I still got the original VHS of this from like almost 20 years ago laying around. Back in the days, it was kind of special to hold a video tape from your favorite guitarist in your hands. There weren't that many available and it was actually kinda hard to get, too. Now, you just come here and have everything available with one click. It's crazy!
If only we had things like youtube and guitar pro etc back in the day! All those poor tab books and tapes get no love anymore, getting old and soon to hit their antique stage of life...
Yeah I remember having to wait weeks and months for tapes to arrive from distant lands, e.g. from USA or Japan to little old England (UK). At the time it seemed like magic that I could even do this. The rest of the time you would trawl music stores, including the upmarket places that normally sold Classical instruments and sheet music books. I remember seeing the first Tony Macalpine VHS instructional video in a store, and I stupidly left it for next time. It took me nearly twenty years before I eventually found it to buy, and this time on Ebay which obviously did not exist back in 1991.
It was the same way with porn. I knew a kid that had a VHS tape of an actual porn movie and he was like the king of the neighborhood. We would all try to bribe him with Taco Bell to let us borrow it. I wonder if Paul Gilbert has ever met Ron Jeremy?
My classmate borrowed my VHS tape of this back in high school and he never returned it ever since. He currently plays in a death metal band while I play the rhythm section in a blues garage band with my dad and relatives.
I traded a Joe Satriani tape for an Eric Johnson tape then the Johnson tape for the first Paul lesson tape. Then my neighbor and bandmate stole it. Lol.
This is a Master showing trade secrects to make everyone better. Paul uses standard musical terms to name the chord he is playing arpeggios to - to help the listener identify the composition of each run and put it into memory. Paul Gilbert is a helpful Master. These You Tube videos attest that fact without question. Thank you, Paul, for a lifetime.
William Lo everyone gets bored of their own stuff at some point :( too bad paul gilbert didnt naturally evolve into anything greater musically from the early days, dont get me wrong the recent albums are nice, but not so great. but he will always be in my top3
100% agree. The way he played, picked, spoke, the guitars he played, even how he held the pick, made me want to play. This is inspiring and nostalgic. Damn, that’s a lot of treble though🤣🤘🏻🤘🏻
Deserves more credit this man! Can't think of many guitarist's that play as if completely free flowing at will and virtually without incident as Mr Gilbert. NA1974🇬🇧.
***** Are you asking me? It was more of a joke. In the eighties, you couldn't really be a guitarist in a band unless you were the shit. Then 1989 comes and blows everyone's ideas of what to do and how to play out of the water. I don't have strong opinions about what people should be playing. I like Nirvana okay. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread or anything but they're pretty cool. Paul Gilbert is also pretty darn cool. It's all groovy. I just thought it would be funny watching this amazing guitarist shred like lightning because he practiced his ass off right before the three chord thing came into fashion. :)
***** But, what I'm saying is that people had very fixed ideas about what to play and how to play it in the eighties. There was a formula that worked and that's what they went with. I didn't say anything about the popularity of a song being determined by the number of chords it had. Had the Beatles played "I Wanna hold you hand" in the eighties they would've been laughed at. I mean, you know, assuming they hadn't already established themselves. Hypothetically. I don't know if you realize how much of a surprise Nirvana was. They literally ruined careers. Musicians all over LA moved to Seattle, people threw away their synthesizers. The spandex and hairspray industries went into financial ruin. Okay I'm exaggerating a little but the whole 90's grunge thing really did take the music industry by surprise and it was big business back then.
Rayza1983 Well, it started in the mid 70's but then punks, synth pop new wavers and spandex wearing hair rockers existed side by side. Nirvana and Pearl Jam made that whole costumed caricatured rock thing seem cheesy and old fashioned. I remember all the long haired black tee shirt metal heads from middle school dyeing their hair green and piercing stuff in high school. That transition happened at that time for me. As I said, it really did take the music industry by surprise and it did ruin careers. Now, it's different. You still have your post grunge people still trying to capitalize on that sound and you have bands like Steel Panther doing well with the eighties look. And there's punk bands and new new wave bands and every kind of genre you can think of and a few you can't but they're all relatively underground since no one is making any money selling records or cd's anymore. It's a different time. It's like everything has been done and there's no major paradigm shifts left for music to make. Everyone just listens to what they like. It's kind of liberating in one sense but it's kind of sad in another. The day of the juke box hero has come and gone.
I like listening to Paul because he's as articulate with his descriptions of ideas as he is in his execution of them. His approach to technique is simple and down to earth, but so powerful. He did more for my capability with the guitar pick than any other person whose guitar playing I admire, including other greats like Yngwie and John Mclaughlin. Way to rock!
I'm surprised all that fringe hanging from the neck doesn't get in the way of his playing. Regardless, he sure is a master of alternate picking. I've never heard anyone else do it as clean, precise and fast as he does.
Paul is one of the best guitarst out there, not because of his technique, but unique ability to express emotions using guitar. People often thinks that fast playing = "no soul". Try seeing live performance of Paul :) Best regards.
Paul, your and entertainer and excellent guitaist at the same time....love the background vids...and your really a great teacher. I'm learning sooooo much! Thank you!
Ive scoured the you tubez, ive looked thru everything from flat picking blue grass to gutgrie goven to yngwie.. and everything else in between.. but when i watch PG, Its exactly what i was looking for 🤘🤘
Hey Paul. I truly enjoyed watching this video. I have been playing guitar for 50 years. I play well. I play tastefully. I am a bit of a snob when it comes to listening to many other guitar players. But, there was just such an endearing vibe in this video that lead me to watching it all the way through. Obviously, your playing burns (when necessary), but you were so cool just sharing a bunch of "inside" stuff with your thought-stream. Thanks. I really enjoyed this. I don't play a whole lotta fast stuff but I love hearing players who can share their wisdom and just be down to earth about it. Great job bro. Really appreciated this. Cheers.
My first thought, too, but Rick's comment is so sincere that it makes me feel like this should be brought to Paul's attention. It's not impossible for him to have seen it. ; ]
I never cared for the bands that Gilbert played in. Nothing against him. But, I met him at a NAMM show one time, and he was so nice and laid back. No ego at all, willing to talk to and give advice to anyone that approached him. Not like some of the dickhead players that were there as well. And watching these videos, he's a GREAT teacher. Explains everything so well, and so willing to show you everything he knows. I dig the hell out of him.
it sure is, but for me he as a whole is kinda underratted no guitarist would have fitted better and more deserved in generation axe than paul along with yngwie and steve
Well....HOLY FAAAA'N SHEET!!! Sorry for that wee pause, was picking up the last few chunks of my skull from my MIND EXPLODING. This guy right here...he might have to quit his day job. Looks like he could get good enough to maybe be in a cover band??? HA HA HA...clearly I'm still delirious from my recent head 'splodin. Ok, bye
@@jasonaldenhaley1 lol that's hilarious. I don't know if you're talkin about my really old videos or not? lol but if you are I decided I'm not that good with a camera lol I'd rather just stick to working on my dirt bike
@@joshf8097 👍Workin @ machine shop G-pa started in '78. Customer (& cool, lil older dude) actually MADE a freekin 2 cylinder, 2 stroke engine for his old Rupp snowmobile. Crankcase, jugs, heads, rods, and crank. Then cleaned house in the various antique class radar runs around MN. circa winter (the seemingly 11 months we have of it). ALMOST 100mph...like 98.8-ish. I guess cool, lil older, INSANE, dude?!? Keep beatin those bikes like a red-headed, black, Chinese, amputee step-child!! 🤟
So gifted yet so humble. PAUL GILBERT: Shred with feel. Genuine Feel.I really wish Ed would embrace the G3 thing. Never happen though. lol It would be interesting.
It is all derivative of the Grand Maestro J.S.Bach.Neo-Classical Baroque redefines what Bach is in a modern technology and interpretation by a modern virtuoso.🙏🏼🎼✨🎼🙏🏼🇨🇦🤓
Thank god for RU-vid! All this kind of stuff wouldn't probably see light of day. But now everyone across the world can witness this genius. And that goes for everything else too.
Paul is one of the most down-to-earth guys on the planet. In fact he's one of the most self-depricating guitarists out there. Just because a guy enjoys shredding doesn't mean he's an egotist. That's sour grapes if I've ever heard it.
