Earlier this year, Paul Gilbert announced The Dio Album – an ambitious instrumental tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio, which served to revive and reimagine tracks from across the heavy metal legend’s storied career.
For Gilbert, it proved to be an exercise in harnessing and learning new techniques – and unlearning others, in some cases – with the Mr. Big maestro having to pull out all the stops to recreate the feel and tone of several metal guitar heroes.
