![]() ‘Snortin’ whiskey and drinkin’ cocaine’ was a lyric from their hit on the studio record that followed. This album captures their amazing solo trade-offs, soaring harmonies and super-tight funk-rock rhythm arrangements, all with the energy of a live show and whatever self-medication was available at the time. Pat Travers and Pat Thrall, for a brief time, were the coolest dual-guitar team rock has known. Pat Travers – Go For What You Know (1979) Every time Robin Trower bends a note, 1,000 kids with wanky vibrato who are trying out guitars at Guitar Center mysteriously vanish.” Go see him and hear what vibrato is supposed to be. Plus he’s still making records and playing shows. Since I’m a Hendrix fan, I enjoy any similarities, but to my ears Robin has carved out something that is completely his own. Robin is sometimes accused of sounding too much like Jimi Hendrix. I picture him standing at the mixing board and thinking, ‘Oh, this is dreadful.’ And then I’d have quit widdly-ing and start playing phrases that mean something, just so he won’t leave.īridge of Sighs is a whole album of phrases that mean something. “Whenever I want to play better, I just imagine that Robin Trower is listening. Interested in attending? Visit the event’s official site.īelow, Gilbert runs down his five essential guitar albums. Paul Gilbert’s Great Guitar Escape 3.0 includes guest instructors Dave Ellefson and Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth) Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Art of Anarchy, ex-GNR), Andy Timmons (Danger Danger) and Bruce Bouillet (Racer X, The Scream). Also, I do have to pay the bills, so I can’t mess with the brand too much. But I’d probably sell about two records, and I’d still play too many notes most of the time. “Now, I’d like to be ‘Otis Fieldsgood’ and play slow blues all night. I actually joined a great, nasty pop-punk band years ago and used the stage name ‘Dick Image.’ I had the best time, and I seemed to do better with the ladies. If I were really courageous, I would change my name. But I’m mostly thankful that people are still interested in me, and that I have a chance to do new stuff. Of course, it’s nice to receive a compliment. “Also, my musical tastes have changed, and I’m just not that interested in a lot of the music that I made in the past. But in the last 10 years, I’ve expanded my view, and I’ve realized that the world is much bigger and that my impact on the global guitar community is much smaller than I once imagined. I was winning ‘best guitarist’ in the magazine polls, and appearing on magazine covers as much as any other guitar star in the world. “I used to keep a narrow focus on my career in Japan, which for a long time, was a pretty astounding thing. How do you react when people toss around superlatives about your own playing? And if things are going really well, I can just listen to what is coming out of my imagination.” I still dig guitar, of course, but I hear enough of it from just being around myself. ![]() It will be some chords that one of those smart keyboard players knows how to use, or a solo by someone playing a horn. “I still like to figure out music that’s interesting to me, but that’s usually not guitar music these days. So I could really get deep into these albums at the time. ![]() I had to go to school, of course, but the rest of my time was open, and I could really dig in to practicing during summer vacations. “I seemed to have a lot more free time when I was 14 years old. When you hear a great guitar album, does it cause you to take any sort of action, as in, “I’ve got to figure out how to play that”?
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