“What could be more of a concept than this?” Paul Gilbert asks rhetorically, speaking about his new solo album, WROC. “It’s as concept album as it could possibly be, but hopefully, with repeated listenings, the music will take over and the concept will fall like the scaffolding of a beautiful building.”
The guitarist certainly has a point: WROC (which stands for “Washington’s Rules of Civility”) is indeed one wild and wacky concept album, an utterly unique and unorthodox set of tunes based around a French etiquette guide from the late 1500s that America’s first president copied as a school penmanship exercise.
