#paul gilbert

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[ricfreak]

Ibby's Best 🥰

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La Cienega Lanes as seen in Man in the Vault (1956)

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Mr. Big

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Mr. Big

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Merry Christmas

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Monday, June 8: Racer X, "Street Lethal"

The whole idea behind Racer X was tethered to its time and place, but the concept of classically trained and proficient musicians getting together and playing heavy metal covers alongside some original material carried through a few decades later with collectives like Metal Allegiance and Kings of Thrash.  The original recipe slugged it out on the Sunset Strip and didn’t so much reject hair metal as try to work around it, so Street Lethal’s title track ran parallel to Ratt and the like even as it was significantly faster and shreddier: a very young Paul Gilbert was playing for the thrill and noodling the Shrapnel way while Jeff Martin hollered like a California Rob Halford while still nodding towards Vince Neil.  Of course it was completely ridiculous, but “Street Lethal” offered something of a secondary history of ‘80s metal in that it showed how musicians were absorbing multiple strands of the genre and trying to apply more technique.

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HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO to all my Mexican compadres + HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Adele, Marc Alaimo, Billboard magazine (1900), Nellie Bly, Chris Brown, Ace Cannon, Henry Cavill, Stanley Cowell, Gary Daly (China Crisis), Craig David, Neil Diamond’s 2008 HOME BEFORE DARK LP, Carolyn Lafferty Elmlinger, Alice Faye, Childish Gambino’s 2018 “This is America” video, Googoosh (فائقه آتشین), Rex Goh, bassist Marshall Grant, Hambletonian "Daddy of 'em All,” Lance Henriksen, Søren Kierkegaard, Kidd Jordan, The Kinks 1967 “Waterloo Sunset” UK single, James LaBrie (Dream Theatre), Maggie MacNeal (Mouth & MacNeal), Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Ian McCullough, Lorraine McIntosh, Blind Willie McTell, the 1961 Mercury space flight, the New York Music Hall a.k.a. Carnegie Hall (1891), Michael Palin, Wayne R. Palmer, Tyrone Power, Roddy Radiation (The Specials), John Rhys-Davies, Charles Rosen, Shostakovich’s 1stSymphony (1927), Lucy Simon, Paul Simon’s 1973 THERE GOES RHYMIN’ SIMON LP, Steve Stevens, Johnnie Taylor, Bill Ward, Illene Woods, Tammy Wynette, and my friend and former boss David Dostie. Last I heard he was a drummer and a baker (but not a candlestick maker). Here we are playing covers with guitarist Paul Gilbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oemt1PvFiM0 Meanwhile, thank you Dave for your stick work and positive energy, and many more birthdays to you.

 

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