Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966 in illinois, USA) is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr. Big, as well as many solo albums and numerous collaborations.
Paul Gilbert is one of the guitar gods like Steve Vai, Yngwie, John Petrucci other. Paul previously known through his band Mr.Big group, which sells recordings Mr.Big helped raise Paul's name in the world of rock music.
Paul has stated many times that he was heavily influenced by his uncle Jimi Kidd who was instrumental in getting Paul interested in playing the guitar. He is also a great fan of The Beach Boys and The Beatles. He states on the Space Ship Live DVD that George Harrison is one of his favorite guitar players. Guitar World magazine declared him one of 50 of the world's fastest guitarists of all time, along with Buckethead, Eddie Van Halen, and Yngwie Malmsteen
Paul himself was enough mengegerkan world as a guitarist in the year 86-87 the fastest guitar player in the world when Paul was with the group the band Racer X. The technique has a perfect game when he just turned 17 that year.
At the age of 5 years (1971) Paul have started to learn guitar, 10 years later (1981) Paul try sending a demo tape to producer Mike Varney and outside dugaanya greatly admire Mike's playing alongside Tony Macalpine.
In 1984 Paul moved to LA and continued his guitar school to GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology) and has now become this prestigious guitar school instructors.
In 1986 he joined his first band Racer X with his debut album "Street Lethal", then "Second Heat" (1987) & "Live! Extreme Volume" (1988).
In 1989 Paul left the Racer X and Mr.Big band joined the group with a respected bass player "Billy Sheehan", vocalist Eric Martin and drummer Pat Torpey.
They launched her first album "Mr.Big" and Mr.Big debut in Japan in October.
Furthermore, Paul launched his next album: "Live! Raw Like Sushi" (1990), "Mr. Big - Lean into it" (1991), "Mr.Big - San Francisco Live" (1992), "Racer X - Live Extreme Volume 2 "(1992)," Mr.Big - Bump Ahead "(1993)," Mr.Big - Live! Raw Like Sushi 2 "(1994)," HEY MAN "&" The best of Mr.Big "(1996), "Hard Rock Cafe", "Live At Budokan" & solo "King of Club" (1997)
The song "To Be With You" (from album "Lean Into It") occupied the first position in the magazine Billborad USA for 3 weeks.
In 1998 Paul's first appearance in Japan with a solo album. Paul launched a solo album "Flying Dog". In 1999 Paul returned to Japan and launched his second solo album "Beehive Live" and the third album Racer X "Technical Difficulties".
Paul composes music in a wide variety of styles including pop, rock, metal, blues, funk and european classical music, but is perhaps best known for his versatility and speed. He is noted in particular for his efficient picking and his tendency to pick many notes rather than relying on legato for fast passages.
Burning Organ album of 2003 was released, this time into Indonesia under the auspices of the label Staria Enterprise. But the next album, Acoustic Samurai is no longer in Staria, but moved to Variant Music label. Then Paul held a promo tour of the album "Spaceship One" up to Indonesia. This was greeted enthusiastically by fans-fans, the article of many American artists who withdrew because of fear in sweeping by certain parties.
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