GPOTD 5.15.18

[reverend1]

Paul Gilbert is an incredible guitar player and a horrible guitar designer...

This

 

[frunobulax]

Certainly a guitar of its time.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Dont hate it but not for me.

 

[Modern Saint]

Had an Iceman in my younger days. Cannot fathom playing a reverse Iceman.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Groovy wang thang! Don't really know why it strikes me in that way. But it does. Sure, why not? I would try it.

 

[reverend1]

Groovy wang thang! Don't really know why it strikes me in that way. But it does. Sure, why not? I would try it.

I’d pay to see that.

 

[micwalt]

Why do I get the sense Paul Gilbert tells the Ibanez builders to do stuff just to see what will happen?

I bet you're not far off the mark.
I love this guitar, though, because it's PG's and it's so ridiculous.

 

[Dudeman1967]

yuck

 

[Flamencology]

I don’t get the Paul Gilbert love. I don’t necessarily have a problem with wankery, but I do have a problem with boring. His playing is the musical equivalent of an overlong Abe Simpson monologue on cocaine.

 

[Kerouac]

My favourite Iceman:

 

[Kerouac]

I don’t get the Paul Gilbert love. I don’t necessarily have a problem with wankery, but I do have a problem with boring. His playing is the musical equivalent of an overlong Abe Simpson monologue on cocaine.

I think a lot of the love for Paul Gilbert is even though he has technical prowess, he's genuinely enthusiastic about playing music and about guitar in general. He's a kinda goofy, genuine guy that can play guitar really, really fast and for a lot of fans that is enough.

 

[Knox in Box]

I like those for unknown reasons. One may be this video, which may be the greatest Paul Gilbert video of all time. Of all time!!!

 

[Tiltsta]

Hideous.

 

[reverend1]

I think a lot of the love for Paul Gilbert is even though he has technical prowess, he's genuinely enthusiastic about playing music and about guitar in general. He's a kinda goofy, genuine guy that can play guitar really, really fast and for a lot of fans that is enough.

He’s very funny, and one of the listenable shredder guys. I love his covers. They are always great.

 

[Aahzz]

There's nothing tasteful about it though.

That's the point. The Gilbert model is ridiculous enough that the Stanley model, which is in fact tasteless, or at the very least gaudy, looks tasteful in comparison.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

That's the point. The Gilbert model is ridiculous enough that the Stanley model, which is in fact tasteless, or at the very least gaudy, looks tasteful in comparison.

No it doesn’t.

 

[Flamencology]

I think a lot of the love for Paul Gilbert is even though he has technical prowess, he's genuinely enthusiastic about playing music and about guitar in general. He's a kinda goofy, genuine guy that can play guitar really, really fast and for a lot of fans that is enough.

So he’s basically playing for an audience equivalent to people who don’t like basketball but like the Harlem Globetrotters or people who don’t like pool but enjoy trick shot exhibitions?

 

[micwalt]

I don’t get the Paul Gilbert love. I don’t necessarily have a problem with wankery, but I do have a problem with boring. His playing is the musical equivalent of an overlong Abe Simpson monologue on cocaine.

Your opinion is incorrect.

 

[Wyatt]

no.

 

[smurfco]

that made me mess my back pants
show me something that makes me mess my front pants