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Hot on the heels of his successful Get Out Of My Yard CD, Silence Followed By A Deafening Roar is the second all instrumental CD by guitarist Paul Gilbert.Last year Paul toured on the legendary G3 tour in support of Joe Satriani and confirmed to a younger audience what Gilbert fans have known for over 20 years that Paul Gilbert is simply one of the greatest guitarists on the planet today

Rating : - Lyrical rocking mayhem that makes you smile!
Long live lyrical shred! Long live musical guitarists! Long live Paul Gilbert! Not since Tony MacAlpine's "Maximum Security" (1987)has a guitar instrumental album grabbed my interest and kept it till the end of the 42 minutes of sonic bliss.

I've not really been a follower of Paul Gilbert and am not that familiar with the Mr Big albums. However watching Paul play a large chunk of the Beatles catalogue on the Mike Portnoy private release of "Yellow Matter Custard" opened my eyes and ears. It was the reading of reviews here on Amazon that I thought I'd give "Silence followed by a deafening roar" a try. (What a cool title for a rock album!)

This album has everything that got you going thirty years ago with advent of Van Halen, Satriani, Morse and co. Except this is 2008 and so the production is now super cool. People are now more critical so tracks are super creative and amazingly melodic yet at the time still rocking. This never hits metal but runs on the hard edge of rock/ prog rock and instrumental 80's guitar albums.

The guitar always has centre focus but I reckon quite a few people will look out for the name Jeff Bowders on drums after hearing this album. Have a listen to the blistering bass pedal in 'Norwegian Cowbell' (wow!!) and the flat out 'The Gargoyle' and wait for its ending! (He probably played more on this track than on the entire Rebecca St James tour.)

I agree with other reviewers on the range of styles covered on this album. I kept on having flashbacks to other styles and guitarists - but to qualify that these were happy emotions. For those of you who know Ritchie Kotzen's 'Electic joy' which I have always liked for its inventiveness,but a tad disappointed for the production qualities, well this album has similar qualities without any disappointments...other than it eventualy came to an end.

If you liked Liquid Tension Experiment, or Petrucci's 'Suspended animation', if you like rock guitar instrumentals at all from the days of 'Surfing with the Alien' to Planet X of today - then don't hesitate. This has everything from the moving "I cannot tell a lie" ballad to the guitar genius of neoclassical musicality in the 'Eudaimonia Overture'.

I might be reminded of other guitarists, but its Paul Gilbert's style and strong musicality that stamps his authority on the flurry of cascading notes. This has got groove, this rocks, astounds and made me smile again!