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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
Many a strong man has been driven to madness in the attempt to transcribe merely the first hundred notes of this tour de force, only to die from eraser's cramp. Salut.
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.
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.
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.
the precision it takes to play like that, unbelievable 🤘🙂
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
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.
His fingers are all the same length. It's insane. The speed is blinding.
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?
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!!!
The king of guitar center.
Now that was super funny !
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
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.
I love this man.
Wow he was so on fire when he was younger.
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.
If George Benson played after them at this booth performance at McCormick Place then I was at this.
This is awesome !!! Thx for sharing.
Oh so perfect pitch n everything. Awesome gilbert
wow he's good.. hopefully he made it one day
That’s my favorite song.
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 👍
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.
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 ?
🤣🤣🤣
Oh wow 😮🤟👍🔥🎸🔥 he on fire 😮
Unos dioses del metal sin lugar a dudas !!!
Clearly the link between EVH and Buckethead.
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.
Wow great guitarist 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 merry Christmas Paul 🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🤘🤘🤘
The best Guitarist fast llike hell
" Very Special Sounds and Great Musician Player ". .. Ni..................................ce ... ☺😊😉/🎼🎶💙🎸🎵/👍✌👌👏👋
The pinky that kills!
By the way, happy birthday Paul Gilbert! Today 55 years old.
My ears are bleeding…and I like it🤘
Longest fingers in shredder history
Hell yes!!
I’m glad he’s evolved, I wonder what he thinks?
🦹🦹THE GREAT WHISPERER🦹🦹
People of that time, grown on the slowness of Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, thought: “What is it so fast for?”
Wtf??
...somewhat missed the 1,334,287th note...
A mic drop moment if ever there were one...
Legendary!
For some reason i thought about the robot on "lost in space" short circuiting, sparks flying, and the slinky arms flailing
"Danger!"
Number1
Why Paul never got the DLR gig I'll never understand...THAT would have been an awesome band!
Sounds like a bunch of angry bees.
Oh god what did i just watched..he is beyond every talent..hail paul gilbert you r the messiah
Holy Shit!!!
I love this more than his current style.
like Eddie!!🤘 🤘
Many a strong man has been driven to madness in the attempt to transcribe merely the first hundred notes of this tour de force, only to die from eraser's cramp. Salut.
Cant believe that use to be my sole objective in life
Waw flashback
Bruce was no slouch 🤘
I use a table saw but it's tricky to hold it and the axe and the guitar 😆
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。
2:45 upsss Mr. Gilbert ? 🤣
Nuts!
Flying fingers!
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
1:04 dimebag who? Just Kiddin'
凄いね～！
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 wonder if he's a fan of Eddie Van Halen...
I did that once
Me too,then marriage happened
Hot zone💥
Tinnitus!!!! 🥺
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
Helps to have long skinny fingers too. Which I don’t have.
Paul ' crazy fingers' gilbert
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.
The shredmiester
Who is the guitarist on the cover of the video with the green guitar? Roland Grapow?
Superfast but not musical like he is today
the only contenders for the cacophony
That's Yngwie all over,give the respect that he deserved. Not only Gilbert,Becker, Buckethead ect.
Malmsteen is nowhere near as fast or thorough as Paul Gilbert.
Frenzy
この子ギター上手やね。
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.
That was a nice song
Mantap sekali guru 🙇🏻♂️
Apakah dia mengajarimu?
@@axis5150 👍
Saya berharap saya pergi ke GIT
Pinky pinky little star , how .....?
More than hairstyle, it's like EVH
02:43 Eruption......
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!
Lol. Holy crap.
ONE JOLT COLA LATER...
how does he picks that fast
a little EVH 2:44
His fret hand looks like giant rake..!
ドリル使こうてるのPaulの方が圧倒的に先や～ん😁
This is where I realize I should stop playing guitar.
its fast
I like Paul, but I would be
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. ;-)
Sounds like someone has been doing a spot of practicing………….🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
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
Random bumblebee notes
No wonder he never became famous
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
rockを感じない。
曲芸だな
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.