Alligator Farm
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Alligator Farm is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...

 formerly of the heavy metal band Racer X and the hard rock band Mr. Big
Mr. Big (band)
Mr. Big is an American rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1988. The band is a quartet composed of Eric Martin , Paul Gilbert , Billy Sheehan , and Pat Torpey ; Mr. Big also included Richie Kotzen, a reputable blues-based guitarist who replaced Gilbert in 1999...

. It was released in 2000.

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...

 except where noted.
  1. "Better Chords" – 1:03
  2. "Individually Twisted" – 4:05
  3. "Cut, Cut, Cut" – 3:22
  4. "Alligator Farm" – 3:42
  5. "Attitude Boy Will Overcome" – 4:03
  6. "2 Become 1
    2 Become 1
    "2 Become 1" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. Written by the group members, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard during the group's first professional songwriting session, it was produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album Spice, released in November 1996...

    " – 5:16 (Richard Stannard/Matt Rowe/Spice Girls
    Spice Girls
    The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number-one in more than 30...

    )
  7. "Lancelot Link" – 0:35
  8. "Rosalinda Told Me" – 3:57
  9. "Let the Computer Decide" (Instrumental) – 3:58
  10. "Koto Girl" – 3:35
  11. "Dreamed Victoria" – 4:23
  12. "Six Billion People" – 1:38
  13. "The Ballad of the Last Lions" – 9:31 (Jimi Kidd)
  14. "Whole Lotta Sonata
    Whole Lotta Sonata
    "Whole Lotta Sonata" is an instrumental track by Paul Gilbert on the Alligator Farm album. It is the third movement to Mozart's Piano Sonata in C played on the electric guitar....

    " (Instrumental) – 3:33 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

    )

  • Track 6 originally recorded by the Spice Girls.
  • Track 14 arranged by Paul Gilbert.

Personnel

  • Paul Gilbert
    Paul Gilbert
    Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...

     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     and guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s
  • Tony Spinner – guitars and backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Scotty Johnson – guitars, keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

     and organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

  • Mike Szuter – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     and backing vocals
  • Jeff Martin
    Jeff Martin (American musician)
    Jeff Martin is a singer and drummer who has sung for the bands Surgical Steel, Racer X, Leatherwolf, and played drums for the bands Badlands, Blindside Blues Band, and RedSea....

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

     and backing vocals
  • Jimi Kidd – guitar (Track 13)
  • Hang Xiang – the Koto Girl
  • Jeff Scott Soto
    Jeff Scott Soto
    Jeff Scott Soto is an American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for being the lead singer for the group Talisman from 1990 till the end of Talisman in 2007, the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, and for stepping up to the job of lead vocalist for Journey on...

     – extra shouts (Track 3)
  • Kate Gilbert – extra shouts (Track 7)
  • Julian Quayle – Space Pilot on (Track 9)
  • James Chiang – Robot on (Track 9)

External links

  • Alligator Farm at Discogs
    Discogs
    Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...

  • Heavy Harmonies page
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