Paul Gilbert - Get Out of My Yard

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Guitar Nine Records, 2007



Paul Gilbert is back with his latest studio release, entitled: I Still Have It, Baby, And You Know It. Nah, just joking. Gilbert's latest addition to extremely high-end guitar molesting goes by the title Get Out of My Yard, and I must say it features songs to impress curious ears and to blew unsuspecting speakers apart. A special occasion we have as well, and OH!, a special occasion it is indeed, as Paul accompanies the record with an optional instructional DVD this time around, showing off the musical and technical methods he utilized to create the album's songs. Well, He Still Has It Baby, And We All Knew It.

Paul Gilbert always was and still is one of the shredders we better look and listen out for, as he strolls on a wide variety of musical spectrums, while usually maintains that classic nuclear edge of All The Guitars That Electrified. What I truly dig in Paul's game as a listener is that he does not seem to be happy, not to mention being intimidated with and by hypothetical boundaries of musical languages established earlier, rather he chooses to take super-closeup looks of the actual style, with the quite defendable agenda to basically play the hoile crap out of them, THEN beyond.

He is clearly still quite fond of inventing and interpreting easily likeable rock melodies through the channels of sizzling guitar warfare, utilizing a nice tint of resourceful, brash blues language to wrap the majority of the new compositions up.

Gilbert still remains among the few who do with the guitar as they and what they please to though, so you will definitely have the moments and compositions here which are likely to truly amaze you with the sheer musical, and not the least, technical creativity embedded in them.

The short while very well balanced opening track is a definite "OMG!" here, a piece Paul performs with a Human Capo present, and urges you to do the same on the instructional DVD. A short and effective introduction filled with all the pathos you could possibly get out of a guitar with six E strings and a pair of necks we are talking about here. Yes, Paul Gilbert is a funny dude, according to fellow stringmaster Yngwie J. Malmsteen, for whom words we could relate without any hesitation whatsoever.

A humorous yet amazingly cheerful classical hommeage to german composergiant Joseph Haydn is also of note here, while the subject of my personal amazement is definitely the Echo Song, a piece Paul wrote with a smart delay effect unleashed on the relatively simple themes he is striking on the instrument, resulting in a genuine, wanderous sci-fi feeling that remained untouched and never shown until Paul Gilbert was kind 'nuff to share this unexplored musical dimension with us.

Paul Gilbert is an excellent teacher aswell, on his latest DVD he is not only introduces you to the individual musical paths and ideas he relied on to form the compositions, - a rarity indeed - but in the later section of the DVD he shares very useful information about the various concepts of advanced guitar molesting, including arpeggios, string skipping, how to play with rhh-iddddi-hhi-ccculous speed, and how to prevent being sucked into wild space on board a vacant space station invaded by hostile alien lifeforms. One of the methods mentioned above is not being subject of thorough discussion and demonstration by Paul on the DVD of course. Or at least I did not notice it at first.

To wrap things up, we can easily say that Paul Gilbert keeps unto his own promise, coming with the Get Out of My Yard production line. Seeing and hearing this, it is more than likely that:

Your guitar playing may never be the same!

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