Paul Gilbert is an entertaining voluble guitar whiz. I’ve watched a few videos of him, so YouTube recommended “Paul Gilbert – The Process of Translation | AMS Interview”. Lot of talk, but at 6:20 he casually unleashes a fantastic cover of the 1973 chestnut “Love Will Keep Us Together” by Captain and Tennille (written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield), which is the greatest damn thing on guitar I saw all last year!
Another lost video
The cover stuck in my mind and I tried to return to this video, but I couldn’t find it for months. Searching DuckDuckGo, Google, and Youtube for “Paul Gilbert glasses and short hair”, “Love Will Keep Us Together”, “1970s covers”, “two guys on couch”, “motorcycle” all failed to find it, but eventually Google AI Mode coughed up this video, with all the elements I remembered .
Great covers but not this one
I need, need, need a recording of Paul Gilbert playing the entire “Love Will Keep Us Together.” I couldn’t find a recorded version of it on Paul Gilbert’s Bandcamp, and it’s not on Setlist.fm’s huge list of songs that Paul Gilbert has covered in shows (but the list is delectable – “Magic” by Pilot,”Too Shy” by Kajagoogoo, “2 Become 1” by the Spice Girls, …😍).
Money talks, but does it record?
So I’ve reached out on the Paul Gilbert subreddit:
I want the whole song, both straight and a heavy shred-rock version with all the motifs turned up to 11, and I’ll pony up $$$$ to make it happen <Futurama Shut up and take my money GIF>. Seriously. How can I contact Paul Gilbert’s management?
We’ll see if “Executive producer: skierpage” happens.
Postscript: AI hallucinates yet again
Google’s AI Mode started hallucinating that Paul Gilbert played this song on the “Rock and Metal School of Music” and the Japanese “Young Guitar Magazine” video channels, and then took a hit of LSD and
The track is officially available on his 2021 album, The 80’s Hits For Rock Guitar, which also includes rock versions of tracks like “What a Fool Believes” and “Go All the Way.”
There is no such album.
