Paula produced warm, smoky tones with a blues influence, echoing aspects of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page’s style without simply copying it. Her riffs also displayed her own musical personality and notable dexterity for her age. The solo was neither highly elaborate nor built around showmanship; instead, she favored carefully chosen notes and feeling over conspicuous technical flourishes.
Dovydas then returned for another guitar passage, bringing an ’80s-influenced heavy-metal gloss to the band’s ’70s composition. That approach placed elements from two rock decades in the same arrangement. Paula followed with a second solo that proved as forceful as her first, as the pub audience watched her unexpected ability in stunned attention.
The response online differed somewhat from the surprise visible in the venue. One YouTube viewer jokingly asked why anybody was astonished and observed that grandmothers belonged to the original rock-and-roll generation.
