Paul Gilbert Guitar

Paul Gilbert is one of the most popular guitar players in the history of guitar playing. In fact, he is conducting lessons now and doing concerts on his own. He is revered as one of the best guitar players in the industry. He was voted top 4 in the Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time in the GuitarOne magazine. He is also part of the 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World.
He was born on the 6th of November 1966 in Illinois. He was part of Racer X and Mr. Big. He has also released several solo albums. He also did collaborate with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci during the 2007 G3 tour.
In 1981 to 1982, Paul spoke with Mike Varney, who founded Shrapnel Records, requesting for a gig with Ozzy Osbourne. Paul was 15 years old at that time. And Varney couldn鈥檛 see why Ozzy Osbourne would want to be playing alongside a 15-year-old guy. But when he played Paul鈥檚 demo, he instantly knew that he was something. They communicated constantly for the next 3 years. And when Paul came to LA for the Guitar Institute of Technology, he was shortly asked to join Racer X. He was able to record the debut album, Street Lethal.
Paul played with Juan Alderete, Harry Gschoesser and Jeff Martin. They were influenced mostly by Judas Priest. Paul was playing like Yngwie Malmsteen. He displayed fast-driven solos and a very extreme level of technique. Gschoesser was then replaced by Scott Travis. Bruce Bouillet then joined in 1986 as a second guitar player. Paul earned his fame for his technical pieces in Frenzy, Scarified, Scit Scat Wah and B.R.O. He left Racer X in 1988. The band would eventually regroup without Bouillet to produce a reunion album, Technical Difficulties.
In 1988, Paul Gilbert joined by Billy Sheehan, who used to be part of David Roth鈥檚 band. They founded the popular, Mr. Big, together with Pat Torpey and Eric Martin. They made huge success in Japan. Their name spread internationally in 1991 during the release of the second album, Lean into It. This album carries the popular song, To Be With You. Paul left the band in 1997 to pursue a solo career.
He is greatly influenced by Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson, Akira Takasaki, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robin Trower, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hednrix and The Ramones. He has also declared numerous times that he was also greatly influenced by his uncle, Jimi Kidd. He was the guy who got Paul into playing the guitar. He also listens to The Beach Boys and The Beatles.
Paul, as mentioned earlier, now teaches guitar. He writes his own column in Total Guitar. And he demonstrates how to do guitar techniques in a CD. He teaches at the Guitar Institute of Technology regularly and is as well an honorary dean in the Japanese division of the Institute.
Harvey Mosley started developing his passion for music at age of 10. He learned to play guitar songs at age of 13 and pursued his love for music since then. He owns now a music studio and inspires many students to learn to play guitar songs.

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Iron Cross

Sab Grey was a regular fixture at early DC punk shows. He made his way down with the Baltimore punk contingent. By the time he moved to DC in 1981, he had adopted more of an "oi" appearance. "oi" was style of dress and music that was coming out of England, and one that involved more of what would be considered a "skinhead" fashion. At this point in time, however, the DC scene didn’t make any real distinction between punk rockers and skinheads, and certainly the more political (nationalist and/or racist) aspects of that movement had not come into the picture.

Sab was one of the original tenants of the Dischord House along with Ian, Jeff, and two of The Untouchables, Rich and Eddie. In early 1981 Sab met up with Dante and Mark, two kids who had played together in a number of bands (Punk Ruins, The Outsiders, Broken Cross) and formed Iron Cross. After practicing and performing with a string of bass players, including Cynthia Connolly and Chris Haskett (who actually plays bass on the the "Flex Your Head" tracks), they started playing with Wendel soon after SOA broke up.

 Aside from three songs on Dischord’s "Flex Your Head" compilation, the band only released two singles (on their own Skinflint label), but certainly made their mark as one of America's first "oi" bands.
Wendle was the first to leave the band in 1982 followed by Dante and Mark (who went on to to form Gray Matter in 1983) and thus began a revolving line up that continues with Sab at the center.

ESP James Hetfield Iron Cross Electric Guitar Features and Specs

Available in limited quantities during 2009 only, the ESP James Hetfield Signature Iron Cross is currently featured on Metallica's Death Magnetic world tour. Painstaking effort has gone into recreating every nuance of James' original guitar, while adding some new appointments to make it a truly unique signature ESP. Features include a set-neck, 24.75" scale, mahogany body with maple cap, mahogany neck, 22 XJ EVO "Gold" Ni- Free alloy frets, distressed gold hardware that includes Sperzel locking tuners, Schaller strap locks, Tone pros Locking bridge & tailpiece, and special EMG 81 (B) / 60 (N) active pickups with distressed gold covers. The guitar's finish is a highly distressed black with a gold racing stripe and a metal iron cross on the body top. Case included


Model EIRONCROSS
Series limited edition signature
Body Style Single Cutaway
Body Wood mahogany/maple top
Neck Type set-neck
Neck Wood mahogany
Machine Heads Sperzel
Fingerboard Ebony
Frets 22
Pickups H-H
Controls vol/col/tone/3-way toggle, upper bout toggle inactive
Bridge Type Stop Tail
Scale Length 24.75"
Case Included Yes
Case Type Les Paul
Pickguard Yes
Body Color distressed black w/racing stripe