Paul Gilbert, if Gilbert isn't the literal fastest here in his absolute peak prime aged say 17-23 then he damn sure 100 percent is top 5 all time, its beyond absurd and amazing as heck.
I'll weigh in, best of all time for this, Vinnie Moore hands down. Faster and WAY cleaner than everybody out there. I love Paul , Yngwie, Satriani, Vai, but I hands down say Vinnie Moore takes the cake. He's just a literal guitar god.
It's not just about speed, what matters are accuracy, synchronization, ability to change strings up and down easily, and so on. PG is the best of them all in those departments, always was, and basically still is.
@@livingbeing1113 Oh for sure no question, but again thats just more reasons why I love Paul Gilbert because on top of also being one of the fastest in his prime in history, he also is a master in countless other techniques not just pure speed for speeds sake and to top it off is just a master of musicianship and melody, the fact he's one of the very fastest ever is more a bonus then anything ya know! but I hear you and your correct!.
No chicken scratch here. So clean and precise.
Exactly.
Una joya!!
He is not human being.. guitar god
A “golden” god 😉
Simply a monster
Wow there is someone other than ed .v.halen that can play that strange instrument?
_Guitar magazines, back in the day, referred to this sort of thing as _*_"Blowing One's Wad!"_* 🎸👊💦
The peak of the shred, PG is a killer.
まさに元祖音速ギタリスト🎸✨🎶👏p(^-^)q✨
Ibanez staying in tune through all of that! Best shred guitar maker in the World!
Yeah theyre very good. I would also check out Uli Jon Roth's guitar. He does some crazy stuff on it yet it also stays in tune
この人はどうなってるんだろ…凄すぎてわけわからん、人間業じゃないよね、凄いとしか言えない…
Yep.. I agree!!!!
Pretty killer
I was actually at this showcase. They had technical issues in the middle of it. Wow that was a long time ago.
Ha, that's awesome. I was there too. Not many of us, right? Like 10-20? Do you remember? I was invited by Bruce, how about you? Did you hear the record execs talking after?
@@MarkKirbyMusic my roommate knew Scott Travis and he invited us. Spent awhile talking with Bruce afterwards because we were all from Indiana.
@@aliensandstrangers Nice! Too bad those execs just didn’t get it...
Bummer. Would you say, they had: "Technical difficulties!?" 😁
@@albinullanger7862 I avoided saying that lol. If I remember correctly Jeff Martin said testicle difficulties
Van Halen no le llega ni a los talones
Do remember amazing God of alternate picker chris impelliteri....
Pauzidi Ipuing Yes, I have seen him play live 2 times! Once in the 80’s and once maybe 12 years ago?
BAD A$$ STILL TODAY👍🎼🎸!!!
I think so, too!
Impeccable should be Paul Gilbert as a definition...webster's dictionary real stuff if not keep practicing
My key to you ❤️
no mercy!!!!
Mammamia!
1:05 GarageBand be like:
Blowing yngwie's mind
Eitri Dwarf and yngwie blew pauls mind first
George Lynch Dixon that’s what paul said. mike varney played yngwie over the phone for him in early 80’s and Paul said he couldn’t believe it. yngwie blew everyone’s mind when he first came out.
George Lynch Dixon that’s also why paul learned every Yngwie song and solo. nobody learns that unless they love it.
@George Lynch Dixon Yngwie has always been a total douchebag but the guy can play. Not nearly as well these days. Sucks getting old.
I wonder if Paul still keep that shiny jacket
🤔
🎸💥💯🎸💥💯🎸
Can you upload the full show?
Maybe, I need to get permission from the band first.
@@MarkKirbyMusic Someone already uploaded the full show ua-cam.com/video/9ZggoZ9K0_E/v-deo.html but the audio is 3 minutes slow
If you play this @2x speed, its Paul imitating Shawn Lane
Oh wow, I’ll have to try that!
Paul should've used tons of delay to imitate Shawn.😉
0:32 the solo of freight train by nitro?!???
Both shredding solos, but different.
Yeah ik it was just a similar pattern to the beginning of that solo@@MarkKirbyMusic
@@oxlxo7732hello its me George Floyd 🐵🐵🐵🐵🐒🐒🐒🐒
And the guitar did not go out of tune during all that wonderful abuse. Wow!
Yeah, that’s a good point!
the guy who set it up did a great job
Serph Varna That guy, I believe, builds guitars now. 🎸