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Not sure if this has already been posted. I searched but couldn't find anything yet. So...
I've been a Paul Gilbert fan since the RacerX days. And I've been a Mr. Big fan since their very first album. Caught them at The Brady back in '92 (before I even lived in Tulsa). All these years later, they original 4 are back together working on a new album. Paul shreds and doesn't even try. Great song. Riffs. Ah ... the 80s have returned!
“Undertow”, the new video from the reunited MR. BIG, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band’s new studio album, “What If…”, which will be released in Europe on January 21, 2011 via Frontiers Records. The North American release, also on Frontiers Records, will follow in February.
“What If…” is MR. BIG’s first “all-original” album since the reunion of the four original members, Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan and Pat Torpey, back in early 2009. Sixteen years after the release of “Hey Man”, the new recording is set to bring back MR. BIG on the height of the current hard rock scene.
Guitarist Paul Gilbert said: “This is the first MR. BIG album I have been a part of, since fourteen years and it was done in a snap. It was fun and we had really a good time in making this one.” Adds Billy Sheehan: “It’s so great to be back with Paul, Eric and Pat, too. We wrote this record like we did in the old days for the first two records. Jamming together in the same room to write songs.” Pat Torpey states: “Some of the recording process is different now from what we were used to in the old times. But I think this record really managed to capture the performances of the band, not of the individual musicians.” Eric Martin concludes: “I like to compare this to the first album, when we just got to know each other in a reharsal studio and cut it in eight or nine days. This is like chapter two. We had so many years, so many records and so many things behind us. Now this feels like a beautiful brand new chapter starting for all of us.”
I've been a Paul Gilbert fan since the RacerX days. And I've been a Mr. Big fan since their very first album. Caught them at The Brady back in '92 (before I even lived in Tulsa). All these years later, they original 4 are back together working on a new album. Paul shreds and doesn't even try. Great song. Riffs. Ah ... the 80s have returned!
“Undertow”, the new video from the reunited MR. BIG, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band’s new studio album, “What If…”, which will be released in Europe on January 21, 2011 via Frontiers Records. The North American release, also on Frontiers Records, will follow in February.
“What If…” is MR. BIG’s first “all-original” album since the reunion of the four original members, Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan and Pat Torpey, back in early 2009. Sixteen years after the release of “Hey Man”, the new recording is set to bring back MR. BIG on the height of the current hard rock scene.
Guitarist Paul Gilbert said: “This is the first MR. BIG album I have been a part of, since fourteen years and it was done in a snap. It was fun and we had really a good time in making this one.” Adds Billy Sheehan: “It’s so great to be back with Paul, Eric and Pat, too. We wrote this record like we did in the old days for the first two records. Jamming together in the same room to write songs.” Pat Torpey states: “Some of the recording process is different now from what we were used to in the old times. But I think this record really managed to capture the performances of the band, not of the individual musicians.” Eric Martin concludes: “I like to compare this to the first album, when we just got to know each other in a reharsal studio and cut it in eight or nine days. This is like chapter two. We had so many years, so many records and so many things behind us. Now this feels like a beautiful brand new chapter starting for all of us.”
Love the SC tone. Reminds me of "Eye Of The Tiger" crossed with Van Hagar. I wish my band was that tight! 
