Racer X - NAMM 2009 - Frenzy

[@JT_Grogan]

The fact that he can play this standing up with the guitar hanging that low is astonishing in itself

[@Noejjkkkj]

He has to have the guitar low to accommodate his large fingers. He’d trip over himself if the guitar was higher.

[@MlCHAELHlCKOXFilms]

Wow... and that was surprisingly accurate to the recording. Normally, solos never sound the same.

[@bigmike6030]

They do when they are written by gods, not some guy churning out a piece of throwaway music.

[@juanguarin8783]

Hey! Same. I didn't expect to meet you here. I used to watch your video a lot some years ago, now I do but not so often.

[@gunnarray2342]

Nice place to find you Michael hickox

[@MrEllinaras]

Paul gilbert makes almost no mistakes and plays incredibly clean!!!!!

[@DakotaPlaysGuitar]

ya it was the hotel we were in, oh yeah i was there! It was in the sheraton and upclose i couldnt hear any delay like in the video, i think its a combination of the room and the mic on the camera. I was a couple feet from paul watchin this solo it was amazing, he through a pic and it landed in the front pocket of my shirt. And when Jeff gave paul a drink of Tequilla (his first drink of Tequilla) i caught the bottle cap the roadie through out, definatly one of the best concerts i ever saw,

[@JeffreyRutland]

Paul Gilbert is not of this earth on guitar. If he with or without Racer X would play anywhere near the midwest, I'd be screaming in the front row. Thanks for posting this!!

[@iejcwejheiowcnlwekn]

This is the pinnacle of guitar playing. You may like it, because this is what peak performance looks like.

[@iejcwejheiowcnlwekn]

Well said! Who are u?

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

Yes, it's killer to hear frenzy again. He still plays it so well, too. The guitar amp bleeding into the mics is the most plausible scenario, as you are correct.....it's not Paul's style to use that much delay.

[@Broodwich11]

So good

[@RacerXband]

This is true. However, it wasn't "tech" mistake, it was the sound guy, hired by the venue who did added delay. Definitely NOT Paul's idea. You don't had DELAY to guitar or vocals through the PA...you do it at the AMP..if you want it. He was dumb.

[@peaveyandsmolski]

Goddamn Fucking Paul!! Just a impressive as the first time I heard it back in '87.

[@SolidWander]

Yeah, I tried to find out who the guy was, but to no avail. Those videos were fantastic though, Kii, thanks for having them up while you did :)

[@Flornmonk]

Thank's for the clip Ken. Be sure to upload the rest of the show too!

[@DakotaPlaysGuitar]

its paul gilbert! he plays everything note for note everytime. (once exception "last rock and roll star" idk how the hell he even played that in the studio, live its the same except for the ending arpeggios)

[@dValentene]

What this guy said up from me is right. I meet Paul a few times in the early Racer X days and he is a great dude. I always thought, when it came to shredding the guitar, hands down Paul is the best, his shredding is always in control with the song. Yngwie just goes all over the place, Vinnie Moore is great too, But Paul is the man!!!!!

[@AzzaDutt]

This is amazing. The quality is 1st class.

[@notkrapmusic]

Great job! Thanks Ken!.....now let's see all the other songs!

[@frankpaws]

Paul was still in his teens too. Beast mode always on

[@SteveBelong72]

Absolute monster !

[@p0rkjell0]

Shoot that fucking sound man... god damn he fcked it up...

[@JoeJoe-ov1te]

Paul's playing through Marshall 'Randy Rhoads' Signature amp stacks...they were just out @ that time.

[@piotrhobbysta5614]

Paul is amazing! In sensible way very fast - I mean interesting licks solutions. There are few guitarists able to play so fast in sensible way, among others very underrated IMHO MA Batio, the man who has deep knowledge about music, scales, modes, techniques and all this stuff. Proud (very proud sometimes) jazz guitarists could learn technique from such guitarists like Paul or Batio, Satriani, Morse, Yngwie and some others.

[@YogaArmy]

AMAZING Paul is one of the greatest!!!!!

[@poisongodmachine3]

This looks sooooo awesome in HD !

[@Whyrendog]

yep, on a boom box on top of the wall side of my waterbed listening kind of low volume...then I stood up, grabbed my box and just stood there looking at it, playing it over and over wondering if I should tell the rest of the world or keep it to myself.

[@Yoyocrappa]

It's so spot on! But why so much delay :(

[@zublacus]

The board guy blew it and added vocal echo to Paul.

[@ChrisShredGuitar]

@@zublacus what a cardinal sin...imagine how amazing it would ve sounded without that much delay

[@shredftw]

He can still pull it off!!!! what a beast!!!

[@zoltanczifra]

Amazing as always!

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex Further, this seems like a simple vid camera recording and not a right/left mic on either side of the room in front of the right/left PA stacks...which you would need to really tell that the guitar was a receiving a stereo delay and the vocals were not. Curious...you must be getting a right/left bounce in your computer speakers that I'm not getting. Could be a compounding effect too. Maybe we're getting a little delay on Paul's channel AND vox bleed. lol

[@Kii777]

Before KZbin took the videos down, I had footage of Paul playing Frenzy with Racer X back in '86 I think it was.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

Of course the other explanation is that the guitar amps are loud enough and close enough to be leaking into the vocal mics, thereby producing the delay.

[@dandan321]

So AWESOME!

[@cloud041089]

its strange having paul play such face melting neoclassical in a recent video. cause since racer x disbanded he's been playing with a lot more of a feel for blues and rock.

[@Nevermindnevermind-s5o]

At 1:21-1: he indeed did do a sweep. It is definitely true that Paul has opined that the use of alternate-picking is superior to sweep-picking for playing arpeggios. However, in the Racer X era, he and Bruce did sweep-pick more than occasionally. This solo is meant to be a rendition of a solo he did from that era, so that it features a sweep should not be too surprising.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex ah, ok. I thought maybe it was a good condenser mic capture in the room. I have heard some of the other vids from this show...I think it's from this show, anyway. I can't remember if there is any delay on the guitar in the other captures, but I'll take your word for it. It just seems so odd that the soundman would even consider adding delay to Paul's channel. I was searching for a reason.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex He's got it SO heavy on there...I thought maybe it was something out of the soundman's control. I was thinking maybe he put a gate on the mics in some of the other, later recordings from this show to take care of the problem. A hot mic gain, especially if the vox mics were compressed with no gate, would cause a lot of bleed, BUT my theory was foiled anyway when Paul speaks into his mic and says, "where's one?". Paul's mic has no delay. That would be the one that was bleeding.

[@Fraeg]

one of the things I dig about PG is not only is he an amazing musician, but he is so friendly down to earth and casual.... no rockstar attitude at all.

[@themoosehillclimb8829]

Still as badass as ever!

[@SolidWander]

AHHHHH!!!!!!!! They played Dangerous Love?!?!?!?!?! Gosh, I hope Ken or someone had the courtesy to record it so they can put it on this here youtube for me to see............

[@ighorabcandido]

INSANE

[@sparkle99]

I was there the whole show was amazing....

[@Foxtrotalex]

the difference between bleed into other mics and a stereo delay effect. And the poster knows because they wouldn't be posting explanations for the delay unless they were pissed about it too

[@guitarsimon1]

he can truly make anything cool

[@blackgulaman14]

yeah youre right man. i've learn a lot on PG's Intense ROck DVD. it is amazing video

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

Thanks. : )

[@SalvoVecchioGuitar]

Incredible Paul!!

[@metalshredtributes]

very good

[@Mr360Sam]

that was awesome

[@SolidWander]

He sweeps more often then you might think. But he does always say how he prefers string skipping, it's just sometimes the sweeps are easier or sound better.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex Having said that...I'm not getting a true right/left with my terrible little computer speakers here. The delay on the vox and on the guitar, sounds the same over MY system, so I wouldn't know the difference. Guitar and vox has the same delay time and feedback.

[@rudocurtir]

Now it's time for making a world tour guys!!!

[@diluted8]

masterful!

[@julioalmagro5956]

I admit that delay adds a very interesting and tasteful perspective to the original track

[@osiris8605]

legend.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@RacerXband Oh, I get your meaning now about "tech" mistake. I would still have to disagree, though. If the sound guy put that much delay on his guitar, or it was bleed through the vox mics, (whatever happened)...it's a definite mistake on the part of the soundman. : )

[@TronicSpeedsta]

Hearing and seeing that made me feel veeeerry strange. And I liked it.

[@PaulGilbertIsGod2]

he sweeps pretty crazy when he does. check out gone too far. check the video called "paul gilbert and the world time card", and "guitars from mars."

[@diluted8]

@FKRAPCITY some ppl don't know how to use it...indeed. But this man screams clarity! it is amazing and i bet being there just captures the experience THAT much more

[@Foxtrotalex]

yeah i realized its not just a board recording after i had posted. Ive just seen so many videos from this concert and they are all different. I was also puzzled over the idea of the sound man adding delay to paul's guitar. Seems the sound guy at namm isn't that great

[@marcelb333]

thanks i'll practice that more

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex Oh wait...duh..lol There's has to be some mics in this room for the capture....otherwise, you wouldn't hear the crowd noise and room ambiance. Definitely not just a board recording.

[@RoccoPezzin]

too much delay....but impressive, as always

[@TheBanyanEmperor]

Lots of delay sure, but it makes it sound like the friggin apocalypse. I think the effect was used properly, personally.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

Yeah, I believe his on stage volume is bleeding back into the vocal mics.

[@lewe666]

I believe he was referring to Marshall metal..as in the look etc associated with Marshall tone, and the fame of marshall in metal music

[@p0rkjell0]

That fucking delay is killin' me...

[@sgtstrat24]

@Fruscification yeah your right that they sound relativily the same because they are all early neoclassical guitar players, except maybe satriani, who later branched off into different types of music after the downfall of the 80s (except yngwie)

[@justindestroyer1]

ugh... paul I envy you!

[@kilipeti]

omg and they don't come to Europe. I'm so sad :( I want a concert in Hungary! I want to meet Paul :)

[@mattdre88]

sick

[@Bishn0zle]

Ive never actually seen him play this before fkn insane

[@Foxtrotalex]

i think your system has alot to do with it, cause im using studio monitors, and i'm about 95% sure that its a stereo delay just on pauls guitars. Yes there is some on the vox but i dont think it's bleed. The recording of this show isn't from a mic on a camera, it is a feed from the board. You can tell because there are cam videos from this show, and there is no delay on pauls guitar. Hense, the delay is being added post micing.

[@Lakonthegreat]

It's a Randy Rhoads series head, I hope he bought it in the UK, because we here in America only get 500 of those. It'd be kind of selfish for him to have bought two of them.

[@25jonathan]

man, he can shred!!

[@Kootsworth]

@FKRAPCITY its beautiful.

[@wolechair]

its the camera making the delay ! .. the singer had it on his mic too . DURH

[@Rafomonster]

This Is insane

[@RyanPMcGowan]

You don't think of each note individually, you remember them in groups of notes, just like you do words. Eventually individual words form sentences, and sentences aren't that hard to remember. Even further, there are 12 in an octave and an octave is very much like the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Once you understand the letters, you can begin to easily form words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. It's not so hard to understand once you get the language.

[@akasaart]

i don't think i can find the words to describe how badly i wanted to be at this show

[@BernieVersailles555]

Not Paul's fault. The soundman obviously had echo on the vocals and guitar mics and just left the room.

[@ingeniouswild]

Is that the only time I've head PG sweep at 1:21? :)

[@art2thebone]

Great show! I posted Heart of a Lion from the same show.

[@sirskibobble]

are those marshall 1959RR's he has back there??

[@joeylodes]

delaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! yuk!

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@foxtrotalex How do you know? Were there? did you guys talk to Paul personally. The vox have a huge delay on them too. It sounds like it may be vocal mic bleed.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

@JerryHellyeah We all know it is delay. : ) I'm just searching for a reason why it would be on his guitar that heavily...as Paul would not do that himself. It's even on the vox pretty heavily. If it was, indeed the soundman....what the hell was he thinking? Paul takes care of all his own fx anyway.

[@mathieucharron7654]

@RacerXband that is not the fact, paul is NEVER playing fast solo with delay, its like cheating, a lot of guitar player use a lot of delay in their fasst solo section to make it sound better

[@RacerXband]

Not through the mic. Sound guy added delay on his own through the PA...Paul was not happy.

[@chasingpaganini]

I've noticed recently, or maybe it has been for years now - I don't know, Paul uses headphones on-stage for monitoring. Is there a specific reason for this? He just likes the sound better? Or has he had some hearing problems?

[@mattdangerg]

holy shit. andi thought paul was getting slower with old age XD this sounded EXACTLY like the song lol

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

Yeah, I think whomever was running sound must have accidently hooked up the FX processor to global FX loop on the board for the entire mix. lol If you want delay on the vocals, just use the channel insert, man. : ) And for god sakes, turn it off when Jeff is talking to the crowd. Paul has his cans on and probably has no idea that he has a cavern-like delay on his guitar. lol

[@guitarsimon1]

the delay's on the P.A, you can hear on the vocals too. God knows why

[@DattBoiiSavage]

Its not to bad. I'ts just my favorite solo he's done and my first time seein him doing it, there is a shit load of echo. But once you get used to it it's not so bad.

[@yngvaigilbsteen]

No, it's not. Paul's actually not one to use a lot of delay. I think what happened is that his on stage volume is loud enough that's it's bleeding back into the vocal mics...which DO have delay on them for the singer. Paul wouldn't run that much delay just on his guitar. The sound man should have turned the delay off of the vocals during talking parts and guitar solos like this. Shouldn't have been using that much to begin with...even on the vocals.

[@TheRealAchilleZ]

@deliriumtriggered Actually he can't. He says it himself in one of his lesson videos. He says "You know, everyone comes to me and says they love my sweep picking but I can't do them." and he explains what it is he does.

[@MissMisstreater]

i want to buy in 1080p please ken :(

[@samling]

@funnyguy1321 He can sweep both ways, he's just very modest about it. At the beginning of this video he does a great sweep up and down: watch?v=UBEVpR1UsvI

[@RodrigoBurotto]

Freakin A!!!

[@macc305]

@itsthearistocrat what are you talking about, the edge rocks

[@edcardenas8151]

The only thought going through my mind was, "MOVE YOUR BIG FUCKING HEAD SO I CAN SEE!"

[@PaulGilbertIsGod2]

me too, but i live in michigan :(