Back in 2016, bassist Billy Sheehan reconvened with longtime Mr. Big sidekicks Eric Martin (vocals), Paul Gilbert (guitar), and Pat Torpey (drums, with help from stand-in Matt Starr) – to record the band's ninth studio album, Defying Gravity. Get The Pick Newsletter All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox! “The neck-position pickup went to the low amp, while the P-Bass pickup went to the high amp, with clean and distortion mixed together.”(Image credit: Getty Images)“We also took a separate direct from that P-Bass pickup. That's kind of my specialty, doing those fast clusters of notes, so I didn't think it would be a problem. In earlier takes I was hitting the notes I was going for, but they weren't notes I was happy with.