Official Website : PaulGilbert.com
Place / Date of Birth : 6 November 1966 in Carbondale, Illinois - USA.
Group Band Current : Racer X
Group Band Before : Racer X, Mr.Big
Influences : Eddie Van Halen
Education : Graduates GIT (Guitar Institute Of Technology) and GIT instructor.
Guitar : Ibanez Paul Gilbert Model (PGM) Signature Series
Expertise : Alternate Picking, String Skipping, arpeggios, etc..
Paul Gilbert is one of the guitar gods like Steve Vai, Yngwie, John Petrucci other. Paul previously known through his band Mr.Big group, Mr.Big-selling recording helped raise Paul's name in the world of rock music.
Paul himself was enough stir 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 the perfect game when she 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 conjecture Mike admired his 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 third album Racer X "Technical Difficulties".
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 for fear disweeping by certain parties.
Sources: http://www.gitaris.com
