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Watch: Paul Gilbert spontaneously jams with guitar shopper he overheard playing Little Wing

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Paul Gilbert playing guitar with a small drill on stage

Imagine this – you’re in a music store, testing out a guitar and having a little jam to a song you like. Suddenly, you can hear it being played expertly just across the shop floor, and the person sitting behind that guitar is from a famous rock band.

It’s the sort of situation guitarists sometimes daydream of, but for this player that situation was reality. Earlier this week, none other than Paul Gilbert overheard someone playing Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing in a store – a song he’s covered before – and decided to join in.

At Johnny Roadhouse Music in Manchester, UK, the Mr. Big guitarist captured the moment in a video and shared it online. He can be seen playing a rather cool-looking green ’80s Ibanez Roadstar, as the player in the background can’t believe his eyes.

“The other guy in the music store started playing Little Wing so I joined in,” writes Gilbert on Instagram. “I wanted to take this ’80s Ibanez home so much. But it won’t fit in my suitcase.”

One of the comments under Gilbert’s video reads, “The ‘other guy’ is my partner, he very quickly stopped once he realised who he was up against,” accompanied by a laughing face emoji.

Take a look below (via Guitar World):

With Gilbert’s super speedy approach to playing, we think most people would probably stop in their tracks when up against such pace. Last year in an interview with Positive Grid, Gilbert addressed the drawbacks about being the type of player who champions speed: “That’s one of the dangers of the faster, trickier stuff – it’s so easy to get pulled away from the vibe,” he said.

“Because you’re like, ‘I just want to get it right. I just gotta metronome this for the next five years, and then maybe, meanwhile, it’s all the rock and roll’. The force of the emotion has left the building long ago. That’s so precious, you gotta keep that at all costs.”

You can view Gilbert’s full cover of Little Wing from a 2017 show below:

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“Both Joe and Guthrie play a mean, funky rhythm guitar on a song like Stevie Wonder’s Satisfaction. That counts for more than you think”: Bass supremo Bryan Beller reveals what it’s like to play with Joe Satriani and Guthrie Govan

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The prolific bassist explains why Satch’s music isn’t as simple as it seems, while it’s a case of keeping up with Govan’s high-speed improv… but the pair do share a certain funkiness

“I loved rock, but I always listened to hip-hop, too. After a session with Ice Cube, the whole hip-hop guitar thing on the West Coast kicked off for me”: Session ace and Wu-Tang MD Stone Mecca talks gear, Snoop Dogg and his self-taught style

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Hip-hop's first-call session guitarist and multi-instrumentalist on his role as musical director for the Wu-Tang Clan, where guitar fits in with beats and rhymes, and his modded B.C. Rich

Podcast 455: John Leventhal

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Six-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer John Leventhal joins us this week to talk about Rumble Strip, his long-awaited debut solo album (out now)!

John tells us why, after five decades in the music business, he decided to make a solo album. We chat about his writing process, the home studio he and partner Rosanne Cash have in NYC, the gear that he used on the album, his favorite microphones, and his go-to acoustic tuning (CGDGBE).

Also discussed are the influence of Ry Cooder on his playing; the magic found in old Gibson flattops (and ’60s Guilds); and why John tries to ignore industry trends when he’s working as a producer. Finally, we talk about a very special feature in the Fretboard Journal‘s 54th issue on a Martin that belonged to John’s father-in-law, Johnny Cash.

Rumble Strip can be streamed now in all the usual places or visit  https://www.rumblestriprecords.net/

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“Every musical era finds a way to screw the artists – and they’ve succeeded yet again”: Jennifer Batten on the challenges musicians face today 

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Jennifer Batten on stage. She is looking directly at her fretboard as she is playing and has vibrant pink in her hair.

Jennifer Batten, solo artist and former guitarist for Michael Jackson and Jeff Beck, says the music industry was “a lot more vibrant” back when she was starting out in the 1980s compared to now.

Arguing that over-saturation of music releases and low compensation for artists has led to a more bleak musical landscape, Batten feels that “every musical era finds a way to screw the artists”.

Across the ’80s and ’90s, Batten played with Jackson on three of his world tours before later joining Beck’s live outfit in 1999. She also played on recordings for both artists, and began releasing her own material amid her work as a session player in the early 90s.

Appearing on the Guitar Hang podcast, Batten says (via Ultimate Guitar): “Honestly, I think it was a lot more vibrant back then. Because you weren’t glutted with everybody in their home recording studio putting out [music] – there’s probably 1000 releases every single day. How do you sift through all that crap? I mean, there are people who rise to the top – YouTube and Instagram stars, and that kind of stuff.

“But there was a vibe back in the day, when you actually got the album, and you knew who the producer was, and you could see the art, and really touch and feel what the whole thing was. And there was the mystery of, ‘Who are the people behind these recordings?’ You had to subscribe to Rolling Stone to find out, rather than just [look it up] on Google.”

She expands, “And the ownership of the music, when you actually put out cash to buy a record, and you own it. And like, I just put up a post, I think Bandcamp is the only place you can pay anymore.

“I was the stickler that [thinks] if [a piece of music] is on iTunes, I will pay for it. I’m not going to steal it from YouTube. Every musical era finds a way to screw the artists. And they’ve succeeded yet again.”

Listen to the full episode below:

Find out more about Jennifer Batten.

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