Let it be said for the record that Paul Gilbert is not afraid to use new and emerging technologies to advance the art of playing the electric guitar. He is the man, after all, who used the wireless Makita drill as a mechanical power-up for his tremolo picking.
But that was the ‘80s, and Gilbert was drilling in the name of shred fever as Racer X accelerated over the horizon (and endeavoured to make the live show a bit more interesting).
