Phil Hilborne: down with the guv'nor

News:
14-04-2008:
All Out Guitar interview part 1 with Phil Hilborne. Phil's been around a long time and ligged and gigged with the best. The interview includes insights into Guthrie Govan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Dave Kilminster, Shaun Baxter and Paul Gilbert... well worth a read.



For example Phil Hilborne recalls a meeting with Yngwie Malmsteen:

I'll tell you a story about him: I was doing an interview with him - for Guitarist or Guitar Techniques - at some hotel a long time ago, and he had to go down and see his girlfriend in the lobby and so I was left in the room by myself. When he came back up he said "Ah, fucking hell, when I was in the lift they were playing Bach, you know that part" and he scat sung it and I've honestly never heard anyone scat sing that fast in my life: his mind must speed it all up so instead of hearing it like most people his brain just processes it differently to anyone else...it's just him.

Interestingly enough Phil Hilborne must have gone to the same gig I did:

"I'd been doing some trade show and in the evening we all went over to see him play live at the Marquee - this would have been around 1985 - and fucking hell was he great:and really, really loud! I'd never heard anyone play like that

... he forgets to mention that most people had turned up at the gig because they thought it was a secret Bruce Springsteen gig...Bruce was in London at the time... I still recall listening to the tape after the show, where the crowd are shouting "Bruce, Bruce... we want Bruce!"... and it was loud, very loud!