Paul Gilbert
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Paul Gilbert
Carbondale, Illinois, that's the name of Paul Gilbert´s hometown and there is where he was born (6th november 1966). Paul first picked up a guitar at the age of 5, even though it only was a toy guitar it surely started his interest for music. His main influences back then were bands such as The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Another huge influence he had was his blues-playing uncle, Jimi Kidd.
Today Paul is not only one of the fastest guitar players out there but also considered to be among the most technical ones.
Childhood
Three years after Paul was born in Carbondale he moved to Greensburg, Pensylvania where he lived for 14 years. Apart from his toy guitar he got his first real one when he was six years old and as many others do he started to play at home for himself. But soon he got frustrated beacause he didn't know how to play "the right way". For instance, he used only upstrokes and played only with his middle finger. So, he began taking lessons from a local guitar teacher. This didn't last to long though, since he wasn't allowed to play the songs he wanted.
It was quite obvious that music was his big interest, because by the age of 14 he joined his first band, Missing Lynx and shortly after that his second band, Tau Zero. But Paul was growing and needed to move on with his life, staying in Greensburg wasn't an option. Therefore in 1984, he went to Hollywood, Los Angeles to attend at the school Guitar Institute of Technology, known as G.I.T.
Neither was there any doubt that he was going to turn into a great guitarist, because 1985 he won the LA Guitar Wars (19 years old!). This is his entry, http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6ppX10JQQ
Racer X
During Paul´s time at G.I.T he met the bass player John Alderete and the drummer Harry Gschoesser which together with the singer Jeff Martin created the band Racer X. The same year as Paul started to teach at G.I.T Racer X had their first album done, Street Lethal. This was their big breakthrough and not long after the realease they were known as the fastest and loudest metal band around. Racer X were really doing well and in 1986 they added another guitarist to their arsenal, his name was Bruce Boulliet and was a student at G.I.T. Later on Gschoesser was replaced by Scott Travis, another very skillful drummer. 1988 Paul left Racer X.
Racer X was undeniably( or is, becuase they had a reunion in 1999 ) a succesfull band. Some of their most famous tunes are "Technical Difficulties" and "Scarified".
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