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# Music: Technical Difficulties
- URL: https://www.sweatyspice.com/music-technical-difficulties/
- Published: 2025-05-23T12:48:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-28T23:52:12.000Z
- Description: Welcome back Unlucky Morpheus for a reprise of a Racer X standard.
- Author: Geoff Anderson
- Tags: Geoff's Musical Musings

I have a confession to make. I am a guitar player. That means that I am always looking for more music to listen to and learn from.

One of my all-time favorite players is Paul Gilbert. I have written about him a couple of times, and reference him as a measure in many more.

Here’s one:

[Music: Doing a classic Justice - Holy DiverPaul Gilbert’s tribute album to Ronnie James Dio is masterful, tasty, and fun![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/f5/11f5bb9f-30c4-445e-afa3-85a47d260f6e/content/images/icon/geoff-avatar-7.png)Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/f5/11f5bb9f-30c4-445e-afa3-85a47d260f6e/content/images/thumbnail/good-main-image-5.jpg)](https://www.sweatyspice.com/music-doing-a-classic-justice-holy/)

Anyhow, his history is that he grew up in Pittsburgh, and he has always been a wild player. At a very young age, he sent a sample tape to Ozzy, and that led to him hitting the awareness of Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records, a legendary producer of 80’s metal gods.

His band, Racer X, (really, his first solo effort that has been reconstituted a few times) recorded some truly amazing songs. Scarified is one that is most well known, but another track from the early Racer X stands out. Technical Difficulties is a tour de force of in-your-face riffs, and brain melting lead lines.

The original is amazing, and there have been a slew of covers by a lot of great guitarists. For an up and coming shred-meister, this is one of the standards that they learn and perfect (like in my early days, the Ozzy tune S.A.T.O. was a bellwether to learn).

But, I have never seen a violin cover of it.

Today, I welcome back a recent find, Unluck Morpheus, who has of course covered this — *brilliantly*.

Did you enjoy that? I sure did.

The original:

The man himself!

Of course, I did mention Scarified, so, here’s a version from a recording session for the Spaceship One sessions, with astronaut uniforms and all:

A triple dose of PG awesome. Perfect Friday!

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