Classical Composer Reacts to Knappsack (Steve Vai) | The Daily Doug (Episode 120) 

so true

lol

Hehehe....."Hold my pick"......well done.

lol

Pretty sure its 99,99%

This is accurate. :p

The other 0.01% make it, but die for trying so hard.

dude could outplay a 4 handed player

99,9

Wow Steve so nice to read your post!! I must say this performance is the most inspiring of yours. It makes me want to pick up my guitar more!! Please keep it up!!!

Awesomeness: Major!

Wow, next year in Holland. I'll be there!

Amazing performance Steve!Love the new Pia as well!!I have met you before!I was backstage in Austin at La Zona Rosa venue.My friend Eric Johnson was your special guest!Enjoyed meeting you and the band!You are a very approchable and Humble person!Enjoyed the opportunity of knowing you briefly!!

Lol. You are not Steve Vai. 🤣🤣

Amen.

So true!

@@asimhussain8716 After years of watching people disingenuously overreact to music, this is refreshing.

@@asimhussain8716 That is kind of the whole idea.

​@@asimhussain8716 What a stupid analogy... music is made ONLY by the interval between the frequencies. In a paint you can see "all the notes at the same time" when it is finished. The most accurate analogy would be: That's like watching an artist react to a painter and his reactions are "now he's using Aerial Perspective, wich is a method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a painting or drawing by modulating colour to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the colours of things seen at a distance." And still would be a stupid analogy!

True fact, he was born 6/6/66 Probably at 6:66 AM.

I believe theres an old Steve Vai quote where he actually says he was born with a guitar in one hand and either a cigarette or sunglasses in the other hand. It was in guitar magazine from the 80 s. Maybe Guitar for the Practicing Musician?

@@lauscho He was born 6/6/60, so he turned 6 years old on the 6/6/66

@@ItalyNerf You're right, my mistake :)

Lol

Steve had a really sensual relationship with music. Usually when the finish gets rubbed off the back of a guitar, it's from a belt buckle - not Steve

Tender Surrender is great, I hope he will check it out!

100% true, now I have a little baby called Lotus Feet

I've listened to it many times and I'm not pregnant. Of course I'm a guy.

Brilliant idea, that would be awesome

Joe Satriani, Frank Zappa and later Berklee College of Music. What a resume...

@@carl_anderson9315 Not quite, he was at Berkley when Zappa approached him, something about the transcription of 'Black Pages'.

And indeed his playing.

@@JoriDiculous Actually, Vai called Zappa from Berklee. Here’s a great interview about that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D7jM1mh0764.html

There was definitely some parts that had a bit of Zappas influence in them. In fact the whole song is basically Zappa making little Stevie work from beyond the grave. He was always writing stuff just to make it hard and challenge the people he wrote it for. Little (old) Stevie took his post surgery meds and went to bed one night then had a dream that Frank needed him in the studio first thing tomorrow morning. Didn't want to let him down apparently.

Well put, T420. Every now and then “Salamanders in the Sun” on the first album of his that I bought (back in the 1900’s) gets stuck on a loop in my head for about a week or so... and it’s really nice when it’s there.

His work on Public Image Ltd's 1986 release, "Album" is phenomenal and largely unknown. Which is a shame. Tons of modal lines.

Arf

@@Frankincensedjb123 here Fido...or was that from the echidna?

@@Green28142814 The mystical and haunting outro guitar solo on Ease gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. I remember a late summer afternoon in 1986 driving around and listening to that solo seven or eight times in a row!

@Treva Land as an atheist i concur however, i know plenty of people who have devoted their lives to something they love and the still suck balls. having committment and dedication is all well and good but there's got to be a spark of something in a person for them to become brilliant at a thing.

@Treva Land Well, that's the point: By doing something extensively it litterally becomes an extension of your brain, with the fingers and muscles being the interface. The brain forms neurons that put the burden off the conscience experience, freeing higher level structures for abstraction and focus on different aspects. It's like a car driver that no longer needs to thinkabout shifting the manual transmission while driving, just that this is much much more complex.

@Treva Land Some people are simply more talented than others. As the saying goes: Hard work trumps talent, when talent DOESN'T work hard. Passion + effort + blood + time + talent = perfection

@Treva Land Sure, you are correct about that part and I agree. What I am saying is that you can have 2 persons who are just as dedicated and start practicing on the same date. And you'll get different results. It's the same way in every field. For example, if Danny deVito and Usain Bolt both start practicing sprints on the same date and with the same dedication, chances are that you'll get different results.

@Treva Land Being able to learn faster is _exactly_ what talent is. It's the _natural ability_ of a person. And that's also how talent is described in the dictionary.🙂 ========== *Definition of talent* 1a: a special often athletic, creative, or artistic aptitude b: general intelligence or mental power : ABILITY 2: the natural endowments of a person 3: a person of talent or a group of persons of talent in a field or activity source: _Merriam-Webster_ ========== So basically it's another term for "potential". Also, if your genes give you an aptitude for and enjoyment of chess, maths, music or football, you are surely more likely to put in those long hours.

Amazing player .

Yes! "Fives" is one of my favourite pieces!!

This!

Or Allen Holdsworth

Yes

I am also a guitarist. About the damper... He plays without a damper even at concerts. Also, when he's not using the palmmute, he doesn't rest his wrist on the bridge and mut the extra strings (unlike many)... I tried to do the same... I never succeeded. The strings were always playing. He is truly a guitar wizard.

he does have a locking nut on the head.

@@therealexpletive which does not dampen any string lol. A locking nut does not act like a string dampener.

@@davidepannone6021 obviously. lol

@@therealexpletive so your point of mentioning that was? Lmao

Watch the Movie CROSSROADS. With Steve Vai. Talk about Paganini! Caprice 24....

Amazing

I've had a long list of listening moments like that. Steve was responsible for several.

Check Rick Graham. RU-vid player. Great player.

Pat Metheny

Zappa moved in every possible way 😂

Was also wondering how he did this. My stuff sounds like trash even with two hands muting. No idea how we aren't hearing tons of string noise, especially considering he must have his volume and gain super high since he's only using hammer ons and pull offs and slides

@@SuperIce6374 Probably because he didn't plug in the guitar...

*Rhoads

Definitely, but I'd suggest making sure it's not the "Remastered" version that Sharon had the bass and drums re-recorded on.

A superb suggestion

@@1RungAtATime oh my...when I was a teenager I bought the record...loved it, but hearing the bass and drums...what a crap

Joe Satriani never taught EVH.......

The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing : the same !

My favorite of Joe is "Flying in a Blue Dream" . . . but everything he does is gold.

Satch is the goat of instrumental guitar. I take him over vai any day. His songwriting clicks with me way more than vai. Vai is a little abstract and strange sometimes, but his live show and stage presence is much more exciting than joes. Vai has fun on stage. Lucky I got to see them both a few times

Metal either comes from blues, or classical. Typically, the more popular metal is classical.

Agree. Paganini and Vivaldi would have been metal heads I think with the way they composed music. It just fits well.

Metal has always had a strong tendency towards the 'Grandiose' - both musically and theatrically, and lots of musicians in metal and rock actually have a good background and working knowledge of theory. And that usually means they've, at least, dipped their toes into classical music and jazz, for instance. Metal can, and has, make an excellent hybrid with pretty much every 'serious' style of music!

@@claudevieaul1465 Yes totally! Alexi Laiho from Children Of Bodom (RIP) is a great example of this. On his first couple album he was very into neoclassical metal and he used some parts from Mozart in his metal song and it sounded amazing played that fast! A really great virtuoso guitarist which unfortunately is has passed away lately at only 42 years old (he was the same age as me). He was classicaly trained with violin at very young age and finaly ended playing guitar. So he knew his chops and everything. Here is some of his best solos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v2MWIcfgK-o.html

Metal steals from classical. Many of the guitarists indulge in pseudo classical noodling. This was a way to break free from the blues based rock of the seventies . There is plenty of modern orchestral music to listen to hat has been influenced by the great composers

Agreed!

absolutely

My fave by Steve .

Agreed but Steve didn't think it was compositionally as good as some of his others but it's my favourite

Yep!

I heartily second that motion!!!

Frank Zappa is already considered an accomplished modern classical composer.

Zombie Woof, please!!

Yeah, Inca Roads is a great choice, especially the live version from A Token Of His Extreme

Arf

Jill is astonishing. Unlucky Morpheus is amazing. Great suggestion.

That's the first thing I thought, also - how does he keep the open strings silent? I'm watching for how he does it and just can't see it. Seems impossible. Is it an editing trick? I find it hard to believe it sounded that clean live. I know he's a virtuoso and all, but he's not immune to the laws of physics (or is he?)

Yes that's an absolute must. Jason is a musical genius and legend forever

He’s good for one song then it’s all the same no feel boriiiiing

Jason Becker! Yeah pretty much anything off Perpetual Burn, I'd personally go for either Air or Eleven Blue Egyptians.

Yes, Tender Surrender is so sexy, Ialso would like "Whispering A Prayer"

Or Linolium

I think Malmsteen is overrated, just shredding arpeggios with not much feeling, just my opinion.

@@yogid8738 that's your opinion and you're entitled to it help me out here this guy is right up Doug's Ally trust me live in Leningrad is the way

Guthrie takes that throne today . If Steve wont say it . I will . LOL

@@johnathanwetherill456 I love Guthrie but at the same time he has only really blown me away with his technique and not his composition or use of harmony. Allan stands alone in that respect.

@@biorythmicshifter you’re right of course and Guthrie would agree too.

@@biorythmicshifter Even Guthrie said that to imitate Allan Holdsworth is a dangerous thing to do.

There’s a reason all the reactors have reacted to GOAT. it’s crazy.