On Friday, January 20th, guitarist PAUL GILBERT (MR. BIG, RACER X) performed at Deke Dickerson's 2012 Guitar Geek Festival with his solo band in Anaheim, CA as part of the NAMM 2012 festivities. Fan-filmed live footage of Racer X's 'Technical Difficulties' is available below:

According to the post, this show will be released on a Multicam DVD and Blu-Ray later in the year. Stay tuned for updates.

As previously reported, on August 19th, 2011, MR. BIG performed at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY, the hometown of bassist Billy Sheehan. A 15 minute pro-shot recap of the gig is available below. The complete setlist on the night was as follows:

'Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy'

'Alive And Kickin''

'Green-Tinted Sixties Mind'

'Undertow'

'American Beauty'

'Take Cover'

'Just Take My Heart'

'Once Upon A Time'

'A Little Too Loose'

'Road To Ruin'

'Temperamental'

- guitar solo -

'Still Ain't Enough For Me'

'Price You Gotta Pay'

'Take A Walk'

'Around the World'

'As Far As I Can See'

- bass solo -

'Addicted To That Rush'

Encore:

'To Be With You'

'Colorado Bulldog'

'Smoke On The Water'

'Shy Boy'

Mr. Big recently announced they will release an acoustic Live Album entitled Live From The Living Room on February 24th 2012 in Europe and February 28th in North America via Frontiers Records.

At the end of January 2011, during a week-long promotion trip for their latest reunion album What If and tour, Mr. Big were invited to the WOWOW TV Studios in Tokyo to perform a special show in an intimate setting. When the talk of a broadcast first came up, the band wanted to present something different than they’ve ever done before. Thus the idea of an acoustic show came about and a string quintet was brought in to enhance the project even more, with arrangements provided by Takashi Miyazaki. Although Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan hooked up electric on a few songs, the show was still very much acoustic in nature throughout. Pat Torpey played various acoustic percussion instruments during the gig.

Mr. Big vocalist Eric Martin commented: “The idea for the show came out of a quick conversation the four of us had after a day of interviews promoting the new What if CD. We did an acoustic show at the Hard Rock café in Singapore in 1996 that (till this day) is one of my favorite live recordings. It had a stripped down, up close and personal feel to it. If we were going to do something like that again it would have to be extra special. We were talking about the old days when musicians used to live together in a band house and practice day and night. Our favorite rock band posters and tapestry’s adorning the walls, family hand me down furniture, amps that doubled as lamp stands, friends hanging out and the usual cluttered mess on the floor, lyric sheets, guitar cases and chords, music stands, beer cans, Pizza boxes, wine bottles etc. Live From The living room was born out of that. We wanted to recreate a harmonious atmosphere and treat our fans to an informal jam session of songs from the past and present while throwing in a few surprises from our wish lists (Strings, Japanese taiko drums).”

Live From The Living Room tracklisting is as follows:

‘Undertow’

‘Still Ain't Enough For Me’

‘As Far As I Can See’

‘Voodoo Kiss’

‘Take Cover’

‘Around The World’

‘Stranger In My Life’

‘All The Way Up’

‘To Be With You’

‘Nobody Left To Blame’

The first track off the album, ‘Undertow’, is now streaming at this location.