Did STEVE VAI Troll the Guitar World?

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@Sphereal 2 года назад

He is relevant enough to get million of views on a video he released at the age of 61. The man is a legend.

@debashishkaushik6933 2 года назад

A great performer never becomes irrelevant 🤟

@chipcaronte 2 года назад

I think he is the Paganini of our century.

@painlesstragedy 2 года назад

age is just a number...

@matldn2697 2 года назад

Agree, he will always be relevant, just like the Blues guitarists from 80 years ago. Pure genius.

@djackzdjackz7004 2 года назад

Just like this reviewer

@munkyenima 2 года назад

I feel like Steve playing with just his left hand for months (when he had that surgery) would've helped him a lot preparing to play this thing. Pretty amazing. 🤘

@DekkarJr 2 года назад

Yeah nothing but legato for months lol. I bet even tho he's 60 years old his hands move like they are brand new

@Mac-of7qf 2 года назад

There is only one word to describe Steve Vai, and that is "innovative." The problem is, that word is wholly inadequate to describe what he does. And to be innovative for over 40 years is an amazing thing. Hats off to the man - he is incredible.

@s.willis8426 2 года назад

Skinny, the word skinny describes him pretty well too.

@WybjornVR 2 года назад

It's incredible that he's managed to stay legitimately creative for this long.

@NorgGrimm 2 года назад

They should put a picture of Steve Vai onto the dictionary for 'innovative'.

@Pirustae 2 года назад

@@s.willis8426 yes. Skinny and flamboyant

@redmetalpanda9051 2 года назад

Hes just unique, no one does Steve Vai quite like him and i dont think anyone ever will. Hes like what Freddy Mercury once was to vocals, to me.

@yanossnicklefritz7064 2 года назад

He's an amazing player who has played in many bands and for decades. Good music is all that matters. Relevance is a personal view. Someone can see something relevant to their tastes and someone else not like it at all. Steve is a legend, not a fade. And anyone out there to be compared to him, needs to earn it.

@GUIDESPERSPECTIVE 2 года назад

I've watched Steve play that thing 50 times now, Every time is just as impressive. With Steve the tone is coming from his body, not just his fingers and his touch. The way he moves with the note values. Most people use facial expression to fake or give the impression of note value, tone, vibrato etc, but with Steve, it literally flows from within his body and how he moves, when he moves, what he moves and where he moves. I just can't get enough. Next level badassery right there. Like fine wine, getting better with age.

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 2 года назад

I never met Steve but where I grew up in NY I was friends with his bass player from Alcatraz (Randy Coven). Steve also played some solos on Randys Albums. Anyhoo he taught me to play bass and changed my life and my understanding of guitar and bass. Instead of thinking in "boxes", think of the entire neck as the "box". Granted I am a rocker and not so into progressive or the jazz/fusion thing it made me stand out as a bass player and I was able to land almost any gig I auditioned for. Moved to LA and did the touring thing and basically was a pro musician all over for years. A funny story is I had given Steve's guitar builder at the time (Joe Despagni of JEM guitars) before the whole Ibanez thing a Warmouth neck and body to build me a bass. Well somehow Randy talked him into making it into a flame bass like the flame guitar he cut for Steve. Ended up it was too delicate to use for gigging so Randy kept it and gave me an old Gibson bass to make up for it. Years later I find the flame bass on some blog because it ended up on ebay. I asked Randy and he denied ebaying it but ends up it was that bass and the current owner is willing to let me have it back if I build him a tribute Strat as I am a builder now. Thing is the bass was routed for a Kahler tremolo which Randy use on all his basses but that is missing now and they hacked a normal bridge on it. Having trouble finding the correct Kahler to get it back to its original form. Not to mention is has a ton of lacquer checking and some of the flame tips had cracked off and just glued back on. But still.. just for sentimental reasons I really want it back. And I have a picture of Randy playing it in Joe Despagnis garage which you can't get any better authentication then that.

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 2 года назад

Oh, and it also has dual output jacks. Not sure why as Randy did not use a Billy Sheehan type setup but until I get it and dissect it I won't know what is going on. As well it has been so many years I procrastinated which means there is a chance I might not be able to contact the guy anymore. I was just glad I had found it and it is essentially just a wall hanging for the guy and he was not looking to flip it. Meaning if I can contact him again the chances are pretty good he still has it.

@drums4lyfe0987 2 года назад

Steve vai impressed Frank Zappa, That alone puts him on another level IMHO

@jws1515 Год назад

I went and saw Steve about a week ago on the Inviolate Tour!! Best show ever! And of course he did break the hydra out and start shredding on it. It was so surreal as a 14 year old guitar player. Steve is one of if not my biggest inspiration. I would go see him again in a heartbeat!! It was simply epic.

@nordicshredder4128 2 года назад

steve has just created the hardest thing done on guitar, he keeps doing stuff that is never done before and he respects everyone else but he knows he does not need to prove his talent to be considered a god he just is woah

@S-Ltd1000 2 года назад

I was also at that Hammersmith gig. I forgot about Devin Townsend after his work with Steve and only recently discovered his back catalogue.

@wrathchild68 2 года назад

Off to see him tonight for the first time. Waited years for him to play a gig near me.

@18nomah Год назад

Herman always so humble when talking Steve Vai

@JakJac980 Год назад

Since I can remember Steve Vai has been THE evolution of guitar setting the bar one above everyone just to make them work harder and for the best reasons.

@carlomj3559 2 года назад

Vai is a beast! simply to be able to master tempo and melody when his body is holding so much weigh...well, his concentration is on other level not only his technique.

@BM-vi5hk 2 года назад

I bought Flex-Able from the bargain bin section of the House of Guitars in Rochester NY back in 1985.

@the_photarist1845 2 года назад

I am not sure if you are informed but Music is win channel did an interview with Steve about the video and they go into some of the technical aspects of the Hydra guitar.

@prescottwhynot 7 месяцев назад

11:45 I love how he goes super saiyan here

@e3gh757 2 года назад

This might be some of the most challenging instrumental music to play. The level of limb interdependence is frankly astonishing. The only big name artist I could think to pull something like this off are Tony McAlpine or Jordan Rudess. I am sure there are more but unless you have really studied an instrument you don’t really appreciate how hard this is. Watch the interview on Music is Win with Steve… he explains how hard that middle section is and Herman picks up on it! Val is an out there dude but definitely worth a watch/listen if you dig the music.

@mariorabottini5687 2 года назад

Steve…A humble pure heartfelt genius! He is not of this world!!

@kelleymcbride4633 2 года назад

This is why he's been a legend for decades, he never stops pushing...........

@kid-3po 2 года назад

I'm not into DragonForce but HERMAN LI is a great man. Stevie T caused me to discover this fact

@federicomuller5348 2 года назад

I love the clean sound of the 12 string guitar uffff I started listening to steve when I was 17 and I used to play passion and warfare until fainth yeah! more specifically the song for the love of God

@hollywoodhatesjesus7626 2 года назад

My first time listening to Passion and Warfare cemented my inspiration from this man. I’m now using simple midi apps that are miles beyond the Hal5000 processor used back in the 90s but give me that nostalgic vibe of Steve and master Joe’s digital influence.

@drab1711 Год назад

Just saw him. Yes, he played this live.

@joeshumo9457 2 года назад

I like how it’s super high tech to the point that it defies gravity and doesn’t even need a guitar strap yet it still uses an old fashioned cable.

@tantamounted 2 года назад

The moment I saw that guitar in clear lighting, I thought of Animusic. In the video for the first album's first song, "Future Retro", featured a similar multi-neck guitar on a stand. Edit: As Vai's song goes on... this impression does not go away, but instead I am reminded of the laser harp on top of the Animusic robot guitar. Impressive device, and equally impressive artist playing it!

@paulio_87 Год назад

4 instruments! Steve Vai is just majestic

@endtyme1345 2 года назад

A man with 60 years old playing the guitar like him doesn't needs to worry about anything. Same as Satriani, Lukather, Schon and many others. I wonder if new generations of players will pass the test of time. He's untouchable.

@kyleh1127 2 года назад

It's like steve vai saw all these crazy younger youtube 'stunt' guitarists coming out over the last several years and said 'hold my beer'

@joshgato282 2 года назад

That was a great tune. The fact that he can pull it off like that is a bonus.

@madddog6790 2 года назад

Unfortunately, he's not bringing this on the latest tour (at least the ongoing European leg). He had another surgery about 2 days after he recorded the music video. Thomann just did a rig rundown a couple of weeks ago, they talked about it.

@freddylive3597 2 года назад

the guitar is just a means of getting there .. its fantastic music.

@coxstev29ify 2 года назад

He is actually playing 4 instruments, also has a small harp. Went to see Steve at London this week on the Evo Experience. Steve said it was so heavy, it took him out for 2 days. He has nit brought it on tour because of the cost of transport. He said he will bring it in 2023.

@stopclockapp Год назад

This video reminds me so much of the movie Big Trouble in Little China.

@jacobkubacki2719 2 года назад

Hey Herman, I’m digging your channel. I wanted to suggest to you to check out a very good friend of mine who’s phenomenal guitar player. His name is Carl Morgese. He’s got an incredible back story of being abandoned at 6 years old after his mother took her own life. I hope he doesn’t get mad I mentioned that because its an amazing story of perseverance. Anyways, he lived on the Sunset Strip in the 80’s & hung around with a lit of the famous bands that were popular back then. He found guitar & that saved him. He’s got s bunch of videos of him on RU-vid, under his name of him playing all original material that he’s created. He used amazing & innovative techniques to create his own unique sound. Im just asking if you’d take a look and if you like something give him a highlight. He recently went above & beyond to help me out so Im proud to reach out & give him some props. There’s no reason this man shouldn’t be famous. Thank you.

@The_Last_Ninja 2 года назад

Don’t forget, he is not only playing the guitar, bass, sitar there is also a harp type of instrument that he strums towards the bottom of the Hydra, plus all the effects switches and what not. So in effect he is actually playing 5 instruments here.

@beck_murphy_music 2 года назад

tuning that guitar would take the lives of many tuners

@Jd-ace 2 года назад

just gotta say he looks like some futuristic bard from an rpg holding down his team with buffs

@DanBires 2 года назад

Wow my problem would be my back. How heavy is that instrument. I would have to sit with that thing on my lap or have a high stand for it. Steve vai is ever evolving and aging like fine wine.

@xprince2 Месяц назад

Steve is the worlds greatest guitarist the Mozart of the guitar. No one else does with his hands what he does.

@7viper5 2 года назад

the case for that guitar is where vai has his harmony hut. yeah, its that big!

@garytackett8426 2 года назад

Maybe he kinda approached it on a drummer's mindset (i.e. Neil Peart) meaning both hands doing their own thing yet in sync

@amonkssecrethobby7834 2 года назад

Steve Vai is like wine it gets better with age

@stevemichaels9149 2 года назад

This song is an incredible display of skill and dedication with fantastic accuracy, however, as a stand along song without the visual of what is happening, I unfortunately feel the sound is a bit dated and not super interesting. I love Steve Vai but this to me does not hold the same relevance as some of the other new music coming out pushing new boundaries (such as polyphia)

@SouthPlaya 2 года назад

Favorite guitarist playing the most bad ass guitar ever made 🥹

@anthonydavella8350 Год назад

He keeps it in the overhead bin when flying

@wordsmith451 2 года назад

The fact that you even ask the question, even hypothetically for the sake of rhetoric, is insulting. Steve Vai is from another world.

@BaldyMacbeard 2 года назад

The whole song is basically very gimmicky elevator music... If you forget about the freaky guitar for a minute... It's pretty boring stuff.

@hendrohardian3373 2 года назад

It is actually a legit composition. Elevator? yes that's the point. He knows to elevate his music, he understand his branding/personality and knows what to do with that.

@kurthill7474 2 года назад

Kind of off topic but I was wondering how do you like the Pia? I've heard that sometimes professional players have a kind of upgraded version to what the general public are able to purchase even though it is technically the same model could you do a review of the Pia?

@JazMcG 2 года назад

Have you noticed the harp strings on the bottom of the guitar that he is playing with his right hand yet?

@donaldfuller5058 Месяц назад

My brother in law’s son can play a lot of musical instruments he learned the piano on his own at 6 and picked up the guitar than switched to the bass guitar. It was a running joke his family gave him musical instruments and came back in a month and have him playing something. He just love playing music but he doesn’t like to play in front of strangers that much. And he doesn’t think he that good for a band he just likes playing music with friends and family. He had a professional musician that played for big country music singers wanting to break his finger to slow him down. He was the one who gave him the bass guitar.

@elttabykcir 2 года назад

Steve Vai is just a genius!

@sizzlewump 2 года назад

You have to be a little curious watching Steve play that. So far I haven't seen anyone asking this - what is that guitar strap that can hold the weight and does Steve break his back after the performance? Is it a chain or like a carbon fiber strap? Damn, might as well have a cinder block strapped in.

@RAREFORMDESIGNS 2 года назад

It looks like he has some kind of mount supporting the guitar attached around waist height allowing the guitar to pivot. The load would be on his legs like a heavy tool belt.

@Nuclearzoo1 2 года назад

You said the same thing I thought the first time I saw this video. He set the bar higher, to say I am still the God of electric guitar!

@liamkaloy 2 года назад

Steve is amongst the 10 musician I would give immortality so he could indefinitely improve himself and create new standards.

@blacklabelpa 6 месяцев назад

Yea Stevev is to me like a steve hawking of the guitar!!!

@thinkingmushrooms2943 2 года назад

May I suggest adding three flame throwers and a fog machine.

@dylankopff1935 2 года назад

This song is more memorable than any shredder stuff and takes me places Shredder's can't ,I appreciate technical prowess but they can't write songs that sound like anything but a yankfest

@MrGrimsmith 2 года назад

Steve Vai: "I don't trust anyone else to play bass and rhythm lines. I'll make an instrument so I can do them all myself" Awesome work, I'm not a guitar player but I appreciate good sounds. Definite kudos for that and as you said, muscle memory is a killer. To be able to override it and do something new after so many years? Salute indeed.

@GregJonson 2 года назад

Sad news for the European fans: Teeth Of The Hydra won't be performed on the European tour leg. :( In an interview with Tyler from Music Is Win, he said there was an issue with the Hydra that needed to be resolved and that therefore its live debut would be later, on the American leg.

@McPilch 2 года назад

What's next Little Stevie Vai? Gonna take over the drum world by having one of those totally-foot-controlled drum kits too?

@daghetto101 2 года назад

I cant believe Modern Fanboys especially of Tim, Mateus and Ichika are talking down to Rock/Metal and to other soloists like Steve, Joe, Marty Nuno and Etc. Can't stand those fanboys. Yea those first 3 guys ive mentioned are indeed Gods, but please dont disrespect our Guitar Heroes from our early days.

@terran236 2 года назад

They're all very good but we have to recognize that the players today wouldn't exist without the old players. Nothing exists in a vacuum and modern players are standing on the shoulders of giants. Look at Tosin Abasi , he's a guitar God himself but he always acknowledges his heroes. In a interview recently he even fanboyed over meshuggah's use of nine strings on the 2022 Album "Immutable." That to me is humbling and inspiring. There's always something new to learn.

@vgaportauthority9932 2 года назад

Dude broke into Warehouse 13 to get that guitar..

@dtcharo 2 года назад

Just when I think there's a crop of new guitarists out there that are more talented than Steve Vai he pulls out this shit. That dude is a legend.

@rimereit 2 года назад

Amazing. There's at least 9 separate instruments on that thing.

@VicFerreiraGT 2 года назад

Steve Vai has the Ultra instinct. That is the only explanation.

@robertn2042 2 года назад

When he came out with that guitar it was at the same time that they discovered hydras in COVID vaccines. I had felt at the time that he was picking up on it, even if it was not conscious.

@robertn2042 2 года назад

Here's the title for the vax hydra: Dr. Madej Shook By Vax Monster: Plus, someone else coughed up something very large that almost looked like a hydra. Here's the brighteon video title for that one: Another Hydra-Demon Creature Coughed Up in Horror: I didn't post links because they will delete them, since they are trying to erase this info.

@hughjarrse 2 года назад

Nothing to do with conspiracy theories, the Hydra had a lot of necks

@troublingleaf 2 года назад

Exactly what I was thinking, he's riffing on the middle guitar whilst picking notes on the bass, I've been learning to play guitar for 16 or 17 years, and don't get me wrong I'm not as good as that would make you think, but I can't even imagine how it's possible that he's doing what he's doing! I won't lie and say I'm a big steve vai fan, I don't really connect to much of his music, but there is no denying that as a guitarist he is far more advanced than most of the guitarists I've heard play a guitar! Everybody is better at something, few people are as highly skilled in as many areas of their hobby!

@Trashpanda_404 2 года назад

Go back and listen to Whitesnake Sailing Ships he did. Listen to the bridge… there’s a lot of that song in this one. Love that song though so I’ll take it!

@batuksri 2 года назад

Waiting for him to bring out a horsehair bow.

@OfficialKevinFox 2 года назад

This perfectly reflects my comment on the “Playing God” video....now this is a creative musician actually pouring out his soul and setting a new level of guitar playing at the same time. The opposite of Polyphia. He truly is, like you said, being a musician in the UnrealEngine 😂🤘🏻

@Printertrouble 2 года назад

Looks like he has it waist mounted.... Takes a ton of pressure off the neck and back.

@jongeo 2 года назад

I think this is Steve Vai attempting to assert dominance in a world where Tim Henson exists, without competing with him.

@novathor1788 2 года назад

this is more vicious than a Slash

@licence1001011 2 года назад

GNARLY

@MattagastTheGreen 2 года назад

I don't think you'll see the Hydra live... He mentioned it's too big & heavy to bring on tour and it would get beat to hell on the road. He also had to film this in segments due to the weight. Check out his interview with Tyler Larson @ Music Is Win.

@andrewharper1609 2 года назад

Actually this would have got right into Devin's Ocean Machine album.

@douglasmckibbon3043 Год назад

The hydra video qlways reminds me of mortal kombat. Lol

@11starlight11 2 года назад

Lo mas impresionante es que la guitarra flota y nadie se dio cuenta.

@b500l8 2 года назад

Yes. And im going to see him next tuesday 7th june at the london palladium, will be superb. passion and warfare show was superb there too. I was at the sex and religion hammersmith show! when devin ran down the middle aisle and said on stage "why do kerrang hate me' i think was sitting next to a journo, some guy was taking notes on a pad. yes im a big vai fan haha

@KalElvis 2 года назад

Steve Vai had to play for Zappa. There is NOTHING this man can't do.

@danperez6685 2 года назад

I know that Satriani was Surfing With The Alien... Well, Steve Vai IS The Alien...

@chrisfrazier4749 2 года назад

Steve said he will be looking forward to bringing it on tour but shipping it and caring for it is very complicated so his international tour probably wont get to see but the second half in the states he most certainly will play it. HERMAN YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THE FOURTH INSTRUMENT THERE IS A 12 STRING HARP AT THE VERY BOTTOM HE WAS STRUMMING THROUGHOUT!!!

@imrn 2 года назад

Hey, i don't see a guitar strap on steve, how actually is the guitar mounted?

@DeafBlindMan Год назад

His brain is hyperthreaded

@AJZulu 2 года назад

Smoooth af

@quijadriss7650 2 года назад

How does all the signal go through one cable? Obviously the signal is split to different amps. What kind of cable can handle this?