Paul Gilbert Covers "Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" - Sam Ash Music Las Vegas

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    Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big and Racer X covers ZZ Top's "Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago".
    Sam Ash customers and fans were treated to a blazing guitar clinic featuring a highly entertaining Paul Gilbert. Gilbert rocked for nearly two hours backed by Sam Ash's own Al Vetere on drums and bassist Craig Martini, all along amusing the audience with engaging stories and musical insight. Thanks, Paul!

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  • @hearpalhere
    @hearpalhere 4 роки тому +20

    The drummer is killing it! A lot of people don't seem to get the right feel on Waitin' for the Bus... this guy feels it!
    Great fun, thanks for sharing!

  • @kevintaylor8832
    @kevintaylor8832 7 років тому +13

    Paul you are so good and so is your band! Precise!

  • @lukemanify
    @lukemanify 2 роки тому +1

    So many of these big guns have shown gratitude to the lil ole band from Texas lately.

  • @randykintzley5923
    @randykintzley5923 2 роки тому +11

    The missing element here just underlines how laid back and cool Billy Gibbons' playing style is. It's sort like watching Pavarotti trying to sing a Ray Charles song.

  • @ald.5147
    @ald.5147 5 років тому +8

    Great tone on his guitar!

  • @pietop55
    @pietop55 2 роки тому +2

    Outstanding!!!

  • @gened9787
    @gened9787 9 місяців тому +1

    Mr. sooo under rated Paul Gilbert.

  • @howdrums909
    @howdrums909 11 років тому +8

    I think the Vodka and OJ kicked in just under 5 minutes hahaha. Awesome performance!

  • @tpap6827
    @tpap6827 3 роки тому +6

    Paul Gilbert is so fucking cool. He can and does play whatever he feels like and recently he has been applying his amazing tone and technique to good songs rather than playing eighties shred stuff ( which is fine to show players what the instrument is capable of with the right amount of talent, dedication and hard work but it is so limiting and the songs do not particularly groove and demonstrate that soul that Paul has unlike many from his era. When Paul and Richie Kotzen were on stage with some well known.guitar hero's playing blues based rock, those two could use their chops to take the blues to another place where the other guys, who were all well respected guitar players were lost when it came to improvisational jamming. That is an elemental and critical measure of a musicians ability to have musical conversation in any situation. developing crazy chops that you can only apply to rehearsed and arranged pieces that you wrote is not the measure of a musician. A great American musician (meaning a guy who plays rock, blues, jazz, country, blue grass, fusion and other uniquely American music that is essential requires that you can get into any situation that is open and not structurally complex and rip in any of those styles (assuming the rock,jazz or fusion does not contain a dozen bizarre chords and time signatures that are not intuitive). The ultimate measure of a player is what he does in a stripped down bare bones format because now everyone is on equal footing (nobody is incapable of playing pentatonic scales over a one four five progression using dominant 7th chords as in blues or cowboy chords as in country or other blues rock, soul, r n b tunes that all have a format that harkens back to blues. When you see players in that situation they are essentially naked and must rely on note choice, phrasing, vibrato and expressive bends. They must have rock solid licks that make a statement and they cannot get away with playing shaped based sequences or diatonic legato lines over two chords designed to showcase the chops and written so you can't play a bad note as long as you know what shapes you should play over particular parts. All that does is showcase various techniques and tells us nothing about the artists ability to play what is in his head off the cuff and truly communicate as effortlessly as a great orator., That's how it should be. You can have all the skill in the world and have feel and spontaneity (look at larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, Derek Trucks, Robben Ford, Neal Schon, Jeff Beck, Bonamassa etc. Paul Gilbert, Kotzen and Vinnie Moore can do that and still rip. That's what makes a player great.

    • @HarrisonFord69
      @HarrisonFord69 3 роки тому

      Paul Gilbert has the most feel/emotion in his playing out of anyone in the million notes a minute club. You can tell the guy loves every second that guitar is in his hands.

    • @user-yz3et4lq9y
      @user-yz3et4lq9y Рік тому

      Very very well said friend.

  • @vineflower
    @vineflower 4 роки тому +2

    What a treat, a zz top cover

  • @AndyRosebrook
    @AndyRosebrook 12 років тому +2

    What a killer groove! Nice job cameraman, showing how Paul uses his foot pedals at various points in the song, great angle.

  • @TemplarGuitar
    @TemplarGuitar 12 років тому +3

    Love it - Would love to have been there for this Clinic - keep on kickin' it Paul!!

  • @921ster
    @921ster Рік тому

    Good cover, love the song!

  • @joshthorne
    @joshthorne Рік тому

    Hahahahaha...."you might not see him in person"......hahahaha....CLASSIC Sam!

  • @ocd7036
    @ocd7036 3 роки тому +3

    That kicked ass

  • @JesseENew
    @JesseENew 8 років тому +5

    gotta love that marshall tone

  • @anthonygonzalez4888
    @anthonygonzalez4888 8 років тому +2

    nice tks paul

  • @gsmeeuwsen
    @gsmeeuwsen Рік тому

    BEYOND badass...

  • @williamhickey2590
    @williamhickey2590 8 років тому +27

    Bass player needs to start pulling his weight with the backing vocals.

    • @ald.5147
      @ald.5147 5 років тому +4

      Ahhh take me with ya Jesus!

    • @mikepetrie5851
      @mikepetrie5851 3 роки тому

      i know, right ? and the cameraman needs to move so drummer isnt blocked. other than that its great.

    • @davidfong1565
      @davidfong1565 2 роки тому

      There may be a good reason he's not. You might be sorry!

    • @Nazman06
      @Nazman06 Рік тому

      The bass player does as he is told

  • @kevintaylor8832
    @kevintaylor8832 4 роки тому +3

    Paul you're the guitar players guitar player.

  • @skooby_doobie_doonkann3334
    @skooby_doobie_doonkann3334 5 років тому +6

    The guitarist plays the riff perfectly but the bass player should be singing with him the "have mercy" line

  • @johnlane2010
    @johnlane2010 3 роки тому +3

    While it may seem patently ludicrous to call Paul Gilbert an "under rated" guitar player, I still think he doesn't get the credit or adulation (or commercial success) from the general public that he deserves. This dude is on my Mount Rushmore of guitar players from his generation.

  • @skooby_doobie_doonkann3334
    @skooby_doobie_doonkann3334 5 років тому +7

    Just like zz but the bass player needs to sing as well on the "have mercy" line

  • @briancraig1082
    @briancraig1082 3 роки тому +4

    Paul did a good job adjusting during the solo in 'Bus' as the bass player lost count and changed from G to E one measure too soon. Anyone else catch that?

  • @drock9083
    @drock9083 5 років тому +2

    I too make up lyrics as I go along 😂

  • @rodentcafeteria
    @rodentcafeteria 5 місяців тому

    Van Halen (with DLR) do an absolutely kick-ass cover of this song.

  • @creativejob
    @creativejob 2 роки тому

    And he's on his way to Bangalore

  • @richardedwards9349
    @richardedwards9349 8 років тому +7

    got my brown paper bag

  • @cookiemonster5281
    @cookiemonster5281 2 роки тому +1

    Are those mannequins in the audience? 😅 I'd be groovin'

  • @McFlyGuitarsandStuff
    @McFlyGuitarsandStuff 11 років тому +5

    Who ever faded out the ending- WRONG! LOL

  • @JodysTransmissions
    @JodysTransmissions 5 років тому +22

    I love Paul's playing BUT, you cannot play this song outside of Billy's groove with flashy lead work or the song gets lost. It takes discipline to play slow and tasty!

    • @rascalferret
      @rascalferret 5 років тому

      covers are cool with someone else's bit sometimes...he bit the lyrics too lol

    • @jamesbowles3046
      @jamesbowles3046 Рік тому

      Sometimes less is more

    • @BBQPITDOG
      @BBQPITDOG 9 місяців тому

      He made it his own....but I agree with you 👍

  • @davidkonley2072
    @davidkonley2072 2 роки тому

    Dat drummers ryt on!. Give me that boys name. I'm from Chicago. Been to New Orleans. Bring me dat boys info. Please

  • @robertjohnson3855
    @robertjohnson3855 Рік тому

    Nice tone on the lead. Needs some volume on the bass. Great cover

  • @cordovas1
    @cordovas1 2 роки тому

    Muddy water turned the wine

  • @davidfong1565
    @davidfong1565 2 роки тому

    Oops! Little glitch on 2nd verse! Oh well, I've seen original artists do it too!

  • @alciao3441
    @alciao3441 4 місяці тому

    Missing the beards 😩

  • @davidkonley2072
    @davidkonley2072 2 роки тому

    Who dat be on skins!???

  • @theshovster8505
    @theshovster8505 4 роки тому +1

    Not bad but apparently Billy Gibbons has got me spoiled cause to me he just didn’t put near enough stank on it

  • @NG-Lespaul
    @NG-Lespaul 5 років тому +1

    Whether or not he gets "the blues vote" is irrelevant. Cool version, killer tone and as always w PG, great licks. However get those lyrics right! LOL

  • @caseyguillot1628
    @caseyguillot1628 4 роки тому +5

    Needs to hire a singer

  • @scottyrockmusic
    @scottyrockmusic 8 років тому +14

    na. not even CLOSE.what paul does is great. but it aint the blues. too fast and mechanical. if you dont know what I mean then....you dont get the blues

    • @nunesandre
      @nunesandre 5 років тому

      horrible!

    • @vanessaverdo2838
      @vanessaverdo2838 4 роки тому

      As a lover of the blues I think Paul is very bluesy when he wants to be. I feel that adding different colors just gives it a little change of pace and could be refreshing. What kinda blues do you like listening to or playing btw? I love talking blues.

    • @slavkoradovanovic6751
      @slavkoradovanovic6751 Місяць тому

      He is a great guitarist, he plays in his own way and that is to be respected.

  • @davisdeen-ty4so
    @davisdeen-ty4so Рік тому

    I want my money back than give it to Billy F gibbons

  • @jebaker6942
    @jebaker6942 4 роки тому

    Ok cover but that base to quit fading into the background and slow it down a bit.

  • @FreemTutler
    @FreemTutler 8 років тому +3

    Dude got the lyrics wrong.

  • @user-bx6jj6cm4v
    @user-bx6jj6cm4v Рік тому +1

    Paul is usually so awesome on everything that he does; not so much on Waiting for the Bus. He kind of loses the feel of the song and overplays a bit too much. Jesus Just Left Chicago was fine.

  • @marcocisneros6982
    @marcocisneros6982 3 роки тому

    Paul is great but he should go 70s and invest in a couple of female back-up singers....

  • @Supertuber1983
    @Supertuber1983 Місяць тому

    Obvs Paul Gilbert is a fantastic guitarist… but this lacks everything that Billy Gibbons puts into it. The feel, the heart and soul.
    Also, Billy Gibbons plays like he’s chilled as 😎

  • @tonygSDWR
    @tonygSDWR 4 роки тому

    the last lead shamefully cut off!

  • @paulsuggs
    @paulsuggs 5 років тому

    Slow down a little... Geez! Lol

  • @chrissiler6075
    @chrissiler6075 2 роки тому

    He is to heavy on the strings and looses the Billy nasty tone. Tone is in the hands and touch. Elwood James, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks No pedals and all in the hands and touch with the slide.

  • @6bonsctt
    @6bonsctt 5 років тому +1

    Technically beautiful but very very far from the blues.

    • @vanessaverdo2838
      @vanessaverdo2838 4 роки тому +2

      Really? Hmm I thought it was really bluesy, but he did throw his style on it.

    • @6bonsctt
      @6bonsctt 4 роки тому

      @@vanessaverdo2838 I didnt mean for that to be as douchey as it sounded haha he shreds and I love his approach and the individuality 🤘🏻

    • @vanessaverdo2838
      @vanessaverdo2838 4 роки тому

      @@6bonsctt oh its cool

  • @RedRebel8
    @RedRebel8 4 роки тому

    I fucking hate that he got the lyrics wrong!

  • @mcneilno
    @mcneilno 8 місяців тому

    Love Paul but he is too precise and not nearly gritty enough.

    • @Zonydeep
      @Zonydeep 4 місяці тому

      Yes a lightweight but his singing is better here?

  • @kennethkimbroug8087
    @kennethkimbroug8087 2 роки тому

    This guy needs to study the lyrics a little better